305 - Calm in Chaos
Organize 365 Podcast
Lisa Woodruff
4.5 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 18 October 2019
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Today on the podcast, I want to share with you how I stay calm in chaos. I recently experienced two major unexpected events. One was an emergency, the other was not. However, they both happened at the same time and required me to completely rearrange my schedule.
When the unexpected happens, your priorities often shift quickly. Being organized and having time to think through how to deal with unexpected events has helped me change how I approach chaotic situations. Not every unexpected event or situation is fixable, but being organized means there is more margin to think and decide before reacting.
When I was disorganized, I had many tasks and projects crying out for my attention. I also often felt sorry for myself and I looked for more attention by complaining. As I got organized, I learned how to be a better problem solver. I also was able to shift my focus so I work deeper and faster on fewer active projects.
This podcast will show you how I changed my mindset, and will give you some ideas for changing yours. I hope I can help you move from reactive to proactive and to find the margin that comes from a more organized life.
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| 0:00.0 | This week's mailbag comes to us from Cindy via email. |
| 0:05.0 | I absolutely love all of your podcast, Instagram lives, and other social media outlets. |
| 0:11.0 | You are so energetic and fun to listen to. You have great ideas |
| 0:16.0 | that we can all relate to. I have started my own Sunday basket and I hope to do |
| 0:21.4 | your 100-day home organization program this year. |
| 0:25.0 | Keep going, Lisa. You put a smile on my face daily and make those things that I once hated doing not so bad anymore. |
| 0:35.0 | Thank you so much, Cindy. |
| 0:37.0 | Do you have an organized 365 success story? |
| 0:41.0 | We would love to hear about it. |
| 0:43.3 | Please send us an email at Lisa at organized 365.com and tell us how you have taken back |
| 0:49.8 | your home, your paper, and your life with Organized 365. |
| 0:57.0 | Welcome to the Organized 365 Podcast. |
| 1:04.0 | I'm your host, professional organizer, productivity expert, |
| 1:07.8 | and motivational speaker Lisa Woodruff. |
| 1:11.1 | This podcast will help you embrace progress over perfection and create lasting functional |
| 1:17.0 | organizing in your home. I have so much to share with you so let's get started. |
| 1:31.6 | Fortunately for me, maybe unfortunately for you, I rarely have chaotic events in my life. I would say that is because one, I've gotten organized |
| 1:35.8 | and I now do less, but I do more of less. |
| 1:39.2 | So I focus on my kids, I focus on my husband, |
| 1:41.7 | my house, and my business, and while that seems like a lot, |
| 1:44.9 | in the past I would have a bazillion projects going on, a bazillion different enterprises, |
| 1:49.7 | and so I'm focusing on less and so there's less chaos. However, at the end of September, beginning of |
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