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Organize 365 Podcast

353 - Go with the Flow is Gone

Organize 365 Podcast

Lisa Woodruff

Lisawoodruff, Education, Self-improvement, Entrepreneurship, Business

4.51.3K Ratings

🗓️ 18 September 2020

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

The COVID-19 Pandemic has taken away our ability to go with the flow. We are living in a snow globe where our city, job, government, and public health are continually shaken up and we are chasing around. So many people are sharing that life feels so hard right now. There is no flow. The pandemic has stopped our hustle, bustle, and flow.

Most of us have lived through hard times like this before, and humanity has definitely survived times of uncertainty and upheaval similar to what we are facing now. In the podcast, I share about how we have survived and have the lessons from other times in history when our lives were similarly out of control.

However, catastrophic events do not impact everyone equally. Depending on your location, family, job, and other factors, you may be experiencing a lot or a little bit of life disruption. Today, I want to talk with you about how to find your flow again - even though it will be different than it was before COVID-19.

First, if you are not a natural flow generator, find and follow good leaders.

Second, get started. Let go of perfection. Release the need to do it all. But, actually taking action and moving your body will produce much better results than thinking about what you want to do.

Third, I really want you to work on your schedules and routines. These basic steps will get you moving in the morning and can keep you moving throughout the day. When you clean up - you know the drill - pick up trash, clothes, and food in that order. Start simple, and just get started.

I also share how my morning, afternoon, and evening routines have helped me to continue to be engaged in my life and make progress during the pandemic. It is typical to be less productive than you were before the stay at home events, but using routines will help you to transition to the next part of the day and keep the momentum going. I share suggestions for setting up your routines and share my own inside the podcast.

For links to the items Lisa is using, please go to the show notes page on the website.

Transcript

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0:00.0

This week's mailbag comes to us from Cynthia.

0:04.0

Having the Sunday basket has eliminated my paper pile in the kitchen

0:08.0

and having a place to put my to-do's on index cards

0:11.0

has helped me free my mind and get stuff done. It makes a huge difference

0:15.6

to go through all the papers in the Sunday Basket Weekly. I went from a monthly calendar

0:20.8

review to a weekly review. The time used to sort the week's

0:24.6

papers has made sure things get taken care of that week and not lost in a paper

0:29.7

pile. Things get done because I plan them and schedule them to get done. I have put in place

0:36.8

several slash pockets for longer projects like a trip to Ireland next year. I am

0:41.9

not sure that will happen now but I can still dream

0:44.4

about it and have a place for those plans in my pink slash pocket. Do you have an

0:49.6

organized 365 success story? If so we would love to hear about it

0:54.3

please send us an email at customer service at organized 365 and tell us how you

1:00.1

have taken back your home your your paper, and your life with Organized 365.

1:07.0

Welcome to the Organized 365 Podcast. I'm your host, professional organizer, productivity expert, and motivational speaker Lisa Woodruff.

1:22.0

This podcast will help you embrace progress over perfection

1:26.4

and create lasting functional organizing in your home. I have so much to share with you

1:32.2

so let's get started.

1:34.0

You know that I am an out-of-the-box thinker.

1:40.0

As a matter of fact, I rarely even realize there's a box to be thinking in.

1:45.1

But this COVID-19 pandemic situation has had even people like me going, what is going on?

1:52.3

How do we make sense of all of this and in the next couple of

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