This week we hear from Carrie, a member of the 100-day home organization program.

I'm just so amazed at how this program has subtly transformed everything and made my house a whole new place.

Thank you. I've been working at this for years, really, but as a high school teacher with two side jobs, including one that is my own young business,

I'm busy and am mess. I'm so pleased to have items have a specific home and to be free to release items I don't need or want.

Now I have systems in place that will make it easier to clean up after working on a project. Thank you.

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Welcome to the organized 365 podcast. I'm your host, Professional Organizer, Productivity Expert, and Motivational Speaker, Lisa Woodruff.

This podcast will help you embrace progress over perfection and create lasting, functional organizing in your home.

I have so much to share with you, so let's get started.

For the last ten years, I have focused on analyzing and reviewing and researching and teaching the skill of organizing.

And one of the things that I learned early on was that the skill of organizing actually is preceded and posted by two of the things we attribute to organizing that are not actually the skill of organizing.

And I call this the organizational cycle or the cycle of getting organized.

And it is these three steps that happen in a continuum over and over and over again.

And as you get quicker and quicker in doing these steps and building your muscles in each of these steps, then you are able to go further and faster in your organizing.

And the first of these steps is the one that most of us actually would probably equate to what we consider being organized.

And that is the skill of decluttering.

So decluttering is actually we all know what decluttering is.

That's when you grab a trash bag and you go in any space that is overwhelming you or that you do not feel is organized and you proceed to try to get rid of as much as possible.

Sometimes decluttering can be smaller decluttering where you're decluttering a drawer or you might be decluttering something like your calendar or your papers or something that is not as much of a big bang is going in a room with the black trash bag.

But this first skill that you learn that actually precedes the skill of organizing is called decluttering.

I first recorded a podcast about this and this podcast series that we are re-airing in the next three weeks has been the most popular podcast series we've had on the podcast to date.

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