471 - A Day in the Life - Morning Routines
Organize 365 Podcast
Lisa Woodruff
4.5 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 18 February 2022
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
In this podcast series, I will be sharing how my habits, routines, and the different ways I think about time. This week I'll be sharing my morning routines.
I always learn more from listening to real-life stories of how other women are "getting it done." Thanks for letting me share mine with you!
It's time to dive into the workweek.
Before I go any further, I just want to remind you that here at Organize 365®, we view your "work" as "whatever you spend the majority of your Monday - Friday doing during the day."
Why is it important to define our workday as "work"?!
It was so powerful for me to redefine "work" for myself and view my seasons of parenting, homeschooling, and being the family medical liaison as "work" because then I could embrace and apply better routines & productive habits to my day.
I share one week of my morning routines recorded in November in this week's podcast. While recording this week, I realized that I actually have two different morning routines.
Listen in as I share how I "bucket" my morning routine to line up with the kind of work I'll be doing each day of the week.
As a bonus, I added on to this podcast episode my morning routine when my kids were in high school.
Hands down, one of the best habits I embraced for my mental health was establishing daily routines.
Why? Because it gave my "never-ending to do list days" structure and broke my day into buckets of time.
We all need structure, routines, and transitions in our days.
This podcast series is not for you to compare yours and my schedules, but to open your thoughts to explore the possibilities of what could be in your everyday life. My morning routine has continued to change and evolve over the years and will continue to do so in the future.
Do you have a morning routine? Is it time to add or take something away from your morning routine?
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This week's mailbag comes from Allison. |
| 0:03.0 | Allison's describing her extra five that she gets by using the Sunday basket. |
| 0:08.0 | She says, |
| 0:09.0 | Without the Sunday basket, the paper solution, and all of organized 365, |
| 0:14.0 | I would not have been able to manage adding caring for my beautiful mother when she needs me. |
| 0:19.0 | She lived a very independent 90 years until May of 2021 when her hip broke. |
| 0:24.0 | This event has called me to do things I never thought I could do. |
| 0:27.0 | If I didn't have the knowledge of a system to implement, I would have been lost. |
| 0:31.0 | Thankfully, I found organized 365 before the pandemic, |
| 0:35.0 | and it started on my decluttering and paper organizing goals, |
| 0:38.0 | so I was in a place where I was able to jump into action. |
| 0:41.0 | I'm a single mom of two teens, |
| 0:44.0 | and I am able to manage my life, my home, and now my mom and her home. |
| 0:48.0 | It's not easy, but I'm doing it. |
| 0:50.0 | We have waved the white flag on her six-year battle with ovarian cancer, |
| 0:54.0 | and although we don't know how much time we have, |
| 0:57.0 | and what this year will bring, |
| 0:59.0 | I have the time and the mental space to care for her and face whatever lies ahead. |
| 1:03.0 | I can't express how thankful I am for my extra five. |
| 1:07.0 | Thank you, Allison. |
| 1:08.0 | Do you have an organized 365 success story? |
| 1:12.0 | If so, we would love to hear it. |
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