This week's mailbag comes to us from Amy.

Amy says my life fulfillment has significantly elevated since I began my journey with organized 365 18 months ago.

Lisa's methods, products, programs, team, and community have empowered me to have easy to use specialized organization containers known as the Sunday basket and Friday workbox,

where I can easily process the intense flow of information flooding my life via paper digitally and in my thoughts.

My ADHD mind is constantly thinking, consistently oscillating between hyper focus and distraction as I strive to excel at my jobs of being CEO of our productive home,

CEO of me Inc, an intentional parent, a home educator, a caregiver, and an executor.

I have a workbox for each role. Each of my kids has a portable one for their home school lessons, and I have a portable one that I use to pull different slash pockets from my different workboxes when I'm on the go.

Even though a slash pocket may not always have lots of paper in it as I'm a very digital with a lot of my work, the simple, tangible act of going through the workbox regularly and taking the slash pocket out gives me the mental focus to initiate and engage in the task or project.

The same as true was seeing all my workboxes in Sunday basket, neatly stored in a cube shelving system. It's a stimulating visual that gives me clarity on my multiple life roles, and when I take each workbox out, my mind shifts gears to give attention to the priorities for that role.

The guidance Lisa delivers during planning days provides a highly concentrated time to keep increasing my productivity and be proactive about my future.

I spent two decades in my previous career capitalizing on disruptive technology solutions that changed the way we live and work, and I can say with discernment that Lisa is an innovator and one of the most positive disruptors creating game changing solutions to the organizing space for one's life at home and in a professional environment.

My journey has been enlightening and transformative, overwhelming and clarifying, invigorating and strengthening full of growth and positive change.

Thank you, organized 365. I'm so grateful to have you in my life journey as I continue to actualize my dreams and I can't wait to see what lies ahead. Thank you, Amy. Do you have an organized 365 success story?

If so, we would love to hear it. Please send us an email at customer service at organized 365.com and tell us how you have taken back your home, your paper, and your life with organized 365.

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.

Okay, this week we are going to talk about organizing your family and communal spaces. This is the second area that we identified in the study we did that organization is not an optional hobby undertaken by women. Yeah, can we just stop with that please.

So we talked last week about becoming personally organized, being able to check the box and saying, I am a personally organized person that I'm personally organized level one. I'm personally organized level two that we can do this in private and then we're anxious about doing this even about getting ourselves personally organized, which just grieves my heart. And because of that, I am going to continue to say, yes, you can be organized 87% of Americans in our latest

study and 84% of Americans in the study before that believe organization is a learnable skill. I agree with you totally agree with you. However, we are not achieving it. We're just not achieving it. So last week, we talked about only 15% of those that were surveyed actually had their personal spaces organized and had a system for those personal spaces to be organized.

When we look at family and communal organization, it's even worse 14% 14% of people say that they have their family and communal spaces organized. So what spaces are we talking about here in this podcast.

Your family spaces and communal spaces. So if you're living like with roommates, they're the shared spaces, the ones that are not under your control and also are not paper or storage spaces. So basically, if you live in a two story house, it's everything on the first floor, right?

Your main floor, living areas, any shared bathrooms that you have, your kitchen, your dining room, not the garage, not the basement, not the storage.

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