522 - Lisa's Organization Story 2007
Organize 365 Podcast
Lisa Woodruff
4.5 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 10 February 2023
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
The year was 2007. And I was ROADKILL. Unexpected life events had run me over.
Divorce had unexpectedly hit my family. My father was in poor health. I was raising young children with medical diagnosis. I had attended one HUNDRED and ten doctors appointments. I came unglued. I reached my breaking point.
There I was standing in my kitchen. Not making sense. Tapping on a cabinet. Greg swooped in and got the kids out of the house. As I stood there pleading with myself, "You've got to get it together, Lisa!"
I went upstairs to my room to figure out why I felt like I was falling apart. At the time, I had a physical planner. I flipped backwards through my planner and realized a pattern. I was spending so much time at doctor's appointments. I started to tally it up and found that in the past year, I had gone to 110 doctor's appointments.
Doctor's appointments are not only time consuming, but they are expensive. So at the same time, I had become a "jill of all trades." I was running my Creative Memories business, cleaning houses, organizing, tutoring, working for Scholastic book fairs and several other direct sales related jobs.
No wonder I was falling behind and apart.
When it rains, it pours. My Sunday Basket® became my umbrella. I was overwhelmed. And I was being pushed to new limits. But I wasn't disorganized. I cannot even imagine what this phase of my life would have looked like if I had not already had my Sunday Basket® system and routine in place.
I was not home much at all during this phase of life, but I always had my Sunday Basket® with me. Which meant I was able to still be productive while waiting at the doctor's office or in the car pick-up line. This helped me keep up when life started moving way too fast.
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| 0:00.8 | Today's mailbag is from Barbara. |
| 0:03.6 | Oh my goodness, I just watched the video of organizing Michelle's storage area. |
| 0:08.9 | With my glass of wine, thank you Tanya for suggesting that we get a snack to watch the video. |
| 0:14.4 | Amazing, you too rock. I can't believe y'all did that in a day, maybe even less than a day. |
| 0:20.4 | It gives me hope for my storage area, which isn't as big of a space as Michelle's. |
| 0:25.5 | We do not have basements in Austin, which is a blessing and a curse, |
| 0:29.2 | but we do have bugs. My storage space or the last frontier, as I call it, |
| 0:34.0 | is the third bay of our 1940s era garage. It is chock full of stuff. Tools, bicycle gear, |
| 0:40.1 | leftover remodeling supplies like tile, holiday decor, yard tools, unknown items. |
| 0:46.0 | We have lived here for almost 30 years. It's an obstacle course to get around in and |
| 0:51.2 | full of way too many things. I love how you broke down the organizing into 45-minute work sessions. |
| 0:57.6 | First, taking stock of it all, then discarding, creating specific areas for items, |
| 1:03.5 | constantly asking keep or toss. I plan to use this method with my husband, |
| 1:08.5 | and then saving the going through some of the individual bins for later. |
| 1:13.4 | For Michelle's Pinterest moments, just getting floor space to work around in was so cool. |
| 1:19.9 | Michelle, you must feel so good to get your storage space usable. So proud of you for sharing this. |
| 1:25.6 | It's very personal and it took lots of courage to share. Lisa, I absolutely love you and all |
| 1:31.7 | that you do. You are such an inspiration. The Sunday basket has changed my life literally in three |
| 1:37.3 | months of use. Thanks again, so very much for sharing this video. I have a goal to make 2023 my |
| 1:43.6 | year to get my storage space in order. Do you have an organized 365 success story? If so, we would |
| 1:51.8 | love to hear about it. Please send us an email at Customer Service at Organize 365 and tell us how |
| 1:58.5 | you have taken back your home, your paper, and your life with Organize 365. |
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