569 - Increased Productivity Comes from Organization
Organize 365 Podcast
Lisa Woodruff
4.5 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 8 December 2023
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Today's episode is going to be a refresher to some of you, and new to a lot of you. I've recorded two podcast series that I'm going to reference, plus a concept I created years ago. This will get us all to the same place of thinking as we end the year.
Are you the one thinking: "Ok, I want that productivity that Lisa has and I'm doing #allthethings. So why don't I have what I think I should have as productivity?" You're busy running around like a chicken with your head cut off, trying to make the merriment for everyone around you the entire month of December. What you're craving and what you want is to figure out how to finally get organized so you could be more productive, so you could be less stressed, so you can get more done.
So why is it that we can declutter, get kind of organized, and then get to productivity - and yet we still don't achieve our goals? Or we get some time back, but not a lot of time...then one little unexpected life event comes and you feel like you've been put behind 6 months at home. Why is it such a regular occurrence that getting sick or an unexpected event can derail us so badly?
Organization is a three-part cycle: Decluttering, Organization, Increased Productivity. I'm going to add a fourth part to the cycle - Impact. This is the one that most people never get to. We're always going for productivity, but really I think we're going for impact and productivity is the step before impact. Now consider the Lisa Math that I do...and let's fit all of this together.
Adding is organizing. Subtraction is decluttering. Multiplication is productivity. Division is the impact.
Impact comes from organization. Not productivity - impact. Productivity will increase the speed of the organization you have, but that's it. If we're only as productive as our organization will let us be, how do we optimize organization? Productivity is time bound. You can only get so much done in a day.
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| 0:00.0 | Today's mail bag comes to us from Francie. |
| 0:03.0 | Hi Organized 365 team. |
| 0:05.0 | I joined the Productive Home Solution community in November of 2022 |
| 0:10.0 | and my two children have been reacting in different ways. My nine-year-old daughter caught the organizing |
| 0:15.2 | bug right away and loves to listen to the podcast and join me in my organizing activities. |
| 0:20.8 | My 12-year-old son has been more of a passive observer. |
| 0:25.0 | I recently purchased the kids program and my daughter immediately began to binge watch the videos. |
| 0:30.0 | I will guide my son through them later after we move next month and he has his own bedroom to motivate him. |
| 0:36.3 | They currently share a room. I have yet to try to have them clean their own bedroom regularly |
| 0:41.6 | though I have slowly gotten it organized to the point that it is not overcrowded and everything in it has a home. |
| 0:48.0 | My daughter recently asked to have the bedroom organization checklist taped to the wall. |
| 0:52.6 | And now they both understand the general idea |
| 0:55.2 | that to me a reset means tossing trash, |
| 0:58.0 | putting things back in their homes, |
| 0:59.6 | and straightening their beds. |
| 1:01.8 | However, both of them struggle with some of the executive functions. So if I suggest |
| 1:06.7 | that it is time for a reset, I still expect resistance and difficulty seeing the job through. |
| 1:24.6 | I am patient. I am willing to put in the weeks, months, or years required to help them gradually establish the skills. Today, my son vanished into the bedroom and was acting a bit secretive. Initially it made me wonder whether he was trying to sneak some extra screen time, |
| 1:28.6 | but all of the screens were accounted for. After a fairly long period he came out and announced to me, his |
| 1:35.1 | father and grandmother, Lisa was right. That was a lot of satisfaction for just a |
| 1:40.9 | little bit of effort. I have no recollection of hearing Lisa say that in |
| 1:46.2 | particular but if that is what Lisa's voice says in his head I have no problem |
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