575 - Organizational Dominos: Step 3 - Don't Quit
Organize 365 Podcast
Lisa Woodruff
4.5 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 19 January 2024
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Alright, it's time for the last organizational domino - Don't Quit! When you have mastered something, when you have persevered and you have learned something at a new level, you can easily forget what it was like to learn that skill. For many adults, we don't often have to push through any resistance in order to learn something new. When things get rough, we can choose to be comfortable instead of doing something hard or pushing through the resistance.
Quitting is fine. You're allowed to quit. The reason why I didn't quit in 2012 in getting my home organized was because I didn't have any options left. I was turning 40, I started Organize 365®, I was getting our house organized and I had become a Professional Organizer. If I couldn't get my own house organized, how was I going to keep being a Professional Organizer? It was part of my identity of who I was becoming.
The next time I wanted to quit was with growing Organize 365®. There have been a lot of things that have happened in 12 years in business that I didn't know how to do. I don't have a business degree, so I am learning how to be a business owner by being in masterminds, hiring coaches, taking courses, going to seminars and conferences. Being an entrepreneur is a never ending professional development course.
As an adult you want to quit...or you just figure out how to do it. It's not about being afraid of the effort or the work; it's about not knowing how to do it, or what to do next. Go back to your WHY - why do you want to get organized to begin with? When you know your why, then you know your limits, strengths and weaknesses...and realize that you will need resources, help, expertise, advice and so forth in order to get further and grow more.
Organization can be the solution to having a plan and getting your time back. I know you're probably thinking: "it's ridiculous to pay money to Organize 365® to learn how to organize, when I should just know how to do this myself." Why should you know how to do something just because you've always lived in a household?
Everything is taught to us, or modeled for us. If you weren't TAUGHT how to be organized, you have to go to class. When you get stuck - join the community, get in the app, go to the coworking time. Get with people who are like minded. Sign up for a 1:1 session with a Certified Organizer.
Everyone is going to get stuck. I'm not going to let you quit. Keep pushing through, because on the other side is the organized life and unlocked time freedom that you're looking for.
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| 0:00.0 | Today's mail bag. Dear Lisa, I've had my Sunday basket for about eight months now and I have been working on the productive home solution since the beginning of last year. |
| 0:11.0 | I hadn't seen a whole lot of progress until about a month ago. I found myself |
| 0:15.8 | one evening with time on my hands, actually feeling bored because I had nothing specific to do. |
| 0:27.0 | That's when it clicked that I have gained some me time. I'm finding energy and motivation to tackle home improvement projects that got put off for far too long while I was trying to just |
| 0:36.0 | keep my head above water. So thank you Lisa for helping me find my life again. |
| 0:43.2 | Do you have an Organized 365 success story? |
| 0:46.6 | If so, we would love to hear about it. |
| 0:49.2 | Please send us an email at Customer Service at Organized 365 and tell us how you have taken back your home, your paper, and your life with |
| 0:58.7 | Organized 365. 3.5 |
| 1:08.0 | 65 Podcast I'm your host, professional organizer, productivity expert, and motivational speaker Lisa Woodruff. |
| 1:17.0 | This podcast will help you embrace progress over perfection and create lasting functional organizing in your home. |
| 1:25.6 | I have so much to share with you, so let's get started. |
| 1:32.2 | All right, it's time for the last organizational domino, and this is what to do when you want to quit. |
| 1:39.2 | So step one in our organizational dominoes was to establish organizing time just 15 minutes a day |
| 1:45.8 | just get started start decluttering and then organizing keep going back to the same |
| 1:50.0 | space and organize not doing housework not doing household activities actually spending time |
| 1:56.1 | getting organized. Step two was expanding your time horizon from giving yourself a day, a weekend or a month to get organized |
| 2:07.2 | to really stretching it all the way to three years to be living a truly organized an optimal life. The time is going to be living a truly organized and optimal life. The time is going to pass no |
| 2:15.4 | matter what, so put your effort into getting fully organized. Now, |
| 2:21.0 | step three, quitting. |
| 2:25.0 | When you have mastered something, |
| 2:29.0 | when you have persevered and you have learned something at a new level, you forget what it was like to |
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