585 - The Adult Life Span is Void of Developmental Structure at Home - We Are on Our Own!
Organize 365 Podcast
Lisa Woodruff
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🗓️ 29 March 2024
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
It is astounding to me that we live in dwellings all over the world and we don't have much at all (and nothing new) to explain the development of adults and the elderly. Surely this exists and I can't find it yet?!? First, I'm going to explain what I have been able to find, and then I'm going to ask the same questions I did with the other phases of life.
The parabolas I came up with represent money and time. Then there's the middle, straight line - it's housework. It's never accounted for in any of these studies as life-long unpaid work. There are 3 types: cleaning, tasks of daily living, and life administration. What is our purpose in this phase? Do housework! This is our job at home. What is our capacity? It's three-fold: how much time you have, how much money you have, and the third that is unique to you - your energy. Are you optimally energized for the role that you are in?
How do you use the physical spaces in your home during this phase? Houses haven't changed much since the 50's. But I can change your mindset about how to use your house.
What scaffolding or support do we need? There have been no organizational supports or structures put into place for the administration of households. You need a Sunday Basket®, you need binders to replace your file cabinet, and you need The Productive Home Solution® in order to learn how to organize and optimize every part of your house. Different phases of life require different organizational structures and systems.
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| 0:00.0 | Today's mail bag comes to us from Liz. |
| 0:03.0 | Last night I finished my dinner and my daughter's school trip Zoom. |
| 0:07.0 | I sat in my easy chair and I realized I completed everything on my list for today that I had scheduled on Sunday as my |
| 0:14.7 | Tuesday goals. All the papers in my bulging Sunday basket can wait. Laundry is on the schedule |
| 0:20.7 | for another day. I can do whatever I want. I could just sit and do nothing, or read |
| 0:26.4 | a book or do something silly. Guess what I did? I pre-hated my bed with a heating pad, crawled in, counted my blessings, acknowledged my accomplishments, and had 11 hours of delicious uninterrupted sleep. |
| 0:41.0 | It was divine, and it was the first time in quite some time I was able to turn my brain off and let myself sleep. |
| 0:49.0 | Sunday basket for the win. |
| 0:52.0 | Do you have an Organized 365 success story? |
| 0:55.0 | If so, we would love to hear about it. |
| 0:58.0 | Please send us an email at Customer Service at Organized 365 |
| 1:02.0 | and tell us how you have taken back your home, your paper, and your life with |
| 1:08.0 | Organized 365 Podcast. I'm your host, professional organizer, productivity expert, and motivational speaker Lisa Woodruff. |
| 1:26.5 | This podcast will help you embrace progress over perfection and create lasting functional |
| 1:32.2 | organizing in your home. |
| 1:34.0 | I have so much to share with you, so let's get started. |
| 1:39.7 | Because we all hold in our hands, |
| 1:41.6 | literally the most powerful computer. |
| 1:45.0 | I mean back in the day we didn't even have computers when I went to school and took my first |
| 1:48.8 | computer programming class. |
| 1:50.8 | It was teaching a little green turtle to go forward 10, right 90, forward 10, right 90, any of you relate. |
| 1:57.0 | I mean I did not have computers as a child and computers have evolved throughout my lifetime. So from that bias today, because we have |
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