662 - Audience Q&A 4 - Routines! (Invisible Work)
Organize 365 Podcast
Lisa Woodruff
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🗓️ 23 June 2025
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Happy Monday! This Connections Episodes is all about Routines. Energy is a word that keeps surfacing in these questions and conversations within the community. We are busy ladies! So how do we establish and stick to these routines? It’s important to regularly evaluate your routines and determine if they are still serving you and your house for the phase of life you are in.
Energy for routines and sticking to them regarding family
Right out of the gate Mary asked about sticking to routines now that her children are out of school for the summer. We all do better with schedules/routines. You don’t have to rush out the door anymore but you can still have a schedule. This way you and your family can have expectations for the day. The best part about being an adult, is that you can make the schedule anything you want. It’s ok to have a few non productive days and enjoy the time with your kids. Most importantly enjoy your summer.
“I’m so busy doing everything for my family I feel like I never get to do what I want to do.” OR “I feel guilty being lazy when it’s so beautiful outside.” I say choose a day that you will what you want to do. For example, in the summer Greg golfs on Wednesdays so, I “project” on Wednesday. If it rains or golf is cancelled for some reason, I still “project.” OR you can say these are the projects I will do on rainy days. So go out and enjoy the sunshine but when you can’t, pull out those projects you have been wanting to tackle. You could also designate times or nights when you, say, watch tv with your spouse. It’s important to nurture important relationships and it’s important to fill your cup too.
Sticking to your routines for you
Another question was about having a plan for the week but not having the right energy for planned tasks. I had to throw out a little tough love. I want you to ask yourself “How bad do you want it?” I want my PhD badly so I have sacrificed time with my family and I have done the work even when I didn’t want to. If you want your home organized, do 15 minutes a day even when you don’t want to. If you find yourself waning in energy in general, look at your diet and physical activity. I have always been an energetic person but I noticed by cleaning up my diet and increasing my daily movement, I have more energy. I explained how making environmental changes can help you in making dietary changes. And I talked about the 24 hour rule. I delay projects and I delay decision making until Sundays. Basically I don’t buy anything unless I know I can start it within 24 hours. Anna and I laughed about me learning about the Orgnaize 365® staff and their addiction with the “Save for Later” feature on Amazon. I said a lot more about it so please go listen to the full episode.
Rapid Fire Q & A
“Lisa, What do you do with all of the completed puzzles?” “I donate them.”
“What is a typical work day for you Lisa?” “What is a typical home day for you Lisa?” Listen to episodes 471- 474 I take you through each day! I explain my rationalization for what I do.
“Do you have a routine with Amazon ordering?” Back in the day I had to watch all our pennies. And I explained how I would delegate our money in combination with processing my Sunday Basket®. You may get a better idea for how to set up an Amazon routine for yourself by listening to those episodes.
Regular Review
It is so important to establish routines so you have capacity for other aspects of life. Planning Day gives you a great opportunity to evaluate what you are currently doing, are your routines still serving you, are there things that have fallen off that you want to add back in or try in a different way? Every planning day you decide what you want you day to look like for the next 120 days. Planning day provides the opportunity to stop, review, change, and move forward.
EPISODE RESOURCES:
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Ep. 469-479 A Day in the Life of (Weekends, Home, and Work)
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Ep. 521-525 How Lisa went from No Sunday Basket® to Sunday Basket® retailer
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Connections podcast. Starting with an intense observation of my mother and father's |
| 0:10.7 | families of origin, followed by a deep decade of babysitting. My understanding of how families |
| 0:16.7 | used their homes was broadened in my 20s through home visits for my at-risk preschool students |
| 0:22.4 | and culminated in my seven years as an in-home professional organizer in my 40s. |
| 0:27.8 | Taken together, I have observed, supported, and organized hundreds of homes and families, |
| 0:32.7 | and the Connections Podcast coupled this deep deep unique understanding of American households with |
| 0:38.3 | other experts, bestselling authors, industry experts, and the Organized 365 research team. |
| 0:45.1 | If you have a connection you would like us to explore, please email customer service |
| 0:49.3 | at Organize365.com. And now, on to the show. |
| 1:01.3 | Anna, welcome back to the Organized 365 podcast. Let's get into a Q&A all about routines this week. Let's do it, Lisa. Let's jump right in. Mary wants to know how she can |
| 1:08.6 | keep up with her own routines and be consistent without the structure |
| 1:12.0 | of the kids school routine. So I used to watch Supernanny. Did you ever watch Supernanny? |
| 1:19.0 | No, I think I was a little too young. Oh, that's right, I'm old. Okay, so I used to watch |
| 1:24.6 | Supernanny. So Supernanny is an English nanny in the United States. |
| 1:28.4 | She would show up with these American houses in her cute little English cab. |
| 1:32.5 | And she would come in and she would hear all about how the kids are misbehaving. |
| 1:36.8 | And then she would come up with solutions like a nanny would to establish order in the home. |
| 1:43.3 | And inevitably, in almost every single episode, I finally |
| 1:46.6 | started to notice the pattern. She'd observed the kids. She'd hear all about it. She'd sit down with |
| 1:52.5 | the parents. They'd talk about what their goals were. She would go away in her cab and she would |
| 1:56.8 | come back the next day. And she would say, okay, here's what we're going to do. First, we have to have a schedule. |
| 2:03.7 | And then she'd have roll out this schedule and she'd tape it up on the door in the kitchen and she'd go over it with the kids and the parents. |
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