690 - Purposeful Transitions: How to Prepare and Plan For a New Season
Organize 365 Podcast
Lisa Woodruff
4.5 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 26 December 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Happy Boxing Day! Let's talk about transitions and what you need to declutter or add to resemble where you are going. We are all transitioning into the new year. I'm sharing the smallest shift you can make to be more intentional with what you want to get out of 2026. How are you planning with that anticipatory energy of things to come when the ball drops at midnight on New Years Eve?
Transition
So yes, we are all transitioning into a new year. We have this anticipatory energy as to what could happen for us in 2026. For me personally I'm thinking about a "new me" too. I know this is common for this time of year but if you have been listening to the podcast you know this has been on my radar in 2025. I have adjusted and transitioned into a person who works out. I shared some habits I've made with my workout schedule, water consumption, increasing my movement, and changes in my eating habits this past year. Increasing my workout frequency, it dawned on me that I may need to buy more clothes for pilates. I've transitioned into a person that works out. But my workout clothes did not reflect that. I started in gardening shorts and Organize 365® v-necks. Time to make my clothes reflect my intentions. You see, I find it beneficial to set my environment to match the intention of the transformation I'm working towards. It's a small shift that has had a big impact. So I will be getting a few new items for working out. Because I am now a person who works out.
When you consider transitions you have made this year it may require changes in wardrobe, equipment, and maybe your office, to do, be, and have what you want in 2026. You kids too will transition. Maybe they need new age appropriate toys, better fitting clothes, or even a uniform for a new club they joined.
Transformation
How can you signify to yourself that you have changed? The smallest yet effective thing I have done in my transformation processes is to make my environment match how I identify with myself. I needed new clothes that a person who works out wears. I needed a new water bottle once I realized the office has reverse osmosis and the waste I was creating with my bottled water; because I'm a person who drinks water. I want you to carefully consider what did you learn in 2025 and what new habits will be going into 2026 with you as a result of who you transformed into.
Transition – > Transformation
Put it all together? Planning Day is the perfect time to really reflect on all these ideas. How do you use your time now? What habits did you change? Are you choosing a word of the year? It's the time to decide what habits are going with you into the new year, set some intentions, and make your environment match those intentions. We'll take six combined hours between Prep Planning Day(2 hours on 12/29) and Planning Day (6 hours on 12/31) to look at your time to see where you can pop in new things to try out that will support your intentions. And if a large project like sprucing up a room or getting a PhD is part of the transformation you can get to planning what that will look like with your real life, your real family, and your real goals.
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| 0:00.0 | Today's mailbag comes to us from Michelle. Life is complex. I had a stack of papers that seemed to be |
| 0:06.7 | ever growing with no system to streamline or process the papers. I even hired a professional |
| 0:12.6 | organizer who set up boxes with files, but there was so little training and it wasn't easily |
| 0:18.4 | portable. With the Sunday basket, I have a place to put the papers, |
| 0:22.7 | a designated time to process them, and portable designations for the ones I need to take on the go. |
| 0:29.1 | Though I am new in my organized 365 journey, I can see the potential to use this system |
| 0:34.3 | throughout my life as I move from surviving to downsizing, caring for my disabled |
| 0:39.3 | daughter and parents as we navigate all seasons ahead. I feel like I am gaining a better |
| 0:44.7 | handle on my home, work, and family's needs. Do you have an organized 365 success story? |
| 0:53.1 | If so, we would love to hear about it. Please send us an |
| 0:56.5 | email at Customer Service at Organized 365 and tell us how you have taken back your home, your paper, |
| 1:04.1 | and your life with Organized 365. |
| 1:30.9 | Welcome to the Organized 365 podcast. I'm your host, professional organizer, productivity expert, and motivational speaker Lisa Woodruff. This podcast will help you embrace progress over perfection and create lasting functional organizing in your home. |
| 1:35.0 | I have so much to share with you, so let's get started. |
| 1:46.6 | Happy Day After Christmas, everyone. I know not everyone celebrates Christmas, but I do. So it's the day after Christmas. It is Boxing Day, |
| 1:52.1 | one of my favorite holidays of all time, where you box up all of the things that you don't need anymore, and you gift them to people that it might bless through donations. Love this day. |
| 1:59.4 | And I love this week. I love the week after Christmas through New |
| 2:04.4 | years before we really get back to work in the New Year, which for most of us in the United |
| 2:09.2 | States will be from now until around January 5th, Monday, January 5th. I will be working next week. |
| 2:15.4 | I'll be doing planning day with you. Our office is open on January 2nd. |
| 2:19.3 | But I mean, we're not having like the regular meetings. It's not regular work days, if you know what I mean. |
| 2:23.8 | Like people are working that don't have PTO, et cetera, et cetera. But for the most part, this next week, week and a half, is really a time where we do a lot of reflecting, a lot of goal setting. |
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