692 - Decluttering & Adding Habits in the New Year
Organize 365 Podcast
Lisa Woodruff
4.5 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 9 January 2026
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Ok, it's another peek into my brain. I'm sharing the things I want to follow me into the new year and things that I'm leaving in 2025. I thought it would be beneficial for you to hear my thoughts behind these decisions and get you thinking about how you want 2026 to look for you. Planning provides a lens of calm. Somehow when a plan is in place, even if it changes, it is not as jarring as when you have to react to change with "emergency energy."
What will be joining me
As I think about 2026 approaching, there are some significant changes happening in my life. Abby will have baby number two soon and the PhD is not consuming as much of my time. So, I am looking at the extra time. I want to be intentional with showing up for Abby, taking care of my body, and due to circumstances not yet resolved, looks like I will be doing a lot more housework.
This next 120 days I'm viewing as my "grand(ma)turnity leave." I am excited for Planning Day, where I take the time to really look at my time and plug in my priorities of being a grandma and think about how I want to use all this time I am getting back. When it comes to my housework I plan to run the vacuum robot more frequently after getting some listener feedback and tips. And I will run the dishwasher daily which is more frequent than we currently do. I am looking at the time I used to give to the PhD and filling it with my new goals. I am keeping the Tovola that is in alignment with eating healthy. But will likely add in a little meal prepping to accommodate how I want to eat and Grayson's egg allergy eating regimen. So, on Thursdays, I'll be doing mid week laundry and some housekeeping. And on Saturdays you will find me at the gym with Grayson. You will find me with Grayson a lot in the next 120 days "sucking up all my time." And I wouldn't have it any other way.
What will get left behind
Sit down. I'm leaving Culver's in 2025!! Never did I think this day would come but I want to build a healthy body, I still have 46 years to live and I'm really looking at my food right now. Doggy Daycare is closing and the house keeper won't clean with Hunter home, so no housekeeper. I will be home longer in the mornings so no more coffee and breakfast at the office. And I'm ditching ithe Oura ring. That thing was frustrating me. I disagreed with it too much. And I want to wear my nice jewlery! I'm ditching my gardening shorts and Organize 365® v-necks for clothes for workout clothes that better match how I identify; as a person who works out. Late night bedtimes are going away too because I want to have plenty of energy for the Abby, Grayson, and working out.
My Golden Window is Ending
I have been spoiled getting to take two luxurious hours each Sunday morning to process my Sunday Basket® upstairs and with little Grayson in tow pretty soon, I will not be able to. I have my Sunday Basket® upstairs and another in my kitchen which is basically Abby's Sunday Basket®. I plan to break my normal processing time into two different 1 hour chunks. I think I'll read all the things while Grayson is bathing which will account for about 1 hour or a little less. And I'm auditioning other time blocks for the remaining hour I will need for thinking, planning, and billpay. I will solidify this likely in Planning Day. Now is the time to go into your 2026 Sunday Basket® and grab all those ideas you wrote down and bring them to Planning Day. Those are the ideas and intentions you wanted to consider for the new year. Yes, this community is planning 2026 already. This community does not think you are weird. When you plan now, you get to execute on Jan 1. But if you want till the dust settles in the new year, it'll be the 5th - the 9th before you start planning let alone executing.
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| 0:00.0 | 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. |
| 0:23.2 | I have so much to share with you, so let's get started. |
| 0:29.9 | Welcome to 2026. You may be saying, Lisa, this is your second podcast in 2026 in case you didn't notice. Yeah, we're going to |
| 0:40.4 | talk a little bit about time. And actually, some of you are listening to this podcast in 2025, |
| 0:47.5 | because I am going to pre-release this podcast on Monday, December 29th, for those of you that are in |
| 0:54.0 | Planning Day, because all of the information in this podcast is Monday, December 29th, for those of you that are in Planning Day, because all of |
| 0:56.0 | the information in this podcast is information you're going to say, I wish I had had that |
| 1:00.6 | before Planning Day, Lisa, so I'm going to give it to you before Planning Day. And this is the |
| 1:05.9 | conundrum I find myself in all of the time. I am a person who loves planning and through being able to |
| 1:15.4 | strategically and thoughtfully and proactively plan, I was able to move myself from the reactive, |
| 1:22.5 | chaotic living that I was living in order to have a purposeful and productive and happier life. |
| 1:29.1 | The process of learning how to organize your house is pretty straightforward. Yeah, it's going |
| 1:33.3 | to take you a year, maybe a couple of years, but it's basically pretty simple. Get rid of what |
| 1:38.7 | you don't need, organize what is left, maintain what you have. Now, bottom line, you know that that's all we're doing. |
| 1:45.3 | It just takes a lot of time. The process of becoming someone who is proactive and planned, |
| 1:51.9 | I mean, it's complicated. Like I love that I interviewed Sarah Hart Unger and her new book, |
| 1:59.3 | Best Laid Plans, and I enjoyed that book, |
| 2:02.8 | but even for me, as someone who plans a lot, it was more planning than I even do. As I was reading |
| 2:08.7 | that book, as a person who loves to plan, I was trying to figure out how to Sarah get it all done, |
| 2:13.5 | which I definitely found out in that book. But also in that book, I was just trying to think about like the old me or the person |
| 2:21.4 | who hasn't started planning yet. |
| 2:22.9 | How do they comprehend this? |
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