698 - PREORDER Escaping Quicksand - 10 Steps to Overcome the Overwhelm of Modern Homelife
Organize 365 Podcast
Lisa Woodruff
4.5 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 20 February 2026
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
I've been talking about a book I've been writing and I'm here to tell you all the juicy details and that you can preorder it now! In the end, I realized the world didn't need a book on how to organize your home because you have no resources to complete the tasks. Escaping Quicksand will arm you with the tools to get your home organized and move to productivity!
Thought Process and Creation
This is my sixth book. I don't tell you that to brag. I tell you that to share that I have published each book in different ways. Not sure if you have written a book but I always like to share my journey and thought process in case it's something you have been thinking about doing too.
I really struggled with feeling "set" on the book theme. I wrote two other versions of "the book" I thought I was going to publish. But one morning about 5am, it came to me. The first chapter was written in about an hour and it felt right. I finally nailed down what people needed. I wrote a book on shifting your mindset to accomplish your home organization goals! I shared the first paragraph with my team and they unanimously agreed, yes this is the book people need. I wrote it in two weeks. It was effortless and I felt passionate about what I was sharing.
And when do people need it? In June of course. I insisted on having it released on June 23rd. Why? Because that's when our year is "wrapping up." The end of June is when I have our team week. It's when school is wrapping up, we're resetting, and dreaming. And July is a great month to read a new book. This is a thinking book. Secret: When you preorder, chapters will be released early!
What's It About
You will start reading the first three pre chapters. I started by sharing my quicksand story. I realized when you have hit "rock bottom", it turns out that you just keep going, like no end to the pit. You just keep sinking until the quicksand swallows you! I want to help you before you get too deep in the quicksand. Inevitably, it seems as though we hit 40 and reevaluate life; that come to Jesus conversation we have with ourselves. We've had enough and know there has to be a solution out there somewhere.
And what about us? When do we put ourselves on the to do list? So, the next chapter is about self care. How do we care for our whole person? Our education, spiritual care, health, and all the other aspects of a whole person. The third prechapter is the fact that our household is an economic powerhouse.
And then we get into the meat of the book explaining Swiss cheese organizing, being a woman of excellence, morning and afternoon routines, letting go of housework expectations, taking "center stage" when doing housework, weekly planning, and from to do lists to productivity!
Get the Book and Join the Book Club
Who loves a book club? There are already over 1,000 people who have preordered the book and have the opportunity to join the book club. You can preorder the book through the Organize 365® website or through your favorite book retailer. Then just upload your receipt and you too can join the book club. I am planning on releasing the chapters early each week for 13 weeks. I will release videos and will be posing questions out there for all of us to discuss about the chapters and how it applies to you as a household manager. This will allow you to change your mindset in real time. It's too easy to just keep reading and not take action. This slow release will give you a week to ruminate about what you read and what the community has said.
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| 0:00.0 | This week's mailbag comes to us from Jill. |
| 0:02.8 | I upleveled my homemade Sunday basket with this Sunday basket purchase. |
| 0:07.3 | I am so glad I did. |
| 0:09.1 | I've had so many personal wins with the homemade and purchase system, but today was the best. |
| 0:15.2 | I heard my husband on the phone with his brother trying to figure out the password to one of their mother's devices. |
| 0:21.4 | Without asking me what the password was, my husband went to the Sunday basket, pulled out the |
| 0:26.6 | blue folder labeled with his mother's name where I keep all the random scraps of paper my husband |
| 0:31.5 | hands me whenever a new password is set up for his mother. What would normally have been a task |
| 0:37.2 | given to me was |
| 0:38.3 | taken care of without interrupting what I was doing. Thank you. Do you have an Organized 365 success |
| 0:46.8 | story? If so, we would love to hear about it. Please send us an email at customer service at |
| 0:52.8 | organized 365 and tell us how you have taken back your home, |
| 0:57.7 | your paper, and your life with Organized 365. |
| 1:07.1 | Welcome to the Organized 365 podcast. |
| 1:29.3 | 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. I have so much to share with you, so let's get started. |
| 1:37.9 | Today on the podcast, I want to talk to you about my new book, Escaping Quicksand that will be out June 23rd. This is the sixth book I will have written in my career. My first book I wrote before I started Organized |
| 1:45.5 | 365. It is a church curriculum for preschoolers. My next couple of books were self-published on |
| 1:53.4 | Amazon, and then I traditionally published the book, The Paper Solution, and then self-published |
| 1:59.2 | the book, Organization is a Learnable Skill. |
| 2:02.4 | Escaping Quicksand is a hybrid published book, meaning that I'm paying to have it published, |
| 2:07.4 | but it's being published under a division of Simon & Schuster. |
| 2:10.6 | I give you that background because I know that if you are thinking about publishing a book |
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