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Organize 365 Podcast

703 - Divide and Conquer: From Sunday Basket Piles to Actionable Slash Pockets

Organize 365 Podcast

Lisa Woodruff

Education, Self-improvement, Business, Entrepreneurship

4.51.3K Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2026

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

I am focused on explaining, in detail, the set up of the Sunday Basket®. Just wait till you complete this step - all the paper organized and no more trying to remember everything by cognitive power alone. 

The Course

When you purchase the Sunday Basket®, you get access to the in app community and the online course. Once you make your purchase you start getting a string of emails to read then go complete. Now if you've had your Sunday Basket® for a minute, you may or may not remember getting those emails. Not sure you understand the "assignment"? You also get corresponding videos to show what to do. There's good news, last year I revamped all the videos and emails. New to or familiar with the Sunday Basket®, you can go into the course and click on Lisa's emails if you need a refresher and then watch the videos. And just so you know, this podcast series is going faster than the course. You can of course always do the course slower too. 

The Paper Piles

Remember there were piles that got recycled, shredded, and archived. Now you are sorting your actionable papers and all those index cards. This is why I say one item per index card, that interrupts you whatever you were doing when that idea came to you, so you can touch it, manipulate it,  and move it. Dump all those papers on the floor and begin to sort around yourself. I find that I run out of room if I try to use the kitchen counter. It is important that you sort based on activity like phone calls you need to make, or plans you have for traveling, or items you need to add to your calendar, and piles for individual people. 

The Slash Pockets

Each of those piles will go into it's own slash pocket. You will see the slash pockets have two sides. If you need to use both sides temporarily, that fine till you can order more. I will be sharing the reason why I do one idea per slash pocket later.  And if you run out feel free to use a paper clip. 

It's because of the slash pocket we can play the delayed decision making game. Get in the practice for 4-6 solid weeks of writing everything down on index cards and pop them in your Sunday Basket®. Each Sunday you will review, take action, or place in a slash pocket for safe keeping until it demands to be taken care of or you have time. Back in the day there was more paper which was easier to keep track of all the things. Digital subscriptions, bill pay, and newsletter were physical. I encourage you to print those things out and review during your Sunday Basket® time.  Right now sorting and placing in the Slash Pockets is the name of the game.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Today's mailbag comes to us from Lynette. Even weeks when I don't get to sorting it out,

0:06.4

whatever happens and goes into the Sunday basket stays in the Sunday basket. No longer wondering

0:13.2

which pile it is in or did I leave it in the car. It's in the basket. I cannot believe how much

0:19.8

the Sunday basket can hold. Do you have an Organized 365 success

0:25.7

story? If so, we would love to hear about it. Please send us an email at customer service at

0:31.7

Organized 365 and tell us how you have taken back your home, your paper, and your life with Organized 365.

0:44.3

Welcome to the Organized 365 podcast. I'm your host, professional organizer, productivity expert, and motivational speaker Lisa Woodruff.

0:57.1

This podcast will help you embrace progress over perfection and create lasting functional

1:03.1

organizing in your home. I have so much to share with you, so let's get started.

1:10.5

All right, I am going to attempt in this podcast to talk through

1:15.0

how you create your first Sunday basket and how you create the slash pockets. And it is literally

1:20.8

impossible for me to share enough information in a podcast for you to create this without having

1:26.7

the system. And even if you have the system, there's just way too much podcast for you to create this without having the system. And even if you

1:28.4

have the system, there's just way too much information for me to share exactly how all the different

1:34.6

colors of slash packets work in general, let alone for whatever phase of life you're in or

1:40.3

whatever family composition your household has. So I am going to give you broad

1:45.4

strokes about how to get started in moving from a laundry basket of paper and a whole bunch of

1:50.2

index cards into what looks like a more manageable Sunday basket in slash pockets. However,

1:57.6

for those of you that have the Sunday basket, here's where the course is going to be

2:01.7

very helpful. There are a lot of videos in the course about what the different colors mean,

2:08.9

how to use different colors. I have in there me doing my Sunday basket all the way through

2:14.0

the whole 90 minutes of me doing the Sunday basket a couple of times.

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