711 - Emergencies Eliminate YOUR Goals, Not Others
Organize 365 Podcast
Lisa Woodruff
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🗓️ 22 May 2026
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Who is the first one to get cut from the priority list when a loved one has an unexpected event? You! We innately want to care for others in their times of need. And that means giving up gym time, your nutrition goals may go out the window for a time, and whatever else you enjoy and do for yourself.
See, What Had Happened Was…
Recently, I ran planning prep day and planning day and boy were my ducks in a row. By Sunday I had meal prepped, mapped out my week, and I was on fire to crush my goals. However Monday morning my sweet daughter called to say she was sick and asked if I could take Grayson to school. As moms do, I said yes. Which meant my time to go to the gym would now be spent with Grayson.
Then she called later in the day to say she was too sick to take care of Noah too. So once again rearranged my day and rushed off to pick up Grayson so I could get home to take care of Noah too. Thank God I remembered some food I had prepped to keep me on track and Grayson from getting hungry. Because Grayson had a Dr. appointment too and I had planned a snack ahead of time. Then I had this great idea to see if Greg, my husband, wanted to have lunch. Although I took the last bite of chicken salad as we hung up the phone. I was clearly off my game. And the next day, I skipped attending a talk by an economist so I could catch up on the work I hadn't been able to finish the day before.
But my planning did come into play. I had healthy food around me to support my nutrition focus of the week. But my self care was sacrificed in caring for my grandchildren to support Abby who was sick. And that's what we do for our family members. I wasn't about to say, "No Abby, I have to go to the gym this morning." No, I chose to serve and support my daughter.
Mindset Shift
We need to have a mindset shift to know something is going to get sacrificed that we wanted to do in place of caring for our loved one. How do we have good systems in place and ways to continually be upleveling our own care, knowledge, and who we are, so that we are able to care for others in times of crisis? That's the whole premise of my book "Escaping Quicksand". Unexpected events happen to everyone. But do you have a system in place to keep you on track in those moments? And are you equipped with the mindset to combat those situations?
Webinar Alert: On June 12th @ 11:30 EST, in the Paper Solution Group, I plan to go through the medical binder. I know I want to insert some labs and DNA results and a few other things. Plus, I want to update the kids' medical information with me as power of attorney. I'm sure you have papers like that too that you need to file away for safe keeping. I like to focus on information management (paper) in the Summer so each month I'm taking you through me updating my binders and this month is the medical binder. I'd love for you to join me!
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| 0:00.0 | Today's mailbag comes to us from Sarah. Even though we had to prepare nine dishes between |
| 0:05.1 | Easter brunch at church and a family gathering afterwards, it was relatively stress-free because I had |
| 0:10.9 | planned ahead, which items I could prepare days in advance, which ones I needed to bake morning of, |
| 0:16.8 | and which dishes were going where. Do you have an Organized 365 success story? |
| 0:23.1 | If so, we would love to hear about it. |
| 0:25.7 | Please send us an email at Customer Service at Organized 365 |
| 0:29.4 | and tell us how you have taken back your home, your paper, and your life with Organized 365. |
| 0:36.7 | Thank you. paper and your life with Organized 365. |
| 0:45.6 | Welcome to the Organized 365 podcast. |
| 0:52.2 | I'm your host, professional organizer, productivity expert, and motivational speaker, Lisa Woodruff. |
| 0:53.3 | This podcast will help you embrace progress over perfection |
| 0:57.0 | and create lasting functional organizing in your home. |
| 1:01.0 | I have so much to share with you, so let's get started. |
| 1:07.1 | In today's podcast, I want to share with you an experience that I had, more like we are just, |
| 1:13.4 | you know, two friends catching up over coffee. |
| 1:16.8 | There are some takeaways from this conversation, and I find that sometimes when you hear |
| 1:21.5 | other people's real life lived experience out loud, you can extrapolate things that I don't even know that I'm sharing. |
| 1:29.4 | So basically, I want to talk about how this idea that I have that I've mentioned many times |
| 1:35.1 | that the level of organization you have cannot improve once you're in an emergency. |
| 1:40.0 | Like you just have to run at the level of organization that you already have. |
| 1:45.6 | But my experience this week taught me something else, and it is this. We as humans will always prioritize other |
| 1:53.7 | people's needs if we have the capacity to help. And what happens in an emergency is that your goals and how you want to spend your time |
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