712 - Vacation Days, Sick Time, PTO and Trips, Let's Get Into It
Organize 365 Podcast
Lisa Woodruff
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🗓️ 29 May 2026
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Hope you are mentally hungry, because I'm unloading a lot of food for thought. Greg and I were in the car discussing the perception of a vacation vs. a trip. And that of course led to the time you take off for said vacation/trip. And that got me thinking overall about how transformational this summer is going to be for me. Good news! You have a front seat to all of it!
Vacation vs. a Trip
Ok, so we're in the car talking about vacations vs. trips. And Greg joked "You never take vacations." And he's kind of right because in my life I guess I couldn't really take a vacation. When I was a stay at home mom, we just went to FL. I didn't have to submit vacation time. As a teacher, I just always worked and thought of summer as my vacation time. If you are a teacher you know it's quite the contrary!! And when we do go to FL I do more work than at home. I turn into a 1950's wife so Greg can fully enjoy his vacation. And I love doing that for him and the kids. Greg thinks it's a vacation because he's with his family, gets to go fishing, and go to the beach. I will say London felt like a vacation to me. We had no expectations, I didn't do any laundry or cooking, and we had fun.
When my parents took us to Disney, we attended an art class. Yep, went to Disney to attend school. But we took a lot of trips in my childhood where we learned about thing and places and now that's what I enjoy too. My trips feel like vacation more to me but again Greg jokes they are trips. But I do think in reflection of this summer being so transformational with the PhD coming to an end and Greg thinking about retirement, I'd like to go on more vacations.
PTO, Sick Days, Retirement
This led us to talking about PTO, sick days and Greg wanting to retire. His mom fell a little while back and he was the closest primary care giver. It was funny to watch him go through it. When you take someone else to the Dr. you should just take a half day and use your sick time. Greg was like "But I wasn't sick." Right but it was a medical appointment. I always took the kids to the dr. so Greg never had to think about that. Then he asked what exactly was PTO. So we talked about how many hours he has accrued and how neither of us take sick time or PTO. We are hearty and we work. But what about when Greg doesn't work and I still want to? Will I take advantage of some PTO? I don't know but these are questions I want to start asking myself as the household CEO.
Welcome To My Transformational Summer
I took advantage of a lot of planned neglect and worked a lot of hours pursuing my PhD. Now that it's done, I want to decide what things I will let back in or not. There will be a lot of open time now and I want to think about how I will use that time. I decided on one thing and that was my Paper Solution™ Binders. I feel like I neglected them a little so I'd like to really spend time getting them up to par. I never did the workbooks so I am doing them now. Before the PhD Abby was pregnant, now she has two children. Greg wants to retire. All of this has financial implications on our budget. I feel like I need some CEO time. So I decided in the middle of the month I will set aside two hours to just think about our household financial goals and I came up with seven questions which will help me decide if I am taking care of me in a way that fills my cup so I can continue to take care of my house and family too. Yes, I am going to offer this "co-working" time once a month. You too deserve time to think without your family around. And you too deserve time to take care of things for your household manager responsibilities that need to be done Monday- Friday, 9am -5pm.
I want this household CEO time, to be a time for you to be able to really think through your household management, through a leadership lens, to make sure that you are stewarding all of the resources you have, well. And that you are taking care of yourself so you can be of service to all of those around you, for as long as possible, and in the best health as possible. I hope you'll join me June 15th from 9am - 11am.
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| 0:00.0 | Today's mailbag comes to us from Susan. Organize 365, your system helps me in more ways than I thought |
| 0:08.0 | possible. During Sunday basket time, as I was going through some finances and checking my credit |
| 0:13.9 | card statements, I saw my rewards points. I have never redeemed any points and I had no idea how to use them. |
| 0:21.6 | So I marked these down on an index card that I want to find out about these. |
| 0:26.0 | And in the end, it piqued my interest so much that I added it to my to-do list this week. |
| 0:31.3 | Tonight, I contacted the two card companies and found out that there is even the ability to redeem them for cash. So I asked lots of questions and found out that one card companies and found out that there is even the ability to redeem them for cash. So I asked |
| 0:39.0 | lots of questions and found out that one card was especially better for cash rewards while the |
| 0:44.8 | other was better to redeem through gift cards. After all is said and done, I have a refund of |
| 0:50.0 | $260 straight onto one of the cards and the other one I was able to redeem $600. |
| 0:57.4 | Yes, I said $600 worth of gift cards. |
| 1:00.6 | These gift cards have 20 companies on them so I can use them in many places. |
| 1:05.1 | What a find. |
| 1:06.3 | Thank you Organized 365 for helping me feel in control. |
| 1:11.4 | Do you have an organizedized 365 success story? |
| 1:15.1 | If so, we would love to hear about it. |
| 1:17.7 | Please send us an email at Customer Service at Organized 365 and tell us how you have taken |
| 1:23.6 | back your home, your paper, and your life with Organized 365. |
| 1:34.7 | Welcome to the Organized 365 podcast. I'm your host, professional organizer, |
| 1:41.0 | productivity expert, and motivational speaker Lisa Woodruff. |
| 1:45.6 | This podcast will help you embrace progress over perfection and create lasting functional |
| 1:51.6 | organizing in your home. I have so much to share with you, so let's get started. |
| 1:59.7 | Greg and I were driving in the car. Greg is my husband. We were driving in the car in |
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