Coffee Chat - Back To School Blitz
Organize 365 Podcast
Lisa Woodruff
4.5 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 16 July 2024
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
I know it’s only July, but you guys…there’s one month when all the schools seem to be out, except year-round schools of course. And that means it’s time to refresh, which means it’s the Back to School Blitz time. This is a free, pre-recorded blitz to get prepared for the kids to start their next year in school. However, this is a cadence you as an adult have experienced since you were in school, so if you don’t have kids…you can still do the Back To School Blitz for yourself!
I remember I used to take one week as “camp counselor” with my kids to get prepared. It’s a time to schedule physicals for fall activities, get routine dentist cleanings, might be time for new glasses. And oh by the way, the paperwork! One of the favorite things I did for myself one year was I copied the paperwork. Then the next year, I just copied from one doc to the other. Easy peasy!
Let’s take one week together to go through your kids' clothes because they are growing! And then you can plan your shopping spree. They may want to express themselves differently this year. If you do this blitz for yourself, you may find you are in a different phase of life and you want to edit your wardrobe to match your lifestyle now. And I want you to be prepared for the school supply list or look around your office. Is it time to get a new set of pens, highlighters, or a working stapler? I remember the year we needed the scientific calculator - like why? My kids weren’t going to be scientists. You may need to budget for an item or two, but at least you won’t be surprised.
Back to School Blitz (Now-August 22nd)
Day 1 Clothing
Day 2 Command Center
Day 3 Supplies
Day 4 Personal Grooming
Day 5 How We Get Out The Door
It’s more fun when you invite a friend or family member to do this with you. This is a great, free introduction to Organize 365® for someone that you know who could benefit. When Labor Day rolls around and you realize it’s back to reality, I want your train to already be chugging along for the ten most productive weeks of the year and that comes with planning now.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Organized 365 Coffee Chat. These coffee chats pop up when I have something fun or important to share with you about what is going on at the organized 365 company. |
| 0:18.0 | Coffee Chats share time sensitive information, so when the coffee has gone cold and the information is no longer relevant, |
| 0:27.2 | these episodes will disappear from your podcast cue, keeping the organized |
| 0:32.0 | 365 podcast feed current and relevant. |
| 0:35.0 | I think our coffee is ready. |
| 0:40.0 | It's the most wonderful time of the year. |
| 0:48.5 | Too soon. |
| 0:50.1 | I'm talking about back to school, you guys. It is the most wonderful time for the parents who are |
| 0:56.2 | staying home and it is July and we are the camp counselors. We're like yes we'll pay whatever you want in school supplies if you will take |
| 1:04.4 | these beautiful children back and teach them something anything the back to |
| 1:09.9 | school Blitz is something that I've been doing for I don don't know, five, six years, I don't even |
| 1:14.4 | know how long we've been doing the back to school Blitz. |
| 1:16.6 | I do know when I created the back to school Blitz, it was when my kids were in middle school. |
| 1:21.4 | When my kids were in grade school and we would do back to school shopping. It was super fun. |
| 1:27.1 | It was like part of my camp counselor routine. Like one week was a week we would |
| 1:31.4 | get ready to go back to school and we would go to all the different stores so we could save five cents on index cards at this one store and then the next door we would go to we could get the glue sticks and the crayons and I had it down to a science saving money and |
| 1:44.8 | having the kids get their school supplies putting their names on everything putting |
| 1:48.2 | them in the boxes getting the boxes of tissues everything that we needed. And then as the kids got older, the amount of |
| 1:56.6 | things I needed to do got longer, not shorter, and it became so expensive. I |
| 2:02.0 | remember the year when I was like, whoa, we need to like budget for back to school. |
| 2:06.8 | It was when the kids needed that really expensive scientific calculator. It was like a hundred and twenty dollars and I was like oh my gosh my children are not going to be scientists |
| 2:19.1 | Why do they need a scientific calculator and And I remember thinking, it is so expensive. It was so expensive |
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