Welcome to the Organized 365 Podcast. My name is Lisa Woodruff and I'm a professional

organizer and blogger in Cincinnati, Ohio. I want to help you get your home

organized and help you organize life stages and unexpected events.

So sit back, relax, and let's get organized.

Welcome to Idol Week 4.

This is the week where we are going to tackle magazines.

And I'm actually republishing this week

an article I wrote a few years ago

called Are Your Magazine's empty coffee cups?

You could find this at Organize 365.com slash idle4.

And idle is spelled idly for identify decide locator let go and evaluate and

this week we are identifying magazines as the thing that we want to change our mindset about.

Now I'll be honest, when I was younger I used to like magazines.

I never loved them.

I think the reason why is because I want to complete things.

Like when I start a puzzle I work like crazy to

complete it in a couple of days or if I start a project I want to finish it like I'm

constantly about checking things off of my to-do list so even when I read a magazine I'm a horrible magazine

reader like I'll get a fluff magazine like people at the beach and then I'll

plow through it in an hour and a half like it's my job to finish this magazine and I get to the end of the magazine I'm like, it's my job to finish this magazine.

And I get to the end of the magazine.

I'm like, oh, I'm done with the magazine.

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