We're going to have fun today. We are going to talk about how to diagnose your

organizing style and friends and families organizing style without taking the

quiz. I'm going to share all my tips and tricks that I use to diagnose people

in minutes.

Hey, Clutterbugs. Welcome back to the Clutterbug podcast. If you're new, I'm

cast from Clutterbug. I am an organizing expert, which is always, every time I say it,

it feels a little weird inside because the truth is I'm not a naturally organized person.

But I've been doing this. I've been helping people get organized now for

13 years, which is crazy pants, maybe even longer. I'm old. All the years kind of blend together.

But what I find really cool is that because I've been doing this for so long, I can really

diagnose someone's organizing style in minutes, in absolute minutes. And the reason this came about,

I know if you've been listening or watching me for a while, you know the story, but I thought I'd

share it with you really quickly. When I first started getting organized for myself,

I started and failed a million times in the past. But when I really, truly got a handle

on my own home, it was because I realized that I don't organize in a traditional way. And

I'm not a detailed person. I don't file in little categories. When I'm done paying a bill,

I don't find the folder that it should go in. I need big, fast systems. And when I embrace that

about myself and realize, I'm never going to stop and take the lid off and put the band-aids back

in the little band-aid bin or take time to sort papers or take time to really sort anything.

I need to be able to just toss it away. When I embrace that about myself and really understood

the difference between a detailed and a non-detailed person, I could set up systems that were more

laid back that had bigger categories and magically things started getting put away.

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