How to Organize Anything (Without Stress)
The Intentional Advantage
Tanya Dalton
4.8 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 26 February 2019
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Today, our focus is figuring out how to organize ALL the "stuff" in our lives, why it's important to organize, and how clutter can actually affect our mental health and even our happiness. I'll share some strategies to help you organize your home, and I'll share one of my very favorite techniques called the Mount Vernon Method. All the ideas I'm sharing today will help you tackle any project around the house and allow you to get organized.
What's In This Episode:
The connection between clutter and your health, productivity, and emotional wellbeing
How you can get more organized with the Mount Vernon Method
Getting rid of your guilt while you clear out the clutter
4 steps to getting your project organized without all the stress
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Season 9 of Productivity Paradox with Tanya Dalton, a podcast focused on using productivity, not just to do more, but to achieve what's most important to you. |
| 0:11.8 | Join Tanya as she kicks off the new year with a special season titled New Year True You. |
| 0:18.1 | To get her free checklist, five minutes to peak productivity, simply go to |
| 0:22.5 | inkwellpress.com slash podcast. And now here's your host, Tanya Dalton. Hello, hello, everyone. |
| 0:30.1 | Welcome to Productivity Paradox. I'm your host, Tanya Dalton, and this is episode 111. How to |
| 0:36.6 | organize just about anything. |
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| 0:55.9 | unrestricted trial for my listeners. I'll share some details about that a little later in the |
| 1:00.7 | episode. But today, our focus is about figuring out how to organize the stuff in our lives. |
| 1:07.6 | And we all have a lot of stuff if we're being honest. We're going to talk about |
| 1:12.0 | why it's important to organize and how clutter can actually affect our mental health and even our |
| 1:17.4 | happiness. I'll share some strategies to help you organize your home and I'll share one of my |
| 1:23.0 | very favorite techniques called the Mount Vernon Method. All the ideas I'm sharing today will help you |
| 1:28.8 | when you're trying to tackle any project around the house and help you get organized. So, |
| 1:34.3 | why do we want to organize? Okay, I get it. You don't want to end up on an episode of hoarders. |
| 1:40.3 | It's a pretty good reason. But I wanted to share with you there are actually some really |
| 1:45.0 | legitimate and really important reasons why everyone should make an effort to keep life feeling |
| 1:50.6 | a little more organized. There have been some amazing studies that have made connections |
| 1:55.7 | between clutter and our health, our productivity, and our emotional well-being. Some of these may really surprise you, |
| 2:03.3 | and there were so many, I decided just to pick my five favorites and touch on them really quickly. |
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