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It's Tidy Time

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4.71.4K Ratings

🗓️ 19 June 2020

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

For the last few weeks, our “Introvert’s Guide to the Good Life” series has been all about helping you find ways to enrich your perhaps-more-than-usual indoors-based life. 

Today, we talk to Pooja Naik, founder of Chicago-based organizational consulting company Organizing With You. She tells us why you should make your bed and how decluttering your physical space can help with your head space.

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0:00.0

This fall, W bez invites you to our upcoming live events.

0:05.0

Join us in person for smart discussions, heartfelt storytelling, and more.

0:09.0

Check out the full calendar now at W be easy.org slash events.

0:15.6

From W be easy Chicago this is Nurdett I'm Greta Johnson it is Friday

0:21.4

June 19th I am still in my closet which means this must be

0:25.3

another episode of Nurdett's introverts guide to the good life. I've said it before these are tumultuous times and while it certainly doesn't

0:37.7

solve all the problems out there I think it's still really important to be

0:41.9

having conversations around how to double down on self-care because you

0:46.6

have to be able to take care of yourself before you can really take care of others.

0:51.1

And just come with me on this intellectual leap here. I think that means that you should be making your bed.

0:59.0

When you do and when you clean your shit up it feels really good and it looks

1:07.3

really good and you can eat off your floor afterward. I guess you could say today I am here to be your mother and I've

1:16.0

got some very kind and non-judgmental backup.

1:19.7

Organizing is not enjoyable for everyone. You know, I always say your flutter makes

1:26.2

me flutter, but it's not the case for everyone. And that's why I have a business around

1:31.4

it. That is Puja Naik. Her business is called Organizing with You and she

1:36.8

consults with people about organizing the spaces where they live and work. So

1:40.5

she organizes with you.

1:43.0

For a lot of people, it's exhausting, it's grueling, and people don't know where to begin.

1:48.0

And if they do know where to begin, they just don't want to do it because it's again like I mentioned it's not fun.

1:53.2

Maybe you don't know where to begin. Maybe you know exactly where to begin either way

1:58.9

Puja is full of great advice. A lot of people come to me, you know, they first ask, hey what

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