Lisa Woodruff: ...how to organize the mountains of paper we all accumulate

Nobody Told Me!

Business, Entrepreneurship

4.2 • 671 Ratings

🗓️ 30 August 2020

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Have you ever felt overwhelmed by the amount of paper you’ve accumulated? Have catalogs, magazines and tax records taken over more space than you’d like?

Are you at a loss to decide how you’ll ever conquer the paper clutter around you? If so, you’ll want to hear what our guest, professional organizer Lisa Woodruff has to say. Lisa’s the author of several books on organization, including the latest, The Paper Solution: What to Shred, What to Save, and How to Stop It From Taking Over Your Life.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Nobody Told Me.
0:13.4	I'm Laura Owens.
0:14.9	And I'm Jan Black.
0:16.1	Have you ever felt overwhelmed by the amount of paper you've accumulated?
0:19.6	Have catalogs, magazines, and
0:21.7	tack records taken over more space than you'd like? Are you at a loss to decide how you'll
0:26.6	ever conquer the paper clutter around you? Well, if so, you'll want to hear what our guest,
0:31.4	professional organizer Lisa Woodruff has to say. Lisa's the author of several books on organization,
0:36.9	including the latest,
0:38.5	The Paper Solution, What to Shred, What to Save, and How to Stop It from Taking Over Your Life.
0:45.7	Lisa, thank you so much for joining us. Thank you so much for having me.
0:49.8	You say the number one daily organizational challenge for people is getting and keeping a handle
0:56.5	on the paper in their lives.
0:58.1	Why do you say that?
0:59.1	You know, you think it's not.
1:00.7	You think that your paper lists and your paper piles really don't matter that much.
1:04.7	It's just a little bit of mail here or a note or two there or your to-do list.
1:08.9	But if you start to really observe your life, paper is everywhere.
1:14.2	And where's that paper? Where did I put that? Where did I write that down? Did I mail that
1:18.3	bill? Where's the invitation for the party we're supposed to go to? And you'll find that your
1:23.1	life is very paper-based and you're spending a lot of time trying to find information, trying to
1:28.7	corral information, trying to get things done, and you never get to the bottom of your paper
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