Organize 365 Cycle of Organizing: Step 3 Increase Productivity

Organize 365 Podcast

Lisa Woodruff

Education, Entrepreneurship, Self-improvement, Business

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🗓️ 11 January 2024

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Organizational math.

As a math teacher, I knew that if there were any holes in my student's learning, they would struggle with future math concepts. Math skills build upon each other… just like organizing skills.

There is a reason that most organizational programs start with decluttering (subtraction): you must reduce your pile before you can move on to step 2… organizing.
Organization adds minutes to your days (addition) and speeds up your pace as you get through the tedium of everyday household tasks.
But, increased productivity is the holy grail we all seek. Once you know how to multiply time, there is no turning back.

The skill of being a productive person starts with decluttering spaces, calendars, commitments, and sometimes people. Adding the weekly cadence of organizing your time, your priorities, and your actionable to-dos leaves you with a manageable action plan.

I used to think productivity = being busy. Now I know that everyone is busy. Ironically, the people who look least busy are usually the most productive.

Podcast episode 463: Learning the Skill of Organizing: Step 3 Increase Productivity

Next year at this time, do you want to be more productive? More purposeful? More peaceful?

The organizational level you are at today is a reflection of the cumulative minutes you invested in the full organizational cycle this year. Decluttering + organization = increased productivity.

It would be my honor to walk with you through your organizational journey.

Productivity is a fickle friend. It will not spontaneously happen. Productivity must be planned.

It's time to make a plan!

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0:00.0	In this
0:02.0	extreme throwback series we are sharing the organized 365 cycle of organization.
0:10.0	I recorded these I think seven years ago.
0:12.0	This is the most popular organized
0:14.8	365 podcast series we have ever done and this is the three steps to getting
0:20.8	organized and how organization is not just one step. So the
0:25.5	Organized 365 cycle of organization that I have observed involves decluttering
0:31.4	which leads to, which leads to organizing, which leads to increased productivity.
0:36.8	So decluttering is step one.
0:38.2	It's easy, it's fast, you can do it in a weekend, you see a big bang effect, it's something that when you do it you really you feel like you've done something you've accomplished something.
0:48.0	Step two is organizing. Organizing tends to get skipped.
0:54.2	It is longer.
0:55.4	It is changing your mindset about things.
0:58.2	It is learning new skills and seeing your space and your house and your what you're doing and
1:06.1	matching it to the life phase and what you have going on in your life, which then
1:12.1	leads to increased productivity.
1:14.5	Increased productivity is where you take that organization that sometimes takes a month or
1:18.8	two or a year to put into place and then you really put your pedal to the metal and you go with it like you start to run.
1:27.0	Productivity is also where you can add in digitization.
1:31.0	Organization is always analog. Productivity can involve digital solutions. So listen
1:37.5	into this three-step series, decluttering, leads to organizing, leads to
1:41.9	increased productivity, make sure that you're hitting leads to
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