school is in session. Well, it is for me anyway. I know you may not be on a higher education

journey, but you are planning for or are in the midst of a shift in how you plan and spend

your time. I know this because you are an organized 365 podcast listener. Collectively,

we are all lifelong learners, pursuing the best version of ourselves and putting into action

the complete organization cycle. Over the next four years, I will share week by week

what I am continually decluttering to free up my time and space. How I am organizing

my days, my responsibilities, and my work both seen and unseen as I take captive every

minute at my discretion to increase my capacity and productivity and pursuit of a PhD in psychology,

so that I can have a seat at the academic table in the discussion of how we use our homes

and complete our housework and home organization tasks.

Oh, there's the school bell. Let's see what I learned this week.

Setting up systems. So this week, and we'll share, we'll share a link to the Instagrams I was

able to do. I did my first two full days of school. So Monday, I spent all day working on what I

knew was going to be doing. I had my first class Monday night. And then Thursday, I had all day to

work on the paper that was assigned Wednesday night. And Wednesday night in my class, I asked the

professor, I'm like, okay, so, you know, can you talk a little bit more about the paper? You're

basically like, you're on your own. I was like, ah, above my own. No, I don't know what I'm doing.

So I spent eight hours writing my paper, which I mean, some papers need to take eight hours to write

them, but not a three to five page review on, you know, introduction to psychology, doesn't.

So I want to remember for myself and tell you some of the things that I spent that eight hours doing.

The first hour, because everything you write has to be, you read the textbook, but then you have

to go find journal articles to support what you read in the textbook to write your APA style paper.

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