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. This three hour block of time was such an unexpected gift

that I gave myself. It was not planned. I actually was supposed to be doing something else

and I ravaged trail over and once I was in, I just kept going and I will tell you this

was such a gift to myself. And this is when I realized that no matter what we're doing,

whether it's home, work, PhD, vacation planning, it doesn't matter what it is, we need

our bodies crave our brains desire to have some organizational planning time. And I ended

up, it was a Monday morning, I was supposed to be writing a paper and before I wrote a paper,

I said, I am just going to take an hour and I'm going to review where I am right now in

the PhD because I'm halfway through this trimester. Just make sure I'm on target. I had everything

turned in on time. Like I was, I was doing just fine. Nothing was falling apart to take this

time. But I was like, I just want to make sure I'm not missing anything. I almost needed,

if you're swimming, I almost needed to stop and tread water for a little bit. I needed

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