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. Well, we're getting farther in my PhD courses. Oh, my goodness.

I think it's so funny when someone tells you to do something, you're like, yeah, yeah,

I remember maybe I don't really need to do that. So, die told me before I started my PhD,

she said no matter what you do, get your eyes checked. And I was like, yeah, yeah, my

eyes are fine. I don't need to get my eyes checked. When people tell you to do something

and they have experience, you should probably just do what they tell you to do. So here I

am, you know, six weeks into the PhD program. And there's a lot of reading and a lot of

computer reading. And I'm on the computer all the time. I'm like, I mean, how much different

can this be? I have the readers. And I'd moved from 1.25s to 1.5s. And so I was using the

readers just fine until it totally stopped working. And I was doing schoolwork all day. And

I'm looking at my textbook and I'm looking at my computer and I cannot really read any

of the words. And I'm like, trying to hold the book farther away, trying to bring it

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