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 nearing the end of my first trimester, and

I have really enjoyed recording these podcasts, but I am not going to continue on after this

trimester first, because I think that how much more can I possibly say? I've really

covered what it would take in order to make this transition, and that's pretty logical.

I mean, I find myself liking to verbally process and teach something as I am going through

a transition or as I've made a transition, but then once you're in the thick of things,

you don't really need to talk about it, you just need to do the work. So I am now a PhD

student, like in my brain, in my actions, in my planning, this is now part of my identity

for the next four years, so I'm not going to need to talk about it as much, because now

I've solved most of the, not problems, but most of the new things I need to put in my schedule

in order to be successful in this endeavor. So this is the third to the last podcast that

you'll be hearing in this series. This one I'm going to be talking to you about all the

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