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. Once you get in the cycle of being a person who is proactive

versus reactive, the amount of planning that you do grows exponentially. Let me give you

an example. So let's just take going to the grocery store. You've gone to the grocery store

before when you're like, oh, I just need to grab something for dinner. Okay, I'm going

to go grab something for dinner. Okay, I'm going to all right, I have to go on the weekend.

I'm going to stock the fridge. Okay, and you just do it reactively like I'm in the

store. Oh, that looks good. I'll throw it in the cart. Oh, shoot. I forgot to get the spaghetti.

All right. Well, we will have something different, you know, and you're just in that reactive

mode of going to the grocery store. Then somewhere along the line, you realize that it would be a

lot less time and actually a lot less money. If you could actually make a list, any list,

start with a list. So you make a list of like, okay, here are the things I think I've needed

the store. You still buy some impulse purchases when you're there. And then you also forget

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