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 week, I want to talk to you about how the way I see

the world in color is actually helping me organize my PhD studies and the work that I'm doing

in school. And I have always been a person that has been able to see things in color. This

week and next week, I'm really going to talk to you about how being able to use color

allows me to chunk the information that I'm learning and somehow make it stick in my brain

better. The best explanation for this that I can give is back when I was teaching in the

Montessori environment, I was doing some pullout learning with some of the kids that needed extra

instruction and there was a child in fourth grade who was having a hard time spelling. Being a

person who cannot spell at all, I can feel his pain. So we were trying to learn his spelling

words and no matter what tricks I did, nothing would work. And then I thought, you know what? Let's

try using color. So we got colored pencils and it did not matter what color we used. I didn't

assign the colors to anything, but I just broke every single spelling word into syllables

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