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. All right. Today, I want to talk to you about how I organize

things in order to make sense of what work is required in order to get the end result

that I want. This week, I'm going to talk to you about how I have actually organized

my assignments. And next week, I'm going to talk to you about how I've organized my life

and how I continue to play with my calendar in order to make sense of the new obligations

and responsibilities on my time. But this week, let's talk about assignments. And if you're

not in school, this is still relevant. I do the same thing when I'm planning a graduation

party, a vacation, a remodeling project, if we were to ever move, this is how I would

probably organize it. So I mentioned in a couple of earlier episodes that I assigned a color

to every one of my classes. So this was not in the PhD podcast. This is actually in the Friday

podcast that preceded it where I talked about getting organized for my PhD journey. And in that,

I took a set of 1.0 slash pockets. Slash pockets are colored binder insert dividers that are

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