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. As I'm getting ready to record this for you today, the

thought occurs to me. Lisa, really, you're going to talk about your clothing again. You're

going to tell people what you wear every single day. You're going to tell them how you

overthought out what you're different outfits are going to be for every single thing that

you do like nobody cares. And then I was thinking, what in the heck does this have to do

with getting a PhD? Anyway, I mean, a couple of these episodes have been like, okay, so if

you're going to write a journal article, there are four parts and there's, you know, an

intro, a method, the results, the discussion. So that's kind of PhD-ish. Exactly. I mean,

we get so myopic in exactly what we are going through at this stage of life, at this age,

and this exact little detail of what we want to organize. And the older I get, the more

I realize that organization unlocks our time and productivity unlocks our capacity. And

I'm using my PhD as the example for these stories, but really everything that I'm sharing

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