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. There is administration time related to getting your PhD. You know,

one of the things that the Sunday basket and the Friday work box teach you is that there

are a lot of invisible tasks that you do at home and you do at work that are invisible

first to you, but also to your employer or to the other people that live with you in your

house. And it's those invisible tasks that you do and you have to do and they're part of

your job description that once they are made visible, you can eliminate as many as possible

and then you can create systems and routines in order to tackle those as fast as possible

because they have to get done, but you know, they don't have to turn into a science project

or anything. Well, here I am like halfway through the first semester and I'm realizing

that I need to have PhD administrative time. And by PhD administrative time, I mean,

like I had blocked off on my calendar, all of the things that I needed to do in order

to write the papers to do the reading to attend the classes, but I forgot that there

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