Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of I Heart Radio.

Good morning.

This is Laura.

Welcome to the Before Breakfast Podcast.

Today's tip is to try creating what my friend Lisa Woodruff calls a Sunday basket.

We all want to get control of our paper and other things that come into our lives.

The best way to stop dropping balls is to set a designated time when you go through everything.

When you learn to trust that you absolutely will get through everything, you can free

up a lot of mental energy.

Lisa Woodruff, owner of the organized 365 company, an author of the new book The Paper Solution

suggests what she calls the Sunday basket technique.

You collect everything you need to deal with during the week in a basket, or at least

some other container, and you set some time on Sunday to deal with it.

This is a wonderfully simple idea.

Do you remember at some point during the week that you need to schedule a dentist appointment

for yourself or someone else?

Write that on a slip of paper and stick it in the Sunday basket.

Find a library book that needs to get returned, stick it in the Sunday basket, where you will

see it when you have your schedule and can find a time to return it.

Specific bills that aren't on autopilot can go in the Sunday basket, as can invitations

that need to be responded to, or school forms that need to be filled out.

Basically, anything that requires your attention goes in one spot.

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