I am always talking about laziness being the secret to true organization.

Before you set up any system, we should think, how can we work as little as possible?

How can we move and just exert as little effort as possible?

But our current productivity culture kind of tells us that's the opposite, that we should work harder and do more, and that's a

sign of integrity, good work ethic. That's what we're talking about today, that sometimes we do

need to butt against that and really just take it easy. Welcome to the Clutterbug podcast. Today,

I want to talk about the dark side of productivity.

There's a book by a fellow Canadian. He is an author and he wrote a book about going from a

barista to a billionaire. And he has this amazing quote that I can relate to. And it's most successful

people are walking anxiety disorder

harnessed for productivity. And that hit hard, friends, because I do feel like my fuel for getting

stuff done is just anxious energy. That's it. That's my motor. Deep down inside, I know there's another way.

I know that it doesn't have to be this drive of, you're not enough, you've got to get it done or else,

that there's a way to still live the life we want without that frantic hustle energy. But first, before we get into all the let's slow down

and take it easiness, I really want to motivate you to get up and take action on something today.

Usually I'm like, declutter. We got to let things go. But maybe you've been decluttering a lot. We can focus today on organization,

actually setting up systems. And this can be a little bit harder. It can be also like, where do you

start and what does it look like? And everybody's home is different. So it's hard for me to give you

direct directions, but I want to offer some solutions or suggestions.

One is, what about your batteries? Are all your batteries organized in one spot? And are they not

dead? Like maybe if you're not sure if this battery is dead or not, we take it out and we put it

in a separate spot and we organize the

...