The IDLE Process: Identify, Decide, Locate, Evaluate (IDLE 2)
Organize 365 Podcast
Lisa Woodruff
4.5 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 9 January 2015
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Before we dig too deep in the IDLE process let's talk about stages of organization and stages of life. Determine if you are in an acquiring or downsizing stage of life.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Organized 365 Podcast. My name is Lisa Woodruff and I'm a professional |
| 0:07.0 | organizer and blogger in Cincinnati, Ohio. I want to help you get your home |
| 0:11.7 | organized and help you organize life stages and unexpected events. |
| 0:17.0 | So sit back, relax, and let's get organized. |
| 0:21.0 | Welcome back to week two of the Idol podcast series. |
| 0:27.0 | Now, I am going to take a step back actually and not go over how to sort your magazines and catalogs which is what I was |
| 0:34.2 | planning on doing the next two weeks and I want to take one episode and really |
| 0:38.8 | talk about this idle process and as I was making the notes and really talking through how I wanted to share with you, how to look at your magazines, look at your catalogs, and look at your books and decide what you wanted to let go and what you wanted to locate different places. |
| 0:54.5 | I really realized that I was probably talking to at least two but probably three or |
| 1:00.1 | four different audiences in each podcast and And I want to really help you realize |
| 1:05.5 | which audience you're in so that as you listen to the idle podcast it makes a lot of |
| 1:11.1 | sense to you and you could take action from what I say. |
| 1:14.0 | So what I found over the years are that people are either |
| 1:19.0 | more minimalist or more cluttery in nature. |
| 1:25.0 | Like some people like to be surrounded by stuff. |
| 1:27.5 | I actually like to have stuff and stuff going on all the time. |
| 1:31.5 | Other people tend to not like to have a lot of stuff going on, |
| 1:36.5 | and they like to have their schedule and their home |
| 1:39.0 | and everything really streamlined, |
| 1:40.8 | and they get very overwhelmed if they have a lot going on at one time. |
| 1:44.7 | So you need to understand what your bandwidth is for clutter and clutter even amongst your |
| 1:51.3 | calendar and your daily to-do's. |
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