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If you want to really become organized, you need to create operational systems at home." So says Lisa Woodruff, a productivity specialist and home organization expert. In this discussion of the transformative power of organization, Woodruff shares her personal journey from being a stay-at-home mom to founding Organize365, a thriving business dedicated to helping others declutter and reinvent their homes. “You need to think of your job as a household manager,” she tells Lesley Jane Seymour. “A CEO should look at everyone in the household and divide the resources equally.” With a focus on how organization can enhance productivity and mental clarity, she emphasizes the importance of adapting organizing strategies to different life stages. She outlines the psychological benefits of decluttering and offers practical tips for establishing operational systems that can simplify daily life. Tune in to discover how to navigate your own reinvention through the lens of organization and learn how to create a space that supports your goals and well-being. About Lisa Woodruff Lisa Woodruff is a productivity specialist, home organization expert, and founder and CEO of Organize 365. She's the host of the top-rated Organize 365 Podcast where she shares strategies for reducing overwhelming thoughts, clearing mental clutter, and living a productive and organized life.  Lisa has authored several Amazon bestselling books and has been featured in The New York Times, Fast Company, US News and World Report, Women's World, Ladies Home Journal, and more.   Connect with Lisa: Website LinkedIn  Facebook Instagram YouTube Time Stamps: 03:10 - How did you get into organizing? 07:15 - Organized 365 is the largest female owned business in Cincinnati 10:35 - What are the differences in how the household is organized by different generations? 13:14 - The height of materialism was the 80s - and now we're suffering from it 16:38 - Baby boomers are not moving out of their houses, which is causing a housing crisis 21:05 - The psychology of decluttering and organizing 25:31 - How would you organize and increase your closet for productivity? 29:33 - What is the Sunday basket? If you're productive, you probably have one 31:01 - Transitioning from an in-home professional organizer and to a full business 33:45 - Start thinking about your role as a household manager as a job   Connect with Lesley Jane Seymour: Website Instagram LinkedIn Substack If you found this episode insightful, please follow the podcast and leave a review on Apple Podcasts. For more resources and community support, join me on Substack. Until next time, keep reinventing!

Ok now it's time for Swiss Cheese Organizing Family Edition, this Friday, February 28th @ Noon EST!  It'd mean a lot to have you attend live but there will be a replay. By attending live you will have the opportunity to ask any questions. Swiss Cheese Organizing in any home or business is ineffective. Just like I taught in the business edition webinar, the order in which you organize is way more important than the time you invest in organizing. And even more so with children under foot. Children provide a very unpredictable variable to life and how long your spaces stay organized.  I'm going to teach you to organize your summer organizing efforts. Get your kids spaces set (like age appropriate toys and clothes) and your summer calendar set so you can have a little fun too. Once the replay of the webinar is available, the Summer Planning Guide will be available too. It's a grid I used to use to see all of summer in one snapshot. I will be offering a video to take you through setting up your Summer Planning Guide too. That way, once school starts again, you'll be able to focus on your household organizing.  You can access everything at Organize365.com/summer2025. What's everything? Sign up to attend this webinar plus see what all is being offered this summer for planning and organizing in Organize 365®! I'm talking to parents, homeowners, business professionals, teachers, military men and women. Start planning now with the Swiss Cheese Organizing Family Edition, don't forget to sign up!  EPISODE RESOURCES: CustomerService@organize365.com Sign Up for the Organize 365® Newsletter Did you enjoy this episode? Please leave a rating and review in your favorite podcast app. Share this episode with a friend and be sure to tag Organize 365® when you share on social media.

Welcome to farm office toolbox, A step-by-step simple guide to an organized farm office. Each Episode I will offer a new habit to consider and introduce one of my favourite tools.This episode I discuss overwhelm and understanding our working memory.We can reduce the overwhelm and increase our focus with these tools;- A regular braindump - Breaking a long to do list into small achievable tasks- Keep your information in ONE trusted sourceI describe my 'Friday Workbox' Have a look at some photo examples on my Instagram and FacebookThe ‘Friday Workbox'® by Lisa Woodruff of Organize365® is the lynch pin in my system. Find out more at www.organize365.com/workboxes Find me on Instagram and Facebook @FarmOfficeToolboxhttps://www.instagram.com/farmofficetoolbox/www.facebook.com/farm.office.toolbox Farm Office Toolbox (257e6f-3.myshopify.com)

Welcome to farm office toolbox, A step-by-step simple guide to an organized farm office. I'm Lisa Jeitz, a farmer, wife, mother, and former rural business consultant from Esperance WA and I  know what it's like to be completely overwhelmed and feeling out of control in your farm office. But that's not me anymore. Over the last 30 years, I've curated some great tools and strategies to help reduce the mental load, improve our business and make my life much easier.The ‘Friday Workbox'® by Lisa Woodruff of Organize365® is the lynch pin in my system. Find out more at www.organize365.com/workboxes Each Episode I will offer a new habit to consider and introduce one of my favourite tools.This episode is for introductions:·        What is the Farm Office Toolbox?·        Who is Lisa Jeitz?·        Why am I podcasting about the Farm Office?Find me on Instagram and facebook @FarmOfficeToolboxhttps://www.instagram.com/farmofficetoolbox/www.facebook.com/farm.office.toolbox Farm Office Toolbox (257e6f-3.myshopify.com)

It's a myth that “having a plan” means locking yourself into a rigid schedule from which you can't deviate. Knowing the things you want to experience and accomplish (and carving out time for them) is one of the most powerful ways to craft a fulfilling life! Lisa Woodruff recently interviewed me for her Organize365 podcast, and I wanted to play an excerpt of that conversation for you here. Listen in as we talk about how we each fell in love with planning and how our individual planning processes have changed throughout our various seasons of life. We each share how we schedule our time and manage our to-do lists, and what our summer schedules look like. You'll also hear us illuminate a few key truths we've uncovered through developing various productivity systems: Why working toward being “finally done” with a tasks is not necessarily the goal How to enjoy the never-ending process of tending to your own life, needs, and healthy habits How planning ahead creates freedom and allows presence in whatever experiences arise Why the goal isn't to execute your plan perfectly but to re-evaluate priorities You can listen to the full conversation on the Organize365 podcast, or check out her organizational tools, such as the Education Friday workbox, which is a system that helps teachers get organized and reduce the amount of time spent on administrative tasks. Click here to read the transcript and participate in the discussion or, join our podcast Facebook group here to connect with other teachers and discuss the Truth for Teachers' podcast episodes.

In this episode, the owner of Organize365 - Lisa Woodruff -  joins Eric on the podcast!  Organize365 has conducted academic research, establishing the definitions of house work, home organization, and the weight of paper in the American home.  This ongoing research is making the invisible work at home visible to all, so we can eliminate it, free people from the monotonous tasks of daily living, and unlock our time for what we are uniquely created to do!  Lisa is also a natural tinkerer and a lover of puzzles, a kindergarten teacher, used to organize people's homes when she used to babysit, and even used to organize teachers' classrooms.   If you're wondering how you can get your home organized, then this is the episode to listen to, because today, Eric and Lisa will discuss the idea that organization is a learnable skill!  You'll hear some of Lisa's rules for taking on new projects and her 24-hour rule, visual clutter, what to do with incomplete projects, where piles come from, and breaking down the Sunday Basket.  You'll also hear about executive function and organization, working in batches,  Find Lisa's book, her research and her podcast at organize365.com! Find Organize365 on YouTube @organize365 Questions/Topics:  [00:01:51] Introducing Lisa  [00:03:11] What was the “why” for Lisa to get into becoming organized?  [00:07:11] What are the helpful questions that Lisa asks her clients?  [00:10:09] A brief discussion on (perceptions of) minimalism   [00:10:38] How do we live more through having less? (And is “less” the “right” answer?)  [00:12:26] “So what?” and a discussion about visual clutter and accumulating projects and hobbies  [00:16:20] Clutter, piles, and what to do with purchases and returns  [00:19:43] ADHD and home ownership  [00:23:27] What is the Sunday Basket? And Lisa's thoughts about “being behind” when organizing  [00:27:03] What are the Four Binders? [00:31:51] Questions to ask yourself when utilizing your calendar and staying organized  [00:34:53] Taking care of financial documents  [00:41:57] Lisa shares her ADHD story and a discussion on executive function and working memory  [00:47:22] Diving into Lisa's academic studies about organization as a skill  [00:51:18] How many people care about being organized?   [00:55:12] Lisa on investing in our household and what's in our control  [00:56:58] Closing thoughts  Resources & Honorable Mentions: “If you have something that's working for YOU, absolutely do not change it!” - Lisa  “Stop trying to get an “A” in your housework.” - Lisa 

Lisa Woodruff is the Founder and Owner of Organize 365, in this episode she brings all her enthusiasm and energy for sharing about the intersection of ADHD and organising. Lisa is even doing her PHD on the topic (did I mention she's amazing!).We chat about executive functioning in relation to organisation, specifically around working memory, planning and monitoring... all of which are essential parts of achieving and maintaining an organised home.... which is MUCH easier said than done for those of us with ADHD. Lisa to the rescue with creative ideas/ hacks/ systems that will support you “to do what you have to quickly and efficiently so you can focus on the things you love and share your unique gifts with the world”Find Lisa OnlineLisa's book: How ADHD Affects Home OrganizationOrganize 365 PodcastOrganize 365 WebsiteFollow Organize 365 on FacebookFollow Organize 365 on InstagramYou may also like to listen to these episodes:ADHD Series: Process Improvement, Optimising and EfficiencyADHD Series: Occupational Therapy, Strategies and ToolsADHD Series: Corporate Career & Knowing Your StrengthsADHD Series: Managing Time, Energy and AttentionADHD Series: Being a Professional Organiser with ADHDADHD Series: Adult Diagnosis and Managing a HouseholdADHD Series: Understanding ADHD with Psychologist Joanna BaileyADHD with Joanna Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

I'm really excited to bring you this conversation with Lisa Woodruff, who has been an amazing resource for me as well as my clients. Her book: How ADHD Affects Home Organization: Understanding the Role of the 8 Key Executive Functions of the Mind is a fantastic read, and a book I've been recommending left and right since I read it last year. Let's jump on in!LINKS MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODEFollow Organize365 on InstagramLearn more about Organize365's ADHD resources + Sunday Basket How ADHD Affects Home Organization: Understanding the Role of the 8 Key Executive Functions of the Mind by Lisa WoodruffAre we friends on social media yet? Whether your jam is Instagram, TikTok, Pinterest or Facebook - follow us @tidyrevival Snag your FREE printable decluttering guide to give you inspiration on where to start at home. Want to learn more about the Clutter-Free Home Process course community? Check out all the details here.

We're wrapping up our conversations highlighting the importance of taking care of ourselves by diving into executive function, organization and finding your own path to peace of mind with Lisa Woodruff of Organize365®! What we're reading this week: Sarah Ludwig Rausch dives into her own ADHD journey in The Daydreamer: Why ADHD in Females Is Underdiagnosed. Social Media Profiles Instagram: @lindsayguentzel @adhdonline @refocusedpod Twitter: @lindsayguentzel @adhd_online @refocusedpod For more information on ADHD Online and ADHD assessments, medical management and teletherapy.  Email Lindsay: podcast@adhdonline.com. The theme music for Refocused was created by Louis Inglis, a songwriter and composer in Perth, Australia who was diagnosed with ADHD in 2020 at the age of 39. To learn more about the work he is doing, check out his online studio here. You can also email Louis directly here.   

Lisa Woodruff of Organize365® is back for part two of her conversation with Lindsay Guentzel which was recorded live at the International Conference on ADHD in Dallas last month. Lisa helps Lindsay identify what's most important to her this holiday season and how using planned neglect and boundaries can cut out unnecessary stress and avoidance over these busy weeks. Plus, Lisa explains the importance of accepting a person's love language when it comes time for the gift-giving. Hint: you're not going to change them. Social Media Profiles Instagram: @lindsayguentzel @adhdonline @refocusedpod Twitter: @lindsayguentzel @adhd_online @refocusedpod For more information on ADHD Online and ADHD assessments, medical management and teletherapy.  Email Lindsay: podcast@adhdonline.com.  

It's a busy one! Lisa Woodruff of Organize365® walks us through her own later-in-life ADHD diagnosis and shares the motivation behind her decision to pursue a PhD. Lisa also provides great insight into how the functionality of our homes changes over the years and what we can be doing to adapt along with it, plus how planned neglect can help get all of us into 2023 with a little less stress and anxiety.  Social Media Profiles Instagram: @lindsayguentzel @adhdonline @refocusedpod Twitter: @lindsayguentzel @adhd_online @refocusedpod For more information on ADHD Online and ADHD assessments, medical management and teletherapy.  Email Lindsay: podcast@adhdonline.com.        

Who doesn't love a barbecue? Still, there are some dangers with outdoor cooking. For instance, when was the last time you really cleaned your grill? If you think the fire burns off all the gunk, think again. I begin this episode by discussing this and other potential problems with cooking outdoors.  http://www.menshealth.com/health/5-cookout-mistakes-that-make-you-sick Did you know carrots were not originally orange? Or that expensive weddings are a bad idea? Were you aware that the Mediterranean Sea will disappear one day? This is just some of the fascinating knowledge I discuss with Tom Standage, Deputy Editor of The Economist and editor of the book Uncommon Knowledge (https://amzn.to/2DFoeNA). He joins me to explain why kids' summer vacations are too long, what Interpol really is and who owns all the material in outer space – as well as a bunch of other interesting facts.  I bet most people probably believe that moderate drinking is actually healthy. However, that may be a big overstatement. There is some research I discuss that questions the validity of that idea and why there is a flaw in the theory that a glass of wine is good for you. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-4529928/A-glass-red-wine-NOT-good-heart.html Weren't we supposed to be headed towards a paperless society? Look in many offices and homes and that doesn't really seem to be happening. In fact, a lot of us have more documents, forms, certificates, letters and memos than ever. If you have cabinets, drawers and boxes full of papers, you need to listen to Lisa Woodruff. She is founder of Organize365 (www.organize365.com) which helps people tame all the paper in their lives and she is author of the book The Paper Solution: What to Shred, What to Save, and How to Stop It From Taking Over Your Life (https://amzn.to/3gIojyE). PLEASE SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS! We really like The Jordan Harbinger Show! Check out https://jordanharbinger.com/start OR search for it on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you listen!  Start hiring NOW with a $75 Sponsored Job Credit to upgrade your job post at https://Indeed.com/SOMETHING  Offer good for a limited time. With Bambee get access to your own dedicated HR Manager starting at just $99 per month! Visit https://Bambee.com/something right now.  Helix Sleep is offering up to $200 off all mattress orders AND two free pillows for our listeners at https://helixsleep.com/sysk.  Go to Amazon and search for Conair Turbo Extreme to get your 2-in-1 steam and iron steamer today! Go to https://Shopify.com/sysk for a FREE fourteen-day trial and get full access to Shopify's entire suite of features! The magic is waiting! Download Harry Potter: Puzzles & Spells, for free, from the iOS App Store or Google Play today! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In today's episode, Lisa Woodruff joins the show. Lisa is the Founder and CEO of Organized 365, which assists busy people in organizing their homes and papers with functional organizing systems that work. She is a productivity and home organizing expert. She motivates and teaches busy women to take back their lives with functional systems that will work for them. This conversation is packed with tricks, hacks, strategies, and proven systems on how we can organize our life and stop sabotaging ourselves from being a mess.   Lisa's aptitude for organization was evident as a child.  She loved to organize her mother's art supplies.  Lisa knew that her love for organization was unique, but she had no idea that organizing was a skill that could be learned. She assumed you either had it or didn't.   Lisa launched the blog Organized 365 because she thought it would be beneficial for search engine optimization (SEO), but she had no idea how to make money from it. She began writing about organization on her blog and 3 months later, Lisa became an in-home professional organizer who was paid to help individuals get organized. For 3 years, she has dabbled in home organizing and blogging.   In her first three years of business, Lisa had to get over a lot of limiting beliefs. One of them was that she was more valuable than her $15 rate to organize homes. So she changed her rate to $40. Then, for her second year, she charged $50 and added some people to the team. Five years later, when Lisa quit organizing, she was charging $75 an hour and she wasn't even organizing the home, she was just making the arrangements. It was a big deal for Lisa to realize that, as a woman, she could make more money and steer clear of the mindset that she needed to keep her business small.    Lisa shares three tips for organizing. First, do a time study on how long it takes to do the housework – cleaning your house, doing the laundry, preparing meals, maintaining your vehicle, organizing your finances, or paying your bills. All these things take a significant amount of time. Second, start organizing by looking around at what you have and reorganizing it or putting it where you need it in the house. You can also buy specific organizers to help you. Lastly, you can either choose to be a maximalist or a minimalist; it makes no difference. It's not the amount of stuff you have, it's the right amount of stuff for you.   Links   Website: https://organize365.com/ Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/organize-365-podcast/id915355770?mt=2 PEW research: https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2013/03/14/chapter-6-time-in-work-and-leisure-patterns-by-gender-and-family-structure/ Launching Life Skills and Bundle Course: https://organize365.com/product/launching-life-skills-bundle     Things you'll learn This conversation is packed with tricks, hacks, strategies, and proven systems on how we can organize our life and stop sabotaging ourselves from being a mess.  

We've pulled an actionable tip from our conversation with Lisa Woodruff, CEO of Organize365.com, in episode 72. Listen to her idea of creating a homeschool supply store to help with organization. And then go back to listen to the whole interview if you missed it! Show notes are at www.4onemore.com/169 --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/homeschoolwithmoxie/support

We hey Friends! Does your mind ever feel as cluttered, messy and stuffed as Monica Gellar's closet?  Even those of us that seem like  we have it all together on the outside can have a hotmess happening on the inside And what goes on in our thoughts will eventually show up in our lives. On this episode I'm going to share how to declutter your mind in 5 powerful steps. Let's do it! -- Kayla   Mentions: Lisa Woodruff, Organize365.com Schedule your free coaching consultation: https://fruitionmindset.com/book Want to learn more? Visit -> www.fruitionmindset.com Connect on Instagram: @fruitionmindset.com

For 2022, we are adding to the Lisa glossary. This week, we are talking about the Organize 365® Research projects.  No matter when you begin your transformational journey (or when you need to reset or restart), this information will be here as a reference for you. Listen in as I teach you about the ideas and beliefs that are at the core of everything I teach and how I approach organizing. Several years ago, as I was writing the Organize 365® vision, I knew that I wanted to conduct research to bring to light the organizational needs of Americans. I want to be the go-to resource for knowledge about home and paper organization. I legitimately had no idea how to do research surveys and data analysis. Recently, I have been learning about the difference between market research and academic research. Organize 365® is now sponsoring academic-level study and third-party data collection backed by Harrisburg University.  Research always starts with a hypothesis — what you think the result will be. I wanted research results that showed that women are doing the majority of the work at home. But, that's now what we found. We have started to share our initial research findings. As I learn more about research, we really end up with more questions. One of the steps in research is to define every term used in study surveys. For example, you cannot ask a participant about “mental health” because that term is too broad and open to interpretation. However, you can ask about anxiety or depression.  When we developed the first survey, I needed to figure out how to define “housework.” The research questions ended up focusing on four different types of housework. Cleaning - Cleaning is related to the dwelling and covers any task a cleaning company would do. Learn more back in Podcast 422.  Tasks of Daily Living - These are tasks related to the person regardless of where they live. These are the tasks defined by Social Security Disability and include things like preparing food, consuming food, running errands, planning meals, and washing laundry. Learn more back in Podcast 424. Maintenance - is an optional housework activity where the property owner makes an additional infusion of money into their investment (property) to maintain and improve their property. In the long run, maintenance expenses increase the value of the initial investment. Learn more back in Podcast 428.  Organizing - is an optional housework activity where a person makes an investment of current time for a future return of time. This is completely optional and customizable. Time spent today organizing results in an exponential time in the future. Often this involves setting up systems of organization and can be applied to renters and owners. Learn more back in Podcast 426.    Literature Review  As part of academic research, researchers look at other studies done on similar topics. The Organize 365® review looked at the role of women in the 21st century home. As I mentioned above, I thought women were doing all of the housework. It turns out that everyone thinks they are doing the majority of the work at home. There is so much work to be done. Defining housework and recognizing these four areas makes housework feel overwhelming and never-ending. As women become more effective at articulating their role in housework, families will be able to better understand how much work is being done and proactively decide if the work should continue to be done at all.  Our next study survey has been completed and we are busy analyzing the results. Learn more back in Podcast 430. #myextra5  The Sunday Basket® consistently saves people at least five hours a week by getting organized and being proactive. Through organization, you get extra time, and we all need more time. Follow or tag Organize365® on Instagram and share how you are spending your extra time once you get organized! — #myextra5

For 2022, we are adding to the Lisa glossary. This week, we are talking about the Organize 365® Research projects.  No matter when you begin your transformational journey (or when you need to reset or restart), this information will be here as a reference for you. Listen in as I teach you about the ideas and beliefs that are at the core of everything I teach and how I approach organizing. Several years ago, as I was writing the Organize 365® vision, I knew that I wanted to conduct research to bring to light the organizational needs of Americans. I want to be the go-to resource for knowledge about home and paper organization. I legitimately had no idea how to do research surveys and data analysis. Recently, I have been learning about the difference between market research and academic research. Organize 365® is now sponsoring academic-level study and third-party data collection backed by Harrisburg University.  Research always starts with a hypothesis — what you think the result will be. I wanted research results that showed that women are doing the majority of the work at home. But, that's now what we found. We have started to share our initial research findings. As I learn more about research, we really end up with more questions. One of the steps in research is to define every term used in study surveys. For example, you cannot ask a participant about “mental health” because that term is too broad and open to interpretation. However, you can ask about anxiety or depression.  When we developed the first survey, I needed to figure out how to define “housework.” The research questions ended up focusing on four different types of housework. Cleaning - Cleaning is related to the dwelling and covers any task a cleaning company would do. Learn more back inPodcast 422.  Tasks of Daily Living - These are tasks related to the person regardless of where they live. These are the tasks defined by Social Security Disability and include things like preparing food, consuming food, running errands, planning meals, and washing laundry. Learn more back in Podcast 424. Maintenance - is an optional housework activity where the property owner makes an additional infusion of money into their investment (property) to maintain and improve their property. In the long run, maintenance expenses increase the value of the initial investment. Learn more back in Podcast 428.  Organizing - is an optional housework activity where a person makes an investment of current time for a future return of time. This is completely optional and customizable. Time spent today organizing results in an exponential time in the future. Often this involves setting up systems of organization and can be applied to renters and owners. Learn more back in Podcast 426.    Literature Review  As part of academic research, researchers look at other studies done on similar topics. The Organize 365® review looked at the role of women in the 21st century home. As I mentioned above, I thought women were doing all of the housework. It turns out that everyone thinks they are doing the majority of the work at home. There is so much work to be done. Defining housework and recognizing these four areas makes housework feel overwhelming and never-ending. As women become more effective at articulating their role in housework, families will be able to better understand how much work is being done and proactively decide if the work should continue to be done at all.  Our next study survey has been completed and we are busy analyzing the results. Learn more back in Podcast 430. #myextra5  The Sunday Basket® consistently saves people at least five hours a week by getting organized and being proactive.Through organization, you get extra time, and we all need more time. Follow or tag Organize365® on Instagram and share how you are spending your extra time once you get organized! — #myextra5

THIS is an important topic for me right now as I'm 11 weeks pregnant and TIRED. I've done a version of this talk in the past, but each time I feel like it gets better as I go through more stretching and busy times. Does any else feel like each passing year just gets faster and faster? I've felt this from around the time I turned 20. It's always so important to evaluate our use of time. Are we squandering it on social media? Are we feeling exhausted and burnt out? Are we using rest the way God intended it? Today we are going to dive into how we can make sure we are using our time for God's Glory! Let's jump in! Listen to the Podcast: You can find all the links and notes for this episode below! Right click here and save-as to download this episode to your computer. Links & Resources: Our sponsor: Organize365.com/minicourse for a free 7 day course and check out their Sunday Basket Organization system!! Our sponsor: Go to HelloFresh.com/homemaking16 and use code homemaking16 for up to 16 free meals AND 3 free gifts! Join our FREE amazing community at FindingJoyCommunity.com You can purchase access to our entire 2022 Finding Joy in Your Home Online Conference here  

For 2022, we are adding to the Lisa glossary. This week, we are talking about the Organize 365® Research projects.  No matter when you begin your transformational journey (or when you need to reset or restart), this information will be here as a reference for you. Listen in as I teach you about the ideas and beliefs that are at the core of everything I teach and how I approach organizing. Several years ago, as I was writing the Organize 365® vision, I knew that I wanted to conduct research to bring to light the organizational needs of Americans. I want to be the go-to resource for knowledge about home and paper organization. I legitimately had no idea how to do research surveys and data analysis. Recently, I have been learning about the difference between market research and academic research. Organize 365® is now sponsoring academic-level study and third-party data collection backed by Harrisburg University.  Research always starts with a hypothesis — what you think the result will be. I wanted research results that showed that women are doing the majority of the work at home. But, that's now what we found. We have started to share our initial research findings. As I learn more about research, we really end up with more questions. One of the steps in research is to define every term used in study surveys. For example, you cannot ask a participant about “mental health” because that term is too broad and open to interpretation. However, you can ask about anxiety or depression.  When we developed the first survey, I needed to figure out how to define “housework.” The research questions ended up focusing on four different types of housework. Cleaning - Cleaning is related to the dwelling and covers any task a cleaning company would do. Learn more back in Podcast 422.  Tasks of Daily Living - These are tasks related to the person regardless of where they live. These are the tasks defined by Social Security Disability and include things like preparing food, consuming food, running errands, planning meals, and washing laundry. Learn more back in Podcast 424. Maintenance - is an optional housework activity where the property owner makes an additional infusion of money into their investment (property) to maintain and improve their property. In the long run, maintenance expenses increase the value of the initial investment. Learn more back in Podcast 428.  Organizing - is an optional housework activity where a person makes an investment of current time for a future return of time. This is completely optional and customizable. Time spent today organizing results in an exponential time in the future. Often this involves setting up systems of organization and can be applied to renters and owners. Learn more back in Podcast 426.    Literature Review  As part of academic research, researchers look at other studies done on similar topics. The Organize 365® review looked at the role of women in the 21st century home. As I mentioned above, I thought women were doing all of the housework. It turns out that everyone thinks they are doing the majority of the work at home. There is so much work to be done. Defining housework and recognizing these four areas makes housework feel overwhelming and never-ending. As women become more effective at articulating their role in housework, families will be able to better understand how much work is being done and proactively decide if the work should continue to be done at all.  Our next study survey has been completed and we are busy analyzing the results. Learn more back in Podcast 430. #myextra5  The Sunday Basket® consistently saves people at least five hours a week by getting organized and being proactive. Through organization, you get extra time, and we all need more time. Follow or tag Organize365® on Instagram and share how you are spending your extra time once you get organized! — #myextra5

Welcome to our kind of annual life and ministry update! Jason is joining me on this episode. Today we are debriefing about all our travels and business projects from 2021. And looking ahead to all that we are planning for 2022. Join us for a fun and exciting chat! Listen to the Podcast: You can find all the links and notes for this episode below! Right click here and save-as to download this episode to your computer. Links & Resources: Purchase the recordings from the 2022 Finding Joy in Your Home Online Conference from last week Join our free community: FindingJoyCommunity.com Check out our new sponsor: Organize365.com and check out their amazing Sunday Basket system! (AND try their 7 day free mini course!!)

In this spotlight episode, Brandon interviews CEO of Organize 365, Lisa Woodruff. Lisa is a trailblazer entrepreneur who has been featured in Fast Company, US News and World Report, along with many other publications. Together, Brandon and Lisa will uncover many new strategies related to unlocking your private practice efficiencies and productivity.https://organize365.comhttp://www.wellnessworksmp.com

This is a re-air of episode #72. Want to get your homeschool paper and resources more organized than ever? Then you're in for a treat! Here's my chat with professional organizer Lisa Woodruff of Organize365.com and all her best tips for organizing your homeschool. Show notes are at www.4onemore.com/72 --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/homeschoolwithmoxie/support

Amy chats with Ohio's own Lisa Woodruff, an organizational expert and the founder of Organize365, which works to help busy people get their home and paper organized with functional organizing systems that work.

Listen to all of our Wednesday Podcasts at organize365.com/wednesday-podcasts This week, on the Transformational Podcast for Wednesday, I am sharing how we are transforming the 100 Day Home Organization Program with a brand new smart phone app designed specifically for Organize 365! Emily Kelly - our Director of Marketing - and I speak about the new FREE smartphone app coming soon for Organize 365. The app will give you access to the FREE trial week of the 100 Day Home Organization Program and a FREE mini-course that will help you get started setting up your Sunday Basket®. For those of you who are already enrolled in paid programs for Organize 365, you will find bonus content in the app and it will be an easy to use, portable way to access the 100 Day Program. The app is now available in the Apple App Store and on Google Play.  Search for "Organize365" - no space!

I first learned about deep dive shopping from Lisa Woodruff at Organize365. She recommends doing a big shopping trip at the beginning of December to buy enough staples to get you to January. I have found that doing a deep shopping trip 2-3 times a year can really save me time and help with meal planning all year long. Stock up on paper products (like toilet paper, paper towels, and napkins.) Get all your cleaning supplies like hand soap, laundry soap, dishwasher soap, and bleach. Stock up on personal care items like shampoo, deodorant, and makeup. This will make your future grocery trips smaller and faster. You will only need to buy perishable items like fresh fruit, veggies, and meats. By doing a deep dive shopping trip, you will help yourself meal plan. With a well-stocked freezer and pantry, it is easier to decide what is for dinner. You make meals around the ingredients you have on hand. It helps with decision fatigue because you have fewer choices. One ingredient can be used many ways. For example, I use frozen mixed veggies in pot pie, tater tot casserole, soup, and fried rice. One simple ingredient has many uses and helps me narrow my decisions.   Full notes can be found here. 

Lisa Woodruff is a productivity specialist, home organization expert, and founder and CEO of Organize365®. Her goal is helping women reduce overwhelm, clear mental clutter and live a productive and organized life. As she started her company as a professional organizer, Lisa was able to use her background as an educator to teach organization as a skill. Through some of her powerful mantras like “Done is Better than Perfect,” she is able to empower others to recognize their worth and dedicate spared time to do what we are uniquely qualified to do. Lisa also introduces her Sunday Basket system for creating more time in your week through organization. Watch her recent LEADDD U event here and be sure to find more of her courses for Tri Deltas through LEADDDer.org! Organize365.comInstagram: Organize365

Outdoor cooking and eating can be fun and tasty. Still, there are some potential dangers we all need to be aware of. For example, when was the last time you really cleaned your grill? If you think the fire burns off all the bad stuff, think again. That’s just one of the things about outdoor cooking I discuss as we begin this episode. http://www.menshealth.com/health/5-cookout-mistakes-that-make-you-sick Carrots were not originally orange. Expensive weddings are a bad idea. The Mediterranean Sea will disappear one day. These are just a few items of fascinating knowledge I discuss with Tom Standage, Deputy Editor of The Economist and editor of the book Uncommon Knowledge (https://amzn.to/2DFoeNA). Listen as he explains why kids’ summer vacations are too long, what Interpol really is and who owns all the material in outer space – amongst other things. It’s fairly well accepted that moderate drinking has health benefits. However, that may be a big overstatement. Listen as I discuss research that questions the validity of that idea and why there is a flaw in the theory that a glass of wine is good for you. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-4529928/A-glass-red-wine-NOT-good-heart.html We were supposed to be moving towards a paperless society. That doesn’t really seem to be happening. In fact, a lot of us have more documents, forms, certificates, letters and memos than we know what to do with. If you have filing cabinets, drawers and boxes full of papers, you need to listen to Lisa Woodruff. She is founder of Organize365 (www.organize365.com) which helps people tame all the paper in their lives and she is author of the book The Paper Solution: What to Shred, What to Save, and How to Stop It From Taking Over Your Life (https://amzn.to/3gIojyE). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Here's my chat with professional organizer Lisa Woodruff of Organize365.com and all her best tips for organizing your homeschool. Show notes are at www.4onemore.com/72  

For All Abilities – The Podcast Episode Thirty One - Lisa Woodruff - Organizing and ADHD Part Part   In this episode, I continue my interview with Lisa Woodruff of Organize365. On the podcast, Lisa talks about her early years with dyslexia and her incredible career helping people get organized. We discuss her books on organizing and ADHD   https://www.amazon.com/ADHD-Affects-Home-Organization-Understanding/dp/B07212S4Z9/ref=sr_1_2?crid=3JDUKPKJ99DER&dchild=1&keywords=lisa+woodruff+books&qid=1598842017&sprefix=Lisa+wood%2Caps%2C173&sr=8-2 and her new book on mastery paper organization https://www.amazon.com/Paper-Solution-What-Shred-Taking-ebook/dp/B081M7P9C5/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3JDUKPKJ99DER&dchild=1&keywords=lisa+woodruff+books&qid=1598842017&sprefix=Lisa+wood%2Caps%2C173&sr=8-1 We also talk about the impact that her home organization program had made on my home and life! To connect with Lisa and to find out all about her incredible home organization program and products go to https://organize365.com.    Go to our website www.forallabilities.com for information on our software that enables employers to support their employees with ADHD, Dyslexia, Learning Differences and Autism. Thanks for listening!  Betsy     Thanks for listening to For All Abilities today!    Share the podcast with your friends, they’ll thank you for it!   Get our newsletter and stay up to date! The newsletter link is on our website www.forallabilities.com   Follow me   Twitter: @betsyfurler   Instagram: @forallabilities   Facebook: @forallabilites   LinkedIn: @BetsyFurler   Website: www.forallabilities.com   Full Transcription from Otter.ai       Betsy Furler  0:05   Welcome to for all abilities, the podcast. This is your host, Betsy Furler. The aim of this podcast is to highlight the amazing things people with ADHD, dyslexia, learning differences and autism are doing to improve our world.   episodes, because I knew we could talk a lot and she has so many wonderful stories and things for us all to learn. So Lisa, why don't you introduce yourself to my audience again?    Lisa Woodruff  1:14   Sure. I'm Lisa Woodruff. I am the founder and creator of organized 365 out of Cincinnati, Ohio. We help women get their home and paper organized in one year with functional systems that work. I have authored a couple of books, one being how ADHD affects home organization. And my next book will be out August 4, called the paper solution.   Betsy Furler  1:35   Awesome. So we left off last time after you told my favorite story about your kitchen counters and how not being able to put your groceries on your kitchen counters ultimately led to the organization and 365 business organized 365 sorry, and business and so I wanted to start off this episode. talking a little bit about how you think the COVID stay at home safe at home and order mandate. You know, suggestion if you're in Texas   Lisa Woodruff  2:14   Anyway, let's say you're in.   Betsy Furler  2:16   Yes. And how that has affected people with especially people with ADHD but all different types of neuro diversity as far as home organization, whatever you want to talk about about it.   Lisa Woodruff  2:29   Yeah, you know, it's so interesting. I, when we first got the stay at home order, I'm in the state of Ohio. So we were one of the very first states to shut down. Our governor was very proactive, and we were very positive about that in the beginning, but as Americans, you know, like our independence over time, we weren't as excited about it. I initially thought Yay, everybody's getting sent home. Yay. This is my super bowl like put me in coach. Everybody can get organized and I totally did not anticipate how mentally exhausted It would be for us to lose all of our habits, our structures, our routines, and to be constantly mentally trying to reorient our selves to what the new normal is. I mean, like, of all the words that we have in 2020, like new normal, he thought that was going to be for the stay at home order, and then you thought that was going to be for working from home, and then you thought it was going to be for racism, and then you thought it was going to be for politics. And it just seems like we're getting whiplash. Every other week. There's a new normal every single week. And as we've opened up, all these different ways of looking at everything that we took for granted or had routines and habits in place for almost all of our routines and habits are gone, almost all of them are gone. And if you don't realize that your life is a series of the habits that you have created over time, and if you didn't purposely create them, then they just happened like too much social media time or whatever too much Netflix time or if you purposely created them, even if you purposely created them with a morning routine and affirmations and going to the gym, a lot of those even positive routines that you had in place just got thrown out the window and taken away in the blink of an eye while you're trying to make sure you still have income coming in, and you'd have enough toilet paper and oh my gosh, now I can't grocery shop where I used to grocery shop. And my cousin was telling me, she's down in Cincinnati in the city. And when she would go to the store, they were only allowed to get to milk items. Like you could get milk and cheese but then you couldn't also get butter. So I was like, Are you serious? Like that didn't happen 20 miles north where I am in Cincinnati. And so it was just constant survival like we got thrown back to we need to have the basics. We need food, we need toilet paper, we need money we need we need rent and some of us are still in those basic areas. And I just want everyone to take a deep breath and recognize that this has not stopped like the amount of change that has come to your brain has not stopped And I have been more exhausted in the last three or four months than ever. Greg and I go to bed so early, and we sleep in and we take naps. And still we are just mentally exhausted. And I know that when you sleep, I don't know who said this. But I know it's true when you sleep. Your brain makes order of the day, like literally your little cells like detox inside of your brain when you're sleeping. And the file folders of all the paper of information, your brain gets put in little file folders in your brain tries to organize what you've done during the day. And there's so much change and so little routine that your brains are just exhausted trying to figure out how to get money, get food. We don't have this. We always said, Oh, if I got sent home for an extended period of time, there are all these projects I would want to work on. I would say just a small percentage of us or even to that point yet.   Betsy Furler  5:52   Yeah, it's been really interesting. I know I've been I found it very interesting on how I have I handled this it's been hard really, really hard. Being home with everybody in the family 100% Sure. And I like I said earlier I kind of are on the other episode. I have a tendency when I'm under stress either to get super disorganized, or like ridiculously over organized. And when this first happened, I did too. I did one of my crazy things when I get super stressed as I get, I start inventory things and I don't inventory at any other time. But I enjoyed all of our food. Like, member because remember back in March, when Ohio shut down, I was like, Oh, no, Texas is shutting down. I'm better get I better get it together. Remember, back then we didn't know we knew there was a toilet paper shortage already. We didn't know what the rights was going to be like, where are we even going to go the grocery store where they're going to close the grocery stores now. Right and I inventories I have this inventory I mean it's like seven pages of everything and what shelf it's on So, like Eric will say, you know, I don't think we have Italian dressing I'm like yes we do. It's on the second shelf from the top and the pantry.   Lisa Woodruff  7:15   I did the same thing I went to the grocery store and everyone should know I don't cook like as soon as you listen to one episode of my podcast, you'll know that I don't cook. So I went to the store I bought beans and rice, like literally black beans and bags of rice. And not that I would even know how to cook this. And I said to myself, well this seems like a beans and rice moment I was ever gonna have beans or rice. This is when I would have it. Just so you know. My favorite restaurant called verse fast food never shut down. So I continue to drive there and get my onion rings. They were masks it was fine. And we continue to get takeout or Greg cooked and then the other ridiculous thing that I do every time something like this happens I did it when my dad died. I did it in 2008. As I like to think that I'm going to grow a vegetable garden, like I don't even cook but I think I'm going to grow a vegetable garden. This time instead of just starting a vegetable garden outside because it's March in Ohio, I bought one of those awesome hydroponic tower gardens like that you see at Epcot for $1,000. I made four salads I had $250 salads because like after I had like four salads I'm like I'm done with this and the whole thing died and whatever. But yeah, we just we go to this survival instinct, but yet we're not survivalists. So we do it in a weird way.   Betsy Furler  8:30   What when, when Henry had his autoimmune encephalitis and it was really really severe. Um, and my audience on is Henry's been been medically fragile his whole life but the autoimmune encephalitis was like a whole new thing and very, like awful. And you know what I did? I inventoried all my clothes. I took photos of all of them. I remember that every I don't plan it planning. It's so it's just oh my goodness. I just want   Lisa Woodruff  8:59   Can you can Troy What are you in control?   Unknown Speaker  9:01   Oh, yeah.   Betsy Furler  9:05   Yeah, so what are you in control of So, um, so I do think though, that having a system like organized 365 has helped me through this pandemic too, because I have had moments where I've decluttered and I've lost 20 pounds.   Lisa Woodruff  9:22   I don't think I told you that I'm saying you look fabulous, Betsy. Congratulations.   Betsy Furler  9:27   Thank you. So I've, I've had to spend I've gained it. No, just kidding. I have spent so much time outside because it's in the house. It's like where do you go? Well, it's safe to walk around outside. So anyway, I am so now I've gone through all my clothes again, because you know, none of them fit me anymore, which is a really fun problem to have. But I also started realizing that my structure like you were saying all our structures have changed so much. So my structure the whole way. I structured my De was totally blown up. And we all have a tendency to do is you know, then I end up wasting a lot of time because I'm not in my regular routine. And the other thing that I found that was very hard for me and I actually, I've never been diagnosed with ADHD or any of us. But I realized when I was stuck at a computer all day, every day and in one room and in my house instead of moving around the world, like I did before, I had a lot of trouble paying attention and attention. My attention was poor. And I started again, how do we get so antsy just sitting I ended up buying a standing desk also and that helps a little but, you know, really had to take breaks to like actually do physical exercise. And I also walk every day at lunch as well because I just like I feel that pent up energy that I never even recognized before. Me too. Yeah, it's, it's amazing how you know, just that change in structure can can just throw you for a loop.   Unknown Speaker  11:16   Go ahead.   Lisa Woodruff  11:16   Yeah, I used to be able to like, I'm one of those weird people because I do not have ADHD. I've been tested ever. It's like yesterday, I'm like, No, I don't I actually, I can literally sit at index from 8am to 8pm. And just get up for bathroom breaks and coffee and, you know, lunch, I can do that. And I can sustain my attention. During that time. I have worked over the last eight years to expand my focus. It used to be only until 11 and then 12, and then one and now I could do a full 12 hours. As soon as the pandemic hit, I was exhausted by 11am I couldn't make it past 11 so I was like, okay, and each week I just tried to get you know, another half hour and now I could do a full day again, but it took me all this time for months to get back to where my energy level was the way it used to be, my focus was the way it used to be. And still, it's not all the way there. I mean, I'm still going to bed at eight or nine o'clock at night. And we used to go to bed at 10 and 11 all the time. So our brains really have been affected. Like, this is such a huge change on so many levels that we just don't have the focus and the energy and the attention that we had before.   Betsy Furler  12:24   Well, and I know now I get by 430 in the afternoon, I'm like done, like I and and I've never stopped working that early before. And you know, today I have a couple of calls. I have a call at five have a call at six I have a call at 730 and it's like, oh,   Unknown Speaker  12:43   my nap   Betsy Furler  12:44   challenge. Yeah. And because I you know, but it's not always a bad thing to because I think getting off the hamster wheel has really made me realize what I really want to be doing with my life and working till six every day in it.   Lisa Woodruff  13:01   Yeah, but have you found what you want to replace it with that that's kind of my thing. It's almost like we all went off coffee simultaneously. So our productivity would like I didn't stop drinking coffee, but you know what I mean, like that extra jolt of productivity or packing more in. And then a lot of things got taken off of our list, like commuting or taking kids places like, but I don't. I'm not doing as much as I used to, but I'm more exhausted than I used to be. Although I haven't found like, Okay, and now I have time to take a college class or read a book or, like I haven't found that I filled in that time with anything that was always on my to do list. I'm just kind of in the messy middle. I think.   Betsy Furler  13:40   I've been walking and that's what that's how I started running. And because I've walked so I mean, I'm walking like nine miles a day. And yeah, it's extreme. This is why so much weight. And I started I actually started running not because I necessarily wanted to run, but I started thinking, you know, I really like getting this much movement in. And when life goes back to whatever normal it is, again, I'm not gonna have enough time, like am I gonna have time to walk nine miles a really long time. So, so I was like, I need to pick up the pace. And so that meant learning to run. And so I started running and the other thing that we've been doing is we so you know, as you know, and I don't know if my listeners know this yet, but I am not a cook either. And one thing we've been doing is we totally aren't we source our food totally differently now. So we buy our meat from restaurants because here in Texas restaurants are allowed to sell uncooked food now. So we make all our meat from restaurants and then we get a farm box every week and produce and then we look at the produce and then I google because I'm really good at like figuring out recipe like what recipes we should make. I just I'm not good at the actual Making of the food but I can coordinate the effort. So I you know, Google, you know, spaghetti squash and chicken or whatever or yesterday it was eggplant and butternut squash what can we make with that? And I come up with recipes print them out for because he wants them printed and he has not paperless and yeah, he makes them but the so that has taken more time but then kind of like in the long run it's like you know, we used to go out to eat all the time. Yeah. And going out actually took so much more time than looking everything from scratch every meal from scratch, but we have like really shifted our time in that way. And then the other thing which is I don't know if it's good, bad or indifferent, but we just watch a movie every night together. Yeah to weave in. We never did that before. My husband does have ADHD and it doesn't really like movies like he really has never been interested in watching movies except for like, maybe once every couple of like, like a couple of times a month, we might do like a family movie night. But now every nights fam every night family dinner every night family movie night.   Unknown Speaker  16:16   And so that's been fun.   Lisa Woodruff  16:19   Yeah, Greg and I have always called our date night like from eight to 10. Like, we'll watch TV shows or movies or whatever. And that's something we have kept consistent. What I love about what you're sharing is for those of us who still have jobs, our work has not changed. And for those that don't have jobs, I mean, you're in the process of a job search or you're figuring out if you're going to take off some time or whatever. So the work bucket has stayed consistent through all of this the worry about it, the doing of it, the the taking care of the work, but the play in the social buckets got emptied out and aren't necessarily getting filled up. And so that's kind of what I've been talking through with my organize 365 it And since we focus on the home, is that, you know, school school still happened. It just happened at home. And it was messy for sure. for teachers, for parents, for students, for everyone. It was very discombobulated and hard, but school still happened. But kids social got taken away and kids play other than Xbox kind of gotten taken away. And so as we go through this global pandemic, which doesn't appear to be ending anytime soon, and we focus so much on our work, whether that's work or school, or volunteering, or however you spent the majority of your weekday, what you were doing, how do we replace our social and our play at home, in a positive way, and, and, and with that, like I like puzzles, some people like reading, your play, whatever it is you like to do for play. It's not just that I want time to do puzzles. We like novelty in our play. So you don't want to read the same book every single night. You want to have a variety of books, if you like puzzles, you like a variety of puzzles, you don't want to do the same puzzle over and over again. If you like cooking you, great a plant and squash so that's challenging. So I can, you know, have some creative outlet and my cooking and how do we focus on our social and our play while we are safe at home?   Betsy Furler  18:16   Right? Yeah. And I and also our, you know, I was thinking the other day about my kind of my circle of people that I interact with. And my circle was huge before. It's still huge on a on a virtual basis, right. But the people that I saw in person every week was a really big, wide spread, very diverse group of people from different parts of my life and everything. And now my circle of people that I see in person is very, very small. And we have a neighbor, family that's a neighbor who we have quarantine with the whole time. So we have them and they have two little boys and then I have one of my college friends who's quarantined with her husband that I see periodically in person, the six feet apart, but you know, I have been to her in her home and stuff. And then my husband has one friend who I also have seen so I mean, it's like, gone from, you know, hundreds of people to like, I counted it up and I think total even with, you know, when you look at Okay, well, what about the people that they see on a regular basis? It was like 30 people   Lisa Woodruff  19:34   which is good for Coronavirus. Good have You bet. You have a lot of words. You have a lot of words for those poor 12 people.   Betsy Furler  19:45   And they have a lot of words too. And one of the things that I've done is I've started talking on the phone and I say I'm talking on the phone like it's 1985 and yeah, I even called you.   Lisa Woodruff  19:55   Yeah, no, I think I think if you think about the the summers of the 80s or the 50s if you're older, like think about what you used to do in the summer in the 80s or whenever you were a teenager and your parents wouldn't take you anywhere that's that's Coronavirus, summer for you that's Coronavirus living and yet using your phone as a phone not as a computer   Betsy Furler  20:18   that we bought a hammock and a Stan for our backyard. And we live in Houston Texas, so it's super super hot and humid but I'm like I don't care gotta be outside. So I lay out that are laying out this summer for the first time. You know, in the last 30 years layout talk on the phone with my girlfriends. I talked to somebody for two and a half hours on the phone yesterday.   Lisa Woodruff  20:41   When am I good? Isn't it great though, isn't it just fun to connect with people again?   Betsy Furler  20:46   It's been so much fun and I you know I've done a lot of zoom meetings but I'm pretty zoom fatigued where I really just am happier talking to people on the phone and just, you know, I miss my long cord whereas dragging her all over the house. And, but you know, it's it otherwise that's been that's been really great for me. And I would say that is I my two things are walking and talking on the phone.   Unknown Speaker  21:14   That's my outlet.   Unknown Speaker  21:16   Yeah. Do you think you'll keep those things going forward?   Betsy Furler  21:19   I think that, um, because I've kind of combined the walking with the phone talking. So one of my friends and she frequently virtually walks with me in the morning. And I talked to her on the phone as I'm walking. And then another friend virtually walks with me in the evening. And so I think I hopefully, hopefully we will keep that I definitely have connected us to do this.   Lisa Woodruff  21:44   Now I'm remembering this is like four years ago when I had a treadmill and tried to use it once you remember that. And so we would voxer back and forth and we would walk on our treadmills and I didn't do it for very many days. I wasn't a good partner.   Betsy Furler  21:57   You warned me ahead of time that you're a terrible account. Ability size. So   Lisa Woodruff  22:02   I Yeah, actually cooking exercise. I'm not your expert, that's for sure.   Betsy Furler  22:07   Yeah. So but yeah, that's, I mean, that's been it's been wonderful and I really do I you know, also, I set up calls with my pledge sisters from my sorority. And then also a multigenerational call for my sorority and my sorority is only local and are very small college. And those that has been great I have made, I'll have to say even though my physical sphere of people is so small now, I have made a lot of friends virtually, or and in and deepened friendships, virtually, with people that I've known forever. And I've also networked a lot. And I've discovered that from a business standpoint, networking has in some ways been a lot easier, because you can actually get people on the phone that you never get on the phone before. But you know what I miss is being in hotels and traveling   Lisa Woodruff  23:04   yeah I miss the traveling as well kept the book tour got cancelled?   Unknown Speaker  23:10   No   Lisa Woodruff  23:13   I threw myself a three hour pity party and then I moved on.   Unknown Speaker  23:16   Yes, yes.   Lisa Woodruff  23:18   But yeah I do love travel I you know, I've spent my whole life being a stay at home mom working from home mom and creating this business to to the point where I'm able to travel and meet people and do conferences and then the world closed. So that's a bummer.   Betsy Furler  23:33   And I do believe that conferences on zoom are nowhere near the same as conferences in person. Because I go to conferences to meet people and talk to them. I don't go to conference to listen.   Lisa Woodruff  23:48   Totally, but I just did mine this weekend. And we were gonna have like 80 people come to our conference in the summer. And when we moved it to virtual I think we had like five people cancel and then we have We maxed out at 150. We sold out before our sellout date. But how I did it was I did it on zoom, of course, because like, what else are you going to do? But I did my talks, but then we broke people out into groups of 10 in zoom rooms by where they live. And then we had a certified organizer in every single group, at least one certified organizer, and every single group. So you literally sat at a table, you're in a breakout room with people from your city or within, you know, 100 miles of where you live. So I did the talks, and then you went to your table and people loved it. And then I sent a whole box of surprises. So you know, every hour or so you were opening up something that went along with a touch that also reached a love language and it was a really, really fun experience. So I would have rather have had it in person. But there were a lot of people who said they wouldn't have never been able to come in person because they're a full time caretaker for their parents or for their child to a special needs are this one. their child just started having seizures the week before the conference and none of them would have been able to come if I had had it in person.   Betsy Furler  25:02   True. And of course, she figured out a super creative way to make it. Make it. So there was that networking piece? Yes, I don't write them all off.   Lisa Woodruff  25:10   But I think conference. No, I mean, we are going to have to be creative about delivering the experience in a different way during this pandemic season however long it is. I wanted to have my conference in person because I feel there's so much value in meeting in person and I want to physically give you a hug, and that's what and get a picture and that's what everybody wanted. But once I realized that that was not allowed, then I allowed my brain to think okay, well, if it's not allowed, do we still need an embrace conference? Is there still reason for women who are trying to make their house a home to come together? Yeah, that's still true. Okay. Well, if that's still true, then then how can we deliver that experience? Just like, okay, I cannot travel the United States and do my book tour. Am I still releasing my book on August 4? Yes, do I still have have parties? Yes. Do people still want to get assigned bookplate and be able to celebrate with me from wherever they are? Yes. Okay, well, then how am I going to do that? And so now it's about how do i do we still want to have the experience? Yes. Are we allowed to do it the way we want it to? No. Okay, then how are we going to do it? And I'll come up with a way.   Betsy Furler  26:18   Right, right. And one of the fun things that Eric and I did during the stay at home time is he ordered he has a year ago he went to France with two of his best friends and they on an oyster tour, and so they're all really into oysters, and we all eat oysters a lot. And what he did was he had oysters delivered to them. And so each other couple and then us, they he, you know, had ordered these oysters and had them delivered. And then one of the other guys came up with a wine list and we all had the wine we all had the same wine. And then we got on zoom and we had an oyster happy hour. Have fun with all three couples. So two of us are here in Houston. But we were at our own homes, of course. And then the other couple was in New York City. And so it was, but it was like super, it wasn't like a regular zoom call, which it did give me hope for zoom calls, because it was very conversational. I mean, it was just like, we were all sitting around the table together. So if we interrupted each other when that big of a deal and our kids were walking in and out, and animals walking in and out, just like it would have been if we were in person. Yeah. So I think there is, we have so much technology now that I think there is a way to do this. It's just we all have to think creatively. And sometimes, I'm like, you know, occasionally, not very often because I am like, the biggest optimist on the face of the earth. But occasionally, I'm just like, I don't want to do it that way. I want to hug somebody.   Lisa Woodruff  27:53   Yeah, it's hard. It's really hard to constantly you know, you and I are both both very big outside of the box. thinkers. So for people who are not that way, like they are just like, Are you kidding me? Like, why does everything have to be thought through? So for those of us that love to think this way, we're even tired. Like, it's just hard to think about how to. And as I was thinking about this summer I remember in April, I counseled the people in the 100 day program as a book. You're gonna want to pool get a pool. I know, I know your spouse doesn't want you to kill the grass within aboveground pool, tell them they can grow back next year, get one. And within a week, they did sell out on Amazon and everywhere people like thank you for telling us before they sold out because I was thinking ahead to the summer and you know, having kids at home and how are you going to entertain kids at home and try to work and all that. And just recently, I started thinking about the fall and the holidays and in Ohio, it's going to be snowing and you can't be outside and this is going to get a little harder and I was like oh boy. If you like to think outside of the box and creatively, you're going to get a workout this year as we continue to go through the seasons and get more frustrated at the fact that we don't have as much choice as we thought we did.   Betsy Furler  29:03   Right? And, you know, that's a good point as as the seasons change, especially for you people who have seasons that's going to be a big problem here. Yes.   Lisa Woodruff  29:12   You have variations of hot,   Unknown Speaker  29:14   right? Yeah, it's just hot and then it gets a little Yeah, then it's just warm in the in the fall and winter. Autumn.   Betsy Furler  29:24   But for you were there, you know, it may be snow and you may not be able to play outside all day every day.   Lisa Woodruff  29:31   Yeah, unending snow days are really not as fun as they sound.   Betsy Furler  29:36   I can't even imagine. Yeah, exactly. So being able to get outside is my sanity. Mm hmm. Yeah. Yeah. Well, and I do think it takes people like us who do think outside the box to really be willing to share what we're thinking about with other people. They may not listen but you know, some some of them will And the ideas are how to go forward without losing your mind.   Lisa Woodruff  30:03   Yeah, I can only I remember when the pandemic first started, I was only able to think one week out, I could not even think about what the summer would be like. And then as it got closer, I was able to see towards the end of summer. You know, I noticed when kids were sent home that the hardest thing about schooling from home was that parents didn't have the time, or the desire to be doing the schooling and they were stressed as well. Teachers had a hard time communicating with students and teachers and they were actually working till midnight, just answering parents emails, students that had multiple teachers, there's just so much miscommunication. And it wasn't until the middle of June that I was talking to organized 365 team because we didn't know what was going to happen in the fall. At the time of this recording. We're just at the last days in June here and it just has come down that you're going to probably have a choice. probably have a choice if you send your kids to school or if you keep them at home and then if it gets bad they'll all end up going home and what I said to the organizers, 365 team was like, Look, there needs to be some organization around school. It doesn't matter if they're homeschooled their schooling from home, they're at school wherever they are. Kids need to take ownership of their assignments and their long range and short term assignments, and they need to put them in a planner that they understand. So we scrambled and we have created a planner, we have a planner for elementary middle schoolers and a different planner for high school and college age kids. And then I'm going to create videos that go with these planners that specifically tell kids how to organize and how schools usually do it is every year your teacher imposes the organization of their specific class on you if you're switching classes or the teacher you know if you're in grade school, young grade school because they start switching classes pretty young. And so every year a student has to learn the organizational traits of the teacher. Our planner is different. Once you learn this planner and how to record your long term and short term assignments. You buy the same planner year after After a year, and then we show you how to set up one two inch binder with five slash pockets in it to organize all your classes in one binder. And this is how I taught my kids. When they went back into public and Catholic schools after being in the learning disability school, they could not keep up with all of the organizational management systems that each individual teacher had. They had one binder, and their teachers assignments went in that book. And there's always one teacher that wants you to have the journal that gets turned in or whatever. But then that's just a one off from a system that you can use year after year after year. And if you have ADHD, if you have learning disabilities, like learning other people's organizational systems year after year, like no joke, it would take Joey eight weeks to figure out the organizational structure that all of his different teachers wanted and to go from class to class and this is in ninth grade. By then he was so far behind in the education part of learning that he never caught up that year.   Betsy Furler  32:55   Hmm. Well, winner it's so when is that coming out? I'm super excited about that. Yeah,   Lisa Woodruff  33:00   so those planners we're going to start selling in the week of July 13. You need to be in our kids program first. So our kids program is $297. If you are not in the 100 day program, if you are in the 100 day program, the kids program is $99. And the kids program is for kids. Well, it's really birth through 25. So it's divided into modules. If you have kids that are under the age of five, I teach you how to organize the nursery, the playroom, the the preschool area, kids start into the program around the age of seven. It's called learn and all kids learn how to organize their bedroom which I call your mini apartment. And then as they hit 16 they go into launch and launch teaches you about how to organize food and money and to move into your own space after your bedroom whether that's an apartment or dorm room or condo, and you could stay in the kids program until you have buy a house or have children so if you never buy a house or have children like you don't even need the 100 day program is everything you need will be inside of the kids program.   Betsy Furler  34:00   That's awesome. Yeah, that is I think going forward I know Sam school so Sam is going into 11th grade Can you believe it? Yeah. So private Catholic high school boys school and they're looking at three options one would be everybody on campus full time. Option two would be they would go to campus two days a week you know they would have kids we go two days and a half would go the other two and then or all online and and online was super rough for him. And he actually really organized kid and it doesn't have learning disabilities as a little bit of a vision issue. But it was so hard for him to get Montt wrap his mind around those assignments, and write in full You know, when you're, when you're when you have the structure. I think it goes back to what you were talking about earlier is we've lost all the structure we had before and the kids are the same way, it's like, they're when they have the structure of, I get up I you know, eat breakfast, I drive to school, I get a class, you know, ABCD eat lunch, do this, I see the teacher face to face that reminds me that I have to do something. When we lose all our structure, we lose all of our external cues as well.   Lisa Woodruff  35:20   It's like, throwing papers at kids versus giving them in files in a filing cabinet. It's like you just keep throwing papers at them. It's just, I mean, I'm supporting if people want to do school, but if it was me and my kids aren't this age anymore, if it was me, I'd be taking a homeschooling year. It's very easy to homeschool every state has their own homeschool rules. Ohio is very liberal in the homeschool rules. There's not a lot of requirements. And I would just be like, Hey, we are living through times that they will be talking about centuries from now. So here's what we're going to do. We're going to have a journal and I want you to research the difference between state and federal law and for those of you in Texas, it's the 49 states, Texas law and federal law says you got to have your own thing. You're the only state that is legally allowed to secede from the union. And why is that? And how did that happen? And where did that come from? And what is the history of racism in America? And how how can the Supreme Court say these things? I mean, we are living through history in so many ways. Like if you want to do math, study the stock market, how in the world can the stock market continue to go up when unemployment is like astronomic levels? Like why does the stock market not match? Kind of there's so many questions to be genuinely explored and learned about that. You could rabbit trail and research for ever and your kids would be so interested in what they're learning like, Look around you. What do you what do you want to learn about viruses? Do you want to learn about growing gardens? What do you want to learn about and just do it home school for you   Betsy Furler  36:54   forget the whole thing. I can't wait to see the statistics of what happens because I think I think exactly the same thing. It's like, if we're going to homeschool, then do it. Right away. We want it homeschooled and organize it in the way we wanted done and have one teacher instead of eight teachers who happens to live in your house with you so you can actually communicate with them on a, you know,   Lisa Woodruff  37:18   hourly pay the worst that can happen. I mean, seriously, what is the worst that can happen? Any college here is going to take your child because they're dying for college students. Like how could taking a gap year be negative at this time? Like I just don't even see how it could possibly be a negative?   Betsy Furler  37:36   It's true. I mean, I think Sam Yeah, he's a he's in a prime spot to get into college and a couple of years, right because of all of that. Well, I we probably should go because now we're going over time with two episodes. So Lisa, tell, please tell my audience how they can get in touch with you again. After So, yeah, yeah, go ahead. Sorry.   Lisa Woodruff  38:00   I have a podcast organized 365 so if you like these kinds of conversations, I just talked to myself over there often but I also interview people over there. So that's organized 365 I unpack big ideas and then I try to give you step by step ways of then implementing those in your house or just taking the next step. And then the book the paper solution will be out everywhere that you buy books, audiobooks, ebooks, it'll be available on August 4.   Betsy Furler  38:26   Awesome, well thank you again for being on for two episodes and and audience please follow Lisa and listen to her podcasts, you've really got to give it a chance because it is really entertaining as well as informative. And also please follow my podcast subscribe rate, review all of those things on whether they're pot whatever podcast platform you listen to for all abilities, the podcast on and if you want to find out more about what I do professionally with consulting and providing workplaces Accommodations through my software, please go to www dot for all abilities calm. Have a great day and I'll talk to you all soon. Thanks, Betsy. Thank you, Lisa. Thanks so much for listening to the for all abilities podcast. This is Betsy Furler, your host and I really appreciate your time listening to the podcast. 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For All Abilities – The Podcast Episode Thirty - Lisa Woodruff - Organizing and ADHD Part One    In this episode, I interview Lisa Woodruff of Organize365. On the podcast, Lisa talks about her early years with dyslexia and her incredible career helping people get organized. We discuss her books on organizing and ADHD   https://www.amazon.com/ADHD-Affects-Home-Organization-Understanding/dp/B07212S4Z9/ref=sr_1_2?crid=3JDUKPKJ99DER&dchild=1&keywords=lisa+woodruff+books&qid=1598842017&sprefix=Lisa+wood%2Caps%2C173&sr=8-2 and her new book on mastery paper organization https://www.amazon.com/Paper-Solution-What-Shred-Taking-ebook/dp/B081M7P9C5/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3JDUKPKJ99DER&dchild=1&keywords=lisa+woodruff+books&qid=1598842017&sprefix=Lisa+wood%2Caps%2C173&sr=8-1 We also talk about the impact that her home organization program had made on my home and life! To connect with Lisa and to find out all about her incredible home organization program and products go to https://organize365.com.    Go to our website www.forallabilities.com for information on our software that enables employers to support their employees with ADHD, Dyslexia, Learning Differences and Autism. Thanks for listening!  Betsy     Thanks for listening to For All Abilities today!    Share the podcast with your friends, they’ll thank you for it!   Get our newsletter and stay up to date! The newsletter link is on our website www.forallabilities.com   Follow me   Twitter: @betsyfurler   Instagram: @forallabilities   Facebook: @forallabilites   LinkedIn: @BetsyFurler   Website: www.forallabilities.com   Full Transcription from Otter.ai   Betsy Furler  0:05   Welcome to for all abilities, the podcast. This is your host, Betsy Furler. The aim of this podcast is to highlight the amazing things people with ADHD, dyslexia, learning differences and autism are doing to improve our world. Have a listen to for all abilities, the podcast and please subscribe on whatever podcast app you're listening to us on. Hi everybody, this is Betsy Furler. Your host for all abilities podcast. Welcome back. And I have a seat I know I always say I have a special guest but today I have a super super super special guest. A really good friend of mine, Lisa Woodruff from organized 365 and I'm super excited that she is here to talk about ADHD and and what she does professionally which is Amazing. And I'm just thrilled that she's on my podcast. And she has a podcast of our own that I'm going to say a little bit about too after she introduces herself. So, Lisa, welcome to the for all abilities, the podcast.   Lisa Woodruff  1:15   Se thank you so much You and I started working together years ago when you were in my organized 365 community audience and I was writing the book how ADHD affects home organization. And I asked you to write the agenda in the back, which ended up being like a third of the book about how different apps and accessibility can really help people with ADHD. So I love that you were part of that first book that I had coming out and then you are helping me with ideas for promoting my next book that is coming out August 4, called the paper solution that will be published by Putnam Random House.   Betsy Furler  1:50   Yes, and I'm so excited about that book coming out and tell my listeners about your podcast really fast are your podcasts   Lisa Woodruff  1:58   so organized recently 65 has been around for almost six years has almost 8 million downloads. And in that podcast, we really unpack the difference between decluttering your home getting your home organized, and how that leads to increased productivity and how the majority of the work that actually gets done and getting your home and your life organized starts with your mindset and your thoughts first.   Betsy Furler  2:20   Yes, we both you and I definitely agree on mindset. Yeah, the things I've worked on mindset. And I have to tell my listeners, how we met because it's an unusual story. So well, kind of unusual, I guess. Um, I think it's unusual. So I had decided I was going to organize my house and I've always been fairly organized. But you know, as we all have things, you know, life happens and things get disorganized. So I've loved podcasts for years, and I decided to start listening to podcasts on organization on home organization. So I listened to a bunch of podcasts and I found yours and I loved it and after I've listened to To like 10 episodes in a row, I thought, I have to be friends with this woman, she, I got to meet her, I've got to meet her in person, she's got to be my friend. And so I continued listening and, you know, following your system and getting my house totally organized, which by the way, it's still organized because I still follow your system. And so if I need to touch up a little thing, it's like a 15 or 20 minute thing. It's not a days and days and weeks and weeks. So then fast forward, I don't know, maybe a year after that, or so. And you were writing your ADHD book and found out that I do, I'm an expert in the use of apps and people with all sorts of different disabilities. And so you called me and we started working on that together and then we ended up going to a conference and actually being roommates and within Think about six hours of snowing each other in part in person. I was at the time thinking about launching my other podcast, your app lady that I don't record anymore, but it's still available. And a lot of other people have told me I shouldn't record a pot do a podcast and you're like, Betsy, do the podcast, you can talk. You'll be fine. And you're totally right. podcasts are a piece of cake for me. So anyway, that's how we met and I'm so glad that I manifested our friendship.   Lisa Woodruff  4:29   Yeah, you totally did. You totally did. And I love it. You're just such a creative person. You have so many ideas. You're always going a million miles an hour, as am I. And our conversations are so diverse and so eclectic. And we just get each other going off in so many different directions. It's so much fun.   Betsy Furler  4:47   Wait, dad, and so I, I am so to my listeners. This is going to be a two part episode maybe three. And depending how long Lisa and I talk, we're talking. We're gonna talk way more than three 30 minutes for the podcast. So, um, okay, so back to the back to the purpose of the podcast and tell my listeners about what you were like as a little girl what your childhood was like.   Lisa Woodruff  5:14   So I'm an extrovert, but I grew up kind of out in the country and there were 72 houses on the street and only two other families had children and they were boys, which was boring as a girl. And I had one younger sister and the reason I knew there were 72 houses was because I counted them. And I made a newsletter that I sent out to everyone in our neighborhood, and I also coordinated our neighborhood block party. So I was always very industrious. I'm a fourth generation female college graduate, all of my, the women on my mother's side of the family have all owned their own businesses. My great grandmother actually had four businesses in the 30s, which is amazing, like a floral shop and restaurant like, like big businesses, not just, you know, little businesses. And so I grew up with entrepreneurs. And as an extrovert without a lot of people to talk to I just basically talked to myself in my head and I created up all kinds of fantastic fun things to do. I created an invisible games for my sister and I were I named all of the different paths through our yard as if they were different streets in our city. And we would ride our bikes as if they were cars, and we used our baby dolls as if they were our children. And I called our bedrooms or mini apartments, and then we would meet at the cafe, which was that the kitchen and I was just coming up with all these unique ways for us to entertain ourselves. I think now as we're in the global pandemic, I often drawn those ideas to share with the kids that listen to the organized 365 podcast of ways to let your imagination you know, keep you company here in this safe at home environment during the pandemic were so much more creative than we realize we can be so that's the kind of child I was I was always creating new adventures and new things and I was able to play question At least even though as an extrovert, I was able to play quietly by rearranging my bedroom or reorganizing something somewhere else in the house or getting my sister to create an imaginary store with me. I did a lot of babysitting, and I would create imagination games with the kids that I babysat for. So, I was always busy doing something, but I would often clean up my mess is behind me. So it didn't seem that I was as scattered as maybe I was.   Unknown Speaker  7:26   And how did you do in school?   Lisa Woodruff  7:30   I did. Okay, I love learning. I still love learning. I was the one that always asked a question. If you're like, oh, if she would stop asking questions in class, that was me. I was always asking questions. I always wanted more knowledge. But I always had this floating. See, so my mom was a straight A student. She's a perfectionist, and I was not I always had a floating see and what that meant was, it was never in math, but it might be in English or history or science. And I would get a C on my report card and science and then I would try w hardest sciences and all sudden next semester, I would have seen history and then I tried doubly hard and history and then all of a sudden I'd have a C in some other class like I could never get all A's and B's, I always had this floating C. And it didn't really bother me because I'm not a perfectionist. And I knew I knew the information. But it really bothered my parents that my grade card did not reflect the intellect they thought that I had. And by my junior year in high school, I was taking a class. And I was raised Catholic. So I was in a Catholic High School. And I was taking a class and I read this whole thing about the conversation of bead and I read the whole entire thing, and I have a photographic memory. So I was taking the test. And I went up to the teacher, I said, I don't know what the answer to this question is, but it's on page four, line three, does that count? She goes, No, you have to actually know it. I was like, darn it. So then another class I about this conversation, a beat I go up and I said to the teacher, I said, You know, I understand they're having conversation in all but really, he's been converted to Catholicism. I don't know why they're not saying that she's like, read this word. And I'm like conversation. She said, read it again. I'm like, oh, converted. And that's when they took me to Sylvan learning centers. And they said, We think that Lisa has a learning disability. And they asked me a bunch of questions. I was a junior in high school. And they said, Well, I'll tell you what, if we run her through our battery of tests, she's going to come out just fine. But I'm going to give her this test that we would give her like on, you know, if you got through all these 10 levels, and we were trying to figure out what it is. So they gave me the test, and I failed it. And they said, she has dyslexia. They're like, 600 different kinds of dyslexia. They said, she has dyslexia, she has accommodated for it in multiple ways. It's not really worth doing anything about it right now. But that's why I could never get you know, all A's on my report card was because I understood the concepts. I understood what I was doing, but my spelling wasn't great. And so my reading comprehension was not always where it needed to be to get all A's and B's.   Betsy Furler  9:58   Yeah, I kind of have a similar path. I've never been diagnosed with anything but my mom, even to this day will say hi, I think you just had to leave just have a touch of dyslexia. And I know that spell tech is now my friend or spell production and editors. My editors, yes, it was so helpful. And I was kind of the same way. I mean, I know my mentor in college said, you know, you're not really your grades aren't really reflecting your potential and then he did it but you're having a lot of fun. So there's a lot to be said. Like, Yes, there is. So how did it so you went off to college? Did you go right off to college after high school?   Lisa Woodruff  10:42   Oh, yes. I mean, I you know, I came out of the womb with plans with five year 10 year 15 year goals like I had a planner before planners were cool, that's for sure. So I when I was in high school, I wanted to own my own business and be President of the United States and have four children and homeschool them all. I have done all those things, and I don't want to be president anymore. So three out of four isn't that only a two children, but they're the equivalent of four is often what I say. And I did end up homeschooling my daughter the last two years for last two years of high school. But I always knew I wanted to be a business owner. And my parents had enough money to send me to college. I went to Miami University in Ohio. And my dad had figured out it was going to cost about $80,000 to send me to college and 1990 to 1994. He was a salesman, he was a businessman. And he said, If you graduate in four years, I'll buy you a car because he knew a car was going to be $20,000. So same thing either go five years, or you get a car. So I got done in four years with two degrees. But he also sat me down at the age of 18. That summer, and he said I wanted to have a corporate daycare at that time. It was a new concept. And there were some corporate daycares in Akron, Ohio, and I knew one of the business owners that had started one and so I was intrigued with that. And my father said to me, you can go to college if you want or I will give you $80,000 And you can start, you know, your corporate daycare center, you could start your career and I was like, who jump right into entrepreneurship. To which my mother who had a four year college degree said absolutely not. She's going to college. So I went to Miami University and I really enjoyed it. I got a teacher degree and I was a teacher for a few years, but I think it was always evident from when I was a young child that I would eventually own my own business one day, it just took me a little bit longer to get there.   Betsy Furler  12:26   But I think you're still a teacher even though you're not working in a school but you're everything you do professionally as all about teaching other people systems and and ways to go through them. And one of the reasons that I love your program so much, and your podcast is that you do so much and you move fast, but you have a really structured system behind it too. And I know that the way my mind works, because I can get Really distracted by all of my ideas that I have. And so a structured system while it's not kind of it's not my, it's not my go to, it's the thing that keeps me going, if that makes sense. So you like I'm running now, by the way, which I don't know if I've told you, but I'm a runner now, which is shocking. And, and I run every other day, and I run at the same time every day. And I, you know, I have this plan and structure of how I'm moving forward with my running. And if I didn't have that, if I just was like, I'm just gonna run when I feel like it. I would probably run like five times a day for the first two weeks, and then I would never run again. So yeah, the way you teach organization is so helpful. And I think for anybody with any kind of neuro diversity, it is really helpful to have a plan and a structure.   Lisa Woodruff  13:55   Yeah, I 100% agree. My last year's actual teaching right before I start Organized 365 I went back to teaching for 18 months, and I taught Montessori middle school math and science. And I loved it. loved, loved, loved it. And what I loved about Montessori education was all of the focus was on learning. And there was structure in place, you know, we had the structure of the day, and we had the structure about how many minutes you had to do in each assignment. But there was so much freedom and how and how you got to learn the different subjects. And so my goal was to teach everyone algebra, and if you know anything about school, like when you ask kids, what's your least favorite subject more often than not, it's usually math, science, you know, that's not usually the favorite subject. So there were quite a few students in my class that were not really thrilled to be having their minutes with me. And I just took it as challenge great. I'm gonna make you love math as much as I love math. And I am going to teach you math in a way that you will understand it forever like I'm not as into the grade as I am to understanding the concept. So I could literally teach any algebra concept in eight or 10 different ways I would teach it with. In Montessori, we actually have three dimensional materials that will show you why a squared plus b squared equals c squared. It's fantastic for those that are visual learners, but other people are really just really good about learning formula. So we just learned the formulas. And being able to take the same concept and teach it in so many different modalities expands your thinking as a teacher, and that's what I do in organized 365. Like, I have this product called the sundae basket, which thousands of people are using and a psychologist went through and she analyzed the sundae basket and she said, the reason why it works for almost everyone is because you have all the different learning styles in there, you have all the different modalities you have, like any way that people would approach learning is inside of this one simple system because I kept refining and iterating the system so that it would work for all So that your learning style is baked into the system. And that's the fun challenge for me. How do I get you to love organizing as much as I do, so that you want to listen to the podcast and you want to organize more when before you thought, Oh, I'm not an organized person. I'm never going to learn to be organized. It's just a chore. It's a task that I want to check off and never have to do again. I had kids by the end of the year love math. They didn't love math before. And now I just do that with organizing.   Betsy Furler  16:25   And back to school, and when you started working after school, how do you think your dyslexia affected you both in positive and negative ways? I think   Lisa Woodruff  16:41   I tell you exactly when it was was my third year teaching, I had finally gotten a classroom of my own. And the only reason I got in that first year classroom class was because I had taught the extra half an hour or half day for kindergarteners the year before. And these are all children that were at risk for being on an IEP having some kind of Learning Disability behavioral disability in the future. And so they got an extra half day of kindergarten because our district did not have full day kindergarten. And so the administration said, we will give you a first year job, we'll give you a classroom, if you will take all of the disadvantaged children in your class together, instead of spreading them out amongst the other first grade classrooms so that you will loop with them so that the children when they come in fall, will at least have a relationship with you and your classroom style. And then you could pick up where you left off. And we want to see if this would work for these children. I thought, Yeah, great. I'm all in. So the school district I was in had a lot of free and reduced lunch and some of the children's parents were in jail or you know, there were a lot of, you know, not ideal circumstances of these children. And this was back in the time 1993 94 where you did fail children in first grade, like kids could legitimately fail and be held back in first grade. And I stood up as like a 24 year old kid in front of this Class of, you know, maybe 30% of the parents actually even showed up on teacher parent night where I supposed to explain about my classroom. And I stood there I remember to this day standing there and saying this, I said your child cannot it's physically impossible for them to fail first grade, the only thing that can happen is I failed to teach them. I said, so if you partner with me, your child will go to second grade and we will have this be the most, you know, productive year and have them learn as much as humanly possible and I will not stop in how I iterate and and teach them the skills that they need to go to second grade as long as you will support me because children cannot fail to learn only teachers can fail to teach and I just think that's in everything. If If you are teaching something, and the people that are coming to you, whatever age they are not understanding what you are teaching, then you just have not clarified your message enough you are not providing it in a way that they can absorb it because if they want to learn that information, it is on the teacher to learn how to teach it not the learner To figure out how to learn from that teacher.   Betsy Furler  19:02   Yeah, good point. And you know, when we think about business and how we run businesses and how we just judge success of our business, it's always not judged on how well I know how to provide accommodations for someone or how well you know how to organize. Right. It's judged on how we then share that information with other with our customers. And so, and it's, it's interesting, you know, when you think about it that way that frequently in education, it's considered the child's problem if they're not learning.   Lisa Woodruff  19:39   Right. And, I mean, doesn't I mean, now that you're hearing it doesn't that sound so backwards? How can it be a six year olds problem that they can't learn that just doesn't even make sense?   Betsy Furler  19:48   It doesn't make sense at all, but it happens all the time, as we all know, and then, you know, the other thing that happens is and they're just taught the same way again, and they don't learn it. Time   Lisa Woodruff  20:00   let me teach it slower the same way. Exact now they're just bored and frustrated.   Betsy Furler  20:07   Right? Exactly. And I'm sure as a teacher and what you do now you are because you learn differently. You think about that a lot more. And then also I think you're so forgiving. I know I'm sure you were I'm sure you were like this 100 times more in the classroom even then you are in your organization business. But I knew even your organization business, you give people so much grace and you really, and you really teach people to have grace for themselves as well. So if you don't get it perfect this time, like just you know, we're all just doing the best we can and going forward and in your system. The first room is the kitchen and my kitchen is so organized. On Good job, Betsy, I always do the kitchen. I'm always 100% on the kitchen. And, but then when you think about our houses and where a lot of clutter comes up, it's in the kitchen. And so if you can keep your kitchen organized, kind of the rest of your house can, can fall into place so much easier. But I also, I've never felt while doing your organization program, and I've been doing it for a long time now, like I was trying to think before this call when I did find your podcast and it's been a long time. It has   Lisa Woodruff  21:34   to be at least four years, at least for years.   Betsy Furler  21:37   Henry was going off to college. So that was four or five summers ago. It was a long time. Yeah, yeah. So yeah, um, and and my kitchen is still like, totally organized and the other I want you to tell So, so I think sometimes our when we're in crisis All of our weaknesses, you know, come blaring out. And I know for me that is, um, you know, I do have more difficulties spelling. When I'm stressed out or in crisis, my organization can can like, take a really organized and in life typically, but if I'm under crisis I go one of two ways I get either way, way way more organized. Yeah or it was like totally falls apart. So I would love for you to tell my listeners about the your countertop kitchen countertop story because I think about that all the time and it really keeps me motivated to keep my kitchen counters clean and it also gives me a lot of grace of if I feel like my kitchen counters are getting messy. I'm like, I least have a place for my groceries. So tell my listener kitchen countertops story. Oh, hell yeah. Your life.   Lisa Woodruff  23:05   So this is how I started organized 365 in 2012 a couple of things first, you mentioned something about, you know, working at getting towards perfect or this isn't perfect. I don't even try to get to perfect anymore. And I think when you start to realize that perfect isn't a place it doesn't even exist even if you see it on Pinterest or in a magazine. I know bloggers whose houses are literally perfect. And when they go into magazines and the magazine team shows up, they rearrange their house to be even more perfectly it does not exist. We are we are trying to get to something that does not exist. So to tell you the 2012 story, I have to start back in 2011. Now, you've heard a little bit about the kind of teacher I am. I was teaching in a Montessori school that I loved. And it was the Thursday before winter break and I had been held back for a meeting with a parent that was not necessarily So we had this meeting with the parent. But the problem was not that I had to have this meeting with the parent after school. The problem was Greg and I were out of vacation days, we were out of sick days, we were taking days off of work without pay. And one of our kids needed medical attention that night, and neither of us could get to that child and it was pretty severe. And my administrator not only held me back for that unnecessary teacher meeting did not have to happen at that time. But when that parent left, the teacher said, I need you to stay back for to talk with me. And I was like, Alright, fine, you know, knowing that I had a child at home that needed me. And she proceeded for 30 minutes to tell me what a bad teacher I was, and how I was not measuring up and I wasn't doing good. If I'm teaching 21 middle schoolers, individual math assignments, and I'm not doing good enough. And I'm driving home Of course, it's raining, you know, it's raining, it's dark. I'm driving home. It's like a country song. And I'm thinking to myself, and I'm like, I am failing as a wife, as a mother as a homeowner as everything in my life except for teaching. Now my administrator just told me I'm failing at that to like, well, this must be rock bottom. Like, clearly, I am no longer meeting my own expectations for anything in my life. And I thought, well, I'll be darned if I am good to go down meeting the expectations of an unrealistic administrator, and yet failing the children that God has given me to be their mother and look back 20 years from now go, well, shoot, I wish I would have put the time into my kids. Because they're the only I mean, no one else can be their mom. No one else went out.   Betsy Furler  25:32   So that's so true. That's so important to remember too.   Lisa Woodruff  25:36   And we were I mean, we were spiraling into debt more and more and more debt. And so I walked in the door, Greg is such a laid back type B person, I was like, I think I'm gonna quit my job, you know, like, all up in arms and he's like, All right. So I go upstairs, I write the resignation letter. I come back. I was like, great if you guys whatever. So I quit my job. So here we are in the beginning of January. I did start the blog, organize 365 I knew Little bit about the internet and blogging and watch some people be successful and there was a way to do this blogging thing. So I registered organize 365 and got started knowing that organizing was going to be my thing. And I could do it 365 days a year, I had no idea what I was gonna do after other registering the domain. So I went to the grocery store. First day, I'd been in the house by myself for at least 18 months, came home with groceries, walked in the door and I went to put them on the counters and all the counters were full. I mean, I can't even tell you what's on the full on what was on them. I don't even know. And if you see Instagram and you see my house and you see my kitchen, it's ridiculous. I have two nine foot long countertops plus more. I have more counters than anybody has, especially in the size house that I have because we redid our kitchen. No, no countertop space. All right, I'll put all this the stuff on the floor and then I'll start putting it away in the refrigerator in the cabinets and I started opening the cabinets and it was like I was in somebody else's house. I didn't recognize anything in the cabinets. So I start Walking around the house and looking in the linen closet and other closets and   Unknown Speaker  27:03   I had been on   Lisa Woodruff  27:06   the hamster wheel of just reactively living my life for so long that I did not recognize my own home and I'm a born organized person. Like I've been organized as a child. I was organized when the kids were young and in grade school, but I was about to turn 40 and I didn't recognize my house, I didn't recognize myself, I didn't recognize my life. And I sat down and I made a list of all the spaces in my house that needed to be organized. And I said to my husband, I know we need me to earn money, but we're Gen X are so we have really good credit. So we're just gonna keep using this credit because I got to take back this house, I've got to take back my house, I have got to start living a productive life again.   Betsy Furler  27:44   I love the story. And I you know, the other thing that I think that my listeners can really take away from that is you kind of took the, you know, one of the worst times in your life and where It pointed out kind of your, you know, where you were falling apart. And then you turned it into this like, amazingly positive thing.   Lisa Woodruff  28:08   And it really didn't happen overnight. You know, everybody knows that took eight years to get where we are and organized 365. Right, like, everybody recognizes that   Betsy Furler  28:16   it only took eight years. Like, you know, but you got to start somewhere. And when you know you then you also kind of jumped in with like, Okay, what is basically you use your own accommodations, like your accommodations, our organization, you know, all of that writing things down getting things structured, and you used your own accommodations, in order to both turn your house around, which I'm sure at that point time was not really you didn't think you're going to build this big business around that you just wanted a house together, and then figure out what you're doing next. But you've ended up into making this amazing this this incredible business and So I'm gonna, I think we're gonna slide into part one now, Lisa, okay. Because I think this is a good point to end but just in case people don't hear the end of Part Two, I want you to tell my audience again, about your, the book that's coming out in August. And you also have the book, the ADHD book that I want you to tell them about and also where they can, how they can get in touch with you after if they want to follow you on all the social media and find out more about your program.   Lisa Woodruff  29:34   Oh, thanks, Betsy. Yeah, if you've liked this conversation at all, and you like podcasts, you might like the organize 365 podcast so just search organized 365 in whatever podcast player you have, I'm on them all. That's the best way to get started with me. And then the paper solution is coming out August 4, the paper solution is, you know, paper is something that you can hide that you can shove in closets and filing cabinets and deal with later but there is you Usually some kind of life event that happens that where you need your paper, whether someone gets ill and you need to be there power of healthcare, you have a family member pass away and you need to be the executor of their estate, you have a child and you need to coordinate all their papers in order to go to an IEP meeting, or you just feel like he would like your kitchen counter for food. Thank you. And could we get these piles of paper off of there and start a weekly habit of the Sunday basket. The paper solution solves all those problems. It's written so you can read it like a novel all the way through or you can if you just became the executor of your parents estate, you can grab the book and flip right to the financial binder page and start reading and Betsy is featured in that book. When we talk about medical the medical binder. The conversation that Betsy and I had one night when we were posted in hotel lobbies.   Betsy Furler  30:50   We were just chit chatting   Lisa Woodruff  30:51   back and forth while she was working on Henry's medical binder. So I tell that story in there as well. paper is powerful like in America. We're never going to be paperless. We can have less paper, but we're never going to be paperless. So if you're like, Okay, well fine if I can get down to 15% of the paper I have today, how would I do that and this book walks you step by step through how to do that. And then the book that Betsy helped me with is how ADHD affects home organization. Both of my children were diagnosed with ADHD when they were children. One has had that diagnosis since removed, but they both went to a learning disability school here in Cincinnati, called Springer school and center. I was a parent there for eight years, I said I should have been able to walk graduation. And we were done with those bills. I was definitely college tuition pricing. And they brought in so many experts in the field of ADHD in conjunction with Cincinnati Children's Hospital and I got to learn about ADHD from the best of the best as a parent. And Springer also collaborates with teachers in Cincinnati and teaches them about ADHD. And so I learned about all of the eight executive functions and over time in professionally organizing people's homes most Of whom either had or self professed to have had ADHD, I realized that there were six executive functions that relate to how you organize your home. That are that if you can understand what your brain is trying to do, and then see what's happening in the home, just knowing what the process is, you're better able to put accommodations in. And it is my heart's desire, maybe someone listening this podcast will be able to help me with this in the future. It's my heart's desire to be able to run studies specifically about women who have ADHD, and how they function in the home. I feel like we have a lot of accommodations for people with ADHD in work environments, in home environments, inside of volunteer organizations, but when you're at home, you're isolated and there aren't the supports there that you have in other places. So I really would love to run some studies on that.   Betsy Furler  32:50   Awesome Well, thank you so much for joining me today and listeners. Please also follows subscribe review rate All of those things fall on the for all abilities, the podcast on whatever podcast player you use. And Lisa is going to be back with us next week. So thank you so much for listening in today. Thanks, Betsy. Thanks so much for listening to the for all abilities podcast. This is Betsy Furler, your host and I really appreciate your time listening to the podcast. And please subscribe on any podcast app that you're listening to us on. If you'd like to know more about what we do in our software that helps employer support their employees with ADHD dyslexia, learning differences in autism, please go to www dot for all abilities.com You can also follow us on Instagram. And you can follow me on LinkedIn at Betsy Furler f as in Frank, you are elhuyar Have a great day and we will see you soon

Lisa Woodruff is a home organization expert, productivity specialist, and speaker. She has two books, The Mindset of Organization and How ADHD Affects Home Organization, which are Amazon best sellers in their categories, and as we continue our journey through ADHD and organizing, Lisa is the perfect guest to help us with a system to start the week right: The Sunday Basket.Just what is The Sunday Basket? It's a weekly appointment with your future self. It's the promise you make to manage your home and support your responsibilities. Oh, and it's a bucket... the most powerful bucket you'll own. Links & NotesOrganize365.comThe Organize365 PodcastThe Sunday Basket at Organize365

My second big announcement from the Organize 365 National Convention is the exciting news that we are going to have Paper Organizing Retreats! That’s right, you can literally pack up all of your paper into boxes, travel to Cincinnati, and organize your paper during a productive weekend retreat with key members of the Organize 365 Team – how awesome is that? I’m so excited! I’ve wanted to start these Paper Organizing Retreats for years. When I began Organize 365 in 2012, I knew I needed to launch a unique organizing retreat where people could bring their paper and organize all of it (while listening to some great music and snacking on delicious food as we go) – it was the PERFECT plan. But it took six years to turn that vision into a reality, and in many ways, I’m glad it took so long because now I’m 100% sure that I’ve come up with the best products, best structure, and the best team possible. After six years of long hours and lots of hard work, we have finally done it! Organizing Paper Is Hard Organizing paper isn’t the most exciting thing in the world, especially if you aren’t a passionate organizer. At home, it’s easy to get distracted and procrastinate, which is why it’s such a good idea to join one of my Paper Organizing Retreats where you can focus and actually get work done. But one of the main reasons to attend a retreat like this is so you can have the opportunity to ask questions to professional organizers. You’ll know exactly what you’re doing, and you’ll be able to avoid shredding a file that you really shouldn’t have because, unfortunately, there are no time machines when it comes to organizing paperwork! The REAL Reason For My Paper Organizing Retreats Yes, I like to help people organize their paper, and I love the community of organizers we have here at Organize 365 and the Sunday Basket®. BUT there is a deeper, more personal reason why I decided to launch these retreats. When my kids were young, they got a lot of different diagnoses including things like autism, ADHD, bipolar, food sensitives, and so on. And you know what? It was so overwhelming! I soon transformed into a protective mama bear. I was determined to know as much as possible about their conditions and I’m sure a lot of mothers who find themselves in similar situations do the same thing. Who can blame us? Whenever we receive unexpected news like a medical diagnosis or a sudden death in the family, it’s like your entire world comes crashing down. One minute, you’re sailing through life, the birds are singing, and your only concern is what you’re going to cook for dinner. And then BANG, you hear some terrible news. Then you’re devastated and left with all this paperwork you didn’t even know existed. I know that feeling all too well, which is why I wanted to create the Paper Organizing Retreats to help reduce stress at a time in your life when you feel like everything is just falling apart. Getting Organized On The Retreat On a more light-hearted note, when you attend the retreat, you’re guaranteed to leave a lot more organized than you were when you arrived! If you’ve got your hands on one of the new Friday Workboxes that have just been released for your home-based business, you can take it with you to the retreat and get stuff into it. The Friday Workboxes can really help you to get an effective system in place so you have more structure and direction to take your business that extra step further. The retreat begins at 9 am on Saturday morning. When you arrive, you’ll have your own organizing table which includes a shredding bag and a recycling bag. You’ll spend a lot of time during the first half of Saturday going through your paper and organizing them into three piles: shredding, deleting, and the keep pile. Everything you want to shred can go into the shredding bag, the paper you want to recycle can go into the recycling bag, and the rest of the paper is what you’ll need to focus most of your time and energy into organizing. You can then begin to organize your paper into the Organize 365 binders, slash pockets, or the Sunday Basket®. You can either bring your own items with you, buy them from the Organize 365 Store, or pre-order your products in advance and have them available at your seat when you arrive at the retreat. The Paper Organizing Retreat Team I’m excited to introduce you to three of the key members of this retreat team! First up, we have Janet Davis. You may have heard me mention her in previous podcasts because she’s just amazing and she’s going to be helping me run the Paper Organizing Retreats. She is our lead Paper Organizing Retreat Planner, and we’ve known each other for over 17 years. The second team member I want to mention is my sister, Emily Kelly. Emily is the Marketing Director of Organize 365, so she’ll be at the retreats helping you to organize your paperwork into the binders. Last, but not least, we have the Organize 365 Sunday Basket Club Queen, Monique Horb. Monique is a huge fan of the binders, and she’s also a Sunday Basket® Certified Organizer. She knows absolutely EVERYTHING about the binders and will be more than happy to help you organize your paper during the retreat. Each member of the team is HIPPA certified, so you don’t need to worry about that side of things when you’re organizing private papers and documents at the retreat. I’m so excited about the Paper Organizing Retreats! It’s going to be a fantastic opportunity to meet more of you AND it gives you the chance to really dive into your paper organizing like never before! If you want to find out more about the retreats, head over to Organize365.com/events! And follow me on Instagram to see my posts and stories! Get your Complete Sunday Basket with On Demand Workshop here!

Lisa Woodruff is a productivity specialist, home organization expert and Founder and CEO of Organize 365. Lisa provides physical and motivational resources teaching busy women to take back control of their lives with functional systems that work.  She’s the host of the top-rated Organize 365 Podcast, which was featured as the Woman’s Day podcast of the month, where she shares strategies for reducing overwhelm, clearing mental clutter and living a productive and organized life.  Lisa has authored several Amazon bestselling books and is a sought-after trainer and speaker, often quoted as saying “Done  is better than perfect” and “Progress over perfection”. Her sensible and doable organizing tasks appeal to multiple generations and her candor and relatable style make you feel as though she is right there beside you, helping you get organized as you laugh and cry together. As a recognized thought-leader Lisa’s work has been featured in many national publications such as, Fast Company, US News and World Report, Women’s World, Ladies Home Journal, Getting Organized and Woman’s Day magazines. She’s been interviewed on over thirty podcasts, more than fifty local TV segments, countless online summits and is a regular HuffPost and ADDitude magazine contributor. Lisa is also a generational expert and specializes in unpacking common everyday scenarios with grace, reshaping your understanding of the role we play in the home today. Believing that organization is not a skill you’re born with, but rather is developed over time and which changes with each season of life, she made it her mission to redefine what it means to be a woman in the home.

ADHD and the clutter connection are important to understand. And Lisa Woodruff, is the host of Organize365, and author of The Mindset of Organization and How ADHD Affects Home Organization. She joins us on Ask a House Cleaner to help us understand ADHD and the clutter connection.  You don't have to practice minimalism but you don't want hoarding either. And if you can find a clutter free balance in the middle life will be much easier.  You may have heard of the Lisa Woodruff Sunday Basket - a method changing the world by promoting "Organize 365" days a year.  Today's sponsors are Savvy Cleaner Training for house cleaners and maids. And My Cleaning Connection a hub with tips for tidying, cleaning and DIY cleaning.   *** LEARN MORE ABOUT LISA WOODRUFF *** https://SundayBasketCertification.com - Get Certified https://www.youtube.com/user/organize365 - YouTube https://organize365.com - Website https://organize365.com/organize-365-podcasts/ - Podcasts     *** MOST REQUESTED LIST OF STUFF I USE *** https://amazon.com/shop/AngelaBrown     *** MORE VIDEOS ON THIS TOPIC *** Adult ADHD: Mayo Clinic Radio - Mayo Clinic - https://youtu.be/emq25fc0spk   How ADHD Affects Home Organization - Organize365 - https://youtu.be/rPyR6WSU0fk   Organize 365 Podcast Episode 144 - Getting Organized Step 1: Decluttering - Organize365 - https://youtu.be/e9UmY21aqEM   The Sunday Basket - Organize365 - https://youtu.be/EXF2UUrrcSY   Organizing with ADHD - ClutterBug - https://youtu.be/uye_6Vs2FK0            *** RESOURCES FROM THIS EPISODE *** We are a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for us to earn fees by linking to Amazon.com and affiliated sites. How ADHD Affects Home Organization: Understanding the Role of the 8 Key Executive Functions of the Mind - https://amzn.to/33CmHzx   The Mindset of Organization: Take Back Your House One Phase at a Time - https://amzn.to/2IY6yN5   CBT Toolbox for Children and Adolescents: Over 200 Worksheets & Exercises for Trauma, ADHD, Autism, Anxiety, Depression & Conduct Disorders - https://amzn.to/2MQqORJ   What Your ADHD Child Wishes You Knew: Working Together to Empower Kids for Success in School and Life -https://amzn.to/2Bhv7Ai   Genius Joy - Serotonin Mood Booster for Anxiety Relief, Wellness & Brain Support, Nootropic Dopamine Stack w/Sam-e, Panax Ginseng & L-Theanine – Natural Anti Stress & Herbal Calm, 100 veggie pills - https://amzn.to/2ppsF85     *** OTHER WAYS TO ENJOY THIS SHOW *** ITUNES - http://apple.co/2xhxnoj STITCHER - http://bit.ly/2fcm5JM SOUNDCLOUD - http://bit.ly/2xpRgLH GOOGLE PLAY - http://bit.ly/2fdkQd7 YOUTUBE - https://goo.gl/UCs92v     *** GOT A QUESTION FOR A SHOW? *** Email it to Angela[at]AskaHouseCleaner.com Voice Mail: Click on the blue button at https://askahousecleaner.com     *** HOUSE CLEANING TIPS VAULT *** (DELIVERED VIA EMAIL) - https://savvycleaner.com/tips     *** FREE EBOOK – HOW TO START YOUR OWN HOUSE CLEANING COMPANY *** http://amzn.to/2xUAF3Z   *** PROFESSIONAL HOUSE CLEANERS PRIVATE FACEBOOK GROUP *** https://www.facebook.com/groups/ProfessionalHouseCleaners/   *** VRBO AIRBNB CLEANING FACEBOOK GROUP *** https://www.facebook.com/groups/VRBO.Airbnb.Cleaning/     *** LOOKING FOR WAY TO GET MORE CLEANING LEADS *** https://housecleaning360.com     *** FOLLOW ANGELA BROWN ON SOCIAL MEDIA *** https://Facebook.com/SavvyCleaner https://Twitter.com/SavvyCleaner https://Instagram.com/SavvyCleaner https://Pinterest.com/SavvyCleaner https://Linkedin.com/in/SavvyCleaner     *** WHAT IS ASK A HOUSE CLEANER? *** Ask a House Cleaner is a daily show where you get to ask your house cleaning questions and we provide answers. Learn how to clean. How to start a cleaning business. Marketing and Advertising tips for your cleaning service. How to find top quality house cleaners, housekeepers, and maids. Employee motivation tactics. Strategies to boost your cleaning clientele. Cleaning company expansion help. Time-saving Hacks for DIY cleaners and more. Hosted by Angela Brown, 25-year house cleaning expert and founder of Savvy Cleaner Training for House Cleaners and Maids.     *** SPONSORSHIPS & BRANDS *** We do work with sponsors and brands. If you are interested in working with us and you have a product or service that is cohesive to the cleaning industry reach out to our promotional department info[at]AskaHouseCleaner.com     *** THIS SHOW WAS SPONSORED BY *** SAVVY CLEANER - House Cleaner Training and Certification – https://savvycleaner.com   MY CLEANING CONNECTION – Your hub for all things cleaning – https://mycleaningconnection.com   HOUSECLEANING360.COM – Connecting House Cleaners with Homeowners – https://housecleaning360.com   SAVVY PERKS – Employee Benefits for Small Business Owners – https://savvyperks.com   VRBO AIRBNB CLEANING – Cleaning tips and strategies for your short-term rental https://TurnoverCleaningTips.com

Ep. 116: Thinking about adding a product to your service business? In this episode, Jacqueline interviews Lisa Woodruff of Organize 365 all about her journey into becoming a Product Boss. Lisa added her product, the Sunday Basket, to her service-based business and gives us a behind-the-scenes look into the manufacturing and her learning lessons she's discovered along the way. It's a must-listen! Connect with Lisa: Lisa and Organize 365 on Instagram Organize 365 website Organize 365 Podcast Sunday Basket website   Links mentioned: Episode 22: Don't Skip Your Mission, Vision and Values with Natalie Gingrich  -- We'd love to connect with you on Instagram! Join us at @theproductboss Get into The Product Boss Facebook Group and connect with other product-based entrepreneurs. See you in there! -- Get our free download "10 Hacks to Running Your Business Like a Well-Oiled Machine"

Do you ever feel like papers just take over your whole house? Today we have professional organizer, Lisa Woodruff back on the show for part 4 of the 4-part series where we will be talking about papers. Lisa shares with us that its a good idea for kids to have one place where they put their backpack and their school papers that need to be returned to school.  She also talks to us about what we could be doing in the summer to help us pair down papers from the previous school year as well as what to do with certificates and art projects. Lisa also explains where she puts her papers that she needs to address for the week as well as keeping things looking tidy. One topic that really stood out to me is that as Americans we really need to hold on to certain papers over other countries and that truly caught my attention. Hear what she says about this topic and more on the podcast. If you liked this episode, make sure to check out part 1 of this series where we talk about kids bedrooms! https://mominspiredshow.com/how-to-organize-your-kids-stuff-series-bedrooms-lisa-woodruff-140/ Resources mentioned in the show: Lean 7 week online weight loss program: I had the pleasure of doing a four-part series with Registered Dietitian Amanda Nighbert. On this first episode of the series you’ll  find out: What intermittent fasting is and how it works How intermittent fasting can help you lose weight and keep it off Nutritional myths that could be keeping you from losing weight How bulletproof coffee helps you burn fat (see recipe below) …And more! Click on the link below to get $20 off Amanda’s program and get ready to kick that slow metabolism into HIGH gear! Get Started *Discount is for first-time customers... If you’ve done this program before, we haven’t forgotten about you! Click here to get $10 off.   Guest Info: Lisa Woodruff website - www.organize365.com Instagram - http://instagram.com/organize365 Facebook-  https://www.facebook.com/Organize365/     Note: This page contains some affiliate links. If you click on them and make a purchase, we’ll receive a small commission — at no additional cost to you!

Do you feel like you are always organizing and picking up toys? Today we have professional organizer, Lisa Woodruff back on the show for part 3 of the 4-part series where we will be talking about toys. Lisa shares with us the different stages for toys for different age categories.  She feels after our youngest is seven toys should be located only in their bedroom or a central toy room. By the time your child is 9 to 10 years old they will have focused their toy collections into 2 to 5 passion projects. Then once your child is 12, almost all the their toys can be eliminated completely. One topic that stood out to me is kids having a passion project and what that looks like. Hear what she says about this topic and more on the podcast. If you liked this episode, make sure to check out part 1 of this series where we talk about kids bedrooms! https://mominspiredshow.com/how-to-organize-your-kids-stuff-series-bedrooms-lisa-woodruff-140/ Resources mentioned in the show: Lean 7 week online weight loss program: I had the pleasure of doing a four-part series with Registered Dietitian Amanda Nighbert. On this first episode of the series you’ll  find out: What intermittent fasting is and how it works How intermittent fasting can help you lose weight and keep it off Nutritional myths that could be keeping you from losing weight How bulletproof coffee helps you burn fat (see recipe below) …And more! Click on the link below to get $20 off Amanda’s program and get ready to kick that slow metabolism into HIGH gear! Get Started *Discount is for first-time customers... If you’ve done this program before, we haven’t forgotten about you! Click here to get $10 off.   Guest Info: Lisa Woodruff website - www.organize365.com Instagram - http://instagram.com/organize365 Facebook-  https://www.facebook.com/Organize365/     Note: This page contains some affiliate links. If you click on them and make a purchase, we’ll receive a small commission — at no additional cost to you!

Does it ever seem like you just can't get a hold of all the kid clothing? Today we have professional organizer, Lisa Woodruff back on the show for part 2 of the 4-part series where we will be talking about clothing. Lisa shares with us the steps she goes through with her clients in regards to processing the clothes.  She also goes over why the closet is so important and how to set up their closet so that it will work until they move out! One topic that really jumped out at me is when she told me that we are going to get rid of the dressers! Hear what she says about this topic and more on the podcast. If you liked this episode, make sure to check out part 1 of this series where we talk about kids bedrooms! https://mominspiredshow.com/how-to-organize-your-kids-stuff-series-bedrooms-lisa-woodruff-140/ Resources mentioned in the show: Lean 7 week online weight loss program: I had the pleasure of doing a four-part series with Registered Dietitian Amanda Nighbert. On this first episode of the series you’ll  find out: What intermittent fasting is and how it works How intermittent fasting can help you lose weight and keep it off Nutritional myths that could be keeping you from losing weight How bulletproof coffee helps you burn fat (see recipe below) …And more! Click on the link below to get $20 off Amanda’s program and get ready to kick that slow metabolism into HIGH gear! Get Started *Discount is for first-time customers... If you’ve done this program before, we haven’t forgotten about you! Click here to get $10 off.   Guest Info: Lisa Woodruff website - www.organize365.com Instagram - http://instagram.com/organize365 Facebook-  https://www.facebook.com/Organize365/                                 Note: This page contains some affiliate links. If you click on them and make a purchase, we’ll receive a small commission — at no additional cost to you!

Do you find yourself feeling lost when it comes to keeping your kids stuff organized? Today we have professional organizer, Lisa Woodruff on the show for a 4-part series. I know for many moms, summers can be challenging with having the kids home and trying to keep the house from looking like a tornado went through it. So if you have been wanting to tackle your kids stuff this is the perfect series for you! Today, we are going to talk about the kids bedrooms and why Lisa likes to refer to them as their "mini apartments".  Lisa shares with us that its a good idea to give kids ownership of their bedrooms in making decisions on how it is arranged and being responsible for keeping it clean and maintained. With this said, this means that kids need to be able to say what they want to keep and what they are ready to let go of. One topic that really stood out to me was when she shared that kids will give up items in their bedroom in order to keep it clean once whey know how to clean their rooms.  Hear what she says about this topic and more on the podcast. If you liked this episode, you will probably like the episode I did with Stephanie Sikora about simplifying the home. https://mominspiredshow.com/how-simplifying-makes-your-life-easier-stephanie-sikora-120/   Resources mentioned in the show: Lean 7 week online weight loss program: I had the pleasure of doing a four-part series with Registered Dietitian Amanda Nighbert. On this first episode of the series you’ll  find out: What intermittent fasting is and how it works How intermittent fasting can help you lose weight and keep it off Nutritional myths that could be keeping you from losing weight How bulletproof coffee helps you burn fat (see recipe below) …And more! Click on the link below to get $20 off Amanda’s program and get ready to kick that slow metabolism into HIGH gear! Get Started *Discount is for first-time customers... If you’ve done this program before, we haven’t forgotten about you! Click here to get $10 off.   Guest Info: Lisa Woodruff website - www.organize365.com Instagram - http://instagram.com/organize365 Facebook-  https://www.facebook.com/Organize365/     Note: This page contains some affiliate links. If you click on them and make a purchase, we’ll receive a small commission — at no additional cost to you!

Spring is here and it is time to clean out your freezer and pantry to get ready for warm weather foods. 1-Use the Master Meal Planning Sheet to see some warm weather foods you haven’t made lately. You may think of some new foods to add to the sheet. The sheet is free here: https://www.feedyourfamilytonight.com/2018/11/30/01-master-meal-planning-sheet/                 -Follow me on Instagram @MarieFiebach or Facebook.com/feedyourfamilytonight 2-Clean out your freezer and pantry. -Use up or throw out the “odd bits” in your freezer. I like to make croutons with the odd bits of bread in my freezer. -Donate or share any food you purchased that your family didn’t prefer. (Idea from Lisa at Organize365.com) -Eat up the heavy winter foods in your freezer like chili and stew. -Think about the foods you like to eat in warmer weather and get the ingredients for things like salads and marinades. 3-Take stock of your pantry and freezer. I needed to call my farmer to order more meat for the summer. 4-Look at your spices. Do they smell fragrant? Toss or use up old spices and make a list of what you need to replenish. I like to get my spices from Penzey’s. 5-Make a list of gadgets and serving utensils you need for the summer. I bought all my kids new water bottles. (Get in the habit of having you kids take a water bottle with them anytime you are in the car.) 6-Clean out your silverware drawer. Martha Stewart was right- it will be full of crumbs. Enjoy the warmer weather and your family!

In this episode, Marie gives you 8 tips for feeding your family during a busy season. Identify you are in a busy season and figure out when it will get a little easier. -Follow Lisa Woodruff’s advice (Organize365.com) and if a task can wait until life slows down, let it wait. 2-  Give yourself some grace. This is not a time for gourmet Pinterest-perfect family meals. -Use the food in your freezer. You made it for busy times, plus, now is the time to use up your winter stash so you aren’t stuck eating beef stew in June. -Do you need some portable meals to eat in the car or at the ball park?                 -Sandwiches, Burritos, Breakfast Sandwiches all make good portable meals. 3- Do a deep shopping trip. Marie talked about this in her Holiday Planning episode.                 -stock up on basics like toilet paper, paper towels and toiletries in addition to pantry basics. 4- Prep and shop on weekdays if you can. The weekends get busy and you will want to rest if you have the chance. If you are a working parent, consider taking a half or whole day off just to prep. It will give you mental space to face the busy season. 5- Eat Raw Veggies. -Eating raw veggies saves you time in cooking and cleaning. -Consider buying a pre-made veggie tray to bring out at snack or dinner time. All the veggies are washed and cut and the dip is ready to go. 6- Stock up on Hearty Snacks                 -You will likely have at least one kid eating earlier or later than the rest of the family. Have hearty snacks ready for before or after activities.                 -Consider buying individual packages or “compromise foods” if your budget allows. Now is the time for convenience. Or, package homemade foods in single-serving sizes that are easy to grab on the go.                 -Cheese and nut packs                 -Cheese Sticks                 -Hummus (maybe in individual packages)                 -Guacamole (maybe in individual packages)                 -Granola (Chai Spiced Granola Recipe)                 -Veggie Trays                 -Baby Carrots                 -Yogurt                 -Frozen Berries                 -Make a Breakfast Casserole (Sausage and Egg Casserole) (Spinach and Hash Brown Breakfast Bake)                 -Pre-cook bacon 7- Buy everyone in your family a water bottle that is the same brand with the same lids and straws.                 -Get each person a different color so you know where to look if one goes missing. Or, label each water bottle with the child’s name.                 -Get your kids in the habit of taking a water bottle with them every time you get in the car. Do the same for you! I drink so much more water if I have it with me in the car.   8- Use the Feed Your Family Tonight Master Meal Planning Sheet and the Weekly Meal Planning Sheet to list your activities and set a dinner bell. (Listen to podcasts 1-4 if you want to know how to use these free meal planning sheets.)                 -It is so much easier to plan what kind of meal you need each night if you know how the evening activities. Do you need dinner ready the minute you get home or do you need a portable meal to take to the ball park or practice?   Follow these 8 tips to help you recapture a little calm in the crazy spring sprint.

A digital society with no mail and no clutter may be the stuff millennials dream of. But the reality for many unmillennials is we're still drowning in a sea of our own stuff. Having spent years accumulating the day-to-day goods that make up a 40- to 50-something life, GenXers now find themselves at a crossroads of wanting more order while living an otherwise unordered life. Today's podcast features a leading expert on all things organizational, Lisa Woodruff. Lisa is a home organization expert, productivity specialist, and author of The Mindset of Organization, Take Back Your House One Phase at a Time, and How ADHD Affects Home Organization. She believes organization is not a skill you are born with, but rather is something that is developed over time and changes with each season of life. Lisa has helped thousands of women reclaim their homes and finally get organized with her practical tips, encouragement, and humor through her blog and podcast at Organize365.com. On the show we discuss:  The phases of getting organized and how the calendar plays into getting started What makes unmillennials unique in their challenges to get organized How a simple box can be a game changer in managing mail and papers in your life Why organizing rooms by function is the key to staying organized How Lisa's 100 Day Home Organization Program (

In this episode, Laura and Sarah take on the question of what it actually means to be organized, and Lisa joins us in the interview segment with popular tips and tricks from her own organizing programs and podcast. In the Q&A, we discuss a reader's question on pregnancy, baby, and parenting books.

In this the second part of a 2-part program, Lisa Woodruff from Organize365.com discusses setting up a "Friday Business Box" to organize your business papers and what each file in the box represents.  Keeping You organized is the show that brings you the best organizing tips, advice, and behind-the-scenes stories from the top professional organizers.

On this episode, Lisa Woodruff from Organize365.com discusses setting up a "Friday Business Box" to organize your business papers and what each file in the box represents.  Keeping You Organized is the show that brings you the best organizing tips, advice, and behind-the-scenes stories from the top professional organizers.

This week on the podcast, Lisa dives deep into the Professional Organizer Friday Workbox like:  What's in it? How does it work? What online communities do you receive with your purchase to keep you on track, accountable and to answer any questions you might have? She talks about when and how to follow up with your clients and leads and gives you a look into the mindset of your potential client and how to approach them.  The Professional Organizer Friday Workbox contains  A 22 page "playbook"  Two (2) sets of rainbow slash pockets - one set that matches your Sunday Basket slash pockets and one set for each day of the work week  One (1) set of 2.0 slash pockets - Five (5) each of pink, purple, green and blue to organize your leads, clients/sales, money/finances and team/growth/professional development A Workbox in the color of your choosing On demand videos in your dashboard on Organize365.com Membership in the Organize 365 Workboxes Facebook group where Lisa answers your questions live on the 1st and 3rd Tuesday of every month at 9:30 am EST.    You can learn more and/or purchase the Professional Organizer Friday Workbox here. 

Welcome to Conscious Millionaire, The High Performance Podcast with your Host, JV Crum III... Lisa Woodruff is a professional organizer, productivity expert and best-selling author of The Mindset of Organization - Take Back Your Home One Phase at a Time. She helps thousands of women get their home & paper organized at Organize365.com and through her Organize 36 podcasts. Are you a coach, consultant, business owner or leader who is tired of feeling stuck or you just don't know which step to take next? Get in the High Performer Lane by downloading JV's new High Performer Formula with the exact steps for your to play at the top of your game. Download it by clicking here now. Like this Podcast? Then get every episode delivered to YOU!  Subscribe in iTunes Please help spread the word. Subscribing and leaving a review helps other coaches, consultants, or business owners find our podcast…and make their big difference. They will thank you for it.   Conscious Millionaire Podcast: With over 1,000 episodes and 12 Million Listeners in 190 countries, this is the podcast for coaches, consultants and service-providers who want to get more clients, make more money, and create a bigger difference and impact. Named by Inc Magazine as one of the Top 13 Business Podcasts for 2017!

Welcome to Conscious Millionaire, The High Performance Podcast with your Host, JV Crum III... Lisa Woodruff is a professional organizer, productivity expert and best-selling author of The Mindset of Organization - Take Back Your Home One Phase at a Time. She helps thousands of women get their home & paper organized at Organize365.com and through her Organize 36 podcasts. Are you a coach, consultant, business owner or leader who is tired of feeling stuck or you just don't know which step to take next? Get in the High Performer Lane by downloading JV's new High Performer Formula with the exact steps for your to play at the top of your game. Download it by clicking here now. Like this Podcast? Then get every episode delivered to YOU!  Subscribe in iTunes Please help spread the word. Subscribing and leaving a review helps other coaches, consultants, or business owners find our podcast…and make their big difference. They will thank you for it.   Conscious Millionaire Podcast: With over 1,000 episodes and 12 Million Listeners in 190 countries, this is the podcast for coaches, consultants and service-providers who want to get more clients, make more money, and create a bigger difference and impact. Named by Inc Magazine as one of the Top 13 Business Podcasts for 2017!

In this episode, Jaime and Lisa Woodruff discuss: You can use tech in your business even if it is not a tech business.  What are the differences between WordPress and RainMaker? What technology will be best for your company and when? Key Takeaways: Technology is a great way to delegate.  Look at tech like you are hiring an employee. Sometimes it helps to hire a technology consultant. Technology can help you expand your business beyond your initial reach.   "In place of hiring people, I was ready to hire people, I hired systems." — Lisa Woodruff     Connect with Lisa Woodruff:    Twitter: @organize365  Facebook: @Organize365  Website:  Organize365.com Instagram: Organize365     Connect with Jaime Slutzky:   Show Notes: http://www.techofbusiness.com Website: http://www.virtualsummittech.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jaimeslutzky/ Email: jaime@virtualsummitTECH.com       Show notes by show producer: Danielle Taylor   Audio production by Turnkey Podcast Productions. You're the expert. Your podcast will prove it. 

In this episode, Jaime and Lisa Woodruff discuss: You can use tech in your business even if it is not a tech business.  What are the differences between WordPress and RainMaker? What technology will be best for your company and when? Key Takeaways: Technology is a great way to delegate.  Look at tech like you are hiring an employee. Sometimes it helps to hire a technology consultant. Technology can help you expand your business beyond your initial reach.   "In place of hiring people, I was ready to hire people, I hired systems." — Lisa Woodruff     Connect with Lisa Woodruff:    Twitter: @organize365  Facebook: @Organize365  Website:  Organize365.com Instagram: Organize365     Connect with Jaime Slutzky:   Show Notes: http://www.techofbusiness.com Website: http://www.virtualsummittech.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jaimeslutzky/ Email: jaime@virtualsummitTECH.com       Show notes by show producer: Danielle Taylor   Audio production by Turnkey Podcast Productions. You're the expert. Your podcast will prove it. 

A digital society with no mail and no clutter may be the stuff millennials dream of. But the reality for many unmillennials is we're still drowning in a sea of our own stuff. Having spent years accumulating the day-to-day goods that make up a 40- to 50-something life, GenXers now find themselves at a crossroads of wanting more order while living an otherwise unordered life. Today's podcast features a leading expert on all things organizational, Lisa Woodruff. Lisa is a home organization expert, productivity specialist, and author of The Mindset of Organization, Take Back Your House One Phase at a Time, and How ADHD Affects Home Organization. She believes organization is not a skill you are born with, but rather is something that is developed over time and changes with each season of life. Lisa has helped thousands of women reclaim their homes and finally get organized with her practical tips, encouragement, and humor through her blog and podcast at Organize365.com. On the show we discuss:  The phases of getting organized and how the calendar plays into getting started What makes unmillennials unique in their challenges to get organized How a simple box can be a game changer in managing mail and papers in your life Why organizing rooms by function is the key to staying organized How Lisa's 100 Day Home Organization Program (

I have mentioned on the podcast many times before that there is one blog that I read every single day... it is Andrea Dekker's. There is so much great material on her blog andreadekker.com. Andrea has four children under the age of six and she explains how she manages all their very different requirements, and her own, with a simple "be prepared" mantra. She also shares with us some great advice on selling your unwanted items on Craigslist, something she does often with success. How We Both Got Started Both Andrea and I started out with very different blogs. For me, I remember I was going to be this "guru" to help when your kids had food allergies and other things. But then I realized that dealing with that and dealing with everything my kids needed me to do was just too much! That is when in 2012, I launched Organize365.com. Though for Andrea, it was a little different. Andrea explains on the podcast that she just fell into doing what she does. After finishing college, starting work, and getting married, she realized she hated her job. Her father gave her some great advice when he told her to find out what she enjoyed doing and figure out a way to get paid for doing it. In doing that, she would be successful even if she didn't make a lot of money. So, a job she really disliked ended up being the springboard to starting her own organizing business, which was essentially her dream job. This was back in 2006. She didn't even have internet in her own house. But eventually she began to write her own blog, and she took some work as a virtual assistant. One of many things I love about Andrea's blog is her level of consistency. She would post every day at 8am and, just like reading a newspaper, I would sit down to read her blog every morning. I even copied this routine when I started blogging. My posts went up at 8am because Andrea's posts did! Andrea is good at routine. She takes the normal, everyday tasks and makes them more efficient and functional. She explains during the episode that she doesn't have creative, cool things to share. She just focuses on functionality and frugal solutions. If It Doesn't Work, Change It I was delighted that Andrea was willing to share a couple tips for my Organize 365 listeners. And I can certainly relate to the first tip about constantly evaluating what works and what doesn't work. Take the kids' toys for example... if the toys no longer fit in their space, then something has to go. Don't continue to just accumulate without purging as you go along. I am a self-confessed consumer, but the kids' toys change as they get older. I find that spreading them out into different rooms, or making them responsible for their own toys in their own space, makes it less overwhelming for you to clean them up again afterwards. Making the house work for you and your children is key. Andrea makes her house work for her. It’s almost like a preschool room... the kids can help themselves. I remember when my children were born, I kept the socks upstairs because that's where you keep socks, right? But we always put socks and shoes on in the family room. So when I moved the socks downstairs, it was like the heavens opened and the angels started singing because I didn't have to go searching for socks anymore. Make your house function for you and your family. It works until it doesn't work. And then when it doesn't work, change it. How To Sell On Craigslist The thing about purging and reorganizing is that you end up with a bunch of stuff that I tell you to load in the car, take to Goodwill, drop it all off, and move on. This is where Andrea gives us some great advice as she is so good at selling on Craigslist. On her website, she has some great articles on this topic where she goes into great detail about how to write the advertisement and what things are most important when selling via Craigslist. Click here to see her "Craigslist 101" posts. And she even has one on how she sold her house on Craigslist – click here to see it. She really is that good at this! Her best piece of advice is to be honest with yourself. Is it worth your time to take pictures, post the ad, respond to emails, and to sell the item? If not – donate it! If you are going to sell, make sure you take high-quality pictures and list the measurements. The more information you can give, the fewer emails you will get with questions about your item. Also with pricing, Andrea gives a great tip... Take a look at similar items in your area and price your item a little bit less. Even at just a couple dollars less, people will subconsciously be drawn to your item. This is where I am so different from Andrea. I have literally given things away that are worth hundreds of dollars just to have them out of the house. In fact, I did that with my daughter's guinea pigs. I gave them away and paid my daughter one hundred dollars before she changed her mind. I'm just not good at selling things. ;) - No guilt here if you too are in the survival phase of life and just want the clutter gone! Lighten Your Load Having been fully through the accumulation stage, (20s and 30s) I am working my way through survival (40-55). I am so pleased to direct those of you struggling with young children and mountains of toys over to Andrea's blog to see how she is thriving during the accumultaion years with 4 children under 6. In this week's blog post, I have lots of links to my favorite posts on Andrea's blog. If you want to see the crazy antics I am up to, follow me on Instagram and watch my daily Instagram Stories to see a peek into my life. View the complete post here: https://organize365.com/212

Lisa Woodruff was a previous guest and I brought her back for a second interview to talk about how different generation groups organize Lisa is a professional organizer, productivity specialist, and author. She believes organization is not a skill you are born with. It is a skill that is developed over time and changes with each season of life. I am an avid listener and big fan of her podcast show at Organize365.com. I gave Lisa an update on my personal progress and yes, I am making progress! We also talked about my ” Sunday Basket” and if you listen to Episode 88 which was my first interview with Lisa you can learn more about that. What are the different Generation Groups? The dates can vary depending on where you look but here is a general idea: * The Silent Generation born between 1925 and 1945 * Baby Boomer Generation born between 1946 and 1964 * Generation X born between 1965 and 1980 * Millenials born between 1980 and after Lisa and I discuss how each generation deals with their “stuff” and what the differences are. The Silent Generation was born and raised in the Great Depression. They had a lot available to them educationally but not a lot available to them materially. The Silent Generation typically did not have mortgages on their home and did not use credit cards. They were a hard-working and fairly frugal generation. There was not a lot of consumerism while they were growing up. Baby Boomers were born and raised in the affluence of World War II. This is when consumerism and a lot of toys really came on the market. Barbies, GI Joe, TV's  and commercials became prevalent and advertisers started targeting teenagers. Gen Xer's had all of the toys. They had all of the toys the baby boomers had growing up and then some. The majority of Gen Xers grew up in the 80's which was the height of materialism. In the 80's is when things cost the most and people wanted to accumulate a lot of “stuff”. Decluttering and downsizing These items that are in our parents and grandparents homes and attics are things that were hard earned. Baby boomers sometimes have a difficult time getting rid of their things because they worked so hard to obtain them. Take the time to go through those things with your parents or grandparents. Let them tell the stories of how the stuff was obtained and the memories that come with them. Find ways of making memories using the stuff. Lisa has a lot going on! Below is some information on her workshops, podcast, and books 100 day home organization program  Paper organizing workshop called the Sunday basket. You can learn more about it at thesundaybasket.com You can also learn more or listen to her podcast at organize365.com Books/Kindle Editions:  The Mindset of Organization: Take Back Your House One Phase at a Time How ADHD Affects Home Organization: Understanding the Role of the 8 Key Executive Functions of the Mind The Sunday Basket: Weekly Paper Organization & Planning

Visit EOFire.com for complete show notes of every Podcast episode. Lisa is a professional organizer from Cincinnati, Ohio. She has helped thousands of women reclaim their homes and finally get organized with her practical tips, encouragement and humor through her blog and podcast at Organize365.com.

What kinds of personal stories should you share in a business context? How personal is too personal when sharing stories publicly? How do you get past the fear that creeps up when you’re about to share something? My guest Lisa Woodruff, founder of Organize 365, and I talk about how and why she shares personal stories on her podcast and blog and how that has impacted her business growth. We also get into how Lisa got visibility for her business early on and what she’s doing now with podcasting, blogging, speaking, and social media. About My Guest: Lisa Woodruff is a home organization expert, productivity specialist and author of The Mindset of Organization, Take Back Your House One Phase at a Time, & How ADHD Affects Home Organization. Lisa believes organization is not a skill you are born with. It is a skill that is developed over time and changes with each season of life.  Lisa has helped thousands of women reclaim their homes and finally get organized with her practical tips, encouragement and humor through her blog and podcast at Organize365.com.   Highlights: Why Lisa started her business Organize 365 in 2012 How Lisa uses personal stories in her business, blog, and podcast to connect with her audience How Lisa handles the fear of sharing personal stories How Lisa got visibility for her business early on and what she’s doing now with podcasting, blogging, speaking, and social media   Links: Lisa’s website Organize365.com Lisa’s podcast Organize 365 Connect with Lisa on Facebook, Pinterest, Instagram, LinkedIn, and Twitter Join the free Speaking Your Brand community at https://www.speakingyourbrand.com/join/. Say hi to me on Twitter @CarolMorganCox Subscribe to the podcast and leave a review!

Lisa Woodruff, who grew up from a family of entrepreneurs, created a system of organization called The Sunday Basket in 2002. This concept is so compelling that Lisa now has 24 licensed Sunday Basket workshop providers in two countries and conducts income-generating organizing classes online. Aside from being a successful entrepreneur and a home organization expert, she has also written the books The Mindset of Organization and How ADHD Affects Home Organization and created the blog and podcast Organize365. In this episode, Lisa shares how you can plan your day so you can focus on your business and still be able to organize your home and become an organized entrepreneur.. She goes over how you can have your home organized in a year by decluttering and organizing for only 15 minutes in a day. She also explains the value of the Friday Box, another organization system designed for busy and thriving entrepreneurs.   “Stop putting these expectations on yourself of what a perfect home looks like. There is no such thing.” - Lisa Woodruff   In This Episode of The Sigrun Show: How to convert a blog to a business How to figure out the core idea for your business Options to avoid messes for busy entrepreneurs The significance of being firm with your working hours What to do if your house is a mess Where to start when decluttering your home The Sunday Basket system for home organization The Friday Box system for business organization   Key Takeaways: Know when you are most productive and prioritize your business, not household chores, during those hours. Save time on dishwashing by using paper plates, eating out, or having food delivered. An organized closet allows you to conserve energy for decision-making in your business so you're not spending energy in choosing which clothes to wear.   Connect with Lisa Woodruff: The Sunday Basket The 100 Day Home Organization Program Organize365   Please share, subscribe and review on iTunes Thank you for joining me on this episode of the Sigrun Show. If you enjoyed this episode please share, subscribe and review on iTunes or Google Play Music so more people can enjoy the show. Don't forget to follow and connect with me on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram!   Get Your Free Training Through my own entrepreneurial journey and by training thousands of online entrepreneurs I've identified 7 STAGES of a Profitable Online Business. Get free access to the 7 Stages training videos and take your online business to the next stage.

I talk with Lisa Woodruff about organizing your home Lisa Woodruff believes organization is not a skill you are born with. It is a skill that is developed over time and changes with each season of life. She has helped thousands of women reclaim their homes and finally get organized with her practical tips, encouragement, and humor through her blog and podcast at Organize365.com. Got clutter? I Do. I am the “queen of clutter” or, as Lisa put's it, “I have a hard time separating the memory from the object”. Makes perfect sense right? Since listening to Lisa's show, I have been making progress. I am a HUGE fan of Lisa's show and wanted YOU, my listener, to be able to learn tips on organizing your home. Paper.. how to deal with all of the paper! When you look at a stack of 100 sheets of paper, you think that is 100 different items that you need to deal with. Lisa looks at your stack of 1000 pieces of paper and she knows that there are no more than 8 categories in that stack of paper and she can go through it super quickly. Lisa gives an amazing tip on how to go through the archived paper. You know, the mounds of paper you have in your filing cabinet or scattered all over your desk, or taking over your kitchen table..that paper. Using Lisa's method, you can be completely through an entire filing cabinet in just a few months. The Sunday Basket The Sunday Basket is a system for processing mail, kitchen counter “to do” papers, and ongoing household projects. Some examples of things you might put in the Sunday basket are: * Mail * Receipt for some prescriptions that you picked up * The dry cleaning ticket * The little card you get from the doctor's office telling you it's time for your next visit * A birthday card you bought for your granddaughter * Let's say you planned on re-hanging some pictures and you went and got command hooks. You would put those in there. The rule is that you pick a day of the week (Lisa does hers on Sunday) and you take every single thing out of the basket. You then ask yourself one question; can this wait until next Sunday?  If the answer is yes, the item goes back in the basket. If the answer is no, it is left out to be taken care of. She even suggests making a Sunday basket for your spouse or for your loved one that you are caring for! Lisa gives so many tips on organizing your home in this interview there is no way I could write them all here. If you have any great ideas or tips on organization feel free to post them in the comments below! Lisa's Books: The Mindset of Organization, Take Back Your House One Phase at a Time If you would like to contact Lisa you can email her at lisa@organize365.com or you can go to her website https://organize365.com/ Or you can check out her virtual Sunday Basket Classes at https://thesundaybasket.com/ Websites mentioned in this interview: Zoom This post about retirement and Retirement Lifestyle first appeared on http://RockYourRetirement.com

Conversamos con Grisel Ruiz de Transcripcionstudio.com.ar, ella es la persona que transcribe cada episodio de Emprende365. Lo hace ya desde hace más de dos décadas, creo que de los 13 años trabaja con su mamá desde la casa, haciendo subtítulos. Y bueno, vamos a escuchar la entrevista que es muy interesante.    Notas del programa (Separador) 00:42 Buen día, ¿cómo estás, Grisel?. Contanos quién sos y a qué te dedicás. –           Soy periodista. Hice muchas notas para Infomedia, para Crónica, algunas, en su momento, y quedé embarazada desde muy joven y decidí hacer de mi profesión una especie de invento que era transcribir las notas de mis colegas. Y quería emprender algo que se pudiera hacer desde casa sin la necesidad de salir a trabajar ni de dejar al chico sólo. –           01:22 ¿Qué edad tiene tu hijo? –            Ahora tiene 15. Es un adolescente. Y empecé a transcribir las entrevistas estas porque mi mamá que es subtituladora a ser dactilógrafa desde muy jovencita. Entonces estoy como trabajando desde mis 13 años en esto. –           01:56 Woooah, bueno, contemos cómo nos conocimos. ¿Querés? –           Bueno, nos conocimos…. ¿Empiezo yo o empezás vos? –           02:06Yo puedo decir que estaba en una estación de servicio, y necesitaba transcribir mi primer episodio, y busqué transcripciones de podcast, y fuiste la primera. Y te llamé por teléfono. Y ahí empezó nuestra historia. Y ya hace 9 episodios que transcribis todo lo que grabo. –           Sí, lo mío no fue tan fortuito (Risas). Yo estaba en la calle atendiendo el teléfono, de hecho me reía mucho porque eran las 9 de la mañana y generalmente no me llama un cliente a esa hora. –           ¡Es verdad! (Risas) Es cierto. –           Nunca. Nunca en la vida. En general me escriben un mail. Y ese día estaba en la calle y despierta. Andá a saber por qué. Y cedimos los dos a trabajar juntos. –           03:10Es verdad. Y yo nunca había trabajado con una persona que transcriba lo que yo hablaba y fue una linda primera experiencia. Te pasé los primeros 3 episodios y a la semana lo tenía todo transcripto. –            Me acuerdo que esa semana fue complicada, estaba enferma trabajando con 39 grados de fiebre, no fue una primera experiencia muy…. (Risas) Pero después nos fuimos amoldando a los tiempos y a las entregas. 04:00 Entonces vos sos independiente desde chica básicamente en lo que hacés. –           En verdad vengo de padres hippies independientes. Mi mamá hace subtítulos de videos y es una de las que empezaron con esto en Argentina, junto a lo que era Videograbadora en su momento, que tenían la marca I-SAT y Space en el país, y cuando era chica me veía todas las películas en inglés. Y veía como mi mamá le ponía el subtítulo. Cuando fui adolescente decidí ayudarlas en esas máquinas “betas”, “islas”, se llamaban, hasta que llegaron las computadoras preparadas para este tipo de trabajo. Es ahí donde llega una primera MAC a mi casa. Me dice mi mamá “Ponete a tipear con esta computadora”. Antes se tipeaba con códigos, para hacer un ascento tenías que tocar 3 teclas, en ese tipo de “islas”, y ahora simplificó la digitalización. Es muy más fácil. Y empecé a transcribir a una velocidad que antes no lo hacía. Después me dediqué al periodismo, me gustaba mucho lo que tenía que ver con la comunicación, primero hice un año de Asistente social, y empecé a realizar entrevistas para Infomedia. Mi tía que era ya periodista, me mandaba a hacer pequeñas notas y la primera persona que entrevisté fue Cecilia Milone, en el Teatro Maipo. 06:14 O sea, que te mandó  ahí. –           Sí, empecé a hacer entrevistas a muchos artistas, cubrir shows, y con un chico encima me costaba organizarme. En casa, era mi mamá, una niñera… Traté de independizarme de la forma que pude para poder criar a mi hijo cerca sin la necesidad de dejarlo con alguien y verlo crecer dentro de lo que se puede. Porque él, pobre, se bancó las mil y una. Mamá que no le daba bola por estar enfrente de una computadora. –           07:01¿Qué edad tenía cuando hiciste la primera entrevista? –           Yo tenía 22, y mi hijo casi un año o por ahí. –           07:27 Claro, piden mucha atención. –           Sí, viajaba con mi abuela. Iba a todas partes con alguien que me tuviera el nene por 20 minutos. Mucho sacrificio. –            07:35 Pero lo hiciste. Y pudiste dedicarte a eso. Sí, tal cual. –           07:47 ¿Y después? –           Después nació lo que es Transcripción Studio, que no era tal, era yo. Sí existían las computadoras pero no lo que es el “boom” de Internet como lo es ahora. Entonces lo que empecé a hacer era distribuir panfletos en las universidades. –           08:26 ¿Y ellos qué tenían que transcribir? –           Yo tenía este trabajo que era transcribir subtítulos y películas, que no tiene nada que ver con la transcripción que puedo hacer de una tesis, de un congreso, de una entrevista. Porque a las transcripciones de videos se le ponen los llamados “Tiempos” o “Time codes”. Se temporiza todo. En cambio las transcripciones comunes pueden ser al verbatim, que es la manera de transcribir en forma literal, o puede ser editada. Sabía que los estudiantes transcribían para luego estudiar para rendir los parciales. Y ahí es cuando contraté a alguien que distribuyera panfletos y me empezaron a llamar. Transcribía con el casette. –           09:51 ¡Mirá! Y después tenían para estudiar leyendo. Si  hoy te encontrás en la calle con alguien que no veías hace bastante tiempo. ¿Qué le decís? ¿Hago transcripciones de audio? ¿Así te definís? –           Les digo: Hola, soy periodista y hago transcripciones de audio y subtítulos. –           10:25 Vos me mencionaste que habías estudiado locución, ¿es posible? –           Estudié dos años de locución y estoy viendo cómo termino esa carrera. La abandoné el año pasado. Estudié en ISEC y si bien no lleva mucha carga horaria, es una carrera muy rígida desde lo crítico. Se le busca el error a la forma de hablar. A la oratoria. –           11:12 Es muy difícil aparte. –           Es como estudiar ballet. –           11:15 Te miran cómo moves el piecito. –           Te están observando hasta el último detalle. Y sentís mucha presión. –           11:28 Hasta que yo empecé con lo del podcast y no escuché mi voz por más de dos minutos seguidos, ahí realmente te das cuenta cómo hablás y qué tenés que corregir, qué tenés que decir menos… Todas esas muletillas que tenemos que uno se las tiene que quitar porque si no es como demasiado en una grabación o en un programa. –            En un programa radial, sí. En una entrevista gráfica no hay problema porque uno le habla al otro como si fuese un amigo. Eso no se transcribe, pero obviamente no está mal que quieras ser amigable con el otro. El tema es que uno se olvida que se está grabando. Entonces es ahí donde uno debe pensar antes de decir, escuchar primero lo que dice el otro. Hay que estar muy atento  a lo que uno habla y lo que expresa el otro. –           12:49 Eso cuando estás en persona. Porque como estamos ahora vía Skype. –           Cuando no hay nada que te grabe al menos. Si vos estás en vivo en la televisión y el periodista empieza a repetir muletillas, dirías “al periodista le pasa algo”. (Risas) –           13:14 Tienen un tic. –           Tiene un TOC. Gráficamente no está mal, porque luego todo se edita,  excepto que tengan una expresión fundamental. 13:50 En tu carrera, cuando seriamente te pusiste a transcribir, tuviste algún momento donde sentiste el fracaso. –           Sabés que estaba preparada para esta pregunta. –           14:11 Porque ya conocés las entrevistas…. –           (Risas) Es muy gracioso. Mi primer cliente fue Pablo Winokur, y él es periodista del Congreso. Entonces a él le mandaban a hacer entrevistas con chicos de la calle, donde las entrevistas eran con grabador, no eran digitales, y hablaban de sus dolencias, de lo que sucede en la calle, y la pregunta era: ¿Vos cuando te enfermás o tenés una dolencia con qué te curás? Y resulta que el chico había dicho “Yo me curo con Detebensil”.  Una droga que es para la piel, para la dermatitis… para afecciones de la piel. Y cuando hice la desgrabación, y encima con entrega urgente, y estaba medio dormida, y con falta de concentración… puse: “Yo me curo con té de perejil”. (Risas) –           15:48  Te de Perejil versus la droga… ¿Y qué repercusión tuvo eso? –           Después el chico me siguió dando trabajo, pero yo le preguntaba a mi mamá, porque no estaba segura que la dermatitis se cure con té de perejil. Y volví a revisar el audio…. Y ahí me di cuenta que existía esta droga. Entonces le escribo al periodista y le digo “Perdón, Pablo, puse té de perejil en vez de Detebensil”.  Nunca me respondió con un “jajajaja”, pero yo creo que se habrá muerto de risa. 16:57 ¿Pero qué garrón para vos que no te diga “Bueno, ya lo corregí yo, no te preocupes”? No, no tuve un feedback, de ahí en más aprendí a tener sentido común cuando se transcribe. Porque sino los transcriptores vamos para atrás. –           17:26 ¿Sentiste en algún momento que se te prendió la lamparita? –           Yo me especializo en varias cosas. Lo que es autoría de DVD, subtítulos. Pero primero empecé con las transcripciones. Después vi que eso sólo no era suficiente y agregué los demás servicios. Y después con respecto a las transcripciones empecé a innovarme. Antes ponía “inaudible” ante una palabra que no se entiende. Ahora pongo el “Time code”. Como para que el cliente revise en ese minuto y sepa dónde el transcriptor no pudo entender la terminología o sobre el tema que se estaba refiriendo esa transcripción. –           18:27 A mí me ayudó en varias de las transcripciones que hiciste. Aparte lo sobresaltas en amarillo. –            Claro, porque poniendo “Inaudible”, tal vez no se puede acordar qué quiso decir, y tiene que tal vez escuchar un choclo de audio para saber dónde el transcriptor no entendió. Pero con el time code ayuda a que vayas justo al punto de la equivocación. –           19:10 ¿Qué te apasiona de tu trabajo aparte de la flexibilización en el tiempo? –           A veces no me apasiona, pero creo que lo que me apasiona es ver las películas o enterarme de cosas que son confidenciales, que sólo yo y nadie más que yo, sé, como cuando transcribí el juicio del narcotraficante Mi Sangre. Me apasiona ver documentales, productos audiovisuales que sé que van a salir y ver Canal Encuentro expresando “Lo hice yo”. Después trabajé para Miami Herald, que necesitaban los subtitulados en francés y español. –           20:15 ¿Cuántos idiomas hablás? Hablo español y tengo un nivel bastante alto de inglés. Pero cuando se hace una subtitulación se trabaja con el script y con el traductor al lado. –           21:12  Eso me gustó. Me parece que es algo que vamos a implementar lo de los time codes. –           Si hacés algo como lo que es el Closed Caption que es para sordomudos, que es algo que me apasiona. Porque hay un tema que quiero aclarar: Me apasiona porque es una posibilidad…. Me  gustaría que el cine argentino implemente el closed caption para que la gente discapacitada auditivamente pueda ver películas en el mismo idioma. Pero mi meta sea con colaboradores que tengan alguna discapacidad, porque es un trabajo adaptable. De hecho una de mis transcriptoras es discapacitada motriz. –           22:30 Y aparte sienten que pueden hacer algo con su vida y utilizar la mente. Es muy importante para ellos. –           Sí, ese es mi sueño. Si vos vieras mi estudio, que también es mi casa, yo tengo un lugar grande con varias computadoras, y vienen durante el día diferentes transcriptoras o nos vamos comunicando con “team viewer”. Después implementamos tecnología. –           23:17 ¿Y cómo la implementan? –           Se trabaja con pedales y un programa que se llama Dragon Naturally Speaking que es dictado de voz. Y con el pedal vas manejando las pausas. –           23:51 ¿Eso lo usás para hacer subtítulos o transcripciones? Sobre todo transcripciones.  Es para no utilizar justamente las manos. Por eso te digo que mi trabajo se adecua para muchos tipos de discapacidad. 24:17 Está perfecto.  O sea que la persona puede hablar a la computadora y pausar con los pedales. –           Obviamente un ojo humano lo tiene  que corregir porque el programa no identifica todas las palabras. Es un trabajo piola para hacer inclusión. –           24:48 De hecho en los iphones tenés un teléfono en la barra de espacio, a la izquierda y ahí podés dictarle. Te entiende perfectamente en inglés, en español, o cualquiera que fuese tu lengua. –           Sí. –           25:11 ¿Cuál es el mejor consejo de negocios que recibiste y de quién fue? –           No sé si es que tuve, pero mi mamá me dijo una frase hace mucho que yo la contradije cuando era muy chica, pero es “Cada segundo de tu vida es irrepetible”. Entonces vos para tener un emprendimiento tenés que visualizar tu idea y no irte de tu meta aunque estés trabajando de otra cosa. Todos los días repetirte como un Ave María, la meta que querés hacer y escribirla, y ponerla en papelitos, y luego empezar a sacar presupuestos, empezar a comprar los elementos aunque sigas trabajando en relación de dependencia. Y un día decir “Me dedico mitad a esto y mitad a lo otro”. Y ver qué podés implementar todos los días para regar esa semilla y ver que va floreciendo. –           26:32 ¿Vos qué hacés todos los días para hacer eso? ¿Y cuál sería tu sueño para lo que me dijiste recién que se pueda implementar con la gente discapacitada este tipo de trabajo? –           Estoy tratando de moverme en forma gubernamental para poner un estudio adaptado a las diferentes discapacidades, qué es lo que me gustaría cumplir. La otra meta es hacer el estudio más grande de closed caption en Argentina porque el Closed Caption que se usa habitualmente que es poner el subtitulado tal cual lo dice una película, no es el mismo que interpreta los sordomudos. Ellos ponen el verbo de forma diferente. –           28:20 No me digas. ¿Cómo lo ponen? –           Creo que ellos hablan siempre en infinitivo. Yo no soy maestra de señas, pero por lo que estuve investigando, el verbo va adelante del sujeto. –           28:48 Qué interesante. No sabía eso. –            Si hablás con una persona que sepa de señas, te va a saber explicar. Pero conjugan las oraciones de forma diferente. –           28:50 Tenés un desafío por delante. –           Sí. –           28:55 Suerte con eso. –           Ojalá se dé. ¿Y qué es lo que hago todos los días? Es aconsejar. Sentido común, tener buena tecnología, investigar sobre lo que se está hablando o diciendo en un audio, uno no puede poner o escribir cualquier cosa. Y ser confidencial. Eso es muy importante. Vos no podés estar transmitiendo todo lo que escuchas, o todo lo que transcribis, porque en este trabajo están en juego los médicos, los pacientes, congresistas, empresas audiovisuales. Por eso firmamos muchos contratos de confidencialidad. –           29:55 ¿Qué aplicaciones utilizas en tu celular y en tu pc para trabajar? Por ejemplo “Evernote” “Google Kit”,… “Apple Calender”… “Dropbox ¿Cómo hacen el cronograma? Nosotros usamos “Google Drive” para pasarnos los archivos, ¿pero vos usás algunas otras? –           Para comunicarse, whatsapp. Hoy en día es fundamental. A través de ahí contestamos cualquier inquietud que el cliente tenga. Sí me preguntan por un presupuesto, se contesta al toque por Whatsapp. Si tienen alguna duda del audio, seresponde por Whatsapp. El mail, que es un juego de palabras en español y en inglés: Transcripcion + Studio, sin “e”. transcripcionstudio@gmail.com Utilizamos la aplicación de dictado: Dragon Naturally Speaking. –          31:20 Imagínate que despertás mañana en un mundo nuevo idéntico a la Tierra,  pero no conocés a nadie, poseés toda la experiencia y el conocimiento que tenés actualmente. Tu alimentación y vivienda están resueltos. Todo lo que tenés es: una laptop, un smarthphone, 500,00 dólares,  y, por supuesto, acceso a Internet: ¿cómo empezarías tu negocio nuevamente? –          Busco a un buen posicionador web, invertiría en avisos de Google, o me haría una página de Facebook, compraría otra computadora más para encontrar gente que me ayude, y poner plata en panfletos para que la gente me vaya conociendo. –           ¡Me encanta! Puntual! –           32:26 ¿Cuál es tu libro favorito? –           El Poder del Ahora de Eckhart Tolle. –           Me encantó. Lo conozco. 32:38 ¿Alguna sugerencia o consejo para la audiencia? Que necesitamos transcriptores, está abierto a todos los que sepan de lenguas, sin discriminación de ningún tipo. De 18 a 99 pueden inscribirse. Está bueno, porque estoy ofreciendo trabajo. –           En realidad está buenísimo. Y para una persona que no quiera dedicarse a esto y quiere independizarse. –           Tener una meta y escribirla. Escribirla permanentemente. Segundo, que empiece a preguntarse cuántas personas necesita para ese proyecto. O los materiales que necesita. Y que empiece ya a averiguar presupuesto. Y que ese presupuesto también lo tenga latente. Y tercero, es que busque los medios donde pueda dar a conocer a su trabajo. La mío es muy puntual y el periodismo está cayendo porque las editoriales están cerrando. Pero si alguien quiere hacer galletitas en su casa o viandas, o lo que fuese, contar con un presupuesto es fundamental. Y apostar. Tener mucha confianza en sí mismo y dar con la persona correcta. Golpear puertas, preguntarles a los negocios o a las personas que se dedican a lo mismo: cómo hicieron. Tener conocimiento es muy importante. Yo no podría transcribir sino hubiese sido periodista, o si no hubiese sabido de corrección, o si no hubiese tenido una madre subtituladora que me hacia transcribir de chica para que la ayudara, o si no hubiese tenido una tía periodista… Y hacer lobby. –           Te agradezco muchísimo, Grisel. Gracias por la paciencia de llamarnos varías veces porque contémosle a la audiencia de que tuvimos problemas técnicos. –           Igual yo soy cero tecnológica. Más allá de las computadoras que las tengo para trabajar, trato de desconectar porque si no es demasiada información. La mente no para un segundo. –           35:52 Es cierto eso. A mí me pasa que me duele la cabeza o los ojos después de estas todo el día enfrente de una computadora. –           Hay que tratar de estar un poco solo con uno mismo. Eso renueva y ayuda a tener buenas ideas, y a seguir adelante. –           Te agradezco muchísimo el tiempo. Y vamos a implementar los “times codes” en esta transcripción. –           Vamos a ver cómo hacemos. Lo bueno sería que hagamos un programa juntos. Potenciamos. –           Dale, me encantaría. Vamos a tener que hablarlo más en profundidad (Risas) –           Porque yo amo los micrófonos pero para preguntar al otro, no para ser la preguntada. –           ¿Tenés alguna pregunta para mí? –           ¿Por qué Emprende 365? –           Primero, la palabra “emprende” está muy trillada. Todos somos emprendedores. Se usa en todo. Y estuve meses buscando un lindo nombre que sea corto un porque no podía ser “Emprendimientos Online…”. No quería que sea tan largo. Y 365… Por dos razones: 1) había un sitio que escuché en un podcast de Estados Unidos, que entrevistaron a la dueña y se llamaba “Organize365.com.” Y me gustó el sitio, y me encanta a mí “Organize”. Soy un loco de la organización. Entonces me gustó  poner “Emprende 365”. Y 2) es porque el emprendedor todos los días tiene que hacer algo. Todos los días del año. Es corto, es fácil y es como algo pegadizo. –           ¿O sea, sos un innovador nato? –           No sé si soy nato, pero estoy tratando de innovar y de llevar el mensaje a la gente que emprende. Inspirar y motivar. Es más, hoy a la mañana una conocida escuchó unos episodios y me dijo que ayer estuvo un poco depresiva y le sirvió mucho escuchar a los entrevistados a contar cómo fue su historia. Eso es por ahora la misión del programa: Dar empuje. –           Te hago la última. –           Dale. –           ¿Te motivó hacer un nuevo emprendimiento con las entrevistas que hiciste? –           Interesante la pregunta. En realidad, no. Esta es mi emprendimiento. Yo me motivó haciendo este emprendimiento. El sitio, las entrevistas, me contactó con diferente tipo de gente. Esas mi motivación. Y la motivación mayor obviamente es cuando alguien me dice que le inspiró algo o le alegró el día. O le hizo bien. Para mí eso es lo fabuloso. –           ¡Maravilloso! –           Te doy una última pregunta, si querés. –           ¿Cómo repercute esto en la audiencia? –           En realidad es muy pronto para decirte. Por ahora las críticas y las personas que escucharon les gustó. –           En unos meses nos volvemos a encontrar y en nuestro programa me vas a responder (Risas) –           ¡Dale! ¡Me encantó! Terminamos el programa acá,  así que te saludo, te agradezco y la seguimos en la próxima. –           Gracias, Moses. Chau. (Separador) Moses: Espero que les haya gustado el programa con Grisel Ruiz de www.transcripcionstudio.com.ar, sin la “e”. Gracias, Grisel por haberme entrevistado a mí. O una mini entrevista. Entiendo que sos un poco tímida y te agradezco doblemente por haber estado en el programa conmigo. Muchas gracias de verdad.   Muchas gracias por estar, que lo pasen bien. Hasta la próxima.  Si te gustó el programa: Suscribite al Podcast en iTunes o Spotify para enterarte cuando publico nuevos episodios. Podés calificar el programa en iTunes escribiendo una breve reseña desde acá. Seguime en: Instagram Facebook Twitter Gracias por escuchar! Hasta la próxima semana! Moses Levy    

Lisa Woodruff is a professional organizer, productivity specialist and author of The Mindset of Organization, Take Back Your House One Phase at a Time. Lisa believes organization is not a skill you are born with. It is a skill that is developed over time and changes with each season of life.  Lisa has helped thousands of women reclaim their homes and finally get organized with her practical tips, encouragement and humor through her blog and podcast at Organize365.com. Click to tweet: .@organize365 is sharing her story to inspire you on Women Taking the Lead https://womentakingthelead.com/224 #inspiration Playing Small Moment After years of working in sales, Lisa left and started her Organize 365 blog. After a push from her husband, she incorporated sales back into her life and started doing sales parties. At these parties, she realized her audience grew significantly. It turns out that people really wanted to hear what a professional organizer had to say! The Wake Up Call Lisa started Organize 365 as a blog in Jan 2012 and had been waiting for a brand to find her and ask her to write about them, as she had seen so many others do. After that didn’t happen, Lisa decided to do a virtual webinar to teach about her Sunday basket. When she got onto the call, she realized everyone who signed up had already been following her and been using their Sunday baskets but needed more guidance. Style of Leadership Lisa has a teaching background, so she leads through education, motivation and action. Lisa wants to tell a story so people can understand their own mindset. What Are You Excited About? Lisa is excited about her newest book, How ADHD Affects Home Organization, and how empowered people with ADHD will feel once they realize there are methods that work. Current Business Challenge Lisa struggles with finding mentors or business leaders that are at or above the level she is in. Leadership Practice Lisa reads, or listens to podcasts every day. Advice For Younger Self “Just start. Don’t wait for anyone to give you permission; just do it.” Inspirational Quote “Done is better than perfect.” “Progress over perfection.” Links Website: http://organize365.com Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/organize365 Thank You to Our Sponsors Freshbooks: The all new FreshBooks makes ridiculously easy accounting software that’s completely transformed how freelancers and small business owners deal with their day-to-day paperwork. Get a 30 day, unrestricted free trial go to FreshBooks.com/lead and enter WOMEN TAKING THE LEAD in the “How Did You Hear About Us?” section. altMBA: Seth Godin’s altMBA workshop is an intensive leadership and management workshop designed for changemakers who have a fire in the belly. This is for people who are itching to level up and make a bigger impact. Find out more at:  altmba.com/womentakingthelead Zebralove Web Solutions: Your website tells a story about your business! At Zebralove Web Solutions, Milly and her team are going to make sure your website tells the story you want your customers to hear. Connect with Milly at zebralovewebsolutions.com to create the impression you want to make! Resources Private Facebook Community: Chat, share and collaborate with other women in the community! Accomplished: How to Go from Dreaming to Doing: A simple, step by step system that gives you the foundation and structure to take your goals and make them happen. The Accomplished Community: A community of entrepreneurial Type A women uniting to achieve their biggest goals with confidence, integrity and a sense of humor. Subscribe to Women Taking the Lead If you enjoyed this episode subscribe in iTunes, Stitcher Radio, Google Play Music or iHeart Radio and never miss out on inspiration and community!

Doing laundry always seems like it takes a lifetime, doesn’t it? But how long does it really take? For this week’s podcast episode, I timed how long it took me to complete ALL of my laundry. Over the course of a weekend, I used a stopwatch and I timed from when I began a laundry task to when I completed it. By doing this, I was able to get an accurate idea of how long completing all of my household laundry really took. My Findings The truth is, the actual tasks involved in doing laundry didn’t take up too much time. Every time I went into the laundry room to complete a task, I was usually only in there for about 5-8 minutes.  So it really wasn’t taking me very long. I discovered I was able to do 9 loads of laundry in only 61 minutes. BUT... and this is a big but... the 61 minutes were spread over 3 days. So I pretty much felt like I spent 3 days in my laundry room! So what I came to learn is that, while the tasks don’t take very long, laundry can seem so much more time consuming than it really is because it occupies so many of our thoughts as we are doing it. I found I was always thinking about things like when the current load will be complete, whether I have gathered everything for the next load, where are the hangers, and so on. My Laundry Tips Fortunately, there are ways to save yourself both time and stress when it comes to your laundry. Here are my top tips for making laundry easier: Sort by weight – Instead of separating your laundry into loads by color, try separating them by how much each item weighs. Heavier items take longer to dry and lighter items take less time to dry.  This will save you drying time on those little loads.  Difficult load first – We all have that load of laundry that is just more difficult than the rest. Do your most difficult load of laundry first and this will make the rest of your loads less stressful. Multiple days of laundry – By spreading your laundry time throughout the week and doing some of the easier loads on weekdays (towels for example), you will save yourself time and stress on the weekends. Set a timer – Every time you start a load of laundry, start a timer on your phone. By setting the timer for 45-50 minutes, it will help prevent you from forgetting about the laundry and losing track of time. Of course, hiring someone else to do the laundry would be the ultimate time saver!  This might not be an option for everyone, but it’s definitely something to consider. There may be no perfect solution to doing laundry, but I would LOVE to hear your suggestions for making laundry quicker and easier. Please share your ideas in my Organize 365 Facebook Group. A special thank you to this week’s podcast sponsor, TidyLiving! Use the promocode ORGANIZE365 to save 10% View the complete post here: https://organize365.com/183

Whether you're keeping your kid's room clean or you have assigned them this very important task, it is essential to keep their room organized. I dive deep into everything kids' clothes on the podcast this week. This is a topic I've mentioned before. In podcast episodes #103 Bedroom Organization For Kids and #104 Clothing Organization For Kids, I discussed how to organize your bedroom and, more specifically, your clothing. It would be a great idea to listen to both of those episodes first since I have taken those principles and built upon them in this episode. I like to view your kid’s rooms as their own mini apartments inside of your house. In this episode, I focused on keeping kid’s clothing organized. This sometimes means sorting through both clean and dirty clothes strewn around their rooms, but there are some ways to help avoid this. Hang everything Getting into the habit of hanging and folding clean clothes right after they leave the laundry room can cut down on the amount of clothes left all over their room. I know for a lot of kids (particularly if they have ADHD) it’s VERY easy to get overwhelmed, especially with how many items can be found in their closet. One organizing method that I have found to be helpful with my kids has been to hang up all of their shirts so that they can see what they have. 2.  Put hampers in each child's room.  Another helpful practice to follow is designating a location for all the dirty laundry and actually putting it there! Ideally, this would be IN a laundry basket, but just having the dirty clothes all in one place will make a difference. Once the clothes are separated, it’s time to organize them in a way that helps your kids!  3. Next steps... Now obviously, not everyone has the closet space to hang up all of their clothes. So what do you do if your child has a dresser? I have created something that really helps with organizing clothes in drawers! It's a FREE set of printable icons that can be laminated and placed on the drawers of your child’s dresser to help them remember what is inside. There are four different sets of icons designed for young boys and girls, as well as teenage boys and girls. You can mix and match the icons that you like. These kid clothing icons will help your kids identify what is inside of drawers and bins, keeping them more organized. In the podcast, I shared how I put these on a client’s closet drawers using the Command Hook double-sided adhesive strips. Did you know you can buy just the strips?! To download ALL four sets of printable icons, click here. And yes, ladies, you too can use these fun icons! What about hangers? The final tips I talk about in this episode are all about the hangers you use in your kid’s closet. It seems like a small detail, but using hangers that are all the same size and shape can make all the difference right from the start. Once you have those matching hangers, get into the habit of taking out extra hangers and bringing them down to the laundry room for the next batch of clean clothes. When I am organizing, I like to keep one white trash bag hanging in my closet for those hangers I know I am going to throw away. I also keep a black trash bag hanging in my closet for clothes that are going to be donated to Goodwill. Of course, all of these tips for organizing your kid’s clothing can also be applied to your own clothes, too. Happy Organizing! A special thank you to this week’s podcast sponsor, TidyLiving.com! Use the promocode ORGANIZE365 to save 10% View the complete post here: https://organize365.com/182

Join my Biz Bestie, Lisa Woodruff of Organize 365, and me as we talk about our friendship and how we've helped each others businesses grow in ways we never imagined! We share how we conquer mindset issues together and uplevel our businesses faster than we ever could alone. Listen for our unique challenges as GenX women managing homes with teenagers and husbands while scaling our multi-six figure businesses. Key Takeaways: Natalie and Lisa "met" on Twitter and in person at FinCon 2016. Natalie was fascinated with Lisa as they were both in similar seasons with family and business. Hear how they help each other stretch each other and push past limiting beliefs. A key value of their relationship is honesty. They delve into the differences between how Millenials and Gen Xers share parenting and household responsibilities.   JOIN THE BIZCHIX COMMUNITY!   This episode is sponsored by AWeber.  Thank you for supporting women entrepreneurs! Find out more and get an all access, 60 Day Free Trial at BizChix.com/Aweber!   Connect with Lisa Woodruff: Organize365 Connect with Lisa on Facebook Tweet with Lisa Listen to Organize365 Podcast Connect with Lisa on Instagram   Get the FREE Sunday Basket eBook!   Mentioned in this Episode: Organize 365 Podcast: How a Bestie Can 10X Your Progress to Reaching Your Goals Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill AWeber Podast: Strategically Designing your Podcast with Natalie Eckdahl BizChix Episodes Mentioned: 234: Building a Six Figure+ Biz with Lisa Woodruff, Jessica Rhodes, & Natalie Eckdahl #FinCon16 261: You Are The Average of the Five People You Spend the Most Time With   Book a Strategy Session or apply to Mastermind with Natalie! Click to Learn More.   This content first appeared at BizChix.com/273.

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Lisa is a professional organizer, productivity expert and best-selling author of The Mindset of Organization - Take Back Your Home One Phase at a Time. She helps thousands of women get their home & paper organized at Organize365.com and through her Organize 36 podcasts. Get the 5 proven steps to rapidly grow your business, make a bigger impact, and achieve your First Million. Attend the next LIVE First Million Webinar  with international business coach JV Crum III.  Like this Podcast? Then get every episode delivered to YOU!  Subscribe in iTunes Please help spread the word. Subscribing and leaving a review helps other business owners and entrepreneurs find our podcast…and make their big difference. They will thank you for it.   Conscious Millionaire Podcast: With over 500 episodes and 10 Million Listeners in 176 countries, this is the podcast for business owners and coaches who want to grow their businesses, make a bigger impact, and ultimately achieve their First Million! JV interviews the top entrepreneurs, experts, authors, and coaches on how to get the right mindset, develop your business systems, and execute to achieve bigger results, faster!  

Lisa Woodruff is a professional organizer & productivity specialist from Cincinnati, Ohio. Lisa has helped thousands of women reclaim their homes and finally get organized with her practical tips, encouragement, and humor through her blog and podcast at Organize365.com and is the best-selling author of The Mindset of Organization - Take Back Your Home One Phase at a Time. Contact Info Website: organize365.com Most Influential Person Jesus Effect on Emotions I'm much calmer now. I have a much longer view of things and I don't get so caught up in the moment. Thoughts on Breathing My cousin-in-law taught me how to breathe because he's doing a lot of mindfulness and so I find myself, I get a lot of migraines and I find myself lately saying, okay, drink some water and just breathe and it's been able to eliminate about half of my migraines Suggested Resources Book: The Big Leap by Gay Hendricks: Conquer Your Hidden Fear and Take Life To The Next Level Book: The Mindset of Organization: Take Back Your Life One Step At a Time by Lisa Woodruff App: none Mindfulness Meets Bullying Story I am such a positive person; like I really have a positive mindset and I was made fun of and things like that but I never really felt bullied except for this one time. I had switched from a public school to a private catholic school in fourth grade. It was because my sister was starting kindergarten I believe and my mom was tired of driving us to those cd classes on Monday nights so she put us in the Catholic school. I’m sure there was more to it than that, but that’s what I knew. So I went there and Catholic school are very small and the kids start in Kindergarten and they go all the way through. You don’t transfer in very often. I found that some girls had made a club against me. I remember coming home and my mom had this black rocking chair she’d gotten from my grandmother and she rocked me. I was a fourth grader and I just cried like a baby for what seemed like forever and she just sat there and rocked me. That’s all I remember about that story. I’m still Facebook friends with these people; we have a great relationship now.  

The audio book version of The Mindset of Organization is finally here!! I hope you enjoy these sample chapters today. You can get a free audible copy of The Mindset of Organization and start a free 30 day trial at Organize365.com/audible

Red, M, and Dawn go through some Q&A with Alpha. We also talk about current events.  What things would you like to get done around the house with your children? Organize365.com What activities do you have planned for your kids this summer? What is your take on the 4 yr. old vs. Gorilla at the Cincinnati Zoo.  Man kills wife's would-be rapist with tire iron Folie à Deux Dry Creek Valley Zinfandel 2012 Our Take: It is one of the best we have tasted. The aroma was fantastic and it would go with anything, even by itself. This Mediterranean-style region plays host to warm summer days, tempered by morning fog from the Pacific Ocean with vines that thrive in its well-drained, stony soils. Lightly blended with of Petite Sirah to enhance color and mid-palate flavors, this Dry Creek Valley Zin is the quintessential Folie à Deux wine — in other words, it will impel you to dance and share a bottle with friends, probably simultaneously! TASTING NOTES Intense, juicy and jammy, our classic Zinfandel's bright raspberry and blackberry fruit is complemented by the characteristic black pepper spice tones that give the varietal its invigorating zestiness. GOOD WITH Anything

Join serial entrepreneur, author, speaker, mentor and business consultant, Vicki Fitch on this episode of Vicki Fitch Live! A Fresh Perspective #7 with special guest Lisa Woodruff.   On this edition of  Vicki Fitch Live! A Fresh Perspective, Vicki is joined by Lisa Woodruff helps you organize your home and your home based business as a professional organizer, blogger, speaker & trainer #organize #directsales You can follow Lisa at @organize365 and visit her website at www.organize365.com

What if you could expand your business by putting yourself in a box and reaching more people? It may sound like science fiction, but in many ways, Lisa has found a way to do this very thing! It comes as no surprise that a professional organizer and productivity nut would find many unique ways to reach more people without spending more time to do it. On the Podcast 00:54 - 9 Businesses with One Thing in Common04:03 - Becoming a Pro06:12 - There are a Million Ways to Monetize!08:16 - Lisa in a Box!10:29 - 3 Keys to Lisa's Success13:22 - Think Outside the Box with Outsourcing19:12 - Validation as Mamapreneurs21:17 - Organization for Mamapreneurs23:55 - The Sunday Basket25:40 - How Blogging Brings Clarity30:54 - A Simple Method for Efficient Blogging35:19 - Paying for Emails?40:45 - Bloggers can Sell on Etsy too!42:20 - Lisa's App47:01 - Lisa's Awesome Mom Moment Press play on the podcast player below to hear Lisa's best organization tips and to learn how she helps more people in less time with her business, Organize365. 9 Businesses with One Thing in Common Lisa comes from a long line of entrepreneurs. Her great-grandmother went to college well before that was the norm for women and ultimately owned her own floral shop! Her dad's side of the family had a similar bent towards owning their own businesses. There was never any question that Lisa would go to college, but she knew that in the end she'd be an entrepreneur. Lisa viewed college not as a way to get her ideal job (she could create that all on her own!) but to get her MRS. degree. Yep, she knows it's not politically correct and confesses that she should have come of age in the fifties! Lisa was a teacher before she had kids, but she also did direct sales. Once her children came along, she quit her teaching but continued on with direct sales. She then added tutoring, cleaning houses, and scrapbooking to her list of entrepreneurial endeavors! Lisa's business ventures got so crazy that at one point she had 9 schedule C's on her tax return! (My head is spinning just thinking about it!) Finally, in 2012 after a really rough time period for her immediate and extended family, Lisa sat down to think about what she really wanted to do. She knew she was great at sales, but the question was, what did she want to sell? Where did her gifts and passions lie? Lisa found the common thread in all of her business pursuits: organization! She got her teaching job because her co-teacher was so disorganized they needed Lisa to come in and organize the classroom. She then went on to organize the whole school! Lisa's scrapbooking business was so productive for her and her clients because she helped them get organized first. Lisa even wrote an e-book on direct sales called: How to Organize the Business of Direct Sales. She had it! Lisa starting a professional organizing business and launched her website Organize365 in January of 2012. Becoming a Pro Lisa knew she was good at teaching and coaching, so she used that skill to create great content on her blog that would help others. Even though she was passionate about helping others get organized, Lisa still hadn't realized she was "expert enough" to call herself a professional and get clients. Instead, she was making money by doing direct sales and hosting parties for organizational supplies. Lisa's house parties were huge, and she couldn't figure out why so many people wanted to attend just to buy some plastic bins! Her friend said, "Everyone wants to know what a professional organizer has to say!" It finally dawned on Lisa that she was a pro at this, and she'd better start acting like it. In April of 2012 Lisa started doing professional organizing full-time and her business was profitable right away. In January of 2013, Lisa added her first team member to her in-home organizing team. In the Fall of 2013, she hired another person to work in her business, and she's hired several other team members since then. There are a Million Ways to Monetize! It's easy to look at other bloggers and think that replicating their business model will work for us. This isn't always the case! We each have different strengths, different tools at our disposal, and a different audience we're serving. Lisa quickly grew her in-person organization business, but she wanted to monetize her blog too. She saw lots of bloggers making money from couponing, advertising, and working with brands. She tried these methods a bit, but they didn't seem to work well for Lisa's audience or her skill set. She realized that she's better as a teacher, so she created more e-books to sell. In 2012, Lisa wrote 10 steps to organize paper. Next, she wrote an e-book about her Sunday basket. Then Lisa got the rights back to her first published book called the ABC's of the Bible. Continuing with her model of teaching, Lisa added a podcast just over a year ago.(In true Lisa-style, she couldn't have just one, Lisa has 3! Successful Direct Sales, Organize365, and Professional Organizer's Think Tank.) And finally, Lisa maintained her skill at direct sales, but she took a different, more modern approach. Rather than host home parties and assembling teams of sales people, Lisa used these great companies as affiliates on her blog. Lisa in a Box! If you're a great teacher or coach, I bet some of your clients have wished they could package you up in a box, order you online, and have you right there with them! Well, Lisa has done just that with her first physical product! It's called Get All Your Papers Organized in One Weekend.  Lisa combines the knowledge you need to get started, the motivation in the form of her walking you through each step via audio CD, and the tools needed shipped right to you. There are quick-start guides so you don't have to read the full e-books if you don't want to, 3 sets of slash pockets and 2 ONE clips (both of these are a big part of Lisa's organizational system, so you don't have to hunt them down at the store), Sunday planning printables, and Organize 365 printables. Could you come up with a way to help your long-distance customers by packaging yourself in a box? I bet you could! 3 Keys to Lisa's Success Lisa points to 3 key strategies that help her grow her business and keep it profitable. Create a team! Lisa has several great team members who work for her. One person edits everything Lisa does. (She confessed that she can't spell and doesn't understand the rules of grammar!) Then Lisa hired someone to take over her Pinterest account. Can you believe that Lisa hasn't pinned a single thing from her account that has over 20,000 followers? Lisa hired someone to do all of that for her! Lisa also has someone who does everything for her podcast. She'll sit down and record 5 episodes in two hours, then send them off to Amanda who edits and does everything else! Find your money-maker. For Lisa, being a professional organizer has been the most profitable endeavor, and she was able to make money quickly. That one profitable branch of her business can easily fund everything else she's done Whatever you focus on expands! You can't focus on 10 things at once, so you'll have to pick which aspects of your business you want to grow the most. Right now she's focusing on her paper organizing kit, so of course, that's what's making the most money right now.Lisa focuses on one big thing each month and then four smaller things. For example, next week Lisa is focused on getting her products into the Amazon store and figuring out shipping. Next week, she'll work on her 31 organizing videos for October. She's uploading them directly to Facebook each day to see if she can grow her Facebook following from 7,000 to 20,000 fans. In November, Lisa won't focus on Facebook as much. She likes to go really deep on a tiny thing and then analyze things a few months later to see what aspects of her business are worth the continued investment. (Lisa's strategy for managing her time and new business ventures sounds so similar to Rachel Coley's. Sarah and I both agree that it's a great approach, and we use it for our business too! We can't do it all.. as much as we'd like to!) Think Outside the Box with Outsourcing Lisa highly recommends the book, Virtual Freedom by Chris Ducker. In the book, Chris tells readers to make 3 lists. Write down the things you hate doing. (This could be cutting the grass, cleaning your house, or editing your blog posts.) Write down the things you're struggling to do on your own. (Perhaps building your website or designing your logo.) Write down the things you feel, as a business owner, that you shouldn't be doing on a day-to-day basis. (Chris says this list is the most important! It could be editing your photos or posting on social media. Maybe it's shipping your orders out the door. Even if you enjoy doing these things, your time may be better spent elsewhere to grow your business.) Lisa is a productivity nut! She wants to squeeze an extra task out of the hour and an extra minute out of every hour! Lisa says that mompreneurs often miss important things they can outsource that would give them more time for their business. She has a list of 10 household tasks you can outsource. You might feel guilty about this at first, but you have to think outside the box. If you outsource cleaning your house for $60-120 a week, you'd save yourself 5 hours a week of work. So Lisa looks at it this way: can she make at least $120 in that 5 hours of extra time? The answer for her is an absolute yes because she can work with a home organization client for $300 during that time. Ask yourself, "How much does it cost me to do that task, and how much does it cost someone else to do that task?" Another creative outsourcing solution: Lisa says, "don't outsource your parenting," but she does recommend getting help with the kids when they're little. Lisa used to hire a nanny on Wednesdays from 8 AM to 6 PM. Lisa was able to get 10 hours of productive, quiet work time for just $120. That was totally worth it! And in 10 hours of dedicated time, Lisa was able to plow through a ton of work versus working every naptime for 1.5 hours each day and feeling like you're not getting anywhere. If you don't have any funds for a sitter, consider swapping with a friend. You take her kids one day a week, and she takes yours on another. Then, you both get dedicated work time, and your kids have fun with their friends! How to make the most of your work time: Lisa recommends creating a work basket. As you think of tasks to do for your business, write them down and put them in your work basket. If you think of something to tell your business partner, just write it down and put it in the basket. Emails you have to respond to? Put them in the work basket! Then, when you've got your dedicated chunk of time, you know just what to tackle without getting sidetracked or distracted. You can plow through those little to-do's much faster than you realize when they're all in one place waiting for you. Validation as Mamapreneurs Another important mental aspect of having a dedicated time to work is that it gives your job some validation. It's earned a place on your calendar. You've made room for it. It's not just a casual gig anymore. Sarah and I had our own esoteric discussion here about validation as Mamapreneurs. When Sarah filled out the paperwork for her daughter's orthodontist appointment, she put homemaker as her occupation. But she thought to herself today, "I should put self-employed!" I agree, and I laughed and confessed that I've put "self-employed" on every bit of paperwork I get the moment we decided to launch our podcast! It often takes quite a while (and maybe it will never happen!) for others to recognize your home business as valid, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't recognize it as such. (It's valid, brilliant business mom! We believe in you!) Organization for Mamapreneurs Lisa says it's so important for Mamapreneurs to write down their biggest goal for the week, and then no more than 3 top goals for each day for the home and for their business. She's created a free printable for you to try to organize those top tasks as well as get your week organized each Sunday! When you start planning your top goals, you'll realize that email and social media don't often make the list, but without a plan, those tasks easily creep into the first place spot each day. Lisa also blocks off one work day each week to spend 6-8 hours on something that will grow her business to another level. So, for example, getting her products on Amazon, or creating new videos or a new product. The Sunday Basket Lisa's main method for organizing paper involves something called, "The Sunday Basket. It's a basket, box or bag that you keep on your kitchen counter. Every bit of paper that you receive, along with other simple to-do's goes into this basket. For example, a bill that doesn't need to be paid right that second, paperwork from the kids' school, an item to return to Walmart. On Sunday after the kids are in bed, take out every single thing, touch it and ask, "can this wait until next Sunday or does it need to be done this week?" Everything that must be done that week should have a plan for action. In this way, all of your paperwork and to-do's are in one, manageable place, and you only tackle the things that need to be tackled, without forgetting anything along the way. How Blogging Brings Clarity Once you start blogging regularly, you'll quickly realize that it can clarify what you're good at and what your readers respond to. Lisa quickly realized that she was constantly talking about organizing paperwork, and her audience really responded. A bonus of this is that Lisa ranks really high in Google for terms related to organizing paper because no one talks about it! People discuss going paperless or they simply pretend all that paper doesn't exist. Lisa has dug deep when it comes to organizing paper. Here's what she recommends: Gather up every piece of paper from your whole house. The papers on your nightstand. Your kids' art work, receipts...everything! Put it all into a laundry basket (or two!) Lisa says that people generally start with 2 full laundry baskets and by week 6-8 of organizing their paper they get their Sunday Basket down to a manageable size. Tackle a new paper challenge with Lisa each week. She'll walk you through all the different items you'll find in your basket: what to do with cash, projects, receipts, and more. Keep going. Lisa gets that no one wants to do paper! It's hard for her to get clients to do it even when she's standing right there with them! But if you can get a handle on the kitchen counter paperwork, you'll feel like Supermom! It's worth it!   A Simple Method for Efficient Blogging When Lisa started blogging in January of 2012, all she knew was that she needed to be consistent, she needed to have a niche, and she needed to create content. She came up with the idea of a series in order to be consistent and help others get organized right along with her. The challenge is called: 40 Weeks, One Whole House. Lisa divided her house into 40 zones, and she tackled a different zone each week. The next year, Lisa did the challenge with her readers again, but this time she hired a professional photographer to take better photos of her work. The year after that, Lisa did the 40-week challenge again but this time she added a podcast so her readers could hear her talking as though she was right there with them helping them organize their homes.Lisa says it takes going through the challenge about 3 times to really make your home look great! Sarah and I both LOVED this genius strategy of creating awesome, helpful content but just adding a bit more each year. Lisa says there are only so many ways you can organize a laundry room. So rather than write 16 fluffy blog posts on the topic, she writes one killer post that motivates her readers to take action.Is there an insanely helpful series you can create for your readers and then repeat on your blog, year-after-year? Paying for Emails? This year, Lisa decided to offer her 40-week challenge as an email auto-responder series as an added help for her readers. The problem was, she was using Mailchimp, and when she received new participants, they could start at week 1, but they couldn't skip ahead and join the whole group of challengers if they wanted to.Lisa decided to switch to InfusionSoft which offers both options for a new subscriber. Then, no matter where someone signed up, everyone will be back at week 1 together the next Fall. Because Infusionsoft is quite expensive, Lisa knew she had to justify this expense. She charges a one-time fee of $40 for the 40-week email series. Once you pay for the series, you'll get it forever until you unsubscribe.Lisa knew if she could sell just 5-10 of these email subscriptions each month, that would pay for Infusionsoft. She's more than met that goal! She's not getting hundreds of sales, but the people who do sign up really love it. Everything they need for each week's challenge is all in one place, and they just click the link in their inbox. Bloggers can Sell on Etsy too! Lisa's not a handmade maven, but she does have a lot of digital products (and a physical one now too!) that she wanted to sell all in one place. Lisa decided to open an Etsy shop as the hub for her products.Her shop, Organize365, has been open since May of 2014 and she's had over 700 sales to date. Some of Lisa's products cost over $90 too! If you're a blogger struggling to create a beautiful storefront for your products, consider opening an Etsy shop and linking right to it from your blog. It's so easy to get started, and Etsy makes the shopper experience a bit more user-friendly and streamlined than many of the cheaper apps you could use on your own site. If you're a coach or expert in a given field, Etsy can be the perfect place to make more passive income. Lisa took all of her coaching and teaching knowledge and turned it into digital products. Not everyone can afford to use her as a coach, and not everyone lives close enough to have Lisa organize their home in person, but with digital products and Etsy, Lisa can serve her audience in more ways. Lisa's App Lisa is always looking for ways to better serve her audience and make life easier for them. In the Spring of 2015, she decided to have an app developed for her 40-week organizing challenge. Lisa paid $2,000 for the app and pays $50/month for hosting. Her app is available for both android and ios. Inside the app, Lisa's challengers can find the podcast and blog post related to that week's challenge without searching and without being distracted by all the other content on her site. The coolest thing about this app? Lisa can send out push notifications whenever she wants! She can tell people, "hey it's week four, tell me if you're going to sell or donate your items this week!" Their app will show a red circle to let them know there's something new to see. From the app, Lisa's challengers can link straight into her Facebook group and chat with each other. LIsa says, "it's so hard to organize your house by yourself. The community aspect really helps." How's the app going? Lisa says she has about 3,000 users right now, and they're equally split between android and ios. She's still not sure if the app itself will be a revenue generator or not. At this point, she doesn't charge for it. Right now, the app is just serving her current audience better and allowing her to connect with them in a new way. Lisa believes that all of the 3,000 users were people who were already on her email list or listening to her podcast. They haven't found her organically at this point, but the app has only been out for 6 weeks. We can't wait to see how the app continues to grow and serve her audience! What a cool idea! Lisa's Awesome Mom Moment When your teenage son respects what you do, you know you're on the right track! Tune in to hear what Lisa's son told her recently! Stay in Touch with Lisa! Lisa has created a special page just for Brilliant Business Moms Listeners. It has the Sunday basket printables to help you organize your week and a checklist for anyone interested in becoming a professional organizer.Head to Organize365.com/brilliant Other links mentioned in the episode:  Our super secret freebies page for our email subscribers.