Do you remember the excitement of going back to school? That energy follows us into our adulthood because of the years of repetition AND the message of “get ready for back to school” is everywhere, in the stores, news, and social media. Now is the time to get your fall supplies ready. What are your fall supplies as an adult you may be asking? Well it’s registering for Planning Day and preparing your mind to get a plan in place. You want to be productive this fall, right?

Planning Day

What is Planning Day? Thursday, August 21st, you’ll spend 2 hours on a live webinar prepping for Planning day on August 23rd. On Saturday, August 23rd, you’ll spend 4 hours on a live webinar getting a solid plan in place. You’ll look at your responsibilities, time constraints, any Golden Windows you may be anticipating, and goals you want to set for the next 120 days (4 months.) You’ll look at week day time vs. Saturday time vs. Sunday time. Are there some new habits you’ve been wanting to implement? You’ll look at your routines and slip those new habits into your day and try them out.

What to do first?

You get a plan in place but where do you actually start? The Productive Home Solution will suggest what area of your home you will want to focus on based on the natural energy of this back to school/fall/holiday season upcoming. This is your 52 week guide to getting your whole house organized…but only 40 stations. You will spend more time at some stations that just one week. Each station is a space in your home like your personal closet, bathrooms, bedrooms, storage and all the other spaces. However, if you have a space you are dying to attack, go nuts. Each space/ module is independent of the other modules. Tanya will be leading The Productive Home Solution™ club and there you will find a supportive community to do this with!

We are also offering the Fall Productivity Enrollment Bundle! You will get your Planning Day, The Productive Home Solution™, AND the two year planner!! The Productive Home Solution™ is a lifetime membership. You will revisit over and over again as your phase of life changes and/or as you assume the responsibility of other homes. And now, Planning Day is like a lil retreat that takes place over three days to really mull over your options and plan how you want to spend your time this fall. This is what you need to know where you are going and over time that train of yours is going to pick up the pace and become productive.

Now, how dreamy would it be to get everything you will need for one whole year and not have to go back into the Organize 365® store to pick up something you are seeing in Planning Day or The Productive Home Solution™? That’s why we have The Complete Home Organizing Bundle! You will get all three planning days, The Productive Home Solution™, The Paper Solution, Holiday Blitz Bundle, Organization is a learnable skill in paper back AND audio, the two year planner, and Embrace!! You will save $700 and be set for the year. Need a payment plan, listen to the episode for insider tips. There is no perfect time to get started. Decide that you want to get organized and through Planning Day you’ll find the time you need to get organized. When you at least have a plan in place, when the unexpected happens, you won’t be thrown off the tracks, you may just take a little longer getting to the next station. You will have systems in place!

**Get signed up and then tune in, on August 15th, for a special webinar all about this Fall Enrollment or you can email customer service!

EPISODE RESOURCES:

• CustomerService@organize365.com

• Planning Day

• Fall Enrollment Bundle

• The Complete Home Organizing Bundle

• Sign Up for the Organize 365® Newsletter

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Is there anything I love more than planning? No! This was a fun set of questions to ask about planning, breaking down and attacking goals, and how to practice discipline that leads to organization getting completed so you can move on to productivity!

Integrating Home and Work Planning

When I started Organize 365® I was focused on the energy of the home and trimesters made the most sense. When I started organization for work it made the most sense to plan quarterly since all businesses run quarterly to accommodate the tax schedule. But in true Lisa fashion, I have listened to the masses and I agree, let’s do all the planning at once. In December, Home and Work Planning Days will occur at the same time over a three day span. I suggested that you consider populating your slash pockets of focus, from both categories and include a few from home school if it applies. What do I mean? It will make more sense if you listen to the full episode. We are all trying to get #allthethings done and feeling like we are failing. I walked through a couple of solutions that could alleviate that feeling. At the end of the day make sure you are only focusing on those things that need to get done this week.

Be Portable

As we are all trying to get it all done, consider these few things. What is the task and can it be portable? Is it in a bin? Throw it in the car. When you have idol time in your car, you can be productive. One favorite hack I shared was the Chromebook. There is a keyboard which I love and no need for wifi. It’s always ready for you to check numbers, work on your side hustle, make updates on accounts, or pay some bills. One person who wrote in is just in a “weird phase” as she put it and I reminded her of the go bag. Make sure you are ready to be caught off guard. And in that bag you could have snacks and water for the unexpected event or the hunger you work up from working out of your car.

Good news, you can learn discipline too?

It’s time for me to offer some tough love, “How bad do you want it?” Multiple people wrote in about “what if you aren’t in the right energy”, “what if you plan but then you don’t follow through”, and “unexpected events that throw you off.” Active parenting young kids is a whole other chapter to which I offered 6 valuable tips to you parents. You have to do the work to get the results. You can’t lose weight if you don’t change anything and so you too can’t get organized if you don’t make a plan and then run that plan.

The Sunday Basket® will provide a plan for the week and Planning Day will provide a plan for the next 120 days. And The Productive Home Solution ™ makes your personal spaces work for you! Most of Planning Day is not about goal setting. Planning day is about looking at your time, how you are currently using it, and what do you want to accomplish? When you look at all aspects of your life you can see where you have time to get organized or complete a project. Remember to treat your spouse as a “nice to have.” I like being in charge and I like being “the flow.” I plan as though I have no one to help me. But when the opportunity presents itself for me to have help, I take it and delegate. I plan everything like it depends on me, but I pray like everything depends on God.

EPISODE RESOURCES:

• The Sunday Basket®

• The Paper Solution®

• The Productive Home Solution (where you will find the Spring Break Blitz Week)

• Ep. 595 - Pick Your Meaty Summer Project (How to break down big projects)

• Home Planning Day

• Work Planning Day

• Sign Up for the Organize 365® Newsletter

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In this episode, I introduce you to Lisa P. who lives in Australia with one of her three daughters, her husband, 24 mini goats, 20 ducks, 20 chickens, 2 dogs, and 2 guinea fowl. Lisa P. lives on a farm (could you tell) and has a cottage that she rents out like an Air BNB. Lisa P. heard an interview with me and was attracted to my passion for systems and organization. When I started talking about jigsaw puzzles and then the Sunday Basket® Lisa P. thought, “You got me!”

Lisa started binging the podcast last year like 2 hours a day! Lisa had always been an organized person and had systems in place but she felt like they weren’t working with each other. As a trailblazer among her peers starting a family first, she felt like she was always advising them. Now for the first time Lisa P had someone to look up to that had been down the road ahead of her and she could learn from the podcast, systems, and products.

We agreed that even though kids grow up and move out…the complexities of life don’t go away. It’s like there’s this significance of our active parenting years. So when her first flew out of the nest and the next followed very soon, she didn’t know how to feel. But then, she claimed this next phase of life for herself! She got excited about making the spare room for her and her hobbies, she accepted cleaning isn’t the most important thing, and she set a regular guilt free tea time to relax before the evening routine begins.

Lisa P. uses her daily routines like a flow chart. She has a list of priorities. When one gets by passed because maybe the cottage doesn’t have guests checking in or it’s a rainy day, she just continues down the list of daily responsibilities to be completed. She explained her life as romantically chasing the energy of her year, her almanac. Lisa P. has always had a passion for the seasons. After completing the Productive Home Solution™ she found the energies to match that of the Northern Hemisphere even though their seasons and school year is different. She loves how one energy pushes you into the next. It was so interesting to hear how the Australian year unfolds.

Lisa P. loves the Sunday Basket® because all the actionable papers don’t go away each week. Sometimes you need to hold on to actionable paper for a month or two while it goes through whatever process. But it’s nice to have the paper piles gone and a safe place that she knows where the papers are now. She also loves home Planning Day to figure out what projects will be top priority for her house in her flow chart. She has a Sunday Basket® for her “All Seasons Project” and a Friday Workbox® for the farm. She’s learned the difference between clearing and organizing and that has quieted the negative self talk about her home management skills.

Lisa P.’s advice is, “The game changer is identifying what stage of life you are in, then start feeling ok about it.”

EPISODE RESOURCES:

• The Sunday Basket®

• Friday Workbox®

• The Productive Home Solution®

• Home Planning Day

• Sign Up for the Organize 365® Newsletter

On the Wednesday podcast, I get to talk with members of the Organize 365­® community as they share the challenges, progress, missteps and triumphs along their organizing journey. I am grateful that you are reaching out to share with me and with this community. You can see and hear transformation in action. If you are ready to share your story with us, please apply at https://organize365.com/wednesday.

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