014 - Literature Review & Discussion - The Role Women Play in the 21st Century Home and Gender Equity
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Today, I am bringing back the Organize 365 lead researcher, Sarah Dyson. We are sharing about our soon to be published literature review scheduled to be in the The Journal of the Arkansas Psychological Association. We share how we needed to define a shared language in order to collect data and discuss solutions. The submitted article is titled The Role Women play in the 21st Century Home and Gender Equality- A State of the Art Literature Review. As soon as it is available, we will share a copy of the publication on our research page at . My initial hypothesis was that women were doing...
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013 - Organizing Paper Management
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In this podcast series, we've been talking about essential organizing. You can catch up on this series by listening to these episodes: This week, we are moving to organizing your paper management in our quest for functional organization in your home. You know how much I love to talk about paper organization! People are FINALLY coming around to the fact that paper is not going away, and it needs to be organized. You could organize your paper first or last, and you could also choose to only organize portions of your paper. We found in that 54% of people have piles of paper...
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012 - Organizing Storage Spaces
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011 - Organizing Family & Communal Spaces
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This week we are moving from personal organization to the next area of organization: family and communal spaces. These are the areas that you will want to organize first because people see them when they come into your home, but they are the hardest areas to organize and maintain. I know, there can be judgment anxiety over these spaces. There is also a tension between wanting these spaces to look good but also being able to live in them comfortably. , we found that only 14% of people say that they have their family and communal spaces organized. Why is this? Well... How often have you...
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010 - Organizing Personal Spaces
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I’ll be honest: Organization is optional. While cleaning and tasks of daily living are not optional, you CAN survive without organizing. Even though this next-level step of organization is optional, when you do choose to do it, it is a current investment of time today for a future exponential return on time later. Organization always pays you back in time and sometimes money. You can't make anyone else be organized, so you have to start with yourself and your personal spaces. Organization must become a habit starting with these personal spaces. It needs to be something that you do regularly,...
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009 - Swiss Cheese Organizing - Organize 365® Research Findings
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What does it mean to be organized? How do you know when you’re done organizing? No one has ever officially defined "organized." I decided I would define it. We started by conducting academic-level research using our surveys. You can read more about Organize 365® Research and the finding on our . For most Americans, organization happens as Swiss cheese organizing. You’re a little organized here and a little organized there. You can’t confidently say, “I AM organized,” because you think that being organized means perfection while not being organized is hoarding. You don’t have...
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008 - Defining Housework Part 4 - Maintenance
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Learn more at organize365.com/podcast/defining-housework-maintenance In November of 2020, I did a two part podcast on the four kinds of work in business ( & ). It turns out, there are also four kinds of housework, and I introduced these in . There are many of these business concepts that also equate to our homes, we just don’t think of running our household like it is a business. We hear a lot about work/life balance as though these are two separate ways of getting things done. There are so many parallels between your day job and your home job. A few podcasts ago, I shared that...
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007 - Defining Housework Part 3 - Organization
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Learn more at In November of 2020, I did a two part podcast on the four kinds of work in business ( & ). It turns out, there are also four kinds of housework, and I introduced these in . There are many of these business concepts that also equate to our homes, we just don’t think of running our household like it is a business. We hear a lot about work/life balance as though these are two separate ways of getting things done. There are so many parallels between your day job and your home job. A few podcasts ago, I shared that Organize 365 is pursuing research about organization. One of...
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006 - Defining Housework Part 2 - Tasks of Daily Living
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In November of 2020, I did a two part podcast on the four kinds of work in business ( & ). It turns out, there are also four kinds of housework, and I introduced these in . There are many of these business concepts that also equate to our homes, we just don’t think of running our household like it is a business. We hear a lot about work/life balance as though these are two separate ways of getting things done. There are so many parallels between your day job and your home job. A few podcasts ago, I shared that Organize 365 is pursuing research about organization. One of the first...
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005 - Defining Housework Part 1 - Cleaning
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In November of 2020, I did a two part podcast on the four kinds of work in business ( & ). It turns out, there are also four kinds of housework, and I introduced these in . There are many of these business concepts that also equate to our homes, we just don’t think of running our household like it is a business. We hear a lot about work/life balance as though these are two separate ways of getting things done. There are so many parallels between your day job and your home job. A few podcasts ago, I shared that Organize 365 is pursuing research about organization. One of the first...
info_outlineThis week we are moving from personal organization to the next area of organization: family and communal spaces.
These are the areas that you will want to organize first because people see them when they come into your home, but they are the hardest areas to organize and maintain. I know, there can be judgment anxiety over these spaces. There is also a tension between wanting these spaces to look good but also being able to live in them comfortably.
In our research study, we found that only 14% of people say that they have their family and communal spaces organized. Why is this? Well...
How often have you spent so much time cleaning and organizing just to turn around and find that space trashed again? I'm sure you've been through these seasons or you might be living in one of those seasons right now! Sometimes, it's like shoveling snow in a snow storm!
As you can see, family and communal spaces are hard and that's why I recommend that you start with organizing your personal spaces. Build your organizational muscles and habits there first. When you do get to the family and communal spaces, start with your kitchen. You'll feel a difference when you know where everything is in your kitchen and when you know that everything in there is purposeful. After the kitchen, move on to your other shared spaces: the family room, communal bathrooms, dining room, front hall closet, and cleaning supplies.
Listen to this episode for more encouragement and inspiration for tackling the organization of these hard-to-organize family and communal spaces.
What makes these family and communal spaces so hard for you to organize and maintain? Do you have toddlers? Teens? Lack of time? Too much stuff?
Ready to get these family and communal spaces organized? Learn more about The Productive Home Solution™ and how the program can help you reach that goal.