I hear you on evaluating your schedule & time not working for employer = I retired early (still not retirement age) & i think it's great to be able to do whatever I want, however, i did realize that in order to still feel 'value & purpose' in my life -> i had to still create new habits & intentionally implement certain things to be Moving Forward & not become a wasted & very unhealthy, overwhelmed, discouraged at life individual. 😊 Happy to say that i have succeeded at Moving Forward, feeling purpose & Enjoying Life.
I’m at the start of this process now - after 20 years of disorganisation & clutter build up. Have family with equally disorganised husband (or at least anything outside of himself) & 3 kids. Its hard to stay on track with regular chores, and deal with backlog and make any other progress towards anything outside of that without getting overwhelmed and managing energy levels and emotions. Hence I am listening to this video 🙏
Hi Ed and Gayle, thanks so much for this video..I have listened and / or watched 3 times. I usually watch your videos at least twice. You both have helped me so much. I really thought your suggestion to the one viewer of hiring an organizer and working with she AND her mother and that might help. You have such good ideas...you are a true problem solver ( both of you) ..I have realized from this video to go back to the basics of first things first, most important done first and also I have noticed with age and my physical limitations my being a go getter in the mornings is pretty tough so I changed a few small routines to the evenings...like making sure the kitchen is all cleaned up. It saves me alot of frustration in the a.m.;s.
I'm just doing a little at a time right now! Main chores have to come first like sweeping and vacuuming and washing dishes. Everything else is secondary. But I did move a file to the paperwork that needs to be gone through, and I did take some donations to my car, and I did take the recycle out recently, and so on. I've been starting up slowly, but really I've been doing a hell of a lot more than I give myself credit for!
Self-care+decluttering=at-home spa! I decluttered my bathroom by putting, , in one large basket ALL of my extra lotions, conditioners, shampoos, body cleaners, etc . Now I have a luxurious spa basket all ready for my weekly pampering at home spa treatments. That is my self-care indulgence, plus it uses up all my stockpiled bath products. And a huge bonus is that all of my bathroom cabinets+drawers are now decluttered, and only contain the daily necessities. This bathroom decluttering has greatly reduced my stress level, which is so important in self-care. I owe Gayle Goddard for her perfect advice, because she advises "bigger buckets". So I made a "bigger basket" of ALL my spa products, and now I can pick through the big basket,, and select which products I will treat myself to up that week.
I did some of my best decluttering in little stolen moments between priorities. I was working from home (no commute), so after my husband left for his job, I had about a half hour before I needed to start working. Instead of wasting the time, I opened the file cabinet that held miscellaneous papers and office supplies. It probably took me a couple of weeks to go through everything, but every day I got some more done, and it felt like it didn't take any time at all. I also went through my too-large collection of cookbooks by making a stack of them next to my chair in the living room. While watching TV with my husband, I paged through the books, looking for recipes I either had made and liked, or would want to make in the future. I put a bookmark in the pages I wanted to keep, and then made copies of those pages later, to put into a binder. I'm not a big cook, there really weren't many recipes to keep. Again, it really didn't feel like it took any time at all, yet made a lot of progress. That left me with plenty of energy for bigger projects done with my husband, like downsizing the stuff in the kitchen. And yet I was also making progress at the same time on smaller projects that demanded lots of detail work on my part alone, like sorting through papers.
And yes! This is my job! I like how you talked about it like a job or form of self employment because I am literally out of work and none is coming anytime soon so this is what I'm doing with my life at 30 years old.
Yes agree about different areas/categories of fitness (physical, financial, mental, household, etc) ..Zig Ziggler (yrs ago) wrote a book about 7 categories to be continuously working on = you don't want to arrive financially fit at retirement w/No family, No health, No marriage etc. .. And agree about not needing to do all categories every day, but at least once during the wk, preferably more for some categories.
🤔My motivator to get things organized or to find a place for everything is...WHAT WOULD I PANIC ABOUT if unexpected company came to the door and I had to let them in! My issue is I just need follow up and finish the task. Example -wash clothes, fold or hang them BUT making sure the pile of clean, folded clothes is NOT sitting in a pile on my sofa for my imaginary company to have nowhere to sit and my need to scurry and move them! Put the dang dishes in the cabinet! Mimics Gayle's "pretend you are moving"...pretend cousin Suzie is knocking at the door!
Ed, The important and urgent method technique is the Stephen covey seven habits of highly effective people book. The four quadrants. You put those alternating words on two sides of each square so square one is the fire square two is your maintenance stuff three is important but not urgent and square four is not urgent and not important... I like the thought of using that and deciding those priorities like your talking about it it helps. Especially for me when I totally can visualize that square business. I had a wall dedicated to putting all my tasks on little posted in those areas it's certainly took it off my mind, in a GTD way! :-)
ED: For remembering time saving time: In the Spring: Spring forward. Both the word "spring" in it. Then in Oktober it is one hour backwards. You only have to remember Spring. (In the Netherlands: Voorjaar (spring) = clock vooruit (forward). Both the word "voor" in it).
I hear you on evaluating your schedule & time not working for employer = I retired early (still not retirement age) & i think it's great to be able to do whatever I want, however, i did realize that in order to still feel 'value & purpose' in my life -> i had to still create new habits & intentionally implement certain things to be Moving Forward & not become a wasted & very unhealthy, overwhelmed, discouraged at life individual. 😊 Happy to say that i have succeeded at Moving Forward, feeling purpose & Enjoying Life.
"Spring" forward -- "Fall" back = how I remember 😊
I’m at the start of this process now - after 20 years of disorganisation & clutter build up. Have family with equally disorganised husband (or at least anything outside of himself) & 3 kids. Its hard to stay on track with regular chores, and deal with backlog and make any other progress towards anything outside of that without getting overwhelmed and managing energy levels and emotions. Hence I am listening to this video 🙏
Hi Ed and Gayle, thanks so much for this video..I have listened and / or watched 3 times. I usually watch your videos at least twice. You both have helped me so much. I really thought your suggestion to the one viewer of hiring an organizer and working with she AND her mother and that might help. You have such good ideas...you are a true problem solver ( both of you) ..I have realized from this video to go back to the basics of first things first, most important done first and also I have noticed with age and my physical limitations my being a go getter in the mornings is pretty tough so I changed a few small routines to the evenings...like making sure the kitchen is all cleaned up. It saves me alot of frustration in the a.m.;s.
I'm just doing a little at a time right now! Main chores have to come first like sweeping and vacuuming and washing dishes. Everything else is secondary. But I did move a file to the paperwork that needs to be gone through, and I did take some donations to my car, and I did take the recycle out recently, and so on. I've been starting up slowly, but really I've been doing a hell of a lot more than I give myself credit for!
I have learned so much from your channel.💗👋🤗🇦🇺👍🏻
Self-care+decluttering=at-home spa! I decluttered my bathroom by putting, , in one large basket ALL of my extra lotions, conditioners, shampoos, body cleaners, etc . Now I have a luxurious spa basket all ready for my weekly pampering at home spa treatments. That is my self-care indulgence, plus it uses up all my stockpiled bath products. And a huge bonus is that all of my bathroom cabinets+drawers are now decluttered, and only contain the daily necessities. This bathroom decluttering has greatly reduced my stress level, which is so important in self-care. I owe Gayle Goddard for her perfect advice, because she advises "bigger buckets". So I made a "bigger basket" of ALL my spa products, and now I can pick through the big basket,, and select which products I will treat myself to up that week.
I did some of my best decluttering in little stolen moments between priorities. I was working from home (no commute), so after my husband left for his job, I had about a half hour before I needed to start working. Instead of wasting the time, I opened the file cabinet that held miscellaneous papers and office supplies. It probably took me a couple of weeks to go through everything, but every day I got some more done, and it felt like it didn't take any time at all.
I also went through my too-large collection of cookbooks by making a stack of them next to my chair in the living room. While watching TV with my husband, I paged through the books, looking for recipes I either had made and liked, or would want to make in the future. I put a bookmark in the pages I wanted to keep, and then made copies of those pages later, to put into a binder. I'm not a big cook, there really weren't many recipes to keep. Again, it really didn't feel like it took any time at all, yet made a lot of progress.
That left me with plenty of energy for bigger projects done with my husband, like downsizing the stuff in the kitchen. And yet I was also making progress at the same time on smaller projects that demanded lots of detail work on my part alone, like sorting through papers.
I listen to these podcasts when I feel anxious. Thank you for all of your hard work 💕
And yes! This is my job! I like how you talked about it like a job or form of self employment because I am literally out of work and none is coming anytime soon so this is what I'm doing with my life at 30 years old.
Beautiful spring background 💐
Beautiful color on you Gayle 💕
Missed the live again! 😵💫😵💫😵💫
P.S. Thanks for organizing the videos into playlists. It is helpful and much appreciated. 😃
Yes agree about different areas/categories of fitness (physical, financial, mental, household, etc) ..Zig Ziggler (yrs ago) wrote a book about 7 categories to be continuously working on = you don't want to arrive financially fit at retirement w/No family, No health, No marriage etc. .. And agree about not needing to do all categories every day, but at least once during the wk, preferably more for some categories.
Putting out fires! Story of my life.😱
"Urgent fun" is part of the purpose of life - it should sometimes have the highest priority
All I had to do was look at the title to know this program is for me. Now, to listen…
I listen multiple times while I do my regular house chores. Gayle & Ed have such calming voices & it helps me focus.
Me too. Good company.☺️
🤔My motivator to get things organized or to find a place for everything is...WHAT WOULD I PANIC ABOUT if unexpected company came to the door and I had to let them in! My issue is I just need follow up and finish the task. Example -wash clothes, fold or hang them BUT making sure the pile of clean, folded clothes is NOT sitting in a pile on my sofa for my imaginary company to have nowhere to sit and my need to scurry and move them! Put the dang dishes in the cabinet! Mimics Gayle's "pretend you are moving"...pretend cousin Suzie is knocking at the door!
Ed, The important and urgent method technique is the Stephen covey seven habits of highly effective people book.
The four quadrants. You put those alternating words on two sides of each square so square one is the fire square two is your maintenance stuff three is important but not urgent and square four is not urgent and not important...
I like the thought of using that and deciding those priorities like your talking about it it helps. Especially for me when I totally can visualize that square business.
I had a wall dedicated to putting all my tasks on little posted in those areas it's certainly took it off my mind, in a GTD way! :-)
ED: For remembering time saving time: In the Spring: Spring forward. Both the word "spring" in it.
Then in Oktober it is one hour backwards. You only have to remember Spring.
(In the Netherlands: Voorjaar (spring) = clock vooruit (forward).
Both the word "voor" in it).
I remember it by saying Spring Forward, Fall Back!
Lord have mercy
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