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On the Wednesday podcast, I talk with the Organize 365® community members as they share the challenges, progress, missteps, and triumphs along their organizing journey. You can see and hear transformation in action. I look forward to helping YOU learn the skill of organization, too!
You are in for a treat because, in this episode, we meet Deanne. She found Organize 365® through the book “How ADHD Affects Home Organization.” She’s a mental health professional seeking resources for her clients, but she also found the book helpful and wanted to learn more about functional organization!
Deanne lives with her husband, her 15-year-old son, and an 18-year-old exchange student from Norway! She also has two older sons that have launched.
Since Deanne is a mental health professional, we jump into the connection between the organization and mental health. How does organization impact our mental health? We speak anecdotally about the physiological and emotional distress that an organization can cause.
Deanne started her functional organizing journey with The Sunday Basket®. It’s a great place to start! She now has a Sunday Basket® she manages on her mom’s behalf, a Friday Workbox® for her business, and has gotten her oldest son to use his Sunday Basket®.
Deanne plays many roles in life – she is a wife, mother, business owner, caregiver for her mother, and I’m sure many other things. We get into what functional organization and systems like The Paper Solution® Binders can do for you as you balance these roles and advocate for others.
As Deanne took on caregiving for her mom, she became the power of healthcare and management of attorney. She set up a Sunday Basket® for her and had to sort through a room’s worth of paper on her mom’s behalf. She has made it a point to set up her binders. We discuss how doing our binders is (1) a gift we give to those that will one day have to advocate for us or settle our estates and (2) a project that doesn’t need to be perfect. If you are using The Paper Solution® Binders and they are at 80%, that is an A+ and will save you and your family time in the future.
We discuss the process of implementing the Sunday Basket® and our learning styles. How did you implement your Sunday Basket®? Did you do it all at once or one step at a time? Deanne waited until she had a big chunk of time and could get it all set up how she wanted.
She’s now well on her way. This interview covers so many topics, tips, and positive organizing affirmations!
EPISODE RESOURCES:
- How ADHD Affects Home Organization
- The Sunday Basket®
- The Friday Workbox®
- The Paper Solution® Binders
- Additional Resources for Getting Organized with ADHD
