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One of the inspirations for me to pursue my PhD was āThe Secret of Home Economicsā by Danielle Drelinger and I got to interview her for this episode. Danielle and I were able to discuss some of the topics but, honestly, you gotta read the book!! Danielle wanted to write this book, because she covered education as a journalist. She knew she wanted it to be about education, include all races, all genres, all economic classes, and cover history. Thus was born āThe Secret History of Home Economicsā!
Origins of Home Economics Pre World Wars
The first thing I wanted to discuss was the role of home economics pre-wars. From the 1800ās leading up to the wars, home economics was really for any person, AKA not gender specific. Home economics was more the actual tasks and how labor intensive they were due to lack of electricity, running water, and staff. That staff was often immigrants and black women once slavery had ended. A black student I know, from a different PhD program, joked that they have always done laundry. Not even a question to outsource it, black women remember were slaves first but then hired help. But even in those days, it was common to outsource your laundry. It was outsourced to locations that had running water and other conveniences.
Importance of Home Economics During the Wars - Science of Food
The discussion shifted more towards home economics during WWII. It was during this time that women entered the work force in America. Home economics was teaching these women how to cook and maintain their homes with the additional demands of working. Women were creating clothing patterns to make work clothes and teaching clothes how to mend and make do due to limited supplies. They were also experimenting with food to keep their families fed and feed our soldiers. Home economists wrote cookbooks for each arm of the military. The Angels of Bataan, planted to supplement prisoners of war rations in the Philippines. At home, they had victory gardens to supplement rations too. Canning discovered through home economics was discovered and became popular to ensure food supply.
And the industrial revolution brought home appliances to help with labor intensive tasks like laundry and ovens that had temperature regulation. Along with conveniences came higher expectations. This is where I pointed out that I am working on the definition of housework because some of the āmale tasksā seem more to me like āhousehold ownershipā. And itās peculiar how the definition of home economics became mostly a womanās role after the war.
The Deliberateness of Stay At Home Mom Depiction
The men had come back, they fired a majority of the women, and men were back to work. Now stay at home moms were in charge of emotionally supporting their children and the care of their upbringing and all the text books reflected that. āKids need their moms and moms need to be available all the time.ā It was then I realized that I have a degree in Family and Consumer Sciences but the only thing that schooling taught me was early childhood education! The bureau of Home Economics that once was making patterns for adjustable bib overalls for women in the workforce was now selling patterns for shopping coats for women to wear while shopping for groceries.
How Should We Move Forward?
Danielle feels strongly and I agree that the name should be changed back to Home Economics. A majority of people Danielle speaks to feels this is a class that should be added back to the curriculum of school - to teach basic life skills. And considering all of the subdisciplines, we should be offering a more holistic teaching of home economics; like eating healthy more affordably and consuming more responsibly. You guysā¦you gotta read or listen to the whole book!
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In stage 2, you were starting to think about small pockets of time that you could make random amounts of money because there isnāt enough income to cover the expenses that you have reduced as much as possible. There may be something that has become more steady and you are making more than $600/year. This is a Schedule C on your taxes, where you submit a 1099 or claim the money earned. In 2009, I had 11 schedule Cās that I eventually combined under one LLC.
Do You Like Chicken Cacciatore?
I do! My mother-in-law gave me her recipe. I found I liked to bake it a little differently than her. I re-wrote her two sided index instructions, down to one side, the way I make it for my family. I like that itās no longer stored in my brain. I just grab my instructions and make dinner, in fact anyone in my family could do the same. This is the same idea as an SOP (standard operating procedures) for your business. You should write down the process to complete the tasks for your job/household manager role. In the event there is someone new taking over one of your tasks, audit the steps to make sure itās accurate before you hand it off to the new person, child or spouse.
Passion Turned Side Hustle
Now letās say I make it for my neighbors and they love it. Letās say they start to pay me to bake for them. I start making pretty good money each week cooking for them. I could also be baking my family the same meal at the same time. My invisible work I originally did for my family has become paid work that I now report to Uncle Sam through my taxes. Itās important to track all of my expenses in making the meals like mileage to the grocery store, the grocery bill, portion of my gas bill for using my oven, and when I start to expand to other people the mileage for delivery. This information is added into the monthly P & L, which you can track in the Organize 365Ā® Income & Expense Binder. If you arenāt a good cook, you could babysit, clean homes, tutor, dog sit, Uber, Door Dash, bookkeeping, Fairy Godmother for a family, or direct sales **but make sure you are profitable. What do you have a passion for and you are good at? Will people pay you to do that? Be confident completing the job (that saves them time) and accept the money for a task you may do for your family for free. I suggest any side hustle you could charge at least $20/hr up to $60/hr or an amount per day like $100/day.
The Value of a Systems
If unpaid work is not optimized, then you cannot add in paid work because paid work (side hustle like baking for your neighbors) will always supersede unpaid work (your personal house work and baking Chicken Cacciatore). The complete Home Organizational Bundle; Sunday BasketĀ® for weekly checks and balance, The Paper Solution for information management, and The Productive Home Solution to set up your house to effectively serve your family for the phase of life you are in, and planning days to audit your systems. Good operating systems in place allow unexpected events to feel like speed bumps instead of falling off of a cliff. Now you are ready for stage 3. Your systems are in place, you are documenting your income and expenses, and you have freed capacity to focus on making your side hustle more profitable. Now you can bake Chicken Cacciatore for everyone!
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In this episode, I introduce you to Kim B. who just celebrated her 44th wedding anniversary! Kim and her hubby have lived in their farmhouse for the past 35 years. Her daughter is all grown up and busy raising 4 young daughters of her own. When her daughter told her about Organize 365Ā®, Kim was all ears. Kim has always been organized but always open to ways of more efficiency.
In April of ā21, Kim retired. We talked about that transition. There are no good sources or guides to tell us what to expect in these times of transition. Kim has stayed very busy with helping on the farm, watching her granddaughters 3 days a week, watching after her fatherās finances and visiting him at his living facility, and of course learning all kinds of skills she never had the time to before. She took a charcuterie board and sour dough class. Whatās next? Scrapbooking!
After learning more about Organize 365Ā® products, Kim crafted her own Sunday BasketĀ® to make sure sheād use it. But she shared that, 4 weeks later when she got the Sunday BasketĀ®, that the actual Sunday BasketĀ® took her organization to a whole new level and the folders stand up! She loved that in the real Sunday BasketĀ® she can place things like ink cartridges and pill bottles in it for Sunday. She even convinced her sister to get a Sunday BasketĀ®. Kim feels good that when it comes time for her daughter to care for her and her husband, itāll be easier due to the organization sheās doing now and the Medical, Home Resource, and Financial binders. She has more peace of mind knowing where paper work is for easy access and that the right paperwork is in order for the future.
She took one week, working about 8 hours each day, and organized her storage. Sheād set aside a few bins that she needed to have her husband go through. One night she treated it like date night and they went to the storage room together and āwalked down memory laneā by going through those bins. Yes they got rid of stuff but even better he was happy they did that. Because in the beginning he wasnāt too fond of her getting rid of things. Kim loves her life and is thankful that she can focus on things that are important to her and time with her family.
Kimās advice is, āYou just do a little bit at a time, one day at a time.ā As her mother used to always say about everything she did for the holidays.
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The Sunday BasketĀ®
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Ok now itās time for Swiss Cheese Organizing Family Edition, this Friday, February 28th @ Noon EST! Itād 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.
Iām 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. Itās 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, youāll be able to focus on your household organizing.
You can access everything at Organize365.com/summer2025. Whatās everything? Sign up to attend this webinar plus see what all is being offered this summer for planning and organizing in Organize 365Ā®! Iām talking to parents, homeowners, business professionals, teachers, military men and women. Start planning now with the Swiss Cheese Organizing Family Edition, donāt forget to sign up!
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You are in stage one but you have decreased your expenses as much as possible and still thereās too much month left at the end of the money. What do you do? Hello Stage2. You start to look for small pockets of time when you can make random amounts of money. You want to increase your income but you are not yet ready to commit to a part time job of sorts.
Profit and Loss
In business, you do a monthly check of profit and loss. How much did your business make, how much did your business spend, and are you in the green still? You do not have a budget because business fluctuates month to month. After you have been a business owner for some time you may see patterns when your business brings in more and when your business is not profitable. And we need to be doing this in our homes too. Remember the most powerful small business is our homes. If you are anything like our house, we have a lot of fun in November and December and then spend Q1 paying it all off. And you may just find you need to find extra sources of income to plug that hole of expense. You may have already had the experience but itās an expense because the money needs to get paid back. But you donāt have enough.
Random Amounts of Money
I remember the first time I learned about random money that I could get, being a full time stay at home mom with no desire to have an official job, was when a friend recommended for me to take part in diaper studies. I donāt think I ever paid for diapers. I didnāt always make money but I also was not spending money on diapers. I also made random money doing surveys in persona and online. And retail arbitrage. Iād shop the garage sales and in a few months Iād resell the items Iād bought because my kids were ready for the next stage of toys. It was income neutral but again I wasnāt spending money. I made money selling things on Ebay and Craigslist and eventually in direct sales.
Stage 2 is all about finding little pockets of time to make random amounts of money. Itās things that need to get done but also ok if they donāt. These tasks are 100% flexible. How can you make a little extra income to get P&L neutral? Itās a mindset shift on how to add income instead of reducing expenses. And for whatever reason stage 1 is no longer where you want to be.
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You know how you hear people, on the Wednesday Transformation episodes, say to just get the Sunday BasketĀ® instead of DIY? Yes, itās because of the mindset that comes with the purchase. The basket is simply the school supply. And itās the same for the Friday WorkboxĀ®.
You may be thinking you have the Sunday BasketĀ® and itās the same as the Friday WorkboxĀ®, right? Wrong. With the Friday WorkboxĀ® the slash pockets mean something different, you get access to the online dashboard and course for the Friday WorkboxĀ®, and the co-working time every Friday much like the Sunday BasketĀ® Club on Sundays. The Friday WorkboxĀ® will help you, the lifeblood of your business, explore personal development and the dreams you have for your business. It helps you to treat your team like the royalty they are and to be loyal to your customers and create ways to surprise and delight them. And most importantly it helps you to see that you are in fact profitable every month, or not, and then thereās time for course correction. So hereās all the deals I have for you!!
Friday Workbox: 50% discount, now just $250!! Youāll get the Friday WorkboxĀ®, slash pockets, online dashboard, Friday Co-working time, and the course to teach you how to gain capacity in your business for more, remember life in abundance!
Meeting Agenda Course: 50% discount, now just $499!! It kills me when people say I donāt have meetings so I donāt need it but wait! Yes, you do! This is for all the details of purple project management in informational form and digital documents. Think of links you need for a project, they wouldnāt do you much good on paper in a slash pocket, right? I know, some things just canāt fit in a slash pocket!
Work All In Bundle: Best Deal!! $750 discount, now just $997!! Are you ready? You get the Friday WorkboxĀ®, Work Planning Day, Income and Expense Binder, and the Meeting Agenda Course. Donāt wait too long to take advantage of this because itās while supplies last with the Income and Expense Binders and I donāt want you to miss out if you have been wanting to get one.
Friday Workbox Productivity Pack: 50% discount, now just $90!! Youāll get three stand alone Friday WorkboxesĀ®; Sapphire, Navy, and Plum. You can do what you want with Sapphire and Navy. I suggest treating them like employees or dedicate them to different businesses that you run. I gave plenty of examples in this episode to get you thinking about what that could look like. The Plum one will come with orange slash pockets for each month and purple slash pockets for the project you do cyclically and extras for new projects. For example, in July, youād have a purple slash pocket for back to school, paper organizing retreat, and any other projects you have for July. Purple work isnāt always new work!
Small Business Mastermind: $2500 Introductory pricing is only until March 10th!! The first session is in March. It will also be offered the first week of June and the first week of September. After this year, this mastermind will no longer be offered.
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Friday Workbox Productivity Pack
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Is color coding just busy work? We were curious if there were any studies to back up our stance that color coding helps with learning. Anna found a few and sheās here discussing them with me. Do you think in color? Anna and I do! We did a quick response activity where Anna said a color and I responded what I associate with that color. The Organize 365Ā® products are colorful but not without intentionality.
Color Coding Helps with Recall
Teachers often color code subjects. When you are looking for supplies for their class you know to look for the designated color of items like a folder. When I was in school I used white index cards and then wrote in different colors to remember what I needed. I had to remember because this brain I have, itās dyslexic and doesnāt understand phoenix. I had to remember for sake of the test!
I had a student that was really struggling to pass his spelling tests. Once we color coded the syllables, he started to pass his spelling tests. Again, color coding helps a person to recall what they have learned. This is the example I really think of when I think of the significance of color coding. I was blown aware at the effectiveness of color coding for that student. And when adults are students, your work is self paced. Color coding your work can help you stay organized and retrieve what you have learned when you need to use that information.
When Joey and Abby were little I would color code all their things. Having one boy and one girl made that pretty easy. If you had two boys one could be blue and the other boy could be orange. Reduce your cognitive load!
When things are color coded it reduces the cognitive load. Imagine a bin dedicated to toy cars. When you go to the toy organizer you look for that bin and then look for the specific car you want. The same is true with the Sunday BasketĀ®. You are going to retrieve something related to a person in your family so instantly you know to look at the blue slash pockets, thus reducing the cognitive load to find what you need.
The Evolution of Color Within Organize 365Ā®
When I first started to ship out slash pockets I was getting them at Walmart, taking out the companyās information and passing them off as my own.One day it dawned on me that Walmart could change what they sold and Iād be up a creek. So I got to work. I took a bet on myself and ordered a huge pallet of 1.0 slash pockets. Would you believe the day they arrived is the day Walmart changed what they were selling? This order was so large I couldn't fit it all in the garage with my car. So I got an office space. I had no idea what I was doing, I was learning. Thatās when the Sunday BasketsĀ® arrived and we had to move to a warehouse.
The last thing I ordered was the 2.0 Slash Pockets. Green for money and admin tasks that move the money. I have always thought blue was for people. And Pink was for me. Pink and blue make purple, right? Purple was for the home the people and I, my family, lived in and the projects I would need to do in and on that house. It was then that I understood the house to be a separate entity from my family. When you get a system from Organize 365Ā®, you get the whole kit. You can mix and match the systems too because the colors translate across all the systems. All the Organize 365Ā® colors have been intentionally selected. Color aids in organization being a learnable skill!
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APA citation: Lamberski, R. J. & Dwyer, F. M. (1983). The instructional effect of coding (color and black and white) on information acquisition and retrieval. ECTJ. 31(1): 9-21.
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In this episode, I introduce you to Tami T. who is married with two children at home. A few years before the pre-pandemic, Tami was doing a lot of driving for her work teaching private (band) lessons in schools. It took Tami about a year to listen to all of the Organize 365Ā® episodes. Tami invested in the Whole Home program that we now know as The Productive Home Solution.
Tami would watch the videos beforehand and listen to episodes, while driving, about the specific space that was next in the program. By the time she got home she knew exactly what she wanted to do in that space. It dawned on Tami that she kept doing the kitchen. By the third time she started the program, she focused on all the other spaces. Sheās tackled all of her spaces and even gotten rid of her filing cabinets. Tami attended a paper retreat and organized all her paper but one bin. Sheās since tackled that too with the help of a virtual organizer that she found in the Organize 365Ā® directory. She found with getting organized it freed up capacity to be able to mentally process that one last bin.
When the pandemic hit, her organization was really challenged. She had to teach her band classes AND she had two young children at home trying to attend school too. What did she do? She got a Sunday BasketĀ® for each of them so Tami could keep everyone and all the assignments organized. Tami shared that now instead of just being a day or two ahead, sheās now months ahead. Again with more capacity and being planned a few months out, it has given her the time and energy to do some small tasks sheās always wanted to do. For example with all the planning completed she was able to make a program for the band concerts that she can repurpose in the future. And she could schedule refreshments and treats. Sheās been able to make a little flyer to promote the performance to faculty. She can make the event better and be more present.
Tami did the kids program with her kids too. They have been able to learn the life skill of going through their closets and organization. The first attempt was a garage sale that didnāt go so well. Now they donate. If they have an item(s) it gets donated on Tuesdays when Tami is driving by Goodwill. Tami, as most moms do, has always had so much on her plate. By the kids learning those skills it actually reduces tasks from her plate. And this she wished sheād known sooner. Put those kids to work learning skills they will need in the future.
They took a family trip to Egypt and then Switzerland this past summer. Tami was able to pre plan all their summer activities. They took their trip and when they came home Tami had time to follow up on documentaries about Egypt because the summer was planned. Sheās even been able to complete two scrapbooks from their trip. She finds she has more capacity and down time due to her Sunday BasketĀ® and Education WorkboxĀ®.
Tamiās advice is, āDo the Sunday BasketĀ® first, then the binders and sheet protectors.ā
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Teacher Friday WorkboxĀ®
Kids Program
The Paper SolutionĀ®
The Productive Home SolutionĀ®
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Last year, two of our key leaders and I attended a Dave Ramsey Summit. This is how I have gotten some of my best CEO training. I really think about the topics the speaker is bringing up and think of Organize 365Ā® and have I implemented something similar? Have I done that thing? Or maybe is that idea an improvement we should consider? It was great for us to be hearing the same information at the same time and be able to discuss. We even changed our Monday morning meeting a little to catch our staff at a better time of day. And then I thought āIs there anything I need to add to our values?ā
What is Busy Work?
When I thought about staffing and when someone leaves Organize 354Ā®, is there a way to eliminate busy work. Do their job tasks still need to be done or were they busy work? Is there someone else on the team that can do those tasks? It got me thinking of all the busy work teachers do. Itās cute to put the little bubbles at the āendā of each stroke of the letters but is it necessary? Iād do it once, then copy the paper the rest of the year, otherwise it would become busy work. Revisiting a closet youāve done recently thinking youāll get the same high will let you down because the transformation is not nearly as dramatic. Busy work is that unnecessary re-working of tasks. As long as your work is not done, even if itās busy work, you wonāt have the excess time, capacity, and boredom to seek out what you are uniquely gifted and created to do.
Operationalizing
The flip side of busy work that can appear as busy work is operationalizing your tasks. I started out organizing my sister and Iās rooms. Then I graduated to organizing the homes I babysat in. I have always loved gifting an act of service. I organized the ācraft areaā by the fire place at my house and my mom loved it. So I did it annually around Christmas for her. But then my parents expanded the house and she got a larger space. My mom is an artists and that was definitely a challenge to understand what was valuable and not. I asked a lot of questions!! I would help other teachers to organize their classrooms. And eventually organized my clients. But in each of those instances I was growing my skill set. I was learning how the spaces were used and why the items were in there. I was operationalizing how I helped other get organized. You can do the same with repeated tasks. Thatās why on Planning Day I tell you to stock up your storage for the trimester. Donāt order one of the same thing each month, operationalize it.
The Sunday Basket Replaces Your Checklists
First of all, there is a time and place for checklists. Checklists can be useful if you are trying to establish a new routine. Be careful not to let it become a crutch. Donāt be so stuck on the list that it supersedes your role in the company. And not everything needs to go on the list, just big things you canāt forget. And checklists are good for something you donāt do often. My best example I shared was our packing list for Florida each year. As we grow and change the list does too. We edit when necessary so we donāt forget for the next time we need to use the checklist.
I can remember the last time I used a master to do list. In 2014, I wrote 10 legal pad pages of all my to doās. I organized them by family member or entity and then prioritized them. I transferred each item to an index card. And I filed them away to deal with on Sunday. It is nice to look at all tasks individually and decide on importance, my time, and my money. I may write down the same task multiple times and thatās ok because I got it out of my head and who cares if I wrote it multiple times. I place them in the appropriate slash pock. I take action on the actionable items. Then once I complete the task I get to toss it in the recycling. Lists never go away, with index cards you can complete them and toss them. The Sunday Basket is safe keeping till you can take action.
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As many of you know, following one organizer will bring you to another. In fact, thatās how some of you ended up in my community. So many of you reached out suggesting Kendra Adachi with The Lazy Genius podcast for an interview for the Monday Connections episodes. Thank you so much for the recommendation and we had an insightful conversation.
Lazy Genius
Kendra Adachi was a perfectionist to the extreme. She was teacherās pet, valedictorian, and voted most dependable by her peers. In 2015, she started a lifestyle blog. The podcast, The Lazy Genius, followed not even a full year later. She teaches women to āBe a genius about the things that matter, and and lazy about the things that donāt.ā Once she became a parent she learned that rule. She was so used to doing everything perfectly but once her second child came along she realized you canāt be perfect at everything. And thatās how she got to pointing out to women how to find a happy medium between Boss Babe and Hot Mess.
We agreed how nice it is to come on an episode with an idea and through the recording think out loud. Inevitably we end up with feedback from the community that results in solutions or next steps. When I asked her if she worries about running out of episode topics. She replied with the fact that the perspective on laundry changes with your lifestyle. For example, she may be talking about endless stained laundry from toddlers and grow to sharing about how she is teaching her teenagers how to do laundry. We commented on the value our listeners get from hearing how a female is doing things. Kendra shared that 93% of time management books are from male authors. Itās time for women to learn from each other.
And Kendra shared about āBig Black Trash Bag Energyā. You know when youāre just over it and so you get out the big trash bag with the internet to toss everything and just start over? No need. Just start small. Work on one thing.
Women Have Always Ran the World
Kendra shared the point of view that maybe thereās a stigma to the importance of the female role and how much men value what women do. And I agreed through the lens that women have always ran the world but now that women are in the workforce, itās coming to light how much women are really doing. And sorry guys, itās more than you. Men get to watch a football game but women feel like they need to be productive making the meal plan or planning car pool while watching that same football game. We have been the CEOās of the households but now all that invisible work is being identified. We have these never ending tasks that replenish themselves and leads to weary spirits. Planning is essential for women to manage the household and take care of everyone. Kendra pointed out you are inherently a preparer, an adjuster, or a notice-er. And then we talked about the mindsets and lifestyles of being 30, 40, and in your 50ās. And the two scenarios determine how you got about what you gotta get done.
You Only Know What You Know
I find it so difficult to find other women CEOās to learn from. We joked those women are too busy to sit down to write a book or record a podcast. My hope is for all women in the 20ās and 30ās to find a community to show them systems on how to be a household manager. You get a new job, you get training. You buy your first house and youāre responsible for the payments but no guidelines on how to care for it. Up to you to hopefully stumble across the Household Operations Binder. Donāt get intimidated by the CEO role. Itās not meant to be this manly corporate role. You only know what you have been taught. Women need to be in community with each other, doing life together. We are the experts in this role!
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Itās 2017, Iām on the plane home from California. I just attended a conference, a mastermind with a virtual friend of mine, Chris Ducker, and Iām writing down the 5th value that I want for Organize 365Ā®. The Power of Community: In community, everyone can learn to be organized, action is easier, and happens exponentially. Organize 365Ā® believes organization is a learnable skill.
Iām a CEO
After the investment I had made in that 6 days in California, it sunk in, Iām a real CEO. I was making money and needed to structure my company to be able to purchase inventory. After considering our current phase of life and how I envisioned Organize 365Ā® would grow, I was advised to structure it as a C-Corp. All the details and thought process I shared in this episode. I also decided on the way home that I was going to need to hire 7 contractors for areas that were not my strength. In community with these contractors I grew Organize 365Ā®
Virtual Friends
I had a really hard time in the friends category really my whole life. I shared a really vulnerable time in my life in Catholic school where the girls werenāt so nice to me. Maybe it was me? I was used to talking to adults. The place in my family where I was born had me surrounded by adults all the time. I had my successful female lineage, my father who owned his own business, and then the smart men on my dadās side of the family. I was so mature in conversation but naive in interacting with kids my same age. I finally had a pretty solid friend once I was married. Around 2012, my pit of despair, I was back to no community. My parents divorced and it kind of blew up the whole family, I ditched my friends so I would not be around negativity, we were in a tough parenting season so church had become less, and I wasnāt teaching anymore. I didnāt even have my Creative Memory parties anymore, the women I had scrapbook with once a month for years.
So I turned to authors. I listened to their audio books. I gleaned all they were talking about and trying to apply it to my business. And then I found podcasts. Like, what? It was an endless supply of basically audiobooks. They were my virtual friends, Pat Flynn with Smart Passive Income, John Lee Dumas with Entrepreneur on Fire, Chris Ducker with Youpreneur, to name a few. I would mull over the questions Chris Ducker would ask his guests and then I would practice answering them. But then I got to thinking how the female lived experience is so much different than a maleās. So I searched out women to follow and listen to. Life is so flat when you donāt have friends. I couldnāt seem to make any friends so this was what I had. I was always talking with them, they just couldnāt hear my side of the conversation.
Organize 365Ā® Community
Being such a fan of community and understanding community helps others to learn, I knew it had to be a core value of my company. I also knew that the growth I was expecting and the experience I wanted for my customers, I would not be able to hold the community together alone. Iām still very much involved with the Planning Days, Embrace, and other webinars n such. But you see team members running some of the clubs and other things. Life is better in community, connecting with other humans.
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In this episode, I introduce you to Sharon T. who is married and at the time of this interview was caring for her special needs sister, full time. Sharon has always been organized but was looking to āup her game.ā Fun fact; Sharon lives in Singapore, joined me at night for this episode, and there they spell organization with an ās.ā She was looking for help with both spellings. She found the Organize 365Ā® podcast and felt like language was being given to what she was going through.
She and I talked about how women in general try to straddle home and work life balance. But to what degree is it talked about? There are subcultures with in races, right? I talked about being White Irish, wonder where my sarcasm comes from, and White English, who tend to be more reserved. We felt it important not to generalize cultures. But it did bring up the fact that some cultures talk about the struggle of doing it all as a women and others āsuffer in quiet.ā This is the language that was speaking to Sharon so much.
Sharon watched her cousin take his last breath in 2019. The doctor said his diet was in part due to his passing. That really forced Sharon to take a look at her life and listen to what she felt she was being called to do and that was to help the special needs community. Diet can affect people positively that have special needs. And diet can support those care givers to take care of themselves. To combat the āWoe is meā mentality. Sharon thought about this as she considered her momās caregiving life to her sister. She and her sister started their business, Possible Nutrition.
In 2022, Sharon looked at the pile of papers and decided to finally systematize them with the Friday WorkboxĀ® she had treated herself to for her birthday the year before. Sharon loves to write things down and reflect on them. Is it possible? Is it needed? Does it make sense? Then she can share it with her sister or whoever. She finds it very cathartic to seasonally review the business and plan for what is coming up. And itās so important to document care. As we change so too will our care. If I was going to babysit, Iād have the parents fill out a little form such as nap time, foods, pacifier or not? If it had been 6 months or more, a lot could have changed!
It was a dentist's findings that really got Sharon thinking about how our diet really affects our bodies. We need to eat for nutrition and in a manner that facilitates absorption. With the right diet sheās seen symptoms subside quite easily. Well this opened a big can of worms and I started picking her brain about macros and what she considers a nutrient rich diet. Then I asked a burning question about protein. We talked about the order in which to consume your meal. And itās pretty cool how the order alone can affect your glucose, if it spikes or not and how quickly you resume your baseline glucose level.
There is no universal diet or organizational system because we are not all the same. And life changes which means the way we eat and organize will too! We shouldnāt view our health as our idol rather to be good stewards of our bodies so we can do what we were uniquely created to do.
Sharonās advice is, āāI think that if you're just starting out maybe say establishing a home or, just getting a first job, start with Sunday BasketĀ®. We need to get our own personal lives in order before we can look at managing a home, before we can go out there and do anything else.ā
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There are two ways you can proactively anticipate. You can act like itās Y2K again. When the 1000ās place in computers was switching to 2 at the end of 1999, Greg and I proactively anticipated from the stance of lack. We stocked up on water and toilet paper in the event the world ran out. OR you can proactively anticipate with a positive mindset and life in abundance. You know where you are going and what you want and plan how to get there.
Get What You Want
I love holding babies! So when I was younger I thought how can I get to be the one to hold the babies because others in my family too like to hold the babies. I anticipated no one wanted to change the stinky diaper, so I did. Then after I took them to the bedroom or somewhere away from everyone, Iād change the diaper and then steal my cuddles. āLisa, are you bringing back the baby?ā theyād ask. I also anticipated that people like to sleep. So when my aunts started having babies, Iād offer to stay over to take care of the baby during the night. I knew they baby would be up in the middle of the night and my aunts wanted to sleep. What do you want and how can you be helpful? Maybe by giving an act of service that fills your cup too. If you remember last weekās episode, I did this with babysitting too. I wanted to be the babysitter of their choice each summer. I made sure I lined it up in plenty of time for the parents to be able to line up summer camps or whatever on the days I would be watching their children so they could rely on me for transportation and care of their children.
What Can You Do In 20 Minutes?
Thank God Abby was a sleeper but my lil Joey only took 20 minute naps. I had so many plates in the air and without a sufficient nap time to address anything, lots of things were falling through the cracks. I had, literally, a foot of paper piled at the end of my kitchen counter. One night I decided to tackle it by sorting it in to 40 categories. By the time I was done, it was late, I needed to pick up my mess but also have it accessible. I threw the sorted and paper clipped papers into a Lonaberger basket till the next day at nap time. I knew I was going to have a small window to accomplish something. I was proactively anticipating this nap and I was ready. Slowly over the next six weeks I was able to get caught up one paper packet per nap time. Having my paper organized I was able to get systems in place so I could keep growing Organize 365Ā® because I realized that is what I was uniquely created to do.
Proactive Anticipation Go Hand in Hand with Planning
I have always had the ability to look into the future and anticipate what is coming for the female American Household Manager. I have been in many homes, of all types. I know things like the energy during different times of the year, how supply chain works, and kids! The Sunday Basket helps you to proactively anticipate the next week. Planning days help you to proactively plan for the next 120 days. I found these systems to be effective for my house and then created ways to teach them to others in the Organize 365Ā® Community. Once you find what you are uniquely created to do you need the systems more than ever. At first they give you time to find out what you are created to do. You could dive into the fulfillment of what you discover but then you may have your train go off the rails. The systems continue to provide time to keep doing what you are uniquely created to do, in combination with everything else a Household Manager must do.
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Anna, our lead researcher is back and we are talking about the American Household and looking at the data from the Census of the past. We came across this info graphic that is interactive. You can slide the dial to see stats based on where you have placed the pointer. We were entertained with the results we were seeing and we wanted to talk about what we found on the podcast. How much has the American household changed over time?
What continues to blow my mind is 2 things. These studies keep being conducted proving what we already know while no studies are being done to support a solution. There is only about Ā¼ of the population that is even being addressed because the focus for solutions and the conversation is for houses with married couples and children. Children are usually identified as being under the age of 18 and living at home. Our best guess says that this data is based on people 18-55 years old. I guess thatās one more thing that blows my mind, āadulthoodā ends at 55. And āold ageā starts at 65. So from 55-65 there is a dearth (using my big PhD words), as in not very much, of information for people 55-65. But as you will hear in the episode people are getting married and having babies later, so some 65 year olds could still have children under 18 at home.
So many numbers
So when we look at this information, the breakdown was in 1960 30% of the population was married without children and today about the same at 29.4% of the population. We talked about a lot of demographics, āother householdā types. We looked at the 50 ās and 60ās vs. 2023. The biggest change we noticed was in the age men and women are getting married. Women in the 50ās were getting married at age 20 but today they are waiting till around age 28. And itās the same for men. In the 50ās, men used to get married around age 24 but are now waiting till around 30. People are waiting longer to get married which means they are having children at a later age, if they are having children at all - DINKs. Anna reminded me of that acronym DINK, that stands for dual income-no kids. And we discussed possible reasons for this. Who is going to take care of these people as they age?
Iām going to be a doctor!
It recently dawned on me that people will call me doctor after I get this PhD. I didnāt realize how science-y it was going to be, but I will know the brain when all is said and done. I lost sight of that because my goal in all of this was to have a seat at the table and do research to come up with solutions. My studies will include people 18 - 85 year olds so that I can get the full picture of how our houses are operating and who is in them. I want to change the conversation to include all household types. Our housework will never be done but I do want to be able to offer solutions how to plan for success that anyone can apply. Iām turning academia on itās head with everything from funding, maybe finding where planning is in the brain, to coming up with solutions to problems that have redundantly been proven.
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āWe have a hard time just wanting what we want.ā Transformational Freedom is my driving force through personal development and unapologetic gumption to pursue the things I want. Our houses are holding us back. When we feel like we are taking care of our primary role of household manager, spouse, and parent, then we feel free to pursue what we want.
4 Generations of Ambitious Women
When you have a great grandmother who gets her teaching degree because itās the only degree a woman can get, you learn to succeed despite limitations. She went on to run a floral shop, a restaurant, and a gift shop which is definitely not what other women were doing those days. AND she divorced her husband! And then you have a grandmother who gets her Home Economics degree because again, limitations. And see her and her husband start a student loan - ish business, you see an example of a woman not waiting for permission. But then goes on to set an even greater example when she remarries and starts up a home economic kit mail order business of sorts out of her home. Like how did people order? She figured it out because itās what she wanted to do. And a mother like mine. She was so focused on business. She started The Fine Line out of our basement and created cases of clothes she bought one weekend in NYC. She did that for 6 years and then sold it for a profit.
Didnāt Get Permission, I Went After What I Wanted
Which gave me the gumption to start my own babysitting business. The examples of women in my life I saw growing up didnāt wait for permission to pursue what they were uniquely created to do. I didnāt wait for permission or see someone else doing it. No, I paved my own path to filling up my summer calendar with baby sitting positions. I saw a need and solved a problem for moms who needed to get tasks done and take care of themselves per my suggestion. I used my unique skills of loving children to make money on my terms.
Transformational Freedom
At Organize 365Ā® we say āAs you let go of one thing, you are open to receiving the next. We strive to unlock your lifeās purpose through the process of decluttering, organizing, and increasing productivity.ā You also donāt know what you haven't experienced. I acknowledge that if you havenāt seen, for example, a healthy marriage then you donāt believe they exist and donāt know what they look like. I love the Organize 365Ā® community for this reason. Hopefully you are hearing healthy examples on the podcast and then being exposed to more in the community. Community opens our eyes to possibilities. And because we donāt believe in those possibilities, we cling to what we currently have. Thatās why itās so important to acknowledge letting go of one thing, only to experience something even better. Remember this life is not happening to us, itās happening for us.
Permission Granted
Greg didnāt flinch when I told him I was going to quit because he knew I would make money still. I had replaced my teaching salary with Creative Memories and planned to grow my organizing business to contribute to the family finances. In my organizing experiences, one client broke down when the last area was done, saying she could finally go back to work. What? The emotional weight of our homes on us women is great. Ladies, our houses hold us back because whether or not you work, you view your household manager role as primary. Organize 365Ā® is here to get you decluttered and organized so you can be productive. Here is your permission to explore what you want and to pursue it. Fly out of your golden cage. Return as much as you want but you are free. Permission granted.
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In this episode, I introduce you to Nita M. who is married and employed as a stay at home mom by her two young daughters. Nita first found Organize 365Ā® through the podcast. Nita had just turned 40 in February of 2024, after having a baby in November 2020. There was just an energy that she wanted to get back on track. Postpartum had derailed her normally organized life. Sheād been watching another organization show when she saw me being interviewed. Nita has her MBA and she connected with the language we use at work being applied to the home. It also clicked that our kitchens are like restaurants and our storage is like a prepaid store. The analogy of the work and home train resonated with Nita, too.
The way you think of your home changes the way you operate. Profitable businesses are always planning, iterating, and looking at the target market they serve; our homes are no different. With these two schools of thought in mind, Nita adopted what her supply chain looks like and is now more prepared. She realized she had to buy toilet paper no matter what so what was the difference of doing it over 120 days or just purchasing it all up front, or set up a subscription through Amazon? When supplies came in, she used to just have them throughout the house, until she realized her guest bedroom closet was being underutilized. Now itās storage (AKA Nitaās prepaid store) for each 120 days.
I brought up the study by Wayne et al that speaks to the āInvisible Family Load.ā Household managers seem to have a positive disposition to the cognitive and management of the invisible load, but a negative disposition to the emotional cost of the invisible load. Nita shared the story of going to an amusement park with her daughters and getting rained out. Her oldest daughter complimented her when she realized how organized Nita was with her car closet. She was prepared with towels and snacks. With systems in place, Nita feels positive towards the emotional cost of āgettingā to do all the invisible tasks for her family.
In an effort to learn it all and understand my brain, Nita has invested in all the products. She agrees that for a stay at home mom, The Productive Home SolutionĀ® would be a natural place to start. Nita liked that she was able to get her foundation settled, then move on to the Sunday BasketĀ®. Some nights as she and her daughter drift off to sleep, they listen to the podcast, per her daughterās request. Nita cleans on Saturdays, plans on Sundays, and processes her basket on Mondays. She has two portable Sunday BasketĀ®s that travel with her in her second home, her car. She loves knowing how to create the flow, the manipulation of time that makes her life more smooth. She even gave me an idea to check out the delay start feature on my washing machine. Get those machines working before you even wake up!
Nitaās advice is, āTrust the process. Lisa knows!ā Sheās constantly quoting Lisa and this is what she says to her friends.
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In Organize 365Ā® we say āResources are not limited, they are limitless. Through collaboration, Organize 365Ā® connects the right people and resources for maximum benefit and sustainability.ā We know there is enough for everyone and growing up that is what I saw. I guess itās true when it comes to our kids, more is caught than what is taught.
Abundance through the eyes of a child
Knowing what I know now I could have probably figured out that our family was not rich. But I never felt it as a child. We had what we needed and we got to participate in extra-curricular activities. I watched my mother work her business. I watched my dad āget recruitedā by his friends to be a sales person for them. And when they sold the company to their sons, the sons added my dad as one of their partners because they knew he was valuable and consistently brought in a lot of new sales. It was then we had extra money. But my dad was good at managing the money so that our family and the company had enough money even in times of lack. As a kid I always felt that we had enough resiliency and ability to overcome lack.
Abundant Energy
Our desires and plans donāt always play out the way we want or think, but with an Abundance Mindset, they will come to be. I wanted to be a mother so bad. I had an abundant mindset and had to embrace the opportunity that adoption would provide, which was me becoming a mother. We had situations come our way through the adoption process. I could have clung to each one and thought this is my one opportunity I have to take it! But, I knew that I would be a mother, I just didnāt know how. I was open minded. What is going to be will be and I knew at the end of all of it, I would be a mother! An abundance frequency attracts abundance. Everything is just energy. I gave multiple examples of it in this episode because I see so much abundance in my life. Iām not trying to brag, I want you to see itās there for you too.
The Pie Factory
You are only in competition with yourself. There is only one you with your unique skill set. Imagine a pie factory and they are just spitting out pies regularly. You donāt get just one slice. You donāt have to share a pie with anyone. You can have as much pie as you want.
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Happy Monday! Introducing the Connections Episodes from Organize 365Ā®. Every other Monday I will be talking to people and the Organize 365Ā® research staff about topics, books, studies, and other valuable materials that are connected to our goals at Organize 365Ā®. Today I picked Anna, our education and research lead. When she first brought up this topic I wasnāt super jazzed, but after learning about the history of new yearās resolutions and why people started setting themā¦well it led to a great conversation.
When and why did people start setting new year's resolutions?
The Babylonians were the first we see making new yearās resolutions to their gods. Theyād set the intention to return farm equipment or pay off their debts in hopes of a profitable crop that year. It was after harvest time that theyād do this as they prepared their field for new crops. And then we see the Romans setting intentions to their god, Janus, who had two faces. One face looked towards the past and encouraged reflection of the past year. And one face facing forward to plan ahead. Theyād do this March 15th when, maybe due to their climate, they were preparing for a new crop. And then in 1582, Pope Gregory the 8th developed the Gregorian calendar we use today and he set the new year for January 1st.
Yesteryearās common new yearās resolutions versus today
When I look at the top 10 goals from 1947, I like to think about life then. They were coming out of World War II, they had food being rationed, and manual housework. So itās no surprise that last on the list was to lose weight. It was a stressful time and people wanted to break bad habits, such as smoking and drinking, which was first on the list.
Nowadays life is easier. We have machines that do a lot for us, ability to live in the suburbs (off laborious farms), less generational living, cars, school buses, and catering to our children more so they are doing less, although we noted this is likely cultural. And we are addicted to our food. So itās no surprise that top of the list now is to lose weight. Followed by organization because our children are involved in more activities, women now work, social media shows a standard that is not realistic but we are striving for it, and life is just faster paced. Need to be organized to stay on top of it all!
One category, besides the ones I always notice like weight loss, money, and organization/productivity, is intrinsic/personal development. This is the introspective type of new yearās resolutions that was on the list. People want to help others and grow in their faith. I will start including this fourth category.
Organize 365Ā® is there for you for your new yearās resolutions
Planning day sets you up for almost 3 mini years. The human brain doesnāt like to think past about 100 days. Itās easier to set one new, new yearās resolution each time. You can set up actionable steps to accomplish that goal, too. You can try out new tasks or routines that become habits, stacking small steps that in the end accomplish a big goal.
Annaās New Yearās Resolution: Drink more water
Lisaās New Yearās Resolution: Continue to implement more habits to support my health
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I was on a plane in 2017 for a 5 hour flight from Los Angeles to Cincinnati when I committed to 5 values that I wanted to have within Organize 365Ā®. This will be a 6-part series to share why I chose those 5 values plus one extra value that I felt needed to be added. I can trace my positivity back to 6th grade at church camp when I accepted Christ as my savior. But when my dad picked me up he said āNo you didnāt, now get in the car.ā I was always a positive child so I wasnāt mad or hurt, I knew it was just this special relationship I had with God.
Sharing my dadās belief in me
āDad, Iād like to run daycare centers in corporate buildings.ā I explained as dad had asked me what I wanted to go to college for. My dad had so much belief in me at just 17. He proposed that I take the money they were going to spend on college, which was about $100,000, and invest it in me and this business idea. I ran into the kitchen to pitch the idea to my mom, but she stood her ground. My mother was hell bent on me being the 4th generation of female college graduates in our family.
The decline
As a little kid I was so positive, there was so much natural optimism. Even at 17 I had so much faith in myself, plus my dadās belief in me. But then lifeā¦I was so excited for the MRS (Mrs. Woodruff) degree and was ready to start our life. But children didnāt come despite our desperate desire and so we adopted. But then more life was handed to me when my parents decided to get divorced, then my dad passed away, and I had to settle his estate.
I did inherit a little bit of money where we were able to remodel the kitchen and afford some more medical testing. I was always fighting a battle with people. They thought I was crazy because of everything I was doing for my kids and their health. Which got me thinking, āAm I the problem here?ā (Funny how todayās society supports all the measures I took so many years ago.) I went from positive Lisa to cynical! Another blow was when my supervisor informed me that I wasnāt a good teacher. I made up my mind that I was going to quit. I wasnāt doing good at anything. I had become so negative and not fun to be around. Greg supported me quitting even though we had the most debt we have ever had. I turned in my resignation the next day.
Itās not happening to you itās happening for you
The final straw was that first Monday while the kids were at school. I looked around and thought, whose house is this? I was so disconnected from my life. I realized that I, and my attitude, was the problem. Then and there I decided to take my life back and to be positive. I changed all the inputs, like the friends I kept, the shows I watched, the things I read. I knew I wanted to stay Gregās wife and the mother to my children. I ended up writing my book āOrganization Is A Learnable Skill" to document how I took my life back. I now know that life is not happening to me, itās happening for me. I sat down and wrote down 40 areas I was going to address. I remembered that belief my dad had in me to start a business and I was now going to do just that. And from that list one of my first programs was born, the 40 Weeks One Whole House Challenge (now incorporated into The Productive Home SolutionĀ®).
Being positive is a core value for Organize 365Ā®. Itās funny how fast a negative person can infiltrate the staff in a matter of days. I canāt have that and I donāt want to turn that ship around. My experience has been that positivity leads to success. So we are positive at Organize 365Ā®.
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