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Hi friends. I'm Laurie Palau,host of the popular weekly podcast This Organized
Life, founder of Simply Be Organized, an author of the book Best a
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So today we're actually going to betalking about something that I just went through
myself, which is birthdays and tryingto remember everybody's birthday. And I remember
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growing up my mom had this ornot. It wasn't a journal, it
was address book. Sorry, totallyhad brain freeze there. She had an
address book that was like her bible, and it had everybody that she probably
ever came in contact with, theiraddress, their phone numbers. This well
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before the years of cell phones,so there are phone numbers and their birthdays,
anniversaries, anything, and every timesomebody, if somebody would move,
she would scratch it out and therewould be like written in the margins.
But this is what she lived andbreathed, anything for anybody, and it
was amazing. My mom was abig card sender, which I am not,
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but she was a big card sender, and so she would go through
and each month and it amazes mebecause again this was not digitized. She
would go through and have a listof whose birthdays were in each month,
and then she would buy and sendcards which is amazing, and if you're
that person, I think that's awesome. But I love nowadays the fact that
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we can have reminders on things likeFacebook telling us that it's birthday, or
you're on Instagram and you see somebody'sstory and they're like, oh, she's
giving a shout out to somebody,and you're like, oh, yeah,
I can just quick go on andcomment. But what about those people that
are important to you and you mightnot be on social media, you might
not say it, and we oftenforget. And it was just my birthday
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last month. And I don't likea big deal about my birthday. I'm
not one of those people that likesto be in the spotlight. And I
had a bunch of people that werelike, oh my god, I'm so
sorry I forgot your birthday. Andhonestly, I don't care. It's not
a big deal for me, butI felt like it was a big deal
for a lot of these people.And what I had started getting in the
habit of doing is whenever I seesomebody's birthday, that is somebody that's like
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really important to me, whether it'sa coworker, a friend, at neighbor,
whatever, even like a cousin familymember that isn't like my immediate family
that I don't see on the daily, I add their birthdays to their contact
record, because again, we haveeverybody in our phones now and it takes
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that extra two seconds to just goin and add them. And then this
way you don't have to worry aboutremembering. It will automatically pop up that,
oh, on your calendar it's birthday. So it's like most things,
it takes a little bit of planningon the front end, but once that's
done, you don't really have tothink about it again. And unlike other
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forms of organizing that require a lotof maintenance, your birthdays never change.
So once you've done it, it'sgreat. And then you can just continue
to add people as they come intoyour life. And so sometimes I'll see
somebody again, whether it's on socialmedia or just whatever, where I'm like,
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oh, it's birthday, and I'lljust take the two seconds. If
they are somebody that is important enoughto be in my contacts, then I
will just go ahead and them.So that is my tip of the week
for you, is to go throughthe people that are important in your life
and just add their birthdays, andyou could just if you want to know
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what it is, you could justsend an email out to people or even
put something on social media if youwant to say, hey, I'm working
on a like updating all my information. So if you guys can just shoot
back to me your birthday, Ican just add it right in and that
way, moving forward, you willhave all of that information. So that's
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it again. We'll be back onThursday with our regular episodes. Next Monday,
we will be talking about the differencebetween clutter and disorganization, so make
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Apple, Spotify, wherever, Google, wherever it is. We're here
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I'm Laurie Palau. Peace Out.
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