What's causing that heavy, overwhelming feeling in your chest and gut every time you think about getting organized? Maybe it comes from trying to force yourself into a system that wasn't designed for you.
In this episode of Get It Together, Weirdo, host and coach Sarah Bowser encourages you to harness the energy of the New Year by creating a personalized organizational system that sticks. You’ll learn to identify what currently overwhelms you about one-size-fits-all solutions, to experiment with different tools and methods, and to regularly assess and adjust to ensure that your new system is still working for you.
Sarah has tried sooo many different systems over the years — paper planners, Trello boards, Google tools, and a whole washi tape phase — and what she’s learned is that the system you follow or piece together doesn't have to be followed perfectly to a T. It just has to be yours.
Want to use that New Year energy to finally get your shit together? Not in some overwhelming colour-coded planner sort of way, but by building a system that actually works for you and your wonderfully weird brain? Don’t miss this episode!
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What you’ll learn in this episode:
- The importance of developing a personalized organization system tailored to your wonderfully weird brain, instead of relying on one-size-fits-all solutions
- How to identify why your current organizational efforts are causing you stress or overwhelm
- How to experiment with different organizational tools and methods to find what works best for you
- That progress and persistence — including regular check-ins and tweaks to ensure your system is still working for you — are the goal
Noteworthy quotes from this episode:
“The system you follow or piece together doesn't have to be followed perfectly to a T. It just has to be yours.”
“A lot of these popular tools and strategies assume that we're all striving to be neat, orderly, colour-coded robots who thrive on rigid plans and having our days planned down to the minute. No! We're human. We're messy. Unpredictable.”
“If something doesn't work, take it out and try implementing something else at that step. That's not a failure. It just means you're learning and gaining more information about what doesn't work for you.”
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