BR 20: Get Organized Like Real People...

Hi everyone! This is Connie Sokol, and you're listening to Balance Redefined Radio. I've spent over 20 years teaching people how to redefine what balance really is, meaning a more purposeful and joyful life.

They’ve paid off credit cards, lost weight, organize their homes, and created a meaningful life plan and they've managed their time, changed habits and experience greater success both at work and at home.

So now I decided to take the plunge and help about 100,000 new people who want to redefine balance in their lives. People ask me all the time, “How do I go from an overwhelming and chaotic life to more purpose and organization and joy?”

That's the reason why I'm doing this podcast, to give you trusted answers and create a space where you could find balance. My name is Connie Sokol and welcome to Balance Redefined Radio…

It's another great excerpt from the Life is Too Short Collection: My Book on Kitchen Table Wisdom With a Side of Humor...

If you hate getting organized, stopped trying to be Martha Stewart and instead try one of these quick tips to jumpstart change…

Number one, except some chaos. Understand that no matter how many great tips are fabulous formulas you use, and I have several. If you have a family, there will be mess...

It doesn't mean you have to accept it everywhere, but simply not distress when the garage is untidy...

Again, not that this happens at our house every other week or that your children don't remember that their dishwasher date again every Monday and Tuesday or that the boy's bathroom continually smells like well, a boy's bathroom again and again and again.

Number two, bite off chewable chunks...

You don't need endless hours to complete a task, but you do have to be content with the little here and a little there...

A few weeks ago, my goal was to declutter the kitchen cabinets, so I did one drawer a day. That's right. Can someone say excruciating, but that's all I could do with my baby, my other six kids schedules and my online life coaching program, but it's paid off tonight.

At the last minute the kids wanted to make smores and in a moment I was able to quickly say the crackers are up above the fridge. The candy bars in the marshmallows are in the kid's cabinets and the metal skewers are in the bottom specialty drawer.

Can someone say stellar mother moment that no one appreciated but me?...

Number three, stop making so many lists. I could probably start a support group on this. Seriously. My bff is generally a large sticky pad in a bright color. Very Sad. So a few months ago I had an epiphany stop rewriting the same things and like Nike just do them.

So I did. I made one list for the week, then went through it daily and when something new needed to be added, I opted first to just do it. It was utterly amazing how many of the Yucky things i.e. filing, sorting, tracking...I got done that usually got bumped to the next week list.

This works for quick cleaning to one day I noticed that the silverware tray was full of crumbs-you know how that works?

I went to go write it down to clean it out and then realized it would take me almost as long to empty the civil where, wipe out the tray and put it back in... within minutes it was done and I avoided an additional to do pulsating in the background.

So next time you're tempted to write something down, ask yourself,

“Can it be done now or can one of my kids do it?”

So remember, getting organized isn't about white knuckling your way through several months of work and then breathing a sigh of relief...

It's changing a little here, a little there and making it work for you. Again, that's an excerpt from my book.

The life is too short collection, which takes the most popular essays out of the previous three books in the series and puts it into one wonderful book of kitchen table wisdom with a side of humor available on Amazon. Available here…

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