The Clutter Fairy Weekly #289
Special Guest: Karen Baker on Productivity and Organization
Cluttered spaces reduce our productivity by draining energy and focus, adding distractions, and wasting our most valuable resource—time. Getting organized can help improve our mental wellbeing and find the clarity and confidence to accomplish important work. In episode #289 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, welcomes guest organizer Karen Baker to explore the complex relationship between productivity and organization and offer tips to boost productivity.
For more information about Karen Baker, please visit SOHO Productivity Solutions.
Productivity books mentioned in this episode:
- The ADHD Productivity Manual by Ari Tuckman
- Faster than Normal by Peter Shankman
- The One Thing by Gary Keller
- Stop Organizing, Start Producing by Casey Moore
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Content in this episode is based on the results of audience surveys.
Some content in this episode is based on results of a survey of our audience.
The next selection for The Clutter Fairy Book Club will be New Order: A Decluttering Handbook for Creative Folks (and Everyone Else) by Fay Wolf. Shop for the paperback or ebook at Bookshop.org.
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The Weekly Tittle is an exercise designed to focus your attention on a specific space, aspect, or challenge of decluttering and organizing your home. We assign a new tittle in each webcast/podcast, then check on your progress the following week.
Get Specific About Your Goals
This week’s assignment is to dig deeper into one of your priorities to make sure that your goals are clear, realistic, and in service of that priority.
- Identify an area of focus in your life that you consider one of your highest priorities. For example, “It’s important to me to care for my elderly mother.”
- Write down specific goals that will help you serve this priority. Some examples:
- “I’ll visit Mom regularly so I can keep close tabs on her health and level of satisfaction with her life.”
- “I’ll seek out caregivers with the skills to assist with Mom’s care in the areas I can’t cover.”
- “I’ll read that book I bought about caring for your elderly parents.”
- Think about situations in the past that diverted or derailed you from your focus on this priority. For example:
- “Mom called on Friday to tell me she wanted to have the whole family over for dinner on Sunday, so that became the project for my whole weekend.”
- “I had to drop everything and make a trip to Sephora for the exact shampoo Mom couldn’t live without for a couple days.”
- Keep your list of specific goals handy as a guideline by which to decide what to do—and not to do—in pursuit of this priority.
For the full discussion of this week’s tittle, watch the Weekly Tittle segment on YouTube.
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