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010 - A Day in the Life - Monday Workday

Released Friday, 11th March 2022
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010 - A Day in the Life - Monday Workday

010 - A Day in the Life - Monday Workday

010 - A Day in the Life - Monday Workday

010 - A Day in the Life - Monday Workday

Friday, 11th March 2022
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In this podcast series, I will be diving into organizing the business of work. I will be taking you along with me for a workweek that I recorded in November 2021.

At Organize 365®, we divide our work into four categories. As a shortcut, we use the Friday Workbox® colors to categorize the different kinds of work. These colors are pink, purple, blue, and green. 

Creating a shared vocabulary and defining different kinds of work gets all of our team on the same page. Together, we move faster in the same direction and have fewer episodes of miscommunication. 

Today is Monday, and Mondays are pink days in my work.

Pink work is about ideas and possibilities—new projects, new ideas, new partners, possible process improvements, and other future ideas that might become a reality. 

Because I am the CEO and visionary of Organize 365®, I give myself two full workdays each week to focus on my pink work. I take time to think, to dream, to process, and to move forward about what might be in our future. I spend a lot of time and research exploring possibilities, and sometimes I put the ideas on hold, and sometimes I decide that we are never going to do a particular project. 

In this podcast, I will take you along and talk to you at different times during my workday. 

Part of what I share is some different productivity habits I have slowly added in over the past 30 years that help me to be more effective and get so much done. 

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Lisa Woodruff is a home organization expert, productivity specialist, and author of multiple books including The Paper Solution and How ADHD Affects Home Organization. As a former teacher, Lisa understands how the executive functions of the brain process tasks and help or hinder your attempts to “get organized”. The truth is, we all need an external brain to support our complex and fast-paced lives. Lisa will guide you by first identifying your thoughts as information that is composed of ideas, to-dos, and routine tasks. All the thoughts are captured in written form so they can be sorted and containerized. The Business Friday Workbox® was designed to externalize the executive functions of our brain with visual cues for our work. The Business Friday Workbox® divides these tasks into 4 kinds of work - new projects/ products, current projects/ products, team communication & professional development, and routine job description tasks. This common understanding of the 4 kinds of work aids team discussions and makes each kind of work more tangible. The weekly habit of taking time to conduct weekly planning and focusing on the next thing that needs to be done is how naturally organized employees move projects forward towards completion.These podcast episodes originally aired on the Organize 365® podcast and are curated here for easy access and sharing. Lisa believes organization is not a skill you are born with. It is a skill that is developed over time and changes with each season of life. Lisa has helped thousands of women reclaim their homes and finally get organized with her practical tips, encouragement, and humor through her blog and podcast at Organize365.com.

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