- Psst, pro tip, you do not need to be an organized
person to get a little bit more organized.
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Good morning, good life, welcome back to "Amy TV"
where we come together to help you go after the life
that you want.
We all have a lot on our plate, before we know it,
we have tons of emails that we haven't replied to,
the laundry is piling up, and we can't remember
the last time that we did anything in the form of self-care.
And then you start asking yourself,
do I even know what self-care means?
Do I actually even know what it means?
Lack of organization can cause a lot of unwelcome chaos,
so that is something that I wanna help you prevent.
I feel like when we at least have a few good
processes on our side,
we can go a little rogue sometimes,
let things go off the rails,
and know that we'll be able to get back to something
that is a little bit easier to manage.
But without those processes,
it's really easy to let the things happening around you
that are not favorable, not organized,
a little bit chaotic, get to you,
and make you feel like
you're never gonna be able to catch up.
So, even if you're not an organized person,
there's a couple of things that I wanna share with you today
that organized people do that,
even if you just integrated a couple of them into your life,
they might make you feel like
catching up is possible for you,
even when it seems (sighs) a little daunting.
So, today I wanna share seven things that organized people
usually do, so that you can sneak a couple of the ones
that work for you into your life,
so you can make better use of your time
and it's for mindset too.
We gotta keep our mind straight.
So, here are seven things
that organized people do differently.
Steal them all, or just the ones that you like.
Number one, organized people have routines.
What a shock!
She said routines!
(laughing)
I just feel like I had to say that.
Is there video on this channel that I don't say
the word routines?
It's getting to be so routine.
It's a meta routine situation over here.
Not just morning routines, which you obviously know
I'm a huge fan of, if you've been here for a few minutes,
but nighttime routines, weekly eating routines,
date night routines, workout routines, things like that.
Just finding ways to have these opportunities in your life
where on the daily basis,
or hopefully at least on a weekly basis,
you know that you've got something that works for you,
so in doing so, it's a habit, it's a routine.
These are sort of like your baselines that go throughout
your days, your weeks, your months, your years,
and they allow you to do the things
that are important to you.
You could have negative routines too, but that's clearly
not what we're talking about here.
My morning routine is the thing that kicks off my day strong
every single day, so that I know that when I
am talking to my team or I'm talking to my husband,
or I call my mom or there's something going on
with the family, or a random trip shows up,
that things can happen in life,
things can change your plans,
but at least I was able to start on my own terms.
That's just one example, there's a lot of different
examples of routines, and I'm sure you can think of a few,
but at least having one, in my opinion,
the morning routine is the absolute most necessary,
but a workout routine's super important too.
When you have these, and you know it works for you,
it absolutely keeps you level, and when things
just go a little crazy, you know how to get back to normal.
The second thing organized people do differently
is write everything down.
I'm a huge fan of the bullet journaling technique.
If you haven't seen a video on that, check it out.
It's on my channel somewhere,
I'm sure we'll link to it, right?
We got links, we got links everywhere.
But the most important thing is that your brain
was not meant to be the place where you keep thoughts,
ideas, and reminders, that is what inventions are for.
That is why we pay thousands of dollars for computers
and iPads, for phones,
and why you can also pay $8.00 on Amazon for a notepad
that hangs up in your shower.
Yes, I have done that.
When you have an idea, when you have a thought,
when you have thing that pops into your head
that you forgot to do or it's something you need to do,
write it down.
This is something that helps me so much,
because I know if I'm really, truly telling myself
I need more creative space in my brain,
I'm gonna create as much of it as possible
by not keeping things in there that do not need
to hold that space.
I'm not gonna be able to go, what was that thing
I was supposed to do?
And search a file cabinet in my brain.
I can, however, check my bullet journal for that task
I know I wrote down this morning
while I was thinking about it,
and I can go see what that thing was.
Write everything down, even if you're a digital person
and you wanna use the notes app on your phone,
or if you like to journal like me and you wanna join
the bullet journal bandwagon, whatever is your choice.
Get it out of your head.
This is a little random, but I particularly love this one,
and I'm hoping that you'll love it just as much.
Number three is categorical bins and baskets.
What does this mean?
One example of this is your trash,
you probably do this already,
if you're like me and you recycle.
So, you've got a trash for maybe some compost
or your basic stuff, but then you've also got recycling,
things that you know you need to make sure you take care of
that get managed the right way.
I also have a little trash can in my laundry room
that's specifically for those dryer sheets,
because I know that I am much less likely
to walk it into the kitchen.
That's just real life.
I also have one in my closet,
which is probably my favorite trashcan of all,
and that is for the tags on my clothes,
because I am much more likely to walk out of the house
with the tag on my clothes, than to rip it off,
because I don't wanna walk to the trashcan
that's in the kitchen.
It's the small things, but probably more favorable
than my trashcans, is my laundry baskets.
I cannot compute wet towels going into the same basket
as my clothes.
They both have to go to the laundry,
but they shouldn't go together.
And this also helps to make sure that all the towels
get washed together and all of my clothes
get washed together in their own laundry basket,
and all my husband's clothes are in the same basket.
I also have a basket for my dog,
because the things that I wash for my dog,
I don't want to touch.
If I could prevent it
from touching the rest of the universe, I would,
but it definitely should not be touching
my towels or my clothes.
Categorical baskets are a lifesaver
when you don't have time, like me,
but you absolutely have to do your own laundry.
I wanna make sure all the towels get done together.
I wanna make sure everything that my husband has
that's dirty gets done together.
It's just faster, it's better.
The fourth thing that organized people do differently
is use email organization tools.
You don't have to have an assistant,
you don't have to have anything super fancy
or expensive in order to be able to keep up with your email,
but if it's getting a little bit out of control,
there are some things that will help you that are not you.
You don't have to spend more time on your email
for it to be organized.
One tool that I particularly love is called SaneBox.
It allows me to train it
by putting the things that are not so important
into the SaneBox and the things that are in the inbox
are going to be the most important.
It might take you a little bit of time
to make sure that things don't end up in SaneBox
that should be in the inbox,
but you can also do that on your own time,
and you don't have to look at every single email
looking for something important whenever you check it.
When I only check email a couple of times a day,
I need to make sure that what I'm looking at
is the most important thing.
The next thing, and this is something I take very seriously,
some organized people are going to take something out
of a room when they are leaving it,
if a thing does not belong
in that room that they are leaving.
So, for instance, if I have an empty coffee cup in my office
and I'm leaving to go to the kitchen or nearby,
I'm gonna take that empty coffee cup with me.
If I haven't put, ya know,
some skincare back that I have here at my vanity,
but it actually belongs in my bathroom,
if I'm leaving my office for some reason,
I'm gonna take that thing and I'm gonna go put it back.
And I'm also gonna do whatever else I was gonna do.
The more that you try to put things back
to where they belong, as you are traveling naturally
through your spaces, the more likely it's gonna stay
a little bit more organized.
Every time you move just one thing back to it's origin,
you are clearing clutter, which in my opinion,
is a good thing.
Some people are cool with clutter, but ya know,
there might be a thing that is too much clutter.
Let's be honest.
So, move the things, as is convenient with how you move
and you'll be a lot more organized.
Number six, organized people do not drop everything
for a text, an email, or a phone call.
Sometimes I get, I get really like,
happy and also disappointed in myself, but mostly happy,
when I'm like, oh, shoot,
it's three o'clock in the afternoon
and I forgot to turn off do not disturb,
and, like, seven people called me.
Those were seven phone calls I didn't get.
First of all, nobody, seven people don't call me,
let's be honest.
But texts and notifications that are absolutely not crucial,
you do not need to stop everything to check them,
especially if you haven't scheduled the time to do it.
If you're in deep work, or if you're at work,
or you're doing something that absolutely not texting
your friend back about their weekend.
They don't drop everything for this,
they make the time for it.
And quite frankly, I actually, can somebody,
this, I'm gonna say this on the record.
Dear Apple, can you please allow me to mark something
as unread in my text messages,
because I feel even more responsibility to,
if I wanna read something, cool,
but if I can't get back to it,
I don't wanna forget to get back to it.
Now, I forget my text messages all the time.
We live in a world where texts
are becoming more business oriented,
there's a lot more tasks with friends.
I don't want my friends to think
that I'm just like trying to skate by,
by simply replying to them and not putting a lot of thought
into it just because I checked the message,
but then I can't, like, it's a whole thing.
It's this whole thing in my head
that is driving me absolutely insane,
but the reality is, I just don't drop everything
to check those messages, because I know I would rather
spend time doing that person a justice
by giving them my undivided attention
than to think, like, oh, I'm gonna sit here
and check every single thing and get back to it immediately.
I know they're not gonna get my full thoughts
into that thing, if I do that.
Your certainly not gonna be productive,
if you're checking all these things,
if you're answering phone calls willy nilly,
depending on how your life is structured.
You know, there are people in business
who have to answer the phone all the time,
because that has a lot to do with the lifeblood
of how they make money,
but dropping everything for something
when you are in the middle of something else
that has absolutely been prioritized
and you made the time for it,
arguable for absolutely everyone, you shouldn't do it.
And the final thing that organized people do
a little bit differently is not just use their calendar,
because that's not a good enough tip around here.
You know I'm gonna tell you to use a calendar.
Are you right?
I'm right, you're right, we're all right, use a calendar.
You also need to use a collaborative calendar.
So, let's say you get organized,
or at least organized from a scheduling standpoint,
and you're all, look at my calendar block life,
isn't it fabulous?
But you forgot to, like, tell your husband
all the things you're doing
and your kids have commitments going on,
it's always good to have a collaborative calendar.
Me and my husband have a family calendar,
so we know what's going on there.
He also sees a lot of things on the business side,
just because he needs to know,
but that's because we're in business together.
But where are those things that you can have
everybody be able to look at and get a feel for
what everyone is up to.
Having that collaborative nature
of your scheduled time is important.
Even if, let's say you're in college
and there's not really anybody else that needs to know
your schedule on a daily basis,
maybe just the people that need to make sure your safe,
my mom has access to my travel calendar,
so she always knows when I'm leaving town,
and sometimes that has to do with dog sitting,
but most of the time it's just like,
I want her to know where on earth I am.
I mean, it's just useful information about your children.
So use a collaborative calendar whenever it's possible,
if it can't be digital, maybe it's just something
that's hanging up in your kitchen
for the whole family to see, whatever the case.
This is very organized,
because it's not just showing that you are keeping track
of your life and how you're spending your time,
but you're trying to teach others around you to do the same.
Those are seven things that organized people do differently,
I'd love to hear from you.
Question of the day, what is something organized
that you do in your life?
Share that in the comments below.
What's something that you're gonna add to your day
to get yourself a little bit more organized?
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Okay, time to look organized.
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