481 - Swiss Cheese Organizing - Organize 365® Research Findings

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">What does it mean to be organized?</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">How do you know when you’re done organizing?</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">No one has ever officially defined "organized."</span> <strong>I decided I would define it.</strong> <span style="font-weight: 400;">We started by conducting academic-level research using our surveys. You can read more about Organize 365® Research and the finding on our</span> <a href="https://organize365.com/Research"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Research page</span></a><span style= "font-weight: 400;">.</span></p> <p><strong>For most Americans, organization happens as Swiss cheese organizing.</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">You’re a little organized here and a little organized there. You can’t confidently say, “I AM organized,” because you think that being organized means perfection while not being organized is hoarding. You don’t have language for what happens in the middle of these two!</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We need to consider the idea of done rather than perfect.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In this episode, I share many statistics and findings from our research, which is all leading us to change the way we present and teach the material in The Productive Home Solution™. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">If you just get through the first 42 days of the 100 Day Home Organization Program, you will have 80% of the spaces you use on a daily basis organized. You CAN call yourself organized. But many of you don’t FEEL organized. It doesn’t fully check off any single category of organizing as complete for you. It just marks a couple more spaces in your Swiss cheese organizing.</span> <strong>I want to see you get to the point where you can say that you are personally organized or storage organized or paper organized, etc.</strong> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">You get to pick and choose which areas you want to tackle and master and dec