170 - How Caring for Family Members Affects Your Organizational Phase of Life

<p>Last week, I introduced you to the 4 phases of life and how when you have your babies can impact upon your phase of life.</p> <p>This week, I explore this topic even further and share with you how caring for family members can also affect your organizational phase of life.</p> <p>Having a baby, the topic of last week's podcast, is a welcome and joyous life event. When you have a baby, you're thrust into the accumulation phase. All of those toys...food...clothes...furniture...!</p> <p><strong>This week's focus is on when you become a caretaker for a family member.</strong></p> <p>Unfortunately, when you become a caretaker of a family member, that's not such a joyous life event.</p> <p>Sometimes we'll see it coming and have a gradual lead in, other times it rocks our world in an instant!</p> <p>Often this will be due to medical emergencies, like when a loved one falls and breaks their hip...which I've found in recent years is a real thing and it happens A LOT!</p> <p>I can share from first-hand experience that being a caretaker is EXTREMELY time consuming.</p> <p>You have an immediate prioritization shift in your life.</p> <p>You're thrust into having responsibility over two sets of everything...two households, two sets of bills, etc.</p> <p><strong>Whatever stage of life you were previously in, when you become a caretaker, you're also now in the survival phase, too.</strong></p> <p>In this podcast episode, I share with you some really useful ideas on how to cope if this happens to you.</p> <p>I also have two super useful products that are designed to help you keep track of, and ultimately share when needed, important personal information.</p> <p>One focuses on <a href= "https://www.etsy.com/listing/256848695/digital-medical-organizing-binder?ref=shop_home_active_18" target="_blank" rel="noopener">medical information</a> (i.e., insurance, current and past prescriptions, medical history, etc.).</p> <p>The other focuses on <a href= "https://www.etsy.com/listing/256097772/digital-financial-organizing?ref=related-3"