176 - Sometimes You Are Just Stuck In A Phase

<p>This week’s podcast is about the times when you find yourself in a tough phase of life. It’s about the times when you literally have no time to get organized no matter how much you want to.</p> <p>It may be that you’re SO busy you struggle to find even 15 minutes a day to get your home organized.</p> <p>Or you have the time, but what you want/need to do requires money and you literally don’t have a spare $15 right now.</p> <p>It may be both, you don’t have a spare 15 minutes AND a spare $15!</p> <p>They’re not phases that we want to find ourselves in, but nonetheless, it can happen to us all and probably will at least once in our life.</p> <p>I can easily draw upon my own personal experience with this topic. I’d LOVE to say that I was stuck in this phase of life for a week or a month, but it was more like 6 years!</p> <p>In the episode, I touch on how to get organized if you have a chronic condition (like fibromyalgia or a physical ailment). I’m afraid I have no magic answer ,but my main advice is to get someone to help you, either paid (if you can afford it) or unpaid (friends and family). When you have help in place, you then need to think about how you can incorporate help with home organization <u>as well as</u> physical care. People want to help you, and so, broaden your thinking on how you can use that help.</p> <p>If you’re a parent, a lot can depend upon the age of your children and what I like to call the "stage of parenting" that you find yourself in. I recorded a whole podcast episode on this very topic: <a href="http://organize365.com/stages-of-parenting/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">#130 - The Three Stages of Parenting</a>.</p> <ul> <li>Age 0-6 is when you’re doing EVERYTHING for your kids. You’re at home a lot. It can be exhausting. And there’s SO much to organize because the rate of change when it comes to clothes, toys, etc. is mind boggling!</li> <li>Age 6-12 is when you do things <em>with</em> your kids. You teach them how to start looking after themselves.</li> <li>13+ is when they’re bec