366 - Organizational Math

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Today, I want to encourage you to embrace organizational math. With organization, you can move your life from reactive to proactive, but doing so takes focus and determination. First, we change your mental model, and then you layer on the practical and physical skills. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">I was a middle school math teacher, and I share how I apply the same benefits of</span> <em><span style="font-weight: 400;">basic</span></em> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">math skills to your transformational journey into organization. For any of you who are math phobic, I promise we will only talk about addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. </span></p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Addition</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">When you decide to get organized, the first thing you will want to do is to</span> <strong>add</strong> <span style="font-weight: 400;">a new habit into your life routine. Habits require focused efforts to ensure their successful adoption. When we want to improve our lives, we often try to add many new habits all at one. However, being able to cement a new habit into your routine usually requires about 120 days, but if you tackle fewer goals more effectively you will ensure achieving a lasting change. Spoiler alert: the first habit to</span> <strong>add</strong> <span style="font-weight: 400;">when working towards organization is the</span> <a href= "http://sundaybasket.com"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Sunday Basket®</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Subtraction</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">When you think about applying subtraction to organization, it is the</span> <a href= "https://organize365.com/podcast/get-organized-3-easy-steps"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> first step</span></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">we take in the</span> <a href= "https://organize365.com/100-Day-Home-Organization-Program"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> 100 Day Home Organizat