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Speaker 1: Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of I Heart Radio.

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Speaker 1: Good Morning. This is Laura, Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.

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Speaker 1: Today's tip is that not all messes in complexity have

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Speaker 1: to be dealt with. Sometimes you can just sweep it

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Speaker 1: under the rug. I recently recorded some time makeover videos

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Speaker 1: to illustrate the nine time rules in my forthcoming book,

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Speaker 1: Tranquility by Tuesday. Most of the video was filmed in

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Speaker 1: readers homes, but we also filmed in my kitchen, which

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Speaker 1: is command central from my family of seven. You can

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Speaker 1: imagine what my kitchen looks like on a typical Thursday.

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Speaker 1: Even if we are on top of the dishes, we

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Speaker 1: wind up with stuff on the counter, random toys, mail,

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Speaker 1: and people's art supplies. So what did I do before

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Speaker 1: the Tranquility by Tuesday film crew arrived. I moved the

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Speaker 1: random stuff to a pile by the stairs and put

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Speaker 1: a wooden crate of papers and old magazines in the pantry. Miraculously,

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Speaker 1: the counter was now clear, perfect for video. As we've

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Speaker 1: needed things, we've dug them out, and yes, the mail

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Speaker 1: pile has re established itself it always does, but when needed,

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Speaker 1: everything was out of sight. There's a saying that you

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Speaker 1: can't just sweep it under the rug. Presumably you should

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Speaker 1: sweep messes into a dustpan and empty the dustpan into

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Speaker 1: the trash instead, And that's generally a good idea literally

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Speaker 1: and metaphorically. If you have a significant conflict with your spouse,

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Speaker 1: if your finances are in disarray, if you're dealing with

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Speaker 1: the aftermath of a traumatic experience, you probably need to

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Speaker 1: deal with the issue thoroughly, get to the bottom of it,

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Speaker 1: understand it, work through it. Some physical complexity needs to

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Speaker 1: be dealt with systematically too. If your attic is such

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Speaker 1: a disaster that you re buy things that you know

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Speaker 1: you have stored, you should probably clean it out. If

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Speaker 1: you have stacks of paper on your desk and you

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Speaker 1: can't get your work done because you're unable to find

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Speaker 1: the materials you need, you would make your life better

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Speaker 1: by getting organized, but sometimes that is just not necessary.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes you can deal with a mess by sweeping it

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Speaker 1: under the rug, like my ten minute kitchen cleaning. Sometimes

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Speaker 1: getting disorder out of sight is really all you need.

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Speaker 1: Maybe your desktop is covered with downloaded files and documents

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Speaker 1: you're working on that you intend to deal with but

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Speaker 1: never get around to. No worries if you need to

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Speaker 1: screen share during a video conference, just drag all the

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Speaker 1: files into a folder labeled desktop and you're good to go.

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Speaker 1: Your kids scattered toys all around your living room really

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Speaker 1: don't have to be neatly organized every night. That is

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Speaker 1: truly a waste of time, as they are just going

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Speaker 1: to come out again the next morning. So if you

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Speaker 1: value the place looking orderly, just throw all the toys

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Speaker 1: into a basket in the corner for your kids to

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Speaker 1: find another day. Better yet, have them throw them in there.

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Speaker 1: Perhaps you can sort through the basket once or twice

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Speaker 1: a year to give away anything they've outgrown. That's enough.

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Speaker 1: All the documentation for your taxes can just go in

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Speaker 1: a file. If you have the data in a spreadsheet,

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Speaker 1: it doesn't really matter if the paper documentation is organized.

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Speaker 1: If you do need to produce the documentation in the future,

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Speaker 1: you can dig through the file to access the documents

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Speaker 1: you need. Otherwise, what matters is that you have the documents,

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Speaker 1: not that they're perfectly organized. Before you spend a lot

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Speaker 1: of time organizing, think through whether the organization is necessary.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes you really can get a mess out of sight

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Speaker 1: and put it out of mind and save your time

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Speaker 1: for more important things in the meantime. This is Laura.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for listening and here's to making the most of

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Speaker 1: our times. Hey, everybody, I'd love to hear from you.

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