Speaker 1: Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of iHeartRadio. Good Morning,
Speaker 1: This is Laura, Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast. Today's
Speaker 1: episode is going to be a longer one part of
Speaker 1: the series where I interview fascinating people about how they
Speaker 1: take their days from great to awesome and any advice
Speaker 1: they have for the rest of us. So today I
Speaker 1: am delighted to welcome Lauri Palau to the show. She
Speaker 1: is the host of the Organized Life podcast, author of
Speaker 1: the book Hot Mess, owner of the business Simply Be Organized. So, Laurie,
Speaker 1: welcome to the show.
Speaker 2: Thank you so much. It's a pleasure to be here.
Speaker 2: I love sitting on the other side of a podcast.
Speaker 1: Most absolutely, it's a totally different experience. So why don't
Speaker 1: you tell our listeners a little bit about yourself?
Speaker 2: Okay, well, I'll try to give it the quick, short version.
Speaker 2: So I'm a mom to two grown ish kids. I
Speaker 2: have a almost twenty two year old and year old,
Speaker 2: so kind of in a new season of.
Speaker 3: Life for my youngest.
Speaker 2: Just graduated college and so that's bringing on a whole
Speaker 2: different type of mothering. And then professionally, I run a
Speaker 2: company called Simply Be Organized, where I write teach speak
Speaker 2: all about decluttering all parts of your life, whether it's
Speaker 2: the physical stuff in your home, whether it's more of
Speaker 2: the productivity side of things where you're reducing things in
Speaker 2: your calendar, or just kind of relational things that are
Speaker 2: the mental block of keeping you stuck where you are.
Speaker 2: And yeah, and I have a I had a podcast
Speaker 2: for eight years, and I just made the decision that
Speaker 2: when we talk about editing our lives and things that
Speaker 2: you know we need to make changes, we just made
Speaker 2: the decision that we are going to be ending our show,
Speaker 2: which is scary and exciting all the things.
Speaker 3: Also, that's kind of.
Speaker 2: Where I am personally and professionally.
Speaker 1: And how did you get involved in the organizing business?
Speaker 2: So it was really by happenstance. I tell the story.
Speaker 2: It was very anticlimactic in a sense that I was
Speaker 2: just always somebody that was very organized. When my kids
Speaker 2: were little, my husband traveled a ton, so I had
Speaker 2: to create systems and strategies for my own sanity. That
Speaker 2: was it, And I guess my brain just works that way.
Speaker 2: And my past life, I was an executive recruiter and
Speaker 2: I loved working with people. I always liked working with
Speaker 2: people and finding out what motivated them, And in my
Speaker 2: old world, it was although what motivated them for changing
Speaker 2: their careers?
Speaker 3: Was it freedom? Was it?
Speaker 2: Status?
Speaker 3: Was it? You know?
Speaker 2: Fill in the blank. And in the recession of two
Speaker 2: thousand and eight two thousand and nine, much of my
Speaker 2: client work was impacted and a friend of mine who's
Speaker 2: an interior designer, made the recommendation of like, hey, you
Speaker 2: might want to try doing this professionally. And I really
Speaker 2: took the skills that I was using with recruiting and
Speaker 2: just applied them in a different realm. And so I
Speaker 2: started working with people to find out about their motivation
Speaker 2: for holding onto things or wanting to get rid of things.
Speaker 2: And I found that there was a lot of overlap
Speaker 2: in the work that I was doing.
Speaker 3: It was just showing up differently.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And one of the things you talk about, I
Speaker 1: love the big phrase on your website, it's not about
Speaker 1: the bins. So for those of us who think that organization,
Speaker 1: you know, we like our bins, perhaps why is it
Speaker 1: not about the bins?
Speaker 2: Because for me, and this is where I always put
Speaker 2: the disclaimer that I pretend I'm a fake therapist, I'm
Speaker 2: really not.
Speaker 3: So with all and.
Speaker 2: The utmost respect to anybody that has letters after their name.
Speaker 3: I do not.
Speaker 2: But after doing this for fifteen years and just kind
Speaker 2: of being a student of personalities and human development, I
Speaker 2: really find that clutter is the symptom and disorganization is
Speaker 2: the symptom.
Speaker 3: And really I can give you the tools to meeting
Speaker 3: the bin, the.
Speaker 2: Basket, the filing, cabinet, whatever, and we can create those systems,
Speaker 2: but ultimately it's about how it makes us feel. How
Speaker 2: does this stuff make us feel? What is driving our
Speaker 2: behavior to make the decisions or not make the decisions
Speaker 2: to either act or not act on our stuff. And
Speaker 2: once we have that light bulb switch, that's when change
Speaker 2: really happens. And so many people think, if I just
Speaker 2: had and I know for myself, right, if I just
Speaker 2: had the beautiful built in closet, if I just had
Speaker 2: the custom budroom, if I just had the fill in
Speaker 2: the blank, then my problems wouldn't be there. And we
Speaker 2: all know this in so many different aspects of our lives.
Speaker 2: That's just not the case. We have to really kind
Speaker 2: of get in beneath the surface.
Speaker 1: Well, what is cluttery symptom of? Then if that's the
Speaker 1: if that's the symptom, what is it. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I mean I think for a lot of people, it
Speaker 2: can range right, it can range anywhere from it's a
Speaker 2: symptom of chaos. It's a symptom of control. It's a
Speaker 2: symptom of you know, I have like these like five
Speaker 2: kind of c's. You know, it's confusion, it is, you know,
Speaker 2: people are paralyzed where they are. There's all of these
Speaker 2: different reasons. There's not just one reason why we get stuck.
Speaker 2: And you know, I think the key to unlocking what
Speaker 2: clutter where your own clutter pitfall is is doing some
Speaker 2: self discovery. And sometimes, you know, when I go deep
Speaker 2: and we look at sometimes it is situational. I call
Speaker 2: it like situational clutter versus crime clutter. Situational clutter is Listen,
Speaker 2: we're in a busy season of life. We've got kids,
Speaker 2: we're running around, We're using our home as it drop zone.
Speaker 2: So we're not really spending the time to put this
Speaker 2: stuff away, put the laundry, you know, do the laundry,
Speaker 2: put it away, go through the mail, and we just
Speaker 2: need to kind of get back on track. That's situational clutter.
Speaker 2: And maybe it is something as benign as hey, let's
Speaker 2: get this bin or basket, and it's gonna solve the problem.
Speaker 2: But what where it starts to become a pain point
Speaker 2: for people is when it becomes goes into more of
Speaker 2: the chronic, like this is an ongoing issue in our home,
Speaker 2: and this is I'm constantly the only one, you know,
Speaker 2: I'm filling in the blank, right, I'm the only one
Speaker 2: that cleans up after everybody or nobody listens to me,
Speaker 2: or you know, why can't I No matter how much
Speaker 2: I declutter, it just keeps creeping back. And then it's
Speaker 2: let's look at, well, what are the patterns of behavior?
Speaker 2: How you communicating? Is it a problem with yourself? Is
Speaker 2: something that you're not holding yourself accountable? Is it I'm
Speaker 2: not communicating the expectation clearly with the other people in
Speaker 2: my house, which is oftentimes the case. And so when
Speaker 2: we look at kind of all the different nuances, that's
Speaker 2: when we can start to develop an actual system that
Speaker 2: is going to hopefully be sustainable for you.
Speaker 1: I must say, is one of those c's children, yea,
Speaker 1: because I feel like, I mean, I can have a
Speaker 1: good grasp on my own stuff and it's fine, but
Speaker 1: I have many many other people bringing things into the house.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and that, and that's real, and that's a struggle
Speaker 2: that most of my clients and most of the people
Speaker 2: that I work with are struggling with.
Speaker 3: And I get it, you.
Speaker 2: Know, and that's why I always kind of lead with.
Speaker 2: And I only had two humans. You have five kids,
Speaker 2: you know, and so everyone's coming with their own stuff
Speaker 2: literally and figuratively. That is going to get in the
Speaker 2: way of how you want to get that done.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, Well we're going to take a quick
Speaker 1: ad break and then I will be back with more
Speaker 1: from Louri Palou. Well, I am back talking with Louri Palau,
Speaker 1: who's the owner of the business simply be organized, all right,
Speaker 1: So I love practical tips on this show. We've talked
Speaker 1: about the deeper issues of clutter. But if somebody's like, Okay,
Speaker 1: I want, you know, some quick solutions, some things that
Speaker 1: I can do maybe today to help with the organization
Speaker 1: in my life, whether that's you know, stuff or whether
Speaker 1: it's temporal or whatever it is, what do you have
Speaker 1: for us?
Speaker 3: Okay?
Speaker 2: So, I mean there are some basics which are I
Speaker 2: really think doing a sweep of your house on the
Speaker 2: regular is really important, and that could mean you know, sweeping,
Speaker 2: getting if you have little ones at home getting the toys,
Speaker 2: you know, corralled and wrangled. And I'm not saying you
Speaker 2: have to be doing it ten times a day, but
Speaker 2: have a couple of like design pockets in your day,
Speaker 2: whether it's first thing in the morning, obviously before bed.
Speaker 2: Maybe there's a midday sweep if you're home, just to
Speaker 2: kind of keep things at bay. I'm a big fan
Speaker 2: also of not having dirty dishes in the sink. That
Speaker 2: might be my thing. I like to create a system
Speaker 2: for running the dishwasher. And it's funny now that I
Speaker 2: used to always, you know, say, run the dishwasher every day,
Speaker 2: run the dishrusher every day, and when I had a
Speaker 2: busy household with lots of people, that was a no brainer.
Speaker 2: Now when it's just my husband and myself, we're not
Speaker 2: necessarily running it every day, but I still get in
Speaker 2: the habit of running it at night when I do
Speaker 2: run it, and so that way it gets unloaded first
Speaker 2: thing in the morning, and so any dirty dishes throughout
Speaker 2: the day can just funnel themselves into there. Another quick
Speaker 2: tip that I have for people is go through the
Speaker 2: mail every day. I try not to even bring in
Speaker 2: the junk mail. I would put it right in the
Speaker 2: recycling bin. But I go through the mail every day
Speaker 2: and if you and this is obviously space dependent, but
Speaker 2: one of the things that was a huge game changer
Speaker 2: when it came to that paper clutter was we moved
Speaker 2: our shredder downstairs into our I have a desk command
Speaker 2: center in my kitchen. Totally get it that not everybody
Speaker 2: has this space, but I moved my shredder there, and
Speaker 2: that eliminated that extra step of going, oh, I need
Speaker 2: to go up to my home office and have this
Speaker 2: pile of stuff to shred. I could just do it
Speaker 2: on the spot. So just making things super, super convenient
Speaker 2: and easy so that you're adding fewer steps to get
Speaker 2: your stuff.
Speaker 1: Done, yeah, because if it takes a lot of time
Speaker 1: and effort, you're.
Speaker 3: Not going to do it right.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, Yeah, No, I love that. That's good. I'm curious
Speaker 1: if you have any particular routines that make you more productive.
Speaker 1: I mean, so we start to transition into scheduling here.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean this, And again I always feel like
Speaker 2: this sounds so obvious, but maybe it doesn't.
Speaker 3: I'm not sure.
Speaker 2: I have always gotten up earlier than my kids. I've
Speaker 2: always created an extra buffer. I'm a morning person, but
Speaker 2: I like to have that even if it's fifteen to
Speaker 2: thirty minutes, where I could have a cup of coffee,
Speaker 2: I could just sit with my thoughts. I've gone through
Speaker 2: different seasons of my life. Sometimes I would journal, sometimes
Speaker 2: I would read, sometimes I would scroll. Whatever it is
Speaker 2: that you are going to do for me. Having that
Speaker 2: little buffer allows me to then when I had a
Speaker 2: kick into mom mode or going off to work mode
Speaker 2: or mode or whatever it was, I could then flip
Speaker 2: that switch.
Speaker 3: But I needed that break.
Speaker 2: I call it putting the margin in my day, and
Speaker 2: so that always has helped me. So that's kind of
Speaker 2: like my morning routine. And then I'm a big time blocker.
Speaker 2: And I know you're a productivity person, so I'm sure
Speaker 2: your listeners are familiar with that.
Speaker 3: But I like to just chunk my time into so that.
Speaker 2: I I know, when I know, like I'm in work mode,
Speaker 2: short of an emergency that's coming up, I will just
Speaker 2: tailor any personal stuff or volunteer stuff or stuff that's
Speaker 2: not related to work later. And I give myself that
Speaker 2: permission because I know that this window of time, whatever
Speaker 2: that window of time is, allows me to be focused
Speaker 2: in on that task, and I do the same when
Speaker 2: it comes to decluttering a space. You know, I'm giving
Speaker 2: myself x amount of time, whether it's twenty minutes, thirty minutes,
Speaker 2: an hour, four hours, whatever that window is. I'm like,
Speaker 2: I'm setting aside this time to do this task and
Speaker 2: everything else can wait. That means laundry, meal prep whatever.
Speaker 1: Do people wind up with cluttered schedules in the same
Speaker 1: way that they wind up with cluttered homes.
Speaker 3: Oh? Absolutely. We call it.
Speaker 2: Yes, we call it calendar clutter. Here when I teach
Speaker 2: about clutter, I talk about three main types. The physical clutter,
Speaker 2: which is the stuff that you see, the emotional clutter,
Speaker 2: which is like guilt or fear that holds people back,
Speaker 2: and then calendar clutter. Obviously there's other clutter, like digital
Speaker 2: clutter and things like that. But those three areas if
Speaker 2: you were to look at like a you know, a
Speaker 2: diagram like, you would see them as like concentric circles overlapping.
Speaker 2: That's kind of the visual that I give to people,
Speaker 2: and that calendar clutter will indirectly oftentimes lead to the
Speaker 2: physical clutter because if you are so busy and you
Speaker 2: are constantly on the go, it doesn't leave time for
Speaker 2: you to address the physical stuff that needs attending to laundry, dishes, mail,
Speaker 2: what have you.
Speaker 1: So how can we get rid of some of that
Speaker 1: schedule clutter.
Speaker 2: I think it comes down to prioritizing what are your
Speaker 2: goals really and how important is this thing to you?
Speaker 2: You know, I make a lot of analogies about working
Speaker 2: out and you know, health and fitness to decluttering your life,
Speaker 2: whatever that looks like. And if you're you know, something's
Speaker 2: going to give. And I'm always here to tell people,
Speaker 2: like listen, if you want to be scheduled constantly, then
Speaker 2: you have to be okay with either outsourcing and paying
Speaker 2: somebody to do the things that need to get done,
Speaker 2: or come to a piece of acceptance that you're.
Speaker 3: Going to have that if you are.
Speaker 2: And like, you know, a realistic analogy would be it's
Speaker 2: summertime now, at least at the time that we're recording this,
Speaker 2: people want to be outside.
Speaker 3: I get it.
Speaker 2: You want to go to the beach, you want to
Speaker 2: go to the lake, you want to or wherever. And
Speaker 2: if you're gone all weekend, every single weekend, and you
Speaker 2: work during the week, that leaves you little time to
Speaker 2: get done those things. So maybe giving yourself a past
Speaker 2: that Okay, our house is going to be a little
Speaker 2: bit more messy, but if that stresses you out, then
Speaker 2: you have to be intentional. I have that discipline because
Speaker 2: really so much of organizing, once you find that system
Speaker 2: and strategy that works for you, it's really just about
Speaker 2: Vinson repeat, it's the discipline of doing it. Just like
Speaker 2: if you were to work out or eat healthy, it's
Speaker 2: just to say, Okay, I'm not going to eat the
Speaker 2: ice cream, or I'm not gonna have dessert, or maybe
Speaker 2: you want to have it, and that's okay, but then
Speaker 2: you have to just accept the fact that maybe the
Speaker 2: scale is not going to move in the direction I
Speaker 2: wanted to, but I enjoyed the ice cream. So you
Speaker 2: just have to kind of recognize you you necessarily can't
Speaker 2: have both things at the same time.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, it's the reality that household management and
Speaker 1: life administration take time, and we can tell ourselves that
Speaker 1: they don't, but then they're going to stack up and
Speaker 1: create this this sort of schedule clutter, or you can
Speaker 1: sort of have the time built in to deal with
Speaker 1: them and understand that this. You know, if you don't
Speaker 1: want it to take time, that doesn't really matter. It's
Speaker 1: like it's either your time or somebody's time.
Speaker 3: Right, Absolutely, absolutely.
Speaker 2: I used to I haven't said it much recently, but
Speaker 2: I used to talk really about be looking at yourself
Speaker 2: as the CEO of your home, and the CEO of
Speaker 2: like in any business, oversees everything and then they have
Speaker 2: different people that facilitate different aspects of the business. And
Speaker 2: if you look at your home that way, and you
Speaker 2: can itemize, okay, who is being in charge of this
Speaker 2: particular area and maybe that's you, maybe that's a pay professional,
Speaker 2: maybe that's your kids, maybe that's your spouse, whatever that
Speaker 2: looks like, but really identifying it because we can't do
Speaker 2: all of the things all the time, just like a
Speaker 2: just like in a business, you can't have one person
Speaker 2: just running the show.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, all right, We're going to take one more quick
Speaker 1: ad break and then i'll be back with more from
Speaker 1: Louri Palou. Well, I am back talking with Lauri Palou,
Speaker 1: who's the owner of the Simply Be Organized business and
Speaker 1: has also been the host of the Disorganized Life podcast.
Speaker 1: But we learned earlier that you are you know, going
Speaker 1: to be ending that I wonder if you can talk
Speaker 1: about that decision.
Speaker 2: Yeah, It was probably one of the hardest professional decisions
Speaker 2: I've had to make. So I don't know if there's
Speaker 2: a lot of you know, entrepreneurs that are listening to
Speaker 2: your show.
Speaker 3: I'm imagining that there are.
Speaker 2: But anytime you have to walk away from something that
Speaker 2: you like and that you are good at is really hard.
Speaker 2: And you know, I wrote an article afterwards, you know,
Speaker 2: I wrote a letter to my to my listeners to
Speaker 2: just again not only thank them, but to say I
Speaker 2: really put my organizer hat on and try to channel
Speaker 2: how my clients feel about getting rid of things that
Speaker 2: they might still love but maybe aren't serving them the
Speaker 2: way they once were.
Speaker 3: And it's okay to grieve that.
Speaker 2: And so for me, it really came down to the
Speaker 2: fact that I was entering this new season of life
Speaker 2: I've been talking about on the show and also on
Speaker 2: my social media. We bought a little cottage that we've
Speaker 2: been renovating, and that is taking up a lot of
Speaker 2: my time and attention, and I needed to create space
Speaker 2: for something new and I don't even know what that is,
Speaker 2: and that's really scary also in its own right. But
Speaker 2: I knew that my calendar was full with all the
Speaker 2: things that I was doing and what was required of
Speaker 2: the podcast, And as much as I love it, I
Speaker 2: felt to a degree, I've said all of the key
Speaker 2: things I want wanted to be a resource for people,
Speaker 2: and it's still there. But I needed to say, Okay,
Speaker 2: let's let's give space for something new.
Speaker 3: And so it was.
Speaker 2: Really hard and we're i'll see what. I'll see what happens.
Speaker 2: I always say, never say never. I love this medium,
Speaker 2: I love this platform. I mean, I love helping people.
Speaker 3: So we'll see. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Well, I say that open space invites opportunity in a
Speaker 1: way that a cluttered calendar can. I mean, it's just
Speaker 1: you can't say yes to new things if you feel
Speaker 1: like every minute is spoken for. So I mean, it's
Speaker 1: always exciting to see what comes next. But I've been
Speaker 1: interesting to see with your business. I mean because with
Speaker 1: a business like organizing, obviously, there's only so much that
Speaker 1: you personally can do right and if you you know,
Speaker 1: there's only so much it can grow if you are
Speaker 1: you know, in people's houses for a certain amount of time.
Speaker 1: And so you've you've come up with some interesting ways
Speaker 1: to scale a business that is based around you. So
Speaker 1: I wonder if you could talk a little bit about that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, thanks, And I it's very interesting because I started
Speaker 2: in this business in two thousand and nine, and I
Speaker 2: tell people all the time, especially for newer organizers, just
Speaker 2: to put it in context, there was no Instagram and
Speaker 2: there was no Pinterest when I started. So you think
Speaker 2: about how these platforms, especially in my world of organizing,
Speaker 2: have helped people start, scale and grow their businesses like
Speaker 2: that didn't even exist back when I started. And you know,
Speaker 2: I think when you're in any type of hands on
Speaker 2: business where it's a time for money trade, scaling has
Speaker 2: a couple of different ways they can do it. You
Speaker 2: can either scale it by bringing in a team and
Speaker 2: basically duplicating yourself or other versions of yourself. And I
Speaker 2: didn't necessarily. I had assistance, but I didn't want to
Speaker 2: necessarily go that route because then your life becomes a
Speaker 2: lot of management and project management.
Speaker 3: Of other people.
Speaker 2: And I really love the relatetional piece that one on
Speaker 2: one and so in order for me to scale, because
Speaker 2: like you said, there are only so many hours in
Speaker 2: a day, I had to basically develop other revenue streams
Speaker 2: that could complement an offset, either peaks and valleys within
Speaker 2: the business of like when times were, you know, slower
Speaker 2: with clients, or just other ways that I could tap
Speaker 2: into different markets. And so, in my specific case, I
Speaker 2: started a speaker series called the Clutter Clinic, and it
Speaker 2: was designed as a way.
Speaker 3: I've noticed early on that.
Speaker 2: There were a lot of people that were very interested
Speaker 2: in what I was saying. They were that this is
Speaker 2: back in the blog like when blogging was in its heyday.
Speaker 2: They were subscribed to my blog, they were getting my email,
Speaker 2: they were on my email list, all the things, but
Speaker 2: they weren't converting to be a client. And maybe they
Speaker 2: weren't converting to a client because of embarrassment. Maybe they
Speaker 2: weren't converting client because of cost. Maybe it was another reason.
Speaker 2: Maybe it was that I think I can do it myself,
Speaker 2: or I want to do it myself. I want to
Speaker 2: be a di wire. I just don't have the tools.
Speaker 2: And so I said, how can I reach that market
Speaker 2: and essentially monetize that market that isn't necessarily falling into
Speaker 2: that textbook luxury client that wants you to come and
Speaker 2: do it with them or for them. And so I said,
Speaker 2: what if I developed this lunch and learned series where
Speaker 2: people could pay, they get some content and have it
Speaker 2: in a fun, very non threatening way and then leave
Speaker 2: with some action steps. And so that wound up becoming
Speaker 2: another revenue stream for me to and it was a
Speaker 2: win win because I was able to access another market
Speaker 2: and also be able to share kind of my strategies
Speaker 2: and theories. And then once the podcast came about, it
Speaker 2: opened up another door for which I hadn't originally thought of,
Speaker 2: but it opened up the door to allow me to
Speaker 2: mentor other professional organizers. And I started the podcast in
Speaker 2: twenty seventeen and just again for contacts. That's when, like
Speaker 2: Marie Condo started becoming really popular. And then once COVID
Speaker 2: hit and a lot of people were trying to figure
Speaker 2: out alternative ways to generate money. And with social media,
Speaker 2: you know, there's a low bower of entry for the
Speaker 2: professional organizing space, which is a good.
Speaker 3: And a bad thing.
Speaker 2: And so you had a lot of people that were
Speaker 2: coming in and starting either side hustles or starting businesses.
Speaker 2: But they really struggled with some of the tactical business acumen. Right,
Speaker 2: they knew how to organized, that wasn't the issue. They
Speaker 2: love that, but running a business, running an organizing business.
Speaker 3: Was a little bit of a struggle and so the.
Speaker 2: Podcast attracted organically other people interested in the space, and
Speaker 2: so that allowed me to then develop a mentorship program
Speaker 2: where I do group in individual mentorship where I'm teaching
Speaker 2: other organizers how to sustainably grow their businesses in their
Speaker 2: respective markets.
Speaker 1: Excellent, excellent, Well, Laurie, I always ask people on the
Speaker 1: show this question, what is something you have done recently
Speaker 1: to take a day from great to awesome?
Speaker 3: That's a really good question.
Speaker 2: I really think it comes down to gratitude and just
Speaker 2: your mindset right of just recognizing.
Speaker 3: That where you are is a gift. And you know, I.
Speaker 2: Just came off of being having the luxury of being
Speaker 2: away for almost a month at our beach house renovating it,
Speaker 2: which I've never in my life been away for that long.
Speaker 2: And I'll yes, I was working remotely, but I just
Speaker 2: kept reminding myself, like how fortunate I am not only
Speaker 2: to be to like be in this beautiful space, but
Speaker 2: just like that I was healthy and that I had
Speaker 2: you know, all of these I have great friendships and relationships,
Speaker 2: and so wherever you are, even if you're not doing
Speaker 2: that and you're in the weeds, trying to just take
Speaker 2: that moment of gratitude for whatever it is that you're
Speaker 2: grateful for. I think just really helps me to elevate
Speaker 2: kind of what's going on, even when things don't necessarily
Speaker 2: go exactly the way that you want.
Speaker 3: That can really reframe.
Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely, you can savor the good things that are
Speaker 1: happening and sure get through the bed. So, Laurie, where
Speaker 1: can people find you?
Speaker 2: So best place to find me is my website, which
Speaker 2: is the hub of all the things, and that's simply
Speaker 2: the letter B like Boyorganized dot com and you can
Speaker 2: connect up. There's a link for the podcast because even
Speaker 2: though we're not doing new episodes, we have over five
Speaker 2: hundred episodes of all kinds of organizing stuff and there's
Speaker 2: you know, the book and coaching and all that fun
Speaker 2: stuff there.
Speaker 1: Absolutely all right, Well, Laurie, thank you so much for
Speaker 1: joining us. Thank you to everyone for listening. If you
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