WEBVTT - How quickly can you find it?

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<v Speaker 1>Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of I Heart Radio.

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<v Speaker 1>Good Morning, This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.

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<v Speaker 1>Today's tip is to figure out how quickly you can

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<v Speaker 1>find important information. If the answer is quite quickly, that

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<v Speaker 1>is a sign that your life is quite organized, even

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<v Speaker 1>if your cereal isn't decanted into clear containers in your pantry.

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<v Speaker 1>On the other hand, if you can't find important information,

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<v Speaker 1>that is one of the first things you should organize

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<v Speaker 1>and baby not worry about the clear canisters, cool as

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<v Speaker 1>they might look. Today's tip comes from some interesting research

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<v Speaker 1>by Lisa Woodruff, owner of the Organized three company. Lisa

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<v Speaker 1>helps people organize all the systems, paper, and stuff in

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<v Speaker 1>their lives. She asked people in a survey how often

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<v Speaker 1>they experienced various forms of organizational stress. Some thirty of

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<v Speaker 1>men and women said they always or often experience the

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<v Speaker 1>stress of being unable to find important papers. We are

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<v Speaker 1>talking things like birth certificates, insurance information, and medical records.

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<v Speaker 1>This is a problem because while we don't need these

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<v Speaker 1>things frequently, not being able to find them when needed

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<v Speaker 1>can be a huge time suck. You need kids medical

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<v Speaker 1>forms for camp or school. You need to apply for

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<v Speaker 1>a passport, but you can't find the right paperwork, you

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<v Speaker 1>wind up getting derailed in these projects, which is frustrating enough,

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<v Speaker 1>but most unfortunate is that sometimes we need these papers

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<v Speaker 1>when we are most stressed. I think trying to find

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<v Speaker 1>health records in the middle of a health crisis, or

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<v Speaker 1>finding your home insurance information when your kitchen is a

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<v Speaker 1>smoldering wreck. So today, if you are not in the

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<v Speaker 1>middle of a crisis, take a few minutes to think

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<v Speaker 1>this through. How quickly could you find various important papers

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<v Speaker 1>or information. Some documents to consider, birth certificates and Social

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<v Speaker 1>Security cards, your marriage certificate if you have one, home

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<v Speaker 1>insurance information, car ownership documentation, and health records, including vaccine records.

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<v Speaker 1>A lot of financial information is kept online these days,

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<v Speaker 1>but you might have paper tax documentation and the like.

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<v Speaker 1>Hopefully you know roughly where much of this stuff is,

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<v Speaker 1>but why not go double check when you are at

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<v Speaker 1>home today. If anything is not quickly findable, make a

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<v Speaker 1>note of what this is, carve out a slightly longer

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<v Speaker 1>time over the weekend to hunt for it. If it

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<v Speaker 1>is truly not findable, you may need to get a replacement.

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<v Speaker 1>This is often doable, but the best time to write

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<v Speaker 1>the county courthouse in the place where you were born.

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<v Speaker 1>To get a new copy of your birth certificate is

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<v Speaker 1>not when you urgently need it. Lisa Woodrift of Organized

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<v Speaker 1>three sixty five actually suggests collecting all these papers and

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<v Speaker 1>a few binders. You could have a binder for medical information,

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<v Speaker 1>a binder for financial information, a binder for household reference,

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<v Speaker 1>a binder for household operations, or maybe you might need

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<v Speaker 1>some different category. But the upside of a binder is that,

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<v Speaker 1>unlike a filing cabinet, it can move. If you've got

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<v Speaker 1>a family member with a complex medical condition, you could

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<v Speaker 1>just take that binder with you two appointments, and a

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<v Speaker 1>new provider could easily make a copy of what you've got.

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<v Speaker 1>Or if you need to leave your house quickly in

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<v Speaker 1>an emergency, say when a hurricane is barreling in, you

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<v Speaker 1>could just stuff those binders in your go bag and

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<v Speaker 1>not worry about finding them in your limited time. But

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<v Speaker 1>in any case, if you can find these documents quickly,

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<v Speaker 1>then I'd say you have passed one of the major

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<v Speaker 1>tests of organization. Instagram is full of photos of so

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<v Speaker 1>called organizations, say junk drawers with all the pencils facing

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<v Speaker 1>the same direction. That is all fine, but true organization

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<v Speaker 1>is having what you need easily accessible. I'd argue that

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<v Speaker 1>serial and pencils are not as important as the documents

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<v Speaker 1>and information of life. So take some time to get

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<v Speaker 1>your documents in order, or to confirm that you know

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<v Speaker 1>where they are. Then you can proudly call yourself an

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<v Speaker 1>organized person whatever state you're sereal happens to be in.

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<v Speaker 1>In the meantime, this is Laura. Thanks for listening, and

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<v Speaker 1>here's to making the most of our time. Hey, everybody,

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