4 Steps to Clear Your Biggest Pile of Clutter - Workshop with April and Alia [Episode 336]

So like we were talking about, when we organize our mind, our space will follow.

And we teach this command central.

You may have seen this image.

I've got it here in my office.

We talk about this all the time.

We're not gonna go into depth on all of this right now, but the idea is when you know what you're doing daily what you need to look at weekly and when you have as needed resources available to you but not sitting on a flat surface you're going to feel so good and this applies not only to things like paperwork and goals and tasks but it applies to things like cleaning up a bathroom or a kitchen or a laundry room or starting a business all of that it works with the command central So here's our four steps we're going through tonight.

First, we're going to identify your pile as a project.

And this is one concept that it's completely different from anything I had ever learned in all of my declaring books that I'd read.

This is where we kind of combine a Marie Kondo type of thing with a David Allen kind of thing.

David Allen's the author of Getting Things Done.

Marie Kondo does the life-changing magic of tidying up.

We're kind of bringing those together.

So we're going to identify the pile as a project, and we'll talk about how that changes the way we look at the pile.

Then we'll decide what done looks like.

And then we're going to boil down the very next action.

I'll share how to do that, because this is something I didn't know how to do until I was well into my 20s.

And then we're going to use a next actions list to bookmark the project.

And this concept of bookmarking a project, this is game changing.

So let's just go ahead, we'll start with number one.

And I'm gonna ask you a question in a moment and we'll give you a chance to share in the text chat.

And this is where it's fun because all of us are doing this together.

So being able to identify our pile as a project.

Now projects can be completed, actually checked off.

Routines are things we do over and over and over again, okay? So like when we do the laundry or we check our email or we exercise, all those things are routines.

But projects are things that can actually be done.