I am so excited to share with you that site wide you can grab products 20% off this Black Friday, and free shipping for orders $300 or more. This episode is a compilation of three webinars I recorded to explain all the goodies in all the bundles and products. What products have you had your eye on to help get your home organized? Now is your chance to gift or treat yourself at the best price of the year.

Don't worry, we have created a shopping catalog for you to thumb through leading up to Black Friday. The first thing I went over this episode is the Complete Home Organization Bundle. This is everything you would need for the 52 week course to get your home organized and not have to return to the Organize 365® shop. It includes the 4 essential building blocks to get organized and productive.

The first block is the Productive Home Solution™ to get a plan in place to organize your physical spaces. Then the Paper Solution® to replace those filing cabinets and manage all your paper/information. This is where you get all the binders for information management. Next is the Sunday Basket® as a weekly dumping station to then productively plan all those actionable items weekly - on Sunday. It is the number one product to start with to become a peacefully productive woman! Pay special attention to why you may want to purchase through Amazon if you plan to give the Sunday Basket® as a gift this year. And how do you ensure you will have time to implement the systems from Organize 365®? Planning Day. One Planning Day is included where you will look at how you are currently spending time and how you would like to more productively spend your time while also freeing up time as a result of planning and delayed procrastination. I went through all the pricing and what all is included so you know what to expect. You can get the bundles on sale, stand alone products on sale, even Planning Day is on sale!!

I explained the Holiday Blitz Bundle because right about now, your new part time job (planning the holidays) may make your house feel like it's going to explode. All of the sudden you are doing more shopping, mailing, planning, traveling, baking, cleaning, merriment…all the things. The Holiday Blitz Bundle will keep current priorities in front of you with a safe place for all the things that need to wait till after your holiday of choice. You get two extra Sunday Baskets® and there will be instructions for how to continue use throughout the year, not just November and December. These extra Sunday Baskets will give you back your brain, lighten your cognitive load, and reduce your stress.

And of course the already discounted Friday Workbox and Teacher Workbox products and courses are additionally discounted for Black Friday too! And while I will forever use a Friday Workbox for my businesses, I stand by my decision to put more focus on helping people to get their homes organized. You'll still get all of the products and courses, although color choices are starting to get limited on the Workboxes. You'll simply be put into legacy status as of March 2026. If you have been following Organize 365® for a while and have been wanting to implement systems for work too, now is your time!! What are you waiting for? Download the guide now and get shopping…the sale actually starts on Wednesday!!

EPISODE RESOURCES:

• 2025 Black Friday Sale Catalog

• Watch The Black Friday Complete Home Organization Bundle

• Watch The Black Friday Sunday Basket®

• Watch The Black Friday Friday Workbox Farewell

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All these advanced technologies are supposed to be saving us time right? I ask you "Is it saving you time?" Our devices, robots, and social media seem to be sucking up a lot of time and cognitive load. In my observation, it seems to me, I am spending more time on apps, updates, and managing robots and getting frustrated than saving time. I just wanted to have a conversation about what I am seeing and hear from you…you too?

Smart Homes

You all know the struggle I have had with our robot vacuum. I finally had waited out the lease on the last one that never seemed to connect to wifi or be charged. This new one I can get charged. I can get it to connect to the wifi. I was pumped on one of my days during the staycation when all the stars had aligned and I was ready to run her. I opened the app to start her up and got a notification that I needed to update the app…no problem. I had the day off. But now there was a wifi issue. At this point, I could have burned a few calories and had my floors vacuumed but no I was still messing around with the wifi connection. The kicker? I knew once I finally got her working, she can't even complete the first floor without recharging so I couldn't even get all the floors vacuumed. I'd have to pick 3 of the 4 zones to get cleaned. Like come on people, this is not saving me any time.

Recently we replaced our HVAC with a top of the line system. It's so good, it took 4 service calls to actually get it working correctly. The zones were set wrong so it wasn't performing correctly. This wasn't saving me any time. What good is the app at saving me time, if the system isn't set up right? And don't get me started about the washer/dryer combo unit I invested in. I'm getting notified of everything it's doing whether I care or not. It's taking my cognitive load and increasing it. Can I just get some base model machines with start and stop buttons and that's it? I don't need all this technology, frustration, and distraction.

Phones

Then I slowly started to notice my increased phone time. And my kids noticed it of themselves too. Joey in fact asked for a dumb phone. I dont' know what is it lately but I go to check email and all the sudden I'm scrolling on Instagram and forgot what I got on my phone to do in the first place. We are more entertained than ever but we are also more lonely than ever. When Greg and I went to those small towns, we didn't see people. Where were all the people? In their homes, on their phones. So I started to think, what did I used to do when I got bored? Now I scroll Instagram or play a game on my phone. BUT I used to like to scrapbook, do puzzles, listen to audio books, and organize. I want to challenge you to make a small list of things you can do off your phone when you have free time. What do you like to do? Ask yourself, Are you in control of your phone or is it in control of you? And is that how you want it to be? Turn off notifications, place your phone face down when not in use, and put your ringer on silent. Create the home environment you want.

Short Conversations

And it's great that we have so many sources for information but it's limiting our conversations. Since it would appear we all the know the same news, I am challenging myself to have deeper conversations with the people in my family and you may want to too. Here are a few questions to have more meaningful conversations.

How do you feel about that?

What do you think will happen next?

How did you find out about that?

Yeah, I did hear about that but tell me what did you hear about that?

I want to have rich relationships with the people in my house not monitoring my robots so I have more time to scroll. I want to be growing and learning in my free time. What do you want?

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• The Sunday Basket®

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This may have been a first, once we decided to not go to Italy, I decided to take my full planned vacation and Greg decided to go back to work. We had our 4 day staycation but the rest of the planned time off was all mine. How did I spend it?

Golden Window

I am definitely in a unique-to-me Golden Window. The PhD is winding down, we are making massive shifts at work, and I will soon be the grandma of two heartbeats. As I realized I was going to have a lot of time to do whatever I wanted I asked myself what that should be. I plugged Greg into my calendar with the things we wanted to do. Then I looked at Abby's calendar to see went the optimal time was to spend time with her and getting her ready for the baby. I did end up spending a 4 hour block of time in the office on Sat. morning but it gave me the opportunity to bring home some Workboxes I've been wanting to clean out and organize. I also took a little time to fill in my home and work 2 and ½ year planners.

Scrapbooking

On Sunday Afternoon I got the best treat, Grayson fell asleep on me for about 90 minutes. But you know me, I'm productive. So while I was trapped in grandma heaven I ordered pictures. Because one of my initiatives once the PhD is done, is to get back to scrapbooking. So I ordered pictures and loved on Grayson. During this time off I was able to get a lot of sorting of pictures done and now I feel ready to start #allthescrapbooks

Shopping Like it was the 80's

And then I had a friend who was going to kind of be on standby for Abby and Grayson while we were gone who said "Ya know, I still have that time free, do you want to do something?" I did! I wanted to go shopping. We took two whole days shopping. We thoroughly went through the women's department in each store and just took our time. This made going through my closet fun too. I did a little rearranging of what's in my closet with the newest modification of Hunter (our dog) sleeping in my closet now. I am ready for this next phase of life.

And we checked out Costco and Sam's Club. I wanted to compare products that they offered. And I knew Sam's Club had the diapers and wipes I wanted to stock up on for the baby. This grandma is ready for grandbaby number 2!

As the week came to and end, I had the choice to go back into the office on Thursday or take one more day to myself. I talked myself into staying home. I got to get to some binders, workboxes, and slash pockets I'd been wanting to. I got to grab high tea with my cousin and after we went for a nice long walk. With the baby coming and the hurry up and wait game with the dissertation, I knew to maximize on this time. Self care is more than a massage. I wanted to share how I spent my time, to give you ideas of different ways of self care.

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• The Sunday Basket®

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