The Art of Decluttering

Carly is a high achiever, has a successful federal government career, has two young children, and is learning to create a life that works for her family and to the strengths of her ADHD.Carly shares what it was like doing a double engineering degree at university, working part-time, and taking flying lessons... all while being unaware she had ADHD. Her ambition and success have led her to a fulfilling and stimulating corporate career where over time she's been able to negotiate for workplace flexibility that accounts for and capitalises on her strengths.We also hear what tools Carly and her husband use to manage their time, schedules, home duties as well as manage motivation and productivity.Another ADHD/ Decluttering/ Organising episode that will have you thinking of ways you too can create the life you want!You may also like to listen to these episodes:ADHD Series: Managing Time, Energy and AttentionADHD Series: Being a Professional Organiser with ADHDADHD Series: Adult Diagnosis and Managing a HouseholdADHD Series: Understanding ADHD with Psychologist Joanna BaileyADHD with JoannaJoin our community Become a Patron – your monthly donation makes a huge difference to me being able to produce this podcast. Donations can be as little as $1 a month!Follow me on InstagramFollow me on FacebookJoin my Facebook groupLeave a review on Apple PodcastThank you to my sound engineer, Jarred from Four4ty Studio Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Carolyn Verhoef, a certified ADHD coach and former professional organizer, shares her expertise on managing time, energy, and attention for those with ADHD. She delves into the creative side of time management, advocating for personalized strategies over rigid routines. Exploring the critical role of sleep and the significance of self-awareness, Carolyn provides insights on how to harness individual strengths for better organization. She emphasizes the importance of reframing time perception, encouraging a shift towards flexibility and authenticity in managing ADHD.

When you have ADHD and you're also a Professional Organiser there are so many hacks that you have up your sleeves and today Jess shares them with us!She shares what it's like living with ADHD, working as a Professional Organiser and we deep dive into parenting and staying organised with ADHD, through pregnancy and in the newborn phase as well as parenting older children. How can you manage a household when you have ADHD and how in the world do you do it when you have to go off your ADHD medication while pregnant and breastfeeding?? No matter your relationship with ADHD, this is an episode you won't want to miss! Make sure you share it with your friends too.You may also like to listen to these episodes:ADHD with Psychologist Joanna BaileyBecoming a Professional Organiser (Jess's first episode on the podcast)ADHD with Joanna (first episode Joanna did)Mental Health CareMental HealthJoin our community Become a Patron – your monthly donation makes a huge difference to me being able to produce this podcast. Donations can be as little as $1 a month!Follow me on InstagramFollow me on FacebookJoin my Facebook groupLeave a review on Apple PodcastThank you to my sound engineer, Jarred from Four4ty Studio Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jodie Garth is an OG member of The Art of Decluttering community. Jodie reached out to us when her kids were little for help with decluttering and organising in her home. What she didn't know at the time, was that in the years that followed, she like many many women, would be diagnosed with ADHD as an adult.In this episode Jodie shares what it was like having a late diagnosis, processing the stories she'd told herself for 38 years, and labels others had put on her.Jodie shares some INCREDIBLE hacks that she uses in her home to manage the household tasks that fall on her plate. These hacks will help you whether you have ADHD and 3 kids like Jodie or if you're in a completely different life stage but love finding ways to make complex tasks more simple.You may also like to listen to these episodes:Understanding ADHD with Psychologist Joanna BaileyADHD with JoannaMental Health CareMental HealthJoin our community Become a Patron – your monthly donation makes a huge difference to me being able to produce this podcast. Donations can be as little as $1 a month!Follow me on InstagramFollow me on FacebookJoin my Facebook groupLeave a review on Apple PodcastThank you to my sound engineer, Jarred from Four4ty Studio Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

By popular request this week we are diving into our ADHD series where we talk to ADHDers, Professionals who work with ADHDers and explore the relationship between decluttering, organising and ADHD. Our first episode in this series is with Joanna Bailey from Bluebird Psychology who helps us define ADHD and how executive functioning can impact our journey to a clutter-free and simplified lifestyle. Today's episode is brilliant as a foundation for the rest of this series, learn with us what ADHD is and how it presents in different people. Whether you are living with ADHD or don't know anyone with ADHD I know this episode is going to have ah-ha moments for you with tips and hacks for decluttering, understanding shame, learning about neurodiversity and seeing decluttering and organising through a different lens.Find out more about ADHD:Bluebird Psychology ResourcesYou may also like to listen to these episodes:ADHD with Joanna (first episode Joanna did)Mental Health CareMental HealthThree Times A DayJoin our community Become a Patron – your monthly donation makes a huge difference to me being able to produce this podcast. Donations can be as little as $1 a month!Follow me on InstagramFollow me on FacebookJoin my Facebook groupLeave a review on Apple PodcastThank you to my sound engineer, Jarred from Four4ty Studio Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Each of us has an invisible bucket and when others poke holes in our bucket, it's important to have bucket fillers and hole pluggers in our lives. When our bucket is full, our overflow is encouragement, resilience, kind words, wise choices, enthusiasm, drive, purpose and freedom for ourselves and others.When people around us speak harsh words, exclude us, spread rumours, lie, put us down, give labels or even just don't understand us... a hole gets poked in our bucketsFreya, one of our team encouraged me this week when someone tried to poke holes in my bucket, that when we have the right people around us, they will plug our holes or when we have a full bucket we are more able to repel negativity around us. Her words, encouragement, and wisdom filled my bucket!!All that to say that as Professional Organisers we aim to fill your bucket and help you identify where there might be holes and help you plug those pesky holes up as it relates to your freedom from clutter.You may also like to listen to these episodes:Grief & GratitudeWelcome Back to The Art of DeclutteringJoin our community Become a Patron – your monthly donation makes a huge difference to me being able to produce this podcast. Donations can be as little as $1 a month!Follow me on InstagramFollow me on FacebookJoin my Facebook groupLeave a review on Apple PodcastThank you to my sound engineer, Jarred from Four4ty Studio. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Are you avoidant of all the things you need to do to reach a goal? What about if instead you focus on what NOT to do? What are the habits, situations, things, behaviours, characteristics that you don't want in your life anymore? Anti goals is about eliminating these things from your life!!Rebecca talks us through how to work through an anti goal by focusing on what you want to eliminate to improve the quality of your life. How can you nurture your environment and have break through in areas you've been stuck in. Do you find that motivation to achieve lofty goals wears off quickly? Focus instead on what you're going to stop doing that is holding you back.You may also like to listen to these episodes:Self SabotageCare by Brooke McAlaryQuitters DayFind Rebecca onlineRead the blog that inspired this episodeClear Space WebsiteRebecca Mezzino Declutter CoachingJoin our community Become a Patron – your monthly donation makes a huge difference to me being able to produce this podcast. Donations can be as little as $1 a month!Follow me on InstagramFollow me on FacebookJoin my Facebook groupLeave a review on Apple PodcastThank you to my sound engineer, Jarred from Four4ty Studio. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

What are your values? What is your fundamental belief system. What is important to you? What drives you?Knowing your core values is a superpower to helping you life your life with purpose. They will be the filter for decision making about your stuff, your time, your energy, your money... everything!If you're struggling to live an intentional life, overwhelmed with decluttering, or the clutter keeps creeping back in, then identifying your values will be the rock to which you can hold all decisions against. Your values will reduce your calendar clutter, your emotional clutter, and your physical clutter.Learn to ask: "How does this item fit with my core values"Access the Clarify Your Core Values worksheet that Laurie recommends and uses herself.You may also like to listen to these episodes:Self SabotageCare by Brooke McAlaryQuitters DayJoin our community Become a Patron – your monthly donation makes a huge difference to me being able to produce this podcast. Donations can be as little as $1 a month!Follow me on InstagramFollow me on FacebookJoin my Facebook groupLeave a review on Apple PodcastThank you to my sound engineer, Jarred from Four4ty Studio. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

I have noticed that there are some areas of clutter that are more relevant to women. So I've asked myself why is this the case. Not all women, not no men... but generally speaking it's what I find when I see clients. So WHY is this the case? Often women carry the mental load. For ourselves, our households, and our communities. We account for unseen situations (many women keep Band-Aids in their handbags, not because they’re clumsy but for that moment when someone else needs one). Women are traditionally the storytellers, the carers, the nurturers, and the gatherers. And boy can we gather!!This episode is all about exploring the why behind our clutter, and asking ourselves if we really need to continue keeping all the things, or if it's time to shed the expectations we put on ourselves and society puts on us.You may also like to listen to these episodes:Mental LoadIt's all my Husband and Kids FaultOffloadingJoin our community Become a Patron – your monthly donation makes a huge difference to me being able to produce this podcast. Donations can be as little as $1 a month!Follow me on InstagramFollow me on FacebookJoin my Facebook groupLeave a review on Apple PodcastThank you to my sound engineer, Jarred from Four4ty Studio. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Remembering to do ANYTHING 3 times a day is a huge effort, requiring mental load that frankly, most of us don't have. And when you do have to do something 3 times a day (like tidying up toys, clearing the kitchen bench, washing dishes) it kind of feels like you spend all day doing it because every time you look around, it is messy again or needs your attention.Explore the idea of reducing anything you're doing 3 times a day into incidental habits rather than a big task that you have to remember to do and might seem overwhelming. Instead of clearing the bench 3 times a day, can you get into the micro habit of putting things away instead of on the bench? Instead of tidying up a messy playroom 3 times a day, can you get into the micro habit of helping your child pack up one activity before moving onto another?Simplification is the key!You may also like to listen to these episodes:Micro DeclutterIs it cleaning, tidying or decluttering?FatigueJoin our community Become a Patron – your monthly donation makes a huge difference to me being able to produce this podcast. Donations can be as little as $1 a month!Follow me on InstagramFollow me on FacebookJoin my Facebook groupLeave a review on Apple PodcastThank you to my sound engineer, Jarred from Four4ty Studio. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.