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Holly Lake's avatar

Molly the Maid and her gran, in the book series by Nita Prose:

“Monday, floors and chores.

Tuesday, deep cleaning to give meaning.

Wednesday, bath and kitchen.

Thursday, dust we must.

Friday, wash-and-dry day. Saturday, wild card.

Sunday, shop and chop.”

I have definitely borrowed their system of containment! 🥰

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Kara Cutruzzula's avatar

I adore this!!! ("Shop and chop"!!) Containers to emulate. Thank you so much for sharing!

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Diane Sunde's avatar

Funny—all I can think of is, yes, I do have a lot of stuff to ‘chuck into a container’ but it’s the picking it up and looking at it like Marie Kondo and deciding which container it should go in. This could take all day! Ha!

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Kara Cutruzzula's avatar

I totally feel you! My containers definitely change weekly. And there are some stragglers that don't make it to a container at all. But a little something always beats nothing! (Wait, maybe that can be tomorrow's newsletter...)

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Linda Samuels's avatar

I love the visual you shared to accompany your idea. I similarly organize my time but think of it as 'time blocks.' However, I'm flexible with moving them if needed.

For example, I have a 'blog writing' block on Sunday, a 'doing laundry' block on Friday, and 'work with clients' blocks Monday through Friday. However, at times, I need to move a block to another day or remove it completely. And I'm OK with that.

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Kara Cutruzzula's avatar

Yes! Maybe because you know the blocks work for you, it's easier to adjust in the moment. Like today I "gained" a block when an errand took an hour shorter than I thought -- so I extended another block to take advantage of that time.

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Rebecca M's avatar

Ooh! Found time is the best! I keep trying to convince my students of that, but I didn’t always see it that way either.

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Linda Samuels's avatar

Nice one. A bonus!

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jen harrington's avatar

I think I maybe I have too many containers.

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Kara Cutruzzula's avatar

Ooh, I get you, and that's a whole treatise unto itself...one thing that helped me earlier this year was reading "Slow Productivity" by Cal Newport. He advocates doing fewer things, and I reluctantly put the red light on a few projects. Fewer containers definitely led to easier juggling.

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Tammy Winand's avatar

I don't think the container method would work for me. I'm far too spontaneous.

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Kara Cutruzzula's avatar

I love that! Whatever works for you is how you should work!!

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Em's avatar

I love the idea of a mundane task container!! Going to try and think about when mine should be. Thanks!

M

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