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Does your brain ever feel like it’s holding 100 things at once? Things you need to do, remember, buy, schedule, decide, or tell someone about? None of them may be a big deal on their own, but together, they can make life feel chaotic.

In this episode, I’m sharing three simple systems that can instantly reduce some of that chaos without a fancy planner, complicated app, or elaborate productivity system.

The first is a capture system. Instead of expecting your brain to remember every idea, task, appointment, and random thought that pops up, you need one trusted place to put it. I’m sharing the simple system I just started using with Siri and an Apple Reminders list called “Capture,” plus how I’m exploring using AI to help process everything I capture.

The second system starts with a completely different way of looking at overwhelm: overwhelm is an organizing signal. Instead of letting “I don’t know where to start” stop you, you can use the same organizing skills you’d use on a cluttered closet to organize a project, your calendar, a decision, or everything swirling around in your head.

Finally, we’ll talk about reset systems. Your home doesn’t stay organized because you organize it once. Life happens. Things come out, mail comes in, dishes get used, and clutter starts accumulating again. A simple reset gives you a way to return a high-chaos area to baseline before the mess compounds.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

• Why your brain shouldn’t be your storage system

• How to create one simple place to capture tasks, ideas, and things you need to remember

• The Siri capture system I’m testing in my own life

• How AI can help you process mental clutter instead of adding more complexity

• Why overwhelm can become your cue to organize instead of your cue to shut down

• How to “declutter” a project, decision, calendar, or overwhelming situation

• How to identify the places where chaos repeatedly builds in your life

• Why a reset doesn’t mean cleaning your entire house

• How to create a tiny reset you’ll actually use

The three systems are simple: Capture. Clear. Reset.

Being organized doesn’t mean eliminating chaos from your life. It means knowing how to create order when and where you need it.

Start with one system. Make it easy enough that you’ll actually use it. Then notice how much lighter life feels when your brain no longer has to hold everything at once.

All links mentioned in the post can be found here: https://simplysquaredaway.com/189

What do you really want? And what if you’re not even sure how to answer that question?

In this episode, I’m talking with money manifestation coach Jamie Berman about what manifestation actually means and how it can help us create more of what we want from abundance in our businesses and lives to becoming a more organized version of ourselves.

Jamie shares how she went from being terrified of being seen and speaking in front of people to building a successful coaching business, and why learning to trust herself played such a big role in that transformation. We also talk about her decision to walk away from a successful niche when it no longer felt like the work she wanted to do.

We get into manifestation from a faith perspective, including Jamie’s belief that it can be about partnering with God rather than trying to control everything ourselves. She explains why getting clear on what you want matters, how visualization and vision boards can help, and why taking action and surrendering the outcome can exist together.

We also talk about what happens when you’re genuinely content with your life and don’t know what you want next. Jamie shares some really good questions for uncovering desires that have nothing to do with getting a bigger house, a nicer car, or more stuff.

And, of course, I ask her how all of this applies to getting organized. If you’ve spent years believing, “I’m just not an organized person,” what would happen if you started seeing yourself as someone who could become organized and began practicing being her?

In this episode, we talk about:

• What manifestation actually means and how Jamie approaches it through faith
• Getting clear on what you really want
• Being content with your life while still allowing yourself to desire more
• Using vision boards, visualization, journaling, and other practices
• How your beliefs and identity influence what you create
• Becoming the person you want to be before you fully believe you’re her
• Taking action without needing to know exactly how everything will happen
• Trusting yourself when you feel called to make a change
• Surrendering the outcome instead of trying to control it

If you’ve been thinking about what you want in this next season or wondering whether you’re even allowed to want something more when your life is already good, I think you’ll love this conversation.

All links mentioned in the post can be found here: https://simplysquaredaway.com/188

You’ve decluttered. You’ve created systems. You actually know how to organize. So why can one pile of papers on the counter make you feel like you’re a complete mess?

There’s a big difference between being disorganized and feeling disorganized. And what’s happening around you doesn’t have to become evidence of who you are.

In this episode, I share a recent coaching example of a client who came to our call feeling like a “hot mess,” even though she’s actually very organized. What she really had were open loops. Once we identified what needed to happen and when she was going to do it, nothing had actually been completed—but she felt completely different.

That’s because feeling organized isn’t about the absence of disorder. It’s about your relationship to the disorder that’s currently there.

We’ll talk about why “I’m a mess” feels so different from “These papers need decisions,” how our old 10-second scripts become well-worn paths in our brains, and why getting rid of more stuff may never make you feel organized if your definition of organized is “nothing left to organize.”

You’ll also hear two simple analogies—being a good cook and rerouting while driving—that will help you rethink what it actually means to be organized.

An organized person is someone who knows how to create order when and where she needs it.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

• Why feeling disorganized is different from being disorganized
• How open loops contribute to overwhelm
• Why a pile of papers doesn’t determine whether you’re organized
• How to replace judgment with thoughts that point you toward action
• Why your definition of “organized” may be impossible to achieve
• Why getting rid of more stuff won’t necessarily make you feel organized
• How to start collecting evidence that you already know how to create order
• Why getting back on track is evidence that you’re organized—not evidence that you failed

Instead of asking, “What still needs to be organized?” start noticing where you already demonstrate the skill of creating order.

You may already possess the skill you’ve been waiting for your house to prove you have.