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240: Jumpstart Challenge for ADHD Brains · JOY LOVING HOME - SAHM, Productivity, Home Organization, Declutter, ADHD Mom, ADHD SAHM, ADHD Brain

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  Welcome back to day two of our September start over, start again,
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  start fresh, start moving challenge.
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  I don't know what I'm calling it.
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  It's a five-day challenge, and if you happen to have missed yesterday,
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  which was our first day, it's totally cool to back up to episode 239 and jump in.
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  Yesterday's took 15 minutes. Today's is going to take 15 minutes.
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  If you can carve out two 15 minute chunks or one 30 minute chunk.
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  You can do easily both of these challenges today, be all caught up and ready for tomorrow.
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  I am issuing five completely different quick action challenges,
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  that are going to be different every single day, but they're designed to get us up, get us moving,
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  get us started because September can be a time when we feel really motivated
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  because our kids are back in school and we had all of these big plans that we
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  dreamed of when we had our extra time suddenly fall into our hands and yet we're
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  having trouble getting going.
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  So these aren't the projects that we want to work on,
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  but these are those things that help us get moving and help keep our house sort
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  of intact while we work on those bigger dream projects that can tend to make
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  our house fall apart around us.
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  Yesterday, if you missed it, it had to do with a spit clean.
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  And if you want more details, like I said, shift back into episode 239.
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  But today, we're going to do a completely different challenge and I'll share it right after this.
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  A wise person once said, everybody is a genius, but if you judge a fish by its
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  ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it's stupid.
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  Well, fish, quit trying to climb trees while getting advice from well-intentioned monkeys.
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  It's time to jump in the water and learn how to swim with the current of your life.
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  I'm Joy, a professional organizer, mom of four, and fellow fishbrain.
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  If you're looking for a place to get understanding, encouragement,
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  and ideas for your home that actually fit how your brain thinks,
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  then I'm glad you're here.
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  Let's ditch the type A advice and embrace what makes our brains and our homes
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  unique. Together, we could have a joy-loving home.
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  Super quick, before I jump into today's challenge, I just want to share a quick aside.
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  I happened to be thinking, because this is episode 240, that when I started
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  this podcast three years ago, that's hard to believe,
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  I did every 10th episode was a break this organizing rule if you have ADHD.
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  And so if you get up and get moving this week and you're really feeling it and
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  you just want something playing in your ears while you work,
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  it might be fun to binge every 10th episode.
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  So do episode 10 and then episode 20, episode 30, and so on.
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  And you can hear that series. It's something that I just, I had a lot of fun
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  doing because I know our ADHD brains work differently.
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  And a lot of those organizing rules are put into place by type A monkeys for type A monkeys.
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  And our fish brains just don't operate that way. And that's, that's cool.
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  If you know, I have no idea what I'm talking about, about a fish brain versus
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  a monkey brain, that means you skipped my introduction music.
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  You can go back and listen to that sometime. Anyway, I digress.
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  And I'm going to digress one more time because I do want to share that on Tuesdays,
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  I do a Tackle It Tuesday with my membership group, and it's just four different
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  times throughout the day because we've got folks all across the U.S.
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  In different time zones. We've got folks from Canada and Australia in there
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  that are regular attenders of what I call our Tackle It Tuesday Zoom calls.
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  They are just the loveliest accountability sessions where we meet as fellow
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  fishbrains and state the intention of what we want to work on and we get busy
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  with just sort of a bodily,
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  excuse me, body doubling exercise of knowing other people are working and we can share our wins.
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  And it's just, it's a really great time in there. So if you've ever thought
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  about joining my membership, it is joylovinghome.com slash membership,
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  and you can find out all about it there.
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  All right, done with the sidebars. Digging into today's quick 15-minute challenge.
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  It is simple, but simple can be so, so effective.
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  It is simply look around right now, pick a space that has been bugging you.
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  Frame it up in your camera, and take a before picture.
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  This is for you. Don't panic. It's okay.
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  Just snap the picture. It is amazing what our brains convince us of,
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  and it's that we never do anything.
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  So we're going to latch on to some proof to prove to our brains that we can
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  do a lot and we can do a lot in just 15 minutes.
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  So as soon as you've taken that before picture, I want you to set that 15 minute
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  timer and I want you to get busy, do easy things, grab out as Danny K.
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  White would advise, the trash and the easy things that you know have homes elsewhere.
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  Move quickly, get them to where they go, get back to the spot that you're working on.
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  Remember, you're trying to make a difference in 15 minutes in the same spot.
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  This helps you harness in that brain that wants to head off and get distracted.
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  We are sticking to a spot for 15 minutes.
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  Obviously, at the end, if we took it back before, I want you to frame up that
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  shot in the same vantage point.
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  And take your after, and then go to that camera roll of yours and slide back
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  and forth and back and forth between your before and your after.
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  You will be amazed at what you see. You can do a lot in 15 minutes.
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  I want to give you bonus points.
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  If you prop your camera up somewhere and do a time-lapse video recording of yourself, don't panic.
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  You'll be moving around so fast you can't pick yourself apart.
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  We share some time lapses from time to time in the group and we have all agreed
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  it's very satisfying to just reinforce to your brain that you can hustle around, you can see a change,
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  you can see yourself in action and know that you are capable of motion and action
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  and change in your home and in your space.
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  Super, super bonus points. If you would like to jump into my free community
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  and you get there by going to bit.ly slash joy loving home community.
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  It's bit.ly slash joy loving home community and share your win.
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  Post your before and after. Post your time lapse. Whatever you feel comfortable
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  doing, we would love to celebrate you and your wins in there.
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  I will post mine later today, somewhere in between my Tackle It Tuesday sessions
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  with my membership group.
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  All right, I'm going to stop so that I can get this up for you to take some action today.
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  And until next time, and next time is tomorrow, continue to choose joy.