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242: Jumpstart Challenge Day 4 - Micro-Task 15 Minute Race · JOY LOVING HOME - SAHM, Productivity, Home Organization, Declutter, ADHD Mom, ADHD SAHM, ADHD Brain

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  Welcome back to our jumpstart challenge that we're doing all this week. We are on day four.
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  And so far, we've done our 15-minute spit clean.
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  We've tried a 15-minute before and after time-lapse challenge.
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  We have done the roll the dice game to eliminate our decision of where to even
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  get started for our 15 minutes. And if you have happened to missed any of these
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  days, you're just jumping in where we are right now, that's awesome. Jump in, stick with me.
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  Every single task is independent of one another. There is no rhyme or reason to the order.
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  And you can do them from here and move yourself backwards to 239 and try one each day.
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  Or you could do multiples on a single day. Each one's only 15 minutes long.
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  So however much time you have or however much movement you want to push yourself
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  into, each of these jumpstart challenges works independently. Go for it.
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  If you are new here, I do want to say welcome. I'm Joy.
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  And if you want to know what this podcast is all about, please listen to 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 unique.
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  Together, we could have a joy-loving home.
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  All right, I got a little rambly yesterday, but I am about to head off to a
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  client's house to do some in-home organizing today, and I am going to jump right in and get going.
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  So today is going to be called the Micro Task Race Challenge.
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  I just made that up as I was speaking out loud.
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  I don't know what I had a name for it, but anyway, the goal here today is,
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  and I really recommend a paper and pencil because I think your brain will slow
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  down if you're trying to type this.
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  Maybe you work faster typing. So your call, but I like a paper and pencil.
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  Anyway, this microtasking race that we're going to be doing is to do as many
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  microtasks as possible in your 15 minutes.
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  So you are going to feel like you're rushing and that is the point and that's cool.
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  So I'm going to give you a concrete example, but this can be done in any room of your house.
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  So let's just envision the kitchen, okay?
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  So on your piece of paper, just jot down one through 10. If you happen to get 10 tasks, awesome.
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  If you only get three tasks, still great. There's no lose in this race. It's okay.
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  The point is I'm going to train you to see the micro tasks in what you're doing.
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  So set your timer, work the whole 15 minutes, then we're going to hit the paper
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  again. But what you're going to do in those 15 minutes.
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  Let's say you ran the dishwasher last night.
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  So you open the dishwasher and you get it put away and then you gather all the
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  dirty dishes in a soapy, sudsy sink that you've been running while you've been
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  emptying the dishwasher and you start wiping out all the.
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  Make sure you turn the sink water off, can be distracted and forget to do that.
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  And then you rush over to the, to the living room and you, you know,
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  do a real quick grab of all the toys, you throw them back in the basket,
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  you straighten the pillows, you fold a blanket.
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  And all of a sudden the timer's gone off and you're like, okay,
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  I did three things, Joy. I, you know, emptied my dishwasher. Actually did two.
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  I emptied my dishwasher and I straightened my living room. How did that help?
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  Well, walk over to your paper, and now I want you to break it down into the micro tasks.
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  The micro tasks were, you put away the silverware.
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  You can break it down even further. You put away the knives,
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  the forks, the spoons, the extra utensils. You put away the glasses,
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  the mugs, the bowls, the plates.
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  You put away the dishes off the table and off the counters.
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  You wiped the counters. You can break your counters into, I wiped off my island,
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  my countertop around my stove, my countertop around my sink.
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  You can say, I cleared at least 15 things off the floor.
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  I fluffed five pillows. I folded three blankets.
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  There are so many ways to break down the task you did. I know I just said at
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  least 15 things in 15 minutes.
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  Why is this useful as an exercise? Well, for one, it allows you to reframe what
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  you think of as accomplishments, right?
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  You're giving your brain 15 little baby wins, but your brain just sees them as wins.
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  And each win gives you that little dopamine spike that you're reaching for and you're searching for.
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  Every win makes that brain feel more excited to get the next win.
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  And so as you're jotting these things down and you go, wow, okay,
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  in 15 minutes, I just did 15 tasks.
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  I want to set my timer for 15 more and keep moving.
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  You can do that to kind of wake up your brain, get that surge of dopamine you
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  need to keep yourself in action, and then channel it towards the other tasks
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  that maybe actually need your brain.
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  And they're not so automatic autopilot of a task like emptying the dishwasher.
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  But it allows us to not get to the end of an exhausted day and feel like we did nothing.
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  If we look at that and see,
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  wow, we actually did a lot of things in a very little bit of time,
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  it also helps retrain our brain to believe,
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  to quit the belief that we need like an hour to get any change in our house,
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  that there's no way I can just clean something up in two minutes.
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  Well, if all you have is two minutes before you walk out the door,
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  instead of picking up your phone and killing time while you're waiting on somebody,
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  to go, wow, I actually could clear all the countertops and at least get all
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  the dishes over by the sink.
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  And then when I walk in from wherever my task is, that's one less thing I have to do later.
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  It is just us realizing that things don't take quite as long as we realize.
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  If you happen to be part of my free community,
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  which you can get to by going to bit.ly slash joylovinghomecommunity,
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  in there I posted on day two,
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  my before and after with my little time lapse of a, it wasn't a ridiculously
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  messy mudroom because I had cleaned it up once already since school was getting started.
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  But I had drug a bunch of stuff out trying to organize some things for our dogs
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  to be watched by a brand new dog sitter and I have been walking by it for two
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  weeks because I just didn't have the time to pull it together.
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  If you watch my time lapse and I show you the timer what I plan to have take 15 minutes took me six.
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  Six minutes to get that space back into beyond usable it looks great.
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  Six minutes of something I'd been avoiding for two weeks, and now it's done.
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  Those are the things we have to keep retraining our brains about.
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  So give this one a try. See how you feel about micro-tasking and share your
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  information with me. I'd love to hear from you.
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  I am joy at joylovinghome.com. And for anybody who has emailed me recently, my apologies.
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  Life has been crazy as I've gotten my kids off and started in their various locations.
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  And I am just now digging back through my emails. So please be patient.
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  It's just me. I will get responses as quickly as I can.
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  But anyway, I hope you're enjoying this challenge. We have one more day tomorrow.
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  And until then, continue to choose joy.