Welcome to episode 210 of the Joy Loving Home podcast! In this special "Break This Rule" series, we explore how certain rules can hinder those of us with ADHD and offer better alternatives. This episode dives into the often-praised rule of consistency. While consistency is beneficial, it can also become a stumbling block that freezes productivity. Join me as I share my recent struggle with this issue and discuss how to recognize and overcome similar obstacles in your life.

Whether you're new or a returning listener, this episode provides valuable insights into how perfectionism and rigid rules can derail our progress. Learn how to identify and leap over these self-imposed hurdles to keep moving forward, even when things don’t go perfectly. Tune in and discover how to continue choosing joy amidst the chaos.

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Have you ever experienced an ultra-productive day only to find yourself back at square one shortly after? In this episode, professional organizer Joy, delves into the hyperfocus-crash cycle, explaining why it happens and how to work with your brain's unique wiring.

Joy shares insightful analogies and practical tips for managing your home in a way that aligns with your natural tendencies. Discover how to set realistic deadlines, create accountability, and embrace your ad hoc cleaning style without guilt. Learn to tread water and maintain your progress, even in the midst of exhaustion.

Join Joy as she encourages you to quit fighting against your nature and start working with it, making your home a space that truly fits how your brain thinks.

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You remember that old saying, "This is harder on me than it is on you"? As a parent, Joy shares her heartfelt experiences of navigating the tough decisions and emotional challenges of raising her children. She vividly recalls the struggle of pushing her son to stick with wrestling despite the difficulties and the life lessons it imparted.

Joy draws a powerful parallel between parenting and organizing, emphasizing how she sees the same struggle in her clients as they declutter their homes. She understands the emotional weight and guilt that comes with letting go of items but encourages perseverance through the tough parts to reach a place of calm and less stress.

Join Joy as she shares insights and encouragement for creating a home that fits your unique brain and lifestyle. Discover how to embrace the journey of organizing and find joy in the process. Whether you're a parent or simply looking to declutter, this episode offers valuable lessons on resilience and the rewards of seeing things through.

If you need support, Joy invites you to explore her podcast community and membership group for ongoing encouragement and accountability.

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In this episode, Joy, a professional organizer and mom of four, shares her personal experience with a messy kitchen and provides a practical tip to overcome priority paralysis. She recounts the chaos she faced before a flight and offers insights into how to tackle overwhelming spaces without getting bogged down by inefficiency or perfectionism.

Joy emphasizes the importance of starting anywhere and prioritizing motion over perfection. She encourages listeners to embrace their unique thought processes and ditch conventional advice that doesn't work for them. By sharing her own challenges and solutions, Joy aims to provide understanding, encouragement, and actionable steps to create a joy-loving home.

Join the podcast community to see the before photo of her kitchen and connect with others facing similar struggles. Subscribe to stay updated on future episodes, especially her upcoming series on lessons learned from multiple moves this summer.

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Welcome to the Joy Loving Home podcast, where Joy, a professional organizer and mom of four, guides you through the ups and downs of finding routines that fit your unique brain. In this episode, Joy discusses the common struggle of sticking to routines, especially for those with ADHD. She challenges the notion that we are bad at routines and encourages listeners to recognize the rhythm in their lives, even if it isn't linear or conventional.

Joy shares personal anecdotes about the chaos of daily life, from last-minute furniture purchases to preparing for a birthday party, and how these disruptions highlight the underlying routines we often overlook. She emphasizes the importance of prioritizing meaningful choices over a perfectly organized home and suggests embracing new methods when old routines are disrupted.

Join Joy as she helps you take stock of your life, recognize the valuable routines you already have, and prepare to dig out from moments of overwhelm. This episode is a reminder to choose joy and find the rhythm that works for you.

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Welcome or welcome back to the Joy Loving Home podcast. The summer rhythm is coming, and with it, a whole lot of chaos, spontaneity, and coming and going. With your kids out of school and extra activities aplenty, this season can feel overwhelming. However, in this episode, we explore how you can embrace the chaos with an unusual organizing hack.

The idea is simple: treat your home like a construction site. Like a road construction project that seems to be making little progress, your home can feel the same way in summer. But remember, even though it might look disorganized, something is getting done. The cleaning out, rearranging, and selecting of items for donation or disposal are part of the process. Learn to ride this wave, be spontaneous, and let your motivation guide you. Even when things seem disheveled, know that you're making progress.

By the end of summer, you'll realize that significant changes were made, even if these changes only begin to come together once kids are back in school. So embrace the chaos that comes with the season and ride along with this unusual organizing hack. Don’t let the whole summer pass by thinking you can't get anything done. Find joy in the little things, and the summer chaos will become a season of creativity and freedom.

Feel free to reach out, share your stories of summer chaos, and how you are navigating it. Looking forward to hearing from you and possibly doing a follow-up episode at Labor Day. Until then, continue to choose joy. Don't forget to rate, review, and share the podcast. You can also tag us on Instagram at joylovinghome.

Embrace this upcoming summer chaos and the construction phase. Enjoy!

In this episode of the podcast, we're inspired by a YouTube short titled "Three-Year-Old Boy Who Leaves Professional Engineers Shocked". In the video, a three-year-old child uses a unique approach to fix an unbalanced Lego bridge, showing us how a fresh perspective can redefine problem-solving. Join Joy, a professional organizer, mom of four and fellow fish brain, as we delve into this story and its parallels with organizing our homes. Together, we will learn how to subtract rather than add, and in the process create a joy-loving home.

The thoughts of this three-year-old boy inspire us to view home organization from a different angle. We often believe that the solution to clutter is to buy more organizing products. But what if the answer to more efficient organization is to subtract rather than to add? In this episode, Joy takes us through this philosophy with practical steps applied to a simple kitchen drawer scenario.

The podcast episode will take you through four steps: defining the space, pulling out anything that does not serve the defined function or purpose of the space, removing items that you don’t actually use, and finally, neatening up the space. This subtractive approach to organization, inspired by the wisdom of a three-year-old, aims to unlock better functionality in our homes without the need for additional organizing products.

Join Joy as she tests this 'Think Like a Three-Year-Old' approach to declutter some spaces in her kitchen and shares the enlightening results. Embark on this journey to discover the joy of subtraction, declutter your home, and learn how you too can have a joy-loving home. Let's quit trying to add and start simplifying by subtracting, and in doing so, reshape our perspective on home organization.

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Let's discuss the downside of choosing to declutter without organizing. Decluttering alone without a game plan for organizing can lead to discouragement and a sense of failure, as it often doesn't reveal any immediate 'win' or visible change.

For neurodiverse brains it is important to see decluttering and organizing in tandem, not as separate activities. Let's challenge typical home organizing philosophies to find a method that suits your unique needs and thinking patterns.

Remember to have a 'Room of Requirement' (Introduced in episode 18) – a unique idea for dealing with items whose place in the house is yet to be determined.

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