WEBVTT 00:00:15.819 --> 00:00:18.760 Hey everyone, my name is Austin and welcome back 00:00:18.760 --> 00:00:21.039 to another episode of the unfiltered faith podcast 00:00:21.039 --> 00:00:24.100 If the his is your first time tuning in I'm so 00:00:24.100 --> 00:00:26.160 glad you're here. And if you've been here before 00:00:26.160 --> 00:00:32.780 welcome back Today I'm Joe Wayne by a very special 00:00:32.780 --> 00:00:36.679 guest founder of the Fullerton professional organizing 00:00:36.679 --> 00:00:39.500 and coaching and I'm gonna let her introduce 00:00:39.500 --> 00:00:43.469 herself and then we're gonna get it started Hi, 00:00:43.710 --> 00:00:47.549 my name is Carrie and I started Fullerton professional 00:00:47.549 --> 00:00:52.189 organizing as a business. I do go into people's 00:00:52.189 --> 00:00:56.570 homes, but I also have a podcast and what I deal 00:00:56.570 --> 00:01:00.939 with is. We talk about decluttering our faith. 00:01:01.140 --> 00:01:03.799 We talk about decluttering our home and we talk 00:01:03.799 --> 00:01:07.299 about decluttering our business on the podcast. 00:01:07.500 --> 00:01:10.540 But those are really all the things that I also 00:01:10.540 --> 00:01:13.719 deal with when I help people organize. We don't 00:01:13.719 --> 00:01:21.120 always dive into the faith, but it's always part 00:01:21.120 --> 00:01:24.519 of me. So when we need to, there have been times 00:01:24.519 --> 00:01:28.140 I've had clients ask. You know what? I'm feeling 00:01:28.140 --> 00:01:31.640 a little overwhelmed. Can we pray? And I will 00:01:31.640 --> 00:01:34.200 pray with them. And then I have others that we 00:01:34.200 --> 00:01:37.780 don't talk about faith at all. But yet I know 00:01:37.780 --> 00:01:42.420 that I bring God with me, even if we don't talk 00:01:42.420 --> 00:01:47.040 about it. How did the Holiton's professional 00:01:47.040 --> 00:01:51.540 organizing and coaching come to life? Well, I 00:01:51.540 --> 00:01:55.730 really believe it's a God story because Just 00:01:55.730 --> 00:01:58.549 a little background. I used to be a teacher. 00:01:58.849 --> 00:02:02.909 I only taught in Christian school and then parochial 00:02:02.909 --> 00:02:06.750 schools opened up and I was teaching four -year 00:02:06.750 --> 00:02:10.729 -olds at the time and at that time where I live 00:02:10.729 --> 00:02:15.090 the four -year -olds couldn't go for free unless 00:02:15.090 --> 00:02:20.189 they Were Spanish speaking only so when the parochial 00:02:20.189 --> 00:02:24.110 schools opened up four -year -olds could go to 00:02:24.110 --> 00:02:28.229 public school no matter whether they spoke English 00:02:28.229 --> 00:02:31.830 or not. So the school went from three four year 00:02:31.830 --> 00:02:35.289 old teachers down to one. And I happened to be 00:02:35.289 --> 00:02:41.229 one that was laid off. Then I wound up working 00:02:41.229 --> 00:02:45.629 the outside sales for Sam's club. Now it was 00:02:45.629 --> 00:02:50.199 approaching my eighth year. When sands club corporate 00:02:50.199 --> 00:02:53.900 wise eliminated the outside sales department. 00:02:54.699 --> 00:02:58.219 So for a few years, it was just rumors and I 00:02:58.219 --> 00:03:00.879 had been praying Lord, you know, what am I going 00:03:00.879 --> 00:03:05.159 to do? I was a teacher, but I did not want to 00:03:05.159 --> 00:03:08.780 teach in public school. And as many, when you're 00:03:08.780 --> 00:03:11.819 in a situation where your job is going to end 00:03:11.819 --> 00:03:15.719 and you just want God's direction. Like I said, 00:03:15.879 --> 00:03:19.639 it was rumors for a good while. So I prayed over 00:03:19.639 --> 00:03:24.000 all kinds of ideas. Then I had asked my boss. 00:03:24.259 --> 00:03:27.060 I said, Hey, it's a rumor. Have you heard anything? 00:03:27.379 --> 00:03:30.819 He said, no, I have not yet. It's still just 00:03:30.819 --> 00:03:36.379 a rumor. We don't know. So then COVID hit and 00:03:36.379 --> 00:03:40.539 boy. I tell you work at Sam's when COVID hits 00:03:40.539 --> 00:03:43.379 and the lines are all the way around the building 00:03:43.379 --> 00:03:46.680 and you did outside sales. You didn't actually 00:03:46.680 --> 00:03:49.379 work in the store and now you're working in the 00:03:49.379 --> 00:03:55.360 store. That was something else. So I worked for 00:03:55.360 --> 00:04:01.659 the first two years of COVID and that was quite 00:04:01.659 --> 00:04:06.689 an experience, but those experiences, once you've 00:04:06.689 --> 00:04:09.289 gone through some of the work experiences that 00:04:09.289 --> 00:04:12.250 I've gone through, especially COVID, your confidence 00:04:12.250 --> 00:04:16.129 level is way up here because you've been through 00:04:16.129 --> 00:04:20.290 the hardest stuff you can possibly go through. 00:04:20.810 --> 00:04:25.790 Then I started getting asked on Facebook if I 00:04:25.790 --> 00:04:29.430 organized for pay because when I was a teacher 00:04:29.430 --> 00:04:33.790 every summer, I would post all the things I did 00:04:33.790 --> 00:04:37.050 in my home during the summer and it was always 00:04:37.050 --> 00:04:41.290 organizing. So people already knew my organizing 00:04:41.290 --> 00:04:46.329 skills and I had a 21 year dress up tea party 00:04:46.329 --> 00:04:50.589 business. So I had already earned trust from 00:04:50.589 --> 00:04:54.629 everyone on Facebook, just from them seeing all 00:04:54.629 --> 00:04:57.449 the stuff that I do, but I had never really thought 00:04:57.449 --> 00:05:01.089 about starting an organizing business. And so 00:05:01.089 --> 00:05:04.449 it sparked an interest in seeing whether I could 00:05:04.449 --> 00:05:07.689 do that. A page take a course to see if I could 00:05:07.689 --> 00:05:10.970 do it. And actually everything in the course 00:05:10.970 --> 00:05:13.930 was everything I had already learned from that 00:05:13.930 --> 00:05:18.209 person on YouTube. It was just a repeat of everything 00:05:18.209 --> 00:05:21.490 I had already been watching this YouTuber do. 00:05:21.870 --> 00:05:26.089 So I did that. And then I started a Facebook 00:05:26.089 --> 00:05:32.589 page. That Monday, my boss said, well, the rumors 00:05:32.589 --> 00:05:36.329 have come true. I mean, this was on a Saturday 00:05:36.329 --> 00:05:40.290 that I started my Facebook page just to see if 00:05:40.290 --> 00:05:45.430 it would stick. And on that very Monday, he called 00:05:45.430 --> 00:05:49.389 me and my supervisor into the office and said 00:05:49.389 --> 00:05:53.560 that the shoe had dropped. and that it indeed 00:05:53.560 --> 00:05:57.139 our position was going to be eliminated. We could 00:05:57.139 --> 00:06:01.879 either choose to work in the store or take the 00:06:01.879 --> 00:06:04.560 package. And I went ahead and took the package 00:06:04.560 --> 00:06:08.160 and started my organizing business. I did start 00:06:08.160 --> 00:06:11.879 getting clients from friends, you know, at the 00:06:11.879 --> 00:06:16.959 very beginning. And that was August 1st. And 00:06:16.959 --> 00:06:21.720 I had tell November is when my position was truly 00:06:21.720 --> 00:06:25.379 going to end. And that's how it started. That's 00:06:25.379 --> 00:06:28.759 how come I knew it was a guide thing. I don't 00:06:28.759 --> 00:06:32.019 know. Someone calls and says, Hey, do you do 00:06:32.019 --> 00:06:35.920 this for pay? And then you start researching 00:06:35.920 --> 00:06:41.819 courses and a Facebook page. And then that very 00:06:41.819 --> 00:06:46.100 Monday, my, you know, so to me, I just thought 00:06:46.100 --> 00:06:50.939 it was. a miracle to have it happen just within 00:06:50.939 --> 00:06:54.819 that same weekend when it had been a couple of 00:06:54.819 --> 00:06:57.779 years before COVID that the rumors had started. 00:06:58.139 --> 00:07:00.699 I had been praying for a few years, just waiting 00:07:00.699 --> 00:07:03.399 for that shoe to drop and not really knowing 00:07:03.399 --> 00:07:06.379 which direction to go. And that's how it happened. 00:07:06.420 --> 00:07:10.300 And I just was so grateful. It's so interesting 00:07:10.300 --> 00:07:14.399 how in all of that, God was Just making sure 00:07:14.399 --> 00:07:19.000 that your needs were met and like, it's all in 00:07:19.000 --> 00:07:22.740 his hands really. And we need to trust God and 00:07:22.740 --> 00:07:27.439 say, God, this is not my will, but yours. Just 00:07:27.439 --> 00:07:32.129 take it over. So you also have a podcast all 00:07:32.129 --> 00:07:35.189 it's in professional organizing and coaching 00:07:35.189 --> 00:07:38.649 your slogan is it cluttering your faith and decluttering 00:07:38.649 --> 00:07:42.110 your home and Did it cluttering your business 00:07:42.110 --> 00:07:45.870 and you go into each one of those three and explain 00:07:45.870 --> 00:07:50.870 further? What those yes in decluttering our faith, 00:07:50.949 --> 00:07:57.490 of course my belief in God and trust in God is 00:07:57.490 --> 00:08:01.550 definitely a factor. But with some, it could 00:08:01.550 --> 00:08:05.389 be just someone that, you know, their spouse 00:08:05.389 --> 00:08:09.129 passed away and now they have to let go a lot 00:08:09.129 --> 00:08:14.089 of their spouse's belongings or their child's 00:08:14.089 --> 00:08:17.730 belongings. And having someone come alongside 00:08:17.730 --> 00:08:21.889 them, that's not gonna just come in there and 00:08:21.889 --> 00:08:25.589 push them to get rid of everything. Oh, you don't 00:08:25.589 --> 00:08:29.370 need it. They're no longer here. Let's just get 00:08:29.370 --> 00:08:32.210 rid of everything. But someone that can come 00:08:32.210 --> 00:08:37.110 alongside them and let them cry, let them process 00:08:37.110 --> 00:08:41.070 it slowly. Not that I don't work fast, but I 00:08:41.070 --> 00:08:45.269 don't push them to work quickly. Sometimes it 00:08:45.269 --> 00:08:49.549 can be a divorce that they've gotten over. Sometimes. 00:08:49.929 --> 00:08:54.210 Now, this is where I use my mom as an example. 00:08:54.590 --> 00:08:58.409 Um, my mom had a lot of insecurities growing 00:08:58.409 --> 00:09:03.070 up. She didn't feel like she fit in at all. There 00:09:03.070 --> 00:09:09.470 was no peer group that she fit into. So her insecurities, 00:09:09.690 --> 00:09:14.649 everything that makes her valuable or is her. 00:09:14.909 --> 00:09:18.789 And sometimes when we put our identity, our things, 00:09:19.629 --> 00:09:25.200 our value in our things. Instead of we hold on 00:09:25.200 --> 00:09:30.220 to a lot of unnecessary things or we buy a lot 00:09:30.220 --> 00:09:35.879 of expensive unnecessary things because it's 00:09:35.879 --> 00:09:40.720 medicating something in us, some insecurity, 00:09:41.480 --> 00:09:46.620 some place that's hurt that we're trying to medicate. 00:09:46.620 --> 00:09:50.899 And that's where I see the decluttering your 00:09:50.899 --> 00:09:56.129 faith aspect of my business and my podcast, because 00:09:56.129 --> 00:10:01.210 there is a lot that people use things to make 00:10:01.210 --> 00:10:04.830 them feel important, make them feel pretty, make 00:10:04.830 --> 00:10:09.169 them feel like they're valuable when people are 00:10:09.169 --> 00:10:12.629 valuable just for the fact that God created them. 00:10:12.889 --> 00:10:16.590 And that's where the faith part comes in, you 00:10:16.590 --> 00:10:18.929 know, and there's a lot of bitterness. There's 00:10:18.929 --> 00:10:26.649 a lot of things that So any hurt that anyone 00:10:26.649 --> 00:10:30.669 has been through can cause them or it can even 00:10:30.669 --> 00:10:34.330 go back as far as my grandparents going through 00:10:34.330 --> 00:10:39.409 the depression and having to be forced to hang 00:10:39.409 --> 00:10:45.029 on to even those little plastic things that avocados 00:10:45.029 --> 00:10:48.389 come in so they can reuse it to scrub pots and 00:10:48.389 --> 00:10:51.389 pans. Because during the depression, you have 00:10:51.389 --> 00:10:57.990 to use and reuse and recycle everything. Therefore, 00:10:57.990 --> 00:11:01.690 there's a lot of fear in letting go because what 00:11:01.690 --> 00:11:06.730 if you will need it? Those what ifs are out of 00:11:06.730 --> 00:11:10.690 fear. I've had clients say, I need to have a 00:11:10.690 --> 00:11:15.269 lot and I'm talking a lot of tea and coffee because 00:11:15.269 --> 00:11:19.080 if the whole world comes to an end, I need my 00:11:19.080 --> 00:11:23.120 tea and coffee. There's a lot of fear behind 00:11:23.120 --> 00:11:27.820 holding on to things also. So there's, you know, 00:11:27.879 --> 00:11:32.039 the fact that your identity is tied up into things 00:11:32.039 --> 00:11:37.940 and then there's the fear of what if. So that's 00:11:37.940 --> 00:11:40.539 really where that part came from. And then the 00:11:40.539 --> 00:11:44.379 decluttering our home and our business just falls 00:11:44.379 --> 00:11:49.299 under that. What is getting in the way of where 00:11:49.299 --> 00:11:53.740 we want our house to look at aesthetically? Are 00:11:53.740 --> 00:11:57.360 we spending a lot of times looking for our car 00:11:57.360 --> 00:12:01.720 keys or right now because we had a renovation 00:12:01.720 --> 00:12:06.379 done, we can't find a remote to our TV. You know, 00:12:06.700 --> 00:12:10.080 how much time, in our case we had this time, 00:12:10.139 --> 00:12:12.919 we have a good excuse for not being able to find 00:12:12.919 --> 00:12:15.639 our remote because our whole entire house was 00:12:15.639 --> 00:12:19.419 out on our patio until the renovation. And then 00:12:19.419 --> 00:12:22.419 it was on the other side of the house until the 00:12:22.419 --> 00:12:24.679 other half of the house was renovated. So we 00:12:24.679 --> 00:12:29.019 can't find the remote, but a lot of times it's 00:12:29.019 --> 00:12:32.389 normal life. You know, your kids can't find their 00:12:32.389 --> 00:12:36.549 shoes in the morning before school and you can't 00:12:36.549 --> 00:12:39.809 find your car keys because you misplaced them. 00:12:40.710 --> 00:12:46.190 Having a place for everything has a way of helping 00:12:46.190 --> 00:12:49.950 us find the things that get lost very easily. 00:12:50.169 --> 00:12:52.990 It's kind of like a toothbrush. What do we do? 00:12:53.690 --> 00:12:56.309 We don't typically lose our toothbrush, right? 00:12:56.350 --> 00:12:59.559 Because it always has a place. And it's always 00:12:59.559 --> 00:13:02.919 an arm length, right? You brush your teeth unless 00:13:02.919 --> 00:13:05.340 you put it on the other side of the bathroom. 00:13:05.820 --> 00:13:08.480 But usually it's right there by the sink. You 00:13:08.480 --> 00:13:11.120 brush your teeth and you put it back. Or you 00:13:11.120 --> 00:13:13.860 might, you know, some may leave it right there 00:13:13.860 --> 00:13:17.440 on the countertop, but at least it's there. You 00:13:17.440 --> 00:13:21.049 can find it. Well, it's the same concept. You 00:13:21.049 --> 00:13:23.350 know, having a place for your keys so you can 00:13:23.350 --> 00:13:25.789 find them every morning. What would achieving 00:13:25.789 --> 00:13:27.970 a sense of organized bliss mean to you personally 00:13:27.970 --> 00:13:32.110 or professionally? Well, I have some ADHD. Everything. 00:13:32.389 --> 00:13:37.210 You don't typically procrastinate because you 00:13:37.210 --> 00:13:40.710 will forget. Always writing things down so you 00:13:40.710 --> 00:13:45.120 won't forget. Always and sometimes as someone 00:13:45.120 --> 00:13:48.980 with ADHD, there's time blindness. Time can go 00:13:48.980 --> 00:13:53.600 by really, really fast and then cause you to 00:13:53.600 --> 00:13:57.299 be late to something that you need to be on time 00:13:57.299 --> 00:14:01.500 with as well. So always scheduling and a little 00:14:01.500 --> 00:14:05.320 buffer time between appointments so that you 00:14:05.320 --> 00:14:09.919 can make it to your appointments on time. So 00:14:09.919 --> 00:14:15.000 for me, organization had to be intentional. I 00:14:15.000 --> 00:14:21.700 was a teacher. So no one wants to go into a classroom 00:14:21.700 --> 00:14:24.700 and meet the teacher and the teacher can't even 00:14:24.700 --> 00:14:29.799 be on time or on task. Right. So to be professional, 00:14:30.620 --> 00:14:34.899 everything has to be organized and intentional. 00:14:35.620 --> 00:14:39.360 You know, there might be some careers and some 00:14:39.360 --> 00:14:43.289 businesses that You don't have to be as intentional 00:14:43.289 --> 00:14:48.049 on, but there are others where professionalism 00:14:48.049 --> 00:14:52.950 is everything. And when you have ADHD, it's even 00:14:52.950 --> 00:14:56.690 more important because it's not that you're not 00:14:56.690 --> 00:15:00.269 intelligent. It's just that you're mine. Here's 00:15:00.269 --> 00:15:03.590 what happens with ADHD. This is what I would 00:15:03.590 --> 00:15:09.190 love. people to understand. They say ADHD is 00:15:09.190 --> 00:15:13.110 not being able to focus, but it really isn't 00:15:13.110 --> 00:15:17.169 that. What it is, it's as if someone's speaking 00:15:17.169 --> 00:15:20.809 to you in English. Let's say, you know, three 00:15:20.809 --> 00:15:24.210 languages. Okay. You know them, right? You know, 00:15:24.330 --> 00:15:26.490 three languages. So it's not that you're not 00:15:26.490 --> 00:15:29.970 smart. You know, three languages, but if three 00:15:29.970 --> 00:15:33.379 people are talking to you in those different 00:15:33.379 --> 00:15:35.960 languages. One person's talking to you in English, 00:15:36.139 --> 00:15:38.899 one's talking to you in Spanish, and one is talking 00:15:38.899 --> 00:15:42.440 to you in French at the same time. And you're 00:15:42.440 --> 00:15:45.480 trying to pay attention to all three of them. 00:15:45.720 --> 00:15:49.340 Even though you know all three languages, that's 00:15:49.340 --> 00:15:54.240 what ADHD is like. Your mind is paying attention 00:15:54.240 --> 00:16:00.779 to everything around you at the same time. And 00:16:00.779 --> 00:16:05.779 that's why it becomes hard. So it's kind of a, 00:16:05.779 --> 00:16:08.259 you know, it's the opposite of what most people 00:16:08.259 --> 00:16:11.700 think. And another thing, being a Christian, 00:16:12.179 --> 00:16:15.620 no, you don't have to receive that. You don't 00:16:15.620 --> 00:16:19.419 have to receive that. I didn't know I had ADHD 00:16:19.419 --> 00:16:22.820 most of my life. You don't know these things 00:16:22.820 --> 00:16:28.710 until they're diagnosed. So sometimes when You 00:16:28.710 --> 00:16:32.590 are going through ADHD and you finally get a 00:16:32.590 --> 00:16:40.210 diagnosis. You're like, oh, now I get it. Now 00:16:40.210 --> 00:16:43.909 I can fix it. Now I can do something about it. 00:16:44.149 --> 00:16:48.850 I can write things down. I can be more organized. 00:16:49.230 --> 00:16:55.169 I can do things that will help me stay on track. 00:16:55.450 --> 00:16:59.990 And that is really the thing about ADHD where 00:16:59.990 --> 00:17:03.549 everybody in the Christian community think, oh, 00:17:03.649 --> 00:17:07.869 well, let's, let's lay hands on you and heal 00:17:07.869 --> 00:17:10.990 it or don't confess it. Don't say it out loud. 00:17:11.230 --> 00:17:14.710 You know, I like people to know I have some ADHD 00:17:14.710 --> 00:17:17.970 so that they understand when I'm in the middle 00:17:17.970 --> 00:17:21.349 of a sentence and I forget what I'm saying, which 00:17:21.349 --> 00:17:25.839 a lot of people do do that. But I can be in front 00:17:25.839 --> 00:17:29.180 of 200 people and then be in the middle of a 00:17:29.180 --> 00:17:31.900 sentence and forget what I'm saying. And that's 00:17:31.900 --> 00:17:35.880 kind of embarrassing. So as you can tell, don't 00:17:35.880 --> 00:17:39.619 usually have a problem talking. So if I forget 00:17:39.619 --> 00:17:43.240 what I'm saying, then I have to explain. Sorry. 00:17:43.759 --> 00:17:47.000 A little bit of an ADHD moment, but everybody 00:17:47.000 --> 00:17:50.670 wants to. pray over it or you're going to own 00:17:50.670 --> 00:17:54.910 it. I think knowing that your ADHD just is such 00:17:54.910 --> 00:17:59.150 a relief because you've wondered your whole life 00:17:59.150 --> 00:18:03.170 why your thought processes were not like everybody 00:18:03.170 --> 00:18:05.869 else's. And I'm not going to use the word normal 00:18:05.869 --> 00:18:09.279 and abnormal because That's not it. You just 00:18:09.279 --> 00:18:12.500 spend your whole life wondering why your thought 00:18:12.500 --> 00:18:15.500 processes aren't like everybody else's. And you 00:18:15.500 --> 00:18:19.299 finally get a diagnosis that can be fixed with 00:18:19.299 --> 00:18:22.779 organization can also be a superpower. Let's 00:18:22.779 --> 00:18:26.559 say you find something that like professional 00:18:26.559 --> 00:18:30.400 organizing that you're passionate about. I can 00:18:30.400 --> 00:18:33.960 stay focused on that career forever. It's kind 00:18:33.960 --> 00:18:39.039 of like that saying when. doesn't seem like work, 00:18:39.240 --> 00:18:42.819 but you get paid to do something that you really, 00:18:42.819 --> 00:18:46.480 really enjoy. It's not like work at all. Would 00:18:46.480 --> 00:18:49.980 you be able to offer some tips or tricks to someone 00:18:49.980 --> 00:18:54.240 with ADHD to declutter? What I do with clients 00:18:54.240 --> 00:19:00.099 that have ADHD is I tell them, let's not overthink 00:19:00.099 --> 00:19:04.210 it. Let's start with the things that you already 00:19:04.210 --> 00:19:06.990 know you're ready to get rid of. The things that 00:19:06.990 --> 00:19:09.769 you're bored with, the things that you already 00:19:09.769 --> 00:19:14.130 know you're ready to get rid of. Start small. 00:19:15.109 --> 00:19:19.950 When it came to my kids, the way I taught them 00:19:19.950 --> 00:19:23.990 to clean their rooms was kind of the same way 00:19:23.990 --> 00:19:28.269 I handled decluttering with clients. First, let's 00:19:28.269 --> 00:19:31.940 start with the smallest thing. Let's declutter 00:19:31.940 --> 00:19:36.099 anything here that is trash, like a clothes pin. 00:19:36.299 --> 00:19:39.480 It's like, you kept this just in case. Do you 00:19:39.480 --> 00:19:41.819 really need it? We can throw the clothes pin 00:19:41.819 --> 00:19:44.299 away. You're probably never going to use it, 00:19:44.299 --> 00:19:47.059 especially since it's been in this drawer broken 00:19:47.059 --> 00:19:49.980 and all you had to do is put it back together. 00:19:50.039 --> 00:19:52.559 And you never did that. It sat in the drawer. 00:19:52.680 --> 00:19:56.759 Start small. Always start small. And sometimes 00:19:56.759 --> 00:20:01.390 with ADHD, It depends on how severe ADHD is. 00:20:01.730 --> 00:20:04.910 In my case, I can start with a bathroom drawer, 00:20:04.970 --> 00:20:07.569 but some people have to start before the bathroom 00:20:07.569 --> 00:20:10.690 drawer. They have to start with first on my list 00:20:10.690 --> 00:20:14.829 is get up and put my shoes on. Second, I've got 00:20:14.829 --> 00:20:19.230 to get dressed. Third, what will I need before 00:20:19.230 --> 00:20:24.420 I declutter that drawer? A trash bag. or a donation 00:20:24.420 --> 00:20:28.579 box. It just depends on how severe the ADHD is 00:20:28.579 --> 00:20:33.799 or where their tasks start. And it can be easy 00:20:33.799 --> 00:20:38.980 as, as simple as, okay, let's start with getting 00:20:38.980 --> 00:20:42.940 a trash bag. You know, it just depends on the 00:20:42.940 --> 00:20:46.440 person, but we start with the easy stuff first, 00:20:46.579 --> 00:20:49.839 the stuff that you're not attached to. You never 00:20:49.839 --> 00:20:53.359 start with sentimental items. And we just start 00:20:53.359 --> 00:20:57.920 small. And then what we do is we figure out what 00:20:57.920 --> 00:21:01.539 we want that space to look like. And will all 00:21:01.539 --> 00:21:06.359 my makeup fit in that drawer now? We decluttered, 00:21:06.579 --> 00:21:09.539 but the makeup still doesn't fit. I still can't 00:21:09.539 --> 00:21:12.759 shut the drawer. Well, that means we need to 00:21:12.759 --> 00:21:16.980 get rid of just enough so that the drawer closes 00:21:16.980 --> 00:21:21.339 or the drawer looks the way you envisioned it. 00:21:21.420 --> 00:21:25.539 to look like. Some people have to see all their 00:21:25.539 --> 00:21:29.839 items. So what looks organized to one person 00:21:29.839 --> 00:21:36.779 may not be to someone with ADHD. Some may be 00:21:36.779 --> 00:21:41.619 able to put it in a bin and not see it and label 00:21:41.619 --> 00:21:45.799 the bin. Some may have to put it in a clear bin 00:21:45.799 --> 00:21:49.660 so that they can still see it, not forget it's 00:21:49.660 --> 00:21:55.480 there. So those are, those are a lot of tips. 00:21:56.220 --> 00:22:00.039 Some tips that I use to keep myself on task. 00:22:00.559 --> 00:22:04.720 If I put something on and I see that it's torn, 00:22:05.079 --> 00:22:07.779 that will go into the trash. But if it's something 00:22:07.779 --> 00:22:10.700 that just simply doesn't fit me right, or I know 00:22:10.700 --> 00:22:13.180 I'm not going to ever wear it again, it might 00:22:13.180 --> 00:22:16.920 go right into the donation bin or having a bin 00:22:16.920 --> 00:22:20.200 next to your bed. If that's where you tend to 00:22:20.200 --> 00:22:23.480 take your shoes off every day, you put your shoes 00:22:23.480 --> 00:22:27.960 in a bin under your bed and slide it under your 00:22:27.960 --> 00:22:32.500 bed. Or here's another thing that is misunderstood. 00:22:33.680 --> 00:22:36.980 Organization doesn't mean your house is magazine 00:22:36.980 --> 00:22:41.079 clean all the time and in order all the time. 00:22:41.599 --> 00:22:44.640 What organization does is it gives a place for 00:22:44.640 --> 00:22:47.720 every single item that you have. so that it's 00:22:47.720 --> 00:22:51.400 not overflowing and you can close the drawers. 00:22:51.500 --> 00:22:55.880 You have room for everything. So when it is time 00:22:55.880 --> 00:23:00.640 for company or family or holiday, you're able 00:23:00.640 --> 00:23:04.559 to be like, oh, it'll just take me 15 minutes 00:23:04.559 --> 00:23:07.380 to clean up because everything has a place to 00:23:07.380 --> 00:23:10.500 go. It doesn't mean your house is in order all 00:23:10.500 --> 00:23:13.880 the time, especially if you have kids. But where 00:23:13.880 --> 00:23:16.970 do the toys go? Is there a bin in the living 00:23:16.970 --> 00:23:19.890 room because your kids tend to play with their 00:23:19.890 --> 00:23:23.549 toys in the living room? You can buy a bin with 00:23:23.549 --> 00:23:27.509 a lid and right before if someone says, hey, 00:23:27.529 --> 00:23:30.890 I'll be there in 15 minutes and they didn't tell 00:23:30.890 --> 00:23:34.430 you ahead of time and you only have 15 minutes, 00:23:34.829 --> 00:23:38.029 get a laundry basket and pick up everything, 00:23:38.250 --> 00:23:41.009 put it in a laundry basket. When your guest leaves, 00:23:41.250 --> 00:23:44.539 put things away from the laundry basket. just 00:23:44.539 --> 00:23:50.019 one item at a time. But visually, you have a 00:23:50.019 --> 00:23:53.500 clean space already. Now all you have to do is 00:23:53.500 --> 00:23:57.480 just put it away. So I have ADHD. The difference 00:23:57.480 --> 00:24:03.779 between ADHD clean and non ADHD clean. Can you 00:24:03.779 --> 00:24:05.920 explain the difference between the two? Let's 00:24:05.920 --> 00:24:12.579 see. ADHD clean is when someone and I think this 00:24:12.579 --> 00:24:16.819 is where you're headed is where you think, okay. 00:24:17.539 --> 00:24:21.099 He says, well, I think I need to take a shower 00:24:21.099 --> 00:24:24.700 and wake up before I can go work out. And then 00:24:24.700 --> 00:24:27.779 they think. Yeah, but if I go work out, I'm still 00:24:27.779 --> 00:24:31.380 going to need another shower and I need workout 00:24:31.380 --> 00:24:35.859 clothes. It just goes from one thought to another. 00:24:36.079 --> 00:24:39.079 Before you know it, you're exhausted and you 00:24:39.079 --> 00:24:41.579 don't go work out because you had to do all these 00:24:41.579 --> 00:24:45.000 other tasks where another person would just get 00:24:45.000 --> 00:24:47.779 up, put their work up clothes and go work out. 00:24:48.029 --> 00:24:51.450 But you've got all these tasks that you have 00:24:51.450 --> 00:24:55.630 to complete before you can even go work out and 00:24:55.630 --> 00:24:59.210 you're distracted by all the things that you 00:24:59.210 --> 00:25:03.150 have to get done before you can, you know. But 00:25:03.150 --> 00:25:06.349 what is your take on the same question that you 00:25:06.349 --> 00:25:10.089 just asked? So my ADHD clean, it's not going 00:25:10.089 --> 00:25:12.690 to be as clean as someone who doesn't have it. 00:25:12.829 --> 00:25:16.460 So my organization is. I like to call it controlled 00:25:16.460 --> 00:25:20.119 chaos. So it's like, it's in one corner of the 00:25:20.119 --> 00:25:23.000 room, but this one corner of the room is a mess. 00:25:23.359 --> 00:25:25.299 The rest of the room is completely clean, but 00:25:25.299 --> 00:25:30.380 this one corner. Yeah. I had a client. Now she 00:25:30.380 --> 00:25:34.319 tends to throw all of her clothes on the floor 00:25:34.319 --> 00:25:38.220 in the closet instead of hanging them up. So 00:25:38.220 --> 00:25:41.519 I told her, I said, you know what? I can't fix 00:25:41.519 --> 00:25:44.599 this habit that you already have unless you work 00:25:44.599 --> 00:25:47.900 hard at it and you have to want to fix that and 00:25:47.900 --> 00:25:52.440 you can fix it. But here's one change. Put a 00:25:52.440 --> 00:25:54.839 laundry basket, cause those can be tall and big 00:25:54.839 --> 00:25:58.660 and you can fill those up. Just a basket, the 00:25:58.660 --> 00:26:01.240 laundry basket that you take it and put it into 00:26:01.240 --> 00:26:04.720 the washing machine. You know that one, not the 00:26:04.720 --> 00:26:08.140 dirty camper is what I mean. Instead of. putting 00:26:08.140 --> 00:26:12.799 them on the floor, put them in a laundry basket. 00:26:13.160 --> 00:26:16.200 When that laundry basket is full, that's one 00:26:16.200 --> 00:26:21.019 load of laundry. That way you can pile all you 00:26:21.019 --> 00:26:24.700 want, but instead of being on the floor, it's 00:26:24.700 --> 00:26:28.519 in a basket. This is what that does. One, it 00:26:28.519 --> 00:26:31.940 gives you a signal, the basket is full, that's 00:26:31.940 --> 00:26:35.700 one load of laundry. It also keeps you from having 00:26:35.700 --> 00:26:39.359 to say, I've got to go do laundry. I have to 00:26:39.359 --> 00:26:44.059 pick all of this stuff up and put it in a basket 00:26:44.059 --> 00:26:48.819 first before I can even put it in the washing 00:26:48.819 --> 00:26:52.099 machine. But this way, if you have a laundry 00:26:52.099 --> 00:26:55.660 basket, it's already in the basket. You don't 00:26:55.660 --> 00:26:58.420 have to pick up the clothes. You just pick up 00:26:58.420 --> 00:27:01.160 the basket and put it in the washing machine. 00:27:01.539 --> 00:27:06.279 That is very helpful for people with ADHD. Same 00:27:06.279 --> 00:27:09.980 with doing the dishes. Sometimes there's a signal 00:27:09.980 --> 00:27:15.339 that we've filled up the sink with dirty dishes 00:27:15.339 --> 00:27:18.539 and now we have to take those dishes out of the 00:27:18.539 --> 00:27:23.700 sink to fill it with clean soapy water and then 00:27:23.700 --> 00:27:28.400 wash the dishes. But if you have a bin on the 00:27:28.400 --> 00:27:31.680 countertop, you put all the dirty dishes in the 00:27:31.680 --> 00:27:35.109 bin, you don't get all that grime from the dishes 00:27:35.109 --> 00:27:38.470 on your countertops. It's in a bin. Then the 00:27:38.470 --> 00:27:42.130 sink is empty and you fill it up with soapy water. 00:27:42.470 --> 00:27:47.690 Little tweaks that signal your brain and go, 00:27:47.910 --> 00:27:51.950 okay, the bin is full of dishes. My sinks not 00:27:51.950 --> 00:27:55.369 full of dishes. So I don't have to do the work 00:27:55.369 --> 00:27:58.410 before the work. Anything that keeps you from 00:27:58.410 --> 00:28:01.490 doing the work before the work makes it easier. 00:28:02.330 --> 00:28:04.789 All right, we have about five minutes left. Is 00:28:04.789 --> 00:28:07.490 there any last minute? Which what would you like 00:28:07.490 --> 00:28:09.710 to say? First of all, I want to say thank you 00:28:09.710 --> 00:28:12.710 Austin for having me on it has been a pleasure 00:28:12.710 --> 00:28:16.730 meeting you and talking to you and You can find 00:28:16.730 --> 00:28:21.950 me on Facebook you can find me on YouTube and 00:28:21.950 --> 00:28:25.369 on Spotify and all of those podcasts that Spotify 00:28:25.369 --> 00:28:29.890 uses for the podcast and it's Fullerton's professional 00:28:29.890 --> 00:28:34.250 organizing. I think that's about it. I think 00:28:34.250 --> 00:28:38.190 that's all I have. Awesome. Well, thank you for 00:28:38.190 --> 00:28:42.130 coming on the show to do an episode with me and 00:28:42.130 --> 00:28:44.130 make sure to check out my episode with her. If 00:28:44.130 --> 00:28:48.029 you enjoyed today's podcast, please like, subscribe 00:28:48.029 --> 00:28:50.819 and share. For someone else who has ADHD and 00:28:50.819 --> 00:28:53.440 who could use some of these tips, until next 00:28:53.440 --> 00:28:55.920 time, keep seeking those fresh perspectives and 00:28:55.920 --> 00:28:58.420 keep having those unfiltered conversations to 00:28:58.420 --> 00:29:00.539 better understand the world around us.