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Your brain is not supposed to be your storage system. 🧠All those things you need to do, remember, buy, schedule, and dec...
10/14/2026

Your brain is not supposed to be your storage system. 🧠

All those things you need to do, remember, buy, schedule, and decide?

They’re taking up valuable mental space.

With everything swirling around in your head, even the smallest tasks can start to feel overwhelming.

But here’s what you need to know:

Being organized doesn’t mean you don’t have chaos. It means you know what to do when chaos shows up.

In episode 190 of The Organized Coach Podcast, I’m sharing three simple systems that can instantly reduce chaos in your home and life.

✨ CAPTURE — Get everything out of your head and into one trusted place. (I’m sharing the ridiculously simple Siri system I just started using!)

✨ CLEAR — Start seeing overwhelm as a signal that something needs organizing, not a reason to stop.

✨ RESET — Create tiny routines that return your home and life to order before the chaos piles up again.

No fancy tech.
No complicated productivity system.
No spending your entire weekend getting organized.

Just three simple skills you can start practicing today.

🎧 Listen to episode 190: Three Systems That Instantly Reduce Chaos—No Fancy Tech Required.
https://simplysquaredaway.com/190

Tell me in the comments: Which one do you need most right now—CAPTURE, CLEAR, or RESET?

MentalClutter HomeOrganization Overwhelmed

10/13/2026

All links mentioned in the post can be found here: https://simplysquaredaway.com/190
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.

What do you really want?I’ve been thinking about this question lately, and it’s surprisingly hard for me to answer.I’m c...
10/06/2026

What do you really want?

I’ve been thinking about this question lately, and it’s surprisingly hard for me to answer.

I’m content with my life. I don’t necessarily want a bigger house, a nicer car, or more stuff.

But being content doesn’t mean there isn’t more I want to experience, create, contribute, or become.

That’s where my conversation with Jamie Berman gets goooood

Jamie is a money manifestation coach, and we talked about abundance, faith, surrender, identity, and figuring out what you actually want in this season of your life.

Of course, I had to bring it back to getting organized. 😊

What if you want an organized home, but you’ve spent years telling yourself, “I’m just not an organized person”?

Jamie offered a simple shift I want you to try:

“I’m holding the belief that I’m not organized.”

You’re holding a belief. It isn’t who you are.

And maybe it’s a belief you don’t want to carry into your future.

🎧 Episode 189: Manifesting an Organized Life, Abundance & What You Really Want with Jamie Berman

We talk about becoming the person who creates what she wants, taking action without knowing exactly HOW it will happen, and what to do when you genuinely don’t know what you want next.

Listen wherever you get your podcasts or at the link in my bio - https://simplysquaredaway.com/189

And tell me: What do YOU really want in this season of your life? Is it hard to figure out for you too?

10/06/2026

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.

You can have a pile of papers on the counter and still be an organized person.But does your brain believe that? 😬For a l...
09/29/2026

You can have a pile of papers on the counter and still be an organized person.

But does your brain believe that? 😬

For a lot of us, it takes about two seconds to go from seeing something out of order to:

“I’m so disorganized.”
“I can never keep up.”
“Why can’t I stay organized?”

We take something that needs our attention and turn it into evidence about who we are.

But what if being organized doesn’t mean your house stays organized all the time?

Think about it this way: If you’re a good cook and dinner isn’t made at 4:30, you don’t suddenly decide you’ve lost the ability to cook. 😂 You know you can make dinner when dinner needs to be made.

Organization works the same way.

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

The kitchen gets messy? You know how to reset it.

Papers pile up? You know how to make decisions about them.

Your closet gets too full? You know how to decide what stays.

Your schedule gets crazy? You know how to regroup.

That’s being and “feeling”organized.

In this week’s episode of The Organized Coach Podcast, I’m talking about why you can be doing all the “right” things and STILL not “feel” organized and the old script that keeps you from seeing how organized you actually are.

🎧 Episode 188: Why You Still Don’t Feel Organized (Even Though You’re Doing All the Right Things)

Listen wherever you get your podcasts or at the link in my bio —> https://simplysquaredaway.com/188

And I’d love to know: What’s one area of your life where you can see evidence that you ARE organized? DM me or share in the comments.

09/29/2026

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.

You know you don’t need it. So why is it SO hard to let it go? 😩😩Maybe you spent a lot of money on it.Your mom gave it t...
09/22/2026

You know you don’t need it. So why is it SO hard to let it go? 😩😩

Maybe you spent a lot of money on it.

Your mom gave it to you.

You thought you’d use it someday.

It represents the person you thought you’d become.

Or getting rid of it just feels…wrong.

This is why decluttering isn’t about the stuff. It’s about the emotions!!

On this week’s podcast, I talked with fellow professional organizer Lesley Spellman, cofounder of The Declutter Hub, about what’s really happening when we struggle to let something go.

One thing Lesley said:

“Getting rid of stuff is a byproduct of the decluttering process.”

We talked about guilt, aspiration, negative self-talk, and the stories we attach to our belongings. We also talked about why kindness toward yourself matters, where to start when you’re overwhelmed, and how having a bigger vision for your home can make those individual decisions easier.

One of my favorites was when we talked about decluttering so you don’t leave a mess for your kids someday.

That can be a powerful reason.

But Lesley asked: What about doing it for YOU? 🤯 Ummm yes please.

You’re living in your home right now.

You deserve to enjoy it now.

🎧 Listen to Episode 187 of The Organized Coach Podcast: The Emotions Behind Your Clutter with Lesley Spellman.
Https://simplysquaredaway.com/187

Reply with the emotion that makes it hardest for you to let something go.

09/22/2026

All links mentioned in the post can be found here: https://simplysquaredaway.com/187
Decluttering is NOT about the stuff.
In this episode, I’m talking with professional organizer and Declutter Hub cofounder Lesley Spellman about what’s really happening underneath our clutter. We explore the emotions that can make letting go difficult, including guilt, aspiration, and the stories we attach to our belongings.
Lesley shares three key ingredients for decluttering success: kindness toward yourself, having a meaningful goal for your home, and being realistic about your space, energy, and season of life. We also talk about why starting somewhere easier can help you build your “decluttering muscle” before tackling the sentimental stuff.
Plus, we take a peek behind the scenes of The Declutter Hub to hear how Lesley and Ingrid organize their own business using Asana, SOPs, and simple systems that have evolved over time.
If you’ve ever wondered why you know you want to declutter but still have such a hard time letting things go, this conversation will help you understand what may really be keeping you stuck.

09/15/2026

All links mentioned in the post can be found at: https://simplysquaredaway.com/186
Learn more and join us at the ELEVATE retreat on 10/17/26: https://simplysquaredaway.com/elevate
What’s keeping you from getting organized?
You may think you need more time, better systems, or more motivation. But often, there are two gaps between where you are now and where you want to be: a skill gap and a mindset gap.
In this episode, I break down both and show you how the SPACE Method helps you practice the skills of organizing, while your thoughts, beliefs, and identity can either move you forward or keep you stuck.
I also share a lesson I learned while cross-stitching a Christmas stocking and why organizing isn’t just about reaching the finished result. It’s about who you become in the process.
Plus, you’ll learn how to start building a “bank of evidence” with every small win so you can prove to yourself that becoming an organized person really is possible for you.
In this episode, you’ll learn:

The two gaps that may be keeping you from getting organized
Why organizing is a skill you can learn and practice
How perfectionism and your thoughts can keep you stuck
Why becoming organized is about more than your stuff
How to build a bank of evidence that you ARE becoming an organized person

If Point B is an organized home and a more organized you, you don’t have to wait until you arrive to feel successful. Start noticing the evidence that you’re already on your way and build your bank of evidence!

You KNOW what to do. So why aren’t you doing it? 😩🤔😟Maybe you know you need to organize your office, clean up your files...
09/08/2026

You KNOW what to do. So why aren’t you doing it? 😩🤔😟

Maybe you know you need to organize your office, clean up your files, work on that project, or make the decision you’ve been avoiding.

Usually, we decide the problem is discipline. We LACK it.

But what if it isn’t?

In Episode 185 of The Organized Coach Podcast, I’m talking with Samantha Hawley about what’s happening in the gap between knowing and doing.

One of my favorite questions from our conversation:

What am I getting from NOT doing this?

Sometimes procrastination is protecting us from something.

➡️ Organizing your office might feel like committing to an exhausting six hour project.
➡️ Sending the email might mean risking rejection.
➡️ Making the decision might mean facing discomfort.

Once we understand what’s underneath the resistance, we can stop trying to force ourselves into action and get curious instead.

Samantha also shares her five part process:

Awareness
Meaning
Curiosity
Clarity
Action

And one of my favorite reminders from our conversation:

“It’s okay to do a little bit.”

You don’t have to organize the whole office.

Just go file one piece of paper. Put away one mug. Do 15 minutes of sorting.

It all counts.

Listen to Episode 185 of The Organized Coach Podcast wherever you listen to podcasts. (https://simplysquaredaway.com/185)

What’s one thing you KNOW you need to do but keep putting off? What are you gaining by not doing it?

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