Whether you have students in your home or are going back to school yourself this fall, it is SUCH a great time to create a fresh start. I recorded this week’s podcast with our 17-year-old daughter, Grace, and you can scroll down for photos and links–plus you can learn about our STEP for Students Back-to-School offer, if you have students who could use a little lift. (It’s going to be a party!)
This was a typical busy-middle-of-the-week view of Grace’s room (look familiar?):
But after going through the STEP for Students program, she has seriously made a transformation.
Here’s a glimpse of the 3 “Dos and Don’ts” we’ll go through in this podcast to help you and your student create a great foundation for the coming school year:
DO :
- Set time and use “microbursts” to go to work!
- Give yourself a change of scenery and your mind a break.
- Create designated spots by drawing out a map!
DON’T :
- Don’t get overwhelmed by the cluttered space you’re working in – give your attention to one area at a time!
- Never create miscellaneous piles or “junk drawers”. 🙂
- Don’t hang onto things that don’t have a purpose. (Is it something that sparks joy?)
These are just a few ideas to get you started, but the goal is for each of us to feel organized, ready, and excited for the new opportunities ahead! We’d love to hear how your experience goes, so please feel free to share in the comments.
Have you checked out STEP for Students?
The perfect companion to our Steps to Everyday Productivity program, STEP for Students will prepare your children with the organization needed for the upcoming school year! It’s not always easy to help our students live organized lives, but if you want to know what we do in our family, and what has worked really well for us, this is it.
We are offering a special back-to-school offer for $127 (originally $200).
STEP for Students: Special Back-to-School Offer
The quick details of the offer are as follows:
- This program will teach your student how to organize homework, their bedroom, projects, digital files, and more–in a student-to-student way. It goes beautifully with our STEP program, but you don’t have to have both….
- You can get this BEST ever pricing ($127) on STEP for Students and Organized for College.
- This is LIFETIME access for any and all of your children
- There’s a 60-day money-back guarantee
And parents (or other new community members), if you haven’t yet attended our free workshop, COME! We can’t wait to help you stop drowning in piles of clutter. Register here.
I have just begun to listen to the Pod Casts. I have a difficult hearing the Pod Cast. Amy and Grace’s voice get very quiet and low and a good amount of the education is lost. Just a suggestion that the mike is positioned directly under their mouth. And just to be aware that they are losing a part of the audience. I am not one who will repeatedly listen to the same pod cast to get information that I can’t hear in the first place..
Thank you so much for letting us know, Jennifer! We’ll see if we can edit the audio to make it louder, but we will make sure to speak more directly into the mike next time! Thanks for being here with us!
GRACE!!! Great job!! This was exactly what I was hoping for to share with my daughter who is heading to college in a few weeks. Such great tips! Thanks for the pictures too!
Love it i recently finally went to Walmart to get a shelf similar to your photo and those bucket cubbies have been the best.
So glad these have been working for you, as well! Three of our children have used these in their rooms/now apartments, and it’s such a nice way to divide up items. Way to go!
I like the idea of putting pics of papers I don’t need right now into Evernote.
Question: How do you later find the one paper you are looking for in Evernote?
Hi Teri! Great question. Whether you use Evernote, Google Drive, One Note, or some other digital filing type of app, there are two tricks that help us locate things easily. First is just using the search bar. If you title things well or include appropriate keywords, it’s typically pretty easy to find things. The second option is what I recommend, however. It’s organizing folders by category of your life. Work, Home Maintenance, Finances, Recipes, etc. (with sub-folders where needed), so you can always narrow your search. I show how I do it in my physical cubbies in this video on YouTube, and then the digital filing is parallel to this. Hope it helps! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wb9vRB1pQN4&t=575s