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girl doing chores: emptying dishwasher
Raise Responsible Kids

#40: Being OK with the way our kids help out around the house

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Do you often say: ‘Oh, I’ll just do it myself, it’s easier’ or ‘It’ll get done properly if I do it’ when it comes to maintaining your home?

You’re not alone.

Let’s face it, the way they do things isn’t the same way we do them nor the way we taught them how to do it.  It can cause frustrations sometimes and the temptation to just redo the whole thing ourselves (waste of time, by the way) or just do it ourselves from the get-go.

Resist.

In this episode you’ll learn the strategies I use to get passed through those thoughts and feelings so tune in.  Hope you enjoy this episode my friend!

To show the end result of overcoming the overwhelm and frustrations when maintaining our home
Establish Your Time, Home organizing

#38: Reduce Overwhelm and Frustrations When Maintaining Your Home

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Managing your household tasks can be a lot on your mental health and well-being – especialyl if it falls on 1 person most of the time.  As busy parents, we tend to truck through the every day grind on top of all our other obligations such as work, taking care of the kids and trying to squeeze in time for our own projects and passions.  But WHAT IF, we had a system that could alleviate, even a little, the amount of overwhelm and frustrations we have when it comes to maintaining our home?

In this episode I take you step by step through a process that I’ve done myself for tasks that overwhelm me the most.  If you have tasks that you wish would just disappear, then have listen to this episode now and get ready to take action.

Enjoy friend!

Home organizing, Lead together

#37:  How to Minimize Resistance From Our Partners Before Decluttering

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Today’s podcast episode is another good one because it’s touching on the topic of resistance and what we can do to avoid it or make it less resistant. Now, I’m not talking about the kids because yeah, they too can be resistant to any change or to do extra chores. But what happens if the resistance comes from our partner? More specifically, it’s resistance to any change, like any decluttering or organizing activity that’s about to happen? Just so you know, it’s totally normal that you might come up with a little resistance, or a lot, when it comes to decluttering and organizing.

In this episode we’re going to talk about what to do before decluttering or even organizing to avoid, or reduce, the amount of resistance that could happen with any kind of change happening in the house.
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Whenever we want to do a decluttering or organizing project, my client and I, (or even myself, because this has happened in the past), are usually in the mindset of getting stuff done. Now I understand this completely because we’re so eager to get things going and make changes. But there is something we have to do first and foremost, before we even start taking action to minimize resistance and that is to communicate. And why do I say this?

Minimize Resistance From Our Partners: COMMUNICATE

Because it’s happened where the partner is often a little upset that we’re taking on this project where we’re getting our hands in things that they may not be ready to let go of just yet. Or maybe, they’re not ready to move around and then have to adjust the way they go about in the house such as their habits, where they move things or where they have to find things now. No doubt, it’s a big adjustment for not only them, but for anybody who is suddenly faced with change. And it’s normal.

So there are two main reasons why you need to communicate first before you even start taking action on decluttering or organizing; Especially when it’s a common space or even a space that has mostly their things in it.

Why there’s resistance…

Top view of wooden container to hold and keep office supplies organized
Home organizing

#36: 13 Organizing Solutions to Get Organized Today

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today’s episode is a good one because I will be listing 13 organizing tools that you should use if you want to get organized like yesterday as in asap.

So this list of 13 items is something that I use myself or have used with my clients, and they work wonders. They totally make a difference in your everyday life. So much so that you don’t even realize that you are just getting things done quicker. You are able to retrieve things a lot faster and put things away, not just by you, but everyone. It’s so much simpler. So grab a pen and paper or just take a good listen because I’ll be linking them or referencing them in today’s show notes. Sit back, relax, and let’s get to this.

Organizing solutions for hanging stuff up

Now in no particular order, I’m going to be talking about these next three items because they pretty much come from the same company.  If you haven’t heard it before or haven’t heard me talking about it before, it’s a 3M innovation. This is not a commercial for them. I am not an affiliate. I just love their products because they’re so good. I use them everywhere for hats, school bags, clothes, even my squeegee in the shower. Any guesses what I’m talking about? I’m talking about the organizing solution that you use to hang things that you peel off the back and then stick them to the wall (by Command™)

They last for years as  long as you respect the weight limit of these things. In addition, they come in a variety of packs of sizes and weight capacity as well as the different types of surfaces that you can use them on. So like I said, I have one in my shower where you can hang the squeegee. Therefore, if they can stick onto a wet surface, I’m sold. I don’t know about you, but if I have a little more options, then I’m totally in.

Lead together, Raise Responsible Kids

34: Why’s It So Hard For My Kid To Do Chores

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Where the topic of chores and kids came from

So the question I’d be answering today is, why is it so hard to get my kid to do chores? Now, this podcast episode was inspired by a question that was asked at a local radio station here in Montreal. 

It’s called the Beat 92.5. I decided to call in and answer it because one, I’m a mom and two because I’m a professional organizer and I believe wholeheartedly in chores, in kids helping out and doing chores at home. If you’ve listened to my podcast episodes before, I do mention it, nine Ways to Get Kids to Help Out With Chores. So if you want to pause this episode and take a listen to that one, just head to diannejimenez.com/ 31 Alright, so let’s ask the question, why is it so hard to get my kid to do chores? 

Why’s it so hard for my kid to do chores: #1 Do they understand it (chores)?

Well, first off, and I’m gonna split this into three sections.

First off, do they understand why this needs to get done? And the reason is this: a lot of times as adults, we get motivated because there’s the why behind it. We’re more inclined to do things when we know the reason. If there’s no reason at all, where our hearts and minds are not really there to do it, then we might do it once or twice.  But the next time after that, if we’re asked to do it, it’s like, ‘well, I don’t really feel like doing it’.
So if we have that in mind, can you imagine what it is for the kids? What’s going on in their minds? You know, so they’re still developing and those, I guess, I don’t know, the science behind it is the reason. There might be a reason why with your brain or something that we don’t get motivated to do things unless there’s a concrete reason why.

Now, for us as adults, obviously, you know, the house needs to be maintained. We don’t wanna be breathing all this dust, we don’t wanna be walking on Legos and hurting our feet or you know, inviting all types of rodents or bugs into the house, even though bugs do crawl in our house all the time. But just the thought of crumbs, a mess and food all over the place, it’s just not healthy and it’s not good, obviously.

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