Are you ready to be organized in the new year? Well, to make it easier to get, and stay, organized, I've got 5 habits that I use all the time that I think will help you, too! They are:

1. Micro-organizing
2. Quick Meal Planning
3. Do laundry often
4. Make your bed every day, and
5. Weekly Planning.

Put these 5 habits into your "organizing toolkit", and you'll find that being organized doesn't have to be an all-encompassing chore. Instead, it will be a simple and natural part of your day.

You can hear about my laundry routine in Episode 009. Make Summer Easy: Change Your Laundry Routine to be Summer Friendly on Apple Podcasts and on Spotify.

Watch my Meal Planning Video here.

And don't forget to sign up for the Beautiful Living Planning Workshop on January 20th!

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This is the simplest way I've found to reflect on the past year, in a way that sets you up to create your 2025 goals and action plan.

In today's episode, I'm giving you my template for completing your 2024 reflection.

You'll look at the good things, the bad things, and just so-so things that were in your life and work last year, because one thing we know for sure: If we don't reflect and act on our 2024, 2025 will pretty much look the same.

Download the Year-End Reflection Template here, and complete it after listening to the episode.

Then, make sure you sign up for the free 60-minute Beautiful Living Planning Workshop that I'm holding on January 20th, where we'll use your Year-End Reflection as the starting point to create your 2025 plan that will make next year an absolutely amazing year for you!

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If you're a working mom, whether you work from home, you own your own business, you work in an office, hospital, university, garden or zoo, you know you need to plan so you accomplish the things you want in 2025.

But how do you make sure you stick to your goals and actually achieve them? What types of goals should you be setting as a working mom or entrepreneur?

In this episode, I'm sharing the 5 keys to setting goals and achieving them:

1. Set quarterly identity-based goals that align with your values and life
2. Create a Weekly Plan that focuses on forward progress towards the quarterly goals
3. Do a daily 1-minute Winning Morning to keep your goals top of mind
4. Stay motivated to stick to the plan by having accountability that makes you feel good, and using time audits with time management strategies to help you focus on deep work.
5. Set up a social structure ensure increased happiness and "feeling good" while  working on your quarterly, weekly and daily goals.

Here's how to create your quarterly plan in less than an hour: join me  for the Beautiful Living Planning Workshop on Monday, January 20, 2025!  This is your social way to plan for the best year you can have. We'll have some laughs, you'll learn to set your goals, and you'll complete a weekly plan to execute on your goals.

Sign up for the Beautiful Living Planning Workshop here now! The workshop is only being offered once this entire first quarter!

Also listen to Episode 33: Organizing for Beautiful Living: How To Organize Your Home Simply, and Live Beautifully.

Take the quiz: What's Your Organizing Personality?

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There's a (not-so-secret) secret reason why some people can get organized quickly and stay organized easily: they know their Organizing Personality!

I've identified four main Organizing Personalities that will tell you the way you should get help and support to get organized. The four personalities, that I've named just so they're memorable, are:

1. The Sustainable Sophisticate
2. The Collaborative Curator
3. The Innovative Icon
4. The Virtual Minimalist

Take this short quiz to find out which is your organizing personality - it'll take you less than a minute!

Click here to take the quiz: https://fireflybridge.com/quiz

Then check your email for your results, and to learn more about how you should approach getting organized!

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Are you traveling for the holidays? Then this episode is perfect timing! These are my best little tips for staying organized for your holiday travels!

• Keep a packing list for vacation, and one for work, and reuse them
• Use packing cubes (of course)
• Treat your suitcase as a drawer at your destination
• Bundle your kids' outfits together for each individual day
• Use a cord organizer pouch - but use it all the time, not just for traveling!
• Think like a minimalist when you travel

These 6 tips alone will save you time when you're packing, and will keep your things in order when you're on your holiday!

Resources mentioned in this episode:

Here's the link to the Rothy's shoes that I own and love: Rothy's Point II. They're SO comfortable, and super-stylish!

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Thanksgiving prep is exciting -- at first! And the clean-up? Ugh!

I've got 10 hacks to streamline your Thanksgiving prep and the cleanup this week. These are hacks I use every time we have a big gathering at our house. Feel free to use these to simplify your hosting, no matter the size of your home, or the number of guests you've invited!

1. In the kitchen, use command hooks to hang multiple kitchen towels. 
2. In small spaces, think vertically for your decor. 
3. In the days leading up to Thanksgiving, plan out your serving dishes and serving utensils in detail.
4. Prep a dedicated beverage station
5. Use your microwave as a proofing oven.
6. Double your oven space with a toaster oven.
7. Create a 'clean as you go' space.
8. Chill salads and appetizers in the fridge overnight.
9. Employ the slow cooker as a warming drawer.
10. Ready the coolers.

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We've changed our name! Organizing for Beautiful Living podcast is still all about sustainable home organizing, decluttering and lifestyle tips for working moms and entrepreneurs.

It's simply that Organizing for Beautiful Living aligns more closely with my mission to help moms organize their homes sustainably without sacrificing all their time so that they can live more socially with less stress.

If you've ever felt like having someone over but talked yourself out of it because of how much preparation it would take to get your house "in oder" and "presentable", this is what I'm talking about.

When you use my CLEAR5 Framework to organize, your home can be guest-ready in a few minutes, anytime! So, let's get started, ok?

For a detailed look into the CLEAR5 Framework, listen to Episode 1: The 5 Steps to Organize Your Home Sustainably and An Organizing Story with Shireen Botha 

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Looking for sustainable holiday gift ideas? I've got a gift guide for you this week! Ideas include:

• Experiences
• DIY gifts
• Consumables
• Secondhand gifts

And I also share how I think about sustainable gift giving so you won't have to rely of "gift guides" each year!

Don't forget our Fall Special: buy any organizing package through the end of November, and revise a FREE Home Inventory! Get all the details at https://fireflybridge.com/fallspecial

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Do you have folders on your computer, and notebooks in your office, filled with notes, ideas, articles and passages you wanted to keep at one point, but they've now become files and notebooks you never look at anymore?

Maybe those notes that you took time to compile just feel like a huge mountain of information to sift through, and so it sits there, unused!

In this episode, I'll tell you about the note-organizing method I've been using. It's simple, quick, and I can easily find notes and resources I've kept on various topics.

Also listen to Episode 002 to refresh your memory about The Simple Single. I use this concept to choose where to keep my notes, ideas and resources.

Don't forget our Fall Special: buy any organizing package and get a FREE home inventory! https://fireflybridge.com/fallspecial

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Here's my website: https://fireflybridge.com

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Are you finding that the small "ugly stuff" in your house - cords from your computer, mismatched coffee mugs in crazy colors - is making your house feel a little chaotic?

In this episode, I'm sharing some tricks to easily hide the ugly stuff in your house without much hassle.

Don't forget that our Fall Special is happening right now until the end of November! Buy any organizing package from us, and get a free Home Inventory! It's such a relief to get that inventory DONE!

So not only could you have your home guest-ready by Thanksgiving, but you'll also be all done with your home inventory already!

Go to https://fireflybridge.com/fallspecial for all the information.

Cable Raceway/Cable Track ideas:

• A stick-on option
• Clamp-on option 1 from Ikea
• Clamp-on option 2 from Amazon
• Screw-in option

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You can find me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fireflybridgeorganizing
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Call or text me: 305-563-2292

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