Taking Control: The ADHD Podcast

Following up on our Digital Clutter conversation, this week Pete Wright and Nikki Kinzer talk through the difference between your backup strategy, and your archive strategy, and share services that can support you as you look to the longterm care and feeding of your data!

It's back to school season again! For many, getting the kids back to school is a sign of a return to normalcy. Along the way, however, we uncover all the processes that we've let slip with the lazy summer days. Now's the time to get back in gear and remind yourself and your family of the great processes and tools you used during the year to keep your life in order. This week on the show, join Nikki Kinzer and Pete Wright for a conversation about making the transition from summer, and back into real life!

Change is a central part of getting organized and living the organized lifestyle. This week, we talk about the discomfort that comes from things going right. Whether you feel like you must be forgetting something, or your home is suddenly functioning too well, the early stages of organization will likely strike you sideways. This week on the show, Nikki Kinzer and Pete Wright talk about the challenges that come from learning to trust your organizing systems and yourself, and shaking anxiety that's in the way of the new you!

Throughout the process of discovering the organized lifestyle that works for you, you'll fall in love with a few tools that you will come to cherish. Whether it's your label maker or your bins, there will be something that you can't live with out. For us, one of those key tools is an application called Evernote. It's a digital memory, and with it's ability to store and index just about any kind of media, and allow you to search all your notes across your phone, tablet, web, and computer, it has become the key tool we count on for reducing paper clutter and going digital. This week on the show, Nikki Kinzer and Pete Wright share their tips for getting to know Evernote, and digging in to a few of the rich features that make Evernote so powerful!

As fast as summer sneaks up on us, it'll be gone! Don't let your pile of summer projects overwhelm you—be smart! In this week's episode of Taking Control: The Organizing Podcast, we help you make a smart evaluation of your summer organizing projects, then break them down into manageable pieces to ensure you get them done!

You're working hard to develop the systems that will allow you to live a confidently organized lifestyle. But what about that inbox that you can't see? The one in the magic box on your desk? The email inbox is a source of great stress to many, as messages pile up and demands for attention scale out of control. This week on the show, Nikki Kinzer and Pete Wright discuss methods to tame your inbox, email bankruptcy, and how you can get control of your email without losing your sanity!

Accountability represents the willingness and obligation to accept responsibility for your actions. And as important as this concept is in our lives, and our roles as parents, spouses, managers and employees, it's just as important in making any significant change in our lives. This week on the show, Nikki Kinzer shares her own personal story of accountability with Pete Wright, and offers suggestions for working well with your own accountability partner as you tackle organizing challenges in your lives.

The set of behaviors that comes with attention deficit can make scheduling, time commitments, and managing daily expectations a real challenge, especially for kids. Over the past several months, we've been exploring scheduling accommodations using our own tools that make helping kids and adults alike make more sense of their own time, and better equipped to handle surprises when they come up. This week on the show, Pete Wright and Nikki Kinzer walk through using the TCO Daily Schedule tool as a key accommodation for helping kids struggling with ADHD to embrace time with greater success.

Don't let the paper piles take hold! Without the right habits in place, a single bill on a clear desk can turn into a towering paper pile before you know it. This week on the show, Nikki Kinzer and Pete Wright provide tools, tips, and insights that will help you get control of your piles before they get control of your space!

You love books! So do we! But with so many great new options for reading digitally, are you finding that your organizing efforts are confounded by Kindles and iBooks? This week on the show, Nikki Kinzer and Pete Wright share tips for organizing your digital devices, downloads, and materials and get back to reading!