TimeRich with April Bragg

How to Organize ANY area of life (or even your life) in 3 stages.

If you think "I'm not good at organizing", it may simply be because you are skipping one of these 3 stages.  

There are 3 stages to moving toward a goal - and if we miss any of these 3 stages, we tend to lose either our motivation or our momentum.

When we know these stages, then we can use this framework over and over again, in ANY area.  

In this episode, I will also share WHERE I started in my own life, and why.  

Enjoy!

Organizing vs Decluttering

"You're a professional organizer, right?"  NOPE!  

Even though I help working women Create a Home That Takes Care of Itself, I find myself explaining time and again - it's very hard to create an organized home if we start with organizing.

Decluttering and organizing are two terms that get used interchangeably, but they serve 2 different purposes.  When we understand what those purposes are, then we can use them accordingly.  In this episode, I explain why Decluttering, when done to completing, is SUPERIOR and EASIER than jumping straight into Organizing - even if you hired a Professional Organizer to do it all for you!.

By the way - this is not a criticism of professional organizers either - they are gifted people who are amazing at what they do!  

This is for the average woman who feels like she is "not naturally organized".  What if that's NOT TRUE?  

What's For Dinner? Why This is the Answer to a Chaotic Day

Something unexpected came up in a day that was already full of, well, life!  And now you're wondering how to get everything done?

Or, perhaps you are in a season that is overwhelming you from all sides - and you know something needs to change, but you're not sure where to start.

I always start here - by answering this simple question.  In this episode, I share why I start here, how I go a step further by creating a super easy default meal plan, and the benefits of asking this question.

Indecisive? How To Make Better, Faster Decisions with 3 Questions

Maybe some people make decisions quickly.  I'm not one of them!

However, I have learned that confident decision making is an actual SKILL that we can practice and get better at.

In this episode, I'll explain why we hesitate to make decisions, and share 3 questions I have developed to help me make decisions faster and better, without getting stuck in the "what if it's the wrong decision" trap.  

If you would like a FREE Clarity call, click here - https://aprilbragg.as.me/Clarity

The "good parent" test...

Is there a right way and a wrong way to parent?

What makes a good parent or a bad parent?

I've waited 20 years to talk about this loaded topic - PARENTING.

Everyone and their brother has an opinion on how YOU should be raising YOUR kids.

It's the biggest job in the world - the most important job - and that thought right there STRESSES us out as parents...

And the ironic thing is, the more we worry about how we might possibly screw up our kids or let them down, the more anxious we feel, and the WORSE we respond in the moment.

How do we break this cycle of worrying about "not messing up the biggest job in the world"?

How do we bring the best of ourselves to this season of life, AND enjoy the journey too?

By giving yourself the "Good Parent" Test.

I think you will like this test.  My desire is to help you define for yourself how you want to show up as a parent in your child's life, so that you can RELAX and ENJOY the parenting years.

It's been a decade since I first had the idea, "What if instead of cleaning up this clutter all the time, what if I just got rid of it?" 

It was life changing.  I had no idea how much my life was going to change but today, 10 years later, I share the top 5 benefits I've exerienced in life since decluttering a decade ago.

More time? Less stress? Better relationships? Can decluttering be the key to these? Let's find out!

With all of the modern conveniences available to us that did not even exist 100 (or even 10) years ago, we should have PLENTY of time at our disposal.  

Yet our modern life feels more hurried and hectic than ever.

One of the reasons is because we are requiring more out of ourselves than ever before.

Juggle parenting with running a business and volunteering in our church or community.  

The problem is, we have 2 types of time stealers - the minor kind and the major kind.

The minor time stealers are bad enough - the phone notifications, procrastination, and interruptions that takes an ordinary task from 5 minutes to 55 minutes or longer!  

But the major time stealers are the ones that are causing us to miss whole seasons of our life, because we can get so busy that we don't have time to remember that "the main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing."

In this episode of Bragg...About Life - I share the 5 major time stealers, and what we can do about them.

Enjoy!

Procrastinating?  Feeling Confused?  Struggling to find the motivation to do something that you know you "should" do?

What if this is an opportunity to uncover a fear that is standing between you and your ultimate purpose.  

The Bible says that "Perfect Love Casts Out Fear"

And that sounds great!  Let's get rid of ALL THE FEAR!!! Let's Be Fearless!!! Just DO IT! And Do it NOW! - as Nike would tell us, lol!

But, HOW?

In this episode, I break down how to uncover our fears, why arguing whether our fear is rational or not is NOT HELPFUL, and the 3 questions we can ask to use our FEAR as a tool to motivate us TOWARD our purpose instead of getting stuck in procrastination or confusion.

I hope this helps you to LIVE, LOVE, and LEAD with Confidence!

Feeling like you're juggling too many big things?

It's back to school time.  But that's not all that's at play here.

Some of you reading this are ALWAYS juggling BIG responsibilities - and at the back of your mind, you're asking the question - how do I do it ALL well?  

• How do I grow the business that feeds my family without neglecting my family?
• How do I take care of my loved ones without wrecking my health?
• How do I get rid of that nagging guilty feeling that I should be doing more for the church, the community, the world?

This burden - this nagging guilt, this pressure to keep rushing from one thing to another, with nary a chance to catch a breath in between - THIS is not how we were meant to live.

I want to introduce to you the "Art of Balance"

The idea that there actually IS enough time to do ALL that is important.

And it's not just my idea.  I borrowed it from the wisest man in the world.  

I delve into this deeper in this episode of the Bragg...About Life podcast.  

PS - Ready to drop the juggling act and adopt the Art of Balance in your own life?  Claim your free Clarity call ---> https://aprilbragg.as.me/Clarity

Is Ambition a good thing?  Most of us know an ambitious person who neglected other areas of life in order to succeed.

In this episode, I explore why ambition has gotten such a negative connotation, what balance actually is and how to achieve it, and why Christians should not feel shy about being ambitious.

Enjoy!