All right, everybody, welcome back today. We have a fun guest today recently inside the No BS Weight Loss Program. I invited a friend of mine, her name is Tracy, to come in and do something that really helped our members. And it's going to be weird because a lot of times I think, you know, you're always used to hearing us just talk about weight loss, weight loss, weight loss, and emotional eating. And one of the things that my members bitch about all the time,
and they end up eating over is a cluttered space. Like my house is a wreck. I don't want anybody to come over. And like, I've got clients that go from, you know, they would call themselves a borderline hoarder. They have so much shit everywhere. They can't find anything all the way to like their mother was the perfectionist and everything was tidy. And if they've got like three piles and it's just like sending them straight to Cheetos every single night. So.
I thought because Tracy came into our membership and did something incredibly fun and helpful for our members that I would have her come on the podcast so we can talk about basically how clutter and disorganization and things like that absolutely tie into your weight loss. It absolutely can be a huge trigger for overeating. We just need to talk about these things because here's what I know.
The diet industry is missing the fucking boat on helping women. All they want to do is give us the calories and tell us what to eat and what not to eat and all this other junk. But if you're sitting around your house and every single night you're feeling ashamed because your house is a wreck and you don't have the energy to clean it and then you feel guilty because you're not doing it, you will eat no matter what any diet says because that shame and that guilt is going to feel so bad.
That there is no way humanly possible that you are going to want to lose weight so much that you'll just be like, I'll just sit in my cloak of exhaustion, shame, and guilt. Nobody wants to do that. So I invited Tracy because she's not just an organization person. Her real skill set is she is also a coach like I am. We don't just address like, here's how to organize and here's how to diet. We address like...
all the things that go on underneath it that could be preventing you from doing the organization. And I just think it's an important conversation. So welcome to Tracy. And I'm going to let her introduce herself. And then we are going to dive straight into some really juicy stuff for y'all today. All right, Tracy, tell them all about yourself. Oh, I love that intro. So my name is Tracy Hoth, and I have been a professional organizer for 17 years. I help women.
Combining the practical, because I'm so practical, I just want the steps. But once I learned the mindset side and how you identify and what you think about yourself and your organization, I combine those tools together to help people get organized. So let's just jump into, I think, the most fun part that has happened. All right. So I had you come in and...
You did a call with all the members, which it was very, not only, I was so shocked because we usually get a lot of our members who come to my calls. And then the second they knew that somebody was going to come in and show them how to declutter a drawer in 15 minutes, high attendance. It was like everybody and their mama was there. I was like, oh my gosh, y'all really came out to play today. Tell them about what we did in that, like how that call.
went. Because I think that it was fascinating. And if you are one of my members and you're listening right now and you're like, what call? We did it a couple months ago. So it's in your replays. You can always go back and you can watch it. It was an amazing, I don't know, we were like an hour and 10 minutes and it was an amazing hour and 10 minutes. So tell them all about that, about that little call we did. Yes, it was so fun. And you challenged me to do it live on.
the call to show them the example of how we can declutter a space in 15 minutes. So I actually, we voted between like our nightstand or the junk drawer. And I'm like, well, I got to go find something so it's real. So I went to my neighbor's house and asked her if I could borrow her junk drawer. She gave me about three options. And so I brought it all back and on camera live. First, I taught him the steps. I taught him why.
They're overwhelmed. And I told a story that I should share. We'll do that in a minute. But about how to stay focused instead of overwhelmed. And then we set the timer and I walked them through how to declutter a space, that junk drawer in 15 minutes. And I think at the end, I looked at the clock and it had been 13. So we actually did it faster than 15 minutes. Yeah. And this was what was hilarious. So she literally took a drawer and just dumped it on a table.
And we all watched her. And this drawer was the mirror image of like everybody's drawer. There was like random pills. You kept finding these random pills in there just like loose. And at first you were like, well, we'll just put this here just in case. And eventually you're like, we just need to throw these out. And I forget what else was in there. There was like money. You found a bunch of coins.
There was random like a little artist set with a paint, like little watercolor paints or something. There was like a, oh, I forget, little crafty item. There was some strings. I didn't even know what they were. Some cat brushes, nail stuff. I mean, just literally paper, everything. Yes. And so what was fascinating, though, was.
What I found fascinating by it was how fast you were making decisions because you weren't trying to decide like the permanent home for everything. Can you kind of just walk through that a little bit about like how when you were basically decluttering something, how you keep it so simple and why that's important?
Yes. So the steps to organize, there's five steps. And if you know these five steps and just start practicing them, you will be able to organize anything at any time. So you can let something, like we have a room that we stick stuff in because we don't want to make decisions on it. But I know I can go in there at any time because I know these five steps. So the first step is to sort. And this is key.
decluttering means I'm going to pick something up and make a decision about whether I'm going to keep it or get rid of it. And immediately I clam up, like I tighten up. If I go into my closet and I think, okay, I got to get rid of something and I pick it up. I'm like, oh, I don't know. I mean, maybe I should keep it. And so you just don't know what you have. And so the first thing you always do is to sort. You just pick something up, put like with like.
So I was picking stuff up, cat brush, here's all cat stuff, nail stuff, here's that, medicine, anything related to medicine goes here, paper, all the paper goes over there. And we just started making piles. And that step...
I like to tell people, do it as fast as you can. Do not think about the memories that go with that item. You're just like, boom, get it in a pile like with like. And if you don't know, well, I don't know what this is. I mean, I don't know. I just made up a pile of crafts and a bunch of stuff went in that craft pile. And so we just keep going like that. So I think it's really important with the like.
with light. Cause I think that's where I know from my own personal experience, when I go to organize my closet. Now I will just tell everybody organizing my closet tends to be something that I do when I need to de-stress. Like I was telling our members, I don't know what it is, but when I feel like life is overwhelming, when I feel like life is too much, when I get to a point where I'm just like,
I don't know. I just can't even tackle real things anymore. I love going into my closet to organize it. And I'm, I'm a, I'm a purger, but I, it takes me all day because I'm like looking at everything and I'm thinking about like my memories or I'm thinking about, I might wear this and stuff. So I did like when you were talking about it, the like with like, cause I had never really seen anybody do it that way. Yes. And in a closet, it's the perfect example of doing this.
Pull out all your jeans at one time. And in 15 minutes, you can try them on, make decisions, and then you can put them back where you want them to live. So you're assigning homes to them. But don't just pull everything out. Pull one category at a time. So you can use a 15 minute or 30 minute, however long it's going to take you to do that category.
But the key is you have everything in that category. And a good closet example is I had a lady. And if I would have pulled out the short sleeve white t-shirt, she would have been like, yes, I wear that every day. I'm keeping that, of course. But we sorted. She had like 19 exactly the same short sleeve white t-shirts. And then she was like, oh, my. I didn't know I had that many. Like, I definitely don't need 19 shirts. But it's because we sorted first. And then you can.
Look at each one then to make decisions. Pick out your favorites. So the second step is to purge. You go back through each pile and you pull out your favorites. And then you can ask questions after that to determine like, have I used this? Is it in good shape? Could somebody else benefit from this? Could I live without it? You know, different questions to help you make decisions. And is the questions, is that part of the purge step? Yes. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Good questions.
Which I need to do that because that's, I don't know that I, I definitely like the idea of tackling like one, like jeans is mine. I mean, I must have, I would probably be ashamed if I actually went and counted all my jeans and even just sitting here thinking about it. I'm like, oh my gosh. And I probably have like a bajillion pair that are exactly alike. Because you know how like when you really like something, like especially clothes, you tend to just keep buying.
a similar aesthetic like if you went in my closet right now you would think that bitch loves jogging pants and jeans but it's always like you're trying to find the perfect pair of jeans the fit perfect the length the and then they always change style so you're like wide leg short leg crop you know i don't know yeah so what is the what is the third step then so we're gonna like with like and then now we're gonna take the like pile
like one of the like piles. And we ask the questions around that. Yes. I like to pick your favorites out of that category first. That just makes it easy. Like I use this every day. So that's the purge step. Yep. Sort, purge. And then the third step, now that we know what we're keeping, we're going to assign it a home. So assign homes is the third step.
The A, it spells space. So sort, purge, assign homes. The assign homes is a little bit like a puzzle. I mean, depending on the container, the space, the home that you have, you have to figure out where things are going to live and what's put things accessible that you use a lot. And, you know, that might take a little bit of testing to see what works. Hey, can I ask you a question since we're like...
I wanted to talk about the closet again. I know we did a junk drawer inside the membership, but man, like organizing a closet, you know, like in my community, I've got my fat clothes. I got my skinny clothes. I got my clothes I'll wear right now, even though I don't love them. Like there's, there's a lot of drama around doing this because I can just see people going in and on this purge and assign home is probably where they're going to get hung up.
What do you suggest for the woman who's sitting there going, okay, I've got my likes with likes. So I have all my thin clothes all together that I can't wear right now. I don't want to purge them. So what is, as a coach, what would you suggest to a woman who's like, well, where should I sign a home? And let me say this because, and the reason I'm asking you is having.
A lot of women think having their thin clothes in their closet is motivating, except, you know, motivation is supposed to feel good. You know, like if I go in there and if I'm motivated, I'm supposed to be like, hot damn, you know, like those are my thin clothes. I can't wait to wear them. This is going to be amazing. I can't wait to eat my foods today that are going to help me get there. Most of them are like, they think they're motivators, but they're actually demotivating them. So they go in and they're like, yep, can't wear that.
I better be good today or my ass will never get to that size. What do you think about assigning a home to clothes that you cannot wear right now? I've lost weight and I'm hanging on to my fat clothes or I'm overweight and I'm hanging on to my thin clothes.
Yeah. So think about, I like thinking about when you walk into your closet, how do you want to feel? So it's almost like you're setting the destination in your GPS. You're deciding what the space is going to look like, what you want it to look like and feel like when you walk in. So setting up those boundaries or rules or guidelines, whatever you want to call them ahead of time, how many genes does this person that you are now
How many jeans does she want to have? How many clothes, inspiring clothes, does she feel need to be in there? So even before you look at what you have, you kind of have a vision for what you want. And then deciding on homes for things, there's no right or wrong to do it. It's just the decision. Instead of just leaving them there because that's where they are, make a decision.
It's easy to put them in a tub and label them. I always think, where is there space in your home? So maybe it's one of those under bed storage things and you have the size labeled and everything in there is something that you would wear and you're saving it until you fit into those clothes. Totally fine. Maybe you want to keep one item in the closet as your inspiration.
But not like the whole wardrobe because then you walk in the closet and you're like, I don't have anything to wear. I can't find anything that fits. Why not have things in there that fit and maybe have an inspirational item if that makes you feel good if you want to. But if you notice every morning I'm going in there and feeling terrible, then let's do something about that. Yeah, so I want to pull out two important points here and how this mirrors weight loss and how I teach weight loss. First, you were talking about kind of the...
future self, like in the future space, you know, what do you want her to walk into and feel like? And what is going to be her experience? We do the same thing with planning. The way that I teach planning is we're not planning so that you have to do these things or this is the only thing you get to eat. We do it so that when we're tired, because like, think about the majority of the time when you're walking into your closet, you're rushed or you're exhausted or you're already anxious because you're going.
to a party, maybe you're going out to eat or something like that, you're not walking in there as someone who is well-rested, motivated, and going to think cleanly about everything she sees. The average you that walks in there is easily triggered. So how do you want her going in there? And that's the same thing we do with our food plan. It's like, I have people make a food plan when the version of them
who is like fresh as a daisy can say, hey, you, that's going to be really tired today and pissed off at everybody and not going to want to cook. This is what I think that you should eat today. You know, I've taken into your, all of your like feelings, your situation and stuff, and I've prepared for you. I know not to make you cook on a day when you're going to be running ragged. Like you need.
To know what you're going to order at McDonald's if that's the best you can do today. So I love that those two things tie together. It's kind of like this idea of we always are trying to plan for the version of us who is going to be walking in there. And what does she most need? And what does she most need to see? The other thing you were talking about, just the getting rid of some things. I believe that if...
It doesn't inspire you. I love the way you use the word inspire. If it's not going to inspire you, then get it out. Now, I'm not saying that if your current wardrobe, the things that you wear is not inspiring. I mean, I remember when I was 250, keeping my current clothes was not necessarily inspiring, but I certainly didn't need a bunch of junk around it. I was already not loving what I wore, but I also couldn't afford to go buy new clothes yet.
but set your closet up to be as, um, untriggering as you possibly can. You know, it's, it's just like what we teach in weight loss. Like there's a lot of, there's a lot of mindset work that goes into losing weight, you know, like how we talk to ourselves and stuff, but there's a strong correlation in science that shows your environment and making sure that you have it set up with it to trigger you in two ways. One,
You want triggers that inspire you. And only you know by you looking at it, you have to be honest with yourself. This either is inspiring me or I think it should because I'm such a fat fuck. I think my skinny pants should do the job. It's like, if you're having to call yourself a fat fuck, it's not inspiring. That's like red flag right there. But it also, we want to remove as many negative triggers as possible.
So like triggers can happen in both ways. It's like, how many things can I remove from my environment that are triggering me in a way that I don't want to work that hard? And how many things can I set up to trigger me positively in a way so I don't have to work so hard? So I love that. Yeah. One of the things that one of the women I'm working with.
is in your membership and she coaches with Betsy. And I just thought this was such a good tip. Betsy was like, just get five outfits that you like and put them at the front of your closet so you can get to them. Because what happened is, and this client knows this and sees it in herself, but she used to eat as her buffer, I guess. And now she buys clothes.
She buys all the clothes. But she didn't have time to deal with them all. So she had a ginormous pile in her closet full of clothes of all different sizes. And she was buying clothes ahead of time for when she got to that weight. And so she just had so many clothes and getting ready for work in the morning was so challenging. It was taking her so long.
And she began, like we said, just sorting that pile. But she had her outfits picked out in the front so she was able to get to what she needed. But then it was just going back through. But one thing she noticed, which I think is just super interesting, is I don't need to buy a bunch of clothes in advance. I can have clothes that will fit. And then when I see I need them, I can go.
get a clothing size that fits as you're losing your weight. And it is tough. Like you just have more stuff to deal with because you have the different sizes. But the other thing that I was thinking of too is like when you're making decisions, it might be harder because you have this, your nervous system is just scared. Like I might need that size again. So just have a plan for that.
Put it in a box and just say, donate on a certain date if you haven't needed the box and just set it aside, get it out of your view so that you have it, but you still feel safe, like it's there if I need it. Yeah, I always tell people, especially in my clients, that there's no right or wrong when it comes to hanging on to our fat clothes. Like I hung on to mine for a while. I did not feel safe enough to let them go.
And it was, I mean, and you could argue, be brave, let them go. It's like, you know, setting yourself up for future failure. I just told myself I'm not ready and I, but I'm not going to look at them every day either. I don't want to be reminded of where I came from all the time. I want to see the clothes that I can wear now. I just want to be focused on my maintenance. And then eventually I was ready to let them go.
I don't have anything left except for one pair of jeans. I did keep this one pair just as a, like a, you know, eternal reminder of, you know, this was the size I wore, you know, because after 19 years, it's just hard to even, it's, I remember all the feelings and emotions. Like I can remember so much of like my lived experience, but visually I don't see her anymore.
You know, I only know, like, visually, I'm so adapted to this size. It's always, it's incredible to me anytime I pull those jeans out. And I'm like, wow. Like, you know, it's still, like, it can be breathtaking to this point. But, you know, I just, I don't want anybody to think they have to get rid of them. But the one thing my members you need to hear is this. If you are wanting to hang on to them.
This means we don't have an identity yet set in stone that you have lost your weight and you're not gaining it back. If you're wanting to hang on to those clothes, your identity right now is I've lost weight. I'm proud of that, but I need insurance just in case. Like in your mind, there's the door, the possibility of regaining your weight is still in there. That is not a bad thing. It's just something we want to notice.
That is what you should work on with the coaches. So we have like a, inside my program, we have a maintenance group. And if my maintenance members are listening to this and you are hanging on to those clothes, that is the perfect stuff to go to the coaches with and say, I want to work on my identity. I want to lock this in because the moment you can get to where you believe like 60, 70% that you're not going to gain your weight back, your identity is really shifted.
you're going to feel the courage to let them go. You're going to know, like, you're just going to trust yourself. I think people always wait for the moment where it's like, hallelujah. I don't have a doubt at all that I'm ever going to regain my weight. And it's like, good fucking luck. You know, like 19.
years later, I do believe it now, but I don't think I actually believed it until maybe three years ago. So it takes a long time. And the longer you've been overweight, the more that identity has been living with you. And it doesn't die easy. Yeah. And this is so relatable to organizing because if it's the same thing, do you believe you can maintain organization in your house?
What does that look like? And how do you do it? So I think it's so all of it, weight loss, weight, identity, it just the steps, the organization, like all of it's so tied together that when you're practicing one of those skills, you use those in the different areas of your life and it helps, it works. All right, well, let's go to C.
What is this? We're at spa right now. We need to get to space. So the C is to contain. And now that we know what we have and we know where we want it to live, this is the step where we might want to use some containers. We might need a piece of furniture. We might need some new hangers or baskets or whatever. I love shelf dividers in my closet if we're talking closets. And I always tell people, do not.
Do this step until you get to the fourth step because we don't, so many people go buy organizers or bins or something cute because they think it's going to help them get organized. So don't do that until you get to this step. And the other thing I always say is shop your house first. You probably have an iPhone box you can use in your drawer as an organizer or an Amazon box, anything that you can test out to see if it's going to contain well.
And then you can go buy something. You know the measurements you need. You know exactly what you need. Yeah, I thought that was cool when you were, I think everybody assumes that organizers are, everything is like a neutral aesthetic and, you know, like everything matches in your house. And although I like that, I loved how you were just showing them, like when you did the drawer, you actually.
I think there was some shit that was in this lady's drawer that you turned into the container that we could just use. And people just showing them that, you know, we can just do it this way. And so it doesn't have to be expensive. It doesn't have to cost a lot of money. You can use what you have. And it's very much like in weight loss. I always tell people like when you're losing weight, don't try to like go out and buy all brand new food and do all these things first. It's like, let's just get really good at understanding why we're eating.
Because a lot of the foods you currently eat, we can keep if you're not eating like carbs, ladies, your ice cream, all the things. So many of our women think that the problem is the foods they eat. It's like, no, it's the reasons why you eat them. Like if you just had a little dish of ice cream a few nights a week because you thoroughly enjoy it, that's never going to stop you from losing weight.
But if you're having ice cream every night by the tub full because you feel like a jackass for, you know, how you showed up all day and you argue with your partner and you can't take anything ever go wrong in your life, ice cream is not your problem. You need to quit saying it's the ice cream. It's like my life and how I show up for it and my reactions. There's a problem there. And that's what I got to work on.
It's the same thing. Like there is so much crossover between weight loss and organizing. It's almost scary how they do, you know, play together. Yeah. And with the containers, just thinking about that, the reason we use something to contain it is so that it triggers us when the container is full to go back through the steps. And so when that shelf is full, I had a lady who had books and she had.
measured that she needed five shelf bookshelf of a certain width. And so she ordered these beautiful bookshelves and then it was full. And so next time I came over, she's had this little stack of books down on the floor and I'm like, what are these books over here? And she goes, well, I have to purge. So that was her trigger. Like I need to go back through now and purge so that all the books I have fit on that shelf, which is great for your nightstand, your junk drawer, whatever.
your closet, everything. So you can see, oh yeah, I'm getting full. I need to go back through. It's so funny because it's funny that this is the week that we decided to do this episode together. My son's room is like, I always call it the pit of despair. I mean, it just, I just keep the door shut. The rest of the house is very, well, most of the house is very organized. Chris is.
My studio where I reside is not. Like, if you look from the camera on, it looks like, oh, what a clean aesthetic. If you look behind the camera, it's like, fuck, there's a lot of shit everywhere. But my son's room is crazy pants. And I've always told him, like, babe, that's your room. It's not mama's room. If you, like, if it works for you and you don't care, I'm not coming in there. Like, I'm just not the mama that will clean up behind you. You got to figure it out. Well.
Eventually, I went in there, I guess it was a few weeks ago, and I had to do something. And there was so much stuff in there, so much. And of course, my son's got autism. And I just looked at him and said, I know what I'm getting you for Christmas. And he's like, what? And I said, I'm my friend Becky who organizes. She's going to come and she's going to spend a day with you. And we're going to get that room organized out. And I was like, you only really need to do this once a year.
because he had been complaining that he was losing things a lot. And when I went into his room, I was like, this is why. Now in his mind, that's not why. You know, he just was, I don't even remember what he told me that he thought was the reason why. And I said, well, I know why. If you set something down in here, good luck finding it again. You know, so she came and I was so proud of him because she does like similar things as you. It was like, she's not going to just come in and like.
do it ass backwards. But she had him go through all of his books and decide whether or not they would be better off with someone else who, like a kid or another person who could learn and whatnot, because they might not be able to afford to buy books like we can.
Or was this a book that he still found interesting that he doesn't already have on his iPhone? You know, like all the things 90% of his books. And I swear that kid had at least 1000. I mean, he's a book whore. Like his phone is loaded. So yeah, they did really good. And it's, it's nice to be able to walk in and not trip over. Well, and it's walking through those steps and, and seeing how.
We can be abundant in how we think about it and generous or want to keep everything and not use it. So it's really good to have someone walk you through steps like that. Yeah, I think that made a big difference for him because I think it's important when y'all are organizing to really think about how you're talking about what you're doing. I don't think it's just a matter of should I keep it or should I not?
One of the things that I teach in weight loss is we have to think before we eat. If you ever learn the skill of like each time you're going to eat, if you really think about, am I actually hungry? Have I had enough? If I'm continuing to eat, I just want to understand why.
improve your life. You don't just lose weight, but you really start getting a glimpse into your life. You know, like if I'm going to eat, I'm not hungry. If it's because I have meetings and I won't get to eat for a while, that's a great reason. You know, you don't have to wait for hunger because hunger is going to strike, you know, right in the middle of a day that you can't eat. Now, if you're doing it because, you know, you've got a meeting that's only one hour long.
but you're scared to death to present. So you're going to suck down some Oreos right before you go in. We want to know that because we want to work on why are you afraid? Like, is this a, I don't believe in myself. Is this just normal nerves? And I need to learn how to calm myself down. I've never really thought about learning how to settle myself. No one's ever taught me or I'm just sitting there amping myself up. I'm going to fail. I'm going to fail. Everybody's going to think I'm an idiot, you know?
Like that's why we think. And it's the same thing in organizing. It's like, as you are going through your things, it gives you that opportunity to think and also think about if you've got a ton of shit, why do you have so much stuff? If you are never putting things away, I wonder why, you know, like. So much information you can find.
Yes. And without judgment, like if you're not judging yourself about it and shaming yourself, you can learn so much. Like it could be something just as simple as when you walk in, you need a different container to put things, you know, something as simple as solution as that instead of just keep going, keep going without thinking it through or being curious. Well, and also I just wonder how many, um,
Women are sitting around calling themselves names and really beating themselves up, even if it's not conscious. I always tell people, most women are overweight because they die by a thousand cuts. They don't even know the little things they say to themselves all day long. If you've got a pile of mail, and every time you look at it, you think, I'm so lazy. I should really get to that. That's dying by a thousand cuts.
Like we just think like, oh yeah, it's because I'm lazy. It's like, no, that is no way to talk to yourself. It's a pile of mail. Maybe every day you come home, it stacks up because that's signaling you wear yourself out all day long. You don't have the energy to do that pile. That's very different than being lazy. And I just think that the more that we do this stuff, the more information we get, the more we start learning like all sorts of things about ourselves.
how to just have that better quality of life. Because at the end of the day, whether you're losing weight or you're decluttering, it's not about a clean space and a low body weight. It's about like, I want to feel better about myself. And I can find a lot of good information about why I don't feel so good about myself by just doing some of this stuff. All right.
We're down to SPAC. What is the E? The E is energized. I think when you have your things, have homes, it creates energy. Happiness. I had someone say, I just want to sit in my pantry because it's so beautiful. I'm like, leave a cabinet open. Look at it every day to feel that. But then you also have energy to live your life in your different areas of your...
life that you want to do and activities versus, again, that shaming yourself, talking negative to yourself, walking around, not having people over. It affects so much. And how do you maintain that energy? How do you maintain your space? And I say maintenance is tying it to something you already do. So I always think taxes, you do taxes once a year and you can go through your paper at the same time.
seasons change. And that's a good time to go through your closet. And you think of, I always think preschools, like if you look at a preschool or kindergarten class or whatever, you would think the kids are the least likely to keep their space organized. And yet you go into a preschool and it's pristine, like everything's put away. And it's because nap time is tied to cleanup and they play the cleanup song and they all clean up. And so it's tied to activities. That's awesome.
What are some of the, like, what are some little everyday things that our people could be doing that's, like, maybe they're not thinking about? As far as decluttering? Yeah, like, like, for example, I recently was, I was just getting ready and I noticed, and I am pretty organized. I'm not the worst, but just like everybody, I can get kind of untidy real quick, you know, and like, whatever.
And one day I was blowing my hair dry and I kept having to look for the shit I spray in my hair when it's wet. And I was just like, fuck this. And so I literally just took 10 minutes and I started grabbing bottles and anything that like I could hardly shake it. Like I kind of cheap, like what ends up getting on me is I'm very cheap.
And so like, I want to like get the last drop out of everything, but then I have like 400 and then I'm frustrated that I can't, you know, get enough in my hair. I went through that thing and I just look at it and I was like, if I have not put this in my hair in six months and if I can't shake it and here are like a good.
It's gone. It's so funny. Just this morning, I used the hairspray was almost empty and it was the same thing. I'm like, why am I keeping this? Why don't I just throw it away? Because I can hear a little bitty. But yeah, things like that. Yeah, things like that. And this is what's so cool because this is the evidence that you're already organized. You see something that needs to be done and you just do it.
How can you set yourself up for that when you're making dinner? Well, it's cooking. Just open something and straighten up, declutter one little section or one category. Maybe it's your like washcloths or hand towels or something. Just one category at a time. Or I think it helps to schedule it because if it's not on there and if it doesn't, you don't have that natural tendency yet because you will get there.
then get it on the schedule. Put your 15 minute declutter on your schedule, decide what you're going to do in advance and just set your timer and do it as fast as you can. And it's amazing how that has really changed people because they see that they can do more than they would have thought they could have done in 15 minutes. And it's so encouraging. It really ties to something that I, you've probably heard me say this because you're kind of in my environments, but.
I always talk about the moment your brain says that's not good enough. That is the moment you should do it. I always tell people brains are such liars. I don't know why we believe everything that we think. I'm just like, if you like, I always equate it to very often I will be like at the grocery store or somewhere and somebody will piss me off. And my brain will just be like, you know, I just want to push them down. No, I just want to throat punch them. You know, it's like.
If my brain will think that, it's like, okay, I could also assume, because I'm not going to throat punch old people. There's nothing in me that would do that. But if it will think that, then why am I thinking that when I think something's not good enough, why that is also accurate? It's just noise. And so I always tell people, use noise like that.
that is just literally trying to get you to just watch TV or whatever to be the trigger to do. Like in our group, I always say, the second you think anything is not going to be good enough for your weight loss, I always tell them that's the ultimate challenge. You should see. You should do everything that you think's not good enough for a month and see if your life's not different. I did it a year ago. We had a not good enough challenge for a month. And all these people are like,
I'm going to take you up on your challenge. They just knew. I was like, don't change anything. Do not try to do the basics. Don't do anything. Just as you're going through your month, if you think whatever, while you're trying to lose weight, it's not good enough. I just want you to do that and nothing more. The average person lost five pounds. Oh my goodness. Yeah. They were like, and I didn't even try hard. They were just like, all I did was.
Do the things I thought weren't good enough. And bam, I finally got off my plateau. So I think it's the same thing with organizing. It's like, you know, if you think tidying up a few dish towels is not going to be good enough, it's like, all right, we'll do it. Earn the right to know it's not good enough. Don't just assume that it's not good enough. And all those build up. The other thing that I've been practicing in my life is the resistance.
to doing it. The resistance is the part that's hard. It's the painful part. It's the not fun. I don't know what negative part is the resistance. It's not doing it. So for me personally, this week, every time in the morning I wake up, I never want to get up. I always start complaining and I have to stop myself. But this morning or this week, I was thinking,
Oh, that's the resistance. That's the part that's hard. It's not actually getting up. And so it's been so helpful just to think of that little thing. And same with organizing. When you think, oh, I scheduled this 15 minutes, but I don't want to do it. It's going to take more than that, blah, blah, blah. Just notice that part is the hard part, not doing the 15 minutes. I read something on Instagram because I get, you know, so much of mine.
world-changing knowledge from Instagram, but it was talking about in brain science that there's a two-minute window between not doing something and moving into the phase to where momentum catches. And it's literally the hardest part of doing is the first two minutes. It's like the brain's greasing its wheels. You are having to do it while you don't want to. But the average is two minutes.
all that resistance goes away and your brain is like, oh, we're doing this. And so now it starts thinking about the next step. Now it's starting to think about what it's doing and what it needs to continue doing. And all of that melts away. And I thought, that is so interesting to think about. Like, I've been using this in the last few weeks is just do two minutes. See if you don't forget how hard it is. See if you like, just give it two minutes and see what happens. And it's crazy.
But like I sit down to work, you know, like I'll have to do something for work that I'm dreading and I'll get into it and I'll look up and it'll be like 45 minutes later. Yeah. You know, it's like I don't even notice when the two minute mark crosses because once I start, everything gets better. I had a friend, you know her, Carl Lowenthal. She had a theory that the hardest step in anything when you're learning something new is going from zero to one.
It's not the first step. It's going from zero to one. Once you do number one, everything after that gets exponentially easier as you go.
And I've always thought about that. This was a great way to think about it. Yeah, that's what one of my clients, we decided, she decided she would commit to sorting because her thing was paper. She had a house full of paper. She would sort five pieces of paper. So that's about two minutes right there. She would sort five pieces of paper every day. And we had it all set up so she could do that. And then she would do it. And often, of course, that would lead to more than that. But I mean, in just thinking that two or five,
papers a day is going to change your whole life when you keep doing it. Like that is exciting. Yes. All right. Well, tell them how they can get something amazing from you. Yes. Go get the 15 minute declutter challenge. It's at simply squared away.com forward slash declutter.
And get that and just try it. Just try it one time. There's a printable sheet in there as well with the steps to getting organized. And you can hang that up wherever you choose to start. And then you'll get some tips from me and videos and things that will help you declutter and organize your life. All right. Well, thank you for coming on. This was really good. I think that everybody is going to, I bet you there's going to be a lot of women. I would love for anyone that actually signs up.
for Tracy's 15 minute thing to email us at support at pnptribe.com. Let us know how it goes. If you want to send us a picture, if you want to tell us like what happened, I would love to know it. And y'all, I read a lot of stuff. I don't think people realize how much stuff Corinne actually does read. People are always like, you know, I'm shocked. You're in our Facebook group. I'm like, where else am I supposed to fucking be?
sitting on my throne somewhere, enjoying all of my weight loss. Yeah. And it's so fun. Those pictures that you, we did that contest after I spoke in your group and seeing those pictures and hearing the women say like, I hadn't done this for two and a half years. Just this one thing changed it. Or one woman said, I slept better than I've ever slept in my life after she did that. I'm like, oh my gosh, it's so fun to hear those. It is.
All right. Well, thank you. And y'all, I will see you next week.
