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Organise Your Life and Get Stuff Done! 5 easy steps for naturally unorganised people

teacher avatar Emmy Petersson, Meal Planning, Minimalism & Organization

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    • 1.

      Welcome! Who is this course for?

      1:55

    • 2.

      Your (messy) mindset & Quick Wins To Get Organised

      3:32

    • 3.

      Declutter & Organise Your Space & Home

      6:51

    • 4.

      Planning Your Time & Schedule

      7:05

    • 5.

      Meal Prep To Free Up Time & Eat Well

      6:37

    • 6.

      Budgeting Basics & Being In Charge Of Your Money

      7:49

    • 7.

      Well done! Now what's next?

      1:47

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Sometimes life can feel overwhelming, messy and impossible. And in those moments when it's all too much - where do we start?

I'm here to help you take small, but super helpful steps to get organised and feel on top of things. In times of overwhelm and being hard on ourselves we need systems and micro steps more than anything else.

Not sure if it will work for you? This course is designed with naturally unorganised people at the heart of every exercise, so you can get moving. I'm going to share my best tips with you around:

  • Mindset and how to shift from messy to organised
  • Decluttering and organising your home and other key spaces in your life
  • Planning your time so you feel in charge and stop rushing around
  • Meal planning your food so you save time whilst eating better
  • Becoming friends with your money and in charge of your budget

Simple and actionable steps for quick wins and long term results!

What have you got to lose? Let's get started!

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Emmy Petersson

Meal Planning, Minimalism & Organization

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Hi I'm Emmy! For years I've worked towards a simpler life with less stuff, stress and mental clutter, whilst being aware of my impact on the environment.

I believe that a happy and balanced life begins at home, and that anyone can organise their life, meals, finances and space and in turn make room for more enjoyable life and work experiences.

Let me help you:

* Manage your budget

* Declutter and Organise

* Meal Prep

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1. Welcome! Who is this course for?: Hello there and welcome. In this really short online course, I'm going to walk you through five simple steps to get organized in your life, even if you're not unnaturally organized person. My name is Emmy and I would call myself a minimalist. And even since I was a kid, I would be quite organized with my toys and my schedule and things like that. But in my life, I've come across so many people who tell me that I just couldn't do it because I'm not a very organized person. Some people not. And that's fine. We have people who prefer to stay organized and day cluttered by their nature without really having to make a big effort. And then there are other people who just that's not who they are, and that's fine. But what I really wanna do with this short course is to walk you through the five simple steps. If you are feeling that things are a bit out of control, maybe you're getting ready, leaning into the new year, whatever that looks like for you. If you feel like everything is a bit out of control and you just want to get back to some form of basics. Good news, this short course will help you with just that. So what we're going to cover in the upcoming steps, you can obviously have a look below. It really does not matter what order you do these steps in. I would say definitely start with a mindset and the self-talk piece because that's going to make the most difference. But with the other four steps you can mix and match however you like it or whatever pulls you in. Real like yeah, that is my problem area. Rest assured. It's not gonna be that difficult. And each of these steps only has three super simple action steps and a printable that you can download and have a look at in your own time. I'm so excited that you're here. Let's get going. Let's roll our sleeves up and dive into the first bit. 2. Your (messy) mindset & Quick Wins To Get Organised: One key thing when it comes to what we do is how we think. And you probably know this if you've been following coaches or exercise people or mindset people of any kind, that what we think of here really does impact how we do things in our life. The biggest hurdle that I saved for people who are not naturally organized is that they've accepted this as an identity. Are organized. Chaos is my thing. Well, let's face it, there's nothing very organized about chaos. And look, if your areas get cluttered from time-to-time and you have a busy life in a busy family. That's totally cool. I'm assuming though, that you're here because it's not really working for you. So the very first piece is to allow yourself to park this identity belief thing that you're a messy person or you are naturally unorganized or you've never learned how to be a tidy person because your parents either did it for you or the home you grew up and was so messy that there wasn't room to learn the skill. The thing I would say to you is POC, the identity piece. Do not let yourself get away with that. I am whatever messy, unorganized. I just couldn't do it. All those things, especially that I am, things, things that we take on unconsciously without really knowing it and accepting it as a truth. So rather than doing that, we're going to focus on habits. That's right. A habit is a new way of doing something. And usually a habit is based on someone who knows how to do something that you would really like to learn. E.g. if you have never run a kilometer in your life, you probably want to start really small and you would probably find a step-by-step program like this one. But for exercise and learning how to run your first kilometer, a habit is just a habit. It's just a muscle that we train regardless what it is. And anyone, Yes, you, anyone can learn a new habit. It is not impossible. It's not something to make too big a deal of a habit is just taking a little tiny step every single day. Now, most people say it takes 20 days or 30 days or whatever to build a habit. I've done a little bit of a look into the research. And it looks to me like it will often take most people a couple of months to build a really strong habit. The very first thing I want you to do before you tackle any of the other steps is to have a quick thing about this one. What beliefs, so what things are you telling yourself about this whole clutter organization thing? Are you telling yourself it's impossible that you're just a messy person, that you don't know how to do it. Be really clear about the stuff that goes on up here. Because when you are aware of it, you can call yourself out and go. Actually, I know that that is not true. It's just something that I've accepted to be true until this point. And now I'm gonna do things differently, which doesn't mean that we won't lapse at times and things won't be perfect. But that's not what this course is about. This is about helping you form the habit. Not about being perfect because let's face it, perfect doesn't exist. Alright. Have a quick think about this. Have a look at the printable for this section. And let's catch up in the next video. 3. Declutter & Organise Your Space & Home: So let's tackle one of my absolute favorite areas, which is your space. Now this can be a smallest face like your room. If you perhaps you still live at home with your family, or you live in a share house, or it can be your house, your garage, your car, maybe even your office if you have one. But the thing about clutter in our physical spaces is that when clutter crepes and it's often a very gradual process for most people. It's totally fine, right? Because we go shopping, we have birthday presents and we bring things without thinking about it into our space. And unless things are going out of that space, we're going to get a little bit overwhelmed. So this area is all about starting to declutter your spaces. If you need some inspiration for this hop on YouTube, there is sorrow, many de-cluttering clean along with me type videos on there. So if you really want like some accountability and you don't have someone in your life who can do that. Make sure that you hop on and clean along with somebody else. It actually really helps build momentum. But what then are the three really, really simple steps to follow to start decluttering your space. I always recommend that you start by decluttering, then organizing and cleaning perhaps in that stage as well. Finally, managing the inventory that comes in. So what does this actually mean? Well, let's start with something really small and this is what I often recommend to people. If you want to start decluttering your home and everywhere, It's like a mess and you feel like it's just super overwhelming. Start with one space. Quite often I will recommend a space like your bathroom cabinet, or maybe your pantry, or a little cabinet in your kitchen or something like that, maybe your car. What I want you to do is firstly, start by de-cluttering that space. Is there furniture that shouldn't be there? Is there old and expired products that need to be tossed away or boxes that need to be recycled, removing the stuff first, we'll leave you with step two, which is organizing and cleaning the space. So let's start with the bathroom cabinet, pull everything out, go through the boxes, throw away things that are expired, things that you don't like. Maybe you can give to a couple of makeup or beauty products to a family member that might like them better than you or have a different skin type two, you get rid of the stuff and try to get it out of that space as quickly as you can. And if you are donating or giving things to family, et cetera, have a dedicated box or bag near your door or in your car or something like that. And take that thing to that person the next time you see them or drop things that the charity drop off, whatever you have where you live. When you've got this stuff out of the space is time for the second step, which is a lot more fun, which is the organizing. Now, unless you have the budget and the time and the energy, don't run to your nearest shop and buy all the bins and boxes and containers that they have. If it's important to you, that is beautiful, absolutely do that. But I recommend to start by using what you have and, or you can use things like simple little cardboard boxes just to work out how much stuff you have and where you want it to be, then you can start measuring it and making it all pinterest pretty if you want to. But quite often, e.g. in my bathroom cabinet, I've just got a couple of really simple white clear plastic bins from, I think they were from Kmart or Target or something like that, cost about two or $3 each. I have been using these for a really long time. Originally, they were in my pantry and then I re-purpose them when we moved to this house to have in my bathroom. So the thing I would say to you is don't hold off because you don't have the perfect boxes are the perfect organisation. De clutter, less stuff, organized and clean. It, wiped down those shelves, and finally manage the inventory coming in. What do I mean by that? Sounds really technical. I basically just mean don't buy new stuff until you've used up what you have. Or if you are buying new stuff, makes sure that it has a really clear purpose. Is it because your skin type has changed or you need a better moisturizer in the wintertime different to the summertime ofcourse, go and get what you need. Don't buy stuff. If you are bringing things in, you will get cluttered again. That's essentially the key today. Cluttering, de clutter, then organized, then manage inventory. A key thing I often do is one in, one out. If I finish off a bottle of something or a box or a container, I'm allowed to buy another thing. Or if I get rid of a shirt or two shirts, I'm allowed to buy another one. But the thing is, if you don't manage those little micro things, It's come and get cluttered again. So try and get in the habit. Be compassionate with yourself when you get it wrong. Start with one small space. So you might be wondering ME, my whole house is a total mess. Where do I even start? The ratio I recommend is too small spaces for every one big project. E.g. if you start with your bathroom cabinet and a kitchen cabinet, you start to see the momentum is start to see how nice it looks, how good it feels to get rid of stuff. Then you can tackle that garage or garden shed or wardrobe, whatever feels like a big project to you. So to help with this, maybe make a list of the spaces in your house that you have and start taking them off that list. You can find some inspiration in the printable for this section that you can work yourself through. But essentially you can make a list that's as detailed or as big as you'd want it to. The most important thing, start doing it to start with one small area than another small area. And let's see if you can stretch to a bigger area. And the final thing I want to say on this is asked for help. I have helped friends and family members many times to clear out a space and get organized and tackle a big project like a garage or a massive kitchen de clutter. The thing is, when you have help, it becomes a lot more fun. You can go for lunch afterwards, so buy pizza or whatever you wanna do, and make sure that it's actually an enjoyable time together. Alright, I trust you're going to have fun with this step. Bacon passionate. Don't go for perfectionism to stop in a little tiny area. Right now. 4. Planning Your Time & Schedule: Next up is a very simple but powerful principle, which is the whole idea that I don't have time organizing your schedule. And your time is a huge part of being organized in your life and having things flow in a healthy way. Now there's a lot to be said about this subject, but I want to keep it short, simple and actionable for you here today. So my main tip is do not fall into this trap of getting it all done. I see it all the time when YouTube and other social media channels, and it is not attainable and it is not possible. However, like we talked about in an earlier module, with the right habits, we can help ourselves plan our time better, but don't go for perfection. Perfection is not, it's not realistic, it's not attainable, it's not really that helpful. So getting it all done is not something that I recommend that you strive for, but rather picking What's the most important for you now and how can your week work around them? Let's look at this. The first thing you wanna do is to have a really honest look at your life right now. And I want you to think about the three to five things that are most important to you. It could be important because it provides an income like you might not love your job, but you do need the income that it provides. So it is actually important because it means that you can pay your rent, feed yourself and your family, or whatever else you need to be doing. So, look at your life. Look at the three to five things that are most important to you during this part is actually very, very important because we can't form a habit if we're constantly chasing our tail, are trying to be there for other people. So e.g. for me, one really important thing is my work. I really enjoy what I do for work, and I want to make sure that I have the time and the space for it. However, I've consciously chosen to work from home because I don't enjoy commuting. I would much rather spend my time doing the work that's meaningful. And doing that from harm is totally fine for me. Another couple of things that are super-important to me is my health and fitness. I make time pretty much every day for a walk, a workout, or run, a bike ride, or some kind of movement. It's not always strenuous and I'm certainly not a fitness person or doing heavy bench press at the gym, but it's something that I make room for every single day in my schedule. Those are just some examples. Now, obviously, if you have a family cooking healthy food for your family might be something that you value. It really is no right or wrong when it comes to this. But looking at the things that are most important to you will inevitably help you with the next step. The second part of this is to plan your week in advance. This can feel really overwhelming for some people. So what I would recommend to start with, it's really just a blank paper or maybe a white board or something like that. Then you can write on and you can keep in a spot where it works for you. Maybe it's on your fridge or somewhere where you'll see it. All I want you to do is look at the weight coming up. Are there any social engagement, party's job, things? Is anyone in the family traveling? So just make a bit of it and you can even get those planners that have different family members. So you can write on different days what activities different people have on. This is just really for you to feel more in charge of your time. So that also, if you are one of the key organizers in your family, you might constantly be keeping things up here, write them down. My partner and I use a shared Google Calendar, which is a really easy way to put in when one of us has events either separately or together. But don't go digital if it feels too overwhelming, just get a sheet of paper or something like that and write down for each of the key people in your family what is coming up in the coming week. This also helps you with other things like meal planning and other stuff. But it really also helps making sure that the clothes are clean and ready for what those things are. I'm just looking at the week ahead. It can also help you be super realistic. If it's a crazy workweek, you will possibly have to sacrifice some other things because you simply won't have enough time in the day to work a 12-hour day and go and do all those other things. So plan your week in advance. This is often something I look out on a Sunday. Sometimes I just do this myself or sometimes my partner and I will sit down together and have a look at what's coming up that way. The very final step, which might be an unexpected one for you is to learn to say, no. This one can be really difficult, and I'm not expecting you to work this out overnight if this is not natural for you. But if you think about the first step, which was the three to five things that are important to you. And the second step, which was planning out your week, you will pretty quickly start saying that there is a crap ton of things that don't fit into that. E.g. if you are a person that often gets asked to help other people out, there is nothing wrong with wanting to be there for friends, family, or helping out in the community or in your church or whatever your life looks like. But be super mindful that the time that you give away to other people or things that are less important to you, means that you will have less time, energy, and effort to put into the thing said, do matter for you. E.g. really, if you think about it long and hard, we'll driving that friend to the airport be more or less valuable than doing a workout. Sometimes you might want that time and the car chatting to your friend, driving them to the airport and helping them out. But make sure that you've actually think before you say yes. If signer is something that you find very challenging, have an excuse or an alternative ready? E.g. if your mate goes, Hey, I'm running out of time. Can you drive me to the airport? Sorry, I can't make that today, but I'm happy to pick you up on Sunday. So what you're doing is training the person, especially this is important for people who tend to say yes to everything. This can be really, really good to teach that person or that situation that you're not always available. Same thing can be for your kids. If your children expect to be driven everywhere or whatever, stop by setting small boundaries and going actually, sorry, you can't have friends over tomorrow. But you could on Sunday. By starting to set these boundaries around time, an organization, you can keep focusing in on the things that matter the most to you. If you're really looking to change a habit, the biggest habit is to say no more often than you say yes. 5. Meal Prep To Free Up Time & Eat Well: Next up we're going to look at an area that is very vital but often not prioritized. And I'm talking about food and what you eat and drink. Now, organizing your food and meal planning is something that I've been doing actively for probably the last eight years or so. And it has transformed how my wake works. When we were talking about organizing your schedule, we covered things like making room for the things that are most important to you. The thing is for some people cooking and preparing food is something they love. They like it because it's creative or they can share a meal with someone that they love or share it with their family, etc. But for a lot of people, food is simply the fuel that we put into our body so we can function and be healthy and that are wakes can flow, especially for the parents out there who are putting on dinner every night for a bigger group of people, it can be really, really hard to stay creative. I'm excited when all the kids want to eat. It's like tomatoes or some pasta. Meal planning and having some structure and organization around your food will save you so much time and it feeds into many of the other categories that we'll cover in this little challenge. But meal planning works. There is so much stats that show that meal planning really does work. And for people, we're talking about building habits, right? So for people who want to be a little bit healthier, e.g. or manage their budget. Meal planning is a step-by-step structure to help you with that. You don't even have to be a very organized person and you don't have to do it all the time. So let's look at how to do it. So what you wanna do is plan out one type of meal for one week only. This is really just to start training that muscle and that habit. So e.g. if you work away from the home, you may be one of those people who go and buy lunch quite often and it does cost a fair bit of money. And at times they won't be as healthy as some of the stuff you could bring yourself. If you're anything like me, I'm actually happy to have the same thing two, maybe even three times, just to make my wake a flow a little bit easier. So what you wanna do is look at the week ahead and go. Okay, I'm gonna be harm on two days. I'm gonna be out on three of my working days and on the weekend, I've got activities and other things. So I really only need six lunches worth. Then you can plan the food that you want to have depending where you're going to be. So for those two days, hypothetically, if you're working from home, you might go, I'm going to have soup for lunch, soup and a piece of toast for lunch on those days. So you write that down on a little paper or you can even write it in your digital calendar if you like. Then what else would you like to eat? Well, on the days where I'm going into the office, I might prepare a solid. So you could do something really simple, like just a green salad with some tuna or whatever it is you'd like to put in a solid. And then that takes care of the three other days. And the final day that you need lunch for, you might be at harm. You might just do something really simple, like a piece of toast with your favorite topping or something like that. And that's it. You just plan one type of meal for one week and see how you go, see how well it worked. Did you forget to bring it if you're one of those people who run out the door and forget the lunch in the fridge, put a little post-it note near the door. So you don't forget the lunch when you're dashing out of the house to run omics thing. So now that you've got your meal plan, obviously you can meal plan for more of your meals if you want to. But if you're not used to this, I would recommend start with one type of meal. Now, obviously then you have a grocery list. So the second step is to make a shopping list so that you'd get all the items that you need and go to the store for them? I normally meal plan for seven days at a time and I normally meal-plan breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I write down all the things that I need for those meals that I don't already have in my house because I quite often shop from my pantry fridge or freezer and go, Oh, I've got chicken, I've got this, I've got that. Then I put together a meal plan based on what I have, which also saves a bit of money. But I take my shopping list and I go to the supermarket and I stick to it. This is the thing that a lot of people don't realize. And obviously the spill same to a little bit into your budget category, which we'll talk about in a separate section. But a lot of people don't realize how much stuff we tend to pick up at the supermarket that we either don't need or because it looked like it was a good deal. My general view is I do not buy things at the supermarket unless they are a really good deal, like 50% off or something that I use all the time. Otherwise, to be perfectly honest, your house is going to clutter up by the things that you need. Stick to your shopping list unless it's an amazing, amazing deal. And that's it. The final bit to getting more organized around your food is to set aside time once or twice a week when you're going to prep your items? Quite often for me, it's either on a Sunday or Monday because I do work from home on Mondays and I make sure that I have time to meal prep. So e.g. if I was doing a soup for lunches, I might do a big batch of soup. I might make a lasagna or something like that. That's gonna be dinner for a couple of nights. So I prep a lot of that stuff in bulk at the onetime. You can also do things like freezer meals like lasagna IS can be really great to put together and have them ready in your freezer. So on a really busy night, you can literally just take it from the phrase, I've put it in the oven. And it will be preparing dinner, crockpot recipes, Instant Pot recipes and stuff like that. There's endless inspiration online. The most important thing, just to recap, meal-plan for one week at a time. Start with just the one meal. If you need to go to the grocery store only by the things you need to set aside a little bit of time, even if it's just an hour, twice a week or something, to prep all the stuff and have it ready in the fridge. It just I swear if you get into meal planning, it's something that it probably is the biggest, easiest thing that I've done in the last eight or ten years that have significantly improved how much time I have to do other more fun things. 6. Budgeting Basics & Being In Charge Of Your Money: Alright, let's talk about money. Money is a big thing in our society. We all need money to live by things, eat all that sort of stuff. But the thing is, a lot of people who are unorganized or messy, or really ashamed of how poorly in their own mind, how bad they are with money or how poorly they manage their money. The great thing, like any of the other habits we've talked about in this course, is something you can learn. And it's something you can do something about right now. And it's actually not as hot as it feels. Sorry for me. Everyone has a little bit different. There's a lot of different templates and tools out there. There are templates linked for this particular course. So you can use my template if you like, if you need to get started. But what I wanted to stop sharing with you is the thing that really made the penny dropped for me, which is called a zero some budget, a zero-sum budget. It doesn't matter how much or little earned by the way, this principle works for anyone on any type of income, even if you're a student or whatever is going on in your life. So a zero-sum budget basically means that we have money coming in and money going out. And a zero-sum budget means that you allocate every dollar or every chunk of money to a particular job. Let's talk about how this would work in practice. So if the idea is to give every dollar or every unit of money in your country a job. What you wanna do is allocate where it goes to. So hypothetically, if you have $1,000 coming in every month, you might be paid $1,000. We'll get $1,000 into your account. That's what we've got to work with. Then your rent, my B3 hundred so you go 700 left. And then for your grocery budget, hypothetically that might be the $300 or something. So now you've got $400 left. And then you might have some incidentals and petrol and Internet and bills and things like that, and that might be another $200. So now we have $200 left of this budget that hasn't been allocated to anything. Money is a funny thing because if you haven't told them money where to go or given it a job, it will disappear out of your pocket and you'll be one of those people who cycled way. I did my money guard. What's happening? With the example that I just used? If you had, say hypothetically $200 left or $100 left at the end of your calculation, but didn't have a particular place to go. That's your savings and that's this whole idea of paying yourself first. A lot of people don't really understand what that means because it's like, well, ME I have to pay rent to my landlord. I've got to pay the Internet provider and the electricity provider and they'll turn off my power. But if you use a zero-sum budget and pay yourself first, you will quickly start to form the habit that you think about money a bit differently. So if you know you have $1,000 coming in and you have $900 worth of expenses and $100. So kind of spending money or saving money. What I would recommend that you do before you pay any of the bills and the other stuff. Put $100 in your future savings fund. This means that you're paying yourself first whilst looking after your other responsibilities. So you're putting 100 dollar in the future Freedom Fund, whatever you wanna call it. Then you go about paying your other stuff, buying groceries and things like that. Thing about zero some budgets is that they actually allow us to give. It's kinda like when you work as a team, if everyone doesn't know what they're doing, the team will be unorganized and some people will deliver great results and some not so much. Your money is exactly the same. When you've given every dollar or every unit of currency a job, it will do that job for you. You might still be a little bit off the mark sometimes and that's totally fine. But in reality, if you've given it a job, it's probably going to work a lot better than not doing it. So that was a lot of talk about budgets. So how specifically do you get organized with your money? Well, the very first thing to do is to download your bank statement for the last one to two months and look at where your money has been going. How much goes to rent or mortgage, how much goes to bills? How much goes to eating out or socializing or concert tickets or other things. Now, I don't want you to have any judgment around this. Just use the template if you want to. Putting your numbers have the last month and where the money went. Because when you know where it goes, you can give it a new job. If you notice that you're spending double what you thought you were on eating out and socializing, could you take some of that money even if it's just $50 worth and put it towards the savings account or something else. Your next step, I've said it a few times, but download the budget template and start making your zero-sum budget and be realistic here. It's not gonna be perfect the first time you do it, but write down all the information that you do have. And when you look at what your actual budget is, you might actually also have a situation where you're like, Actually my outgoings are higher than what's coming in, meaning that you earn less than you need to. And you might be putting things on credit cards, etc. What I really do recommend is aim for as close as you can to a zero-sum budget. And make sure that if you actually need to cut back on a few things, don't stop them altogether, but swaps them. If you loved them to date now, but you can't really afford going out to date night for the next little while due to something in your financial constraints, get on top of your finances and do a nice 20 dollar date night at home with your partner. Instead, you don't have to stop everything fun just to get on top of your finances. But it is something that you will need to focus a little bit on. And it will save you a lot of stress and a lot of trouble down the track. A lot of you will say to me that they don't really like sitting down and looking at their money because there's guilt around it or this. They want to earn more money than they do. The thing is, which is awesome, is that this is a habit that you can build much like going to the gym, meal planning or any of the other stuff we've talked about. So what I would recommend that you do right now is pick 15 min awake. I bet you can spare 15 min and sit down and look at your bank statement or your card statement and go, What did I spend money on this week? We had a big bill come out for this and etc. And just spend 15 min. Because the thing about this sort of stuff is that if you know that you're going to need to sit down once a month or once every two months and it's going to take you hours. It's not going to be a lot of fun and you're probably not going to do it because you don't like it. But if you start doing a bit of a weekly check-in and whatnot even be 15 min. There might be 10 min or 5 min. But I really want you to do that because it helps you interact with your money. It helps you see what's going on. And you can celebrate the wins, the money that you saved, or having more money left in the bank than you thought. You can also look at the things that didn't really work. Maybe you set two type of budget for groceries and you doubled that because it actually wasn't a realistic budget to start with. So look at the things that went really well. Look at the things that didn't work, and give yourself a pat on the back for doing the Sit down and looking at your money. 7. Well done! Now what's next?: Thank you so much for sharing this time with me and I'm really, really proud of you. The final thing that I really want you to take away is progress over perfection. Don't try to get it all right in one go, it is not possible. It's not even something to strive for. Perfectionism isn't helpful. So put that aside because perfectionism often causes us to procrastinate and that is normal and human progress. One little step, one little cabinet. One week of budgeting or one week of meals stopped somewhere. Pick one of these areas that is most important to you right now and see how you go. Get a bit better, evaluate what's working for you, use the tools that makes sense for you, and go find inspiration online. There is so much information about budgeting, decluttering, all that sort of stuff on Google or YouTube. There are blogs and podcasts and all these things. But start small, don't allow yourself to sit in analysis paralysis or procrastinate about this to start somewhere. Because the thing is, if you're serious about helping yourself move forward, got to start doing the thing. I've had a blast sharing this time with you. I trust that this was helpful. Please refer to the printables for each of the sections and just do one little step at a time. It doesn't matter how organized you are or how organized you feel. What matters is how you show up for yourself and the people that you love. And that's really where your results come from. I hope you have an amazing week and I look forward to see you next time.