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Chris
Hello and welcome to the ending body Burnout show. We are your host, Chris and Filly, co-founders of a multi-award winning functional medicine practice serving busy people with energy, mood and gut issues.
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Filly
While busyness, addictive doing, people pleasing and perfectionism might be the norm, it's not normal and it's a major contributor to health issues.
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Chris
Our goal with this show is to give you a holistic root cause approach to healing your body so that you don't have to continue doctor or diet hopping or popping a zillion supplements hoping something might stick.
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Filly
So get ready to heal your body. Get your spouse back deeply, connect with yourself, and step into the light of your dreams.
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Chris
Let's dive in. Oh!
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Filly
Hello and welcome to the Ending Body Burn out show today. Chris and I talked to the wonderful Heather Morris, who is an architect of all people. The reason why we invited Heather on to the podcast is she has created some really beautiful Lux systems that help high performing women who are feeling burnt out to create more, ease and flow in their home environment.
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Filly
So she's taking a lot of the the knowledge, the expertise, the experience she has had in the architecture world and actually created really awesome systems to, to make living life in your home easier. So in this conversation today, we do talk about things like your kitchen set up, your the way that your meal plan, planning and prepping, the way that you can get your kids on board to follow through on systems, the way that you can organise your cupboards, the way that you can get started with decluttering, and also, some really practical tips around reducing digital clutter and overwhelm as well.
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Filly
So I know that you're going to get lots of awesome little nuggets to help you in your journey. And as Heather and Chris and I talk about these things in our home can become stresses as well. Just in the same way that mould could be a stressor. Just in the same way that eating, block of Capri chocolate could be a stress.
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Filly
And just in the same way that an argument with a spouse could be a stressor. So again, we're taking a holistic approach to look at your environment today and how you can set up your environment for success and to support your healing and your wellbeing. Now, a little bit about Heather Morris before we dive in. Heather Morris is an architect and the creator of the Lux method, a system that helps high performing women design homes and digital lives that actually support their day to day reality.
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Filly
Through her platform, Lux Reset, she teaches practical systems that reduce friction and give women back 3 to 5 hours every week without perfection, productivity hacks, hacks, or pressure. All right, let's dive into today's episode.
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Chris
Welcome, everybody, to this episode of The Body Burnout Show. And I have a guest on today's show. Welcome, Heather, to the Anybody Been show.
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Heather
Thank you. Very happy to be here.
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Filly
Yay! We have never had an architect come on to our show, so it's very exciting. And if the listeners are like, what are we going to be talking about? Building houses will kind of. Because I think you're doing some really interesting stuff in this space of wellness inside the home to support women. And if there's men listening to this as well, I'm sure that the systems will apply to all people.
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Filly
But there is, you know, we're coming out of it, or we're living in a patriarchal system. So there's a lot of invisible light that women hold. So I'm really excited to dive into the systems that you can teach us and our listeners to help them to have a more healthy home, to support their own health and prevent burnout.
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Heather
Yeah, absolutely. It's a really interesting crossover, actually, fully, because, people don't realise that cognitive overlayed is massive in this day and age. And a lot of that is to do with our houses and how that really design in the 50s. And for the as you say, that I could have all married, women doing domestic duties and it's not really reflective of today's lifestyle.
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Heather
So be fun to dive into some of those concepts.
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Filly
Yes, I think so. Before we do, we love to get to know you a little bit more personally. And yeah, just dive into your own body burnout or burnout story, which I assume links into why you do what you now do.
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Heather
Absolutely. So, I've always been ambitious. I started school young, I started uni young. I was only 16, nine months when I went to uni. Architecture is a 60 course, so it's.
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Filly
How did that happen with you? I would jump Carly. Joel, we call it.
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Heather
Oh, no, no, I, I was very when I think I was four, three and a half a four or something. I was, really bored at home. But you really need to go to school. She was a school teacher herself, and so she was like, no, you're starting school. I was a bit too inquisitive, I think.
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Heather
And, so, yes, I started school early and just was young all the way through. And by the time I hit university, I was 16. And I'm not old, which is interesting because most of the people were 18. So there was a bit of a discourse there. But having been ambitious all the way through and, very well, I set my bar very high.
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Heather
And it meant after six years, you know, you have to do two years of internship two. So it's effectively like being a lawyer or doing the bar. So it's a lot of training, a lot that you have to go through. And then I worked for about 12 months with a firm in Tasmania. Because we were in the recession, we had to have.
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Heather
And then I thought, no, I want to try something else. So I had a job in Brisbane, and then I decided to move back to Sydney of all places and set up a firm with the company I was working with in Tasmania originally. So that was that connection, which for a 24 year old at the time, was full of naivete and I guess you never give something.
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Heather
You go, you know, know how difficult it is or easy. And I was thinking, I'm just going to go see the world's my oyster. And, obviously it was a lot harder than that. So I effectively work seven days a week for 18 months, starting that business up and getting known. And it was a very male dominated industry back in the day.
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Heather
Hardly any female architects, particularly in the commercial sector, which is where I specialise in government. And as a result, I was given directorship, but then that comes with its own price of working. 60 hour weeks was a standard week, and that's before you do a minimum of a two hour commute. So an hour each way to work and back.
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Heather
And I wasn't even living that far away. So I was probably 20 K's away. So in the big cities, it's, very much you do a day's work before you even get to the office. And then when we built up the, so it was across the eastern seaboard and well over 60 staff, we also had engineering companies, planning companies, design and drafting companies.
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Heather
So we had a plethora of things going on, which is all exciting, but it's very, very hard work to maintain. And so you end up dealing with staffing issues for eight hours a day. And then when they all got home, that's when you actually get to do your work. So it meant just being on the phone all the time on tap.
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Heather
And as a result of 15 to 20 odd years of doing that, I was diagnosed with high blood pressure. And that was a really big wakeup call for me because hypertension has been in the family. And it was one of those cases where it's lifestyle related, but it's also that that trappings of, high powered being on all the time.
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Heather
There's never any off time. And I guess the reflection I had was that there's no thank you for doing seven day weeks, for working the hours, for doing all that. There was no accolades in that. Yes, we won awards. Yes, we did things. But nobody genuinely was like, gee, I'm glad you worked that weekend and didn't have any time off.
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Heather
So there, the sort of reflections that I had and the big moment came for me when, we ended up end in Sydney can be trappings of keeping up with the Joneses as well. And my partner and I always wanted to leave waterfront, so we ended up with this amazing waterfront home. But there was some mould issues in there, and I have asthma.
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Heather
And that compounded it. So I ended up very unwell and we moved out of that house into, I call it a McMansion. So Italian builders, 20 on, one on the arches and a huge marble staircase in the middle, which looked like gone with the wind. And one day I was sitting there hand polishing the marble staircase, because that's what nuns did.
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Heather
And that was where I had my big moment of, well, when living in the wrong era, we're not designed to be sitting there and polishing marble staircases and working 60 hour weeks and having a career and potentially wanting to have children and do all the things, and then your body at the same time going, time to have a little downtime.
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Heather
And so from that point on, I redesigned, totally redesigned my life. And that was a big reset moment where I worked out what I wanted to do. And now, as a result, I live six months of the year in Penguin in Tasmania, which is gorgeous, and six months a year in Yamba, northern New South Wales, just south of Byron Bay.
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Heather
So I effectively taste the warmth. Yes. So, and it's it's a lifestyle by design and it's a lot these days and I've managed to still do work in architecture. It's a different form of work. It's more high level report writing and compliance, but it allows me to work from anywhere and effectively. My laptop and phone is now my office and, my health is way better.
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Heather
So I guess that gives you a bit of background as to where my burnout story started and how the things I need to change.
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Filly
Yeah, so yeah, so the things that you do or that you teach other women and coach them through in terms of creating a high, oh, I'll just use the word healthy at home because health isn't necessarily like toxin free or like, you know, there's no mould in the home. It's also set up for supporting them to succeeding their health and other areas in their life.
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Filly
It's so interesting that you're talking about the Marvel Staircase. I personally do not like cleaning. We've got our cleaning here at the moment. Thank you. Katherine, I love you. But I'm like, far out. There's no way that I would have been shining a marble staircase that. Can you talking to that? So why?
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Chris
Yeah. What was the.
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Filly
Way you see that? Why that pattern is still there that, you know, might have worked back in the 1950s for a woman who was the prime home carer in childcare. And why that's not translating into modern life. Now.
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Heather
Yeah. So there's quite a few things to unpack with that. But effectively a home is a living breathing thing much like a body is. And people don't realise that. So there's air that comes in and sunshine that comes in and out. So I see physical buildings very much like a human body, and an unhealthy building is like an unhealthy body.
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Heather
So mould is a really obvious one. Poor air changes, poor light. But there's also things, components that it's built out of. And marble is the most stunning, beautiful, material to work with. However, it is highly fragile. Anyone that's had a marble or any sort of marble benchtop knows that wineglasses and marble do not match. It stains very easily, and it needs the highest level of care, so it's extremely high maintenance.
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Heather
So that's why the only way to properly clean it, you can't use any sort of chemicals or anything because it will stain and mark. Hence why red wine on a marble benchtop will leave a permanent mark. So the necessity to keep that clean and treat it with the respect it deserved to maintain it, is to literally hand polish it with just like a gentle side.
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Heather
Which is why I was doing that. But the reflection was that the house was designed and it was just over the top. It was, I think, 6 or 8 bedrooms, three of three full size bathrooms, spare toilet and a kitchen the size that normally used to make huge Italian, cook up scene. And that was very much designed for the life of the 50s housewife, where everything was around maintenance and just the maintenance on something that size is phenomenal.
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Heather
So what happens is by the time you finish cleaning the third bathroom, you know you're back to the first one. And I think what happens in this day and age too, and it's not I mean, you say you don't like cleaning and you've got to clean and that's that's fantastic. Not necessarily everybody can do that. But the problem is that the types of things that we have in our houses is not supporting what we do now.
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Heather
So when I talk about what about in an ideal design world, well, we're looking for flow. So flow through a building. And when it flows easily you've often been into a big commercial area or not gallery or somewhere that just feels amazing. And it's usually because the flow is right. You're going for me to be with minimal resistance and the resistance is friction.
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Heather
So in a domestic environment, friction is about all the little things that stand in our way. So for example, every time you go to the have to go to the washing machine, and if you've got to walk around a table or walk around something, that's friction, that's something in the way. It's also if we're coming into our home and there's all stuff in the way, like that's where the bags get dropped.
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Heather
That's where the, you know, the wet coats are the umbrellas and things get dropped. That's a level of friction and that's clutter. And that is where it really affects us. It gives us cognitive overload, because every time we walk past that, it's a minor stressor and that's constantly peeing. So you might think that it's not affecting you, but it is all the time.
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Heather
So every time you see something that needs to be done that switches the brain on, it's very, very similar from a, medical perspective to having a phone ding like a notification that dopamine goes off, that sort of thing. So it's very much a case that if our environment isn't streamlined and flowing, then there is this inherent friction that causes overload.
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Heather
It's like white noise sits in the background. It means a constant stressor. So I don't know if that helps you understand where I'm coming from.
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Filly
Yeah, it definitely does. Like when I when we talk about stress, stress, stress can come from anywhere, including, I don't know, like it's something that our ten year old does is she has this habit at the moment where to take her socks off. And they just like it flung anywhere in the house. It's like two little socks always on the ground.
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Filly
But. So you could have. Yeah. So definitely. So if we're thinking about clutter, something else, just as you're chatting about, like, Chris doesn't like our kitchen set up because if we're all in the kitchen, it's like bumping into each other. Like, you know, you try and open at your own. It's like if someone else is opening up the door from the other side, it's like.
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Chris
I'm six foot seven with a seven foot wingspan and my arms hit everything. I, you know, if I was to take a jacket off in a kitchen, there goes a light bulb. If I try and get through somewhere that, you know, there's a something end up on the floor, it's.
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Filly
An end something.
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Chris
Next house we're going to have like a three metre. No, no sink in the in the kitchen counter island. That is just like a, huge industrial Chris size table bench. Oh.
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Filly
And it's. And sometimes you don't know until you've lived into that environment. But the reason why I was just like, reflecting that back is that could be stressful for someone in the same way that, I don't know, like eating a whole block of chocolate is stressful to the body because our stress response is the same regardless of what type of stress it is.
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Filly
So from a holistic approach, you know, when we talk to our clients and we're like working on healing the physical body and the physical parts of them, it is it's like what is stressful? And you know what? It comes off as like a massive one clattering home.
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Heather
And I did start my first port of call when I was thinking, how can I be really helpful to a lot of people? Was decluttering and part of the. So I have a course called Deluxe Reset, like time reset. And the first two things are mindset and their foundational principles. And the very first one, and why it was luxe was because that's my methodology of how I teach people.
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Heather
So it's so simple. It's Elle is full of it. You is for use, an X is for exit. So if you don't love a new something, then it doesn't need to be in your space. And what's happened with being is sort of society that is overconsuming all the time and buying all the time with all the specialities. We end up bringing all of this stuff into a house, but never letting it go or getting rid of it.
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Heather
So decluttering to me is not necessarily about minimalism or getting rid of everything. It's about using what works for you in your current lifestyle. So the very good example is people that move house. So I see this a lot. They'll move house. I put everything in boxes. Six years later, there's probably a garage half full of boxes of stuff that they haven't touched, or they don't know what's there.
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Heather
It's clearly meaningless. Or it's the other thing you get a lot is, is memorabilia. So my hobbies and it's so professional, I play the memorabilia we have is beyond what is normal for anybody, but that's his thing. So we I deal with that in my own way. But, if you had had a parent or someone that passed away and leaves memorabilia, you're not valuing the memory of the person by having it in a box.
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Heather
What I suggest is pick some hero pieces, pick some things that you really love and display those and use those. But similarly with all, it can be as simple as all your kitchen gadgets. You've probably got drawers full of gadgets that you bought that you thought were a good idea at the time, like the old avocado slicer.
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Heather
Know the banana holder or something? And they taking up space. And space is so important because it's real estate and space and real estate are very, very expensive. And it's not just cost, it's time. Cost. And this is my big thing is that I want to get women and people in their homes time back, because the less friction we have, the more time we have.
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Heather
So if you're not having to, you know, as you say, bump into each other ten times a day just getting breakfast, that's going to make life a lot easier. So one thing I do suggest is what I call a breakfast station. So depending on who has what particular breakfast, you actually set up a station with everything that you're going to use for breakfast, it stays there.
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Heather
So it might be tea, coffee and that sort of thing. It might be cereal if you're cereal based person or it might be smoothies if that's that's you go, but that's one thing that is going to help you get out the door quicker if you if you're not working from home. Because that is a huge friction point, is getting up, getting ready and getting out the door in the morning.
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Heather
And it's all the things that the bumping into each other ten times a day that heightens your stress levels before you even start the day. Yeah. So maybe you can implement one of those in your house. Yeah.
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Filly
And so with the station, do you mean you pull everything out and put it on the bench and everyone gets their breakfast? Or is this like a physical thing that's sitting on the bench or inside a cupboard that you kind of pull out and plunk down?
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Heather
Yeah, it really depends on on what you want. So I use a tray that's got all of our tea, coffee making all the things that. So we get up early, we 5:00 rises to get to swim training etc.. So the first thing that having needs is tea and coffee and all that, sort of. So that's all contained in a, a tray that sits permanently on the bench because that's always there.
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Heather
And you can half asleep, you can reach for all that sort of stuff. And then adjacent to that is all the things that we would use typically for breakfast. That's it's not on the bench, it's below the bench. But it's right there where you access it. So the idea of not having to travel distance because distance also takes time and energy.
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Heather
So, McDonald's are very, very clever at designing all of their stations. So their cooking stations, everything so that one person does one job in one position. So it's a maximum efficiency. And I have spent years and years and years testing that efficiency so that they can not necessarily make the best figures. They probably horrible, but they can make them consistently and they can do it in very fast time.
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Heather
There's it's yeah, it's actually a fascinating study on how much, work they did to increase efficiency, because if there's a white time or delay time that reduces the amount of things at that product, they can say, oh, but in a home it's the same thing. We've only got so many hours in a day. So if we spend it looking for where the sizes are, you know, that's that's a stressor to.
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Filly
Yeah, I think that this is helpful because something like a block that some of our clients have is breakfast. It's kind of like I don't have the things that I hear. And I'm like, I think it would be useful to like here if you have systems around, these would be, like, I don't have time. So I think what you just suggested there is a time saver.
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Filly
I but it's so interesting because then they a lot of mums especially will say, oh, but it's like I'll make the kids breakfast and, you know, I'll do up their lunch, but I don't have time to do my breakfast and my lunch. And so then they're skipping meals. Or, you know, just grabbing something like convenience, little snack that's actually not nourishing or fuelling their body.
00:22:13:10 - 00:22:24:01
Filly
Yeah, they probably like the two big ones, I think from a space and end time perspective, sometimes people just don't have an appetite, and that's more a physical thing that we're working on.
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Heather
Yeah. So just another add on to that. So part of the course, I talk about a, a curated wardrobe site getting up in the morning. If you've got to make a decision about what you've got to wear, that for some reason can take ten, 15, 20 minutes, depending on what they doing, if they've got to go to work themselves.
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Heather
So a curated wardrobe is all about having things that mix and match together, that fit, that look good. Say you're not having to make those micro decisions because it's it's the hundreds and thousands of micro decisions we're making before 9 a.m. that's slowing us down. And one tip I have for that is try and put your clothes out the night before, or have them hanging in the spot the night before.
00:23:04:03 - 00:23:28:09
Heather
So the first thing you do, if you're getting up and getting dressed, that that saves you 15, 20 minutes of indecision or micro decisions about what goes with water. What's the weather today? What am I going to feel like that gets into the kitchen 15 minutes faster and then if everything that they're using. So I agree that kids meals could quite be quite different to what their meals are, but should they be?
00:23:28:09 - 00:23:47:20
Heather
If they can standardise that so that everybody's eating the same thing or similar things, then that is a very, very good way to to be more efficient. So in our family we always eat the same thing. There might be variations slightly in dinner time, but we're all eating the same breakfast, which makes it a whole lot easier to get done quickly as well.
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Heather
We have a little system or process for doing that, so that might help some of your clients as well.
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Filly
Yeah. So I mean meal proofing is pretty common to talk about. So that's useful. When you were talking about the wardrobe, I'm like, oh, I kind of like clothes prep what I'm wearing as well. I don't know where I got this from, but I'll usually wear an outfit three times for I wash it. Now some people might be asking Harry's like, oh, you got to wash that every day.
00:24:13:11 - 00:24:35:13
Filly
But I'm like, there's no stains on it. It doesn't smell. I'm going to wear that three days straight and then I'm going to choose my next outfit. So I want it like saves on washing. But also I think it really helps in the morning because I'm like, I know what I'm going to wear because I already decided what I was wearing yesterday and I'm just going to repeat it again.
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Filly
Yeah. That's it. So if you do that or if anyone else does that and I don't know why, it's three, it's just three, three times.
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Heather
Yeah. I don't I don't know whether that number is typical or not. I wouldn't have thought so. But but I know if people are going to work either, if they don't have a uniform, there's always that decision about what's the appropriate thing that I have to wear, because if they might wake up and put casual clothes on, but then they've got to get redressed to go to work.
00:25:00:02 - 00:25:18:06
Heather
So if we can eliminate one of those stages of having to get redressed all the time again, that's that's a big thing. So sometimes if you can think of your wardrobe a bit like setting up uniforms, but not uniforms as in uniform uniform uniforms in things, clothes that will fit and feel good because most people use 20% of their wardrobe if that.
00:25:18:06 - 00:25:32:09
Heather
So the rest is all taking up space, and mostly it's aspirational stuff as well. So the skinny jeans and that I had this in high school and all the rest of it is all sitting there taking up valuable real estate, when if we can clear some of that out, we know that whatever we grab is going to fit.
00:25:32:09 - 00:25:50:13
Heather
It actually doesn't matter if you wear the same thing you wore yesterday or something that's right next to it, at least you know it's going to fit perfectly and you haven't got any of those decision issues. Because as I said, these micro decisions, it's like the clutter, it's a build up. And the more micro decisions we have to make, the more fatigued we are.
00:25:50:13 - 00:26:12:04
Heather
So if you think in the course of a day, you know, we really want the brain to be making decisions about the really important stuff. But at the moment, for most people, it's all the little things that they're having to get through before they get to the big decision. So often the big decisions get pushed out, which is why so many people wake up five years later and go, what just happened with those five years gone?
00:26:12:06 - 00:26:36:18
Filly
Yeah. So for those people who struggle with stuff like whether it's too many clothes or just messy clutter around the house, they're like, next week I'll spring clean, next week I'll spring clean. Like I liked your, What is it? Love it if you love it. If you don't love it, if you use it, exit it.
00:26:36:20 - 00:26:55:02
Filly
Yep. So that's like a nice frame. But for that, do you have any tips in terms of people actually starting to declutter when their brain and body is already feeling very overwhelmed? Because, you know, sometimes it's like every room in the house and it's like, absolutely. And which I.
00:26:55:02 - 00:26:55:15
Heather
Think, I think.
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Filly
You shut down.
00:26:56:20 - 00:27:22:20
Heather
Yeah. Don't don't take it all on, on one spot where my philosophy is totally different to just about everybody else, I believe do something design system, do it once and then it's fixed. Like do it in small bits. So don't take on your whole wardrobe all at once. So Covid and the other thing is, we just don't have time these days to carve out a whole weekend to totally redo our whole house because we got kids born.
00:27:22:20 - 00:27:38:04
Heather
We've got, you know, all the competing themes. So the idea is that we tackle we do it in micro steps. So five minute bursts is what I recommend. And you can do a hell of a lot in five minute burst. And the beautiful thing about the Lux methodology is it gets rid of a lot of the other peripheral things.
00:27:38:04 - 00:27:55:20
Heather
And if we take too long to make decisions, we end up with indecision. So if we love something, if we truly love it and we use it so they can be independent, you can love something that you don't use that often, but it's very sentimentally special. Keep it. But you know, if you use something but you don't necessarily love it.
00:27:55:20 - 00:28:20:06
Heather
Like we might not love half the utensils we have in our kitchen, but if we're using them, then that's enough reason to keep it. So if you combine those two things together and everything else is the ex, get rid of it. It is a very, very simple, quick first pass. And the problem is if people don't get through that quick first pass, then it's that, oh, but I might weigh that again or I might use it again on any fly gave it to me.
00:28:20:08 - 00:28:41:01
Heather
So my recommendation is start with something simple. So say it's a drawer, say it's simply utensils drawer in the kitchen. Pull everything out. Just go. What am I actually using two piles and then put it back and say this is where these leaves. So X marks the spot. So the second part of the philosophy, the likes philosophy is the organisation.
00:28:41:05 - 00:28:59:13
Heather
So that is like things together used where, where they are where they're stored. And X is the spot where they stay. So for example, if your kitchen tongs or your scissors are in the second drawer, that's where they're going to leave from now on. Centimetre. Anyone in the family always knows that the scissors leaving the second drawer.
00:28:59:17 - 00:29:16:01
Filly
That is the. That is a problem with our children. It's like a new kitchen scissors, which you also get used as craft and everything else. So I mean like actually as I'm saying that I'm like, that could be these, these are kitchen ones. They must go back into the kitchen cupboard and they are only used in a kitchen.
00:29:16:03 - 00:29:22:10
Filly
Kids, you little pink ones, they're craft ones. They don't go into the kitchen. They go into your. You're covered.
00:29:22:12 - 00:29:47:12
Chris
I'm gonna I'm gonna zip tie the kitchen scissors to the drawer. I'm going to chain them and lock it because they go on walkabout and I'm never seen again. If I reckon we would have purchased many scissors when we, when we leave this house, there's going to be some sort of treasure. Treasure trove of scissors just down the back of the couch or something.
00:29:47:12 - 00:29:53:08
Filly
Well, I get really excited when I find a pair that we haven't seen for three months and like, oh my gosh, it's back.
00:29:53:08 - 00:30:05:07
Chris
I just had a look in my little, my, I've got like all my pens that I use and I usually put my offices. Yeah. And again my scissors are not in there.
00:30:05:09 - 00:30:16:11
Heather
Duh. But the other part to these that people get tripped up with, they think that kids are, kids are the source of all, all things evil. And too often say, oh, it is, it is that case.
00:30:16:11 - 00:30:18:13
Filly
But you have to train the.
00:30:18:15 - 00:30:38:10
Heather
They are trainable. And the thing is, they were kids actually really like tidy spaces and they like order so like systems. And when they clutter and things around so depending on the age of the child, a really good thing is to use pictures for the younger children or words for the older children and have the box. So your craft box everything up to thing.
00:30:38:10 - 00:31:03:17
Heather
And the other thing I recommend is micro resets and these happen during the day. So say for example the kids are doing crafts might be said after me. The kids are doing crafts. When that's finished, everything goes away. That's the key to it because as things get lived out, that's where things build up. And if everything to do with craft goes back in the craft box, then you'll know where to find it next time the craft box goes back in that spot.
00:31:03:17 - 00:31:29:01
Heather
So it's very much about, muscle. So we have muscle memory, but we also have mind memory. And mind memory is about where things come from. And go back to if you trained or if you've got an allocated spot to it. It makes the decision process so much easier. So again, it takes it a little more hard decisions and it saves you the half an hour of looking for a pair of scissors because scissors are one of those common things that nobody can ever find really.
00:31:29:03 - 00:31:48:09
Heather
And, I only have a pair craft scissors and a pair of, like, kitchen scissors, but they always go back because, yeah, I, I get pretty angry. If they I go back, I pick up and see them, but usually it's like, oh yeah, I've still got them. So they that's the trick to it. The X marks the spot where they leave and they go back there.
00:31:48:13 - 00:31:53:15
Heather
So that's a really big learning one for people that are having trouble finding the scissors. Yeah.
00:31:53:16 - 00:31:55:20
Filly
Yeah I like it.
00:31:55:22 - 00:32:00:00
Chris
I think we need that. We need an X marks the spot thing for the scissors for.
00:32:00:00 - 00:32:25:11
Filly
Sure I think. Sorry. And on the other side, like our girls have just recently, probably in the last year, just developed a lot of pride in their bedroom in terms of, like, decorating it. And part of that too is like our youngest has a is it a 912 cube shelf? And she's got like every little shelf is a section.
00:32:25:13 - 00:32:28:11
Chris
This is the same one that throws her her socks on the ground.
00:32:28:11 - 00:32:49:21
Filly
Yes. Sorry. So she's created it. She has a lot of pride in it and she follows it. Whereas like I think about in the kids room where if you open up that there's just like things in there, I think I created that system for them. They kind of like, I'm like, you have to do these. Sorry. As you're talking, I'm like, why is it working in her bedroom?
00:32:49:21 - 00:33:07:01
Filly
But not elsewhere? Because I actually feel like she needs to create it and have some sort of pride in ownership. That and we can do this as a thing. It's like, hey, where she is, is we've what makes sense for you.
00:33:07:03 - 00:33:27:02
Heather
So ownership is a huge thing. And what we've got to appreciate too is the kids changed so rapidly. It was only five minutes ago that were in crowns on the floor and, doing dress ups. And now particularly girls seem to mature a bit earlier and all of a sudden that goes from not caring what anything look like to being extremely proud of your bedroom and how you look yourself.
00:33:27:04 - 00:33:47:09
Heather
So it is a changing age. And that's probably given the age of you two children. That's probably the biggest difference. But the other thing that I think a lot of parents, they get angry and they might yell or they might might tell the kids that they have to do everything, but it actually works a lot better if you get in and help them yourself, say, right, we've got 15 minutes, we've got half an hour, we've got five minutes.
00:33:47:09 - 00:34:12:00
Heather
Whatever your timeframe is, let's go through this and work out how to make this better. And the starting point for me always is in an ideal world. Or if in your wildest imagination, what what would be the perfect thing for this cabinet, for this room, for this whatever. What's your dream about how this would work? Oh, well, I really want to have a area that's got my dolls or this has got something around that, say, often with the cubes.
00:34:12:00 - 00:34:33:19
Heather
I love the cube storage because they can also be, theatrical because my son's running into Lego. So some of the little holes are actually where he's got these amazing Lego creations stored like a little diorama. Yeah, I know, that's like, no. Yeah, yeah, it might be a box full of, I don't know, cars or something. Yeah. But, they are absolutely exceptional because over time they can change.
00:34:33:19 - 00:34:50:05
Heather
And also their hearts change. Say in terms of little kids, you need to have the things behind appropriate. So as kids get older it becomes less of a thing. But particularly for small children, if it's not height appropriate or if it's difficult to do, like if it's a box with a lead that they struggle with, they're never going to put something back.
00:34:50:11 - 00:35:09:02
Heather
So, as you say, like an open box within a cube. So those purpose made sized ones are brilliant because you can just to and it makes tying up easier. You can just try things into that, slot it back and all of a sudden it looks neat and tidy. So I reckon maybe have a little conversation and do a little room makeover with it.
00:35:09:04 - 00:35:22:17
Heather
The other thing to do is a reward system at the end. So if we were to tidy up your home room, what would you really like? And it would be something on it might be a mirror that I can dance in front of, or it be something that you've never thought of. That is what they really want for that space.
00:35:22:17 - 00:35:31:18
Filly
Yeah, I love that kit. What about digital clutter? Is that something? Oh, yeah. You look at dig into it.
00:35:31:20 - 00:35:55:09
Heather
Yeah. So digital I relate is massive in our society at the moment. And I just finished doing a digital reset course just for your phone because people don't realise that you find is effectively your operating system these days. And that is cluttered. I mean, most people have hundreds of apps now and notifications pinging and their home screens are missed.
00:35:55:09 - 00:35:56:18
Heather
They can't find photos and.
00:35:56:21 - 00:36:03:09
Filly
Some of them have paid as well. So their credit card is just like Apple $4.49. What is that?
00:36:03:13 - 00:36:08:15
Heather
What is that? Is that? And so the.
00:36:08:17 - 00:36:20:02
Filly
Little laugh, what would it be that we had a conversation like looking through all the expenses? It's like there's a lot of like Netflix, Apple subscriptions. What's going on there?
00:36:20:04 - 00:36:33:05
Heather
Texted me, pressed the wrong button or I said yes to that. But, I got caught one the other day that I downloaded. It was an efficiency thing for your phone. And I was like, oh, this is great. And then it was, there was some fine print that said, in seven days you will be charged 1499 a week.
00:36:33:05 - 00:36:54:21
Heather
I'm like, that's a lot a week just to organise my home screen, which I could take. It's easy to get caught, I totally understand, but the trigger for this one was as I was in a group, a networking group of women that, we're doing, that they had other businesses, but they did a lot of online stuff, and we were talking about trying to get information together for social media, and we all had these chaotic, absolutely crazy camera rolls.
00:36:54:21 - 00:37:13:20
Heather
Say, you want to get some B-roll footage or put something together to to create something for social media. And it takes you longer to find the file that you want than to to create the actual social media themselves. So, the that we always took us through, to an idea about how to reorganise in five days and we all went away and did it and came back next week.
00:37:13:20 - 00:37:31:18
Heather
I mean, I kind of feel so myself, and I'm so organised of a scale because I'm just so damn organised. And so that was the start of it. And I was like, right, well, I've got some. As an architect, I can design some systems and processes to make it easy. So there's five different things that we reset in the digital reset, which gives you a very organised find.
00:37:31:20 - 00:37:51:11
Heather
Three organised home screens, done in a way so that you effectively like when you walk into a hotel, you've got front of house and you've got your back of house and, and your lifestyle all intertwined. So it's based on architectural concept of how we can make our digital world reflect the calmness that we're looking for in our everyday life.
00:37:51:14 - 00:37:57:08
Filly
Yeah. Can you give some examples of what that looks like to change up the phone?
00:37:57:10 - 00:38:03:20
Heather
Oh, yeah. Yeah. So, apps a like a wardrobe. Yeah. I would bring things in an anything and then one.
00:38:03:20 - 00:38:05:16
Filly
Down there with that.
00:38:05:18 - 00:38:27:19
Heather
Yeah, yeah. So, one of the resets that we do is going through apps working at what you, you not using again the love user or exit. We're probably only using a handful of apps. And again, that's getting rid of a whole bunch of clutter because if we don't declutter first and this is what I've found, if you organise what you've already got, all you're doing is organising clutter.
00:38:27:21 - 00:38:46:02
Heather
So the first step always has to be the decluttering or stripping back to what you really need and what you really use. And then you organised. A lot of people make the mistake of doing that, try and doing that in reverse. So they go and buy all the fancy baskets and Bible that fails and whistles, but all you're doing is you're shuffling the cups effectively.
00:38:46:02 - 00:39:17:09
Heather
You've got to deal with the problem first. And so it's making that decision. So again, we run it through that same filter of the love it easy to get rid of an exit. And that all of a sudden we can type, I don't know, 150 200 apps probably down to I mean we still probably using 40 to 50 apps if we've got banking apps and authenticator apps and all the like, but then that organised into three simple home screens where you have, lifestyle business and then all the admin stuff all beautifully organised.
00:39:17:09 - 00:39:31:23
Heather
It's like, this is, you know, where you're going to find your medical benefits, log in or you bank log in or. Yeah, or the kids the when the kids want to play big games, that'll be in a certain section. So again it's that same logic put to you phone.
00:39:31:23 - 00:40:00:13
Filly
Yeah I think the apps like deleting apps. Personally I find that a lot easier emotionally because it's like, well, I can delete it. But also if I find that, you know what, I actually really need that, or I need it for one time a year, it's pretty easy just to download it again, as opposed to sometimes when it's like a material thing where it's like, that's such a beautiful dress, but I've only one once to an awards ceremony, but I haven't worn it for five years.
00:40:00:15 - 00:40:17:17
Heather
But so my filter for use is once a week or once a month. Yeah, that's that's usually it. So if you're using something once a month, you're using it 12 times a year. And I think that's valid. That's enough use to keep it. But if you are using it once every five years you think of the cost.
00:40:17:17 - 00:40:36:21
Heather
If you were paying rent on the real estate that that's taking out. And I always say this to commercial clients, I'm like, they're like, oh, but I'll have to have my filing cabinet. I'm saying, okay. So that's effectively by the time the sliding doors come out, that's effectively a square metre of space. So in the middle of Sydney they could be paying, you know, $3,000 a year per square metre for that.
00:40:36:21 - 00:40:45:12
Heather
I said, is that worth it? Is that filing cabinet worth it or could we digitise it? Could we do something else or have a different storage arrangement. So it always comes back to time and money.
00:40:45:17 - 00:40:46:16
Filly
Yeah.
00:40:46:18 - 00:41:07:06
Chris
That's a really cool way of looking at it, like attaching your cost value to it and then also thinking about once a year, once a month, sorry, once a month, once a once a week, kind of thing. There's a few things that I'm thinking of that as you've been talking. I don't need them all the time.
00:41:07:06 - 00:41:21:01
Chris
Like, I'm just picturing cables because we had a box of cables that were sitting in a in the kitchen. Not in the in the dining room kind of area, just on the edge. And I was just in the.
00:41:21:01 - 00:41:21:22
Filly
Middle of.
00:41:22:00 - 00:41:50:00
Chris
Renovating our office stack when when we moved, when we came back from holidays, our a like we're talking on right now, blue. There was a power surge. And so I had to like scramble for tech stuff and having a having a box of crud that like just I, I don't need it all the time, but thank goodness I've got it so that when something like this happens, I can like, call on a spare, you know?
00:41:50:00 - 00:41:55:01
Chris
But but this sort of stuff for me, organising.
00:41:55:03 - 00:42:00:12
Filly
With all the cords though, like, how do I do you just know it or do you need to put a little.
00:42:00:14 - 00:42:22:14
Chris
Label on it or nothing. Okay, well I, I what I did, I did at one point have like little packets for things like and put it all in. I'm just like man this is bull crap. This is taking forever. And now I'm just like, I do this, where am I a big screen? I'm like, whoosh, bush lid that that works better for me, I think.
00:42:22:14 - 00:42:25:16
Chris
But click clear top. So I know like what.
00:42:25:18 - 00:42:27:10
Filly
On earth pulling them all out.
00:42:27:12 - 00:42:44:20
Chris
Yeah yeah I got that out of a book. Organisation Tips for ADHD or something like that. And it was. Yeah. And clear hubs. The reason I went and bought the clear tubs is cause I'm like, yeah, I do that. I like, pull things out and then I just.
00:42:45:01 - 00:42:46:10
Filly
It's just another start.
00:42:46:10 - 00:42:47:22
Chris
Back in there.
00:42:48:00 - 00:42:53:20
Filly
To find the things. You don't know what books it's in. So then the clean tub is actually interesting.
00:42:53:21 - 00:43:14:14
Heather
I say just about all the organisation I recommend, other than maybe like your kid's cube where you can put a label or a picture on it just depends. Yeah. It husband is clear containers. So particularly in the kitchen and pantry. So for another one I probably would like to touch on is food waste. So food waste is huge in all over the world and is totally preventable.
00:43:14:16 - 00:43:24:22
Heather
And most of that is to do with the fact that we design these huge pantries for no good purpose whatsoever. Other than to hoard cans till they title expire and rust. And you know,
00:43:25:00 - 00:43:25:13
Filly
And.
00:43:25:14 - 00:43:47:06
Heather
We just don't need to consume that much. So clear boxes and so this is a good one for your listeners that struggle with too much, too many things, whatever the size of the containers that you're using. So to give you an idea, my canned food isn't about that much. About that much. So to be half a metre by 250, say, all the canned food that I store is in there.
00:43:47:08 - 00:44:05:01
Heather
And the reason being is you just don't need 2017, some canned tomatoes and pasta sauce and whatever, because it just sits there and goes out of diet. And if you only have a contained space, anything extra is overflow. And when you've used something, you know, then you've got to replace it. And there's also what retailers do, which is pull things forward.
00:44:05:01 - 00:44:25:22
Heather
So as you use something, pull everything else forward so that you're rotating it through. Same thing applies in your fridge. I teach zones in fridges and that is to about preventing food rise because you can see what you've got. So we tend to overbuy we tend to go to the supermarket and buy exactly what we've got in the fridge, exactly what we've got in the cupboard, because we haven't got an inventory or we don't know what we've already got.
00:44:26:03 - 00:44:46:18
Heather
So again, I say eat, eat from your cupboards before you go to shopping. See if you can make up even some crazy meals. Great thing to do is just put into Google a chat about, ingredients and put four really random ingredients and see what recipes it comes up with. And nine times out of ten, those four core ingredients will make something pretty cool that you hadn't thought of before.
00:44:46:18 - 00:45:08:20
Heather
So, 881 like that before you go shopping and before you buy. Because in this country, thankfully, we've got programs where the supermarkets are now, things that are on the edge of being out of date are being put to good use by feeding people that can't necessarily afford to buy it. But as we go on and our economic times and things get tighter and tighter, there's no need to panic.
00:45:08:20 - 00:45:18:03
Heather
Buy tins of tomatoes that you're not going to use and it'll just sit in the back of the cupboard. I'm sure people have still got things in their pantry from Covid.
00:45:18:05 - 00:45:42:12
Filly
Yeah. I mean, look, if someone wants to do, like, a food storage thing, I think the same system still applies, though. It's kind of like, you know what? Pull it from the food storage and put it into your daily stuff or the weekly things that you eat. And if you want to, replenish the food storage, it's still a rotation.
00:45:42:14 - 00:45:43:15
Filly
Yeah.
00:45:43:17 - 00:46:05:19
Heather
The other thing that's really handy is, a kids snack box at their height. So particularly for little kids or so that it teaches them, that they can go and get their own food. So it might you might have a bowl of fruit, for example, next to whatever else that they're snacking on. It might be muesli bars, whatever it is that they're taking, but have it at their height so that they can come and feed themselves when they need to.
00:46:05:21 - 00:46:24:00
Heather
It teaches them independence and it teaches them, resilience in terms of they know they never going to starve because they've always got to think. And it's the same thing. You just rotate that through, and work out what they like and what you deem is healthy enough, then do it so they're not grabbing for chips or whatever might be in the pantry.
00:46:24:00 - 00:46:27:20
Heather
That is special occasion traits that they get access to when they're not supposed to.
00:46:27:23 - 00:46:48:22
Filly
Yeah, I think the most helpful thing that has become a really good system for me when I come to shop food is like I am buying the same things every week and so it's all on, like my with online store, it's like, do I need more of that? Yes. Am I still going with that? No, don't get that one this week.
00:46:49:00 - 00:47:11:14
Filly
And so like it takes a little time to think about it. And and also and any someone struggling with this are struggling with meal planning then it's like getting to know what recipes and meals that you and your family really like. And just like rinse and repeat. You don't have to get fancy. You don't have to do something new every single time you make something.
00:47:11:14 - 00:47:35:12
Filly
So that's kind of like how I shop. It's like, I know that these core ingredients are going to make our ten favourite meals. And if I want to do something a bit extra, then, you know, that's where I'll buy something different. Otherwise it's kind of like, I mean, that's happened over years, but it's like a system that I've followed that works, that doesn't happen overnight.
00:47:35:12 - 00:47:50:03
Filly
But now shopping and cooking and meal planning requires probably like five minutes a week to purchase all this stuff and go and then go and pick it up.
00:47:50:05 - 00:47:51:11
Chris
You do it with Lrrk2.
00:47:51:15 - 00:47:54:00
Filly
And I do it with our youngest. So which is kind of cool too.
00:47:54:00 - 00:48:06:04
Chris
The socks, the Sock Girl slash cubicle one does the shopping. She's, going through this podcast. It's made me think like she's she's a she's funny.
00:48:06:09 - 00:48:08:23
Filly
She's she's she's got some things.
00:48:08:23 - 00:48:10:02
Chris
Got some little things.
00:48:10:04 - 00:48:29:11
Filly
But it's good too, because when, when I'm, when I'm ordering it online, we start. So Elsie and I, we start with the phrase or it's like, what do we need in the freezer? And like, you know, now is all the things that go on to the list. And she's like, frozen peas are okay, mom. Fridge. Oh, don't forget the kombucha because I always forget about like, and butcher.
00:48:29:11 - 00:48:35:18
Filly
So it's like. Thanks, Elsie. And it is, it's just so seamless and it's lovely.
00:48:35:18 - 00:48:53:02
Chris
And she actually helped, like. Because because you work nights quite a few times and there's been a lot of times where I can be like, hey, have we got blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And she's like, yeah, let me check, let me go check and should just jump up. And sure, she takes ownership for it. So she's very she's into it.
00:48:53:04 - 00:48:53:17
Filly
Yeah.
00:48:53:19 - 00:48:54:22
Chris
Oh he's got some in the garden.
00:48:54:22 - 00:49:24:06
Heather
Dad, you've just embodied exactly what I've been talking about. That is that is point pointing case of the system and how it works, and how that, in turn, is helping your whole family and setting her up really well for her future. So when she does me bad at home, she'll have a system and process to follow. There's a really big issue with kids at the moment, becoming adults and and not having the skills, the adulting skills and simple things like these are really great systems for kids to be able to follow.
00:49:24:08 - 00:49:37:12
Heather
In the future, my son knows snack will be saying, you need to put sounds on the list, because I was a bit hungry the other day, and I actually quite a few actually did a lot of swimming training, so I had some extra snacks and better refill wise because I know I'm going to be hungry again tomorrow.
00:49:37:13 - 00:49:56:14
Heather
Okay. Got it. Yeah. But yeah, that's exactly what I'm saying. Build the system once, get it working, and then move on. So again, what I'd encourage your listeners to do would be look in your home for friction points. So what is causing you an issue? Is it getting in the front door or is it having all the bags strewn everywhere and shoes everywhere and coats everywhere?
00:49:56:16 - 00:50:17:09
Heather
Just tackle little things one step at a time and get get them sorted and then move on. So it's a snowball effect. It's like compounding interest rate money. You start with a little bit and keep going. And over time it might take two months, it might take six months, it might take 12 months. But as a system to set up and as a work thing, that's one less thing you've got to worry about.
00:50:17:09 - 00:50:32:20
Heather
And again, if you system's not quite working, then, tinker with it because your family's going to be different to my family, and what works for you might not work for me, but it's what I'm all about is making your home work for you and with you not stressing.
00:50:32:20 - 00:50:33:15
Filly
Yeah.
00:50:33:17 - 00:50:45:12
Chris
Think so. So to take that advice, like the socks on the floor really is the, the friction point. And out of the things that we've been talking today like. But that's Elsie has not had.
00:50:45:14 - 00:50:48:00
Filly
Mind too much. I think it's cute.
00:50:48:02 - 00:51:06:02
Chris
But that's not true because when, when, when it comes time to clean, it's like, okay guys. Oh yeah. So so the system but that's our system. She hasn't got the system. She hasn't had any input into that. And so guess what. Her socks are on the floor. Her jumpers on the other side of the floor and her shoes.
00:51:06:07 - 00:51:17:19
Chris
And the other part of this is like these little Hansel and Gretel. Like, you can tell where else he's gone when she's come home, because it's like a little trail of clothing. Breadcrumbs.
00:51:17:22 - 00:51:32:13
Heather
Yeah, yeah. My my son was exactly the same. And so I said to him, look, this is stressing me out because every time you drop something, I've got to bend down and pick it up, and I've got to take it somewhere and do something with it. So what he does now comes home from school, work straight to the washing machine.
00:51:32:13 - 00:51:46:00
Heather
Socks go straight in the washing machine. If he comes off, it goes in the washing machine. He goes and get everyone things or is in the washing machine. And if it doesn't quite make it because he's trying it from a distance and it's on the floor next to the washing machine, at least it's at the washing machine. Yes.
00:51:46:02 - 00:51:47:17
Filly
It's like flicking.
00:51:47:17 - 00:51:48:13
Chris
That's awesome.
00:51:48:16 - 00:52:14:04
Filly
Yeah, that's I love it. Thank you. Sorry. Yeah. This has been awesome. Hey, so many like, practical things that people can implement straight away, even if it's just one. Now, if someone's listening and they're feeling overwhelmed and it's like there's so many, they just choose one thing like what's what's the one thing that Heather's talked about that would just be like a really easy, quick win to start building some momentum.
00:52:14:06 - 00:52:27:23
Heather
And the quick takeaway for everyone, your car keys, because they seem to be a really big problem, put them in a little basket to contain is somewhere near your entry, and always return them to that place, because car keys seem to be one of those bag bays. Everyone wins.
00:52:28:01 - 00:52:28:23
Filly
Okay, so.
00:52:29:01 - 00:52:31:16
Heather
Stuff the car keys and then work through from there.
00:52:31:19 - 00:52:37:04
Filly
I like that they always go straight back into my, my bag and even my kids. It's really.
00:52:37:04 - 00:52:42:20
Chris
Funny. So vinyl literally just sitting right next to me on the table.
00:52:42:22 - 00:52:43:19
Heather
Yeah.
00:52:43:21 - 00:52:59:20
Filly
So now you've got some, some gifts for, listeners, and there's a free download, the let go filter. And then you've also gifted our listeners a discount code for the Luxe Digital Reset. Can you talk about those two things?
00:52:59:22 - 00:53:18:05
Heather
Yeah. So the Lego filter is if they get stuck with the lock thing and that was they're having trouble because something sentimental, it's just a really quick Google. So I've just guide you through some steps and I've even got there's a free download there. If they really, really stuck some scripts to help them let go to talk to the.
00:53:18:05 - 00:53:33:05
Heather
I know this going to sound a little bit weird, but sometimes if it's really sentimental and you can thank the thing for doing it, I've made it to do and give, give it on. Yeah. So the let go filter will talk you through the basics, and then if you're still stuck and you need the scripts then there's those as well.
00:53:33:05 - 00:53:58:09
Heather
So that's just to help them. So part of my likes I'm Reset course is actually another mini course called the Luxe Declutter Kickstart. And that talks through all of the psychological issues of pain points to help people get unstuck if they if they really are having troubles with things. But this is just a little freebie and nice and easy, filter system to enable people to move on to the next step, because I want to just keep people moving.
00:53:58:09 - 00:54:25:17
Heather
I don't want them to get stuck anywhere. And the, digital declutter is for your phone. And so I've saved $50 off that. So it's normally $97. It's $50 discount if you use the coupon codes I go through the checkout, add the coupon code, find 50 and that will give me $50 off. So I think that's a nice, easy way to start for people because we use our phone 100 times a day and it works in a logical progression of starting with the easy things and working through to the slightly more difficult things, finishing off with your calendar.
00:54:25:17 - 00:54:41:09
Heather
So that is a great way to set your boundaries for what you, have in your life and to see how balanced your life is in terms of colouring you calendar so that you can see whether you've got a nice, balanced life where things are a little off kilter in in one area or the other. So yeah.
00:54:41:09 - 00:54:48:19
Heather
So hopefully, you've got some value out of all the things that we've gone through today and that your listeners can get some value as well.
00:54:48:21 - 00:54:57:20
Filly
And I'll make sure those links are in the show notes, and I assume that that will take you to your website as well. If people want to find out about what are you in those other courses that you enjoy.
00:54:57:22 - 00:55:08:18
Heather
So luxury sitcom nice and easy and, just remember that the locks method and, okay. To keep you going, it's out of the video.
00:55:09:00 - 00:55:11:12
Filly
Thank you so much.
00:55:11:14 - 00:55:12:22
Chris
Thank you.
00:55:13:00 - 00:55:17:13
Heather
No worries.
00:55:17:15 - 00:55:27:17
Filly
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00:55:27:19 - 00:55:46:02
Chris
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