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Getting to Good Enough

Getting to Good Enough

A podcast about overcoming perfectionism so you can do more of what you love. Your hosts are: Janine Adams, a Certified Professional Organizer, who is naturally good at good enough and Shannon Wilkinson, a Life Coach and recovering perfectionist who is learning to be better at good enough. Together they share tips, techniques and stories from their organizing and coaching practices, as well as their own lives, to help you find more peace, have less angst and take more action.

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Episode 14: Evening Routines

Getting to Good Enough ·

2018/08/30

Evening routines set you up for success the next day. Shannon has a well-practiced evening routine she thinks of as "putting the house to bed." In this episode, Shannon and Janine discuss the value of evening routines and how they can make your life easier. Discussion topics include: • Shannon's ease-filled evening routine • How putting her house to bed gives • Shannon peace of mind • Janine’s end-of-the-workday routine • How evening routines can make your mornings easier • Ideas for things you

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Episode 13: Overcommitting

Getting to Good Enough ·

2018/08/23

Being overcommitted often means being stressed. In this episode, Janine and Shannon suggest the hazards of overcommitting and ways to keep yourself from overcommitting. (Including ways to just say no.) They also discuss the value of building a buffer into your life. Discussion topics include: • How Janine lived an overcommitted life for a few stressful years • Tips for responding to invitations to help • How to create that all-important buffer • How overcommitting contributed to Shannon’s chronic

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Episode 12: Procrastination

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2018/08/16

Virtually everyone procrastinates at one time or another. In fact, both Shannon and Janine used to be terrible procrastinators. In this episode we take a look at the various reasons people procrastinate and offer up some strategies for overcoming procrastination. Discussion topics include: • How procrastination differs from waiting or postponing • The four productivity blocks (i.e. reasons you procrastinate) that Shannon has identified • Strategies for overcoming each of these productivity

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Episode 11: Morning Routines

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2018/08/09

The routine things we do every morning can help shape our day. Janine is the queen of morning routines while Shannon strives for a better one. In this episode Shanon and Janine discuss the hows and whys of building a strong morning routine. Discussion topics include: • Janine’s very established morning routine • How Shannon's kitten, Cleo, is helping her create a new morning routine • Linking new habits to old habits to create a routine • Deciding what to put in your morning routine (hint: start

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Episode 10: {GEIP} The Brain Hat

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2018/08/02

Janine and Shannon have decided that each episode that ends in a zero will be a Good Enough In Practice {GEIP} episode, where we talk about something that demonstrates how embracing good enough is helping (or could help) one of us. This week, Janine talks about the knitted Brain Hat she started making for a friend to wear in the March for Science in April 2017. Perfectionism took over and she stopped working on it. This bright pink hat sat in her dining room on a styrofoam head for nearly a year

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Episode 9: Luck Favors the Prepared

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2018/07/26

Shannon and Janine discuss luck -- the good kind -- and how a "good enough" attitude can help make you more aware and able to take advantage of opportunities that show themselves. We also talk about ways you can improve your luck. Discussion topics include: • The Incredibles • Janine's mother's funeral (both of which are relevant to the topic!) • The importance of being willing to fail • How anxiety around perfectionism can make you unlucky • Luck school (raise your hand if you want Shannon to

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Episode 8: You Be You

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2018/07/19

We all do things differently--and that's okay. In this episode Shannon and Janine talk about how it doesn't matter how you do things, as long as your way is working. Discussion topics include: • Why comparing yourself to others isn't helpful • How it's your own standards (not your mother's or the media's) that matter • Dispelling some myths about professional organizers and life coaches • "Faking it until you make it" (or not) • Janine's freak out when she invited a group of professional

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Episode 7: What Is Good Enough?

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2018/07/12

It's hard to know how to stop at good enough if you haven't identified what good enough means to you. Shannon and Janine discuss why it's important to understand your own standards of good enough--and how those standards are very personal. Discussion topics include: • How standards can vary depending on the importance of what you’re working on •How living with teenagers has caused Shannon to embrace a different standard of good enough in terms of housekeeping (spoiler alert: the word “botulism” is

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Episode 6: Task Management

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2018/07/05

Shannon and Janine get excited talking about task management and the various methods we've used over the years to stay happy and productive while trying to get stuff done. Discussion topics include: • Mark Forster's task management systems • Todoist, which we're both customizing to our needs • The importance of writing down tasks • Using Post-it® Notes to keep track of tasks • The value of shaking up your system * To-do List Bingo

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Episode 5: Good Enough In Practice

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2018/06/28

Janine and Shannon truly embraced the concept of "good enough" when creating this podcast. In this episode we talk about how we went from idea to launch in less than two months (with five episodes recorded!). It's been a great lesson for us on the value of letting go of perfectionism. We let it be easy when it came to: • Choosing the podcasting app we use to produce the podcast • Selecting topics • Selecting the name of the podcast • Deciding what had to be in place before we could launch •

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Episode 4: Self-Talk

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2018/06/21

What is that little voice in your head telling you? Self-talk can be positive, but all too often it's negative and not at all helpful. Shannon and Janine discuss turning the negative self-talk around so that it's actually helpful. Other topics include: • Using self-talk to your advantage • How to minimize the impact of negative self-talk • The epic After School Special, "The Amazing Cosmic Awareness of Duffy Moon" and how it relates to self-talk • Shannon's rant against the word "deserve"

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Episode 3: Backsliding

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2018/06/14

Everyone backslides. Shannon and Janine see it all the time in their clients (and we experience it ourselves, too). In this episode we discuss how backsliding is part of the process and how important it is to be kind to yourself when it happens. Other topics include: •What to do if you backslide • How to avoid backsliding in the future (spoiler alert: daily habits can be really helpful) • Janine's effort to get back into Todoist after backsliding with it • How being kind to yourself is good self

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Episode 2: Rewards

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2018/06/14

Janine and Shannon discuss the how helpful it is to reward yourself for progress (as opposed to success). When you reward accomplishing steps along the way to achieving your goal, you keep yourself motivated. Rewarding yourself will help you do more in the long run. Our discussion touches on: • Why we don’t have to suffer to succeed. • Creating a doable to-do list (and why that’s important) • Coming up with ways to reward yourself • The value of taking a break

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Episode 1: Done Is Better Than Perfect

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2018/06/13

Our first episode! Shannon and Janine talk about a basic tenet of embracing good enough: the idea that done is better than perfect. We talk about how getting started and finishing something--even if the result is less than perfect--is so much better than waiting for perfect to come along. Included in the conversation: • How perfectionism can keep you from getting started on a project. • How being willing to make mistakes makes getting to good enough possible. • Strategies for letting go of

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