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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 214: Hydrate or Die

Getting to Good Enough ·

2022/07/28

We have all heard how important it is to stay hydrated. But for some of us, taking in the water our bodies need can feel challenging. This week, Janine and Shanon discuss some strategies for getting and staying hydrated. Discussion topics include: •How hydration is important year-round • The origin of this week's episode title • The importance of sipping water frequently, rather than chugging a lot of water at once • How the amount of water you need depends on various factors, like how active you

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Episode 213: Relieving Stress

Getting to Good Enough ·

2022/07/21

We all get stressed from time to time, and some times are worse than others. In this episode Shannon and Janine discuss some stress-relief techniques, as well as some ideas for keeping stress levels low. Discussion topics include: • Janine's litany of things that are stressing her out right now • Shannon's husband's recent surgery and its resulting stress • How we feel stress in our bodies • Chronic vs acute stress • The terrific talk on stress relief that Janine heard from Kathy Willis of Lewis

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Episode 212: A Little at a Time

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2022/07/14

Shannon's robust meal-planning and food inventorying system that she shared in Episode 209 wasn't created in one fell swoop. In this episode we discuss how incremental problem solving can help you create systems that make you happy. Discussion topics include: • Monarch butterflies! • How complex systems are often built a little at a time • How incremental problem solving led to Shannon's system of inventorying her pantry and freezer and her meal-planning Trello board • A flashback to Deal A Meal •

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Episode 211: Running Early

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2022/07/07

Do you have a tendency to run late? Shannon and Janine used to run perpetually late, but no more. This week we discuss the strategies we've used to go from tardy to early (or at least on time). Discussion topics include: • Our past challenges with punctuality • How perfectionism played into it • Taking into account all the time it takes to get somewhere (door to door) • Building in a 15-minute buffer in order to get places on time with ease • The life-changing value of calendar alerts • How easy

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Episode 210: Enjoying Reading

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2022/06/30

Janine and Shannon love reading novels for pleasure and we have found ways to fit it into our busy lives. If you like to read but don't seem to have time to read as much as you'd like, this episode might give you some ideas for squeezing in some enjoyable reading. Discussion topics include: • Our usual complaining about summer weather • Reading: A great activity no matter what the weather • Getting lost in a good book • Our reading habits and frequency (we both read at least once a day) • Reading

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Episode 209: Meal Planning

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2022/06/23

What's for dinner? Wouldn't you like to have a ready answer for that question? Shannon is living the meal planning dream and in this episode she and Janine talk about the benefits of meal planning and how Shannon goes about doing it. Be ready to be inspired! Discussion topics include: • Janine's challenges with meal planning (which revolve around the fact she doesn't cook) • Shannon's helpful husband, Mike • How Shannon's meal planning makes her week better • Planning shopping as well as meals •

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Episode 208: A Fourth Pillar for Our Fourth Year

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2022/06/16

It's the podcast's fourth anniversary! We published our first three episodes on June 15, 2018. On our third anniversary, we published a post called Three Pillars for Three years and this year we decided to add a fourth pillar for our fourth anniversary. It's Let It Be Easy, and it's focus of our episode today. Discussion topics include: • Our fourth anniversary! • The three pillars of good enough that we identified for our third anniversary • The supreme value of knowing your why • The "fruit and

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Episode 207: Everyday Eldercare

Getting to Good Enough ·

2022/06/09

Shannon and Janine have experienced first-hand the challenges (and rewards) of caring for elderly parents. In this episode (recorded right after Janine returned from helping her father move into assisted living), we discuss ways to make it easier to help your elderly relatives when they need your help. Note: We had some audio difficulties with this episode, but felt the topic was important enough to publish anyway. Discussion topics include: • Janine's journey with her father's diminishing

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Episode 206: Financial Peace (Redux)

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2022/06/02

Back in 2020, Janine and Shannon had a robust conversation about our passion for the budgeting software You Need a Budget (YNAB). Our enthusiasm has not dimmed in the slightest, so we wanted to run it again. Money is a source of stress for so many people. One tool that both Janine and Shannon use to help them take the stress out of money and create financial peace is the software You Need a Budget (YNAB). Shannon is a YNAB master! In this episode we discuss YNAB and other strategies for creating

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Episode 205: Prioritizing Self Care

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2022/05/26

Taking care of ourselves is always important. But it's especially important during stressful times. This week Shannon and Janine discuss prioritizing self care so it's there for you when you need it the most. Discussion topics include: • The fact that self-care doesn't have to take a lot of time • The fallacy that you will get more done if you skip self care • The reality that by taking care of yourself you actually become more productive • The wisdom of Gandhi: "I have so much to accomplish today

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Episode 204: Setting Boundaries (Redux)

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2022/05/19

Janine is in Walla Walla moving her dad into assisted living, so she didn't have a spare moment to record an episode. So we're re-running an episode from August 2020. Enjoy! Setting boundaries allows you to live a life based on your core values. This week, Shannon and Janine discuss getting in touch with what's important to you as a way to help you set boundaries that ensure you're doing the things that align with your why. They use a recent real-life example to illustrate how they recently

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Episode 203: Travel in 2022

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2022/05/12

Travel in 2022 feels very different from travel in 2020 (or 2019, for that matter). In this episode Janine and Shannon discuss planning travel in this time and letting of perfectionism around it. Discussion topics include: • Some differences between travel earlier in the pandemic and now • Shannon's plans to walk the Camino in Portugal (canceled in 2020) • How Shannon is planning to do more pre-planning for the 2022 version of this trip • Hiring a professional to help make things easier • Janine's

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Episode 202: Acting on Good Impulses (Redux)

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2022/05/05

Due to circumstances beyond our control, we're not able to publish a new episode this week. Instead, we're rerunning this episode, which we originally published on February 13, 2020. Enjoy! Good people (like our listeners) have many good impulses. But how often do you act on them? This week, Shannon and Janine discuss how perfectionism can get in the way of acting on new impulses and how you can get past that. Discussion topics include: • Our excitement over breaking into the top 100 Health &

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Episode 201: Relinquishing Control (Redux)

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2022/04/28

Shannon and Janine were so tired from celebrating our 200th anniversary last week we decided to take a week off and re-run an episode from June 2021. Enjoy! It can be so frustrating when you don't have control over things in your life. This week Shannon and Janine discuss relinquishing your desire for control over things you can't control. It's a recipe for living with more satisfaction and less frustration. Discussion topics include: • The frustration we can feel about not having control over

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Episode 200: Our 200th Episode!

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2022/04/21

This is our 200th episode and we're so proud! This week Janine and Shannon celebrate our 200th episode and discuss some of the benefits of talking about (and embracing) good enough week after week. Discussion topics include: • Happy anniversary to us! • How talking about "good enough" for years has made us better at it • The liberation of embracing good enough Shannon's evolution toward good enough since episode 1 • The real shift: Feeling good about good enough • Another benefit to good enough:

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Episode 199: Considering an Electric Car

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2022/04/14

Both Shannon and Janine drive a Nissan LEAF, the SL Plus trim. It's a 100 percent electric vehicle (EV) and we think it's 100 percent awesome. It's not a coincidence that we drive the same car: Janine bought one after Shannon raved about hers (and answered all her questions). We love our EVs and we want to help you open your mind to considering one! We talk all about it in this week's episode. Discussion topics include: • Our love for our Nissan LEAFs • How Janine letting buying her electric car

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Episode 198: Trusting Yourself

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2022/04/07

Think of how much time we'd save if we trusted our intuition, rather than agonized over decisions. In this episode, brought to you by Wordle (kidding!), Janine and Shannon discuss how trusting yourself can benefit you in living your life, as well as playing games. • The spontaneous nature of our podcast • What sparked this topic: Wordle • Shannon's explanation of Wordle (for the uninitiated) • How we're learning to trust our intuition while playing Wordle • How your first instinct is often right,

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Episode 197: Planning Ahead: The 1950 Census

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2022/03/31

Genealogists in the U.S. are excited about the release of the 1950 U.S. census, which happens at midnight tomorrow. Janine is eagerly awaiting it (it's been on her calendar for months!). This week Shannon and Janine discuss the value of planning ahead -- and enjoying the anticipation. Discussion topics include: • The upcoming release of the results of the 1950 U.S. census • How technology advances have made it easier to search on the 1950 census the day it is released • Whether or not the 72-year

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Episode 196: Building an Anti-Perfectionist Toolkit

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2022/03/24

We bring up little tips and tricks for getting past perfectionism all the time in this podcast. Do you remember them when you need them? We don't. This week Janine and Shannon discuss building an anti-perfectionist toolkit that you can turn to when you're stuck in perfectionism. Discussion topics include: • How the possible techniques we talk about on this podcast come in handy • The inevitability that our go-to anti-perfectionist tools will stop working • Embracing the idea that not everything is

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Episode 185: {GEIP} The Basement of Doom

Getting to Good Enough ·

2022/03/17

Shannon's crowded basement was bringing her down and perfectionism was getting in the way of her doing anything about it. In this "Good Enough in Practice" episode, Shannon and Janine discuss Shannon's basement challenges, her beliefs around what she needed to before she could start decluttering and organizing her basement and they talk it through to the point where she can't wait to get started! Discussion topics include: • Shannon's overwhelming basement and how it became The Basement of Doom •

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