Lisa WoodruffCEO and founder, Organize 365

Transformation with Jacqui I. - Why the Sunday Basket® and Friday Workbox® Work Explained by a PhD.

10 Aug 2022 · 1 min

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Jacqui I. explains how the Sunday Basket and Friday Workbox reduce cognitive load by grouping tasks into clear categories. When your working memory isn't cluttered with non-essential items, you have space to focus on what matters. The system applies Montessori principles to free up mental energy.

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So the reason that the whole thing works, and then you're that Montessori thing, you know, and you've got the task stacking going on, and that helps a lot that you get more done, but it also decreases cognitive load. So cognitive load is how much of your working memory you're trying to use at any one time. And when you think about all the things we're trying to do, as in our work, at home, we've got all this in our head. If your working memory is all taken up with stuff that's not important, you don't have headspace to think about what is important. Right. So that's what I'm grateful to you for, because the categories really matter. The categories are the key. Yeah.