Less Stress, Less Mess – The 3 Step Framework You Need to Follow to Learn How to Be an Organized Mom

Have you ever wished there was a manual on “How to be an organized Mom.” Not just once a year, but how to be more organized every single day, in a way where it comes naturally and you just do it without thinking about it.

Well, luckily there is actually a manual on how to be an organized Mom, and I call it the Mommin’3 Method™ .

In Episode #3 of the Master Organized Motherhood Show we are going to be talking about how to answer this exact question. The purpose of this episode (and blog post) is to explain what is unique about the approach to Organization at Plan to MOM, and how it can benefit you as a busy Mom.

This is my three step framework that teaches moms a more holistic step by step view of this huge topic of organization when you are a busy Mom with so many people, things, and duties on your plate.

How to be an Organized Mom – The Easy Way

The process of learning how to be an organized mom is really quite simple if you tackle it in a systematic, step by step way.

This Mommin’3 Method™ Framework that we teach here at Plan to MOM and on the Master Organized Motherhood Podcast is made up of just 3 Steps.

M: Organize MOM (Me)

O: Organize OTHERS (Family)

M: Organize HOME MANAGEMENT (Household)

Let’s take a look at each one in a bit more detail.

How to Organize MOM

To organize MOM means to organize your personal life.

This is because we can’t expect ourselves to be able to keep an organized home and to manage and organized family, and all the busy schedule that comes with it; to the best of our abilities.

If our own personal mind is in a constant state of chaos and forgetfulness and lacking focus. When you are not at your best, you will not be able to perform at your best as the manager or co-manager of your household/family.

If you never start your day with a solid plan of action of your schedule for that day. If you put off things to the last minute, and you procrastinate about everything. And if you just generally feel stressed out all the time.

You are right away going to have a hard time managing the other aspects of mom life with keeping your family and home organized if your personal mind is struggling.

So what are we going to do to fix this? How are we going to start to organize our mom life?

Step 1A

We are going to set goals for ourselves.

Step 1B

Daily priorities on our to-do list that are in line with our current phase of life (age of kids, work status etc)

Step 1C

We are going to put a focus on our own well being so that we can feel mentally, physically, and emotionally capable of handling the organization tasks associated with taking care of your family.

Step 1D

Make a plan for ourselves every single day. Even if there is only one task on that plan.

Step 1E

We are going to recognize the current stage of motherhood and life that we are in, and how this stage is going to affect the level of organization that you are realistically going to be able to achieve.

How to Organize Others

For step two of how to become an organized mom, this is how we organize our family life.

Once we feel like our own personal life, our own personal mind is more organized and we’re on track, then we are naturally going to start to feel mentally capable of improving the ways that we organize our families as well.

That is why family life organization comes second. You shouldn’t start to dig TOO DEEPLY into the sub-steps of this category until you’re doing a good job of managing your personal life organization (from step 1) or else you will get thrown off track.

Family life organization basically encompasses the ways in which we support the organizational needs of our family members.

This is once again going to vary so much depending on the phase and stage of life that we are in and that they are in. Some of the sub-steps to work on in this category is…

Step 2A

Implement meal planning systems that work for our schedule, our brain, and our family life. This is going to look different for everybody.

Step 2B

Create chore lists and chore charts or different ways of delegating those tasks that you can do as a mom, but you shouldn’t have to do all the time yourself because other people are capable of them as well.

Every family member, even the littlest family member, is capable of helping in some way, right? That’s something that we have to remember.

Step 2C

Another way we can organize our family life is by having a centralized schedule that is going to track what’s going on each day.

This can be digital, this can be paper, calendar on the wall anything. Or maybe just having our own personal planner in a place where the family can also look at the calendar view and see what involves them for that given day.

And this is going to keep everyone in the family on the same page, so that nobody is ever wondering where they’re supposed to be at what time and what’s going on for the day.

Step 2D

Manage extended family events and different commitments that we have as a family with people outside of our immediate family.

How to Organize our Home Management

Once we have mastered the first two steps, then that’s when we start to organize our home life and work on our home management.

Once our personal life and family are in order, we can then start to carve out the time and the mental energy to put better systems in place for managing our home. We can start to organize room by room and come up with better systems for how we manage all of the stuff in our homes and for how our family is going to help us maintain that organization as well.

That’s why we don’t organize the home First, that would be silly, because if we organize the home first, we are not going to be able to maintain that if we are not on board with that mentally, and if our family is not on board with that either. So kind of like we talked about in our other episodes, that it’s very important that we don’t focus on organizing the home until last.

That is the third step, because we have to be able to to be capable of maintaining this home organization we’re trying to put in order. But once we are at that step, some of the things that we can do to help us feel like our home is more organized is by working on the overall atmosphere of your home.

So this is number, sub step number one. Are you overall working on decluttering? Are you kind of trying to take some things away every month or so to have less stuff in your home and be decluttered overall? Are you trying to have a more minimal, minimalistic and peaceful atmosphere in the home? Is your focus going to be on the daily cleanliness of the home?

Do you, is it really important to you that every single night everything is put away? Or if that doesn’t bother you so much, then what are the things that bother you about the way your home is organized? And then how can we improve that? And then also then that’s when we start to dive into step, sub step number three would be organizing each room.

So step by, er, room by room, sorry, going and organizing each room depending on the function and the purpose of that room. And then lastly, step, sub step number four for how to organize your home life is how are we going to implement systems for organizing all of our stuff in a way that our family members are going to be able to easily assist us in maintaining all that.

It’s very important that once we go to all the work of organizing an entire room, that we maintain it and that we don’t let everything fall off track again. So there we have it. Those are the three steps of the mom in three method framework that I teach that teaches moms how to become an organized mom overall, because that is the question that we were answering today, is What are the steps that you need to follow to learn how to be an organized mom in a way that you can maintain and in a way that works for you and that you can stick with?

And the way that we are doing that is by working through the mom in three method framework, which is a three step framework. And so we saw that step one of this framework is to organize your personal life, and we do that by focusing on how do we organize our own mind on a daily basis to help ourselves as a mom to feel less overwhelmed and less stressed and more able to focus on the daily tasks that we have before us of keeping our families organized.

And then step number two of the mom in three method framework is to organize the family life. Once we have mastered personal life organization, we can then start to work on family life organization. And once again, that looked like kind of analyzing how our family works and what our family management needs are depending on the stage of life that we are in and how we are going to slowly better each of those areas.

So you just pick one thing at a time to start with like better how you organize your meals. and then better how you organize your family calendar. So you are just going to step by step pick one aspect at a time of family life management and then work with your family as a whole in a way to improve those systems so that they are on board with it and super excited and ready to help you maintain that.

And that all happens, this step two and step three, it all happens at the same time. that you are maintaining your personal life organization. And then lastly, step three of the framework that we talked about, the last step that you need to follow to become an organized mom is then to organize your home life.

So once again, like I was saying before, this is a step that we do not tackle until we are maintaining our personal life organization consistently. We are almost done or making really good progress on managing our family better. And then once we’re at that step, And those two steps are good and kind of running in the background and we are able to keep up with that without feeling stressed out again.

Then we can start to work on organizing room by room of our house and getting that more in order to further improve the peace and the, just the daily accomplishment and happiness that we feel. And we are organizing our home by, yeah, working room by room. Or thinking about do I want to have an overall atmosphere of less stuff, so I’m going to slowly work towards decluttering.

Everything that we do is slow, purposeful, and decisive, and build it upon so that we don’t feel overwhelmed by it. So I hope that you really enjoyed learning kind of the Overall view today of how the Mom in Three method framework helps you learn how to become an organized mom in a way that you can maintain, in a way that’s easy to understand, and in a way that’s going to slowly but surely help us to feel less stressed and less overwhelmed.

about mom life on a daily basis. So now what do we do next today? Next step for you is you are going to get onto my email list so that you can stay in touch and up to date with everything that’s going on in the show. And the easiest way to do that is just to click on the link in the show notes below.

Or go to plan to mom, p l a n t o m o m.com/quiz. And once you go there, you can just take a fun little 20 question quiz. It’s totally just for fun, but what it does is it shows you your, your kind of current default mom life. organization style. It’ll kind of show you are you super balanced? Are you struggling with stress right now?

Are you a little bit of a needing a self care reset? Are you too focused on everybody else’s needs and not your own? So it’s just for fun but it’s the easiest way to get onto my email list. So I would invite you to do that right now and then that way we can keep in touch. Hey again, thanks so much for hanging out with me today.

If this episode gave you some encouragement or some ideas for reducing the overwhelm that you’ve been feeling when it comes to getting organized, then I would love it if you could head over to Apple Podcasts and leave me a review. I would appreciate it so much. And better yet, if you have a friend that could also benefit from this, I would love it if you could share it with her.

Lastly, I don’t want you to forget that you are the glue that is helping hold your family together, and it is okay to prioritize yourself as well, because it’s very important and very worthwhile. I’d like to invite you to meet me back here again next week. Don’t forget your coffee and get ready to be encouraged and uplifted again.

That organization is possible and is fun.