Simple Enough: Organizing, Productivity, and Mindset for Entrepreneurs

Miriam Ortiz y Pino, CPO® | More than Organized

Do you have no shortage of ideas or ability, but still feel buried under decisions, half-finished projects, clutter, and systems you started but never quite finished? Simple Enough is for entrepreneurs, creatives, and overthinkers who want a calmer, clearer way to organize their space, decisions, mindset, and life - without forcing themselves into someone else’s system. morethanorganized.substack.com

Episodes

  1. 4h ago

    3. A Simple Way to Organize Your Business Today

    When you start a business, you have no clients and plenty of time, so you make the cute forms and build the website. Then the clients come, and you tell yourself you’ll set up systems soon, once you get used to the realities of the business. That’s when you find yourself keeping too much of your business in your head, unsure of what to work on next. Hear how a lack of systems cost one client her staff, her clients, and a great deal of money - and how a system can be as elaborate as a six-level filing structure or as humble as a pile under a rock. You’ll learn why the system itself matters far more than the tool you choose, and how to find the one system worth building in your business today. To celebrate the launch of the show, I’m giving away some of my most in-demand courses to help you get organized! Click here for more info and to enter today. Giveaway closes at midnight, August 30, 2026 so don’t delay. What You’ll Discover: * What it means when you become the bottleneck in your own business. * Why you can’t scale or delegate in your business until you get out of your own way. * What entrepreneurs misunderstand about what a system can actually look like. * How your processes determine your client retention and your scalability. * The reason imposter syndrome shows up as resistance to creating systems. * How repeatability frees up your time, energy, and money for the work that matters as an entrepreneur. Resources: * Watch this episode on YouTube: * Subscribe to More than Organized for free on Substack: https://morethanorganized.substack.com/ Thank you so much for listening! Make sure you follow the podcast for real-life changes that add up - and a steady reminder that organizing doesn’t have to be this hard. Simple Enough is an organizing, productivity, and mindset podcast for entrepreneurs, creatives, and overthinkers, hosted by Certified Professional Organizer Miriam Ortiz y Pino. Follow for practical decluttering, time-management, decision-making, and money-mindset strategies to simplify your space, systems, life, and business. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit morethanorganized.substack.com

    3. A Simple Way to Organize Your Business Today
  2. 4h ago

    2. The Real Reason You Aren’t Organized

    I can’t remember the last time a client opened our first conversation without saying, “There’s just so much stuff to organize, I don’t even know where to start.” When we dig into it, the reason is almost always one of two things: either you have so much that you can’t tell which thread to pull, or you’re convinced you’ll have more energy for it some other day. Underneath both sits the same thing - you’re afraid of doing it wrong. Learn why you’re really stuck, why it doesn’t matter where you start, and how to begin simplifying and organizing today. You’ll learn how to define and find a system that will help you actually get started, and give you the structure you need to stay organized in your life and your business. To celebrate the launch of the show, I’m giving away some of my most in-demand courses to help you get organized! Click here for more info and to enter today. Giveaway closes at midnight, August 30, 2026 so don’t delay. What You’ll Discover: * Why “I’ll do it when I have more energy” is really a fear of doing it wrong in disguise. * The crucial difference between rearranging and organizing and why you have the two confused. * How constraints and systems set creative people free rather than boxing them in. * Why you should start with whatever frustrated you most today. * The reason we organize by function, not by space. * How practice builds the muscle memory that saves you time, energy, and money. Resources: * Watch this episode on YouTube: * Subscribe to More than Organized for free on Substack: https://morethanorganized.substack.com/ Thank you so much for listening! Make sure you follow the podcast for real-life changes that add up - and a steady reminder that organizing doesn’t have to be this hard. Simple Enough is an organizing, productivity, and mindset podcast for entrepreneurs, creatives, and overthinkers, hosted by Certified Professional Organizer Miriam Ortiz y Pino. Follow for practical decluttering, time-management, decision-making, and money-mindset strategies to simplify your space, systems, life, and business. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit morethanorganized.substack.com

    2. The Real Reason You Aren’t Organized
  3. 4h ago

    1. Organizing Starts with the Dream, Not the Stuff

    The truth is, when it comes to organizing your space, your life, or your business, nearly everyone starts in the wrong place. There’s a question almost nobody asks first, and skipping it is exactly why the systems fall apart, the labels and color-coded bins stop helping, and you end up right back where you started: feeling disorganized and helpless. Discover the question you should be asking before you move a single thing, and why starting there makes every decision that follows easier. To celebrate the launch of the show, I’m giving away some of my most in-demand courses to help you get organized! Click here for more info and to enter today. Giveaway closes at midnight, August 30, 2026 so don’t delay. What You’ll Discover: * Why saying, “I’ll get organized when I have time” keeps you stuck in a loop you can’t win. * What it really means when you find yourself rearranging, boxing, and labeling your things. * The reason incremental changes create exponential results. * Why knowing what you actually want makes every organizing decision that follows easier. * How organizing generates more productivity, more freedom, and more room for good things. * Why feeling disorganized is not a reflection of how capable you are. Resources: * Watch this episode on YouTube: * Subscribe to More than Organized for free on Substack: https://morethanorganized.substack.com/ Thank you so much for listening! Make sure you follow the podcast for real-life changes that add up - and a steady reminder that organizing doesn’t have to be this hard. Simple Enough is an organizing, productivity, and mindset podcast for entrepreneurs, creatives, and overthinkers, hosted by Certified Professional Organizer Miriam Ortiz y Pino. Follow for practical decluttering, time-management, decision-making, and money-mindset strategies to simplify your space, systems, life, and business. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit morethanorganized.substack.com

    1. Organizing Starts with the Dream, Not the Stuff
  4. 2d ago

    Getting Organized Doesn’t Have to Be This Hard | Simple Enough Trailer

    Let me guess. You have no shortage of ideas, ability, or ambition - but somehow, your space, your schedule, your decisions, and the things you keep meaning to deal with have started to feel heavier than they should. Maybe you’ve tried the books, the bins, the apps, the courses, the planners. Maybe you’ve told yourself you’ll finally get organized once things settle down. Maybe you’ve wondered why something that seems like it should be simple feels so hard to keep up with. Here’s what I want you to know: You are not disorganized. You are not lazy. And you do not need to become a stricter, more disciplined version of yourself to make your life work. Organizing doesn’t have to be this hard. I’m Miriam Ortiz y Pino, a Certified Professional Organizer, and after more than thirty years of helping smart, capable people simplify their spaces, decisions, and lives, I’ve learned that getting organized was never really about the stuff. The stuff is usually where the pressure shows up. The piles. The clutter. The unfinished projects. The things you keep because you might need them someday. The systems you started but never quite finished. The decisions you keep putting off because they feel bigger than they should. That’s what we’ll talk about here. This is Simple Enough - a show for entrepreneurs, creatives, and overthinkers who want a calmer, clearer way to organize their space, decisions, mindset, and life without forcing themselves into someone else’s system. Each week, we’ll look at what’s making life feel harder than it needs to be - and how to simplify it enough to actually live inside it. Not perfectly. Not all at once. Not according to someone else’s rules. Just simple enough to start. Simple enough to keep going. Simple enough to support the life and business you actually want. So if you’re tired of feeling buried by decisions, clutter, half-built systems, and all the things you keep meaning to get to, you’re in the right place. Follow Simple Enough wherever you listen to podcasts. And let’s make organizing easier than you thought it could be. Resources: * Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/bQgz_aqNuxg * Subscribe to More than Organized for free on Substack: https://morethanorganized.substack.com/ Thank you so much for listening! Make sure you follow the podcast for real-life changes that add up - and a steady reminder that organizing doesn’t have to be this hard. Simple Enough is an organizing, productivity, and mindset podcast for entrepreneurs, creatives, and overthinkers, hosted by Certified Professional Organizer Miriam Ortiz y Pino. Follow for practical decluttering, time-management, decision-making, and money-mindset strategies to simplify your space, systems, life, and business. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit morethanorganized.substack.com

    Getting Organized Doesn’t Have to Be This Hard | Simple Enough Trailer

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Do you have no shortage of ideas or ability, but still feel buried under decisions, half-finished projects, clutter, and systems you started but never quite finished? Simple Enough is for entrepreneurs, creatives, and overthinkers who want a calmer, clearer way to organize their space, decisions, mindset, and life - without forcing themselves into someone else’s system. morethanorganized.substack.com