“Your mind is for having ideas, not holding them. We should be looking toward a world of no problems, only projects.”

After decades of in-the-field research and practice of his productivity methods, David wrote the international best-seller Getting Things Done.
Published in over 28 languages, TIME magazine heralded it as “the defining self-help business book of its time.”

Today, David is considered the leading authority in the fields of organizational and personal productivity. The David Allen Company, run by David and his wife Kathryn, oversees the certification academy and quality standards for Global Partners offering Getting Things Done courses and coaching around the world.

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In this episode, you’ll enjoy:

-David's journey to becoming one of the most important names in increasing productivity

-Learn what the Getting Things Done (GTD) method is all about and how you can use it to increase your productivity and gain more time that spark joy

-Practice with David using the GTD method to something as simple as receiving a wedding invitation

-David has worked from home since the early 1980's and he shares his tips for WFH that sparks joy

-David shares what is meant by "ambient anxiety", an "external brain", and the "two minute rule"

-What are Open Loops and how they impact your productivity

-Find all of David's books and guides here: David Allen on Amazon

-Learn some of David's time honored tips to increase your ability to Get Things Done with joy!

David's favorite productivity tip:
"Your head is for having ideas and not for holding them. Stop using your head as your office."

What sparks joy for David:
David's new video series "Two Minute Tips for Turbulent Times" coming soon.
And, walking his little Cavalier Springer Spaniel in the park!

To connect with David, you can find him at GettingThingsDone.com and on Twitter at GTDGuy

Gems:
"If you think about something twice, then you are paying it to much attention."

"You have to decide what the thing means to you to decide what to do with it."

"You need a discreet space to do your work, answer your email and focus. It's best if there is no other activity in that space . And, it should be a place where everyone in the home knows you are "on the job" even if you need to put yellow caution tape around your workspace!"

"What has your attention?"

"Your head is for having ideas, not holding them. Stop using your head as your office."

You can find Karin Socci at The Serene Home
You can find Kristyn Ivey at For the Love of Tidy

Special Guest: David Allen.

Kristina is a licensed Realtor in Portland, Oregon. She is also a Home Functionality Coach and Podcaster. Her passion is helping people create a home that thrives, not just for today, but for the long haul.

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In this episode, you’ll enjoy:

• How Kristina became interested in the concept of home space design
• What's motivating home owners these days and what to consider when you're thinking about making a change in your home- renovation, re-decorating, tidying, or moving
• How to make the most of the home you want with the space you have
• How to make renovations part of the fun of home ownership instead of a chore
• Surefire ways to add value to your home
• Simple upgrades that will make your home spark joy for you
• Learn about Hygge. Kristina finds this philosophy very inspiring The Little Book of Hygge-Danish Secrets to Happy Living

Kristina's favorite tidying tip:
Buy the storage solution for the gift you are giving-consider that as part of your gift as well! For example, a pretty box for jewelry, or a lovely planter for a plant.

What sparks joy for Kristina:
Vertical grow wall. It sounds amazing! Read about them here: New York Times: Vertical Gardens

You can find Kristina over at spaceandreason.com and on Instagram at @spaceandreason

Check out her podcast: Home Space and Reason

Gems
"I ask my clients what their passions are and if the home is supporting those passions and those values."
"Take bite size pieces of a project without getting overwhelmed."
"Plants humanize our surroundings."

You can find Karin Socci at The Serene Home
You can find Kristyn Ivey at For the Love of Tidy

Special Guest: Kristina Browning.

Our guest Greg McKeown has dedicated his career to discovering why some people and teams break through to the next level—and others don’t. His New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller,
“Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less” has frequently been the #1 Time Management book on Amazon. The book challenges core assumptions about achievement to get to the essence of what really drives success.

Greg also hosts a podcast called Essentialism with Greg McKeown.

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In this episode, you’ll enjoy:

• The personal and professional, experiences that led Greg begin to pursuit the essential
• Essentialism boiled down
• Essentialism's connection to our personal energy management
• How to build life by design instead of default
• Essentialism's impact on Greg's family culture of "resounding yes" clarity
• The difference between Essentialism and "No-ism"
• The first episode of Essentialism podcast with Greg's wife Anna
• The short cut to Essentialism and how it impacts projects at home
• How to explain Essentialism to children
• How to journal like an essentialist
• Greg's tips for reevaluating what's essential as we navigate this pandemic
• Essentialism 21 Day Challenge

Greg's favorite tidying/productivity tip:
Discard one thing right now.

What sparks joy for Greg:
Making a list of twenty things that spark joy for you.

You can find Greg over at essentialism.com and sign up for the 21 day challenge.

Gems
"[Essentialism] is the anecdote to the undisciplined pursuit of more."
"Non-essentialism is a con...it doesn't deliver."
"I want to do the right things, at the right time, for the right reasons."
"Anything less than 90% important is at least questioned, or in fact entirely discarded."
"Essentialism is about becoming more of who you really are and less and less of who you really aren't."
"Is it essential?"
"Protect the asset."
"You can design essential activities to be fun or you can design them to be awful."

You can find Karin Socci at The Serene Home
You can find Kristyn Ivey at For the Love of Tidy

Special Guest: Greg McKeown.

Scott Sonenshein is the Henry Gardiner Symonds Professor of Management at Rice University. He holds a PhD in organizational behavior from the University of Michigan, an MPhil from the University of Cambridge, and a BA from the University of Virginia.

As an author, he is best known for his work Stretch and, most recently, he co-wrote Joy at Work: Organizing Your Professional Life with Marie Kondo.

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In this episode, you’ll enjoy:

• Scott’s time in the wild west of the dot.com boom and what he learned during his work at a startup.

• Hear our review of Joy at Work here: Ep 128-Joy at Work: Organizing Your Professional Life by Marie Kondo and Scott Sonenshein.

• How Scott met Marie and how they worked together on the book.

• How to organize time, networking, and productivity using the KonMari Method.

• How to function and thrive in an uncertain environment.

• The usefulness of applying what you are learning in your home environment to your workplace environment once life has returned to the new normal.

Scott's favorite organizing tip:
“The practice of gratitude goes a long way in KonMari’ing your professional life.”

What sparks joy for Scott:
Scott is studying our new work environment and he’s finding that people are finding joy even in troubling times.

Scott’s daughters have been hosting a restaurant night for Mom and Dad each week. They are going all out with a menu, decorations, a theme! (We loved this!)

Connect with Scott on his website and find his books here

Gems:
“Focus on the urgent and the important task.”
“Activity clutter’ is doing things that are not making that much of a difference.”
“It’s really a good time to be focusing on what we are doing with our lives.”
“Clutter can really spiral out of control.”

You can find Karin Socci at The Serene Home
You can find Kristyn Ivey at For the Love of Tidy

Special Guest: Scott Sonenshein.

“Your mind is for having ideas, not holding them. We should be looking toward a world of no problems, only projects.”

After decades of in-the-field research and practice of his productivity methods, David wrote the international best-seller Getting Things Done.
Published in over 28 languages, TIME magazine heralded it as “the defining self-help business book of its time.”

Today, David is considered the leading authority in the fields of organizational and personal productivity. The David Allen Company, run by David and his wife Kathryn, oversees the certification academy and quality standards for Global Partners offering Getting Things Done courses and coaching around the world.

We want to hear from you! Tell us your burning tidying questions or share stories about how KonMari has impacted your life. Find us at www.sparkjoypodcast.com and click “Ask Spark Joy” to leave a question or comment for a chance to be featured on next week’s show.

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In this episode, you’ll enjoy:

-David's journey to becoming one of the most important names in increasing productivity

-Learn what the Getting Things Done (GTD) method is all about and how you can use it to increase your productivity and gain more time that spark joy

-Practice with David using the GTD method to something as simple as receiving a wedding invitation

-David has worked from home since the early 1980's and he shares his tips for WFH that sparks joy

-David shares what is meant by "ambient anxiety", an "external brain", and the "two minute rule"

-What are Open Loops and how they impact your productivity

-Find all of David's books and guides here: David Allen on Amazon

-Learn some of David's time honored tips to increase your ability to Get Things Done with joy!

David's favorite productivity tip:
"Your head is for having ideas and not for holding them. Stop using your head as your office."

What sparks joy for David:
David's new video series "Two Minute Tips for Turbulent Times" coming soon.
And, walking his little Cavalier Springer Spaniel in the park!

To connect with David, you can find him at GettingThingsDone.com and on Twitter at GTDGuy

Gems:
"If you think about something twice, then you are paying it to much attention."

"You have to decide what the thing means to you to decide what to do with it."

"You need a discreet space to do your work, answer your email and focus. It's best if there is no other activity in that space . And, it should be a place where everyone in the home knows you are "on the job" even if you need to put yellow caution tape around your workspace!"

"What has your attention?"

"Your head is for having ideas, not holding them. Stop using your head as your office."

You can find Karin Socci at The Serene Home
You can find Kristyn Ivey at For the Love of Tidy

Special Guest: David Allen.

David Kadavy is a writer who helps creatives get more out of their energy. He’s author of two books, The Heart to Start and Design for Hackers, and host of the Love Your Work podcast. His third book, Mind Management, Not Time Management debuts in the fall of 2020.

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In this episode, you’ll enjoy:

• David's journey to becoming a writer and figuring out where in the world he gets his best work done

• How the concept of "loss aversion" helped David sell most of his posessions and move from Chicago to Columbia and make space for the future

• How designing his life to include a "behavior shaping contraint," living in South America, allowed David to stop living by his to-do list and pay closer attention to his energy

• How Episode 136 of David's podcast "Love Your Work," where he explores The Art of Staying In and how it applies to quarantine

• Our relationship with time and how it's actually more productive to save our time for less productive activities

• Trevor Noah meme

• Spark Joy Episode 128 Book Review: Joy at Work, Organizing Your Professional Life by Marie Kondo and Scott Sonenshein

• What to do next when we DON'T love of work

• The guest that we happen to be bringing on Spark Joy next week that inspired David's productivity

David's favorite time management tip:

• Have a weekly review on Sunday afternoon and set alarms for appointments on your phone while keeping it on silent for the week

What sparks joy for David:

• David's hammock

To connect with David, you can find him at kadavy.net and on Twitter and Instagram at @kadavy

With so many people working from home, writing is an even more important skill. David shares 14 tools he uses to hone his focus and quadruple his writing output. Download it here.

Gems:
"It hurts twice as much for us to get rid of something as it does feel good for us to get something."

"It is about not so much having the time to do something, but having the energy to do something."

"What mood do I need to be in to get this thing done?"

"One of the nice things about quarantine is it takes away some of that FOMO a little bit."

"When you save time, keep it!"

"What discomfort are you willing to endure to have some future sparking of joy?"

"When you have a place for things, then all the natural creative state that you experience as a human has space to flourish."

You can find Karin Socci at The Serene Home
You can find Kristyn Ivey at For the Love of Tidy

Special Guest: David Kadavy.

Laura Vanderkam is the author of several time management and productivity books, including Juliet’s School of Possibilities, Off the Clock, I Know How She Does It, What the Most Successful People Do Before Breakfast, and 168 Hours. Her work has appeared in publications including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Fast Company, and Fortune. She is the host of the podcast Before Breakfast and the co-host, with Sarah Hart-Unger, of the podcast Best of Both Worlds. She lives outside Philadelphia with her husband and five children, and blogs at LauraVanderkam.com.

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In this episode, you’ll enjoy:

• How Laura became a student of time and a time management expert

• The quote from Laura that summarizes time management in a nutshell

• What to do first when it comes to figuring out exactly where your time goes and how it's similar to the KonMari Method

• The questions you should ask yourself when taking inventory of your time and tips that help you protect that time while tidying

• Laura (mom of FIVE!) shares her tips for working moms trying to manage their time and make time for what matters

• How avoid chasing a "typical" week when time tracking

• Laura's podcasts Before Breakfast podcast and Best of Both Worlds

Laura's favorite time management tip:
Plan your week on Fridays.

What sparks joy for Laura:
Her bar height set of tables and chairs for her deck.

To connect with Laura, visit her at lauravanderkam.com and download her free Time Makeover Guide.

Gems:

“Time is the ultimate non-renewable resource."
"We often blame time for things that aren't really about time at all."
"Saying 'I'm too busy' or 'I don't have time' puts the responsibility somewhere else."
"If anyone wants to spend their time better the first thing they should do is figure out where their time is going now."
"What do I like about my schedule?"
"What do I want to spend more time doing?'
"Don't bring it in if it's just going to be schedule clutter."
"Anytime someone asks you to do something in the future, ask yourself if you'd do it tomorrow."
"Start thinking of your life in terms of a week instead of a day."

You can find Karin Socci at The Serene Home
You can find Kristyn Ivey at For the Love of Tidy

Special Guest: Laura Vanderkam.

Paula created the productivity site ListProducer.com and she’s the best-selling author of "Listful Thinking: Using Lists to be More Productive, Highly Successful and Less Stressed", which has been translated into 12 languages AND was one on Oprah.com’s list of “Self Help Books That Actually Help.”

Her latest book, "Listful Living: A List-Making Journey to a Less Stressed You", was just published!

Paula shares how to create lists that spark joy to move you closer to your vision.

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In this episode, you’ll enjoy:

• Paula’s interesting career path and how she became interested in list building

• The health scare that motivated Paula to change her world view

• Revisit our Episode 39 | Closet Joy: Build Your Capsule Wardrobe with Courtney Carver

• How Marie Kondo influenced Paula in her work. Turns out that Paula and Karin were at the same talk with Marie!

• The stress reducing magic of getting things down on paper

• How your vision will help you set your priorities and learn to say no to things to things that don’t align with your goals

• The connection between your environment and productivity

• How to make sure your list is manageable so that you don’t set yourself up for failure

Paula’s favorite list making tip:
Make your list the night before.

What is sparking the most joy for Paula:
“Being very purposeful about how I spend my time. Talking about my work has been very rewarding for me”

Parting words of wisdom:
"Don’t be so hard on yourself. Take time for self-care and put things on your list that are just for you."

You can reach Paula on her websites: listproducer.com and paularizzo.com

She’s on Facebook and Instagram at ListProducer.

And you can grab a copy oft her new book on Amazon:
Listful Living: A List-Making Journey to a Less Stressed You

As an added bonus, Paula has a List-Making starter kit available on her website. Just go to List-Making Starter Kit and sign up!

Gems:

• “The need for good time management that I learned in TV production, built my appreciation of lists.”
• “How do you not only put the right things on your list, but that you also make time for things like self care?”
• The second you write something down and get it out of your head your stress levels will begin to fall. You notice, ‘Oh I didn’t really have that much to do!’ “
• “If you know what your priority is then you know instantly what you are going to say yes and no to.”
• “The things that go on the list need to be very specific. You need to know that you have the resources and the time to accomplish the list.”

You can find Karin Socci at The Serene Home
You can find Kristyn Ivey at For the Love of Tidy

Special Guest: Paula Rizzo.

Today’s guest helped us unpack how music impacts our mood, memory and productivity. Cami Galles' alluring voice is matched only by her charismatic personality. The Kansas-raised singer-songwriter spent nearly a decade in new your city cultivating grit and a unique sound before calling Chicago home. Cami’s mesmerizing delivery imbues her music with a bold empowerment, and her singular “Future Blues” style melds Blues, Pop, and Jazz with uptempo dance beats. Her electric, must-see live performances have dazzled iconic Chicago venues, and she will soon embark on a national tour in 2020.

We want to hear from you! Tell us your burning tidying questions or share stories about how KonMari has impacted your life. Find us at www.sparkjoypodcast.com and click “Ask Spark Joy” to leave a question or comment for a chance to be featured on next week’s show.

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In this episode, you’ll enjoy:

• How Cami's experience and talents in sales, marketing, real estate and more influenced her unconventional path to becoming a performing artist
• Cami's easy hack to exploring music all around the world in 30 minutes
• How music can impact everything from healing muscles and stimulating brain cells
• The impact of classical music and upbeat music has on your stress level
• How sad songs actually help you connect and bond and other tips on how you can spark joy with music
• The ideal frequency to even out and sooth brain activity and reception to information
• The unique difficulty artist experience when shaping sad songs when conveying their authentic first hand experience
• The inspiration behind Cami's latest hit: "Liar." Check out the FULL VIDEO here!!

Cami's favorite tidying tip: Pick a room in your house, turn on your favorite song and see how much tidying you can get done in that time and then treat yourself.

What sparks joy for Cami: Her new vacuum from Simplicity

Stay up to date on all things Cami: her shows music & more: at www.camigalles.com

While you’re there, subscribe to Cami’s website & you'll receive a special song that hasn’t been released yet exclusively for Spark Joy listeners. Head over to https://camigalles.com/contact-cami/ for that special gift.

Gems:

• "You have to be your own patron."
• "There are some songs that are written to give people courage."
• "You have to be able to tell the story and be who you are authentically."
• "Don't let the barrier of entry to music be high."
• "Find little ways to introduce music into your life and early in your day to drastically change your mood."

You can find Karin Socci at The Serene Home
You can find Kristyn Ivey at For the Love of Tidy

Special Guest: Cami Galles.

Gretchen Rubin is one of the most influential writers on habits, happiness, and human nature. She’s the author of many books, including the New York Times bestsellers "Better Than Before" and "The Happiness Project" and she’s debuting her newest book, "Outer Order, Inner Calm" today!

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In this episode, you’ll enjoy:

• Gretchen's thoughts on defining happiness vs. joy

• Gretchen's interview with Marie Kondo and why she gave Netflix's Tidying Up a gold star on a recent episode of the Happier podcast

• Tips on tidying up while managing emotions around other's messiness

• Why every office should have a Chief Clutter Officer

• How your clutter comfort level is way more important than achieving perfection

• Gretchen's new book "Outer Order, Inner Calm"

• How to avoid fakework and makework

• How to get those little things done by leaning into a power hour

• The tension that comes along with "procrasticlearing"

• The deeper meaning behind someday, someone-based decision making

• The difference between underbuyers and overbuyers

Gretchen's favorite tidying tip: The one minute rule.

What Sparks Joy for Gretchen: The Bandoleir

To connect with Gretchen Rubin you can find her and her new book "Outer Order, Inner Calm" at gretchenrubin.com/books

Gems:
"Do I need it? Do I use it? Do I love it?"

"One of the worst things we can do is to do well something that we don't have to do at all."

"Things that can be done at any time are often done at no time."

"The stewing is worse than the doing."

"The best way to anticipate what's going to happen in the future is what's happened in the past."

"There's an unwillingness to accept that things are worth only what people will pay for them."

"So much of clutter really is about delaying decision making."

"The more we can decide now, the easier it gets latter."

"Anything you can do in less than one minute, do it without delay."

You can find Karin Socci at The Serene Home
You can find Kristyn Ivey at For the Love of Tidy

Special Guest: Gretchen Rubin.

Today’s guest challenges us all to think beyond fear and embrace a Life of Yes℠.

Saya Hillman started Mac & Cheese Productions℠ in 2004 after she got fired from her last full-time job and had no idea what she wanted to do.

Being fired turned out to be the best thing that ever happened to her. Mac & Cheese Productions℠ is now a lifestyle business that provides creative solutions to common problems through its Life of Yes offerings. At its core, is the belief that the segments which make up our lives shouldn’t be sources of stress, but sources of joy and ease.

We want to hear from you! Tell us your burning tidying questions or share stories about how KonMari has impacted your life. Find us at www.sparkjoypodcast.com and click “Ask Spark Joy” to leave a question or comment for a chance to be featured on next week’s show.

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In this episode, you’ll enjoy:

• Saya's journey from wanting to feel invisible in order to avoid sticking out in a crowd to unapologetically embracing a life of yes
• How Saya came up with her memorable business name, Mac & Cheese Productions
• How Saya's networking events break the mold and reflect who she is
• How sharing each other's vulnerabilities connect her guest "Cheese-Its" together
• How you can get further in life by being experience focused instead of results focused
• How Saya helps people transform by embracing productivity, public speaking, sales and other things that cause people stress and pain to be filled with ease and joy
• How you put the hardest tasks behind us by eating a frog at the beginning of the day
• How Saya makes her every day life easier and more productive by staying within her Life of Yes radius
• How sharing a spontaneous moment of sharing her vulnerabilities helped Saya relate to her audience during
• How the Spark Joy paper clutter episode connects to the path of digitizing our life
• A travel hack Saya and her husband use to avoid getting overwhelmed with digital clutter
• How Saya manages her "to reads"
• How letting go of productivity systems that ultimately don't spark joy will set you free
• When it is the right time to go nuclear on your inbox
• How Feedly helps let go of subscription guilt
• Why Saya decided to go completely paperless when it comes to her business and how she cleans her "digital closet"
• How bulk work can help you handle your work and not hate your life
• How the simple act of silencing push notifications can help you feel in control when it comes to technology and incoming information
• Why improv was the top three adult choices Saya made as an adult that changed her life

Saya's favorite tidying tip: Digitize all of your sentimental items

What sparks joy for Saya: Travel hacking her way to Japan with a $250 first class ticket

To connect with Saya visit www.macncheeseproductions.com . You can also find her on Twitter or Facebook .

Gems:

• "What makes you different are not things to be ashamed of, but to hold up to the light."
• "I want my business to reflect my personality."
• "We set ourselves up for disappointment when we are results focused as opposed to experience focused."
• "Do you have a source of stress that is self created?"
• "You should set up your life in the way you want it to be lived."
• "My way isn't the right way. The right way is what works for you."
• "Such magic can happen when you do voice whatever it is that is causing you any type of negativity in your life."
• "The perfect time unicorn doesn't exist. You need to do that thing you need to do, and do it now."
• "I'm completely paralyzed because I know i have a problem, but it's so overwhelming I'm not going to do anything."
• "Are you spending a lot of time spinning your wheels?...and if you are, how can you stop that?"
• "Have your default be yes instead of no and why not instead of I can't."

You can find Karin Socci at The Serene Home
You can find Kristyn Ivey at For the Love of Tidy

Special Guest: Saya Hillman.

Today’s guest challenges us all to think beyond fear and embrace a Life of Yes℠.

Saya Hillman started Mac & Cheese Productions℠ in 2004 after she got fired from her last full-time job and had no idea what she wanted to do.

Being fired turned out to be the best thing that ever happened to her. Mac & Cheese Productions℠ is now a lifestyle business that provides creative solutions to common problems through its Life of Yes offerings. At its core, is the belief that the segments which make up our lives shouldn’t be sources of stress, but sources of joy and ease.

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In this episode, you’ll enjoy:

• Saya's journey from wanting to feel invisible in order to avoid sticking out in a crowd to unapologetically embracing a life of yes
• How Saya came up with her memorable business name, Mac & Cheese Productions
• How Saya's networking events break the mold and reflect who she is
• How sharing each other's vulnerabilities connect her guest "Cheese-Its" together
• How you can get further in life by being experience focused instead of results focused
• How Saya helps people transform by embracing productivity, public speaking, sales and other things that cause people stress and pain to be filled with ease and joy
• How you put the hardest tasks behind us by eating a frog at the beginning of the day
• How Saya makes her every day life easier and more productive by staying within her Life of Yes radius
• How sharing a spontaneous moment of sharing her vulnerabilities helped Saya relate to her audience during
• How the Spark Joy paper clutter episode connects to the path of digitizing our life
• A travel hack Saya and her husband use to avoid getting overwhelmed with digital clutter
• How Saya manages her "to reads"
• How letting go of productivity systems that ultimately don't spark joy will set you free
• When it is the right time to go nuclear on your inbox
• How Feedly helps let go of subscription guilt
• Why Saya decided to go completely paperless when it comes to her business and how she cleans her "digital closet"
• How bulk work can help you handle your work and not hate your life
• How the simple act of silencing push notifications can help you feel in control when it comes to technology and incoming information
• Why improv was the top three adult choices Saya made as an adult that changed her life

Saya's favorite tidying tip: Digitize all of your sentimental items

What sparks joy for Saya: Travel hacking her way to Japan with a $250 first class ticket

To connect with Saya visit www.macncheeseproductions.com . You can also find her on Twitter or Facebook .

Gems:

• "What makes you different are not things to be ashamed of, but to hold up to the light."
• "I want my business to reflect my personality."
• "We set ourselves up for disappointment when we are results focused as opposed to experience focused."
• "Do you have a source of stress that is self created?"
• "You should set up your life in the way you want it to be lived."
• "My way isn't the right way. The right way is what works for you."
• "Such magic can happen when you do voice whatever it is that is causing you any type of negativity in your life."
• "The perfect time unicorn doesn't exist. You need to do that thing you need to do, and do it now."
• "I'm completely paralyzed because I know i have a problem, but it's so overwhelming I'm not going to do anything."
• "Are you spending a lot of time spinning your wheels?...and if you are, how can you stop that?"
• "Have your default be yes instead of no and why not instead of I can't."

You can find Karin Socci at The Serene Home
You can find Kristyn Ivey at For the Love of Tidy

Special Guest: Saya Hillman.