Welcome to the Edit Your Life podcast. I'm Christine Co.

And I'm Asha Dornfest, and we're here to help you edit the unnecessary from your life so you have more room to enjoy the awesome.

We share practical ways to declutter your home, schedule, and mental space without getting bogged down by perfection.

And we believe that baby steps are the key to getting there.

Good morning, Asha. How are you?

I'm fine. How are you doing?

I am doing well and I'm focusing and channeling a very present mindset for our conversation today.

I'm totally into what we're talking about today.

Yeah, I am into it.

And part of that is one, I love hearing from listeners, and I'll get to that in a second.

But, you know, today's conversation is something that I basically wrestle with all the time, this issue of

trying to become more present in this hyper-connected world that we live in.

And I wanted to thank the listeners who wrote in asking us to do a show that addresses the

challenges of being present in a 24-7 world.

And then also how to generally be present in daily life when you've got a long

to-do list hovering over your shoulder.

Yeah.

I really think maybe the universe was just giving us a little pat to nudge us to talk about

this because I've been talking about this with my friends too, just in my daily life,

that this tension between constantly getting more stuff done and then slowing down to actually

savor and appreciate what's happening around you. It just feels like there's this very basic

push and pull between those two things. And of course, you and I feel that all the time. I mean,

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