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Finding Genius Podcast

Decluttering Decoded: Unlocking Time and Tranquility with Andrew Mellen's Expert Insights

Finding Genius Podcast

Richard Jacobs

Medicine, Health & Fitness

4.41K Ratings

🗓️ 20 January 2024

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Feeling overwhelmed by all the "stuff" in your life, business, or living space? Struggling to focus, stay on task, or simply find things when you need them?

Today we speak with an organization expert who has the solutions: Andrew Mellen. As Founder and CEO of Andrew Mellen, Inc. and author of Calling Bullsh*t on Busy: A Practical Guide to Ditching the Time Management Myth and Quickly Achieving Your Goals and Unstuff Your Life!, he's helped hundreds of thousands of people and businesses reclaim time and peace of mind through various programs designed to eliminate the messiness of modern life.

Press play to learn:

  • The emotional challenges of decluttering your life and how to overcome them
  • The three rules of the "organizational triangle"
  • The average adult tells 200 lies a day: how is this true, and how does it affect people's lives?
  • The difference between being a minimalist and decluttering/organizing
  • The eight deadly time thieves in the B2B world

Mellen explains the process people tend to go through as they change their organizational habits and retrain their minds and behaviors to sustain them. His approach is centered around how people think, feel, and interact with their "stuff." He details how he coaches people and the type of people he's helped – including those with hoarding tendencies and a desire to be extreme minimalists.

As his business continues to grow, Mellen aims to reach more people more quickly… do you want to be one of them?

If you're ready to start feeling more organized and efficient in all areas of life, visit Andrew Mellen Professional Organizer NYC | Speaker | Productivity + Decluttering Expert.

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Episode also available on Apple Podcasts: apple.co/30PvU9C

Transcript

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0:00.0

Forget frequently asked questions.

0:02.2

Common sense, common knowledge, or Google.

0:04.8

How about advice from a real genius?

0:07.0

95% of people in any profession are good enough to be qualified and licensed.

0:11.2

5% go above and beyond. They become very good at what they do.

0:15.0

But only 0.1% are real Jesus.

0:18.2

Richard Jacobs has made it his life's mission to find them for you.

0:22.2

He hunts down and interviews geniuses in every

0:24.6

field, sleep science, cancer, stem cells, ketogenic diets and more. Here come the geniuses.

0:30.0

This is the Finding Genius Podcast.

0:33.0

That is Richard Jacobs.

0:35.0

Hello, this is Richard Jacobs with the Finding Genius Podcast.

0:41.0

My guest is Andrew Mellon.

0:42.0

He is the founder and CEO of

0:44.4

declutter of Joe. He's the author of Calling Bullshit on Busy. So we're going to talk

0:48.2

about how to help people, I guess, become less overwhelmed and not so busy that

0:52.0

their heads falling off every day they're

0:53.8

so welcome Andrew thanks Richard it's great to be here so Andrew tell me a bit

0:58.7

about your background how you got into decluttering and simplifying your lives.

1:03.2

You know, what led you to that?

1:04.6

Sure, like many things in, certainly in my life and maybe in your

1:09.5

listener's lives you can relate to this.

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