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 just fine. How are you doing?

I'm great. And I'm excited to talk about hobbies today. I love hobbies.

I mean, you know, hobbies today. I love hobbies.

You know, hobbies, there's surprisingly a lot to talk about.

You sort of say hobbies and you think, oh, yeah, that's my hobby.

But there's a lot to talk about.

There are a lot of feelings around hobbies, especially right now.

Yeah, absolutely.

And it's funny because the word hobby kind of conjures, I don't know, it feels a little like light and fluffy, but I find them so important.

So anyway, the reason this topic is on my mind is one, generally speaking, I think hobbies are really crucial for happiness.

I actually think one reason my dad struggled a lot post-retirement was that he didn't really have hobbies,

which sounds a little odd, but he was so busy trying to raise seven kids and working 14-hour days, whatever. He was really busy. So after retirement, it was really hard for him.

Second, I think there has been a lot more focus on hobbies during the

pandemic and people experimenting with things as other areas of their lives have been limited.

And third, I think it's really important we talk about this because with social media,

I think there is a tendency to feel pressure to make things amazing and awesome, and that does not

need to be the case. I'm here to just help people let go of that. Yeah, no, this, well, the timing of

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