How To Increase Your Election Impact When You’re Exhausted

Edit Your Life | Simplify + Declutter Your Home, Time, and Mental Space

Edit Your Life Show

Society & Culture

4.6 • 530 Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2020

⏱️ 49 minutes

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When your mind and heart is already breaking under the weight of today's news, how do you find the energy—or even the willingness—to do more? Christine and Asha acknowledge the political overwhelm most of us feel, and share small, simple, and even silent things you can do (beyond voting) to increase your election impact. This is an open-hearted and practical conversation about how to express your values through your political engagement, with options for everyone, no matter what your time, experience, or personality. Edit Your Life is an award-winning podcast that shares practical ideas for decluttering your home, schedule, and mental space without getting bogged down by perfection. Visit edityourlifeshow.com for show notes and to connect with host Christine Koh. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Edit Your Life podcast. I'm Christine Co.
0:08.6	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.
0:15.6	We share practical ways to declutter your home, schedule, and mental space without getting bogged down by perfection.
0:21.4	And we help you take action with doable baby steps that will leave you feeling accomplished instead of
0:26.4	overwhelmed.
0:27.5	Good morning, Asha.
0:30.2	How are you, my sweet friend?
0:32.5	Oh, boy.
0:34.5	It's a complicated answer, isn't it?
0:36.5	I know, I know. I know. I know.
0:37.5	I know.
0:38.1	Why don't you, I'm going to let you lead for a minute to answer that question.
0:41.9	Well, friends, if you follow it at your life show on Instagram, you may already know that I have suffered a very big loss in my life.
0:53.9	My 86-year-old dad died suddenly and unexpectedly. And this
0:59.4	just happened not too long ago. And, you know, that's just what's happening in my life. And let me
1:06.0	tell you, it's just a, it's huge. And I, you know, I'm, I would be lying if I said I weren't just devastated,
1:15.0	honestly. You know, my, my immediate future is really different now that I'm just sort of thinking
1:19.2	through this new life, you know, for myself with my mom, you know. But strangely, it is also,
1:27.3	it is such a grounding time.
1:31.3	It's really so big.
1:33.4	In fact, it's so big that I haven't even really gotten my mind around where I am yet.
1:37.5	And, you know, we'll talk about all this, I'm sure, in the coming months, you know, as the fog clears.
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