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Less Clutter, More Clarity - Andrew Mellen - Ep 143

Art2Life

Nicholas Wilton

Self-improvement, Education, Visual Arts, Arts

4.8 ā€¢ 647 Ratings

šŸ—“ļø 11 September 2024

ā±ļø 51 minutes

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Summary

https://Art2Life.comĀ - Andrew Mellen walked away from his role directing plays off-Broadway when he realized he had a unique talent for making peopleā€™s lives happier in a totally different way: becoming a professional organizer.

Andrew is known for his transformative approach to decluttering physical and inner mental spaces. He shares the value of taking small, manageable steps to create a more organized, stress-free life.Ā 

We discuss how you can be in the most creative state and why your cluttered physical world impacts your emotional, spiritual, and psychological health. Less clutter leads to more clarity.

Andrew shares his creative path back to his artā€”and how he let his intuition lead the wayā€”in this episode of the Art2Life Podcast.Ā 

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LISTEN IF YOU ARE INTERESTED INā€¦

  • [8:01] Choosing organizing over theaterĀ 
  • [16:07] External clutter leads to feeling stressedĀ 
  • [17:12] Procrastination is time mismanagementĀ 
  • [20:39] Having processes frees your mind to be more creativeĀ 
  • [24:44] Stop stealing time from yourself by avoiding repetitionĀ 
  • [27:56] How to sign up for Spark to reconnect with what brings you aliveĀ 
  • [29:05] Art and life both have tension tanglesĀ 
  • [33:08] Clearing clutter creates positive momentum for successĀ 
  • [35:19] Evaluate necessity and value, consider emotional attachmentĀ 
  • [38:56] Keep what you use, and let go of excess
  • [43:49] Don't undervalue your time and possessionsĀ 
  • [47:39] Focus on living aligned with your valuesĀ 

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0:00.0

For as much hard ink and drama that I'm having over here in the theater, fighting and pushing and all of the parts of show business that are certainly, I don't think they're fun for anybody, but I don't like auditioning.

0:11.7

I don't like having to hustle for work. I love making the work, but I don't love hustling to get the opportunity to do the work.

0:18.9

I'm getting so much positive feedback. People love me.

0:22.6

They're happy to pay me. There's more and more work coming. I'm going to pursue that.

0:27.5

And if it doesn't pan out, then I'll possibly decide to go back to making art. But I'm going to do

0:33.4

the other. I'm going to do the organizing thing. And that was a pivotal evening on standing on

0:38.7

East 80th Street in Manhattan on my stoop thinking, I'm going where the big yes is, where the money is,

0:44.6

where the yes is, where the juice is. You know, at that point I directed 50 plays. I've probably been in

0:49.4

80 plays as an actor. I'd run multiple theaters and art centers, and I wasn't hungry for that.

0:55.8

I was hungry for service, hungry to be useful in the world, hungry to solve problems,

1:01.0

hungry to be engaged, and hungry to make some money, but not necessarily that there was only

1:07.1

one flavor of way to do that.

1:11.6

Hey, you guys, welcome back to the Arts Life podcast.

1:14.8

I'm super excited to kind of continue this theme

1:18.3

that I've been diving into in the past four or five weeks

1:21.9

ever since my art show around energy

1:24.7

and just getting your energy going, getting your frequency going.

1:29.5

Man, this seems to be like so up for me and I've just been learning a lot about it.

1:35.4

And so today on the show, we have an amazing friend of mine that we've been in touch for a long

1:40.5

time around this. His name is Andrew Mellon. He is a speaker, author, and coach.

1:46.7

He speaks and teaches around organization, mindfulness, and time management. What's so cool,

1:54.7

and I think why Andrew and I hooked up or why we relate to each other so well is because he comes

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