Hello friends and welcome to the mini edit from Edit Your Life. In these snack-sized mini-episode

I answer your questions about everything from self-care to parenting to relationships to home

and more. Think of me like that friend you text or call when you need a quick piece of compassionate

and candid advice.

Send me your questions. A listener wrote in asking if I could cover, quote, how to make time for

joyful activities, for example, nature, art making, when I put that at the bottom of my priorities.

What a great request. I have six ideas to share today.

The first one is to consider mindset roadblocks. There may be things that you want to try that

you are squashing due to factors that actually have nothing to do with time, like, for example,

perfectionism. I talked about this issue with Karen Walrind in the episode

Embracing Amateurism, which is definitely worth a listen in case you are struggling with mindset

roadblocks. So I would recommend making a list of things that are joyful to you. Let go of

questions such as, will I be good at this or will I do this right? The purpose

is to really think about what would light you up now without worrying about evaluating yourself

in some way or with thoughts about hustle culture. Second, consider first steps. Review this list

and identify what's the first step I could take

with one of these joyful activities? How much time will it take? The reason I recommend this is because

sometimes joyful activities don't even take that much time. For example, since this listener

referenced nature activities, I have written about the power of something like a 15-minute awe walk.

I'll link that post up in the notes.

And I'll also link up the conversation that inspired it, which was raising awe-seekers with Deborah Farmer Chris.

For me, these short walks always connect me to the joy of nature.

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