Welcome to Live Well, I'm your host, Mackenzie Kappa, formerly of Cultivating the Lovely,

and on this podcast, we focus on wellness, beauty, style, planning, and life.

I feature both a fun mix of guests who I've invited, as well as some hopefully helpful

and humorous solo shows centered on things I've learned in my own life.

And that is what today's show is, you guys.

It is a solo show in which I'm going to talk about ways that we can better organize and automate

our lives this fall to truly be working for us, help us to have less decision fatigue,

and help free up our time so that we can be focusing on the things that we really want to in life.

But before I dive into the hardcore content of this episode, I do want to mention one little

call to action. I've been trying to simplify this for you guys, so I'm not throwing a thousand

things at you. This week in Patreon, we have been talking about adding more fun into our lives.

How fun is essential for us to be getting through the really hard things.

Laughter truly is the best medicine. I believe that wholeheartedly, it is healing, it is helpful,

and when you can really get goofy with your people, I think not only does it build culture

within your family or your friend groups or with your significant other by giving

you those shared memories and those inside jokes and those things that you can really hang on to

when the going gets tough. But it's also indicative of how comfortable you are in those relationships,

how much you are able to let go and be yourself and be vulnerable.

And I think that's a really good check for us, too, to be able to see kind of how we're doing

emotionally. If we are able to go there and to be really goofy and kind of get outside of our

comfort zone. And I really want to encourage everyone. I laid down this challenge in Patreon this

week for people to get goofy, not to be like planning out a big party. That's not the kind of

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