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

Serendipity Space

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

Edit Your Life Show

Society & Culture

4.6530 Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2015

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

If your schedule is jam-packed to the max, there’s no room for unexpected awesome to happen. Christine and Asha introduce the concept of surrounding work and play with “serendipity space,” including 5 strategies for creating serendipity space in your life. 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

Jamie Lang and Sophie Haboo have arrived on Disney Plus.

0:04.5

We're having a baby.

0:05.5

We're having a baby!

0:07.2

I've always wanted to be mom.

0:09.4

And we're bringing you on our journey through everything.

0:12.4

I have no idea what we're doing.

0:13.6

Thank you. I have more of an idea.

0:15.6

I think of it like a Tamagocchi.

0:17.8

At the end of all of this...

0:20.0

We're going to have a little baby. Raising Chelsea, a Hulu

0:23.1

original series streaming April 2nd exclusively on Disney Plus. 18 plus subscription required T's

0:28.9

and T supply. Hello everyone and welcome to edit your life. I'm Christine Coe. 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.

0:44.4

Today's topic is serendipity space, and you may be wondering what this is. It's a term that we used in minimalist parenting.

0:51.4

And Asha, I'm going to hand it over to you to describe serendipity space, or define it rather,

0:56.5

since you are the brilliant person who coined that phrase in the book.

1:01.4

I love coining phrases.

1:04.3

Well, serendipity space has always been important in my family because we need time in

1:10.3

between activities to sort of mellow out and

1:13.5

calm down. And I came to find that actually building empty spaces, padding each of the activities

1:21.2

in our schedule with time, added a measure of calm to our days that we really came to rely on.

1:29.8

And so serendipity space is just the notion of time padding, building emptiness around

1:36.4

schedule like activities in your schedule or after school events so that there's just time and breathing space, even 15 minutes,

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