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

Tips for Simplifying Thanksgiving

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

Edit Your Life Show

Society & Culture

4.6530 Ratings

🗓️ 9 November 2023

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Thanksgiving feels like it ought to be simple—gratitude, togetherness, food—but it gets complicated. In this throwback episode, Christine and Asha share 8 tips for simplifying Thanksgiving oriented NOT around getting mega efficient to do more in less time, but to figure out how to edit and do less.  LINKS/RELATED EPISODES: Pursuing A Life of Good Work (with Danielle Coke Balfour) Smart + Simple Holiday Food Planning Finding Your Fringe Hours (with Jessica Turner) Why Holiday Delegation is Awesome 10 Simple Yet Chic Holiday Table Tips Struggle Care 63: Gratitude in the Hard Seasons, Part 1 with Christine Koh Gratitude in the Hard Seasons, Part 2 (with KC Davis, LPC) 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 Edit Your Life, a podcast to help you edit the unnecessary from your life so you have more room to enjoy the awesome.

0:12.5

Through episodes with me, your host, Christine Coe, and a range of super smart, compassionate and thoughtful guests,

0:18.8

you will come away with big picture insights and practical ways to declutter your home, schedule, and thoughtful guests, you will come away with big picture insights and

0:21.6

practical ways to declutter your home, schedule, and mental space without getting bogged down by perfection.

0:26.6

I have always believed that small moments and actions matter tremendously.

0:31.6

My goal is to help you find agency and space in your life through doable baby steps that will leave you feeling accomplished

0:38.1

instead of overwhelmed. Hello, friends. In October, something wild happened. So one day,

0:47.0

it was just the weekend. I texted Asha out of the blue. I knew she was traveling, but I couldn't

0:52.9

really remember exactly where she was.

0:55.9

She had just popped into my mind and I just wanted to text her and let her know I was thinking

1:00.0

of her and hoping she was having a great time on her travel adventures. And she wrote back asking,

1:06.6

hey, buddy, did you see my text yesterday? Which I hadn't.

1:11.3

And yes, it seems like my phone is dying and I'm going through this phase of missing a lot of texts, which is rather alarming.

1:19.1

And I freaked out a little bit in that moment when I heard why she was texting me.

1:24.1

But I was really glad the texts worked when I checked in.

1:28.2

Anyway, it turned out that Asha was still in fact in transit, but that she realized she had

1:34.2

a long layover at Boston's Logan Airport, which is not very far from my house.

1:40.2

So the amazing thing is the next day, I got to spend a few hours with Asha and her husband,

1:47.5

Rail, at Logan.

1:48.8

It was sort of comical the whole thing because Logan doesn't really have a lot of great

1:54.0

places to sit down and hang out pre-security, but we made it work.

1:58.0

And most importantly, we got to catch up.

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