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Annette Richmond Season 2 Episode 56

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Lisa Morton, Holistic Interior Design / Feng Shui, Pure Living with Lisa Morton, joined me to share how to use feng shui principles in your office to increase creativity and productivity. 

Topics included 

🔹What feng shui actually is and descriptions of the 5 elements

🔹How using feng shui principles can increase creativity and productivity

🔹Specific ways to easily incorporate feng shui elements into your space

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Okay, so good morning, good afternoon,

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good evening,

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wherever you are joining us from.

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Today is a day full of

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technical snafus on my part.

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We started late because I

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had a little technical problem going live,

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and now here I am talking away on mute.

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So good morning, good afternoon,

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good evening,

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wherever you are joining us from.

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I am so excited to have Lisa

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here as my guest today.

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We met on...

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PodPals,

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which is a monthly networking

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thing that the host of the

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podcasting business school

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does every month for people

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who listen to his podcast.

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And I think it's Adam Schneibel,

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I think is his name.

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And

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So when I heard you chatting,

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you sounded so engaging and interesting.

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I really wanted to have you on my show,

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and I'm delighted that you said yes.

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So for anyone who doesn't know you,

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please tell us a little bit

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about who you are and what you do.

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Sure.

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Thank you so much for having me, Annette.

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I'm Lisa Morton.

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I'm a holistic interior

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designer and feng shui consultant,

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and I teach feng shui at

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And I'm really passionate

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about helping people create

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spaces to support them and

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to just feel better in their day to day.

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I've been in the interior

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design industry for 20

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years and have focused on

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this holistic wellness

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approach to design for about the past 10.

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Well, you know,

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we were chatting a little

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bit before we went live.

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And I think I mentioned to you that

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I recall feng shui being a hot topic,

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like in the late 90s, early 2000s,

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I think.

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I know I have a book on feng

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shui up on my bookshelf someplace.

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And, you know,

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I remember a few things

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which are probably not even correct,

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like have your door painted

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red and don't sit with your

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back to the open door and whatever.

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don't and have like a

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Japanese bamboo or

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something on your desk or, but you know,

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this,

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but for people like me who have no

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idea what they're talking

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about when they mentioned Feng Shui,

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can you tell us a little

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bit kind of about like what it is?

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And because I think for a lot of people,

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it may be completely foreign.

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Sure.

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I think a lot of people

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think it's simply just superstition,

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but it's actually over 4,000 years old.

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and began in southern China,

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and it's been documented

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and researched and followed for so long.

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Feng shui means wind and water,

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and we look at places and

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how to create balance in the space,

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utilizing this five element system that

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Fire, water, wood, earth, and metal.

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So we use this to create a

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balance in your space.

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And then in turn,

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that creates balance in your body.

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So it's just,

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it just helps you live your

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life better and be more

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intentional with every day too.

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You know, I appreciate that.

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I am a true believer.

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I'm sorry for every, you know,

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I'm just like, I don't know,

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not technical today.

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So, you know,

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I really appreciate the whole

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idea of mind and body

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working together and they

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relate to each other.

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And I know for me, I have to have,

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I can't have like too much

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clutter on my desk or I just can't work.

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But you went through these different fire,

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water.

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Can you tell us a little bit

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about what each of those...

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kind of relates to?

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Sure, sure.

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So really each of these five

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elements describes how

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energy moves in a space.

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So the fire element is kind

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of higher energy, right?

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It lifts our energy when we

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kind of have the winter

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blahs or we're just feeling kind of low,

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right?

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Or we need to exercise.

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We need to get our energy up.

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The fire element will support you there.

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Water brings in fluidity.

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Peace, calm, fluidity.

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It's great if you're in the

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creative field.

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Say you're writing a book

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and you're struggling,

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bring in the water element.

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So some sort of blue, blacks,

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or some sort of watery

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pattern in a sofa or a throw pillow.

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Wood element is a plant.

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So any type of living flowers,

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also the color green.

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And this is really good to

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bring in a sense of revitalization

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moving onward and upward,

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focusing on your goal,

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going to reach that.

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Let's see,

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the earth element connects to

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the colors of browns and beiges and tans,

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kind of those colors you'd

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see if you dig down into the earth,

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as well as big chunky

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textured rugs in our spaces

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and square shapes.

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Those all bring the earth element in.

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And the earth element is

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really beneficial when you

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need to be grounded.

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Okay.

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And you're just having a busy day.

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You need to feel grounded

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and feel your feet on the floor.

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The earth element when your

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surroundings will definitely support you.

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And then last we have the metal element.

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So this is represented

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through any type of metallic item, silver,

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gold, whatever metallic,

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as well as the colors of

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white and gray and pastel colors.

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Okay.

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And then circular shapes.

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The metal element can be

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really good for your office.

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If you have a deadline,

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you want to bring that

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metal element near your body.

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It will help you with that

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extreme laser focus to get

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your project done.

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Wow.

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Wow.

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So I'm looking around my

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office and it's painted in a light blue.

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So I guess that's a good thing for me.

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And I do tend to wear black,

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which I thought was a bad thing.

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So maybe it's not such a bad thing.

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Maybe it's a good thing.

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But I, you know,

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and can you talk a little

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bit about the idea?

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Because we're talking about

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sort of content marketing, you know,

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in this space today.

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And so it's people that are, you know,

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working,

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maybe they're working on their

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own or they might be a

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social media manager for somebody else.

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And we talked about like

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creativity and productivity.

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So can you talk a little bit about,

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you know, how those relate to Feng Shui?

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And I guess that's it.

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Go wherever you go.

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All right.

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Well, I'll tell you, number one,

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it's so important to clear clutter,

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right?

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Clutter just brings chaos.

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unease in our body and, and it's,

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it's just unmade decision.

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So take time.

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I try to set my timer for 10

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minutes at the end of my

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work day to clear off my desk.

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So I can come in and feel

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refreshed and renewed when

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I'm ready to dive into work the next day.

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So that is the very first thing.

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And then if you need to like

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really bring focus in,

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I love specific colors.

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We talked about blue for creativity,

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a little gray or white for focus.

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But my favorite paint color

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for an office space is yellow.

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So yellow actually lifts our energy,

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but it's also a very grounding.

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Yellow is actually an earth element color,

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kind of when I talked about the beiges,

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the tans, the browns.

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So yellow is really good, too.

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lift our energy,

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but keep us grounded at the same time.

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And it just helps with focus.

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I actually had an office years ago.

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My husband and I had moved

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into this new home and I've

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worked from home 10, 12 years now,

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had a home office as we've moved.

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We moved into here and it was yellow.

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And I'm like, oh, I have to repaint this.

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I'm not a yellow person,

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but I don't know what color.

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So I'll sit with it for a while.

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I grew up.

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to love my yellow office.

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And I felt like I got so

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much done while I was in

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that yellow office.

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I was just so productive and

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could focus really well.

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Um, so it just,

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I I'm a big fan of yellow

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and it just really is supportive.

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Wow,

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I find that so fascinating because I

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am like not a yellow person either.

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I can't, you know, it's just,

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I don't know.

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It's just,

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I can't imagine trying to use that.

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But, you know,

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I think it's interesting and

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I'll ask you about this

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because you're talking

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about like calming with the water,

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with the blue and everything.

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But yet if you go into,

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like in a hospital or something,

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the walls, a lot of them are green,

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right?

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So you had talked about green being,

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I forget something with the,

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is that called?

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Wood element.

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Wood element.

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Okay.

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It can be,

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it can kind of lean two different ways.

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Green is really good to

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revitalize your body.

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So something really cool.

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If you've ever taken flowers

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or a plant to someone who's

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ill in the hospital,

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you think you're just doing

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this kind gesture, right?

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But following feng shui, these,

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these connect to the wood element.

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So you're gifting them something with,

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with an element that's going

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to actually cue their body

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to start healing itself.

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Plants are just so wonderful for us.

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So green, you know,

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it's a soft green that you

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see in these hospitals, soft blues, soft,

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gentle colors.

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So a soft green,

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I have a soft green bedroom

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and I think it's really peaceful.

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It just can't be too bold,

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too bright of a green or

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else it will be too high energy.

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Yeah, you know,

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that is really interesting.

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And, you know,

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obviously I'm sure most

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people know that it's good

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to have plants around because of the,

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you know, they give us oxygen and,

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you know, recycle the air.

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And it's a struggle for us

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because we have dogs and so

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many plants are toxic to dogs.

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So like the plant you have behind you,

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I have one very high up,

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but couldn't have that low

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because it's the dogs, you know.

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I get it.

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But-

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And I'm assuming that it has to be real,

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not, you know, a fake plant.

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Well, you can bring in some other options.

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So green coloring on a wall

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or green pillow or a green candle.

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Also,

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vertical stripes bring in this element.

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OK, so vertical stripes on wallpaper,

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vertical stripes in a

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pattern on a pillow.

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You can also bring in artwork.

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Artwork is excellent because

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I have a lot of clients

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that travel on business

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that have cats that will

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get in your plant.

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So you can bring in artwork.

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I actually have a cute

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little powder bath and I

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really wanted a plant in

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there because plants are

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really good in a water

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element and bathrooms have so much water.

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Well, I couldn't do it.

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I couldn't just couldn't

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find a plant that would stay alive.

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So I brought in this

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beautiful watercolor painting of,

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of these plants and I have

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it on the wall.

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So you can bring artwork in of,

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plants and that works just as well.

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Wow.

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You know,

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it's funny because I know we have

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one plant and it is in our bathroom,

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but it's toxic to dogs,

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but it's very high up.

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So they, you know,

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they wouldn't be able to get it.

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But I think we are

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inadvertently doing

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something right in our home.

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Our home is mostly blues and

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and grays, because we just like that.

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We are both fans of water.

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So we have paintings of, you know,

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seaside and,

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and ocean and things like that around.

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So I'm guessing that's inadvertently,

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that's good for us.

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I think we're naturally

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drawn to what feels good to

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us and what we crave.

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The key is to remember balance.

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So while you love those blues and

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those watery colors,

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you also need to make sure

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you have balance,

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which is interesting

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because directly behind you

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have those bold, bright, colorful prints.

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So it's just a matter of

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making sure you have all

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elements represented in your space,

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but we also want to balance

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for the activity in the space, right?

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Because say a spa,

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the energy of a spa is very

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soothing and very relaxing,

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but then the energy of,

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A school,

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a casino is a totally different energy.

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So we wanna balance for the

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activity in the space.

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Wow, that is so interesting.

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So I'm going to ask you to

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give us some tips now.

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You know, as I said,

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I'm looking around my

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office and I do have some wood.

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I have bookcases that are wood.

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And so I do have kind of a mix.

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You can see I have my fake

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flowers behind me.

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So, you know, there is that.

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I don't have a plant here,

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but maybe I'll have to get

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one for my desk.

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But it's and it's

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interesting that you

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mentioned the pictures.

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Now,

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I bought those a couple of years ago

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when I stopped using a

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virtual background and they

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just appealed to me because, you know,

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dogs.

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And I get more people who

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compliment me on the pictures,

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partly because the dogs are

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wearing glasses like me.

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And people know that I have dogs.

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They're kind of part of my brand.

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But they also make me smile.

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Like right now,

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I see them when I'm on video.

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So is that kind of something that,

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you know, things that make us happy?

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Definitely.

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Definitely.

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I'm always telling people to

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be very intentional with

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the things you bring into your space.

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You don't just want to fill it, right?

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I have clients that build a new home.

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and they want it to be HGTV

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photo shoot ready tomorrow.

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And I'm like, no,

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let's be really intentional

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with all those things

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you're bringing into your space.

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Do they all make you feel good?

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Do they make you happy?

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When you walk in,

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are you joyful to see them?

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Or is it something like, oh,

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there's the vase that I got

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for a wedding gift that I just don't like,

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but I can't get rid of it

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because somebody will get mad at me,

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right?

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We all have those things in our home.

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And

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And I want you to really be

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mindful of these, right?

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Fill your space with those

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things that you love,

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that make you feel good.

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Move on from those things

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that don't make you feel good.

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You know,

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just because a great aunt gave

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you a sweater one time

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doesn't mean she intends

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for you to keep it forever.

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Yeah, you know, I love that.

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And I will tell you that, you know,

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I have a lot of quirky

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things like a multi-painted

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you know,

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tall dog figurine that sits in a corner.

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We have a lot of things like

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that just because I like them.

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And I hear you though,

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when I'm thinking of some

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of the antiques that I have

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that they're in the chest, but you know,

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I don't really like them.

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They don't do anything for me.

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So, but I'm also, I have to say,

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as I'm sitting here and, you know,

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we're in the studio

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together and I'm looking at

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my office and I'm looking

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at yours and yours is so calm.

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Because, you know, it's so just,

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I don't know,

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Feng Shui comes to mind or

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Scandinavian or Japanese and all of that.

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It's so, you know,

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absolutely uncluttered and yet not empty.

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There's a method to my madness here.

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So we have a whitish gray background,

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which brings in the metal element,

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as well as the gold detail,

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the gold shimmer on there.

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So metal element for focus,

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so I can focus on you.

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as well as the triangular

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shapes you see behind me

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bring in a fire element.

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So that will lift my energy

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so I can stay engaged and not get sleepy.

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And then the plants just

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kind of keep me feeling, you know,

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revitalized and ready to go.

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So there's a method to my madness here.

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No, no, it's, it's fabulous.

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It's fabulous.

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So, so for people who are, um, you know,

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listening now,

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we have some people listening now, um,

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and we'd get more on the replay and,

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and on the podcast.

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So I think most of my

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audience is working in a home office,

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but they may be working in

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an office someplace.

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So starting with sort of the

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home office where I think

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we may have a little more

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freedom to control over our environment,

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can you give us some tips

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of things that we can incorporate?

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Like I could just bring in

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and incorporate and others can too.

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make their,

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their environment more productive,

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you know,

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help them be productive and creative,

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et cetera.

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Definitely.

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Definitely.

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I work with a lot of people

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on home offices and it's

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fascinating because I

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remember during the days of

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COVID people would call me

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because they're like, I can't focus.

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And they're sitting at the

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dining room table and their

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kids are next to us and

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dinner's being made next to them.

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Like, of course you're not going to focus.

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So

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Number one is find a dedicated space.

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They'll be working at the dining table,

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at the coffee table,

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find a dedicated space.

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I even went as far as we created,

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utilized in small apartments, a closet,

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we turned it into an office.

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So have that dedicated space

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and fill it with those

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things to support you.

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Don't just use an empty room

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and it has clutter over

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here and some boxes over there.

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fill it to support you to succeed.

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You know, how does that look?

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You can even do,

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I even tell people get on

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Canva or something or just

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create a collage of images,

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a vision board for what you

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want in your office space.

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And then a big thing that

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really helps me and I think

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helps a lot of my clients

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is to set up a routine in

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your office because I work from home.

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I know how easy it is

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after dinner's cleaned up.

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I just want to pop back

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upstairs and answer two more emails,

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right?

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Oh, yes.

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All right.

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Yes.

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So, right.

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So it's so easy to do,

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but we need that away time.

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We need that time away with our, you know,

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families, our kids, our dogs, whatever.

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We need that time away

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because that makes us a

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better performer the next day, right?

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So set up a routine.

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If you do this every day,

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it will help cue your body

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into moving into work mode

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moving out of work mode so I

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walk in my office I open

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the door I turn on the

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lights I open the blinds I

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light the candle I sit down

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at the end of the day I

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stand up blow out the

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candle close the blinds

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turn the lights off close

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the door behind me and I

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repeat this every day and

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once you start doing this

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your body will start cueing

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into okay it's time to work

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and then okay we're done

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for the day that really is beneficial

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Wow.

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Yeah, I love that.

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It kind of makes me think of

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the sleep routine.

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They say,

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get into the routine before you

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go to bed.

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Do this, do this, do this.

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And I will say that I am so

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guilty of getting up in the

00:20:01.259 --> 00:20:04.481
morning and grab my coffee, feed the dogs,

00:20:04.561 --> 00:20:05.722
and stumble into my office

00:20:05.782 --> 00:20:07.104
and start working.

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But yeah,

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I love that idea of having that

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sort of schedule.

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Because I think it is...

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When when you work for yourself,

00:20:20.085 --> 00:20:22.028
you work from or work from a home office,

00:20:22.107 --> 00:20:23.250
I guess, if you have a, you know,

00:20:23.329 --> 00:20:26.515
sort of a flexible schedule, you know,

00:20:26.615 --> 00:20:27.615
to it makes it great.

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Like I can run to the

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grocery after we're done

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here and then just come

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back and work late.

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But we do tend to, you know, incorporate,

00:20:37.266 --> 00:20:37.546
you know,

00:20:38.385 --> 00:20:39.625
the work just spreads and

00:20:39.665 --> 00:20:40.807
spreads and spreads and spreads.

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And, you know,

00:20:41.906 --> 00:20:43.407
as you're talking about the

00:20:43.807 --> 00:20:46.969
dedicated space, I'm thinking of the,

00:20:47.269 --> 00:20:48.088
which I think is,

00:20:48.528 --> 00:20:52.351
as I read here and there, is becoming...

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Less of a trend is the whole

00:20:54.791 --> 00:20:58.694
open floor plan, which, you know,

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and it seems because I used

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to watch a lot of HGTV.

00:21:01.717 --> 00:21:02.797
I still do occasionally.

00:21:02.836 --> 00:21:04.337
And it's like they go into the home,

00:21:04.858 --> 00:21:06.079
pull down the walls.

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And I'm thinking, you know,

00:21:07.540 --> 00:21:09.281
but during I think the pandemic,

00:21:09.682 --> 00:21:11.563
people realized that, you know,

00:21:11.623 --> 00:21:12.144
you can't.

00:21:12.163 --> 00:21:13.924
I mean, that was fine.

00:21:13.964 --> 00:21:15.306
I had sort of a big loft

00:21:15.346 --> 00:21:16.926
like space when I was single.

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But when you're,

00:21:18.321 --> 00:21:19.482
even if you're just married,

00:21:19.522 --> 00:21:20.943
like me and my husband,

00:21:21.703 --> 00:21:24.586
you have to have space that's separate.

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So what about people that

00:21:26.326 --> 00:21:28.367
are living in those open spaces,

00:21:28.688 --> 00:21:30.269
open floor plans?

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What do they do?

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This can be hard.

00:21:35.352 --> 00:21:36.413
This can definitely be hard.

00:21:36.432 --> 00:21:37.413
And that is so true because

00:21:37.512 --> 00:21:38.733
everybody wanted these open

00:21:38.773 --> 00:21:39.874
concept floor plans.

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And now, you know,

00:21:41.315 --> 00:21:42.855
COVID made a lot of people

00:21:42.915 --> 00:21:44.057
realize that we need

00:21:44.096 --> 00:21:45.938
dedicated spaces so we can go in

00:21:46.411 --> 00:21:46.891
be quiet,

00:21:46.951 --> 00:21:48.893
we can focus and not hear music

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and the TV and all that.

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So you can do a couple of things.

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Again, play around with closets.

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I actually worked with a woman.

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She wanted to create a yoga

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and meditation space in

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this big unused walk-in closet.

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So look at your closet space.

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And also you can use dividers,

00:22:08.406 --> 00:22:09.327
folding screens,

00:22:09.367 --> 00:22:10.909
things like that to create

00:22:11.028 --> 00:22:13.109
spaces for you to work.

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And it's something wherever

00:22:14.530 --> 00:22:15.392
you are working,

00:22:15.854 --> 00:22:17.096
I want you to do whatever

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you can to try and have a

00:22:19.077 --> 00:22:20.740
solid wall behind you.

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So this is one of my most

00:22:23.042 --> 00:22:24.023
important tips is,

00:22:24.404 --> 00:22:25.665
I think you mentioned at the beginning,

00:22:25.705 --> 00:22:27.208
it's called the command position.

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Putting yourself in this

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command position will help you focus,

00:22:30.972 --> 00:22:31.512
will help you feel

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supported and grounded.

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Yeah, I don't know where I picked that up.

00:22:38.016 --> 00:22:39.636
I think it was I was working in corporate,

00:22:39.656 --> 00:22:41.577
but I had my own office and

00:22:41.698 --> 00:22:42.817
everybody there.

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We had our desk position so

00:22:44.720 --> 00:22:47.201
that we were facing the door and not,

00:22:47.480 --> 00:22:48.882
you know, and not have it behind us.

00:22:48.942 --> 00:22:50.502
Now, my door is not behind me.

00:22:50.563 --> 00:22:51.363
It's over on the side.

00:22:51.403 --> 00:22:52.163
I'm not facing it.

00:22:52.203 --> 00:22:57.346
But what about bringing in things like.

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You talked a little bit about pictures.

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Now, you know,

00:23:01.528 --> 00:23:02.148
you talked about the

00:23:02.289 --> 00:23:03.410
pictures that I have behind me,

00:23:03.430 --> 00:23:04.611
but I only really see them

00:23:04.871 --> 00:23:06.412
when I'm on video and I

00:23:06.751 --> 00:23:08.113
have them there for that purpose.

00:23:08.534 --> 00:23:10.474
But I do have things across

00:23:10.535 --> 00:23:13.156
from my desk that inspire me,

00:23:13.217 --> 00:23:15.077
like a plaque that says, be the change,

00:23:15.137 --> 00:23:16.078
you know, that quote,

00:23:16.098 --> 00:23:17.380
be the change you want to see.

00:23:17.400 --> 00:23:19.901
I have another one with a donkey that says,

00:23:20.402 --> 00:23:21.982
don't try to win over the haters.

00:23:22.022 --> 00:23:23.624
You're not the jackass whisperer.

00:23:23.683 --> 00:23:25.684
Now, I have those kind of side by side.

00:23:26.125 --> 00:23:27.866
And one day it's one and one

00:23:27.886 --> 00:23:28.507
day it's another.

00:23:29.086 --> 00:23:32.628
but what, what, I'm glad I made you laugh.

00:23:32.929 --> 00:23:34.348
So, so what,

00:23:35.148 --> 00:23:37.529
what can people put across

00:23:37.690 --> 00:23:38.651
from them that they're,

00:23:38.750 --> 00:23:41.592
that they're seeing to, you know,

00:23:41.791 --> 00:23:43.792
I don't know, maybe inspire them or.

00:23:43.813 --> 00:23:43.893
Sure.

00:23:45.032 --> 00:23:45.752
I love,

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I love any type of positive message,

00:23:47.913 --> 00:23:48.153
right.

00:23:48.173 --> 00:23:49.654
That you can look at because

00:23:49.694 --> 00:23:51.996
you might not even consciously look at it,

00:23:52.056 --> 00:23:52.996
but you're subconsciously

00:23:53.056 --> 00:23:54.777
reacting to that positive message.

00:23:54.817 --> 00:23:56.237
That's directly across from you.

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I recently worked with someone,

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And we did it online.

00:24:01.358 --> 00:24:02.259
We did a virtual meeting.

00:24:02.318 --> 00:24:04.601
And I had her send me photos

00:24:04.780 --> 00:24:06.403
of what she looked at from

00:24:06.423 --> 00:24:08.845
her sitting position on her desk.

00:24:09.464 --> 00:24:11.287
And it was these bookshelves with books.

00:24:11.686 --> 00:24:12.907
But then it was filled with

00:24:12.968 --> 00:24:15.009
just a lot of stuff and

00:24:15.109 --> 00:24:16.230
stuff her kids had given

00:24:16.290 --> 00:24:18.913
her and like trinkets and bits and pieces,

00:24:18.992 --> 00:24:19.232
right?

00:24:19.753 --> 00:24:21.755
We want to calm that down.

00:24:21.836 --> 00:24:23.076
So I asked her to pare it

00:24:23.116 --> 00:24:23.916
down a little bit.

00:24:24.017 --> 00:24:24.718
So you have

00:24:25.296 --> 00:24:26.757
areas of emptiness,

00:24:27.117 --> 00:24:28.178
and then some areas with

00:24:28.258 --> 00:24:29.298
some items to look at.

00:24:29.740 --> 00:24:30.500
You don't just want to be

00:24:30.559 --> 00:24:31.921
constantly all this stuff

00:24:32.001 --> 00:24:33.323
behind your screen.

00:24:33.343 --> 00:24:34.182
This is going to be

00:24:34.222 --> 00:24:35.084
distracting when you're

00:24:35.104 --> 00:24:36.204
trying to focus on your screen.

00:24:37.849 --> 00:24:38.009
Yeah,

00:24:38.069 --> 00:24:40.871
so I want to share your LinkedIn

00:24:40.891 --> 00:24:43.231
profile for people to follow you.

00:24:43.332 --> 00:24:46.532
And you do share, I believe,

00:24:47.634 --> 00:24:50.634
a fair amount of information on LinkedIn.

00:24:51.474 --> 00:24:53.256
But I don't know if that is

00:24:53.336 --> 00:24:54.896
the best place to follow you.

00:24:54.916 --> 00:24:57.116
I mean, I like your background,

00:24:57.136 --> 00:24:58.198
although I would think that

00:24:58.637 --> 00:24:59.377
after talking to you,

00:24:59.458 --> 00:25:00.818
that's like a Feng Shui nightmare.

00:25:00.838 --> 00:25:01.199
Yeah.

00:25:02.170 --> 00:25:02.950
It's a little busy,

00:25:03.049 --> 00:25:05.330
but the best place to

00:25:05.351 --> 00:25:06.811
follow me is probably on Instagram,

00:25:06.832 --> 00:25:08.672
just because I'm a creative person.

00:25:08.752 --> 00:25:09.752
I love images.

00:25:09.772 --> 00:25:10.712
I love photographs.

00:25:10.732 --> 00:25:12.594
I love jumping on and sharing a video.

00:25:12.634 --> 00:25:13.594
Hey, I'm working on this.

00:25:13.653 --> 00:25:14.654
This is how you might solve

00:25:14.674 --> 00:25:16.295
this problem in your, in your home.

00:25:16.855 --> 00:25:18.375
And, and when it comes to,

00:25:18.615 --> 00:25:21.277
when it comes to Instagram, what is your,

00:25:22.478 --> 00:25:24.979
what is your, your handle?

00:25:25.439 --> 00:25:25.679
Yeah.

00:25:26.219 --> 00:25:28.440
At pure living with Lisa Morton.

00:25:28.680 --> 00:25:29.759
So my business is pure

00:25:29.800 --> 00:25:30.800
living with Lisa Morton.

00:25:30.820 --> 00:25:30.941
So,

00:25:31.564 --> 00:25:32.744
You can find me after living

00:25:32.765 --> 00:25:34.066
with Lisa Morton on

00:25:34.145 --> 00:25:35.767
Instagram and Facebook too.

00:25:36.307 --> 00:25:36.606
Okay.

00:25:37.007 --> 00:25:39.048
Cause I know you share a lot of videos.

00:25:39.108 --> 00:25:39.969
I've watched some of your

00:25:40.028 --> 00:25:41.450
videos and a lot of them

00:25:41.750 --> 00:25:43.990
are instructional type videos,

00:25:44.132 --> 00:25:46.093
giving people tips about

00:25:46.173 --> 00:25:47.394
how to like some of the

00:25:47.433 --> 00:25:48.273
things that I've asked you

00:25:48.294 --> 00:25:49.714
today that you share things

00:25:49.734 --> 00:25:51.316
like that regularly on there.

00:25:51.976 --> 00:25:53.237
And so I appreciate that

00:25:53.616 --> 00:25:55.438
since we are live on Instagram right now,

00:25:55.478 --> 00:25:56.979
I don't, I don't know if I can pull it.

00:25:56.999 --> 00:25:58.460
Let me see if I can pull it up in a,

00:25:58.940 --> 00:26:01.182
in a second screen without, um,

00:26:03.896 --> 00:26:06.018
OK, here we go.

00:26:06.117 --> 00:26:06.378
All right.

00:26:06.398 --> 00:26:07.358
So I'm going to just share

00:26:07.398 --> 00:26:10.661
my screen again and show

00:26:10.721 --> 00:26:13.383
you on Instagram.

00:26:13.542 --> 00:26:15.744
OK, here we go.

00:26:15.765 --> 00:26:18.645
OK, so there's the Lisa.

00:26:18.685 --> 00:26:19.626
There's all your stuff.

00:26:19.666 --> 00:26:21.307
So you're living with Lisa

00:26:21.327 --> 00:26:23.490
Morton and here are all of your.

00:26:23.970 --> 00:26:25.871
Oh, and it looks just so perfect, too.

00:26:25.891 --> 00:26:28.712
I see a lot of photos of my dogs.

00:26:30.928 --> 00:26:31.508
The layout,

00:26:31.548 --> 00:26:33.088
it looks so perfect and

00:26:33.169 --> 00:26:34.150
organized and everything.

00:26:34.210 --> 00:26:35.089
So, yeah,

00:26:35.190 --> 00:26:36.770
so this is where you are most of

00:26:36.790 --> 00:26:37.191
the time.

00:26:37.250 --> 00:26:38.371
People can certainly find

00:26:38.411 --> 00:26:40.792
you there and get

00:26:40.853 --> 00:26:44.134
information about you on your Instagram,

00:26:44.153 --> 00:26:45.154
which is great.

00:26:45.634 --> 00:26:46.654
I follow you as well.

00:26:47.255 --> 00:26:51.096
So I always like to ask my guests before –

00:26:51.096 --> 00:26:52.958
you know, as we're winding down,

00:26:53.959 --> 00:26:55.700
for their final thoughts, you know,

00:26:55.839 --> 00:26:56.980
I've asked you some questions.

00:26:57.040 --> 00:26:57.641
I think we've had an

00:26:57.721 --> 00:26:58.741
interesting conversation.

00:26:58.862 --> 00:26:59.643
I know I've learned.

00:26:59.702 --> 00:27:01.384
I'm sure others will learn as well.

00:27:01.963 --> 00:27:04.045
But what would you like to share that,

00:27:04.546 --> 00:27:04.826
you know,

00:27:04.846 --> 00:27:06.426
I haven't asked you and we

00:27:06.467 --> 00:27:07.426
haven't talked about that

00:27:07.467 --> 00:27:09.489
you think would be beneficial for people,

00:27:10.288 --> 00:27:10.888
you know, to know?

00:27:11.990 --> 00:27:12.269
You know,

00:27:12.289 --> 00:27:14.211
I kind of touched on it at the beginning.

00:27:14.271 --> 00:27:15.271
And a lot of people think

00:27:15.652 --> 00:27:17.773
feng shui is simply superstition.

00:27:18.314 --> 00:27:19.694
But it's really...

00:27:20.345 --> 00:27:23.366
deeply rooted study and

00:27:23.426 --> 00:27:25.327
research and following, you know,

00:27:25.428 --> 00:27:27.108
and studying over the years.

00:27:27.368 --> 00:27:30.931
And while we have the utmost

00:27:31.391 --> 00:27:33.112
respect for the traditional

00:27:33.692 --> 00:27:34.732
ancient practice,

00:27:35.192 --> 00:27:36.292
what I practice is also

00:27:36.333 --> 00:27:37.634
very westernized because we

00:27:37.673 --> 00:27:38.575
live in a different world.

00:27:38.694 --> 00:27:40.455
I'm talking to you on a computer, right?

00:27:40.536 --> 00:27:42.957
We have electricity, we have

00:27:43.390 --> 00:27:44.871
you know, internet and everything.

00:27:44.990 --> 00:27:46.373
So it's a nice blend.

00:27:47.854 --> 00:27:48.835
I'm not going to make you

00:27:48.914 --> 00:27:51.497
decorate your home in Asian decor, right?

00:27:51.517 --> 00:27:52.557
There's other ways to bring

00:27:52.597 --> 00:27:53.759
these elements into our

00:27:53.778 --> 00:27:56.080
space to feel good and also

00:27:56.421 --> 00:27:58.502
have a home that we feel is beautiful.

00:28:00.199 --> 00:28:00.719
Yeah.

00:28:00.939 --> 00:28:01.259
Yeah.

00:28:01.378 --> 00:28:03.259
I, you know, as, as I mentioned, you know,

00:28:03.420 --> 00:28:06.201
our home is, is kind of eclectic.

00:28:06.300 --> 00:28:08.580
I mean, I, on the top of our China cabinet,

00:28:08.641 --> 00:28:09.761
I have a still that was my

00:28:09.821 --> 00:28:12.241
grandfather's and then other, you know,

00:28:12.362 --> 00:28:13.502
other things like that.

00:28:14.083 --> 00:28:15.883
Um, it's, it's really, um,

00:28:16.143 --> 00:28:17.564
I guess eclectic I think is,

00:28:17.683 --> 00:28:18.864
is the best way to think about it.

00:28:18.884 --> 00:28:20.244
And maybe that's not such a good thing,

00:28:20.644 --> 00:28:22.125
but as you're talking about, you know,

00:28:22.184 --> 00:28:23.545
the Western holistic Noah,

00:28:23.945 --> 00:28:25.246
as your background, um,

00:28:25.986 --> 00:28:28.107
While it is very soothing and everything,

00:28:28.608 --> 00:28:28.868
you know,

00:28:28.949 --> 00:28:31.631
it's not antique-y or anything like that.

00:28:32.511 --> 00:28:34.413
The paper is very, you know, modern.

00:28:34.493 --> 00:28:36.576
So are there any things that

00:28:36.596 --> 00:28:38.396
you can just mention as we

00:28:38.477 --> 00:28:40.358
close that people can put

00:28:40.538 --> 00:28:43.121
in their office other than a plant,

00:28:43.161 --> 00:28:44.321
which seems like a

00:28:44.382 --> 00:28:46.723
no-brainer that everyone should, you know,

00:28:46.763 --> 00:28:48.005
have a plant in their office,

00:28:48.045 --> 00:28:49.145
maybe one in every room?

00:28:49.165 --> 00:28:49.247
Yeah.

00:28:49.866 --> 00:28:52.428
But maybe four other things

00:28:52.468 --> 00:28:53.428
that people might want to

00:28:53.488 --> 00:28:54.647
have on their desk.

00:28:54.688 --> 00:28:55.748
You mentioned a candle.

00:28:55.768 --> 00:28:57.628
I have a diffuser, but I don't.

00:28:57.929 --> 00:28:58.568
That's great.

00:28:59.709 --> 00:29:00.730
Aroma.

00:29:00.890 --> 00:29:02.890
Aroma is so powerful to

00:29:03.890 --> 00:29:05.070
adjust our energy if we

00:29:05.090 --> 00:29:05.931
need to bring ourselves

00:29:05.990 --> 00:29:07.090
down to lift it up.

00:29:08.092 --> 00:29:10.051
I also love beautiful things,

00:29:10.251 --> 00:29:12.153
whether that's something decorative,

00:29:12.173 --> 00:29:14.692
a family photo in the corner,

00:29:14.732 --> 00:29:16.193
because while you're still at work,

00:29:16.314 --> 00:29:17.233
you want to remember those

00:29:17.294 --> 00:29:17.993
special people.

00:29:18.463 --> 00:29:20.045
Also awards and certificates.

00:29:20.904 --> 00:29:22.444
It's important to display these.

00:29:22.545 --> 00:29:23.385
Display these.

00:29:23.425 --> 00:29:24.145
Be proud of them.

00:29:24.165 --> 00:29:25.046
And that will encourage your

00:29:25.086 --> 00:29:26.686
body and the energy to want

00:29:26.727 --> 00:29:28.166
to achieve more, right?

00:29:28.467 --> 00:29:29.327
This is really great.

00:29:30.528 --> 00:29:31.548
And just really be

00:29:31.587 --> 00:29:33.209
intentional and clutter

00:29:33.269 --> 00:29:34.709
clear as much as you can.

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Because I know you clean it

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and a week later it can be really messy.

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But start over to start fresh.

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Schedule that time every day

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to just pick up before

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you're done for the day.

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Yeah, I love that.

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And I think that is a

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perfect note to end on.

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So I thank you so much for

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being here with me today.

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This is a great conversation.

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I have learned so much.

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I really appreciate

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everything you've shared.

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For everyone else out there,

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have a great rest of your

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day and I will see you next week.


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