today case we have some viewers that are just joining us for the first time first of all welcome welcome to the like to point out community and for us we say the like two point zero community is a movement because it's all about taking the second part of life and  making that as for filling in some cases it may be even more fulfilling than than part two of a life so what is the life two point zero community to like to point out community really is a result of i guess my journey in life after being downsized after twenty seven years with my previous employer and opting to take a retirement package but being totally clueless and i don't know what i want to do ok you take the baggage now what are you going to do so bus began  my journey so initially thinking well you know take take maybe go back and do the same industry but why because you were happy there that's why you took the package but just going you know the journey just trying to to  myself in a sense to think about some of the things that i maybe wanted to do in the past and run always a time to do it if not now than when you know you know my daughter was graduating in from college in a couple of months my son was already you know out of college so why not now so i started you know kind of looking at what skills and talents i did have for my previous jobs how could they be transferred to to do things that i love doing  i started doing business consulting because my background was sales and so forth but at the same time there were some skills that i used that i get for that profession that i didn't want to use and i mean there were some skills sales some experiences and and talents and skills that i did enjoy ultimately kind of stumbling into this whole idea of retirement or what we call the new and retrenchment because baby boomers we don't like the word retirement crap we certainly don't see us getting old and realizing that for our generation the like two point zero was not going to be the same as our parents realm my dad worked got to go watch then he was home doing you know the  chores and different other things well we're not going to live like that first of all we're more educated than previous generations we're going to live quite frankly post retirement kind of age twenty thirty years  do so many of us are taking this point in our lives either start a new career if you're still working maybe advance to a different level and start to focus on what you really like doing in a corporation that you're in starting a business doing a hobby doing volunteer so that's what like to point out was about i'm you know one of the saying that that i think a lot of people have a hard time when is their titles incorporate kind of subconsciously defined by who they are who they think they are but after you get to this point you really have to really evaluate w do you want exactly and i you know i do workshops and seminars and it's very call for people to take the time to think about me at this point in my life and my life it's very hard for them to do that and i just same time it's hard many times for people to separate themselves from that career or that profession that they did and figure out ok well who am i now and what do i want to do and enjoy doing and you're different exercises that we do in drammen art and workshops that kind of help people get on track but i also say to people that you know when you were growing up you had certain dreams you know we chatted like it and i have those dreams and desires kind of think back to that is that something you can do now or if you had a talent that you just couldn't take the time to to and i learned about it perfect whatever now is the time and i often think about it's not necessarily about working or or starting a business it's about something that you have within you that you never fully develop and i always go back to a good friend of ours who just is amazing painter because she has that's a natural talent her dad was a painter her brother's a painter and she took that time now in life two point zero to develop that skill yes and she's having a blast of yays ing work and then you know then there are people who just innately the givers and they nurture and i guess that's our our friend that we've had on the show gene with her nonprofit chain yes uganda has just a part of her to nurture and to cure so she's done amazing thing right and then got and then i love to do she can from corporate america but as a child twelve years old she said she started making jam her past her mom always make jam she says we grew up in a house we always had fruit jam in the winter community started this year with the theme and the thing with step boldly into twenty seventeen and by that we mean no more excuses no more all i wish i could of i didn't do no this year you take action to actually do what you want to do so we focused a lot of i think our previous shows we focused a lot about more of the professional things why i want to take this time in twenty seventeen to really talk about us yet both of us when we you know we did earlier show on honoring yourself and you know some of the answers we got from that were amazing and you know we're hoping to develop another project i was a result of that show but we really want to take twenty seventeen and honor ourselves and think about our success you know that's where our vironment because as that's how passionate your design plays a huge role absolutely on your conscious and yourself absolutely you know we  say when we design homes that we want the home to reflect you know the personality of the people living there you know it says something about their life but at the same time it should be a place where they come home they're inspired t tend to be the areas that get a little disorganized so we felt we dealt with the home office we dealt with closets and we don't in the kitchen with the pantries right so you're going to do something a little different as i'm going to focus a little bit on just the statics ok and a couple of other projects that you that is really a winter is actually a good time to start thinking about those things and so when the nice weather comes even if you  be on our website right right yes so we talk about inexpensive ideas ok so we're just going to focus on some inexpensive ideas and spring is really a good time to out with the old in and when and you know we can really you know yes so our first tip is our next slide is cleaning our windows ok i know we think we start to really neglect i know i do neglect this i think we're all we all are you know guilty of this at some point in time there is you you can clean the inside you know sometimes it's really hard to get the outside oh so please get the professionals to do the last i think if you cannot reach the outside you'd be amazed at how beautiful all right now you don't have to i'm actually a really good mixture for a homemade is distilled vinegar and water that works really well to get the things out so cleaning your window and look through the outside we forget about cleaning those and the best i have found the best thing is warm soapy water ok do not use cleaners on these things are less you know that you can use a cleaner because get kind of the cluttered right frequently so one of the things from a subconscious one interview when you d clutter and clear up the space you feel lighter absolutely you you actually energetically allow new things to happen that's that's quite true because i don't know if you remember in my home office i had this week so for a lounge that i thought when i purchase all this is going to be a great place to like lounge and watch television while a if that really really happened it was most often the place where cats are all right thank you and they can so and then finally i said you know what i'm like i felt like i was by drowning in the room or whatever so i got rid of the couch right and as soon as i got rid of the care of yes it was you know a little bit bulky but it was a darker color and that space the office light and light just now lightened up and i you know i put a little drafting table designers this is like the last thing we typically do but many times it's that punch as well thank you advantages about you know simple things like new towels that's really inexpensive i mean you don't have to throw out everything because i have put some new towels you know pillows on the pad to so far wherever and thinkable the lighter colors are going to bring is something else actually as the seasons rug you know sometimes you can actually a lot of times it's ok to put iraq on top of a rock well you know yeah and you get a different look at a different feel for the man and then the colors especially if you're doing it in the spring that yeah one of the things that i like to do in my master bath because i have a little bit more floors me is actually just get a regular rug not a bathroom i want a nice you know and there are so many that you can get i know for me i on my desk where i kind of have things organized by the typical what you go to the office here and i bought actually it's a jewelry box yeah and it has layers and little poll out revitalizing your furniture now any wood furniture or like real wood from here did you have it's a good time to think if you don't do this on a regular a sentence it's a good time to r the front door please people especially you know our front door you know i have to do this because i'm guilty of this as well and your but so your other thing about paint because a lot of people are afraid of color and the nice thing about paint nowadays is you can get the sample size paint yeah and you know take and even if you don't want to paint the wall in the stores they have the plain white poster board pay the poster board and the different colors put it on your wall go visit that room with those colors different times of the  real range yeah this is so easy yeah yeah just rearrange your furniture right this was something that my mom did all the time in our home you know we didn't  experiences and just rearranging the room a little bit it's almost like you have this new room like right if you have certain things that you put on your coffee table switch you out right swap them for something else right you know and you know one of the things that we use and we did this and a on this kind of goes back a little bit week censorious we did this in a home we did the client have so many books yeah you started to use the book books as part of the excess arising and many times for example if you have like an object of a piece and it's a little bit lower than what it should be can i will have layer pay paying and yashin to and design you know put that in different books in different parts of latin and i yell of a good thing yes so it wasn't necessarily moving furniture but just taking something that i had a whole lot of correct and incorporating it y times you know our bookcases are full yet we talk about get caught or take some of those books out and use them around the house or you know put different things on it you can put your vase on a writer lamp on it you know and elevate things a little bit extra lot of times is i love this idea of taking a birdbath or taking something that was meant for something else and using it and yeah so you know you can put the arrangement and the birth back the other thing that i love for this idea too is actually take a clear next it is just one paper you know they have amazing peel and stick wallpaper so if you just want to even now target this is not a thus giving yourself a different experience your subconscious right is actually the colors it's the colors it's absolutely the colors like how can you incorporate some other color into what you already  you don't mind switching correct when it's at this rice point you know when you do custom which you know moving thinking about that for the second part of of doing my massive ritual i'm not going to do if i the winter yeah keep that beautiful green so for the air which at that app yeah it's beautiful and you just used you know so the so would be the panels or napkins or one pop of color for a plate  ok so next would be oh i love to take like how you said he took to joe in boxes just different ideas and layer on top you know that the flowers are in a little case right but color actually pops it you know so like i was talking about in our first show if you have continued boxes that you bought something beautiful and new and you don't want to throw the other first yeah there are blocks away use it in this way you know bring bring some unusual  these are so easy to find right now in the big box stores or just any store really but it's just using it in a different way exactly you know using it into a little bit out pot under the collar yeah great way and we have some more coming up on empty frames but just making a collage of shit different shapes to yeah franco's and composition of all the different frames on the wall and next big piece here you need a bigger piece here who are you need two or three pieces to visually feel like a brighter place so it just kind of play around with those to give you that's actually a nice idea for your office this is actually a nice idea for your office today and this one is a nice layer idea how this one chalk board paint on the back and those are just empty frames that frame out the chalkboard and that's a great idea for your office if you have an extra space and you want to put some to do list there or your you know your board or your goals or something which this is what in the previous show we show in the pantry there was a ball out and the door behind the door of the pull out board and it was a great place to put you know your things you needed to perch yes or whatever yeah you know even in the kitchen that could serve as a message board right oh yeah and this is another one that  to work with your design exam and outdoors just look at combining colors yeah that's what makes this pop is really combining colors and we're going to do another show on actually how to think about colors and use and how to find them but you know you can get lots of ideas on the web with this as well and same thing here thing here candles you know just this is a color scheme here but if you put white container and just you know spruce it up with the container as well think about those you know different ways too to just bring a little bit of joy