India Today – August 19, 2019

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SMART EDUCATION TRENDS

OFF THE BEATEN TRACK

Four changemakers who are following their hearts

talk of their unconventional careers

A Tidy

Occupation

GAYATRI GANDHI, 36

KonMari Certified Consultant,

Founder, Joy Factory, Gurugram

A

DELHI UNIVERSITY GRADUATE,

Gayatri Gandhi worked with

Disco very Channel for 10 years

before rea lising it wasn’t what she

wanted to do. Then she came across

Marie Kondo’s book The Life Changing

Magic of Tidying Up. “I started applying her

methods the very day I saw the KonMari

videos,” Gayatri confesses. Little did she

know the pursuit would end in her founding

her own clutter management company, the

JoyFactory,inGurugram.

(^) Step by Step With no clutter mana­
gement course in India, Gayatri went to
New York in 2017 for a certification course.
“To do the course, you have to read Marie
Kondo’s books, apply her methods in your
home, take bef ore and after pictures, apply
for the course which you can pursue only if
your pictures get accepted, submit reports
and take an online exam.” It took her seven
months to become a bro nze­level KonMari
certifiedconsultant.
(^) Rising to the Challenge Friends and
family were initially sceptical, but Gayatri
has completed over 150 hours of tidying
Indian homes.
Where KonMari Consultants Certification
Course, US
—Harshita Das
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