What does it mean to live more with less? I'm Katie Wells and welcome to the Maximized Minimalist

podcast. If you found yourself caught up in the hamster wheel of modern day motherhood and want to

rewrite the script, congratulations you're in the right place. I'm here to be your guide and help you take

back your motherhood

and achieve a simpler, more joy-filled life. Cheers to being a maximized minimalist. Enjoy the show.

Well, hey there, welcome to the show. Today I'm going to be talking about how creating your

big why will increase your chance 10 times of being successful at anything in life,

yes, even decluttering. You just need to make a decision and go. Did you know that the root word

of decide means to sever to cut off to remove any other options? Today I want to share with you the one point in my life when I

decided to really go all in with simplifying my life and make a decision. A lot of you have

heard my origin story and know why I became a minimalist, but one part of my story I haven't

shared yet is that in November 2017, my family and I were

involved in a terrible car accident. The day of the car accident started off completely normal,

just like any other day, as I'm sure they always do. Andrew and I had the day off work,

so we decided to take our sons who were one and two at the time

out for just a family day just for hanging out. Literally minutes into our drive, a driver

ran a stop sign, teaboned a car that was oncoming to us, essentially forcing him into our

lane and he hit us head on. I'll never forget the impact. It felt like

the physical violence just lasted forever, that entire impact. And it felt like it was in slow motion.

Like any memory I have of it is just like slow motion. It's the most bizarre thing.

I could feel my body flying around my seat, but I felt like a ragdoll,

but I couldn't stop it. I couldn't control my body. And by the time our car actually stopped moving

...