005: The 4 Step Strategy I Used to Conquer My Clutter For Good (and Climb a Mountain!)
Maximized Minimalist Podcast
Katy Wells
4.8 • 936 Ratings
🗓️ 15 May 2019
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Decluttering and mountain climbing can both make you feel like finishing and getting to the top is too difficult, too exhausting, and at times feels impossible. In this episode, I break down my Four Step Strategy that allowed me to conquer my clutter for good, AND climb a friggin' mountain, how COOL is that!?
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| 0:00.0 | What does it mean to live more with less? I'm Katie Wells and welcome to the Maximized Minimalist |
| 0:07.7 | podcast. If you found yourself caught up in the hamster wheel of modern day motherhood and want to |
| 0:14.1 | rewrite the script, congratulations you're in the right place. I'm here to be your guide and help you take |
| 0:20.6 | back your motherhood |
| 0:21.6 | and achieve a simpler, more joy-filled life. Cheers to being a maximized minimalist. Enjoy the show. |
| 0:29.4 | Well, hey there, welcome to the show. I wanted to start off today by doing a quick listener shout |
| 0:34.1 | out to scuba diver girl 68, my sweet friend Tammy, who left a super kind review on my |
| 0:41.2 | podcast and I wanted to share it with you all. She wrote, I've had the honor of knowing Katie and |
| 0:45.6 | working with her and her family for several years. Even before she set out on this journey of |
| 0:50.2 | helping others, she was living it. She is a great example of balance and reality. I mean, |
| 0:55.4 | you can really do this and not be overwhelmed. She is honest, genuine, and fun to listen to. |
| 1:01.5 | Wow. Thank you so much, Tammy, for the kind words that literally made my day. Okay, so today's |
| 1:07.5 | episode is all about climbing your Mount Everest. Maybe not the real mountain in Nepal, |
| 1:14.0 | but the other mountain in your life. Let's call it clutter. No matter where you are on your |
| 1:19.6 | journey of less, I know you can totally relate to the following questions. This is one of the top |
| 1:24.7 | questions I get on almost a daily basis, and that is, how do I even know where to begin? |
| 1:31.2 | And I totally get why. There is so much stuff. It's overwhelming. Just looking at the piles and |
| 1:38.2 | mountains of clutter can stress you out, and it can feel paralyzing. So what do we do? So often we just don't act on it. We don't move. |
| 1:46.5 | And the piles get bigger and bigger and bigger and the frustration gets higher and higher and higher. |
| 1:52.6 | So often, just the sheer volume alone stands in your way of getting started. I've been there too. |
| 1:59.3 | And it totally reminded me of a story in my life that is |
| 2:02.5 | absolutely parallel to this example. About 10 years ago, my husband and I went on our first |
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