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.

Hey there, welcome back to another episode of The Maximized Minimalist. I'm your host, Katie Wells,

and I hope you've been enjoying this series of identifying and reframing this month.

Last week, we talked about retail therapy. The week before that, we talked about mindset and

false narrative. So today we're going to be continuing to flip that script, and we're going to

be talking about something I get a lot of comments on. This is a theme. I tend to hear a lot,

whether in DMs, emails, or comments

on my social posts is this. So people often tell me, you know, I am just not good at and then fill

in the blank. Usually when they're talking to me because of my expertise, it's, you know, I'm not good

at decluttering or I'm not good at keeping the clutter

way or I'm just not great at simplifying or letting go is so hard for me or something along

these lines. And the theme stays the same no matter what you fill in the blank with. And it's just,

I'm no good at this. And I wanted today to really dive deeper into identifying and flipping

and reframing that narrative. So the following excerpt is from an author. I really enjoy following.

His name is Seth Godin, and his words are just so, so good. So I'm quoting him here. He says,

that story in your head, it's invented. It has to be. It might be based on

some things that actually happened. The story we tell ourselves might be a useful predictor now and then.

The story might even have been put there against our wishes over time. But I can't possibly be a

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