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.

What's up, y'all? Welcome to another episode of The Maximized Minimalist. I hope you enjoyed

last month's series of identifying and reframing. I brought Connie on last week to talk all

things wardrobe and continuing to edit and call a wardrobe until we feel confident and

simplified. Today we're going to be diving into why you can't rely on motivation to help you

declutter your home and one really powerful thing you can do instead. And I'm so,

so geeked out to talk to you about this topic because here's a thing, we've all been there.

Like, we've all had these moments in our lives where we're just standing in our homes,

just looking at the mess, right? Like our mouths are open. We're like, how the heck did we get here?

There's piles of random crap everywhere. The counters are a mess. You know, the kids are running around naked. It's just ridiculous, right? Those times in motherhood. The toys have exploded from the play space. There's Legos everywhere. Right. You're just like, oh my gosh. Like, this is insane. And I think, you you know thoughts that cross your mind in that time is

like this is such a huge job i don't even know where to start i'm certainly not feeling motivated

to just tackle this mess because it's so overwhelming but here's what i've learned since i began

my minimalist journey and it's really interesting because i'm so grateful I've incorporated a lot of these things

just organically. I feel like I got lucky. But I've read a book very recently by a fantastic

author named James Clear. It's called Atomic Habits, which I highly recommend. So a lot of these

things I'll be talking about are pulled from this book. And again, I kind of feel like I did

them naturally on accident, however that happens. But it got me to where I am today. And it really

took me to the next level in my simplifying journey. So here is what I'll be talking about today.

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