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.

I am so happy you're here today, friend, because we're going to be diving into mental clutter.

Y'all 10 quick ways to reduce mental clutter, because if you are a

human being with a heartbeat, I can promise you you have mental clutter. So here are 10 quick things

that you can do. Start with one or two to reduce some of that mental clutter today. All right,

number one, declutter your physical environment. Y'all, if you've been hanging some of that mental clutter today. All right, number one, declutter your physical

environment. Y'all, if you've been hanging around me or this show for any amount of time,

it's not really surprised that I included that as number one on this list. And here is why.

Physical clutter adds more mental clutter to our brains than we realize. And it's typically not

until we get rid of some of that physical clutter, drop that stuff off at Goodwill,

sell it or get rid of it on your local buy nothing group, and get it out of your home

that we realized, oh my gosh, that was really such a burden. And I feel so much lighter

and I have so much more clarity and I'm able to focus so much more now that that stuff is gone,

right? Have you ever gone to cook dinner? And before you cook dinner, you realize you have all

the stuff scattered all over your countertops, and it takes you 20 minutes to clear your countertops just so you can cook dinner, right? That physical clutter

is causing mental clutter. This is why I highly encourage you to tackle some of that surface

area clutter that's probably staring you in the face as you listen to me right now on this episode.

Those piles of stuff, the paperwork, the bills, the kids' homework, the virtual schoolwork,

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