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It's a minimalist Monday edition of Optimal Living Daily Episode 1102. Why confidence is the key to a simple life.

Buy Melissa Camaro-Welkins with nosidebar.com and I'm Justin Mollick. Happy Monday. Hope you're having a great start to your week, if you're listening in real time.

And welcome back to Optimal Living Daily or the OLD podcast where I read to you from some of the best blogs I can find and get permission from, mostly covering personal development and minimalism on this show.

For now, let's get right to it and start optimizing your life.

Why confidence is the key to a simple life by Melissa Camaro-Welkins with nosidebar.com.

So often I worry the things I make and the things I do aren't quite good enough. I compare myself to someone else who does things better or bigger or more completely than I do.

And I think I don't measure up. There's a loop that sometimes plays in my head saying, someone else could have said it better.

Someone else would have done it more expertly. Someone else would have known the best way to share it. There's always someone else. There's always more to learn.

But I think we can be confident in ourselves and our choices anyway. And I think we have to.

Confidence lets us move more easily through the world. We make better decisions. We worry less and we're more able to lead others in healthy ways.

Confidence makes it easier for each of us to follow our own path.

We need that confidence as we look to design simpler lives too.

Simplifying your lifestyle goes against the grain. It's not what everyone else is doing. Whether you're pairing back your stuff or your schedule, you're making different choices in the world around you.

We can swim upstream without fearing the pushback of the currents if we're confident in where we're headed.

When we're confident in ourselves and our choices, we can eliminate the unnecessary from our homes, our schedules, and even our minds without worry.

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