1360: Other Ways I'm Decluttering My Life (and Mind) by Cait Flanders on Minimalism & Simple Living with Less

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🗓️ 1 September 2019

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Cait Flanders shares other ways she's decluttering her life and mind. Episode 1360: Other Ways I'm Decluttering My Life (and Mind) by Cait Flanders on Minimalism & Simple Living with Less Cait Flanders is an author, podcaster, and traveller from a beautiful island in British Columbia, Canada. For the past eight years, you could say she's been on a journey of less. Less debt. Less clutter. Less consumerism. Etc. She recently wrote a self-help memoir that documents some of what she has experienced and discovered. The Year of Less came out in January 2018 and became a Wall Street Journal bestseller. The original post is located here: https://caitflanders.com/2014/08/13/other-ways-im-decluttering-my-life-and-mind/ Visit Me Online at OLDPodcast.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is Optimal Living Daily Episode 1360.
0:03.2	Other ways I'm decluttering my life and mind by Kate Flanders of KateFlanders.com
0:09.5	and I'm your narrator, Justin Mollick, reading you blogs every single day of the year to help you
0:13.5	live a more meaningful and positive life. We have five shows where we do that. Just search for
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0:23.8	of topics being narrated for you. For now let's get right to it as we optimize your life.
0:33.0	Other ways I'm decluttering my life and mind by Kate Flanders of KateFlanders.com
0:39.9	There was a moment right in the middle of that massive declutter I did last month where
0:43.8	I got extremely stressed out. Just like when I felt frustrated about not being able to find
0:48.6	the can opener in that drawer, I felt overwhelmed by how much stuff was stacked in my dining room.
0:54.1	Why didn't I finish going through that box when I first opened it?
0:57.4	What am I going to keep from the pile of things still in question?
1:00.7	What if the library won't take my books? And how the heck am I going to carry all of this down to
1:04.9	my car? Having it all out there in front of me it felt like more of a headache than a healthy
1:10.1	process. Once I had finally donated everything, I realized that my home was free of clutter,
1:16.0	but my mind was still full of it. At any given moment it seemed like I had a dozen or more
1:21.0	thoughts running through my head. I worried about whether or not I'd be able to squeeze in a
1:25.5	workout, but I'd eat for lunch and or dinner. How much work I'd be able to get done that day or
1:30.7	week? When I find the time to catch up on blogs, how I should reply to that email so and so
1:35.5	sent three days ago. When I get around to reading the dozens of sites at bookmarked,
1:39.6	who could design a logo, when I should launch a new project, when I'd see this friend or that
1:44.9	friend, how much I could save next month, which rowing club I should join, and the list goes on and
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