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Optimal Living Daily - Personal Development and Self-Improvement

1401: [Part 1] What Consumes Your Mind Controls Your Life (and Finances) by Cait Flanders on Digital Detox

Optimal Living Daily - Personal Development and Self-Improvement

Optimal Living Daily LLC

Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Education, Self-improvement

4.63.2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 October 2019

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Cait Flanders shares what consumes your mind controls your life and finances. This is part 1 of 2.   Episode 1401: [Part 1] What Consumes Your Mind Controls Your Life (and Finances) by Cait Flanders on Digital Detox  Cait Flanders started Blonde on a Budget to document her debt repayment journey. After paying it off, she adopted a minimalist lifestyle, tossed 75% of her stuff, and is currently doing a two-year shopping ban. She shares stories and lessons learned every week.  The original post is located here: https://caitflanders.com/2015/09/14/what-consumes-your-mind-controls-your-life-and-finances/ Visit Me Online at OLDPodcast.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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Machines wherever you get your podcasts. This is Optimal Living Daily Episode 14-01

0:36.0

What Consumes Your Mind controls Your Life and Finances Part 1 by Kate Flanders of KateFlanders.com

0:42.8

and I'm Justin Mollick. Happy Saturday to you and welcome to one of the only podcasts in the

0:47.3

world where blogs are narrated to you for free with permission from the authors. It's an award-winning

0:52.8

podcast thanks to you and let me keep this intro nice and short for the weekend so let's get right

0:56.8

to it and start optimizing your life. What Consumes Your Mind controls Your Life and Finances Part

1:07.6

1 by Kate Flanders of KateFlanders.com What did you do this weekend? Did you get outside,

1:15.2

go for brunch or dinner, curl up and read a book or watch a movie? While you were doing that,

1:21.0

how many times did you check Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and or Pinterest and spend 10-20 minutes

1:26.8

mindlessly scrolling through the latest and greatest of what your friends and favorite brands shared?

1:31.8

I wish I could say my answer was zero or even that I do it just a few times. While I'm good

1:36.6

about not looking at my phone when I'm with friends, the opposite can be true when I'm alone.

1:41.7

And in the past, it has cost me a pretty penny. My cell phone plan includes six gigabytes of data.

1:48.1

I don't know how this compares to all my friends south of the border,

1:51.3

but six gigabytes is practically unheard of in Canada. Most of my friends only have one

1:55.7

of two gigabytes of data and our smartphone plans are some of the most expensive in the world.

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