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.

Hey, you, I am so happy. You are here today. So what do you think it is? What do you think

is a number one reason for clutter? I know some of you might be thinking

probably my messy family, procrastination, right? There are a lot of potential answers here.

And again, I'm so happy you're here because no matter where you are in your simplifying journey

or where you are in your declutter journey or where you are in your declutter

process, whether you're drowning in clutter, just getting started, or mostly clutter-free,

you are going to walk away from this episode viewing your clutter and your stuff and the reason

you might have it in a completely new light. And again, on the surface level, one hugely common reason for clutter is procrastination.

So if you guessed it, you're still wrong, at least for the sake of this episode.

You know, studies do show that procrastination is actually a predictive factor for clutter

accumulation and vice versa. And so while I will be talking more about

procrastination and how to, you know, handle it from that aspect, that is not what we're going

to be talking about today. The number one root reason that I see for so many people's clutter,

and this was including my own, was actually inspired by this quote from this author,

Young Pueblo. I love him. Follow him on Instagram. Such good stuff. And the quote is this,

I was never addicted to one thing. I was addicted to filling a void within myself with things other than my own love.

After I read that, I felt like my heart was just ripped open.

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