1514: Just In Cases by Chris Lovett of Minimalings on How To Start Minimizing Your Items & Minimalism Practice

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🗓️ 2 February 2020

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Chris Lovett of Minimalings shares his thoughts on just in cases. Episode 1514: Just In Cases by Chris Lovett of Minimalings on How To Start Minimizing Your Items & Minimalism Practice Chris Lovett is a minimalist, life coach, speaker and career mentor but it didn't used to be that way. Quite content drifting through life in the comfort zone, he was collecting stuff, not exactly the stuff he wanted to collect but stuff none the less. Chris had a whole bunch of aspirations but managed to build a prison around them with a stack of unconscious decisions made down the years. His collection included debt, too many clothes, negative self fulfilling prophecies, assumptions, comparisons, unused 'just in case' items and a fixed mindset that kept me at just the right level of safe. He lived month to month but he wasn't really living at all. The original post is located here: https://www.minimalings.com/post/just-in-cases 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 1514 just in cases by Chris Lovehead of Minimalings.com
0:07.2	and I'm your narrator Justin Malik reading you blogs every single day of the year to help you live
0:11.3	a more meaningful life. Today's article is from a brand new author to the show Chris,
0:16.0	he's a minimalist life coach, speaker, writer and career mentor, a perfect fit for this show,
0:22.0	come by Minimalings.com to check out his articles and events and have that site linked in this
0:27.7	episode description. But that was here our very first post from him as we optimize your life.
0:36.9	Just in cases by Chris Lovehead of Minimalings.com
0:42.0	We've all said it. No, let's keep that just in case. I wonder how many times we've subconsciously
0:47.6	thought it or openly expressed our desire to keep something and then to this day never used it
0:52.5	for his intended purpose. We call these just in cases. This popped up the other week and I'm inclined
0:58.8	to share as my partner and I now have this as a running joke. Whenever one of us says those magical
1:03.6	words just in case the other one repeats it in a ridiculous voice. I can confirm we are hilarious.
1:11.0	18 months into minimalism something has changed. I am more aware, more conscious, more intentional
1:17.6	and more mindful of what is adding value. I look back and now recognize what was going on.
1:23.0	Each time I was presented with an item that I wanted to keep just in case,
1:26.4	I'd invented a scenario where the item would feature prominently. The repositive and negative
1:31.3	scenarios born from my own imagination which convinced me that I'd be wrong to throw it away.
1:36.4	So there it would stay. It was the 1%, the highly unlikely time where one of the things would be
1:43.1	I'd have it there ready to go, fully prepared. 99% of the things may not get used and they'll take
1:48.8	up space but you never know. Surely this wasn't a huge deal that adjusting cases are not holding
1:54.3	us back or anything like that. They were out of sight, out of mind, not bothering anyone.
1:59.5	Well this is what I thought until I looked for something in our foots tool and my partner said
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