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.

I don't know about you, but oftentimes in the declutter process, I used to feel like, gosh,

if only I had a friend here, if only had a friend who could just give me

that little extra nudge and almost permission to help me let things go, because I feel like

while we're decluttering, our mind starts this negotiation process, but our gut, our initial

knee-jerk reaction to something, we know the answer is to dec declutter, to donate, to let it go.

But then our mind starts this negotiation process. And we're like, oh, but that costs money.

Oh, but what if I need it later? All these things. And sometimes just having someone there to help

you nudge you into reality and go, no, Katie, you haven't used that in six months. No, just let

it go. How helpful is that? And so that's what

I really want to give you in today's episode is I want you to allow yourself to give you permission

to let go, that extra nudge, that extra push to just be like, I'm done. I need to just get this

out of my life and get more peace and freedom that comes along

with teacuttering. All right? So here's five ways to do that. Number one, shift your mindset to that

of abundance. This is by far one of the hardest things for most people, but it is worthwhile.

So many people are stuck in scarcity. And scarcity mode says things like,

what if I need that again? Ooh, I don't know. I'm really afraid to let that go. I'll hang

on to this just in case. Anyone ever said that and hung on to too much stuff? Right?

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