It's a minimalist Monday edition of Optimal Living Daily, episode 1578,

trophies, medals, and minimalism by Chris Love It of Minimalings.com, and I'm Justin Mollick.

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so let's get right to it as we optimize your life.

Trophies, medals, and minimalism by Chris Love It of Minimalings.com

Minimalism seems to be a daily conversation now. The more people I engage with,

the more they want to tell me about their own decluttering habits, successes, and failures.

It's great to hear how others tackle certain elements of their excess, and I thoroughly enjoy

listening to the experiences they've gone through. One theme that keeps coming up relates to

achievements. At the moment, that tends to be a sticking point for people. They are all up for

a clearing certain aspects of their environments, but then when it comes to stuff that sparks a good

memory that took some sort of physical or mental effort, that's the point where decluttering your

environment goes from enlightening to a little uncomfortable. For some, having a picture taken with

all their personal achievements before letting them go is the answer. For others, it's not that easy.

I had a wonderful conversation with someone recently, and it made me think about the challenges

we have set ourselves and the rewards for overcoming them. What do we do with those physical

rewards as we progress through life? The conversation started around medals, running medals in

particular, but then it got me thinking about my own football awards and trophies. The consistent

factor between both of our situations was that on the whole, the medals and trophies were nowhere

to be seen. Ironically, during our chat, he advised that he was due to have a clear out of the garage,

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