1613: How Stuff Robs Us of Those We Love the Most by Jeff Goins with Becoming Minimalist on Simple Living & Letting Go

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🗓️ 11 May 2020

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Jeff Goins with Becoming Minimalist shares how stuff robs us of those we love the most. Episode 1613: How Stuff Robs Us of Those We Love the Most by Jeff Goins with Becoming Minimalist on Simple Living & Letting Go Joshua Becker and his family decided to live with fewer possessions after a conversation with his neighbor in 2008. As a result, they found a better way to live, centered on more important pursuits. Their story has been seen on the CBS Evening News, NPR, the Boston Globe, the Wall Street Journal and countless media interviews around the world. Their books have sold in the tens of thousands. BecomingMinimalist.com is about their journey towards a rational approach to minimalism. It is about the joys and the struggles. It is about the lessons they have learned. It has inspired millions around the world. It is written to inspire you to intentionally live with less, and find more life because of it. The original post is located here: https://www.becomingminimalist.com/stuff-vs-love/ Visit Me Online at OLDPodcast.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	It's a minimalist Monday edition of Optimal Living Daily, episode 1613.
0:27.0	How Stuff Robs Us Of Those We Love The Most By Jeff Goins With Becoming Minimalist.com
0:32.8	And I'm Justin Mollick.
0:34.1	Happy Monday and welcome to one of the only podcasts in the world where blogs are narrated
0:37.7	to you for free.
0:39.3	That's with permission from the authors.
0:40.8	And I'll keep this intro short for Minimalist Monday so let's get right into it and start
0:44.9	optimizing your life.
0:50.9	How Stuff Robs Us Of Those We Love The Most By Jeff Goins With Becoming Minimalist.com
0:58.0	My son had been born a few weeks before when I was already struggling to focus.
1:02.7	All these responsibilities, all these expectations.
1:06.0	So much to manage in so little time.
1:09.0	Born 4 and a half weeks early, our little Aiden wasn't sleeping but a few hours per night
1:13.2	before needing to nurse.
1:14.8	It was a daily ritual to Google signs of callic and wonder if there was anything we could
1:18.9	do to make all this a tiny bit easier.
1:21.6	Though I had taken a couple of weeks off of work, the iPhone kept buzzing uncontrollably
1:25.7	and the sleeplessness was starting to wear on me.
1:28.8	The house was a mess.
1:30.0	The laundry pile, a small mountain.
1:32.2	My email inbox completely out of control.
1:34.8	I wasn't sure how much more I could take.
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