170: Destination Addiction
Maximized Minimalist Podcast
Katy Wells
4.8 • 936 Ratings
🗓️ 14 September 2022
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Your life is happening right now, and there are no do-overs. Are you making the most of it? Or are you preoccupied with the idea that happiness is in the next place, the next job, the next vacation and the next home? Today's episode is short and sweet, but it packs a big punch. If you want to know for sure whether you're making the most of your life, take ten minutes to tune in. Check out more declutter resources here: https://www.katyjoywells.com
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| 0:00.0 | What does it mean to live more with less? I'm Katie Wells and welcome to the Maximized Minimalist |
| 0:07.7 | podcast. If you found yourself caught up in the hamster wheel of modern day motherhood and want to |
| 0:14.1 | rewrite the script, congratulations you're in the right place. I'm here to be your guide and help you take |
| 0:20.6 | back your motherhood |
| 0:21.6 | and achieve a simpler, more joy-filled life. Cheers to being a maximized minimalist. Enjoy the show. |
| 0:29.5 | Beware of destination addiction, a preoccupation with the idea that happiness is in the next place, |
| 0:36.8 | the next job, and with the next partner. Until you give up the idea that happiness is in the next place, the next job, and with the next partner. |
| 0:40.1 | Until you give up the idea that happiness is somewhere else, it will never be where you are. |
| 0:46.1 | This is a quote from Robert Holden. And I think a lot of quotes like this, maybe you see them |
| 0:52.0 | on Instagram or Pinterest and you save it. It makes you |
| 0:55.0 | think for like a split second. And then you never see it again, right? And then you never like kind of |
| 1:00.3 | dive deeper into it. But this one really spoke to me. And is what inspired today's episode |
| 1:07.5 | about destination addiction. And some of us, maybe you're past it. For a lot of us, |
| 1:13.3 | it starts with more like surface level material possessions. Like if only I had that top, |
| 1:19.5 | that favorite influencer of mine had and that color, then I would be happy. And then it kind of |
| 1:25.8 | starts to evolve as we grow up. Maybe for you, it's if only I were skinnier, I'd be happy. And then it kind of starts to evolve as we grew up. Maybe for you, it's if only I were |
| 1:29.7 | skinnier, I'd be happy. If only I fit in these jeans, I'd be happier. If I made more money, I'd be |
| 1:35.1 | happier. If I live somewhere else, right? If I had those cute shoes, whatever it is, maybe it's a |
| 1:40.6 | vacation. Maybe it's when I finally take that bucket list trip to Italy. Then I'll |
| 1:46.0 | just be happier. I'll be happier, like more better version of myself. And this when then mindset, |
| 1:52.5 | when this happens, when I have, when I do, when I am, when I achieve, when I go, fill in the |
| 1:58.6 | blank, whatever that is, then I'll be happy. It doesn't only |
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