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.

Any other perfectionists or recovering perfectionists out there, I've been researching this topic

a lot lately. And after reading dozens of articles and studies

about perfectionism, I'm seeing that they are all suggesting that perfectionism is massively

on the rise over the last several decades, meaning more people are struggling with it now than

in 1970, 1980, 1990s, you get the idea. So I decided to do a poll, and I decided

to ask my Instagram followers if they consider themselves perfectionists or if it's something

that they struggle with, perfectionistic tendencies. And a whopping 94% of people said it's something

they struggle with. And by the way, the sample size there is

about 100,000 people. And I was shocked because in a lot of articles I had read, I read different

stats, like anywhere from 30 to 40 to 50% of the population struggles with it. So 94% though.

And so I think the thing most people don't realize is that perfectionism

can actually make your clutter problems way worse. And it can actually bring in a lot of

clutter to your home. I'm going to be breaking down exactly why that is in today's episode.

And I can promise for a lot of you, it's going to really help you understand why you struggle

with clutter or maybe why you take one step forward and two steps back when it comes to

the state of your home. And for the sake of this episode, there are three types of perfectionists

that have been deemed by psychologists that have done a lot of research in this area.

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