1781: Minimalism, Tidying Up, & the Most Important Benefit Behind the Less is More Movement by Jay & Heather Harrington

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🗓️ 26 October 2020

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Jay and Heather Harrington of Life and Whim discuss the many benefits of living a life with less. Episode 1781: Minimalism, Tidying Up, & the Most Important Benefit Behind the Less is More Movement by Jay & Heather Harrington Jay and Heather Harrington are the husband and wife team behind Life and Whim. They started Life and Whim after moving their family to Traverse City, a small town on the shores of Lake Michigan, to break the script of their life and reimagine what's possible. They live in pursuit of a purposeful, meaningful, active, and simple life. The original post is located here: https://www.lifeandwhim.com/first-moments-blog/2019/minimalism-less-is-more Please Rate & Review the Show! Visit Me Online at OLDPodcast.com and in The O.L.D. Facebook Group and Join the Ol' Family to get your Free Gifts! Interested in advertising on the show? Visit https://www.advertisecast.com/OptimalLivingDaily 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 1781,
0:04.6	minimalism, tidying up, and the most important benefit behind the less is more movement,
0:10.0	by Jay and Heather Harrington of LifeAndWim.com, and I'm Justin Mollick.
0:15.2	Happy Monday and welcome back to Optimal Living Daily or the OLD podcast,
0:19.2	where I read to you from some of the best blogs I can find and get permission from,
0:23.0	mostly covering personal development and minimalism on this show. We cover a bunch of other
0:26.8	topics in the Optimal Living Daily podcast network, just search for Optimal Living Daily to find
0:32.3	them. But for now let's get right to our minimalist Monday post and start optimizing your life.
0:42.0	Minimalism, tidying up, and the most important benefit behind the less is more movement,
0:47.6	by Jay and Heather Harrington of LifeAndWim.com.
0:51.4	New shows on Netflix, New York Times, Best Selling Books, Donation Centers,
0:57.3	bursting at the seams, photos of neatly rolled garments taking over Instagram,
1:02.0	a new verb, condoing entering the lexicon, in case you haven't noticed, minimalism and the
1:08.8	tidying up movement are having a moment. Less is more has gone mainstream. It's not that the idea
1:15.9	of living with less and the realization of the attended benefits is a newly discovered concept
1:21.6	thousands of years ago Greek Stoke philosopher Epictetus came to the conclusion that, quote,
1:27.2	wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants, end quote.
1:33.3	It's just that today's culture, or at least some meaningful corner of it, is finally catching on.
1:39.2	A journey toward a more minimal life. Our own journey toward a more minimal lifestyle has been
1:44.3	marked by fits and starts. Four years ago we began the shift toward a life motivated less by
1:50.0	accumulation and consumption and more by chasing meaning and purpose. We committed to living more
1:55.8	minimally because we knew or at least thought that a life with less could lead to more.
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