1788: An Excerpt from the book Adventures in Opting Out by Cait Flanders on A Field Guide to Leading an Intentional Life

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🗓️ 2 November 2020

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Cait Flanders shares an excerpt from her book entitled "Opting Out" Episode 1788: An Excerpt from the book Adventures in Opting Out by Cait Flanders on A Field Guide to Leading an Intentional Life Cait Flanders started Blonde on a Budget to document her debt repayment journey. After paying it off, she adopted a minimalist lifestyle, tossed 75% of her stuff, and is currently doing a two-year shopping ban. She shares stories and lessons learned every week. More about the book can be found here: https://caitflanders.com/adventures-in-opting-out/ 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 1788, an excerpt from
0:27.8	the book, Adventures in Opting Out by Kate Flanders. I'm Justin Mollick, welcome to Optimal
0:34.2	Living Daily or the OLD podcast where I read to you from some of the best articles I can
0:39.0	find with permission from the authors, covering personal development or self-help, minimalism,
0:44.6	anything I think will help you lead a more meaningful life and add some good thoughts
0:48.3	for you every day. Occasionally I read book excerpts and that's the case today. Kate Flanders
0:53.6	is a friend of the show, I've been lucky enough to meet her and have an excerpt from her
0:57.4	new book, Adventures in Opting Out so let's get right to it and start optimizing your life.
1:06.9	An excerpt from the book, Adventures in Opting Out by Kate Flanders.
1:12.6	So what happens if you don't opt out? If you ignore the signs and whispers and continue to believe
1:18.6	the stories that tell you to live a certain way, if you let your fear outweigh your excitement forever,
1:24.6	if you decide not to follow your curiosity, what happens if you choose to stay on your current path,
1:30.1	aside from living with the pain of ignoring the whispers which will probably become internal
1:34.2	screams. The first and most obvious answer I can give you here is that the way you move through
1:39.8	this world will essentially stay the same. You will continue to make decisions the same way you
1:45.4	have up to this point and you'll do things the way you've always done them. And I know I said this
1:50.2	earlier but maybe that's fine. Maybe you could have a fine life. You might even have a good life
1:56.1	or better yet a great life. I'm not here to say that Opting Out is the best way to live. I am saying
2:02.9	that it is one way to live, one path to choose, but you can absolutely choose to stay on the one
2:09.7	you're on. If I had stayed on some of my old paths, years where I might be today, I might have
2:15.3	married one of my ex-boyfriends. We might have had two kids together and bought a house in Victoria
2:20.8	and stayed in that city forever. I probably would have kept working for the government and stayed
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