181: Hindsight is 20/20: 6 Things I Wish I Did Differently When I First Began Decluttering
Maximized Minimalist Podcast
Katy Wells
4.8 • 936 Ratings
🗓️ 30 November 2022
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
In today's episode I'm sharing 6 things I wish I would have known early on -- things that would have given me a ton of momentum in my simplifying journey.
I'm also going to share a couple of things I DID do that really moved the needle. Things that I hope you consider doing, too. 💖
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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 and achieve a simpler, |
| 0:23.4 | more joy-filled life. |
| 0:25.3 | Cheers to being a maximized minimalist. |
| 0:28.2 | Enjoy the show. |
| 0:29.9 | So decluttering is a skill that honestly, it takes time to develop and plenty of us have made |
| 0:34.9 | mistakes in our own journey. |
| 0:36.7 | So today, I'm going to pull back the curtains |
| 0:38.5 | on the six mistakes I made throughout years of my simplifying journey, causing me lots of roadblocks, |
| 0:45.7 | lots of stalled progress. And I'm sharing these in hopes that it'll help you for making those same |
| 0:49.9 | mistakes in the future, ultimately saving you money, saving you time and energy, and furthering |
| 0:55.1 | your progress. |
| 0:55.9 | So if your goal in 2023 is to knock out a lot of the clutter in your house, this episode |
| 1:01.4 | is for you. |
| 1:02.6 | So number one, one thing that kept me stuck is that I tended to keep a lot of things because |
| 1:09.3 | of that either the money I spent on it or out of its |
| 1:13.2 | potential usefulness. So earlier in the year, I did an episode on how do I identify your value |
| 1:19.2 | lens and why you need to know it. So our value lens impacts how we interpret things as being |
| 1:26.0 | valuable. So this impacts literally every single part of our |
| 1:30.7 | simplifying journey from the very beginning, from what we buy, what we keep, what we let go of, |
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