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The Minimalists

204 | Starting Minimalism

The Minimalists

Joshua Fields Millburn

Home & Garden, Society & Culture, Philosophy, Leisure

4.711.5K Ratings

🗓️ 29 October 2019

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Joshua and Ryan discuss how to start simplifying, how to become a minimalist, and some practical tips and rules for decluttering with lifestyle entrepreneur MJ Gordon, and they answer the following questions:

How do I motivate myself to minimize? (01:49)

What is one unexpected result you realized after adopting minimalism? (10:30)

How do I overcome analysis paralysis and wholly embrace minimalism? (35:32)

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Don Minimists

0:30.0

Hello everybody welcome to the Minimists podcast where we discuss what it means to live a meaningful life with less

0:38.1

My name is Joshua Phil Smilburn and I'm Ryan Nicodemus and together we are the minimalist today

0:43.0

Today we're gonna talk about how to start simplifying we're gonna talk about how to become a minimalist

0:48.0

Are we starting all over? Well some people are right?

0:51.2

We're gonna talk about some practical tips and rules for decluttering with today's guests MJ Gordon is here

0:56.8

Thank you for joining us today. Thank you both so much for having

1:00.0

me. I was first introduced to you thanks to Jessica Lynn Williams. She is our talented social media manager

1:06.0

We call her social Jess and

1:08.5

She said hey, you got to check out these gals videos on YouTube

1:11.6

So we'll put a link to your YouTube channel in the show notes if folks want to check it out and

1:16.2

You know today I just wanted to give folks a refresher if they're looking at getting started

1:21.5

They want to do some spring cleaning in the fall now is a perfect time to do that

1:25.6

it's

1:26.6

the end of the year and

1:28.6

And folks are looking to declutter or maybe you have someone in your life and you're saying hey

1:33.1

I've simplified a little bit

1:34.8

But they're the people in your life are looking for some ways to simplify and so maybe you can send in this podcast

1:40.6

episode and say hey here are some practical tips for simplifying your life

1:46.2

We have a a caller driven show a listener driven show and our first question today is from Jay in Arlington, Texas

1:54.5

Hey guys, this is Jay from Arlington, Texas. I'm moving to a new house soon and my pack wrap wife has caught the downsizing bug

2:02.8

Way more than me. I know this is a perfect opportunity to minimize but for some reason I just can't get excited about it

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