213 | Resolutions
The Minimalists
Joshua Fields Millburn
4.7 • 11.5K Ratings
🗓️ 31 December 2019
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Joshua and Ryan talk about starting New Year’s resolutions, when it’s appropriate to give up on a resolution, and what actions to take when you’re feeling stuck with author, podcaster, and fitness expert Ben Greenfield, and they answer the following questions:
How do I improve my sleep hygiene in the new year? (02:13)
How do I apply minimalism to voluntary pursuits in the new year to ensure I’m being highly effective and not overextending myself? (18:40)
After several false starts, how can I ensure I stick with minimalism the next time I attempt to adopt it? (23:13)
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| 0:00.0 | is focused on that words. |
| 0:04.0 | A brand new month is approaching and that means it's the perfect time to let go. |
| 0:09.5 | You can play the 30-day minimalism game and also download our free |
| 0:13.6 | printable 30-day minimalism game calendar over at theminimilists.com slash game. Enjoy! |
| 0:43.6 | Hello everybody welcome to the Minimilist podcast where we discuss what it means to live a meaningful |
| 0:55.6 | life with less. My name is Joshua Bufields Milburn and I'm Ryan Nicodemis and together we are |
| 0:59.9 | the minimalists. Wow today we're here with our returning champion Ben Greenfield. Man I'm the |
| 1:05.6 | champion. Yeah man. I love the win. Now Ben how do you feel about this because you are the final |
| 1:13.3 | guest of this decade? This decade. That basically means like you put off interviewing me for an |
| 1:20.7 | entire decade and at the very last minute slips me in. No wait this is your your the returning |
| 1:25.9 | champion. You've been here before we're going to talk today is perfect. We thought we'd have been |
| 1:30.2 | on because he's back in town and we're going to talk about resolutions because I don't know anyone |
| 1:36.0 | who puts himself he's the human guinea pig. He puts himself through more experiments makes more |
| 1:41.7 | sort of resolutions than anyone else. You may not use that terminology. I prefer immersive |
| 1:46.4 | journalists to human guinea pig. I just think it's too close to a lab rat to get a pig thing. |
| 1:51.6 | All right we won't have a pink tail. Well today we're going to talk about New Year's |
| 1:55.2 | resolutions. We're going to talk about when it's appropriate to give up on a resolution. |
| 1:59.2 | We're going to talk about what actions you need to take when you're feeling stuck. And so let's |
| 2:03.9 | dive into our questions today. Oh by the way Ben his podcast you can check it out. It's called |
| 2:08.4 | the Ben Greenfield Fitness Podcast. I encourage you to listen to it. I listened to it and you |
| 2:13.3 | showed as well. Our first question today is from Andy in Georgia. Hi this is Andy from Marietta |
| 2:19.6 | Georgia and I have been working on minimalist life for a couple of months now and I've explored |
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