What does it mean to live more with less? I'm Katie Wells and welcome to the Maximized Minimalist

podcast. If you found yourself caught up in the hamster wheel of modern day motherhood and want to

rewrite the script, congratulations you're in the right place. I'm here to be your guide and help you take

back your motherhood

and achieve a simpler, more joy-filled life. Cheers to being a maximized minimalist. Enjoy the show.

Hey friend, welcome back to the show. Today, I am super stoked because I'm going to be pulling back

the curtains on five of the most common mistakes to help you

avoid them in the future. Some of you are making them now. You've made them in the past. Some of you

might be unconsciously making them now. So regardless, you're going to save so much time and energy

and honestly, so much stress and frustration as well. And this is going to be especially

helpful if you've been decluttering for a really long time, be it months or years and you just

feel stuck and don't know what's keeping you stuck. So these are in no particular order,

but I will say after having the privilege of coaching one-on-one,

hundreds of women over the last few years and thousands in my online communities,

I can say I've learned a thing or two.

Plus, sprinkle in my own personal declutter journey, and I really need you to listen to these,

okay?

Okay, number one is being focused on a perfect after.

And I'm smiling here and you can probably hear my smile, right? I get it. We all daydream a little bit

when we watch our favorite influencer in her bright white kitchen and her perfect outfit and everything in its

perfect place from decor to that perfectly positioned succulent on her counter and no clutter

in sight, right? It is dreamy. If only my home could look like that. But I have messy kids,

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