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Optimal Living Daily - Personal Development and Self-Improvement

2348: How to Be a Minimalist When You Love Stuff by Antonia Collins of Balance Through Simplicity

Optimal Living Daily - Personal Development and Self-Improvement

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Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Education, Self-improvement

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🗓️ 16 May 2022

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Antonia Collins of Balance Through Simplicity talks how to be a minimalist when you love stuff Episode 2348: How to Be a Minimalist When You Love Stuff by Antonia Collins of Balance Through Simplicity Balance Through Simplicity is a blog dedicated to helping you declutter your home, simplify life and live intentionally. It provides practical tips and easy-to-follow guidance to help you create a meaningful life you love. Check out the blog if you’re looking to create more time, space and freedom for what really matters to you. The original post is located here: https://balancethroughsimplicity.com/minimalism-and-why-you-should-break-the-rule-sometimes/   Visit Me Online at OLDPodcast.com 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

Their skiff'd have ever received has to be a bike when I was younger, a pedal bike.

0:07.0

It was a sort of slick little road bike and I remember it was all like, it was so, it was all wrapped up,

0:13.0

it was so obvious what it was obviously because nothing shaped like a bike and I had a little ribbon on it and I was so

0:17.0

a guess. For that was a life changer and I'm still sort of big on cycling around my area now so, for that one change really.

0:24.0

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It's a minimalist Monday edition of Optimal Living Daily Episode 2348.

1:05.0

How to be a minimalist when you love stuff by Antonio Collins of balance through simplicity.com and I'm Justin Malik.

1:13.0

Let me keep this intro nice and minimal for minimalist Monday so let's get right to it and start optimizing your life.

1:23.0

How to be a minimalist when you love stuff by Antonio Collins of balance through simplicity.com

1:31.0

There's a common assumption that to fully embrace the minimalist lifestyle you have to get rid of all your stuff.

1:38.0

Minimalism is much more than throwing away everything you own and living a life of scarcity.

1:43.0

Here are some helpful tips and a personal story of how to be a minimalist when you love stuff.

1:49.0

When it feels like minimalism is stealing your joy.

1:53.0

I love collecting elephants and now have quite a few.

1:57.0

However, I also love a minimalist lifestyle and these two aspects of my life don't immediately feel like they sit well together.

2:05.0

Do you have a collection of something or have a lot of one type of item?

2:09.0

For example, perhaps you enjoy sewing, see if lots of fabrics and threads.

2:14.0

Maybe you or your partner have a vintage record collection or a shed full of tools for various DIY projects.

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