244: Beating the 'I Should Be Further' Blues
Maximized Minimalist Podcast
Katy Wells
4.8 • 936 Ratings
🗓️ 6 March 2024
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
Do success stories make you feel like garbage?
Instead of feeling motivated and inspired by others, you become acutely aware of your own shortcomings. Your inner critic blasts you with thoughts like:
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I should be further ahead by now.
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Why haven't I accomplished that yet?
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Maybe I should just give up.
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I stink at this.
In today's episode of The Maximized Minimalist, we talk about this oh-so-relatable thought cycle and I'm sharing actionable steps to help get you back onto the the declutter bandwagon and achieving your dreams.
Oh and here's the deal, if seeing your peers succeed makes you jealous, sad or defeated...
You're not a bad person.
This is a really common experience, especially for ambitious, achieving (and mildly competitive? 😆) folks like you and me.
As long as you're here - you're not behind and it's never too late to create a simpler, more peaceful life.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | What does it mean to live more with less? |
| 0:03.8 | I'm Katie Wells and welcome to the Maximized Minimalist Podcast. |
| 0:08.4 | If you found yourself caught up in the hamster wheel of modern day motherhood and want to |
| 0:13.7 | rewrite the script, congratulations you're in the right place. |
| 0:18.1 | I'm here to be your guide and help you take back your motherhood and achieve a |
| 0:22.0 | simpler, more joy-filled life. Cheers to being a maximized minimalist. Enjoy the show. If you fizzled out |
| 0:30.6 | and need a big boost of declutter momentum, you can get 20 bucks off my upcoming 14-day |
| 0:35.8 | Clutter Crusher challenge with code podcast. |
| 0:39.1 | Our next challenge begins Monday, March 11th, and I designed this to help you make fast |
| 0:43.7 | progress, whether you're a seasoned pro or brand new to decluttering. I hope to see you there. |
| 0:48.9 | That link will be in the show notes and make sure to use podcast for 20 bucks off. |
| 0:53.8 | All right, friend, it is March. |
| 0:56.0 | And not sure if you know this, but it's also Mental Health Awareness Month. |
| 1:00.3 | So I want to dive into this topic today because this thought and this narrative, so many of us |
| 1:06.6 | experience is so common, but we never talk about it, right? But today we're going to change that. |
| 1:12.0 | We're going to change that today. And here's a thing. Do other people's success stories make you |
| 1:17.3 | feel like garbage? Maybe instead of feeling motivated and inspired by others, you become acutely |
| 1:23.8 | aware of your own shortcomings and your inner critic blasts you with thoughts like, |
| 1:29.8 | I should be further ahead by now. Why haven't I accomplished that yet? Maybe I should just give up, |
| 1:35.0 | or compared to her, I've gotten nothing done. So I want to talk about this thought cycle and really |
| 1:41.5 | share some actionable steps to help get you back onto the |
| 1:45.1 | de-clutter bandwagon and achieve your dreams. Oh, and here's the deal, by the way. If seeing |
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