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2506: Life Laundry Day: Get Your Affairs in Order Each Week to Clear Your Mind by Leo Babauta of Zen Habits

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🗓️ 5 November 2023

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Leo Babauta of Zen Habits discusses what we can do each week to keep our affairs in order. Episode 2506: Life Laundry Day: Get Your Affairs in Order Each Week to Clear Your Mind by Leo Babauta of Zen Habits Leo Babauta created Zen Habits, which is about finding simplicity and mindfulness in the daily chaos of our lives. It’s about clearing the clutter so we can focus on what’s important, create something amazing, find happiness. The original post is located here: https://zenhabits.net/life-laundry-day-get-your-affairs-in-order-each-week-to-clear-your-mind  Visit Me Online at OLDPodcast.com  Interested in advertising on the show? https://www.advertisecast.com/OptimalFinanceDaily Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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This is Optimal Finance Daily, Episode 2006.

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Life Laundry Day.

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Get your affairs in order each week to clear your mind.

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By Leo Babauta of Zen Habits.its. And I'm your host and personal finance enthusiast,

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Diana Merriam.

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Welcome back to our Sunday bonus episode

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where I share an article with you

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from a different podcast in our network.

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Today's episode is coming from our very first podcast, Optimal Living Daily.

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You can find that show wherever you're listening to this,

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and please do follow or

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subscribe to the show to get new episodes every day. And with that here's

0:38.8

Justin with the post and commentary as we optimize your life.

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Life Laundry Day, get your affairs in order each week to clear your mind by Leo Bauta of Zen Habits.

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One of the least likable characters in Tolstoy's Anna Karanina, Count Vronsky,

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has a habit that I really like. Every now and then, he has a laundry day where he puts all his affairs, financial, career, etc.

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in order and completely clears his mind.

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And when he's done doing his laundry laundry he doesn't actually wash his clothes he feels like a new man his friend says it always looks like he just got out of a bath

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Designating a day to put your affairs in order a life laundry day is a great way to strain things up in your life, get your mind clear, and make you feel like a new person.

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I know that every time I get everything taken care of, I feel amazing. How would a life laundry day work? It's simple. Designate one day each week or each month depending on what works for you for putting things in order.

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Maybe that's a weekday if you can spare it, or perhaps a Saturday if that's better.

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Maybe it's the first of the month.

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