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It's a minimalist Monday edition of Optimal Living Daily Episode 2771. Stuff, your biggest

time thief, and how to steal back your time by Emma Shyb of simpleslowlovely.com,

and I'm Justin Malik. Happy Monday, welcome back to Optimal Living Daily or the OLD podcast,

where I read to you from some of the best blogs I can find and get permission from,

and I'll get right to our minimalist Monday post as we optimize your life.

Stuff, your biggest time thief, and how to steal back your time by Emma Shyb of simpleslowlovely.com.

Your biggest time thief is the stuff you own. Time is humanity's most precious commodity.

Everyone has time. We've all been gifted the same amount of time. 24 hours in a day, 168 hours in a

week, 730 hours in a month, and so on. And yet so many of us constantly complain that we just

don't have enough of it. Could we just have a few more hours in each day, please?

A bit on this treadmill for a long time, and yes, it's true the older you get, the quicker time

seems to go. Why? Because the older we get, the more we become a slave to time. Time and

ultimately our stuff, our belongings, own us. Let me explain. Most of us spend our days neatly split

into thirds. We spend approximately 8 hours sleeping, about 8 hours working, and then we have

another 8 hours to do what we please. If you think about it like that, it seems like a lot of time

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