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It's a minimalist Monday edition of Optimal Living Daily Episode 283,

the quick start guide to a decluttered home by Leo Babata of Zenhabits.net,

and I'm Justin Mollick. Welcome back to another OLD episode where I read to you from some very

popular personal development blogs with author permission of course. And since it's minimalist

Monday I want to make this intro super minimal and get right to the post and start optimizing your life.

The quick start guide to a decluttered home by Leo Babata of Zenhabits.net.

One of my favorite habits that I've created since I changed my life nine years ago

is having a decluttered home. I now realize that I always disliked the clutter,

but I put off thinking about it because it was unpleasant. The thought of having to deal with all

that clutter was overwhelming and I had too much to do or I was too tired so I procrastinated.

Cluttered turns out is procrastination.

But I learned to deal with that procrastination one small chunk at a time and I cleared it out.

That was truly amazing. Amazing because I didn't really believe I could do it until I did it.

I didn't believe in myself. And amazing because when it was done there was a background noise

that was removed from my life, a distraction, an irritation. Decluttering in my home has meant a

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