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This is Optimal Living Daily episode 288. Exermts from the book Essential,

essays by the minimalist, spidejotrofieldsmillburn and Ryan Nicodemus of theminimalist.com,

and I'm Justin Mollock. This is usually the podcast where I'm fairly upbeat and retuned from blogs,

but this is a daily show that runs pretty close to real time, and I'm under the weather at the

moment, so for the next, I don't know, a couple days maybe, almost likely be playing you

excerpts from the book Essential by the minimalist that I've previously recorded,

and that they've been generous enough to let me play to you. So if you're ever in contact with

the minimalist, it'd be awesome if you show some gratitude to them for providing this content.

Most authors don't give their books away like this for free, so it's pretty awesome.

All right, I'm going to try to get back to bed as soon as possible, so here's a clip from

their book Essential, as we optimize your life.

Organizing is well planned hoarding. We need to start thinking of organizing as a dirty word.

It is a sneaky little profanity that keeps us from simplifying our lives. Our televisions would

have us believe there's a battle being fought on the consumption continuum, a battle between the

organizers and the hoarders, and from our couches, it's hard to see who's winning. We posit to you,

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