3063: Five Better Ways to Measure Your Life by Lisa Avellan with Becoming Minimalist on Minimalism & Gratitude

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🗓️ 2 February 2024

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Discover all of the podcasts in our network, search for specific episodes, get the Optimal Living Daily workbook, and learn more at: OLDPodcast.com. Episode 3063: Lisa Avellan, contributing to BecomingMinimalist.com, challenges the conventional ways of measuring life's success, often influenced by relentless advertising. She suggests five alternative metrics: gratitude, generosity, contentment, availability, and purpose. These measures encourage a simpler, more intentional life, free from the influence of consumer culture. Embracing these values leads to a life defined by personal satisfaction and meaningful contributions, rather than material possessions and societal expectations. Read along with the original article(s) here: https://www.becomingminimalist.com/better-ways-to-measure-your-life/ Quotes to ponder: "Contentment is not the satisfaction of want; it’s the pursuit of having enough." "The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:29.9	This is optimal living Daily episode 3063.
0:34.0	Five Better Ways to Measure Your Life
0:37.0	by Lisa Avaon with Becoming Minimalist.
0:40.0	And I'm Justin Molek.
0:42.0	And I'm going to jump right into today's post as we optimize your life.
0:46.0	Five better ways to measure your life by Lisa Avaon with becoming minimalist.com.
0:57.2	This world is obsessed with measuring up.
1:01.1	Research shows we're exposed to thousands of advertising messages every day
1:05.0	and hidden inside each of those ads is a mistruth.
1:09.0	You don't measure up until you buy our product.
1:13.0	Ad agencies are good, real good.
1:16.0	They know how to sneak into our psyches and change the story we tell ourselves.
1:20.0	Before long, our brains begin to believe their lie that our lives can be measured by what we buy,
1:28.0	where, drive and live in. And while their bottom line bursts at the seams, the consumer is broke, financially
1:36.6	and otherwise.
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