3483: How Simplifying Your Home Can Teach You Who You Are by Shawna Scafe on Embracing Minimalism

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🗓️ 3 February 2025

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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 3483: Shawna Scafe from Simple on Purpose explains how embracing minimalism helps clear mental clutter, improve decision-making, and create space for what truly matters. By letting go of excess, you gain clarity, peace, and the freedom to live with more intention. Read along with the original article(s) here: https://simpleonpurpose.ca/why-minimalism-changes-life/ Quotes to ponder: "Minimalism helps you get rid of the distractions that keep you from seeing what you really want in life." "Clutter is anything that stands between you and the life you want to be living." "When you remove the excess, you create space, for peace, for joy, and for the things that truly matter." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.1	It's a minimalist Monday edition of Optimal Living Daily. How simplifying your home can teach you
0:36.0	who you are by Sean Escafe of Simpleon Purpose.Ca.
0:40.3	And I'm Justin Mollick, your narrator.
0:42.7	And I'll keep this intro nice and minimal, so let's get right to it and continue optimizing your life.
0:51.8	How Simplifying Your Home can teach you who you are by shana scafe of simpleonpurpose.cai.
0:59.8	There are a lot of views on what minimalism is. Some people think it is a disappointing form of depriving yourself of stuff and shopping and having things that you like.
1:12.5	Some people think it is a stark clear clear space where you live with this Zen approach to less is more, maybe even making the
1:18.1	state of less as the superior option. We hear various approaches to how to be a minimalist,
1:25.0	and the interesting thing we also hear is that it is life-changing for those who
1:28.8	have brought it into their lives. No matter how you approach minimalism, you'll see that it changes
1:34.2	almost everyone who starts and sticks it out for the long run. Every person has the space to define
1:40.9	what minimalism looks like to them, but a general definition is letting go of the
1:45.8	things you don't want, use, more fine, beautiful. I started out with this definition. In my case,
1:52.9	it looked like letting go of craft supplies I'll never use, the oversupply of t-shirts I couldn't
1:58.1	possibly wear in a reasonable time frame, the blouses that I wore to work
2:02.5	because I had to have something professional, the cheesy home decor I bought to fill the space,
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