3691: Simplifying After Tragedy Strikes by Sandy Kreps with Becoming Minimalist on Intentional Living

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🗓️ 4 August 2025

⏱️ 11 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 3691: Sandy Kreps reflects on how life-altering tragedy can strip away distractions and reveal what truly matters. Her heartfelt message encourages readers to embrace simplicity, prioritize relationships, and live with deeper intention after loss. Read along with the original article(s) here: https://www.becomingminimalist.com/after-tragedy/ Quotes to ponder: "Tragedy has a way of pushing everything else aside and demanding our full attention." "After a tragedy, the small, petty things that once consumed us no longer seem to matter." "When everything else is stripped away, we realize what’s most important: people, time, love, connection." Episode references: The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning: https://www.amazon.com/Gentle-Art-Swedish-Death-Cleaning/dp/1501173243 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:07.4	It's a minimalist Monday edition of Optimal Living Daily.
1:10.9	Simplifying after tragedy strikes by Sandy Kreps with Becoming Minimalist.com, and I'm JustaMollick.
1:17.4	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, mostly covering personal development
1:27.8	and minimalism on this show. Now let's get right to today's post and start optimizing your life.
1:37.9	Simplifying after tragedy strikes by Sandy Kreps with Becoming Minimalist.com.
1:43.8	One cold, drizzling night in January
1:46.2	I stood on the street watching in disbelief and shock
1:49.0	as my house burned.
1:50.4	We had just moved into our house three months prior
1:52.5	and we still had a garage full of boxes waiting to be unpacked.
1:56.2	My family was safe, but my beloved pets were lost,
1:59.6	as were the majority of our worldly possessions.
2:02.4	In the following months, friends shyly joked I was taking my love of simplicity to the extreme
2:07.0	as we struggled to rebuild our lives with the blank slate we had been presented with.
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