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It's a minimalist Monday edition of Optimal Living Daily. How to Fight the Desire for More

by Mike Dongya of This Evergreen Home.com, and I'm Justin Mollock,

your personal narrator, reading to you with permission from the authors. On Mondays, I usually cover

minimalism one of our most requested topics. So with that, let's get right to it as we optimize

your life.

How to Fight the Desire for More by Mike Dongya of This Evergreen Home.com It was an ordinary winter day, but as the dark blue Amazon van drove up and parked in front

of my house, I felt something stir inside myself. Instead of

rushing over to see what had arrived and eagerly opened my new cardboard box, I felt differently

this time. Hadn't that same van just delivered a few other packages earlier this week? How many

things did I impulse buy recently? I felt guilty. In the following days,

I took some time to ponder these lingering thoughts. The truth is, it had become far too easy

to keep wanting more and more, yet the satisfaction never arrived. The slow, steady creep of more. As I think back on the last decade of our

marriage, we both would say that our first year of marriage was one of the best, not necessarily because we

were in newlywed bliss because that first year came as a sharp curve of learning how to live together,

but because of how little we had. Our material

possessions were few and our student loans were high, yet we were happy and content. Our lack of

things certainly didn't limit us from enjoying life, but instead fueled us to continue towards being

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