418: To Declutter Any Room, Ask These Two Questions by Joshua Becker of Becoming Minimalist

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🗓️ 1 February 2017

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Joshua Becker and his family decided to live with fewer possessions after a conversation with his neighbor in 2008. As a result, they found a better way to live, centered on more important pursuits. Their story has been seen on the CBS Evening News, NPR, the Boston Globe, the Wall Street Journal and countless media interviews around the world. Their books have sold in the tens of thousands. BecomingMinimalist.com is about their journey towards a rational approach to minimalism. It is about the joys and the struggles. It is about the lessons they have learned. It has inspired millions around the world. It is written to inspire you to intentionally live with less, and find more life because of it. Episode 418: To Declutter Any Room, Ask These Two Questions by Joshua Becker of Becoming Minimalist (Simplicity & Letting Go). The original post is located here: http://www.becomingminimalist.com/why Visit Me Online at OLDPodcast.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:32.6	This is Optimal Living Daily Episode 418. To declutter any room,
0:37.0	ask these two questions by Joshua Becker of BecomingMinimalist.com, and I'm Justin Mollick.
0:42.3	Happy first day of February and welcome to the show, Old Friend.
0:46.0	An old stands for Optimal Living Daily if you didn't know,
0:48.8	and this is where I read to you every single day, mostly from blogs,
0:51.7	all in an effort to optimize your life. Now let's get right to today's content as we
0:56.4	optimize your life. To declutter any room, ask these two questions by Joshua Becker of BecomingMinimalist.com.
1:08.6	Quote, if organizing your stuff worked, wouldn't you be done by now?
1:13.0	Cornie Carver. Organizing our things is important. It is helpful to know where things are stored
1:18.8	and how to easily access them. But let's be honest with ourselves. Organizing is always only a
1:23.9	temporary solution. We organize our things and find new storage solutions today, but are left
1:29.3	again tomorrow doing the exact same thing. Finding better ways to organize our stuff holds some
1:34.7	benefit, but that benefit is fleeting at best. However, when we take the step of fully
1:39.6	removing from our possession the items we do not need, we find permanent, longer lasting benefits.
1:46.0	Minimizing possessions is an act of permanence because they are removed from our care entirely.
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