Every little thing that you think that you think that you need.

Every little thing you think that you need.

Every little thing that's just feeding your greed.

Oh, I bet that you'd be fine without it.

You're listening to The Minimalist Podcast with Joshua Fields Milburn and T.K. Coleman, recorded live at Earthing Studios in Sunny, California.

Yes, thank you, Alabama. Hello, everybody. Coming up on this free public minimal episode, a caller has a question about the best way to say no to people she loves.

And then we've got a question about the benefits and downsides of wasting time. That's followed by our right here, right now segment and a beautiful listener tip for you. You can check out the maximal edition of episode 476. That's the full two-hour episode where we answer three times as

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or comment for our show we would love to hear from you. Give us a call. Our phone number's 406-219-7-839, or you can email a voice recording right from your phone to podcast at theminimalists.com. Our first question today is from Kristen.

Hi, Josh and TK. It's Kristen Sigler with Minima. I have a question about boundaries and generosity

that was inspired by your recent episode about holiday anxiety. It was a question TK. asked

Josh towards the end. So I consider myself to be a fairly generous person, but I'm not necessarily generous in the way that

others expect me to be. And so sometimes that friction can cause some internal struggle or guilt.

For example, this past weekend a family member asked me at the last minute if I could go pick something up for them.

And I could have, however, it would have seriously disrupted my day.

I'm someone who needs a lot of white space, a lot of rest, a lot of me time.

So that similar to what Josh has said, when I say yes to something,

I'm really there. I don't like to do things that I don't want to do, but I will do difficult

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