521 | One Day Less
The Minimalists
Joshua Fields Millburn
4.7 • 11.5K Ratings
🗓️ 5 January 2026
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
The Minimalists talk about consumerism's role in workplace overload, what it takes to work fewer hours, the hidden reason grocery prices have increased, why certain 'Buy One, Get One Free' deals have been outlawed, and much more.
Discussed in this episode:
How does consumerism force us to work more hours each week, and what can we do about it? (6:43)
What would it take for you to work one less day per week? (26:03)
Right Here, Right Now: How to Write Better and the end of our Earthing grant. (42:53)
Listener Tip: Book a Clutter Counseling session with T.K. Coleman. (47:10)
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Detailed show notes: minimalists.com/podcast
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Every little thing that you think that you think that you need every little thing you think that you need every little thing |
| 0:26.4 | you think that you need every little thing that's just feeding your greed oh I bet that you'd be |
| 0:35.4 | fine without it. |
| 0:44.9 | Yes, welcome to the Minimalist podcast where we discuss what it means to live a meaningful life with the less. |
| 0:53.5 | My name is Joshua Fields, Milburn, and joining me here at our beautiful studio and beautiful West Hollywood, California, is my good friend T.K. Coleman. |
| 0:55.6 | Oh, that's a wonderful day to be alive. |
| 1:00.5 | Happy New Year to you, TK. It's our first episode of 2026. |
| 1:03.6 | We've got some of our favorite people in the studio with us today. |
| 1:04.7 | Professor Sean's here. |
| 1:10.5 | He has a monocle on right now and a tweed jacket with a leather elbow patches because how to write better our writing |
| 1:13.2 | class he and I teach together is it's opening for 72 hours we'll talk about that in a bit but |
| 1:18.8 | that's why he's dressed to the nines like the professor that he is savvy d is on the board he's |
| 1:26.5 | taking notes over there maybe he's just drolling in a notebook. I'm not sure what he's doing. |
| 1:30.3 | Skateboard is taped to his feet right now. And TK., brand new year. Any resolution for you this year? |
| 1:38.3 | Oh man, to take one day at a time with all things, the breaking of old habits, the building of new ones, the appreciating |
| 1:46.4 | gratitude, the appreciation and gratitude for the relationships we have, investing in the things |
| 1:51.9 | that matter. It's all about taking one day at a time. Yeah, you know, the episode we put out |
| 1:56.9 | during the week of Christmas was called Begin Again, and it was a re-airing of one of our live events because we closed the studio down for Christmas and we had this great event in Orange County. |
| 2:08.6 | And we were talking about beginning again, although that event happened in the summer, you don't need the new year to begin again to have a resolution. |
| 2:16.6 | It's a great reminder to maybe |
| 2:18.7 | begin again to take it one day at a time. For me, I've been thinking a lot about reacting |
| 2:24.1 | versus responding and especially in a heavily mediated world, social media world, YouTube, |
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