This is Optimal Living Daily Episode 978, life in a tiny house.

Why I sold everything I owned by Lauren Jade Martin with nosidebar.com and I'm Justin

Mollick, the guy that's closing in on 1000 narrated articles for nearly a thousand days straight,

which is crazy. I will be doing something special for the thousandth episode. It's in the works.

It'll be fun, so make sure you stay subscribed for that, but I'll give this intro nice and

short for you today, so let's get right to it and start optimizing your life.

Life in a tiny house. Why I sold everything I owned by Lauren Jade Martin with nosidebar.com.

Early one morning and late 2014, I woke up in a panic with severe pain in my chest.

I couldn't breathe. My boyfriend saw that I was clearly struggling for air and quickly call 911.

On the way to the hospital, all I could think about was my family, friends, and how I was way too

young to die. The nurses poked and prodded. The doctors ran their test and when they return the

diagnosis, was clear. Young lady, you weren't having a heart attack, but you did suffer a severe

excess stuff ominia attack. In layman's terms, your excess stuff is suffocating you,

causing you to go into a panic attack. Recommended treatment,

sal or discard 80% to 90% of what you own and move into something under 300 square feet.

Okay, so none of this was real. 911 was never called. It was all in my mind.

Late in 2014, enough was enough. From all my years of moving, traveling, and general

indecisiveness, I found myself depressed and uninspired. Our apartment was filled with useless

stuff, most of which I had thrown mindlessly in my basket during quick trips into target to pick

up just one thing. Things big and small crept are way into my life when I wasn't looking,

until I couldn't ignore it any longer. They were holding me back, distracting me from all the things

I really wanted to accomplish. My stuff was suffocating me, and I knew that something had to change.

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