Downsizing as a Spiritual Practice and How to Make the Best Decision

WITH LOVE, DANIELLE

Danielle LaPorte

Self-improvement, Education

4.9 • 697 Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2025

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Loves…

I’m attempting to be useful in two ways today. BONUS.

1) Let’s talk about decision making, how to know when it’s right or wrong.
2) And how the ego loves to look good. And thus! how letting go of status concepts can be radically liberating and HEALING.

I once traded a status symbol (sexy Audi, FAST) for a soul symbol (pre-owned VW, FREE). Turns out, less status = more me. More LIFE.

In this episode:

How the ego masks self-worth struggles with status symbols
The surprising freedom in less (and why “downgrade to upgrade” is real)
The three red flags that signal a misaligned decision
A spiritual approach to right-sizing your life—beyond logic, beyond labels

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0:00.0	All right, my loves, in today's episode of With Love, Danielle, I am offering some inspiration from my Friday newsletter that is now called The Sacred.
0:16.4	If you want to go read it, you can go to Danielle Laporte.com slash The Sacred and you get all the
0:21.5	linky-dos and the linky poos. I have two stories for you today. This is my attempt. I'm attempting
0:29.6	to be useful in two ways. Normally, I think about how I want to begin something, how I want to end something, and just
0:38.4	what's the one point? Like, if I can just successfully get one thing across to somebody that's
0:44.1	useful, help you be more loving towards yourself and others, regulate your nervous system,
0:48.0	all those things, then I feel like a success, but I'm going, I'm going for a double play today. And I have two stories. So this is the
0:58.0	attempt. The attempt is I want to talk about decision making and how to know when it's right or
1:03.4	very wrong, as I'm going to unpack, and how the ego just loves to look good. And thus, how letting go of what I would call
1:15.7	status concepts, because sometimes we're seeking status not through stuff and symbols,
1:24.0	but through our roles and jobs and ideas of who we are, you know?
1:30.1	How when we let go of those status concepts, it can lead to obviously radical liberation,
1:38.6	but that is what leads to actual healing.
1:43.3	So this is really about downsizing as a spiritual practice. Yeah?
1:48.2	Okay. So I have a preface. More accurately, a request for myself and others. Please, can we not
1:59.9	give anyone shit about privilege and quote-unquote
2:03.5	first world problems? Okay, so first world problems as a term is actually totally uncool,
2:11.0	by the way. Lots of people living very happily on their terms of success in countries and areas that don't consider
2:23.3	themselves second or third world. So we need to stop using that just in a general way. Anyway,
2:30.1	so no shit about privilege or problems, because it's all relative and life lessons come in all forms.
2:37.7	So I'm going to call this first story, ego vehicles. I once had a black Audi A5. It was so hot.
2:48.3	It was a coop, a two door. It had camel interior. I remember the day I went into
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