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Vibrant Happy Women

Happy Bit: The Magic of Minimalism

Vibrant Happy Women

Jen Riday

Self-improvement, Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Education

4.8671 Ratings

🗓️ 13 April 2017

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

Got Overwhelm? In this episode Jen challenges you to become more of a minimalist and to begin the process of decluttering so you can have more energy for experiences and people you love. 

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey there, Jen here, and this is a happy bit. This episode is brought to you by Audible,

0:05.9

the place where you can get a free audiobook download using my special link, VibranthappyBook.com.

0:12.3

If you love to read but feel like you don't quite have time, then grab a free book and listen to it

0:17.6

while you drive or work or whatever, and it's so much fun.

0:23.2

Again, that link is Vibranthappybook.com.

0:28.4

I have a tip for you today about a documentary that I recently watched that I loved.

0:32.7

It's called Minimalism, and you can find it on Netflix and probably elsewhere.

0:38.7

And it's about two best friends who were both in the corporate world doing well, but completely miserable because they were stretched so thin trying to keep up with everything.

0:44.1

And one of them decided to let that go and become more of a minimalist.

0:49.3

Well, his friend noticed how happy he was.

0:51.6

He said, hey, I see a change in you.

0:54.0

I want some of that. And so he left his

0:56.7

corporate job and they both began this journey of minimalism, having less stuff. Well, the whole thing

1:04.3

just really resonated with me a lot. And so I've been on a journey to declutter even more,

1:09.8

even though I've already done so much decluttering.

1:12.9

And I'm a person who doesn't love having a ton of stuff.

1:15.9

But I can clearly see we can easily get rid of 50% of our stuff.

1:20.4

And for a family of eight, that's going to be significant.

1:24.0

It gives me just a little pleasure thinking about it right now.

1:26.6

So I've been researching ways that

1:29.5

you could get rid of your things. For example, there is a company online called Thread Up. You can

1:35.8

order a kit that they'll send you and you can put all the clothes you don't want in bags and mail

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