How to Let Go When Overwhelmed by Decluttering

The Minimalists

Joshua Fields Millburn

Finances, Home & Garden, Leisure, Mental Health, Minimalism, Contribution, Passion, Minimalists, Health & Fitness, Decluttering, Philosophy, Health, Relationships, Growth, Simple, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 31 July 2020

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Joshua and Ryan discuss overcoming overwhelm. Listen to “Maximal” episodes of The Minimalists Private Podcast exclusively at patreon.com/theminimalists

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0:00.0	that minimists.
0:03.1	What to do when you're overwhelmed with the process of removing stuff and forward progress
0:09.6	becomes difficult?
0:11.4	I would rephrase the question a little bit here.
0:13.7	I would say, how do you let go when you're overwhelmed by decluttering?
0:18.6	Yeah.
0:19.6	Because that's what's happening right now.
0:21.3	And this happened to me as well.
0:23.0	When I dealt with my mom's stuff after she died, I was overwhelmed with that, but not
0:27.1	as much as when I got home.
0:28.5	Yeah.
0:29.5	And I realized, like, oh, I'm an organized hoarder.
0:35.2	My house looked like an advertisement for a container store.
0:39.9	And so it was overwhelming.
0:42.6	Where do I even start?
0:45.5	And I wish I would have, the reason we've come up with all these rules, whether it's
0:49.8	the minimalist rulebook or the 30-day minimalism game or whatever it is, is because I wish
0:55.2	I would have had these things to start.
0:57.9	The 30-day minimalism game in particular is actually how I started, is a iteration on
1:03.6	how I started.
1:05.1	What I asked myself early on, because I didn't know what to do.
1:08.6	I didn't know where to start.
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