Joshua Becker: ...overcoming distraction to pursue a more meaningful life
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Nobody Told Me!
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🗓️ 11 April 2023
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Take a look at the things that may be getting in the way of your leading life with the kind of purpose and fulfillment you'd like. Our guest is bestselling author Joshua Becker, who's written several books on minimalism and intentional living. His latest book is called "Things that Matter: Overcoming Distraction to Pursue a More Meaningful Life." His website is https://www.becomingminimalist.com/
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Nobody Told Me. |
| 0:11.9 | I'm Laura Owens. |
| 0:12.9 | And I'm Jan Black. |
| 0:14.3 | If you've been questioning what you can do to live a more meaningful life, this episode is for you. |
| 0:19.9 | We're going to take a look at the things |
| 0:21.4 | that get in the way of our leading lives with the kind of purpose and fulfillment that we'd like. |
| 0:26.6 | Our guest is bestselling author Joshua Becker, who's written several books on minimalism and |
| 0:32.1 | intentional living. He's the founder of Becoming Minimalist, a website dedicated to inspiring others to find more in life by owning less. |
| 0:41.2 | His new book is called Things That Matter, Overcoming Distraction to Pursue a More Meaningful Life. |
| 0:48.1 | Joshua, thank you so much for joining us. |
| 0:50.2 | Well, thanks for having me. |
| 0:51.6 | I feel a lot of pressure to sound smart after that fabulous introduction. |
| 0:58.3 | You know, there is an interesting story behind why you wrote things that matter. |
| 1:03.7 | Tell us about that. |
| 1:06.4 | Yeah, I am, I started a blog called Becoming Minimalist.com and that was 12 or 13 years ago |
| 1:14.6 | and have written several books about minimalism and owning less and how owning less frees us up to live more focused and intentional lives on things that matter in the long run. |
| 1:28.3 | And I thought that I was going to be done writing books after I wrote those two books, |
| 1:35.3 | both the why behind minimalism and how to apply it in your home. |
| 1:39.3 | But I was at a conference in Phoenix. |
| 1:42.3 | I was about three years ago, put on by Charlie Gilkey, who had just written a book called |
| 1:49.0 | Start Finishing. |
| 1:51.0 | And the conference was all about how do we finish these projects that we start? |
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