The Art of Letting Go and Getting Clear on Values with The Minimalists
The One You Feed
Eric Zimmer
4.6 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 12 December 2023
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Joshua Fields Millburn and TK Coleman, known as The Minimalists, discuss the concept of letting go and personal empowerment. Joshua shares his personal journey of realizing the detrimental effects of consumerism and the pursuit of material possessions. As he lived the corporate dream with excess items, he felt stressed and anxious beneath the surface. This realization sparked a transformation, leading him to question how his life could be better with less. Through this conversation, you’ll discover the importance of intentional decision-making and the value of letting go of what is not important.
In this episode, you will be able to:
- Define minimalism in the context and spirit of letting go
- Streamline your life for vitality and balance
- Embrace discomfort to fuel your personal evolution
- Unleash your best self through intentional actions
- Challenge your beliefs to make intentional, empowered decisions
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| 0:00.0 | Whenever we think about minimalism in terms of like there being a mathematically correct right or wrong number of things to have, |
| 0:07.5 | you just sort of get caught up in a legalistic game that produces nothing more than a self-righteous attitude towards others, |
| 0:14.1 | which is the opposite of freedom. You've got to think about things in terms of what |
| 0:18.1 | constitutes healthy living for you, and then you move in that direction and you |
| 0:22.0 | acknowledge that other people might define that |
| 0:24.0 | differently. Welcome to the one you feed. Throughout time great thinkers have recognized the |
| 0:37.0 | importance of the thoughts we have. Quotes like garbage in, garbage out, or you are |
| 0:42.3 | what you think, ring true. |
| 0:44.7 | And yet, for many of us, our thoughts don't strengthen or empower us. |
| 0:49.0 | We tend toward negativity, self-pity, jealousy, or fear. We see what we don't have instead of what we do. We think things |
| 0:57.1 | that hold us back and dampen our spirit. But it's not just about thinking. Our actions matter. |
| 1:03.4 | It takes conscious, consistent, and creative effort |
| 1:06.2 | to make a life worth living. |
| 1:08.3 | This podcast is about how other people |
| 1:10.2 | keep themselves moving in the right direction, how they feed their good wolf. Hi, I'm Jane Marie, host of The Dream, and I'm excited to announce that we're back with a brand new season |
| 1:35.6 | A lot has changed since last season like you know the whole world and everything but also my butt |
| 1:41.3 | I have been sitting on it for a couple of years and we're going to get me off it by hiring |
| 1:46.7 | a life coach. We'll talk to the pros and some of the cons and figure out if gurus are worth the hype. |
| 1:54.2 | Listen to the dream on the I Heart Radio app, Apple |
| 1:56.8 | podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 2:00.3 | Thanks for joining us. |
| 2:01.6 | Our guest on this episode is the Emmy-nominated Netflix Stars and New York Times best-selling authors |
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