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Our guest here on Family Talk is Joshua Becker.

Joshua is the founder and editor of Becoming Minimalist.

Now, this is a website dedicated to inspiring others to find more life by owning less.

Joshua is the author of four books, including a new one titled Uncluttered Faith.

Own less, love more, and make an impact on your world, which is out now and will be the topic of our conversation today.

Joshua and his wife Kim have two adult children and they make their home in Arizona and Joshua

Becker. Welcome to Dr. James Dobson's family talk. It's so good to have you on the program today. And it is even better to be here. Thank you so much for this conversation. It's an important one for everybody. It really is. And I think there are a lot of people who are saying, okay, I get it. You know, there's too much clutter in the house if you've ever lived with a relative who might be i hate to use the h word

but might be a hoarder.

You know, they've, I've met a lot of people who, you know, you don't think you have, I want to make sure I have enough, you know, but then they wind up, you know, collecting too many things. But this whole minimalism movement might be, it might sound a little different to some people.

For those who may not be aware, Joshua, it might sound a little different to some people.

For those who may not be aware, Joshua, help us get a working definition of what is minimalism.

Let me start with the technical definition. Is that way to say it?

Okay. Here's how I define minimalism. Minimalism is the intentional promotion of the things I most value in life

by getting rid of anything that distracts me from it. So minimalism, when most of us think of the

word, and I think the most practical way and what this conversation will mostly be about,

it's about owning fewer possessions.

It's not trying to get to the least amount of things as I can possibly survive on. It's not a rigid

set of rules where everybody's minimalism is going to look like everybody else's. It is the realization that our possessions don't make us

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