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Maximal Ep. 433 | Shoes (Video)
🕑 Added 2024-03-04 12:00:06 +0000 UTCThe Minimalists talk about what to do when success feels like failure, managing digital clutter, deciding between two fantastic opportunities, fundraising without buying and selling, how to let go of shoes, why advice is never one-size-fits-all, taking breaks from technology, and more!
Discussed in this episode:
How can we stop caring what society wants us to do? (01:36)
How can I declutter the files on my phone and computer? (14:48)
How can I choose between two fantastic job opportunities? (20:47)
What are some ways to fundraise without buying and selling things? (29:00)
Why can’t I let go of shoes I never wear? (36:24)
What’s the balance between listening to experts and doing our own research? (49:00)
How can we take breaks from technology when everything is digital these days? (54:10)
How many coffee mugs are too many? (01:00:45)
Why is a paid-off car the best car? (01:05:07)
Is minimalism racist? (01:11:50)
What is “junk journaling?” (01:22:20)
Why did this Patron downsize her home? (01:29:57)
What does Seth Godin mean by “jump in the lake”? (01:34:30)
LINKS
Added Value: "Headlights Home"
Article: 7 Places You Can Donate Sneakers For Cash
Audiobook: Emotional Clutter
Book: 16 Rules for Living with Less
Book: Everything That Remains
Book: There Is No How
Essay: The Successful Man’s Path to Lasting Satisfaction
Podcast: Matt Kearney
Podcast: Seth Godin
Subscribe: The Minimalists' Newsletter
Tour: The Everything Tour
Website: Soles4Souls.org
MAXIMS
When success feels like failure, you’re playing the wrong game.
Success is a multiplayer game; satisfaction is a single-player game.
If you do everything you’re “supposed” to do and you’re still unhappy, question the prescriptions, not the unhappiness.
If your decluttering principles get in your way, then declutter those principles.
The uncomfortable path is the most fulfilling path.
A thing becomes clutter the moment it ceases to add value.
Meditation is a technology.
Fire will either warm you or burn you depending on how deliberately you use it.
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Comments
Nancy S. Charney
“Thought terminating cliches.”
TGBahr
My closet was on the back my mind for many months to declutter. I would've felt extremely frustrated having had to do it earlier. Today something came over me and I got rid of a lot of overused work uniforms, use damaged fake leather jacket (only real leather from now on) along with other items. Funny how easy it can be, when we're somehow ready. Maybe we have to have an old chapter of our life ending first, a big thing achieved or something else happened to open us up for change. Whenever there is space for me to go with my inner flow, that's what I do. Much less frustration and an actual positive experience, when I'm ready.
