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Episode 260: Want to Find Your Life Passion? Start by Simplifying Your Life - Part 2 by Barrie Davenport with BecomingMinimalist.com.
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passion start by simplifying your life. Part two by very Davenport, was becoming minimalist stock arm.
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If you believe that the more we schedule our lives, the more we can multitask task, the longer harder, we work the more valuable we are to society. Perhaps we are more
able to those we accommodate with our adrenaline fuel lifestyles.
The diminishing ourselves and the process, asylum
obvious health consequences of living. This way stress, exhaustion, Et Cetera and drew and fuel.
I've leaves no room for self reflection, creative experimentation or clear decision making required for finding a life passion. We are stuck
treadmill of tasks, commitments and useless time
first, because we have allowed ourselves to space to know what our deepest desires might be. It is hard to do
ass from his lifestyle to come back to the essentials. To give yourself space, we often feel
guilty that we are letting others down or worry, though we may be perceived as lazy and non productive, but the purpose of life isn't to produce is to live fully and joyfully,
We are here to accommodate other people's hopes and dreams we are meant
fulfil our own and by living here
I show you are serving the world in a far more profound way than by checking of items on to do list. So how can you detached and simple,
your lifestyle
We can begin by giving yourself one hour week to devote the act of simplify start by looking at everything that
take your time during a waking hours to assess the most obvious places you can cut back begin with the EU.
Is he changes first, so they can become accustomed to say no to yourself and others train yourself too.
Grace free time to use for introspection and creative thought part of the process.
Simplifying your life is determine your life priorities you may
of many interests and many seeming obligations for is impossible,
to all of them with any depth and enjoyment pick your top five and
looks intently on those allow yourself to be
please engaged in the task in hand without work,
The next item on the list becoming d
engage, puts you in that state of flow is immensely peace.
Oh and satisfy but
provide your lifestyle, your Creasy,
necessary emotional healing mentioned yesterday, physical clutter
you might wonder why physical clutter and the accumulation material things my impact, your ability to find and live your life passion, but has a huge impact as part of our.
Adrenaline fuel lives. We been led to believe that the accumulation of stuff is a worthy goal, more outwards
Both of success reveals the world that we are worthy and important.
He probably learned material. Things require time and energy. A big home is
thence if needs, be cleaned and maintained, a fancy
requires money, maintenance and fosters the subtle anxiety that it MIKE scratched or stolen. More gadgets. Ipads computers tell
Genes and other electronics. Poles us away
from real interactions with family and friends we hold on
stuff enough clauses filled with clothes. We don't wear paper scattered on our desks books in magazines. We are done with others
We hang on just in case we might need a Sunday, but all of this stuff,
his mental agitation and destruction is like us,
he swore that suddenly irritating, but we don't think is worth doing something about an abundance of
is an unnecessary physical cluttered rains us of energy. We could put towards living a creative, passionate life instead of
only reorganising things, cleaning, repairing and getting absorbed by electronic images. We could be experience.
In creating something that is deeply fulfilling fun and important, you can
he claimed that energy, by clearing the physical clutter, throwing away and giving away things you no longer use or that are distractions for you as you open up this physical space, you will also reclaimed time to pursue your passion.
A far more valuable way to spend your precious hours as you
simplify your life by cleaning up your motions, lifestyle and physical space. You will find that,
if in general, is less of a struggle. You will give yourself
breathing room for self discovery, exploration and creative ideas and these crew.
The fertile ground for finding living your life, passion.
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