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Over personal development, healthier living minimalism productivity and more idea really started away from me to read more about content that I thought I could use a lot more of my life then With others, but also work on, my performance play sings id at the same time, and it really seems to be helping at all of those areas which is awesome, and today's black Friday, where shopping is crazy, hopefully you're able to avoid that. And if an excerpt from the minimalist book essential, which is perfect for today and speaking, audio books. I very recently finished a second audio both for the minimalist this one being minimalism live a meaningful life, and I just announced in studies show that they're giving away forty five minutes of a completely free. So you listen Yes, he's episode for more information on that, and I will get to the black Friday pose as we optimize your life. An example: audio book, essential as raised by the minimalist by Joshua, feels Milburn and Ronicky Demas. Let's talk about black Friday.

Here we are in the midst of what a supposedly the most joyous time of year, the holiday season, and yet for most of us is also the most stressful time of year. At some point, Santa Claus, turn corporate and the holiday season. Metamorphosed into the holiday shopping season shopping. This one word, although both from a place of great intentions, has fundamentally changed or I'll look from blissful to grim from jolly too anxious. Celebrating Christmas, two surviving the holidays, its upsetting it with options, vicious inertia, it seems, there's no way for us to Asia, the speeding train of consumerism. Black Friday is the busy shopping day of the year boxing days overseas, equivalent retailers prepare months in advance for this dark day. Preparation, as to stimulate our insatiable desire to consume door, bus or sales new products and a newspaper adds tv radio billboards.

Sale, sale, sale early bird specials one day only get the best deal ACT now, while supplies last ceased or forty, two but a shiny as this facade may be. The harmful aspects of black Friday are not view. The pandemonium, takes place on this day is perhaps a broader metaphor for consume, culture as a whole. On this day we can tomb gluttonously without regard for the harm or afflicting on ourselves. On this day greed becomes ravenous, on this day, we live without real meaning buying gives to fill, avoid that can possibly be filled with material possessions. Black Friday is a day which ramble people for things. We don't need the day after being thankful for what we have. If you want to give gifts. When I give an expert, it's a nice meal ticket to a concert or a sunset on the beach. The best most loving gift you can give someone is yours, I'm an undivided attention presence is the best present. If

doesn't work by everyone on your Christmas list, a giant trash cans or they can throw away all the presence they received, but didn't ask for forty reasons, to avoid black Friday by Joshua feels Melbourne once upon a time throw my twenty in a faraway land Ohio in Kentucky managers, flew of retail stores. For dozen years I traversed retails murky waters, fresh out of high school IBM careers are bushy tail sales, rapid age, eighteen, a few years later but it's a sales manager, then storm azure of really. I climbed the wrongs to regional measure and finally, director am I pinnacle. I managed to operations for a hunter. Fifty bricks and mortar stores for my downtown corner office. I learned a lot What about the retail business during my tenure? Most notably, I grasped the importance of the holiday shopping season on a good year. My stories would,

as much as forty percent of their annual revenue. In the five weeks between Thanksgiving and New year's forty percent, that's manufactured demand at its best worst completely unnatural stairway because the states were so high, we start planning months in advance or black Friday and is proceeding weeks. We meant weekly dividing plans for door, buzzer sales special deals. What's your offers anything to her bovine, like customers through the door, so called deals worse designed for your benefit. We weren't you energizing Jesus hoping to find ways to save money, to assist a cost conscious single mom to help the nuclear free We create a more memorable Christmas. No, no! No. We scoured our plans for every power. One way to help help, with your money, that is the same guy when the door, but the deal was not a deal at all. The black Friday deals aren't I good to design a look. Appealing. Newspapers freestanding answered the flip side, is it. Deals are designed to get you to act on impulse, Rita,

Look you end with a limited time offer and then coerce you went to purchasing you don't need by creating false scarcity, dont succumb to the pressure if it's worth buying on black Friday is worth buying in January? To u dont it forty reasons to avoid shopping on black Friday, in the only one. You have much more meaningful holiday without extracting the plastic from your wallet spent some time. But the people you love next black Friday share meal, find a Christmas tree, enjoy a carriage ride, go ice, skating, Dante your time to a food bank dance under the bright downtown, lice plain the snow. Or in the sand or just relax and enjoy the holiday. Not shopping season simply be together, no purchase necessary. Will you join me, we avoid shopping on black Friday. Or will you follow the crowd You just listen to an excerpt from the audio book. Essential essays by the minimalist by Joshua feels Milburn and Ryan Nicodemus and once again, for

Thanksgiving the minimalist is Did you give away forty five minutes of their other book, which I just finish narrowing for them? You have to listen to yesterday's episode to get more involved in that and before we go. If you like the show, I greatly appreciate If you could join my email is that old, podcast com? You get a bunch of freebies for me we entered into raffles to win books every single month and the next a full is in less than one week and anxious no way to show that you like what you here again in I'm by old, podcast dot com and enter your email address there, or you can text in just text the word optimal to the number forty four thousand two hundred and twenty two. That's it for today, Happy Friday. Try to avoid the shopping and I'll catch. You in tomorrow show where after my life, awaits hey. This is Dan from the optimal financed daily podcast, which is a lot like this show, except more focused on personal financed, just in hand, picks the best posts he can find from blogs and.

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