Optimal Living Daily: Personal Development & Minimalism

Emma McLaren with GetMyrth discusses resilience and how it can be used to improve stress. Episode 1936: What is Resilience and How Can It Improve Your Stress by Emma McLaren of Get Myrth After nearly a decade of globetrotting as a sustainable seafood consultant and ocean conservation warrior, Emma is planting roots. She’s lived, worked or explored in over 60 countries – 45 in the last 10 years. Quite a feat, but given Emma’s ambition, intensely supportive global network of family and friends, and powerful curiosity, it’s not all that surprising. You may have heard of her persona, Emma the Nomad? These days, though, she prefers to be known as a nomad-in-residence--to be more specific, a resident of Santa Cruz, where she’s growing her own roots alongside the coastal trees. She’s passionate about true self care, mental health experiences, and solo travel. You can usually find her devouring books, practicing yoga, or dreaming big about the future of Myrth. Myrth is a member of the Digital Wellness Collective. Bui

Courtney Carver of Be More With Less tells us why she doesn't save journals or other sentimental items. Episode 1935: Why I Don't Save Journals or Other Sentimental Items by Courtney Carver of Be More With Less Courtney Carver was stopped in her tracks with a scary MS diagnosis after decades of debt, discontent, and trying to do it all. She had to slow down, prioritize her health, and figure out what was really important in her life. She discovered what mattered most by getting rid of everything that didn’t matter at all. In the end it all came down to love and health.She went from a busy, overwhelmed advertising director to spending 2-3 hours every morning taking care of herself, loving her work, and being present and engaged with the people she loves. Her family changed, too. They moved from wanting bigger closets, nicer furniture, and more stuff to downsizing into a 750 sq. ft apartment with no storage. Courtney has written books, courses, and hundreds of articles to help you simplify your life and work so

Kylee Lessard of A Blue Sky Mind instructs us on how to walk the 5-part path to happiness and flourish. Episode 1934: What is Flourishing - Learn How to Walk the 5-Part Path to Happiness by Kylee Lessard of Blue Sky Mind Blue Sky Mind's mission is to educate the world about positive psychology -- what it is, why it’s helpful and how to practice it in a realistic and sustainable way. Its purpose is to teach happiness strategies at the individual level, in order to create a ripple effect of positivity at the society-wide level. The original post is located here: https://www.ablueskymind.com/blog/what-is-flourishing Gusto is making payroll, benefits, and HR easy for small businesses. Get 3 months free once you run your first payroll with our link: Gusto.com/OLD Please Rate & Review the Show!  Visit Me Online at OLDPodcast.com and in The O.L.D. Facebook Group  Join the Ol' Family to get your Free Gifts and join our online community: OLDPodcast.com/group Interested in advertising on the show? Visit https://www.adv

Leo Babauta of Zen Habits talks about becoming more committed to his commitments. Episode 1933: Becoming More Deeply Committed to My Commitments by Leo Babauta of Zen Habits on Accomplishing Goals Leo Babauta created Zen Habits, which is about finding simplicity and mindfulness in the daily chaos of our lives. It’s about clearing the clutter so we can focus on what’s important, create something amazing, find happiness. The original post is located here: https://zenhabits.net/commit Gusto is making payroll, benefits, and HR easy for small businesses. Get 3 months free once you run your first payroll with our link: Gusto.com/OLD Please Rate & Review the Show!  Visit Me Online at OLDPodcast.com and in The O.L.D. Facebook Group  Join the Ol' Family to get your Free Gifts and join our online community: OLDPodcast.com/group Interested in advertising on the show? Visit https://www.advertisecast.com/OptimalLivingDaily Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Brianna Harry of YeMash discloses her highest self morning routine. Episode 1932: My Highest Self Morning Routine by Briana Harry of YeMash on How to Have Self-Compassion YeMash is a private publishing group; currently in its early stages. At the core of all content published, shared, and promoted by YeMash are the principles of expressing truth, exuding positive energy, and living as your honest self. Your Morning Message is your daily dose of positive intention setting every weekday. For less than five minutes per episode, be left with messages and themes to set you up each day to be better than you were the day before. The original post is located here: http://www.yemash.com/writers-corner/my-highest-self-morning-routine Gusto is making payroll, benefits, and HR easy for small businesses. Get 3 months free once you run your first payroll with our link: Gusto.com/OLD Please Rate & Review the Show!  Visit Me Online at OLDPodcast.com and in The O.L.D. Facebook Group  Join the Ol' Family to get your Free Gifts

Shirley of Daring Living tells you how to create and start living an ideal life. Episode 1931: How to Create an Ideal Life for Yourself & Start Living it Today by Shirley of Daring Living on Vision Planning Shirley is a Certified Life Coach who helps driven women create joy and success through brain-based coaching, self compassion, and emotional resilience. The original post is located here: https://daringliving.com/create-ideal-life-vision-start-living-it-today/ Gusto is making payroll, benefits, and HR easy for small businesses. Get 3 months free once you run your first payroll with our link: Gusto.com/OLD Please Rate & Review the Show!  Visit Me Online at OLDPodcast.com and in The O.L.D. Facebook Group  Join the Ol' Family to get your Free Gifts and join our online community: OLDPodcast.com/group Interested in advertising on the show? Visit https://www.advertisecast.com/OptimalLivingDaily Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Kyle Kowalski of Sloww teaches you the best productivity hack for actually doing what you need to get done. Episode 1930: Timeboxing: The #1 Productivity Hack for Actually Doing Your To-Do List by Kyle Kowalski of Sloww.co Kyle Kowalski, the human behind Sloww, is a corporate dropout turned solopreneur who found and created his life purpose after an existential crisis―synthesizing the world’s wisdom to awaken and actualize the art of living. His crisis was the beginning of the end of my glorification of busy and unconscious consumption—and the beginning of his awakening to intentional living The original post is located here: https://www.sloww.co/timeboxing/ Gusto is making payroll, benefits, and HR easy for small businesses. Get 3 months free once you run your first payroll with our link: Gusto.com/OLD Please Rate & Review the Show!  Visit Me Online at OLDPodcast.com and in The O.L.D. Facebook Group  Join the Ol' Family to get your Free Gifts and join our online community: OLDPodcast.com/group Interested in

Kino MacGregor of KinoYoga speaks to yogis about discipline. Episode 1929: Yogi Assignment: Discipline by Kino MacGregor of KinoYoga Kino MacGregor is a Miami native who is happiest on the beach with a fresh coconut and a poet at heart who always stops to smell the flowers. She is the founder of Omstars—the world’s first yoga TV network. With over 1 million followers on Instagram and over 500,000 subscribers on YouTube and Facebook, Kino’s message of spiritual strength reaches people all over the world. Sought after as an expert in yoga worldwide, is a international yoga teacher, inspirational speaker, author of four books, producer of six Ashtanga Yoga DVDs, writer, vlogger, world traveler, co-founder of Miami Life Center. The original post is located here: https://www.kinoyoga.com/yogi-assignment-discipline/ Please Rate & Review the Show!  Visit Me Online at OLDPodcast.com and in The O.L.D. Facebook Group  Join the Ol' Family to get your Free Gifts and join our online community: OLDPodcast.com/group Interes

2 shorter posts from Joshua Fields Millburn of The Minimalists on why his phone is about to die, and why jealousy is a wasted emotion. Episode 1928: Jealousy Is a Wasted Emotion AND Why Is My Phone About to Die by Joshua Fields Millburn of The Minimalists Joshua Fields Millburn & Ryan Nicodemus write about living a meaningful life with less stuff for 4 million readers. As featured on: ABC, CBS, NBC, BBC, TODAY, NPR, TIME, Forbes, The Atlantic, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and National Post. They live in Missoula, Montana. The original posts can be found here: http://www.theminimalists.com/jealousy/ & http://www.theminimalists.com/die/  Visit Me Online at OLDPodcast.com Interested in advertising on the show? Visit https://www.advertisecast.com/OptimalLivingDaily Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Joshua Becker of Becoming Minimalist tells you one sentence you can recite each day to set your intention. Episode 1927: The One Sentence You Need Each Day to Set Your Intention by Joshua Becker of Becoming Minimalist Joshua Becker and his family decided to live with fewer possessions after a conversation with his neighbor in 2008. As a result, they found a better way to live, centered on more important pursuits. Their story has been seen on the CBS Evening News, NPR, the Boston Globe, the Wall Street Journal and countless media interviews around the world. Their books have sold in the tens of thousands. BecomingMinimalist.com is about their journey towards a rational approach to minimalism. It is about the joys and the struggles. It is about the lessons they have learned. It has inspired millions around the world. It is written to inspire you to intentionally live with less, and find more life because of it. The original post is located here: https://www.becomingminimalist.com/intention-setting/ Get your Sou

Seth Carter with The Good Life Manifesto talks about stoicism and how to cultivate a simple living mindset. Episode 1926: Stoicism And Cultivating A Simple Living Mindset by Seth Carter with The Good Life Manifesto Ludovic is the visionary and founder of The Good Life Manifesto. The Manifesto has been created over his life so far, from a very early age. Influenced by his life experiences and growing up with the advice of his very money savvy mother, Ludovic not only helms The Good Life Manifesto, but also provides guidance on personal development and finance. Ludovic loves to travel, and has a great passion for animals in general and birds in particular, and he has many birds living and traveling with him. He also loves to eat a lot more than one would think! The original post is located here: https://www.thegoodlifemanifesto.com/stoicism-and-cultivating-a-simple-living-mindset/ Get your SoulCycle at-home bike TODAY by visiting MySoulCycleBike.com/old, and use promo code OLD to get a free pair of at-home sele

Julianna Poplin of The Simplicity Habit teaches you how to build the motivation to declutter. Episode 1925: How to Get Motivated to Declutter by Julianna Poplin of The Simplicity Habit Julianna is a professional declutterer and writer at The Simplicity Habit. She writes to encourage and inspire women who want to simplify their homes and lives The original post is located here: https://www.thesimplicityhabit.com/how-to-get-motivated-to-declutter/ Visit Me Online at OLDPodcast.com Interested in advertising on the show? Visit https://www.advertisecast.com/OptimalLivingDaily Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

David Cain of Raptitude reminds us that moments can't be captured. Episode 1924: Moments Can't Be Captured by David Cain of Raptitude on Living in the Moment & Mindfulness David Cain is a writer and entrepreneur living in Winnipeg, Canada. On a particular boring day at his office job in 2009, he started Raptitude. His interest has always been human society and the internal human experience, and Raptitude became his megaphone for his thoughts about those things. It found an audience rather quickly and it’s been central to his life ever since. In 2013, he left his day job to write full time. The original post is located here: https://www.raptitude.com/2009/07/moments-cant-be-captured/  Visit Me Online at OLDPodcast.com Interested in advertising on the show? Visit https://www.advertisecast.com/OptimalLivingDaily Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Karl Staib of DigToFly encourages us to calm our anxiety through the use of a self-awareness journal. Episode 1923: Calm Your Anxiety with a Self Awareness Journal by Karl Staib of Dig To Fly on Meditation Practices Karl Staib is an author that seeks out growth at every turn. It's why he writes. He wants to process his thoughts and emotions, learn from them and share them with the world. He grew up in a little town in Pennsylvania called Pipersiville. He moved to Austin, TX in this mid twenties and now he is living in San Antonio with his wife and two boys. If you enjoy his writing, he courages you to reach out to him at DigToFly.com. He wants to hear about how you've learned to grow from your own struggles. When his father passed it was focusing on gratitude that helped him get through one of the most difficult times in his life. It taught him the importance of bringing gratitude to every single situation. Whether it's a difficult situation like his father's death or amazing one like drinking ice cold tea by

Sid Savara of Marc and Angel reminds us that we have what it takes. Episode 1922: We Have What It Takes by Sid Savara with Marc And Angel on Resiliency & How to Build Confidence Marc and Angel Chernoff are New York Times bestselling authors, professional coaches, full-time students of life, admirers of the human spirit, and have been recognized by Forbes as having "one of the most popular personal development blogs." Through their blog, book, course and coaching, they've spent the past decade writing about and teaching proven strategies for finding lasting happiness, success, love and peace. Marc and Angel's New York Times bestselling book, Getting Back to Happy: Change Your Thoughts, Change Your Reality, and Turn Your Trials into Triumphs, is a guide to spark sustainable action - and to return to whenever needed. It's available online at http://www.marcandangel.com/book/ and on Amazon. The original post is located here: https://www.marcandangel.com/2009/12/14/we-have-what-it-takes/  Visit Me Online at OLDPod

Sarah Moss with No Sidebar tells you why you shouldn't feel like a minimalist imposter. Episode 1921: Why You Shouldn't Feel Like a Minimalist Imposter by Sarah Moss with No Sidebar No Sidebar was created by Brian Gardner and is all about designing a simpler life. He and the contributing authors want to help you figure out what's getting in your way, at home and at work. They want to help you let go of distractions, online and off--to turn down the noise that disrupts the quiet of your heart and soul. The original post is located here: https://nosidebar.com/minimalist-imposter/  Visit Me Online at OLDPodcast.com Interested in advertising on the show? Visit https://www.advertisecast.com/OptimalLivingDaily Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Krista O'Reilly-Davi-Digui of A Life In Progress encourages us to take chances, make mistakes and get messy. Episode 1920: Take Chances, Make Mistakes, Get Messy by Krista O'Reilly-Davi-Digui of A Life In Progress Krista O'Reilly-Davi-Digui's mission as a Joyful Living Educator is to help messy humans like herself quiet the noise of perfectionism, comparison and fear to show up fully to their imperfect and beautiful lives and/or businesses. Her message can be summed up in 3 sentences: You're imperfect; Life is messy; Show up anyway. Krista will help you figure out how. She has a new Seasonal Mindfulness Journal available here: https://www.alifeinprogress.ca/52-mondays/ The original post is located here: https://www.alifeinprogress.ca/take-chances-make-mistakes-get-messy/ Cut your wireless bill to 15 bucks a month at mintmobile.com/OLD Please Rate & Review the Show! Visit Me Online at OLDPodcast.com and in The O.L.D. Facebook Group  Join the Ol' Family to get your Free Gifts and join our online community: OLD

Allison Carmen shares two short posts about slipping out of maybe and the "yes and no paradigm" Episode 1919: Slipping Out of Maybe AND The Yes and No Paradigm by Allison Carmen on How to Deal with Uncertainty Allison Carmen holds a B.A. in accounting, a J.D. of Law, and a Master’s of Law in taxation. After working for a large law firm in Manhattan, Allison founded her own law firm and built a successful practice focusing on real estate, corporate, mergers and acquisitions, and taxation. After 15 years of practicing law, Allison transitioned her practice into business consulting, business coaching and life coaching. Today, Allison’s clients range from owners of multi-million dollar companies to artists, actors, writers, and parents. She's also the host of the podcast: 10 Minutes to Less Suffering. The original post is located here: http://www.allisoncarmen.com/slipping-out-of-maybe/ & http://www.allisoncarmen.com/the-yes-and-no-paradigm-2/ Visit Me Online at OLDPodcast.com Interested in advertising on the sho

Cylon George of Spiritual Living for Busy People encourages you to reinvent yourself in the direction of your dreams. Episode 1918: Reinvent Yourself in the Direction of Your Dreams by Cylon George of Spiritual Living For Busy People Cylon George is a spiritual chaplain, musician, devoted husband, and busy dad of six. He loves listening to people’s stories and helping them gain perspective on life’s opportunities and challenges. The mission of his blog is to help busy people thrive in their spiritual lives so they can live with more joy, peace, purpose, and meaning. The original post is located here: https://www.spirituallivingforbusypeople.com/reinvent-yourself-in-the-direction-of-your-dreams Thank you to ZipRecruiter for sponsoring! Listeners of O.L.D. can post jobs on ZipRecruiter for FREE! Just go to: ZipRecruiter.com/old Please Rate & Review the Show! Visit Me Online at OLDPodcast.com and in The O.L.D. Facebook Group  Join the Ol' Family to get your Free Gifts and join our online community: OLDPodcast.co

Tyler Tervooren of Riskology.co reminds us to control our choices before they control us. Episode 1917: Control Your Choices Before They Control You by Tyler Tervooren of Riskology on Building New Habits Tyler is a serial entrepreneur, the founder of Riskology, former co-producer of the World Domination Summit – an annual event for free-thinkers and non-conformists, and has completed a marathon on every continent. The original post is located here: https://www.riskology.co/making-choices/ Thank you to ZipRecruiter for sponsoring! Listeners of O.L.D. can post jobs on ZipRecruiter for FREE! Just go to: ZipRecruiter.com/old Please Rate & Review the Show! Visit Me Online at OLDPodcast.com and in The O.L.D. Facebook Group  Join the Ol' Family to get your Free Gifts and join our online community: OLDPodcast.com/group Interested in advertising on the show? Visit https://www.advertisecast.com/OptimalLivingDaily Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices