Integrating Mindful Minimalism In Your Life (Audio Class)

1. Course Intro: Hello, my name is Emily Jose Garcia. Welcome to this 14th, a course where you will learn about minimalism and practical ways to apply minimalism to every area of your life. Minimalism means something different for every individual. Minimalism is not about limiting yourself or deprivation. It's quite the opposite. It's about letting go of the non essential to open up space, time and energy for the things that really matter to you. In this course, you will discover one minimalism means to you and how to integrate it in your life. Now, since 2012, I have had the opportunity to create my own work based on my passion of combining organization, minimalism, and self-care to help others create a more intentional and fulfilling lifestyle. I have noticed that minimalism has always been a great way to inspire others to start taking action. Thank you to minimalism. I have seen people feeling better, having more energy, being more grateful and positive, giving back more and showing up in ways that they couldn't before for themselves and for all the people they love. That's why I felt inspired to create this course. This course is meant to inspire and motivate you so that you can improve your mental and emotional health. Get clear on what you really want in life, increase your energy levels, your motivation, and feel more connected with yourself. If all of these sounds good to you, then come and join us. I will be answering any questions you may have intercourse classroom. You can also interact with other students. I can't wait to spend time with you and see your amazing transformation. And yes, you can do this. You can let minimalism and you can create an amazing life. I hope to see you inside the course. 2. Day 1 What Is Minimalism: Welcome to this 14 day minimalism course. My name is Emily Jose Garcia. Since 2012, I have help individuals and families apply minimalism to every area of their lives. Over the next 14 days, we will be learning what minimalism is and how to apply minimalism in every area of your life. We're going to do practical exercises that will help you reconnect with yourself, said your intentions, and increase your clarity and your confidence. Course will help you create your own recipe to leave your minimalist lifestyle. During this course, we are going to learn from real life examples and experiences of myself and all the people I have had the opportunity to help through my courses, life events and workshops, and one-on-one sessions. Yes. I have gone to people's homes, rolled up my sleeves and help them declared their lives. It normally starts with a physical spaces first, their homes. Once they get in control of their physical surroundings and they feel motivated and energized. They then move into other areas of their lives that may require data to injure. You are going to learn practical, simple, and effective techniques on how to implement minimalism in every area of your life. These are all tested methods that have been used and improved over and over until we find a successful recipe that works. We all have to manage the basics of our lifestyle so that we can thrive in life. And minimalism is a great tool to help you bring simplicity back into your life while still being intention on. The basics of life are the things that we all have to manage. And we are going to cover them all in this course. Some of these basics areas are your home, your body, your mind, your time, your work, your finances, your digital life, etc. You are going to dive deeper into the awareness of your current lifestyle, habits and routines that you are following so that you can understand why you feel the way you do and what you need to do to create the change that you want to see in your life. Then you will learn the new habits and new routines that we can implement to start getting the results that you are aiming for. The lifestyle that you want to live. Today, we are going to learn more about what minimalism really ease. There are many ways to interpret minimalism. The definition is different for each person. And you will discover why in this lesser. Minimalism is not about extremes, like having only one chair and one table. Minimalism is not about limiting yourself or deprivation. It's quite the opposite. It's about letting go of the non essential to open up space, time and energy for the things that really matter to you. Do they find what minimalism means to you. You define what's important in your life right now. And do this side when it's a good time to reassess your situation, life keeps evolving and your priorities and needs and wants may change over time. This is why minimalism is a lifetime philosophy that will help you be intentional in every stage of your life. Redefining yourself and the lifestyle that you want to live. I would like to share a few definitions about minimalism so that you can then come up with your own one. According to the minimalists. Minimalism is a tool to read yourself of lives excess, in favor of focusing on what's important so that you can find happiness, fulfillment, and freedom. The minimal is vegans says, minimalism is the process of identifying what is essential in your life and eliminating the rest. Less is more. According to exile lifestyle.com, what minimalism is really all about is reassessment of your priorities so that you can strip away the excess staff. Their possessions, and ideas, and relationships and activities don't bring value to your life. As you see, minimalism can mean something different for every person. You can define what's important in your life right now and what are the things that are most meaningful to you? There are many similarities in these definitions are shared. They talk about defining what's essential, what's a priority, and eliminating the excess so that you can experience meaning and joy. The priorities of a family with children, for example, will look very different than the priorities from a single person. Life in your twenties will not be the same as life in your forties. Minimalism will adapt with your lifestyle needs. This is why it's very important to reflect and reassess what your needs and priorities are in your current stage of life. I recommend doing this reflection every time you feel frustrated, stressed, lacking meaning. These are clear indicators that you can benefit from a change and minimalism can be the answer. Now, we're going to do a practice. I invite you to get comfortable, seat down, lay down, and do whatever you need to do to get I invite you to close your eyes. Focus on your breathing. Inhale through your nose. Exhale through your mouth. Allow yourself a few deep breaths until you feel relaxed. Now, I want you to visualize your life as it is right now. Observe how you feel, how you behave, the things you like and enjoying. Things do these like and would like to change? Yes. Observe. Don't judge. Don't try to block anything. Don't overthink. Caspi pressing. Yes, female. Lead. All your emotions come out. Embrace them as they are. They are here for a reason. They are here. You something. Everything is welcome here. This is a safe space for you to just be this corner. I want you to focus on your body now. How do you feel? He said anything you would like to change? Physical exercise, sleeping, eating a good diet, drinking enough water. It seems that can help your body heal. Unfilled, strong, energized? Yes. Become aware of how you feel in your body right now. Let's move next to your mind and your emotions. What's going on in your head? Yeah, so upset. Become aware of what's there is no need to do anything. Now. Everything that's coming up with empathy, with curiosity. I want you to focus now on your home. How do you feel in your own? If you could snap your fingers and change it? How does it look like? How would you feel in that new space? What activities would you be able to do? Ritualizing, connect with their feelings you aren't experiencing. Become aware of these new reality. It's possible. And do this Head of these and much, much more. Shine the light now into your time. You have 24 hours every day to use him as you wish. How are you using them? You included things that are meaningful to you in your day-to-day. You have a good structure to follow. He said, anything you would like to change with your time management. Observe what's coming up for you. Be present, and allow your emotions and thoughts to be. They are here for a reason. You don't have to do anything with them right now. Let's move into your family and your relationship. Visualize your family and your social life. Upset what comes out for you? How do you feel? Anything you would like to change? Next area I want to focus on is your finances. How do you fill in this area of your life? What emotions come up for you when thinking of finances? And morning, we have done a quick lives can by diving into some areas of your life to help you become aware of your current situation and how you feel. I invite you now to open your eyes. To come back to the present moment. Awareness is the first step for successful change. This is why the next two sessions are going to help you become aware of your current situation and declared your intentions. Thank you so much for finishing this lesson. I honor you for your commitment and for your progress. I am looking forward for being with you in the next session where you will become aware of your current situation so that you can accept it, embrace it, and start moving forward, creating the new life that you want. I am looking forward to seeing you tomorrow. Until then. Feel free to repeat the practice that we did today and feel free to take notes of anything that comes up for you. Tomorrow, we will dive deeper into every area of your life. Have fun and enjoy. And please don't forget to pop in into the classroom and share any insights, any awarness, any questions that you may have from today's session, say hi, say who you are, why you are doing this course. Anything that you feel ride-sharing, please, please, please show up and share with us because the more you share, the more support and more motivation you will receive. And you have the opportunity to also inspire others to do the same. So I cannot wait to read what you share in there in the course classroom. I will see you there. See you tomorrow. 3. Day 2 Becoming Aware of Your Current Situation: Welcome back to day two of these 14 day minimalism corps. Yesterday, we learn all about what minimalism is. We did a quick live scan to start becoming aware of how you feel in every area of your life. If you share your reflections about yesterday's session in the course classroom. Thank you so much. If you haven't shared your experience in the course classroom yet, please pause the audio and do that now, by sharing, you are becoming more accountable to yourself. You are inspiring others to do the same. And you will get support and celebration from all of us. Sharing really creates a safe and inviting space for all of us to move forward together. Minimalism is all about identifying what's essential in your life and eliminating all the unnecessary clutter so that you can be intentional. When you are intentional, you can find more happiness, more fulfillment, and more freedom. I am sure we all want more of that, don't you? But what is clutter? That is a great question that we're going to cover right now. Clutter is a personal perception and it can mean something different for every individual. What these clutter to you. It may not be clear to another person. The best definition I have found of clutter is from the clitoris anonymous. Clutter is anything we don't need, want, or use. That takes our time, energy, our space, and destroys our serenity. I love, love. This description of clutter. I want you to be aware that there are many different kinds of clutter, physical corridor, social clatter, mental clutter, emotional clutter, financial clutter. Clutter. Just to name a few. Today, we are going to dive deeper into understanding your current situation in every area of your life. We are going to cover these areas in the next sessions. But before setting your intentions, you need to be aware of what's going on in your life as a whole. This is why we are going to do a guided practice now to help you connect with every area of your life and reflect about what's there and why. If you notice cluttered awareness, emotions triggered coming up. Please be gentle with yourself. Allow space and time for them to just be there. Take the time to observe them. Anything that will surface is there for a reason. You can learn something from it. So please don't block anything. Be compassionate with yourself, and do this practice with curiosity and an open mind. I recommend you do this practice at least twice. The first time. Allow yourself to get really connected with yourself and your feelings without distractions. The second time, you can go even deeper and take notes. Feel free to pause the audio when needed, and write down everything that comes up for you. All these things will help you tomorrow to set your intentions. Okay, let's get started. I want you to get comfortable. Take a few deep breaths. Allow yourself to be in the present moment here with me. You chose to be here because you want to make changes in your life. You want to remove clutter and be more intentional with your time, with your space, with your energy and your emotions. You want to feel more happiness, more fulfillment, more joy in your life, and of course, more freedom. Let's get started shining the light on the positives of your life. First. I want you to think about your life right now and identify what's working for you. What do you feel great about your life right now? Do something that makes you smile, happy, proud, special. You can list as many things as you can. Think of. Celebrate them. Be grateful to have them in your life. So many times we focus on the negatives. We forget all the great things that exist in our lives. If you are having trouble finding things, that's okay. Some simple things to be grateful of could be being healthy. Having a mother or a father, having siblings that love you, having a job that pays, you. Living in a safe country, having running water at home. The more you think about it, the more positive things you will find in your life. Please allow yourself some time to celebrate them and really feel the gratefulness in your body. Yes. It feels great, doesn't it? I am grateful for my daughter smiling at me and telling me, I love you. I am grateful for my flexible work. I am grateful for having a comfortable home. I am grateful for your presence and excitement doing these courses with me. These are just some examples. My own. Guess, take some time and think about the good things in your life. Thank you so much for your gratefulness. I invite you to think about ten things that you are grateful for. The next 13 Days of these course, Brighton down every day and I promise you that you wouldn't notice a huge difference in your life. Now, I want you to connect with your frustrations and things that you would like to change in your life. What are they? Why do you want to change them? What have you tried so far to make things better? How long have you been struggling with these four? How do you feel when thinking of it? What emotions show up for you when connecting with these things? Think about your mind and emotions, your body, your time, your home, theater, life, relationships, your money, your work. Take the time to scan all of these areas one by one. Please take as much time as you require to raise everything that is bothering you. Start with the thing that's bothering you the most right now. And keep going with the next one. The next one. The next one. I want you to declare your mind and all your emotions down into a piece of paper. We will use whole this information tomorrow. Feel free to pause the audio and take as much time as you require. Once you feel complete and nothing else comes to mind. I want you to think about how your life will be. If you could change all these things, how would you feel? What would you be able to do that you cannot do right now? How will life change for yourself and for others? Think about all the benefits. Making these changes will bring you. What kind of person will you become? Why would your family say when meeting these new, you visualize yourself living this new reality. Connect with that reality. Feel it. Experience it. Take as much time as you want to stay in this new reality. Feel free to pause the audio until you feel complete, unsatisfying. When you are ready, I invite you to come back to the present moment. Move your arms, your legs, open your eyes. You did amazing work. Thank you so much for allowing yourself time and space to connect with your feelings, for giving yourself the gift of awareness, for allowing yourself to dream, to visualize a new reality that is possible. Yes, it is. Tomorrow, we will do an exercise where you will be able to use all this information. This is where you will set the intention in every area of your life so that you can get started moving forward in the direction that you want with intention and with confidence. And don't worry because you can always come back and change these as many times as you need. Please go to the course classroom now and share your insights from today's lesson. I cannot wait to read them and support you. Thank you so much for finishing this lesson. I honor you for your commitment and for your progress. I am looking forward to being with you in the next session where you will declare your intentions and what you want to see in your life. Having these Britain down will allow you to be more intentional and more focused, more motivated, and will allow you to reflect in the future. I can't wait to be with you tomorrow. Until then, I invite you to reflect about today's awarness. Feel free to do today's practice again and take as many notes as you need. Until then. I hope you have an amazing rest of your day. That means see you tomorrow. 4. Day 3 Declaring Your Intentions: Welcome back to day three of these 14 day minimalism course yesterday with it and awareness exercise where you put down everything that you want to change in your life. Thank you for sharing your experience in the course classroom. If you haven't shared yet, please pause the audio and do it now before you forget. Today, we're going to structure all that information into a practical and visual exercise so that you can start taking action and reflecting about your changes. I call this exercise creations. My wife Samantha, and I have been doing creations for years. Thanks to this lifestyle design method, we have been able to create a lifestyle that we love by setting clear intentions and by being able to remind ourselves of what's important and reflect often about our progress. You are going to be able to set your intention and start taking action with confidence and motivation. You already. I recommend you go to a place where you feel inspired and relaxed. Avoid distractions as much as possible. Bring pen and paper or your journal. If you have one. If you have colored markers, bring them to. Don't forget to bring all the notes from last session. Step one, we're going to write down the titles of the areas of your life. You can use different colors if you like. Make sure that you leave space under each title. Too bright your intentions. You can use your paper on landscape or portrait orientation. It is your choice. The areas we are covering in this course, our mind and emotions, Buddy, time, home, paper, data, relationships, work, and money. If you want to include any other area that is important to you, please do. This is your creation. So you can choose what areas of your life you want to work on. You don't have to work on all of them all at once. It is your choice. By the end of step one, you will have all the titles spread and down on your paper. Please pause the audio if you need more time to complete step one. Step two. Great. On a scale of 0 to 100 being the worst and ten being the best. How you feel in every area of your life. For example, body, I feel a seven, I feel like could lose a bit of weight and exercise a bit more every week. I also want to drink more water, daily. Bread. You're rating close to each title so that you can see it easily. Go through every area and rate how you feel. Right it down so that you can reflect in the future. By the end of step two, you will have all the titles brilliant down and your rating beside each title. You can pause the audio if you need more time to complete step two. Step three. Now is the time to go through every area and ask yourself, what are you doing right now to cultivate this area of your life? Reflect about the reading that you brought down and why you decided for that number. Check any notes that you may have from yesterday's session. Then ask yourself, what would you like to change in this area? Is there anything that you would like to stop doing? Is there anything new that you would like to start doing in this area? I want you to write down whatever answers come to you. An example could be in my body area. I feel a seven out of ten. I did check my notes from yesterday's session. Then under my body area, I will write three bullet points. Drink more water, lose £10, and exercise three times a week for at least 40 minutes. And that can happen by playing squash, playing tennis, biking, or rollerblading. So that will be my bullet points under my body area. Please repeat this with every ingredient. With every area of your life. I call them ingredients because I like to think of life like a recipe. You are creating something that you enjoy. You are cooking something that you like, and you can use the ingredients that you enjoy. So that's why you are creating a recipe for an extraordinary life for yourself. And you are deciding what ingredients you want to include in your recipe. So when you are done, you will have your recipe to follow. Okay, let's get started with your mind and emotions. Reflect about the reading that you broke down, why you decided for that number. Notes that you may have from yesterday's session. What would you like to change in this area? He said anything that you would like to stop doing? Anything new that you would like to start doing in your mind and emotions area. Right down whatever answers come to you. And feel free to pause the audio if you need more time. The next area is your body. I want you to reflect about their rating that you wrote down. Why did you decide for that number? Check for any notes that you may have from yesterday's session. What would you like to change in your body? Is there anything that you would like to stop doing? He said anything near that you would like to start doing in this area, please break down any bullet points that come to mind. The next area is your time, time management. How you use your time. I want you to reflect about the reading that you wrote down. Why before that number? Yes. Become aware of it. I want you to take any notes that you may have from yesterday's session. Anything that came up for you? Her own time? What would you like to change with your time? He said anything that you would like to stop doing, anything new that you would like to try that you would like to start doing with your time. I want you to break down whatever answers come to you under your time titled. The next title is your home. I want you to reflect about the number that you choose on how you felt with your whole Why did you choose that number? Check any notes that you may have from yesterday session, any feelings and emotions and it triggers that came up for you around your home. And then ask yourself, what would you like to change in this area? He said anything that you would like to stop doing? Anything new that you would like to start doing in your home. Just don't overthink. This is your first creation. Write down whatever comes to you. Let's move into paper. How do you feel about paper? What number did you chose and why? Do you have any notes from yesterday's session? Anything you would like to change in this area, anything you would like to stop doing. Anything you would like to start doing in this area. Now I want you to think about your digital life. The same process. How did you fail? The same process? What number did you choose and why? Check if you have any notes from yesterday? What would you like to change? What would you like to stop doing? Anything new you would like to try? Remember to pause the video if you need more time in any of these areas. You can listen to this area as many times as you need to. Relationships. How do you feel about relationships? What number did you choose? Any notes from yesterday's session? What would you like to teach in this area of your life? Anything you want to stop doing? Anything you would like to start doing? What about your work? How did you feel about work? What number did you pick? And why? Do you have any notes from yesterday's session about work? What would you like to change into your work? Anything you would like to stop doing? Anything you would like to integrate in your work. Last year. Money. What number did you select for your money? What feelings come up when you think about money? Do you have any notes from yesterday that you can use? What would you like to teach in this area? Is there anything that you would like to stop doing? Anything that you would like to integrate, anything new you want to try. If you had any other areas that you put down, please repeat the same process and write down whatever comes to. You. Feel free to pause the video if you need more time to complete these steps. Congratulations, you have completed your face creation. I am so proud of you for taking the time to do this. I am so excited for you because I know that your life is going to improve and become way better. I can't wait to see your transformation. Yeah. Once you have your first creation, it's time to test it for a few weeks and review it again. Okay. Step four, put your creation in a place where you can see daily. Set a reminder to reflect on it regularly. I normally reflect on my creation road, lovely to see my progress and make a new one. Now, Maddie, every three to six months. It depends how I feel. Every time I feel I'd be lost. Unlike indirection or frustrated, that's a clear sign that I need to create a new one and set new exciting intentions. Remember that you only fail when you stop trying. You can do this exercise with a good friend or family member. This will help you be accountable to someone. The other person can take the role of asking questions like, what, u1, why do you want it? Can you describe it for me, etc. Visualization is a very powerful tool that we all have. So let's use it. For example, me and my wife have done creators in the park, in a cool coffee place on our bed with candles or music. If you can visualize in your mind what you want and can answer to why you want it. You will find focus on motivation, and then magic will start happening. And most likely you will get what you are asking for. So please stay. They attempt to do this exercise because it will really change your life and you will feel more in control and more excited. I want to share a quote with you before we finish. Great things are done by a series of small things brought together. This is by Vincent van Gogh. Ok. So doesn't matter how small the tenses that you are trying to make right now. When you combine little things together, a great thing will happen. So thank you so much for finishing this lesson. I honor you for your commitment and for your progress. I am so looking forward to being with you in the next session, where we will dive deeper into your mind and emotions, you will learn about self-care, how to implement self-care in your life. I can wait to be with you tomorrow. Until then, I invite you to reflect about today's exercise. Read what you wrote down and really connect with it. Please share your main takeaways from today's session in the course classroom. You can also share your creation if you feel inspired to do so. I would really love to read it and support you. I hope you have an amazing rest of your day. 5. Day 4 Mind & Emotions: Welcome back to the four of these 14 day minimalism corps. Yesterday, we did a creation exercise where you declare your intentions and brought them down. Thank you for sharing your takeaways, questions and your own creations in the course classroom. If you haven't shared yet, please pause the audio and do it now before you forget. I really, really loved reading from you. Today. It's all about your mind and your emotions. You are going to learn what self-care is, how you can integrate it in your life. Let's start by getting comfortable. You can see down. You can lay down. Yes. Do whatever you need to do to feel comfortable. Close your eyes. If you feel comfortable, by closing your eyes, you are helping your mind to relax to avoid distractions and to come to the present moment. You are connecting with yourself. When you are feeling inside. Take a few deep breaths, inhale through your nose, and exhale through your mouth. Allow yourself to make noise. If that feels good. You can hold your breath a few seconds between every inhale and exhale. If you feel like it. You can inhale for four seconds. Hold for four seconds. Exhale for four seconds. Hold for four seconds. And repeat the pattern as many times as you want and neat. You can change the numbers to it doesn't have to be four seconds. This is just a four-by-four breathing technique. You are doing what's called breadth work. You are using your breath favor to promote relaxation, more oxygen into your brain and release any stress and tension that your body had accumulated. Breathing is at an easy and powerful self-care activity that you can do anywhere you add in yes. A few seconds? Yes. Doing three deep breaths. When you are feeling stressed, anxious, scared of it well, can help you feel calmer and more grounded. Now with your eyes closed and breathing comfortably, go back to a happy memory. It could be a memory from the last 24 hours. From glass week. From last year? Yes. Connect with the first happy memory that comes to mind. Visualize what you were doing, how you were feeling. Connect with that moment. Breathe in and out. Experience now what you were experiencing then. Maybe you notice that you are smiling. Maybe you notice that you are feeling excited, proud. Energized. Stay there for a few seconds and allow yourself to just be there. I am sure that you are feeling great Now. You have done what's called visualisation. Another simple, yet very powerful self-care activity that can help you change your mood and become more positive and confident. Keep your eyes closed. And now I want you to just stay here. Try to just watch your mind. Upset what's going on. Try not to think of anything. If you do, gently, bring your awareness back to your breath. Inhale. Yes, be present. This is what's called meditation. Let's give it a try gas for a few seconds. Now, I am going to stop the music and try the same thing. But in silence. Guess, be present and observe. Slowly. Bring yourself back. How do you feel? What do you enjoy more silence or music? It's nice to get to try both options. And notice the difference. Now, I want you to focus on something that is bothering you, something that is causing your frustration, stress, conflict. What he said, How do you feel when you think about it? Connect with those feelings. Allow them to just be. For them. Now, I want you to think about your ideal outcome. If you could snap your fingers and change this situation, how would it look like? How would you feel? Visualize yourself in this new reality and connect with your feelings? What's different? What has changed? You are using this quantization to connect with a different reality that it's possible. Let's express how you feel in these specific situation that is causing you stress, tension, discomfort. How will you define it in one sentence? Now, I want you to come up with an inspiring sentence that will help you overcome this situation and feel better about it. Some examples could be, I feel overwhelmed Every time I open my kitchen pantry because everything is disorganized and I cannot find the things that I need. And then you can say, I am going to learn a strategy to organize my pantry time in my calendar to get it done. Or I am going to hire a professional organizer to help me set the system that I can maintain. Couple of more examples could be, I am stressed and overwhelmed. Virtually. I am working towards being more intentional and creating more time for the things that I love. I don't like how I look like. Versus I accept myself as I am now. And I am excited to learn how to take better care of my buddy. Congratulations. You have done affirmations. If you were to repeat this affirmations regularly and create new ones when needed, your confidence levels and self-love will increase. You could even record your own ones and listen to them anytime you want. Let's try something else together. I want you to step in front of a mirror. If you don't have a mirror handy, you can use your selfie camera of your phone or other device. I want you to be able to see yourself reflected. Look at yourself in the mirror and tell yourself nice things like, I love you, Emilia. Thank you for trying your best. Thank you for providing for your family. Thank you for being a good, caring friend. I want you to keep coin until yourself, nice things. Now, I want you to think of those stressful situations that you experienced and tell yourself the affirmations that you brought down. For example, I am stressed and overwhelmed. I am working towards being more intentional and creating more time for the things that I love. I don't like how I look like versus I accept myself as I am now. And I am excited to learn how to take better care of my body. It's okay if you feel we are doing this. You may feel discomfort. You may have a hard time talking to yourself in the mirror. Maybe you love doing this and it feels great. Anything that comes up for you. Welcome you. Yes. Did what's called mirror work. Another simple yet powerful self-care exercise that can help you boost your self-care, self-love, and confidence. You can do this exercise while brushing your teeth, while shaving, welcoming your hair, while waiting on a traffic light. You could even record a video with your phone and watch it as many times as you want. There are no rules here. You are the creator of your own self-care. And you'll get to explore and try anything that you feel like. You are discovering a few different self-care practices that can help you boost your self-care. Self-care can be integrated in any area of your life. It should be simple and convenient to do. Now, Let's create your own self-care list with some activities that you will enjoy doing. The idea here is to brainstorm a few activities and write them down so that you can remind yourself to do them regularly. Some examples of self-care activities could be going for a walk in nature, doing three debriefings. Listening to nice music, playing your favorite instrument, calling your friend and catching up, petting your dog or cat, enjoying a cold or hot beverage. Dancing to your favorite music, doing some exercise, fixing something at home, painting, the cluttering your closet. Self care is care provided for you by you. It's about understanding what helps you feel better and taking steps to do these activities on a regular basis. Yourself. Catalysts can be created by activity type, relaxing, active social, family, and by location at work, at home while traveling in the park, in the car commuting. I think you are ready now to write down a few self-care activities for yourself. Please allow yourself a little bit of time to think about your options. Feel free to meditate for a little bit to help you connect with yourself. And when ADS that coming up, please write them. Remember to brand activities by activity type. By location, time. Please pause the audio and take as much time as you need. When you are ready. Please come back, open your eyes. You did great today. I want you to put yourself can live in a visible place where you can see it. Every day. I invite you to share these links with other people that you love so that they can support you. You could invite them to create their own self-care list to. On day six, you will learn how to create the time for self-care and strategies to help you protect that time so that you can actually practice self-care regularly. Please come to the course classroom and share how you felt after today's session. What was your favorite activity? What's have connectivity is teach you include in your list. By sharing, you will be more accountable to yourself. You will receive support and encouragement from all of us and you will inspire others to do the same plot. I love reading everything that you write. So please, please, please make sure you share in the course classroom before you go to the, if you are interested in diving deeper into self-care and expand into all these practices. I invite you to take my ten days self-care course here on Inside timer called improving your mental health with self-care. Thank you so much for finishing this lesson. I honor you for your commitment and for your progress. I am looking forward to being with you in the next session where we will dive deeper into your body, you will learn about the importance of nurturing your body so that you can feel energized and healthy. I can't wait to be with you tomorrow. Until then. I invite you to reflect about today's session. Read yourself catalyst, and start doing those activities. And please don't forget to share your main takeaways from today's session and yourself catalysts in the course class. I can't wait to see what you share. I hope you have an amazing rest of your day. 6. Day 5 Body: Welcome back to day five of these 14 day minimalism corps. Yesterday, we practice self-care and you created your own self-care list. Thank you for sharing your takeaways, questions and your own self careless in the course classroom. If you haven't shared yet, please pause the audio and do it now before you forget. I really, really love reading from you to this session is all about your body. Having a healthy body will allow you to enjoy life to its maximum potential. I want you to learn or remind yourself of simple ways to nurture your body so that you can have energy to create the life that you want to leave. Some of the things that can help improve your body are good nutrition, drinking enough water, regular exercise, good rest, mindfulness, exercise practices like yoga, relaxation, and release intentions. I'm breaking deeply. Your body already knows what it needs. Just have to listen to it to an int to yourself. And notice what's in there. A great self-care exercise to help you bring awareness to your physical body is the body is can. The purpose of a body scan is to tune into your body, to reconnect to your physical self. And notice any sensations that you are feeling without judgment. Sometimes you can be so caught up in your stress that you don't realize that the physical discomfort that you are experiencing, such as headaches, I can show their pain and tense muscles is connected to your emotional state. Body scan is a good way to release tension. You might not even realize you are experiencing. Body scanning involves paying attention to parts of the body and bodily sensations in a gradual sequence from feet to head. By mentally scan in yourself, you bring awareness to every single part of your body. Noticing any aches, pains, tension, or general discomfort? Let's give it a try together. Please get in a comfortable position. Laying down if you can, or sit in a comfortable position. Crush your eyes. Crossing your eyes will allow you to focus more on your feelings and every part of your body. Take a few deep breaths. Let your breathing slow down. Start breathing from your belly instead of from your chest. Letting your abdomen expand and contract with each breath. In making data balloon, inflating and deflating in your abdomen with each breath. Now, slowly, bring your attention down to your feet. Begin observing sensations in your feet. If you notice pain, unaudited, any thoughts or emotions that may come up and gently breathe through it. Breathe into the tension. If you notice any uncomfortable sensations, focus your attention on them. Breathe into them, and see what happens. Visualize the tension leaving your body through your breath and evaporating into the air. Move on when you feel ready. Scan your entire body. Container, this practice with each area of your body, moving up through your feet until you reach the top of your head. Notice how you feel and where you are holding your stress. Continue to breathe into any tightness, pain, or pressure that you are feeling. This can help you release tension in your body. Now. Be more aware of it in the future so that you can release it then. Slowly bring yourself back to the present moment. Open your eyes. Welcome back. What did you notice in your body? Now is the time to pause and write down anything that came up for you. You can also pause if you need more time. One to enjoy a longer body scanner. There is no right or wrong way of doing this. Choose whatever feels good to you. And if you don't know yet, yes, allow yourself time to practice and explore different ways until you find your own way. To remember that taking good loving care of your body includes what you eat, drinking enough water, how much you sleep, doing regular exercise, breathing better, and allowing time for mindfulness practices like yoga and relaxation activities like meditation and body scan. Make sure that you revisit your self-care list. Include any self-care activities that you want to do to nurture your body. Now we are exploring different things. And I want you to feel free to add the things that you enjoy to yourself catalyst. Now you have tools to nurture your two main powers, your mind and your body. When you feel well in these two areas of your life, the rest will feel easier because you will have the energy and the motivation. Plus you have great tools to monitor and improve your mental and emotional health. Thank you so much for finishing this lesson. I honor you for your commitment and for your progress. I am looking forward to being with you in the next session where we will be diving deeper into your time and how you manage it. You will learn about time management and how to create your intentional week. I cannot wait to be with you tomorrow. Until then. I invite you to reflect about today's practice. What did you discover about your body? What activities did you come up with to nurture your buddy? Please share them in the course classroom. I love to read it for you. I hope you have an amazing rest of your day. 7. Day 6 Time: Welcome back to the six of these 14 day minimalism course yesterday with F into your body. Things you can do to nurture it. And we did a body scan to help you connect with your physical health and become aware of any tension or stress. Thank you for sharing your takeaways, questions and what you discovered about your body in the course classroom. If you haven't shared yet, please pause the audio and do it now before you forget, I really love from you. Today we're going to focus on your time. We all have 24 hours every day and we can use them as we wish. Time is our most precious resource. It's limited, and it never comes back. By. Now, you have a good understanding of what minimalism is and how to integrate in your life. You became aware of your current situation and declare your intentions. You created your own creation that you can revisit any time. You dive into your mind and emotions to help you create a good self-care plan. And you recognize that with your body and learn how to do a body scan and become aware of any tensions. The next natural step in your minimalist journey is to master your time management to make sure that you are prioritizing what you really want to do. And say no to any distractions and all the things that you don't want or need in your life. In order to do this, you have to be intentional. You have to take action towards the things that you brought into your creation. And the way to do this is by prioritizing your time and protecting it against the busy-ness of life and all the distractions that are around you. Let's do a visualization of your current reality and how you spend your time. Now. Please get in a comfortable position. Close your eyes. Take a few deep breaths. I want you to visualize your past week. Starting Monday. Monday morning. What did you do? Did you have a clear plan on how you use your time? T2 task flow through your day. Visualize your Monday afternoon. Evening. What time did you go to bed? When you happy at the end of the day with your use of time. Maybe you didn't even think about it. Or maybe you were frustrated because you couldn't get to some important things or personal things. Or maybe you couldn't exercise or spend time with your family? Yes. Grenade with any emotions that are coming up and just let them be observed. When you feel complete. Move to the next day. Tuesday. But the u du What time did you get up? How did you feel? If you could would you change anything? Then move to Wednesday. Do the same process. Reflect about when say What did you do? How did you feel? You'd like to change anything if you could. Then Thursday, then Friday, and then the weekend. Take as much time as you need. Really reflect. He took a if you don't remember clearly what you eat every day. But I am sure that you will have some core memories and some emotions associated with them. Where are you able to do the things that you wanted to do? Maybe you didn't have plants and you just want it to relax and flow. How did you feel? I invite you to take notes if you feel like it. When doing these kind of exercises. A lot of emotions, memories, triggers, things we want to change. Ideas that we want to integrate in our lives may show up. So make sure that you track them. When you are ready. Please come back to the present moment and open your eyes. Now that you are aware of how you use your time last week and how you felt. I want you to read your creation. All the things that you wrote down that you want it to do. We do Do any of them last week. Let's now do a visualization of your desire, reality, and how you would like your day and your week to look like. So please close your eyes again. Take a couple of deep breaths. Get comfortable with your intention. Focus on your creation and all of the things that you want down. Please visualize your ideal week. Let's start next month. What time do you want to get up? What do you do in the morning? What do you do in the afternoon? What do you do? What time do you go to it? What do you eat? Repeat the same thing for Tuesday, Wednesday, all the way to Friday. And then go through your weekend. Remember that you are creating whatever you want. You are including here all the activities from your creation, from your self-care list on top of your responsibilities and things that you use, what you do every week. Please take as much time as you need to visualize your ideal week. It's okay if you don't have all the answers yet. It's okay if you feel a little bit overwhelmed doing this exercise, eat normal. You are stepping out of your comfort zone of your familiarity to create something new. And our brains don't like change to match. It could be unsafe. That's why you are facing resistance. Feel free to pause the video if you need more time. When you feel complete, please come back to the present moment. Open your eyes. Now we're going to do an exercise that you are going to use for the next phase. It's called your ideal week. I want you to take a piece of paper and a pen. If you have caller, Please state into I want you to create seven columns. One for every day of the week. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, all the way to Sunday. On the left side, left to the Monday column. Create a smaller column with types. I normally start at six AM and go all the way down to 11 PM. You can change these times to adjust to when you get up and when you go to bed. I normally do 30 minutes intervals. You can do one hour in terrorists to so basically I will have 6637 AM, say about 38, all the way to 11 PM. Now you should have the seven days of the week and a column on the left hand side with a times. The idea here is to start filling your week with the activities that you have. The first, like going to work, sleeping, doing your laundry, grocery shopping, cooking, and any other activities that you do on a weekly basis. You can use different colors for different activities if you want. You could do cream for work, orange for exercise, being for family time. You get the idea. Let your creativity guide you. If you don't have colors or you are not creative casts. Same color works too. You could also do this exercise on your computer using your online calendar if you want. You don't have to plan every single minute of your week. You can have NTC base or not blank time and you can call it whatever you like. Like me, time, flow time, not planned time. See what happens. Time, honestly, whatever you want. And you can also create windows of time for specific kinds of activities like self-care time, exercise time, bride in time, social time, household time. And you can decide after what to do on that window of time. Or you can have an ongoing to-do list with those specific tasks. And you can take that specific list at that specific time. There is no right or wrong way of doing this. You are the creator of your reality and this exercise will help you create what you really want. If doing this exercise is overwhelming for you to the point that you feel paralyzed, don't worry. That was me The first time I face this exercise, I just couldn't do it. I work around to this challenge is to use this template to track your time for one or two weeks. I had my journal with me and I was writing down everything that I was doing. At the end of the week. I could see where my time went. And then it was easy for me to create a more realistic week. I am self-employed. I don't have a lot of structure. That's why I was a bit over one. So you have two choices. One is to create your ideal week in advance and then test it. The other way of doing this is to start tracking your real week first. And then you can create your ideal week based on all the information that you wrote down. You could track more than one week if you like. Sometimes I have tracked up to four weeks in a row. By doing this, I was becoming aware of how I was using my time and I was able to optimize my time management. But tasks avoid distractions and become aware of my energy levels throughout the day. This exercise takes a bit of time and thinking. But I promised you that if you do it, your time management is going to improve. And you are going to be able to be intentional with your time and start doing what you really want. Another huge benefit of this exercise is that it forces you to be realistic. We humans tend to be very optimistic with time. And we feel that we can do way more than we really can. By doing this exercise, we are going to have to fit everything in our week. And we will need to prioritize, say no to things, and really design something based on their reality of 24 hours a day. I invite you to also write down how you feel every day when you notice strong feelings like happiness, frustration, overwhelm, proud, energize. Make sure that you break this down so that you can link the specific activity you did with that emotion and the time of the day when you are reflecting about your weight, You can read these reflections and tweak your week accordingly. Allow yourself permission to tweak and change your week as many times as you require until it feels good. So this exercise is not set to store. Once you do it, it's not meant to limit you in any way. It's quite the opposite. This exercise is meant to help you be intentional, to help you find time for the things that are important to you and to help you gain more freedom, it's important to include your loved ones. So I encourage you to do this exercise together with your partner if that's an option or with a good friend or family member. Thank you so much for finishing this lesson. I honor you for your commitment and for your progress. I am looking forward to being with you in the next session, where we will dive deeper into your home, you will learn how to implement minimalism in your home. I can't wait to be with you tomorrow. Until then, I invite you to reflect about today's exercise. Read what you wrote down on your ideal week and really connect with it. Please share your main take away from today's session in the course classroom. You can also share how you felt while creating your ideal week. I will love to read it and support. I hope you have an amazing rest of your day. 8. Day 7 Home: Welcome back to the seven of these 14 day minimalism corps. Yesterday, you became aware of how you are using your time and you started taking steps to create your ideal week. Thank you so much for sharing your progress, your challenges, and your questions, and how you felt while creating your IVR week in the course classroom. If you haven't shared yet, please pause the audio and do it now before you forget. It will help you a lot to be accountable to yourself. And I really, really love reading from you. So please go there and do it now. Today we're diving into your home. Guess. When we think about minimalism, one of the first things that come to mind is your physical belongings, your staff, your kitchen, your bathroom, your bedroom, your garage. If you have one, that storage closet that you don't want to open, you know what I mean? We all have places in our home where a little bit of the cratering or a lot will help us utilize the space better and feel better. One of the secrets to embracing minimalism in your life is by making it inviting and convenient. If you put on your self-care list or creation. Read three times a week for 30 minutes, for example. But you don't have a comfortable and inviting space to read. You have piles everywhere. And when you sit down in your chair, you can only think of all the things that you still need to do. Most likely you won't take the time to read. It won't be an enjoyable experience for you. If you're, on the other hand, take a bit of time. I want to declare your space. You put your chair by the window where it gets great reading light. You place a beautiful plant behind the chair and you display things that you love. Looking at. The experience of sitting down, reading your book is going to be enjoyable and you will be looking forward to doing it. If you are planning on doing some yoga or stretches or just a quick exercise routine at home. But you don't have a designated and convenient place to do it. And every time you want to exercise, you have to move things around. You have to look for your yoga mat, look for your shoes. Most likely this experience is going to be frustrating. And you may choose not to do it. If you take the time to create a nice pace that is clear and inviting to you. You designate a place where all your exercise equipment leaves. You are more likely to do it and to enjoy it. I had the opportunity to help over 300 individuals and families declarative and organize their homes? Yes, I roll up my sleeves and I helped them in their own homes. When you repeat something over 300 times, let me tell you that you learn what works and what doesn't work very quickly. So I want to share with you the three steps that I personally follow to help others embracing minimalism in their homes. These steps are step one, awarness, step to action. Step three, mountainous. Let's get started by doing an awareness clutter meditation. Meditation has long been a tool for building and strength and clarity. Here we explored the idea that you can use this tool for breaking through difficulties with clutter and letting go. This meditation is designed to be a relaxing and motivating way to take control of your quest for living with what's important to you. Clutter visualization meditation is all about exploring your home and visualizing your ideal space. Are you ready? So close your eyes. Think about the space where you live. You might want to think about a particular room. At room that causes you a lot of stress. Or a room that you spend most of your time in. These might be your bedroom or living room, or it could be your storage area. Imagine standing in the middle of the room, slowly turning around to see everything in it. Take your time as you look around the space. Think about how much discomfort you feel while visualizing this room on a scale of 0, no discomfort, and a 100 demos discomfort. Think about how you are feeling as you stand in your own. Feelings might be negative. You could be feeling anxious, fearful, embarrassed, ashamed, guilty, disgusted, confused, overwhelmed, pressure, disoriented, hopeless, depressed, frustrated. Discouraged. Feelings may be positive. Two. You could be feeling happy, pleased, relieved, comforted, hopeful, proud. Take the time to explore how you feel. Next. Think about what thoughts might be going through your mind. It could be thought like, this is ugly. I will never find anything in this mess. There must be buried treasures in here. It will only take me a little bit to clean this up. This is really a very pleasant room. It's not so bad. Think about this link between your feelings, your thoughts. Now, I want you to think about the same space, but visualize that the clutter is now gone. Bad, that everything is organized and put in its place. There is no clutter. Everything that you wanted to keep it still there, but organized and put in its place. What does this room look like? Are there unclutter furniture tops, floor free from clutter with only racks and furniture. As you visualize these uncluttered space, consider what you can do with this room. What kinds of activities could you engage in? What does your furniture look like? How will you decorate this room? Please allow a few minutes to explore this. How uncomfortable that you feel while imagining the room this way. Remember 0, no discomfort. And 100, the most discomfort that you have ever felt. I want to invite you now to compare the rating from the one that you had before. Before doing this exercise. What, what's your rating? Wash it 506080. Was it ten? And now, how do you feel? I want you to prepare to open your eyes. You have completed the Clarett visualization meditation. How do you feel? Feel free to write down any feelings, any insights, realizations, things you want to change down in paper so that you don't forget. I invite you to listen to this meditation as many times as you need. Every time you are going to do this exercise, you're going to be able to go deeper and deeper with the awareness from this meditation. I want you to now think about the action required from you to create your ideal space. In order to help you with this, I am going to guide you through an exercise called describing your ideal space. Please take pen and paper and follow along. I want you to describe your product and name it. What do you love about this space? What's working right now? What do you hate about this space? What are your frustrations? If you could snap your fingers and visualize the space finished. How does it look like? How do you fill in that space? What activities are you able to do that you can't now, what are the challenges that you are facing now? Who else uses the space? What are their wants and needs? What are the required tasks that you need to do? What is the timeline? How much time do you estimate on how many sessions you may do? Can you get help and accountability? Now you have a specific plan of attack with your goal in mind. Now, it's time to go through your belongings and the credit, anything that no longer serves you. You can sell, donate, give away, any unwanted items. Once you are left with only the things that you need and love, it's time to organize them. Assign a specific home for each item so that you can always return the item back to its home. Once everything has a home, it's time to beautify the space by displaying things that you love, by adding color, by adding plants or any other object that you may need for your self-care practice or that you may love looking at. The last step is maintenance. Once you have made the changes in your space, you have to make sure that you maintain the new space so that clarity doesn't come back. The way of doing this is by creating the habit of putting things back after using them. By tweaking this space when required, by making sure that everybody else that uses the space understands how to use it and how to tidy things up. You are about to make a huge investment in yourself and in your mental health. Remember that shelter, your home is a basic human need. The way you feel at home can have a huge impact in every area of your life. And having an invited, uncomfortable home For you feel well is a huge help to create and maintain your minimalist lifestyle. Thank you so much for finishing this lesson. I honor you for your commitment and for your progress. I am looking forward to being with you in the next session where we will dive deeper into your paperwork. You will learn about paper management and how to apply minimalism to your paper. I can't wait to be with you tomorrow. Until then, I invite you to reflect about today's session. Do the meditation as many times as you need. Write down how you feel, your desired outcome and the steps that you need to integrate in your week to make this thing a reality. You see with every session now, your ideal week is going to become better and more intention. Please share your main takeaways from today's session in the course classroom. You can also share what came up for you while doing the meditation on what space you are planning on the catering first, unwind. And of course, she had any specific questions about your decluttering project so that I can give you further ideas on motivation. I would love to read it and support. I hope you have animation rest of your day. 9. Day 8 Paper: Welcome back to the aid of these 14 day minimalism corps. Yesterday, we focused on applying minimalism to your home. Thank you so much for sharing your takeaways, questions and your own experiences in the classroom. If you haven't shared yet, please pause the audio and do it now before you forget. I really love reading from you and we all want to support you in your journey. You are not alone. Today's session is all about helping you tame your paper monster. I am going to share a practical method for the cratering and organizing your papers. Paper is one of the most challenging kinds of clutter. You may be able to declare it a whole room in a few hours, but you may only be able to go through one to two inches of paper every hour. After the catering room, you may feel accomplished and empowered. After spending a few hours dealing with paper, most likely, you will notice the difference or you may feel frustrated and overwhelmed. Do you find yourself wasting a lot of time looking for papers you need, paying extra money in late fees or feeling stress and frustrated due to lack of control over your paper. You are not alone. Please don't let paper clutter wins this particle. Are you ready to conquer the paper credit and set up a function of paper management system that you feel comfortable using and maintaining? I'm sure that the answer is a big yes. Even if you are feeling a bit emotional, overwhelm, and uncertain, all these feelings are normal. And that's why we're going to start with a quick practice to become aware of your feelings and emotions around paper. I invite you to get in a comfortable position. Please close your eyes. Take a couple of days breaths and do a quick body scan. Are there any tension, any discomfort, any pain in any part of your body? Breathe and focus your energy in those areas. Visualize a bright healing light coming into your body with every inhale, traveling all the way to that tension, that pain, discomfort, and releasing some of it with every exhale. Visualize some of that tension leaving your body through your mouth. With every exhale and dissolving in the universe. Feel free to do this as many times as you need until you feel calm and complete. You can pause the audio and come back when you are ready. Now, I want you to focus your attention into your paper. How do you feel? What emotions are you noticing? What are you noticing them in your body? Every emotion is welcome here. Please don't block them. Observe them. They are here for a reason. There is something that you need to do with them. Named him. Are you feeling stressed, overwhelmed, uncertain, not confident. Reflect about why you feel this way. Easy, because you don't have a clear system to follow. Easy because you are uncertain of what to keep and what to let go. Because you have no time to deal with all the papers that come into your life. Maybe there are other people involved in the decision-making and communication is not flowing between you. Really allow yourself the time to become aware of everything. App for you and reflect about the reasons behind each emotion. I invite you to write them down so that you don't forget. They will really help you move forward with your paper flow. The sooner you can name them and understand them, the sooner you can start taking steps to change your paper world for once and for all. Now. I want you to snap your fingers and imagine that you are done with your paper mesh. You have a clear system that you understand. I clear system that you can maintain. You can find everything easily and you don't feel frustrated anymore. You feel confident, uncertainty. How does your paper system look like now? How do you deal with your papers? Where do you store them? It's okay if you don't have all the answers or you don't know what system to implement, or how. I want you to focus on how you will feel once this is not a problem for you anymore. How do you feel? What would you be able to do that you can't. Now, how will these changes improve every area? Life. Connect with that new reality and really feel what you feel. Make it as real as you can in your mind. And let those amazing feelings inundate your body. Stay there for a little bit. Do the surveys. You can do this. This new reality is possible and you are about to make the necessary changes. Please repeat with me. I can do this. I am going to find my paper flow. I embrace everything I feel now with love and compassion. And I am ready to try something new. The past doesn't define how things will be. From now on. I can always choose to change. Now. I am willing to allow myself time and space to try and fail and try again until I find my paper flow. I am capable of doing this. I'm much more. I am open to asking and receiving any help needed during my paper organizing journey. I received these help with gratefulness and curiosity. I embrace any or habits and beliefs. I have around paper and accept them with love. I am ready to let them go. With gratefulness. Open myself up for new habits and new beliefs that will serve me better. How do you feel now? Are you ready to learn some steps to create your paper from? Please come back to the present moment. Feel free to keep your eyes closed if that feels good to you. I want to share with you some basic principles that I recommend you follow. All these tips and ideas come from my own experience of doing hundreds of papers, sessions, individuals and families in their own homes. Let's get started. Make sure that you have all the information that you need to make confident decisions. Maybe you need to ask your accountant, financial advisor, bookkeeper, and any other professional what you really need to keep and why. Ask them if they need a paper copy or a digital copy is fine. Ask them for how long do you need to keep papers for? Include any other person who is going to use your paper system in the process. Clearly communicate with each other your needs. And once the first goal should be to clear your work in space from paper. First, making this space inviting and functional will empower you to use it. While clearing the space. Have ready a small box for important documents to take care off immediately, bills to pay, and other documents that require immediate action will go in this box. Keep an ongoing to-do list so that you can take action later and don't miss anything. Don't try to remember everything in your head. Half the recycling bin and add to shred bin, ready. You can start to deal with paper in boxes. You can label them and you can stack them nicely in the corner or out of the way in another storage area or another room, scheduled time to deal with it later. If you cannot do it all at once. When you are ready to go through your paper. If you have space on the floor, you can get started by creating piles. You can use posits or masking tape to write the name of the categories that makes sense to you. For example, car, hydro, utility bills, insurance, groceries. After doing many papers sessions with different people, I have found that coming up with your own labels and names will help you maintain the paper system better. If you force yourself to follow a pre-made system with names that don't make sense to you and that normally you don't use. You may have more difficulties remembering I'm putting everything in the right place. You can also use a temporary filing system. You can use a banker's box or collapsible filing bugs or similar solution. Start creating temporary folders with categories. You can always change them very easily as you go. Once they present is done, you will know how much firing space you need. You can then decide if you require additional finding space or not. Don't forget to measure before purchasing any products. Some financial papers need to be cared for up to seven years. Some others you will need to keep them forever. Make sure to double-check with your accountant or other professional before discarding anything that you are unsure of. If you can do it all at once. Break the problem down into several sessions. No one likes to spend too much time dealing with paper clutter. Keep our to-do list. Every time you find a paper that requires an action from you, make sure that you added to your list. Scheduling later in your calendar. You can reduce your paper by signing up for electronic correspondents when possible, and unsubscribe you from services that you no longer need. Most owner's manuals and instructions can be found online. You can digitize documents and go paperless and store them on your computer or use a Cloud service. Be aware of the time that this will require. Maybe you can start doing this from now on. Some tools for you to use could be tiny scanner. That is a free app or a similar solution. Try not to bring young men into your home. Deal with your junk mail and any incoming paper outside of the house, and have a recycling bin handy by your mailbox. When using the UDL solutions to store your files, make sure to create a simple system, easy to follow. If some papers are still physically, make sure to use the same labels. Indeed, our files, as you do in your paper filing system. This will help you maintain your paper system better and easily. Consider using your local library system for books, magazines and movies. And half a home for all the paper that comes in, goes out to deal with having a command center could be a good idea. Make sure to involve everybody in the system and make recycling easy and convenient. I have shared a lot of information with you in today's session. Feel free to listen to this audio as many times as you need. I hope these tips help you get started. Untamed your paper creditor. If you have any further questions when it comes to paper, please share them in the course classroom. I will be very happy to answer them for you and support you. Thank you so much for finishing this lesson. I can't wait to see you tomorrow, where you will learn how to apply minimalism to your data live and how to avoid distractions and be more intentional. Until then, I invite you to reflect about today's paper session. Please share your main takeaways from today's session in the course classroom. You can also share any questions of your specific paper project so that I and all of the other students can support you. I can't wait to read when you share. I hope you have an amazing rest of your day. 10. Day 9 Digital: Welcome back to day nine of these 14 day minimalism corps. Yesterday, you lent some tools to tame your paper clatter and become aware of the emotions that come up when dealing with paper. Thank you for sharing your takeaways, questions and the emotions that came up for you in the course classroom. If you haven't shared yet, please pause the audio and do it now before you forget. I really love reading from you. Today we are covering your digital life. Most likely one of the most distracting areas of your life. Your digital life can include the usage of your phone and other devices. Social media, e-mails, the system you have to store your information like photos, videos, files, all the apps you use, all the programs you use on your computer, how you consume your news. And the list goes on and on. This course on minimalism is assigned to help you become more intentional in every area of your life. To really identify what's important to you and prioritize it to create the time I'm protected against the instructions. While technology can be very helpful and convenient, it can also be a huge source of distractions and wasted time. How many times do you pick your phone app to do a specific task? And 15 minutes later or one hour later, you ask yourself, what was I doing? You completely lost track of what you intend to do and got distracted with notifications, emails, Neil's phones and apps are very well-designed to keep you addicted to them. The more time you spend on your phone, the more ads you will see, the more you may buy. More data companies can collect from your behaviors. There are full teams behind each app looking for ways to keep you longer and longer interacting with the application. So it is your job to increase your intention and find ways to utilize technology in a healthy way. It's time for you to be in control of how you use technology, when you use it, and create healthy boundaries. If you don't set a strong intention, technology will always win and you will end up being a slave of notifications, wasted time, distractions, and more. So what do you choose? Let's do a practice to help you become aware of the impact that technology has in your life. Now, please get comfortable. Close your eyes. Take a few deep breaths so that you can come down and relax. Stay here in the present moment. Ground. I want you to think about your digital life. Let's create a mental inventory of all the devices that you may have. Maybe you have a smartphone or a laptop, desktop, tablet. I smartwatch. Think about all the devices that you use on a daily and weekly basis. Every device you own has apps. Think of every device and how you use it. What apps do you have in stock? How often do you use them? Do you find yourself spending too much time? Time that you didn't plan for? Do you find yourself distracted by notifications, vibrations, sounds, I'm blinking lights every few seconds. Do you feel curious to take down notification as soon as you see it, hear it, or feel it. Do you feel frustration? Overwhelm excitement. Do you spend any time away from your devices on a regular basis? If you don't, would you like to start doing it? Would you like to give it a try? Do you use social media? If yes. Are you aware of how much time you spent on it? Are you concerned about it? He social media preventing it, doing all the things that you would like to do. How often do you take your emails? What emotions do you feel when thinking of your e-mail? Do you have intention of time creating your calendar for specific tasks? When you silence your phone or leave it behind when doing that task. Now, let's think about your information stored in every device. Files, photos, videos. Do you have a clear and easy to follow system to store and find your information easily. Do you feel frustrated not finding things easily? Do you organize, delete, archive your information regularly? Are you afraid of losing your information? What about your password? Have you ever felt frustrated with having to remember so many passwords? Not being able to look into your account. Do you have a clear system to remember passwords? When thinking of your life? What would you like to take? Why? What emotions come up for you? When thinking of your digital life? Would you be able to leave right now without having a smartphone? How would your life change? Why would the negative speed? What would the positive speed? Have you ever done a digital detox? Or do you have any regular no. Phones time? Every day or every week? He's your phone. The last thing that you look out before going to bed, and the first thing that you'll look at in the morning before you wake up. Your phone, preventing you from interacting more with real people, with your friends, with your family. Do you find yourself looking at your phone when you are in social settings to distract yourself or make yourself feel more comfortable and in control. I hope this practice help you shine the light on your digital life and how you interact with technology on a daily basis. Technology is neither good or bad. Technology is actually very convenient. So convenient and many times we let it control too much of our lives. I invite you to create healthy and intention or boundaries so that you can experience all the benefits of technology without the distractions. But Emilio, how can I do this? You may be asking yourself, That's what we're going to cover next. So please come back when you are ready. Feel free to keep your eyes closed if that feels good to you. There are a few tips that I want to share with you so that you can integrate minimalism into your digital life. Please be curious and have an open mind. I invite you to try these tips and reflect about how you feel and the impact that this easy strategies can have in your digital life. The goal here is to help you become more intentional and use technology instead of letting technology used you. So are you ready? Let's get started. Phone usage. Set the intention before picking up your device. Ask yourself, what am I doing now? Why? Then you will set your desired outcome. Use an app to monitor how much time do you spend on your phone. If you are unaware of it? Goes through all your apps and delete any apps that you no longer use. Don't let notification control your time and attention. Choose which ones are important. Unmute all the rest. I personally only hear notifications from a call or text message. All the risks are muted. I also limit how many notifications I get from every app so that I can choose intentionally when to take that up, rather than letting the app constantly distract me. Email. Be intentional about how many times you take email. Communicate clearly how often you take e-mails, and how often do you respond? You can have different email accounts for different purposes. I personally have a work account or a personal account. And as pump account, when I receive all the secretions, the system allows me to be intentional about my time and only focus on one area at the time. Media organization. Every device is able to record videos, take photos, download documents. But what to do with all this information? It's important to have a system where regularly you delete unwanted media. You organize the media that you want to save and store it in a safe place where you can find it easily. Maybe you use Google Drive, dropbox and external hard drive. Whatever system you use, make sure that it's easy to follow and you can actually maintain it. Digital detox. I will invite you to try to do a digital detox. You can do. 30 day one, or you can do a ten day one and then introduce technology again slowly. If this sounds too scary to you, then integrate small digital detox throughout your day or week. Like no phone for two hours on Saturday or no phones past nine PM, etcetera. Time management around technology. I like the Pomodoro technique. Basically you set a timer for 25 minutes and you focus on a specific task with no distractions, then you get a five-minutes break. You repeat this three or four times, and then you get a longer break of 15 to 20 minutes. You can do as many sequences called pomodoros as you like. You can also adjust the times to feed your working style. I am able to do 40 to 60 minutes of focused work and then take a five to ten minute break, play with the system until you figure out what's the sweet number four, you know, fonts in the bedroom rule. My wife and I heard of these rules and we integrate in our lives. A few years ago, we leave the font charging in the living room overnight. This way, we avoid scrolling, getting distracted, or looking at the fonts first thing in the morning. Instead, we're more present and we allow for some personal time before and after bit. We got old-fashioned alarm clocks for alarm. And to know what time it is. Covered TV. Our TV is covered by a beautiful canvas painting that we love. Each way nicer to look at the canvas than it is to look at a blank black TB. It's also an extra step to be able to watch TV. We need to move the canvas to the side. So it's not as convenient. This helps us avoid mindless TV watching. Having different devices for different uses. I enjoy listening to meditation and other relaxing content, sometimes in bed. This is why I do have a dedicated smartphone with only the specific apps are used for mindfulness. This way, I can enjoy technology without all the distractions. I don't have anything else. No social media, no e-mails, no news, nothing. Allow yourself free time away from distractions and connection. By having no free time. Or with using our phones. We don't let ourselves time to just be feel, flow, be creative. And for deep thing. Create new habits and new activities that don't rely on technology. If you are planning on using less tech, you need to start filling the void left by technology with something else, like reading, going for a walk, exercising, meditation, cooking, playing an instrument, carving. Any hobby that you may like, art, building something, fixing something around the house. Just be creative. Check yourself, careless, unexplored new ideas. So that when you are not using technology, you are not feeling lost on board. I really hope that all these steps allow you to start taking control of your digital life. Thank you so much for finishing this lesson. I honor you for your commitment and for your progress. I am looking forward to being with you in the next session where we will dive deeper into your relationships, you will learn about ways to share your minimalist journey with others, clear communication and healthy boundaries. I can't wait to be with you tomorrow. Until then, I invite you to reflect about today's session. Start implementing some of the tips that you learn and please share your main take away from today's session in the course classroom. You can also share any questions you may have. I hope you have an amazing rest of your day. 11. Day 10 Relationships: Welcome back to day ten of these 14 day minimalism corps. Yesterday, we cover your data, live with it and awareness practice to help you understand your current relationship with technology. And I share some tips to bring intention into your digital life. Thank you so much for sharing your takeaways, questions and any emotions that you felt in the course classroom. If you haven't shared yet, please pause the audio and do it now before you forget. I would love to know if you have tried any of the strategies that I shared yesterday. Today we are focusing on relationships, clear communication, and healthy boundaries. These minimalist journey will have a deep impact in your own life and the life of all the people around you. You can share with others what you are doing and invite them to join you. Minimalism cannot be imposed on others. When choosing to take this journey. You may encounter people who join you and support you along the way. People who may not be interested at all, and even people who may have expectations from you. Some of these people may be confused and even upset with all the changes that you are creating because they are being affected. It's important to understand your reasons for choosing this yearning. You need to embrace your new reality with confidence. It's important that you respect your choices and commit to them. You need to allow yourself to do this. You the service. You are the only one who can choose the life that you want to create for yourself. And to accept that some people may not support you. If you have expectations and they are not met, you may feel upset and resentful. When you decide to take the journey. You are deciding to make changes in your life. Changes that are very important to you. When you change. It's normal to lose people around you. People who may not understand why you are doing this. People who may not be on the same page with you about these people who may be threatened by your new lifestyle and afraid to lose the old you. Let me share an example with you. Meet John. John decided to quit smoking. It was a big decision that he has procrastinated for a long time, but now it's the time to lead that have it go. He was excited and committed to do it. When John shared his intention with Mike, one of his workmates and best friends about his decision of quitting smoking. He seems surprise, not very excited. As days went on. John's new habit of not smoking change his lifestyle choices. He no longer took smoking breaks at work. He avoided spending time with people who are smoking to prevent temptation. And he needed to create new habits to cover the time that he used to spend smoking. Mike was upset that he lost his best friend. He no longer got to spend time chatting with him while smoking. And he felt that John was avoiding him. As you see, John's new decision created conflicts with Mike. When you think about yours example, clear communication is key to figure out what the best way will be to move forward with Mike's friendship. They really need to talk and find out how they can keep spending time together while supporting Jones new non-smoking habit. If Mike is not willing to explore new ways of interacting with John, if he chooses to be upset and angry with Joan, most likely their friendship will eventually end. If Mike is supportive and willing to stop smoking, well-being with John and his support him and respects his decision, then new ways of interaction will be developed and their friendship will keep growing. If you can't stand the smell of cigarettes while trying to keep his non-smoking habit. Maybe being around Mike is not a good idea. So he may decide to stop spending time with Mike and they will eventually grow apart from each other. When creating big changes in your life, it's important to be aware of the ripple effect that these changes may have in your lifestyle on, in your relationships. It's also very important to share these changes and ideas you may have with your loved ones from day one so that they can have time and space to understand and adjust to the new situation and hopefully to respect and support you in this new journey. The conclusion here is that you need to first get clear on your intention and they kind of life that you want to have, then you will know what kind of activities, habits, or routines you want to follow. Once you set the intention. The second step is to clearly communicate with all the people around you so that they can understand what you are doing and why you are doing it. Make sure that you share with them how important this is for you. And how important than their support is for you. Hopefully they will understand and support you. There are chances that some people may not like these changes and you have to be ready to then set healthy boundaries. This is step three where I situation becomes unhealthy for you. You need to create clear, healthy boundaries to protect yourself. And the new life that you are trying to create. Unhealthy can mean that our situation drains you, doesn't support your new choices, doesn't feel aligned with your priorities. It goes against your core values. It steals your time and energy, preventing you from doing things that are more meaningful to you. It fits all habits that you are trying to let go. Just to name some scenarios. If it doesn't feel good to you, most likely, you are confronting an unhealthy situation that requires your attention. The best way to know if a situation is unhealthy for you and clear new boundaries need to be set to protect yourself is by doing a quick reflection practice. So let's do one. Please. Comfortable. Close your eyes, take a few deep breaths. Do a quick body scan, noticing any tension you may be experiencing. I'm paying attention to any emotions that may arise. Visualize the unhealthy situation. Go back to the experience and observe what happened. How did you feel? When did you feel bad? What was the trigger or triggers for you to fill out of alignment? Where are you able to clearly communicate your needs? Where are the other people willing to listen to you? Please be gentle with yourself. You are learning a new skill. It took me to do this process as many times as you need it. Okay. If you notice unhealthy situations, often you are making changes in your life. Changes that are important to you. You deserve them. You have the option to create whatever you want to see in your life. Say no and changing your habits, it is not selfish. You are not denying helping others. You are changing the way you help others. Healthy and aligned for you. You are learning these new skills. You are unlearning a lot of all habits and routines that no longer serve you eat okay. To fail. It's okay not to know how to do this yet. You just got started and you are doing great. I am proud of you. And you are proud of yourself. You are becoming a more loving, caring and our person with yourself and with all the people around you. They don't know yet, but they will see the near you and they will love you. You just need to introduce yourself. They knew you and help them understand the reasons why you are changing, how this will benefit you, and how they will also benefit from all of these changes. If they have expectation from you, That's okay. It's their expectations, not yours. These expectations don't have any control over you. You are learning how to help them create new expectations that are more rare and align. Within YouTube. You are still loving them and supporting them. He took it if some conflicts arise during this transition. Conflicts are opportunities for clarification, opportunities for clear communication, opportunities to share the changes that you are choosing. The reasons why they are important to you. Conflict can only exist when two parts are upset and fighting for the energy. Fighting to be right. But you are not fighting. You don't need to be right or wrong. You are compassionate. You understand why they are upset. You allow them space to be upset and embrace this finished with love and compassion. You have clarity about your choices and the life that you want to create. It's not selfish. It is, You're right. It is their right to be upset. It is their right to choose not to support you. Maybe they want to support you. Whatever they choose. Choice, not yours. The only thing that you can do is to clearly show up in the way that you want to show up with integrity, with alignment to your values, with compassion, and with love. You don't need anything from them. Needed their support, needed their approval. It will be creative, you get it. But that's a bonus. You are ready to accept that they will not support you without feeling bad about it. You will respect their decision and clearly communicate that you are here for them when they are ready to explore new ways of interacting, to get new ways of helping and supporting each other. You don't have to decide between having them or not having them. There are many more possibilities available. And remember that the fact that they may say no now and avoid you doesn't mean that they won't come around with a little bit of time because you will be loving, caring, supportive towards them, and clearly communicating your needs and protecting yourself with clear boundaries that support you and your new life. You will be showing them the new possibilities that exist. New dynamics, ways of interacting that are positive and supportive. I hope that you enjoyed this awareness practice. Slowly open your eyes and come back when you are ready. Feel free to pause the video if you need some more time with yourself. I invite you to do this practice as many times as you need. Make sure you focus your attention into the specific situation that made you feel uncomfortable. Thank you so much for finishing this session. I honor you for your commitment and for your progress. I am looking forward to being with you in the next session where we will dive deeper into your work. You will learn how to create work that is aligned with your minimalist life. I can't wait to be with you tomorrow. Until then. I invite you to start using some of the communication strategies that you learned today and the creation of healthy boundaries. Please share your main takeaways from today's session in the course classroom. If you are facing a specific challenge, when it comes to relationships, please share it so that I can share for their strategies and we can all support you. You are not alone in this. I am so excited to read when you share. I hope you have an amazing rest of your day. See you tomorrow. 12. Day 11 Work: Welcome back to the 11 of these 14 day minimalism course. Yesterday, we covered relationships. You learn strategies to clearly communicate your wants and needs, creation of healthy boundaries, and how to deal with conflicts in a healthy way. Thank you for sharing your takeaways, questions and insights in the course classroom. If you haven't shared yet, please pause the audio and do it now before you forget. It will really help you stay accountable and committed to yourself. And I really loved reading from you. Today's topic is work. For some, work can mean a way to add money to sustain themselves. For others, work means a career that they love and excites them. Others have created their own work and get paid for doing what they love. Work is a very important area of your life because you may spend a lot of time doing it. The average is eight hours a day, five days a week. And it can have a huge impact in all the other areas of your life. If you don't enjoy your work and you have to spend eight hours a day doing it, you most likely won't be a very happy person. The same way that you started implementing minimalism in every other area of your life. It's the time now to shine the light into your work and really become aware of how you feel about it. All the beliefs that you may have around work, like work is hard and pneumonia requires a lot of effort. Working means sacrificing yourself doing something you dislike, what you believe you can and cannot do. Like, I would never be able to do X. I am too old to learn that. Who am I to this save that only rich people can do that. Who will pay me to do what I like? Expectation from others. Like you should be a doctor or a lawyer, or you should run the family business. Or creating art is a waste of time. And many more deep emotions, beliefs, and other stuff that will surface when you shine the light on this area. So are you ready to shine the light on your work? Let's get started. Please get in a comfortable position. Close your eyes. Pay attention to your breath. Inhale through your nose, and exhale through your mouth. Allow yourself to take a few relaxing deep brands. Focus your mind on your breath and stay present and grounded. You decided to listen to this session today because you are ready to become more intentional with your work, your career, your passion, the way you add money to sustain your lifestyle, or whatever other name or description fields. Good. Stay present. And when you have other thoughts distracting, you, just notice them and slowly come back to the present moment. Do a quick body scan and notice if you are feeling any tensions. Start on your feet and move slowly all the way up to the top of your head. If you notice any tension, feel free to keep your attention there for a later time and breath into that area. You can visualize a bright Halley light of your February color going into your body with every inhale and taking away that tension with every exhale. Stay there for as long as you need. Feel free to pause the audio. If you need more time to complete your body scan and come back. When you are completing. Doing a body scan will help you become aware of what you are feeling now so that you can notice any new emotions and feelings coming up while doing today's practice. I want you to think about your work right now. Maybe you are working in a job that is okay. But you know, it's not your ideal job. Maybe you are in a great career that you enjoy. Maybe you are looking for a job right now. Maybe you are retired. But looking for creative ways to use your time. Some cash for your vacation. Maybe your work is demanding way too much from you and you need to find balance. Whatever your situation is, please become aware of it. Be grateful for what you have right now. Even if you don't like it, gratefulness will allow you to change your mindset and the way you feel so that you can then attract something new into your life. Be grateful to know that you always have the opportunity to change your situation, to find something new. To change what you have in a way that aligns with your desired lifestyle. To change the way you look at things. Something new to simplify your life so that you can find time and energy to create something new for yourself. You always have options, even if you cannot see in them right now. From this place of gratitude, I would like to do a dreaming exercise with you. Dreaming is such a powerful exercise that we forgot how to do. When we were kids. We used to dream all the time. But now that we are adult, everything is supposed to be serious. Boring, normal, appropriate. The good news is that it doesn't have to be any of these things. It can be whatever you want. I want you to imagine now that your life, as you know it now has ended. And you have to start a brand new life doing something different for work. I challenge you to think of three possible new realities that you could create for yourself. I want you to dream of what it could be like in every one of these three new realities. I invite you to have fun with it, to be creative, to be bold and courageous. There are no challenges here. You can choose whatever you want, whatever excites you. Yes, take a few seconds to breathe, to get grounded. To let your imagination run wild with no expectations. With our rules to follow. Without fears. No one is expecting anything from you. And you can do whatever feels good and exciting. It's okay if you feel a little lost. How long has it been since you had a dream in session? Years. They get. So please be gentle with yourself. Have fun. Explore, be curious. It's still a little meditation to get your imagination and creativity Started. Now, make sure that you observe what's about to happen. It's time to dream about your new reality. Number one, what do you do? Maybe you move to a place close to the sea with waves and open your own surfing school. Maybe you love painting. And you open your own art gallery in your favorite city. Maybe you love meditation. You create a weekly program that people can join online from anywhere in the world. Maybe you pack all your belongings in a backpack and become a digital nomad. Traveling from country to country and Create Video Blocks weekly, sharing your experience. People love your adventure and your followership. Are you with donations? Let your imagination go wild. Enjoy the journey. Get the flow, and be curious to see where you end up. When you have clarity about reality number one, then think of reality number two, you can do something completely different. I completely different lifestyle makes sure that you connect with how you feel in its reality. Connect with the emotions of the moment. Visualize how your day will look like, your week, your month. Let's move to reality number three. When you are ready, feel free to pause the video if you need more time. For reality number two, remember that you can do anything that you want. I am sure that you always had a hobby that you loved. For that you would really good add a passion for playing an instrument or skill that people always complimented you on. Something that always inspired you, something that you always liked, but didn't feel brave enough to try. Now you can try anything you want. I invite you to connect with the idea that resonates the most with you and visualize how that lifestyle could look like. Get into the day to day and feel what you will feel. Gas, take your time. Explore. Be curious. When you feel complete with your reality. Number three, please come back to the present moment. Please allow yourself more time if you need it. By posing the audio. I am so happy that you took the time to do this trimming exercise with me. My faces is mildly unhappy because I can feel your face being smiling and happy to. I can notice your excitement, your sense of adventure, the adrenal line that comes with the uncertainty. Something new. The challenge of learning something exciting and different. How do you feel? What do you choose to do in its reality? Feel free to write this down. Feel free to record an audio describing every reality. Feel free to make a video of yourself for you so that you can re-watch it in a few months. Make sure that you set a reminder in your calendar so that you take the time to actually reflect about this and really have fun with it. What if real life could be like a dream where you get to have more control of what you create. I would like now to share with you some ideas for you to apply to your work. I want you to create work that you love. Work that fulfills you. Word that you are excited about. Work, where the time goes by. So fast. Work that challenges you in a good and positive way. Work that nurture your soul. That makes you smile every single day. World that doesn't feel like work. But playing work that feels your passions and Keith, work that energizes you to u1, this kind of work? I'm sure the answer is, of course I do. So now I invite you to try these ideas. Please be grateful for what you have now. It doesn't matter what it is. Get clear on what you would like to create and start taking action. Even small steps every day or every week is enough to make a difference in the lung. Understand your personality on what kind of work may fit best. Intrapreneur, an employee, freelancing. Take the time to decide your ideal lifestyle first, and then think about what kind of workable supported best. Your work can be based on your passion and your skills. You can have full control of your time and creativity. Even if you work in a company, you still have the power to design your role and have flexibility. What for something you do? Well, very well. That's something that people tell you that you are really good at, that you love doing. That. It's effortless to you. That it feels aligned. You can take care of your day to day and still invest some time in your dream daily and weekly. It is okay to have several sources of income doing work that you may not love. Yogurt your dream, work up and running. Your dream doesn't have to happen overnight. You can start your dream on the side and build it up slowly with constant action. With Internet and global connectivity, you can reach many others interested in what you offer. When you find something you love, you will not give up because you will do it even for free. Be open and fluid to new opportunities and observe how things flow to you. Always be open and excited to receiving help. You don't have to do it all alone. I promised you that with education and clarity, you can make your dream work our reality. Thank you so much for finishing this lesson. I honor you for your commitment and for your progress. I am looking forward to being with you in the next session where we will dive deeper into your finances and money habits, you will learn how to implement minimalism in your finances. I can't wait to be with you tomorrow. Until then. I invite you to reflect about today's exercise. Reflect about the three work realities that you came up during exercise. Please share your main takeaways of today's session in the course classroom. You can also share about your dreams if you feel inspired to do so. I would love to read it for you. I hope you have an amazing rest of your day. See you tomorrow. 13. Day 12 Money: Welcome back to the 12th of these 14 day minimalism corps. Yesterday, we shone the light on all the beliefs and emotions behind your word. And we did a dreaming exercise to help you create your ideal work. Thank you so much for sharing your emotions, questions, and your dream work in the course classroom. If you haven't shared yet, please pause the audio and do it now before you forget. I really love reading from you. Today we are talking about money, personal finances, and money habits. Before sharing tips and steps to help you integrate minimalism in your financial life, I would like to start with an awareness practice to help you notice your current relationship with money, your habits around money, and all the emotions and triggers that show up when thinking of money. Please get in a comfortable position and close your eyes. Inhale and exhale deeply affected times to help you relax and calm down. Focus your attention in your breathing and how your baby moves in and out with every breath. Do a quick body scan to notice any tension you may be feeling now. If you do feel any tension, now your attention to focus in that area. I'm briefing to it a few times. Feel free to pause the audio to do a longer body scan. If you require more time and come back when you feel complete. Now, I want you to focus on what is your current relationship with money? Is it good? Is it bad? Is it stressful? Is it easy? Ease it flowing. Do you have enough money every month? Are you always struggling living paycheck to paycheck. Are you aware of your current situation? Do you know how much money you have, how much money you spend and where your money? Coin. Are you able to save money for things that you like make you feel well? What does your money habits? Do you normally spend everything that you have quickly? Do you normally save everything that you have? Are you intentional with how you spend your money? Are you overwhelmed by your money? Is it easy to do your taxes at the end of each year? Do you have a system to track your expenses every month? When you were little? What do you observe and learn from your parents, adults about money? What comes to mind when thinking of money? Maybe you are excited about the possibilities that money can bring into your life. Maybe you feel guilty having too much money because you don't deserve it. Maybe you were told that money is only for rich people. That it takes a lot of effort to make money that you have to do something that you dislike and sacrifice yourself to n money. Maybe you never had a problem with money. Maybe you always had enough and you feel Him flow with your finances. Anything that you are feeling is welcome here. What emotions and triggers show up? We're thinking about money and your current financial situation. What are your main frustrations around money? What would you like to change in this area? Why would you like to change it? How are these changes going to make your life better? One important for you to really feel and experience what the new reality that you are going to create will make you feel. Once you are able to connect with that excitement and benefits, you will find the motivation to take action and make the required changes in your habits and routines around wanting. I want you to visualize how your life will look like once money is no longer a problem for you. How does it look like? Please stay here a little bit and observe how you feel. What do you do? Now, I want you to tell yourself, I am capable of changing my money situation. I can learn how to deal with money. I can create a new one. The habits. I am ready and excited to integrate minimalism in my finance. Thank you for taking the time to do this practice with me. I am sure that you became aware of many emotions, behaviors, and habits that you have around money. Now, I want to share with you a few key steps that will help you master your personal finances. Bright down the reason or reasons why you are doing this so that you can remind yourself of the benefits that you will experience. Make sure you find something exciting and inspiring to you, like saving for a great vacation. Be able to buy my dream home, be able to support my family, pursue a hobby. I love, be able to start my dream side, hustle. Become aware of your current financial situation. Track your expenses from the last few months. Create a diagram with your current money flow. How many accounts you have, how many credit cards you have, how much debt do you have? Where really, really get clear with how your money situation looks like now and how your money flows in and out of your life. The sooner you do this, the sooner you can get started being intentional. Once you have all this information, you can create an intentional plan that you understand. A plan that is sustainable and aligned with your reasons. You can create what's called a zero-based budget. It's basically income minus all the expenses that you have, minus all the savings that you are making equals 0. This zero-based budget will allow you to have intention in every dollar that you earn. Include others in this journey. If you live with your partner and you are involved in finances together, make sure that you involve them. If you are in business with a partner, if you live with family members, with a roommate, if you are dealing with money and managing money with someone else, make sure that you include them in the plan. And that do together, create something that you both feel comfortable with. Creating new habits and routines. Like the envelope system to keep track of your budgets. For every section of your life. Only use cash or debit so that you avoid overspending using credit cards, maybe leaving your credit card at home. Paying yourself first. That means that every month when you get your paycheck, the first thing that you do is put the money aside for the things that are important to you so that you don't spend it all. Drag expenses, make sure that you have a system to track all the expenses that you have. I personally use paper receipts and then I input all the information in an Excel spreadsheet. But there are applications out there that sync with your bank account. And you can use your phone or your computer to keep track of them. And make sure that you have end of the month routine and reflection where you look at your income and expenses so that you make sure that you are on track with your plan. Find help if you need it. If you cannot do this alone, if you are feeling overwhelmed, if you don't know how to get started. It took a to find help. It's okay to ask for help. Pay your depth as soon as possible and try to create a sustainable lifestyle so that you don't go further into debt every month. Create an emergency fund. An emergency fund is a pool of money that you may have for when something extraordinary happens. Something that is an emergency, something that is not normal every month. For example, your car breaks down and he said repair, that is way more than the usual. Or maybe if you have a bed, maybe they have an accident and you have to take them to the vet. Or maybe you have an accident of some sort and you have to do an extra expense. The emergency fund can help you sleep better at night because you will have a pool of money that you can use when something that is an emergency happens. Then create intentional saving plans. Basically set the intention in how you want to use any extra money that you have once you have paid for your basics of life and use that money with intention. Like it could be saving money to go for a great vacation. It could be saving money to buy a better car because you love cars. It could be saving money to be able to pursue a hobby that you love, and it requires a little bit of money. It could be for anything that you enjoy in life. If you follow these steps, you will be back on track with your finances in no time. So I invite you to follow these steps. I invite you to take the time to really reflect, to track your income and expenses and really have a system that you can maintain and once a month at least, make sure that you check your numbers, that you understand where you are at and the progress that you are doing. Thank you so much for finishing this lesson. I honor you for your commitment and for your progress. I am looking forward to being with you in the next session where we will be talking about ways to hold yourself accountable. I can't wait to be with you tomorrow. Until then. I invite you to reflect about today's exercise. Remind yourself of the reasons why you are excited to take control of your finances. Please share your main take away from today's session in the course classroom. You can also share your excitement reasons that motivate you to take control of your finances so that we can all cheer you up. I would love to read them and support you. I hope you have an amazing resource. I will see you tomorrow. 14. Day 13 Holding Yourself Accountable: Welcome back to the 13 of these 14 day minimalism course. Yesterday, we covered finances. You learn ways to become aware of your money habits and how to be more intentional with your money. Thank you for sharing your takeaways, questions and you're exciting reasons to master your money habits in the course classroom. If you haven't shared yet, please pause the video and do it now before you forget. I really love reading from you. We are almost at the end of the course. Great job so far. I know from my experience of working with individuals and families that one of the main struggles to making changes is to actually take action. Learning the how-to is easy. You have learned how to integrate minimalism into every area of your life in the past sessions. The problem for many counts, when they face the reality of taking daily action, they know what they want to do, but they are facing resistance to get started, to be consistent and to be motivated. This is why today's session is all about ideas to help you hold yourself accountable to the things that you want to. Resistance is normal. Change is not easy. And we humans don't like change very much. Every time we change, we step into uncertainty. Territory's that may not be safe. We may be unsure of what's going to happen. And we will have the tendency to hold on to our old familiar habits and patterns that we have followed for so long. So please be gentle with yourself. Be patient, and explore these ideas with curiosity and willingness to give them a real try and see what happens. Allow yourself a period of grace, period of testing, and seeing what works and what doesn't without any expectations. And every time you fail, remember that you are not failing. But learning what doesn't work. By you're learning what doesn't work. You will then try something different. And eventually you will get to your desired destination. It's all about your necessary journey. So let's explore some great ideas that have worked for many, and they will most likely work for you too. Are you excited? Let's go. Feel free to close your eyes to get comfortable. To take a few deep breaths, and to listen to all these ideas with an open mind. First and most important step, get clear with yourself about what you want to create a personal mission statement, a live patient that is aligned with your ones. And that feels great. You already have your creation, your self-care list. So remind yourself of why. The reasons why you decided to do these things. Make it inspiring and motivating to you. If you feel like it, you can create a vision board. You can make a drawing. Yes, Do whatever. Feels inspiring to you, whatever is that you need to see every day to pump yourself up on your decisions. You deserve this and way more. So, be confident and move forward with intention. You can always change it if the decision no longer suits your needs and desires. Become aware of why you are not doing what you want to be doing. Any distractions, challenges, any bad habits that may be preventing you from moving forward. Gas reflect. Noticed them. Always allow yourself time for reflection and Visualization. Every time you feel frustrated or not in alignment with yourself, do a new creation and tweak your self-care list as needed. Remember that self-care will allow you to manage your mental and emotional health so that you can have energy and the right mindset. Set macro goals, and schedule things down. Create your ideal week. Include all the things from your creation and self-care in it. If they don't feed, then it's time to prioritize and be intention. And anytime you feel frustrated with your week, take the time to create a different one, to tweak whatever you need to tweak, to change your schedule according to new activities that are coming up or things that you no longer do. Follow the smart acronym when you are setting goals for yourself. Smart means specific, measurable, attainable, relevant, and time-bound. So anytime you are setting a goal for yourself, follow this method to make sure that you are creating a goal that is actually doable. Anytime you can. Batch tasks unlike together, so that you can be more efficient with your time. Become aware of your energy rhythm and plan your day accordingly. If you are most energetic and creative in the mornings, then plan to do your most creative tasks. Then. If you are a night owl, make sure that you do them in the evening or night. A to-do list and review it daily or weekly. Set a time for reflection in your calendar. Create habit trackers, calendar reminders, sticky notes, notes on a board, or whatever you need to remind yourself of the things that you want to do. Remember, there is not a right or wrong system. They recently assistant that you follow and assistant that you will not. If you find yourself not following a system, try a different one until you find the one that suits your personality and style, best. Practice, the habit stacking technique. Anytime you want to add a new habit in your life, try to add it on top of a habit that you are already doing. For example, if you drink coffee every morning and you are trying to create the new habit of drinking a glass of water in the morning. Then put the glass of water beside your coffee mug. And you are allowed to drink coffee only after drinking your water. You can do this with any other habit that you want to create. You can set a piece of paper with a note on top of your coffee mug, reminded you of something. And then anytime you see that node, you will do it. When you do it, the reward will be drinking your coffee. Failing is learning. Allow yourself time to create new habits and time and space to fail and learn from it. This is part of your journey and it is necessary. So please avoid perfectionism. Avoid feeling frozen and not getting started with things. Because you are expecting perfection. Perfection doesn't exist. You are ready perfect the way you are. And things unfolding perfectly for what you need right now. Set yourself up for success by creating an environment that will facilitate the change that you are seeking. Remember of the session that we did about your home. Go back to eat, do the meditation anytime that you need it. Because the physical space can have a huge impact in your overall mental health and in your motivation. Celebrate every little Wayne and reward yourself. And have fun. Be intentional about your time. Say no to distractions. Protect your dedicated time and avoid multitasking. Because multi-tasking is not real. Use the Pomodoro Technique to stay focus unbalanced. The Pomodoro technique uses a timer to break down work into intervals, normally 25 minutes in length, separated by short breaks. It in terror is known as a pomodoro. There are six steps in the original technique. Step one, decide on the task that you want to do. Step to set the Pomodoro timer traditionally for 25 minutes. But you can adjust this as you like. I personally sometimes do 40 minutes, 60 minutes, or 20 minutes depending on the task. Step three, work on the task. Step for n work when the timer rings and take a short break, normally five to ten minutes. Step five, if you have fewer than three pomodoros, go back to step two and repeat it until you go through all three pomodoros. After three bar models are done, take a longer break. Normally 20 to 30 minutes. Once a long break is finished, you can get started again. Share your goals with the world and ask others to check on you. Get an accountability buddy, work with a coach, join a community of people are like do whatever you need to do to get the support that you need to be aware of your current habits and routines, like procrastination, getting the right mindset. You can do this by listening or watching something that you enjoy. Reading, something positive, creating affirmations that are inspiring and motivating to you. Visualize, enjoyed this I outcome, and feel the way you will feel once you are there, dancing to your favorite music, do whatever you need to do to get in the right mindset. And if you don't know, try different things and notice how you feel. Big referred everyday for all the positive things that happened to you and that you are surrounded by. There are so many great things in your life right now. So make sure that you shine the light on them and avoid only focusing on the negatives. Flex. You're saying no muscle. Every time you are not sure about a recession, make sure that you allow yourself time to think about it. If it doesn't align with your desired lifestyle, allow yourself at least the opportunity to say no. The opportunity, take some time to think about it. And remember that, say No, it's not selfish. If I see tuition feels uncomfortable for you, make sure that you create healthy boundaries and clear communication with others. So that you can change the dynamics that no longer work or respect your decisions. If you follow all these steps or even some of them, you will be able to keep yourself accountable and start moving forward towards your desired lifestyle. Remember that you don't have to make changes in every area of your life all at once. If that feels too overwhelming for you, always connect with yourself and get grounded. All the answers are inside of you already. You just need time with yourself to hear them, to feel them, and to feel confident about them. Thank you so much for finishing this lesson. I honor you for your commitment and for your progress. I am looking forward to being with you in the next and last session, where we will dive deeper into how to maintain your minimalist lifestyle. We will do a recap of everything that you learn in this course and how to implement maintenance steps in every area. I can't wait to be with you tomorrow. Until then, I invite you to reflect about today's session. Start testing some of these ideas to keep yourself accountable. Please share your main takeaways from today's session in the course crash. You can also share what your favorite strategy is and why. I would love to read it. And I hope you have an amazing rest of your day. 15. Day 14 Maintaining Your Minimalist Lifestyle: Welcome back to day 14 of these 14 day minimalism course. This is the last session of this course. I am so proud of you for making it all the way here. Yesterday, we explore different strategies for holding yourself accountable and make daily progress. Thank you for sharing your takeaways, questions and your favorite strategy in the course classroom. If you haven't shared yet, please pause the audio and do it now before you forget, I really love reading from you. Today, we're going to do a recap of all the things that you learn in this course. And I will share reminders to help you maintain all the changes that you are creating in every area of your life. I invite you to get comfortable. Close your eyes. Take a few deep breaths. Notice how you start feeling calmer and more relaxed with every breath. I invite you to do a quick body scan. Notice any tensions you may be experiencing. And take the time to breathe into the tension and focus your attention into the specific area. Feel free to pause the audio if you want to enjoy a longer body scan and come back when you feel complete. On day one. Julian, what minimalism is, the main take away is that minimalism is not about limiting yourself or deprivation. It's quite the opposite. It's about letting go off the nonessential to open up space, time, energy for the things that really mattered to you. I invite you to question everything in your life to make sure that it's relevant and important to you. Do this anytime you feel frustrated, lost, overwhelmed, or just not in alignment with yourself. On day two, we did an awareness exercise to help you become aware of your current situation. Make sure that you go back to the two. Anytime you need help with becoming aware. On day three, you declared your intentions and created your first creation. Situation is a Britain reminder of how you feel in every area of your life. On a scale 0 to ten. And all the things that you want to stop doing, change or integrate in every area of your life. Every time you feel out of alignment with yourself. And after doing the awareness exercise from day two, I invite you to reflect on your current creation. Notice what you have done, what you haven't done. Ask yourself, why. Understand the results and take the time to create another creation with intention. On day four, Yulen, all about self-care. And you created your own self-care list. Self-care can help you improve your overall mental health and emotional health. You discover several exercises that you can use anytime to improve your mental health, like breath work, meditation, visualization, affirmations, and mirror work. Go back to the for anytime you want to redo any of these practices, make sure that you keep your self-care list relevant and updated with all the activities that make you feel well. Make sure that you share that list with your loved ones so that they can support you. Make sure that you keep your list in a place where you can see every single day. I personally keep mine inside my journal and sometimes I put it on a board. I put it on the kitchen fridge, put it wherever you will see it every single day. On day five, Julian, how to nurture your physical body so that you can have energy. You learn how to do a body scan to notice and release any tension. We covered basics to help you nurture your body, like eating well, drinking enough water, sleeping well, exercising often, and relaxing your body with mindfulness exercises. On day six, you learn how to integrate minimalism to your time. You ran about your time management habits and you created your IPL week. Creating your ideal week can help you become aware of where your time is, going. Prioritize what's important and what's not. And sketching things following your energy rhythm. Make sure that you maintain your ideal week and tweak it. Anytime your lifestyle changes. On day seven, we focused on your home. You did an amazing clutter visualization meditation to help you discover your ID at home and get you excited. Then you rent a three-step process to decluttering and organizing any space. These steps were awarness, action and maintenance. Anytime you feel that your home is clutter and not functional, take the time to go back to the seven and enjoy the clutter visualization meditation to get clarity about how your ideal space it looks like. Then follow the steps in that space or reality. They aid. You learn how to tame your paper clatter. You became aware of all the emotions and triggers around paper. And I shared a clear step-by-step for you to follow. When you are seeking to find your paper flow. Make sure that you go back to the eight and the nine. We covered your digital life with a great awareness practice to help you understand your current relationship with technology and nature. Some inspiring and practical steps to be able to set a strong intention and use technology wisely. Anytime you feel distracted by technology, anytime you feel lost, wasting too much time, make sure that you go back to the nine. On day ten. We covered relationships, clear communication, and healthy boundaries. Anytime you find yourself in conflict with others, struggling to clearly communicate your needs or in situations that feel out of alignment to you. Make sure that you revisit they tend to get a refresher. On day 11, we covered work. Anytime you feel stuck at work and fulfilled or just wanted a change, make sure that you go back to the 11 and do the awareness and dreaming exercise to help you create a more intentional and fulfilling work. Remember that you can do this. On day 12. We covered in money habits and personal finances with it and awareness exercise to uncover any feelings, emotions, triggers, and believes that you may have around money. You also learn a practical step-by-step to gain control of your finances and create a more intentional plan. Feel free to go back to the 12th anytime that you feel like clear about your personal finances, I need to get back in alignment. On day 13. You lend great ways to hold yourself accountable and be able to find the motivation to take daily action towards your desired outcomes in every area of your life. Anytime you feel stack unmotivated, procrastinating, make sure that you go back to the 13 and revisit all the strategies that you can test. Remember that the secret is to get started and make some progress daily. Even if it's small progress. And don't let perfectionism stop you. Now, I want you to reflect about how you felt before enrolling in this course and how you feel now. Due to a lot of notes on day two, while doing the awarness exercise of your current situation. Reflection will allow you to notice the extraordinary progress that you are making. In gas 14 days. We covered pretty much your entire life. You lent strategies to manage your emotions in every area and Len, clear step-by-step methods to follow. Now my friend is game time. It's time for you to start integrating all these things slowly into your daily life. Thank you so much for finishing this session and discourse. It has been an honor to be with you all these 14 days. Thank you so much for choosing to be here with me. I create this code with a lot of love and intention. And I really hope that this course helps you transform your life. I cannot express with words how proud of you I am and how excited I am to see what life has to offer you. I would really, really love if you could share in the course classroom your honest feedback about this course. And leave me an honest review. Reviews really helped support my work and make this course available to more people who may need it. If you feel adventurous, I invite you to open your calendar right now and set a reminder every three months to check on your progress. I will really love if you could come back to the course classroom and share how you are doing, it will make my heart to read from you honestly. Reviews on reflections from people who take my courses a few months later, even years later. I just feel so proud and honored to be able to read them. And that's probably one of the things that helped me keep going and keep creating content like this. So I will really love if you could do that. I hope to see you in another course in one of my live sessions or in my circle, call your thriving lifestyle. Until then, I hope that you have an amazing day of your week, your month, and your dear wishing you all the best from my heart to yours. It has been a really big pleasure to be with. I will see you soon.