Minimalism Workshop
In this live YouTube/Zoom workshop, certified ICF coach Rob Anderson guides a small group (Jody, Kathy, Brooks, and remote viewers) through a deep exploration of minimalism that goes beyond merely reducing possessions. The session begins with participant introductions and a brief chat about upcoming trips, then moves into defining minimalism as creating space for what truly matters—physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. Rob introduces psychological concepts such as attachment theory, micro‑loss, cognitive load, and reframing, illustrating them with personal anecdotes about his three storage rooms, the financial burden of keeping them, and sentimental items like a vintage scuba buoyancy compensator and a 1988 Christmas card. He shares practical, incremental decluttering strategies—small tote‑by‑tote goals, photographing keepsakes, journaling, donating, and selling. Participants contribute their own stories (Kathy’s children’s memory boxes, Jody’s difficulty letting go), prompting group reflection on emotional clutter. Rob uses metaphors (butterfly, sacred space) to frame the process as a transition to a new identity. The workshop concludes with three reflective questions for participants, an invitation to deeper coaching (monthly plan, discount code), and promotion of his Patreon, Eventbrite events, and free workbook. Throughout, the tone is conversational, supportive, and enthusiastic, encouraging active participation and self‑discovery.
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Okay, I just texted her.
Okay.
Told her to get her shit together.
She needs to.
No. Well, I sure wish you were going on this trip with us,
man. I do too.
Damn it.
But that's okay, we got April.
That's all right, we're gonna go to Bonaire. But then after we go to Bonaire, I'm gonna have to sign us up for Curaçao again if it's as great as everybody says it is.
Um, yeah, she said that you had something else planned out, so— or no, Roatan. I heard something. Yeah, weren't you looking at a rotan trip or something
next November?
Okay, I
think it's a little camp. All right, I gotta get on the board here. I mean, I need to get going. Yeah, I don't know how much longer this—
I know. Hey Kathy, I'm gonna go ahead and start. I'm letting, uh, Jody in the room.
Okay, Brooks just texted me and said yes.
Excellent.
Whatever that means. She's signing on.
Well, good. Jody, hello.
Hi, how are you guys?
Hey, doing great. How are you?
I'm okay.
Where, where are you, uh, were you Zooming in from?
I'm from Chicago.
Okay, what, uh, what part?
Um, right by Rogers Park.
Is that— is that northwest suburbs or is that down on the south?
Oh, so it's in the city. It's like towards the northern part of the city.
Okay.
But yeah.
Okay. I used to work in Schaumburg.
Oh, that's nice.
And, uh, Schaumburg and Hoffman Estates.
Oh, that's cool. My mom is from Palatine.
Oh, I know where Palatine is. That, man, that is just That whole area is fantastic. Kind of cold right now, but fantastic. Hey Brooks, let's see, you've signed in. Good to see you. Nice to see the top of your head. All right, and then Kathy, got you on here. We're gonna give it just a few more moments and then we'll get started. So, Jody, I already know Kathy and Brooks. So Brooks and I are related. She's my sister. Okay, she's my wife. She's my wife. Yeah. So we've got the total. We've got like six more people that we're missing right now. And then we're also doing a YouTube Live with this as well. So we'll get, we'll get started. Hey, Jody, what, what, uh, what was your interest in this workshop tonight?
Honestly, it seemed like a pretty good topic, and I had a little bit of time to, um, kill, so I was like, might as well just, uh, because I think that Uh,
oh, you just went to mute.
Oops, wrong button. Um, I was gonna say one of the biggest, uh, issues I probably have is not letting go, not just of situations or people or places, but also objects. And, um, and I think that part of minimalism is making sure that you kind of declutter. And that doesn't just necessarily mean objects and stuff, but also probably maybe your mind as well. But yeah.
Excellent.
Yeah, I thought it would be, um, kind of interesting.
You're, you're in the right space because you're with 3 other people that have kind of struggled with that as, as well. And I'm probably, I'm probably the most guilty of it. So, all right, I'm gonna give it one more minute and then we'll go ahead and And get started. So, by the way, Brooke's very nice to see your face. Are you gonna talk tonight?
Yeah.
Oh, there we go.
Yeah. I love having my face on. It's my favorite
thing. That's that's your favorite thing.
Kind of. No, not really.
No, not really. No, that's okay. We have a lot of videos to make this next week that I'm going to have you in on.
Oh really?
Yeah,
sure about that?
I'm positive.
Oh,
positive. All right, well, everybody else is just gonna have to be left out. We're gonna go and— I want to go ahead and get us started, being respectful of time. This is near and dear to my heart. Just the ability to make space. Right now, I feel like my life is completely cluttered, not just in objects, but then just also just a lot of stuff that's going on. And I developed this course— originally I started developing the course as really a message to myself in that I wanted to be able to show others that I could reduce a lot of the stuff that I have. And then, you know, so this is kind of the beginning part. I'm hoping I get to follow up with one of these in about 6, 8, 10 weeks and I get to show the results of that decluttering process. My name is Rob Anderson. I have been a certified coach since 2012. I have worked with veterans. I've worked with people with anxiety, depression. By the way, I'm not a counselor. I'm not a therapist. I'm, I'm a coach. I'm an ICF member coach. So there's not going to be any kind of therapy in this. There's not going to be any kind of counseling. There's not even going to be advice. I do want this workshop to be something where we can openly talk with, with each other. If you have, you know, if you just want to jump in and say something, that's great. The way my, my laptop is set up, is I've got the slides that you see on the screen right now, and then I've got preview slides. So I can't see, like, if you raise a hand or give me a thumbs up on there, I can't see that. I'm also broadcasting on YouTube Live, and so if there's questions that come in on minimalism from, from the YouTube Live, I'm going to answer those questions or ask those questions on here as well. So let's go ahead and get started. And really, minimalism In practice, it's taking things that no longer serve you and you make space for things that truly matter. Now, it's always been about stuff, right? And that's kind of where there's been a lot of emphasis on it. I heard a really interesting analogy, although I didn't like it because I work with a lot of people who wind up unemployed or they wind up in a place where they have to transition to another job. But I heard— I heard this the other day, and that is you have to start thinking about your objects as maybe people that you've hired, or maybe even a contractor that you've hired. And when they no longer serve their purpose and they're not bringing back, you know, they're not bringing value, you have to let them go. And that was kind of harsh. I had a hard time with that because of the clientele that I work with and also being in that situation, not your not too long ago myself. So what we're going to explore is more than just the aesthetic of minimalism. It's more than just having the table that's completely clear of everything and just a single plant and books stacked neatly like you see here, one coffee cup. In fact, if you read the book Minimalism, They will talk about having just, you know, like one coffee cup per person in the household. What I want to do is I want to take that ideology and stretch it a little bit and talk about how not only do we let go of the physical clutter and how that allows you to free up mental space and emotional space and even spiritual space, But I want to talk about the psychology behind it. And by the way, so I want to be very clear, at the end of this, I'm going to give you an invitation if you want to go deeper into this topic or other topics. So I do want to set that up. And honestly, I'm great if you take me up on that offer. I'm great if you don't. So I just, I want to have some time where the 4 of us, we can share what our experiences have been and kind of where we're going with this. By the end of this session, I want us to each have an understanding of why letting go is difficult for us. And I also want us to identify what's taking up unnecessary space in our life, whether that is physical items or if that's items that's, that's in our brain or even in our heart. Through the process, we're going to experience ICF-style coaching questions that are going to shift awareness. I'm going to be asking some things that I want, you know, that I'm going to ask that you respond to. Again, I can't see if you have a hand up. You're just going to have to unmute and speak up. Just break in on top of me. And I'm really okay with that. I really, really am fine with that. As we get started, my story. So, I have had years and years of accumulation. And for those out on the YouTube Live that are chiming in, I'm sorry y'all can't see the slides, but I've got pictures right now of not just my storage room, but also one of the facilities that I share workspace in. I'm in my office that's over off of Overland and Federal, Kathy, to answer your question earlier. But right now I have 3 storage rooms. Technically I have 4 because I have the one that's here at this facility as well. And there's a lot of personal gear, there's military gear, there's old hunting gear, there's Christmas cards from— literally, I found a Christmas card 2 weeks ago from 1988 from somebody that I couldn't even read the handwriting from. I don't know who it was that sent me the Christmas card. And what I've been going through is a process of looking at all those items, and what I'm finding is that every single item It carries some type of a story for me. It's a memory. And, and probably, probably the other component of it is that it's, I've allowed it to carry my, my identity. And decluttering, going in and going in that process of getting rid of things, man, that it hurts because it's like, man, here's a, here's one of my favorite t-shirts and what do I do now? And matter of fact, I pulled one of those out. So. I've got this hoodie that I bought in Seattle. And the only reason I bought the— why I bought it in Seattle was I was coming home from a business trip and I was starting to get sick. I was about ready to get on the plane. I was really, really cold. And so, I bought the hoodie just so I would have a little more warmth and I didn't really want to spend money on a sweater. I was kind of cheap about it. So, I spent $35 on a hoodie of a place that I don't go to that often. And honestly, Seattle is a great place, but I don't really have any ties to it. So, what, what do I do with this thing, right? Do I give it away? Do I sell it? Do I find someone else that, that might want it? I don't know. And so, it became something that was a struggle. Military, old military uniforms that I can't even wear anymore. I weigh 40 pounds more than what I did when I was in the military. Can't wear those t-shirts that don't make any sense to me. By the way, there's some t-shirts that Brooks doesn't like that she wishes I would get rid of, but I keep them because it just It's a way to push your buttons. But what I'm finding is that decluttering, it's, there's a lot of pride in the things I have. There's nostalgia. But here's the thing, when I look at that pile of stuff, it's like, wow, you know, at, at some point I, I had to go work to earn money to go buy that stuff, and now it's just sitting there. And worse, all 3 of my storage rooms run me, or 3 of my storage rooms run me about $150 a month. So you take that and you figure out what it costs in a year, and I could be doing a very nice vacation with that. If I was making a car payment, that might be a car payment. It could be an improvement on my house if I would just get rid of— even if I get just rid of one of those storage facilities, that's about $1,800 a year that I could be saving. And What I was— what I realized is that as I was going through that stuff, um, what, what, what I realized is that I wasn't just cleaning out those storage rooms, but I was clearing out chapters. So hang on just a second, I need to answer something over on YouTube Live. Hey, if you became a subscriber yesterday, do me a favor. Uh, 2 things is I'd like for you to send me a Note in the comments. That way I've got your— because I'm not tracking the subscriptions for some reason. The second one is hang on and I'm going to show you how you can subscribe to the channel that I'm on right now, uh, going through Eventbrite and get other information. And I've got a freebie for you. All right. So check this out. I mean, just lots and lots of stuff. Uh, by the way, this is in the, in the area that's downstairs for me right now. That is part of another, it's part of the company that I'm getting space from right now. But it's just clutter. There's tons and tons of stuff down there. And I mean, if you look at all those monitors, you know, all those represent money. If you look at the mailing boxes and just everything that's in there, all that was money. And now, right now it's just clutter. So there's a psychology behind letting go. Psychologists call this the attachment theory. And what happens is we bond to those items because they hold our identity. Let me give you, let me give you an example of that, a very kind of a loose example, but an example of that. So one morning as you're heading to work, look at the cars that are around you. And then beyond that, look at if it is a vanity plate, I happen to have one, but if it's a vanity plate or if there are bumper stickers on that car, that person's trying to say, hey, this is who I am. I identify that. Well, we do the same thing with our objects, is that we, we have this attachment because we feel that we have an identity with that, with that object. The other thing is that comes into play is what is called micro loss. You see, when we let something go, we have to rewire our brain. And if we're attached to something, it's just like letting go of a relationship or letting go of something that, you know, maybe it's something that no longer serves us well, whether that's a habit, a relationship, um, an item. And we go through the same pathways of grief. You actually feel guilty about getting rid of those items. The other thing that comes into play is what's called cognitive, cognitive load. Clutter increases stress and decision fatigue. Now, I wanna take that from just the storage room picture that you see here where boxes are falling all over the place and everything to what's in your brain and what's, what's in your heart. The more stuff that you have in there that doesn't serve you, it doesn't make space for other things. I've got someone in my life right now that is really trying to break out of the relationship that they're in and move on to— well, really not really move on to another relationship, but just to get some space. But they feel guilty about that relationship. The same thing can happen with a job. You know, when a career no longer suits you, you feel like you need to move. Or maybe it's, you know, the house that you're in or the apartment that you're in. So we've got all these things between attachment theory, micro loss, cognitive load, and then the last one is reframing. Reframing allows you that when you let go, it honors your story. It doesn't erase it. So one of the things I've been doing is just so I can have a memory of something. Let's say that it's that. Let's say it's that Christmas card from 1988 that I talked about earlier. And again, paying $150 a month for a big storage room, the more I let go of, of those, of those small cards, the better off I am, right? Because there's, I mean, I, I've loaded out totes and totes and totes of stuff. But if I really want to keep it, why not just cut out a section of that card and place it in a journal? Because I love journaling. And journaling's a way that I can keep up with Things that go on in my life. But old receipts and baseball hats and shirts and things like that, I need to get rid of. And I think that we have all kind of come into the same place. Hey, I want to take a moment here and just stop and see if anyone has any stories that they want to share. Okay, I'm gonna share one off of Facebook Live, and I think this is a really heartwarming story. It says, I remember when I was 5, my parents threw away my favorite blanket, and I cried so much that they had to take it out of the garbage and then wash it. I've honestly done that with one of my kids. And so I understand it. Hey, real quick before I move on the next slide, thank you for sharing it, by the way. Um, very quickly, does anyone have a story they'd like to share or anything that they're—
Well, I, I think it's important, like, as I go through my kids' stuff, because I have memory boxes of stuff of theirs from their childhood, and I, you know, I have 2 in their 20s, and then my youngest Is 16. So I'm trying to go through those. And you had a good suggestion as far as keep the things that are very, very important, but then other things, take a picture of it. And then that picture you always have, you know, take a picture of it with your cell phone. You can print it out and, like you said, put it in a journal or put it in their scrapbook, because I like to scrapbook. So that was something that I'm like, I could eliminate a lot of— this clutter that I'm not gonna know what to do with, and it's just gonna sit in a box, by taking pictures of the stuff that I know I can let go and get rid of. So that was good advice.
Thanks. Anyone else? For the next— with the next slide, I'm going to grab something because I have an emotional attachment to something. That I'm going to share with— hang on. So by the way, this is actually kind of silly. I love scuba diving and I love the history of scuba diving. This is one of the very first buoyancy compensator devices that was put out probably in the early '70s, is, is the time frame on it, maybe, maybe even mid-'70s. Now here's the thing. I have no emotional tie to this that I mean because I didn't I didn't dive it right. I never wore this. It doesn't work. It's got holes in it. The zipper's missing. It's completely dysfunctional or unfunctional. Maybe not dysfunctional. Parts of it are are broken off, and yet I keep it. And I have to ask myself, I mean why is this piece? of dive gear is so important to me? And I can't tell you. I— but I, but I do struggle. Um, my hope is that maybe I can find somebody who wants it. It's not— it's, it's rare. It's not super rare, but it is rare. And so I have to wonder, you know, and without going into, you know, breaking myself down psychologically, because again, that's not what we're doing here, but I have to ask myself, why do I feel such a strong pull To something that really I don't have an emotional tie to, other than the fact that it's a really cool piece of gear and it hangs up in my office down here. Letting go is not just— again, it's not just getting rid of stuff. It's actually tied into emotional housekeeping. And what happens is that as we start to go through this process, That's where we, we really begin this deeper work of getting rid of things that were old expectations, getting rid of guilt, getting rid of outdated versions of ourselves. If you've ever had a transition in a relationship, like you moved out of one relationship and then you got some peace by yourself, you have to go through a process of re-understanding who you are. And the only way that really happens is you have to get rid of all that other baggage that's in there. So just like with my storage room, let's say I was going to keep my storage room or even the place I have downstairs that we do have allocated. It's really allocated for scuba diving gear for veterans. But the thing is, if I can get rid of the stuff that doesn't work, if I can get rid of stuff like this, what it does is it opens up space for the things that really do work. And you can't, you can't begin to move the new things in. Until you move things out. And you have to have this period of empty space. So again, it's about, it's about the deeper work. When I look at the emotional challenge of this, so the picture I have here is at one point I love doing leather work. I've made a lot of knife cases, I've made compass cases, all kinds of stuff. I've built backpacks. And Out of canvas and leather. But as I got ready to get rid of this set of tools, it took me almost a year, and I had not used them. The last time I used this set of tools was 2015, and it took me a year to finally get to a point to get rid of them. Because every time I look at this, it's like, hey, remember who you were. So I used to teach survival. I used to love teaching wilderness survival, and part of what I did in wilderness survival was I taught people how to work leather. What happens is there is real work in accepting that memory that was you and not the object. We get so tied up with trinkets. I've told Brooks before, when we travel, I don't want to buy a bunch of stuff that I have to pack in a And a suitcase to bring back. So we do small things. I love postcards. I love stickers. One of the things that we do as a couple is we have bracelets. And so whether it's a scuba diving trip or even a, maybe a trip that we took to the coast or something, if there's something that is unique that happens on that trip, we have an epiphany, we have an awakening. Maybe we, in one case, we followed the Well, I got lost. I got geographically embarrassed, and we happened to run across these little bracelets that were matching bracelets, and they happened to say patience on them. And she was very patient with me the day that I got lost. So those things mean something. But all these other objects and all these trinkets— we're coming up on the Christmas season right now. How many of us are going to get gifts that we're going to put on a shelf, and 2 or 3 years later, we just want to get rid of it, right? I love things that are consumables. I like things that I can eat or trips I can, you know, or, you know, trips I can go on or an event, maybe a movie ticket or something like that. When we let go of stuff, it's not rejection of who we were. It's really about that we are ready. We're in a space when we're ready to grow, we're ready to move forward. And so letting go again, it creates that space for peace. It creates that space for becoming the new person that we're really meant to be. Our personal baggage works very much the same, you know, the same way as getting rid of stuff. All of our old hurts, our old roles, our old pressures, all that stuff takes up emotional space inside of you. I know every time I've come out of a relationship, I have to have space in order to, to move on to the, to the next area. Because when we declutter, whether that's physical stuff or all that emotional stuff, it quiets the mind. It reduces that cognitive overload, that stress that you go through. I want you to start thinking about when you create space, It's, think of it as a sacred space. And I, and that word is so overused, but I want you to think about that space as being sacred and it allows that new purpose to emerge. We all go through different chapters. I go through a lot of different chapters in the things that I'm interested in or things that I'm passionate about. We go through different— I just went through a big chapter change in my career, and I'm sure that y'all have gone And done a lot of the same thing as well. Hang on, I've got something up here. It says, another way to explain this is a lot like a butterfly. I like that because, you know, you are in this cocoon state and you emerge out of that. So I'm going to, on the next slide, I want to open this up for discussion. We're going to take a moment, think about it. And if you feel safe to do so, you can go ahead and share, share your thoughts. But the question is, what emotional or mental clutter have you been tolerating? I'm going to pause right here and let you think, let you process that. And then if you feel free, go ahead and answer. I'll give us a couple of minutes of quiet. Quiet space. But again, the question is, what emotional or mental clutter have you been tolerating? All right, so let me go ahead and, and I'll share a little bit of myself. I want to encourage y'all to, to jump in when you, when you feel that it is safe to do so. This is a safe, you know, I, I do want to maintain this as a safe space. Uh, I think for me, what has happened with the emotional clutter is that it hasn't allowed me to sleep well, hasn't allowed me to rest, because I get so worked up on so many different things that I have going that at some point I have to start taking things off the plate because the plate just gets so full. If I think about my brain as being that storage storage room that I'm paying $150 a month for. I have to be able to open up space and not immediately move other things in there. In fact, it's been kind of nice the past few weeks where I've been able to just walk into that storage room. I'm literally— because before I was literally climbing over boxes to get this stuff. Well, that's kind of what's been happening in my brain as well. So when I think about that emotional or mental clutter, I think it's, for me, a lot of it's been just really not being overly involved in so many projects. This last summer, I took a step back, purposely took a step back from our scuba diving outreach that we do for veterans so I could make some space to start my new company. And the timing was actually pretty perfect for that. All right, next question. This one's a little lighter. How would you feel, or how would your life feel, if you carried a lot less of that weight? How would your life feel if you carried a lot less of that weight? Go ahead and come off mute and answer if you feel, if you feel like you'd like to.
I feel less clutter and, um, just more organized, you know, which sometimes that helps move forward if you feel like you've organized your clutter. At least the stuff that you want to keep. And it, it makes it so you want to go work on that project because you are in your mind, not just emotionally, but mentally going, okay, I've reduced that amount. I've done a lot of work to figure out what's very important to keep. And now I can let that other stuff go. So that's really helpful to be able to let go and be organized.
All right, thank you. Real quick, I've got something coming off the live from, uh, Snoopy Games, and it says, I'd probably feel lighter in a way, maybe even more peaceful with less stress. So thank you. Think about when you walk into a room and there's just stuff. I don't wanna say there's stuff everywhere, but there's always like that corner, right? There's always like a corner in the room. Um, I'm guilty of up, up in my office at the house, I've got a couple of corners that there's just so much stuff and just looking at it. Just by looking at it creates stress. Now imagine if you were to walk inside your head and there was that type of stress. So it does, it weighs on you. And you do, you feel a lot lighter when there's not so much stress. It makes room for better decision-making. If you're someone who's had A messy relationship, you know, that kind of clutter. You can't think about going a new path or being on the right path, or even being there for, you know, for the people who really do matter if you have that, that other stuff weighing you down. All right. How about this? What becomes possible when you stop holding onto what no longer fits? And I really want you to think about this one. I'm not going to ask a whole lot of other questions, but I do want to encourage some conversation. What becomes possible when you stop holding on to what no longer fits?
Obviously, you can— you make room for the next chapter of your life, you know. You make room so that other things can come in and bring happiness and joy without already feeling like you're cluttered because you haven't processed or went through the other stuff. So you're making room for Something in the future.
All right, yeah, absolutely. I know for me that when I've had to let go of one chapter and really, really let go of it. There's a lot of possibilities that open up because I now start looking for the possibilities. People talk about manifestation, they talk about prayer, but what happens is when you can get rid of things that don't fit you in your life and you actually start looking for the things that do, you start seeing those things. It's almost as if, if, uh, Somebody was talking about buying a red pick— maybe you thought about buying a red, a red pickup truck or a red car. Well, suddenly you start seeing red cars everywhere. Or earlier I mentioned vanity license plates. Well, tomorrow morning when you go to work, you'll start noticing more vanity license plates. I've got an input here on, on the Facebook Live. You're more You're allowed more to just experience fears without the stress that was built up before. And that's so true. I mean, if you— well, think about it like this. My storage room, there are days I do not want to go down there. I don't want to face it because it gives me anxiety just looking at what is there. And if that's parts of your life where you feel that anxiety, like, Hey, I need to go resolve this situation in my life. You get that anxiety as you're moving forward towards that. And what you find is that the best way to solve that is just to do one little bit at a time. So here's how I did my storage room. And this is really the parallel when I wrote this workshop. This is the parallel that I used. I would go in and before I left, I would tell Brooks, okay, I'm going to throw away 2 totes. I'm going to donate 2 totes. Very, very small. Okay. Not a lot of stress with that. Or at least I didn't think it'd be a lot of stress with that, but it was just very, very small goals, small incremental goals. And you can take that. And then what I would do is I would find Sometimes I find 2, maybe even 3 totes of stuff to throw away and 2 or 3 totes maybe to, to get rid of or donate or sell, whatever, right? And what I found is that the more I did that, the more space that opened, that it opened up, and the more energetic I was to go in and actually do that. I was more energized to go in and it got to where I looked forward to going down to the storage room. And by the way, I probably have 50% of that storage room cleared out, but that's 50, that's 50% of stuff I don't have to sort through when I'm looking for other things. By the way, I'm, I am gonna mention this. I, I talked about it in a, in another workshop the other day, and that was a couple of weekends ago. I really needed to get something done. I needed to get outta the house. But there's something I lose on a consistent— actually, there's 2 items I lose on a consistent basis. One of those items is this right here, my keys. I'm constantly looking for my keys. Uh, the other one's my wallet. I cannot tell you how much time I've wasted, and, and we'll talk about just time right now. I, I, there's been days I've wasted 15, 20 minutes of getting outta the house to go take care of a quick errand. Because I couldn't find these things. And what's worse is I couldn't find these and I couldn't find my backup, or I couldn't find my wallet. And yet they come, one comes outta one pocket, the other one comes outta another pocket. They should go in the same space. Matter of fact, I have a backpack that I'm supposed to be keeping those in, but they don't wind up there. So it, I, I not only do I waste time, but now I've wasted whatever thought process I had. Of what I was going to do. It's thrown me off time-wise. It's thrown me off what I was going to, you know, what I was energized to do, what I was motivated to do. And I'm just wondering if anybody else has had the same, same situation where you, you have this, you have these things, whether it's physical clutter or mental clutter or emotional clutter, that's kept you from doing other things. All right. Hey, if today's workshop stirred something in you— by the way, we're probably gonna end a little bit early here. I think, um, I set the workshop up for, for, uh, conversation, and I'm totally okay if people don't feel like talking right now. I'm, I'm I'm 100% okay with that. But if today's workshop did stir something in you and you felt that pull towards more space, more peace, more purpose, I'd like to, to provide you with the next step. And by the way, I'm totally cool, absolutely cool if this is not the right fit for you. But what I'd like for you to do is to think about exploring how patterns of holding on show up in relationships, in career, in your identity. Identify beliefs and habits that no longer serve who you are becoming, not who you are today, but who you're becoming. Learning tools to rebuild confidence, purpose, gaining that emotional space, setting up a personal plan. I do offer a monthly coaching plan. You can go out to StanStewartCoaching.com. All I want to do is just do a discovery call with you. That's it. Let's just set up a discovery call. Not asking you to buy anything. How coaching represents reinvention is through this. It's going to give you clarity. It's going to give you awareness. It's going to help you set small, meaningful steps for action. Plus you have someone who's there to support you. And last, it gives you that transformation. So as we close, I want you to ask yourself, And write this down, okay? If nothing else, we had a great conversation. I want you to take something out of this workshop with you. But there's 3 things I want you to ask yourself. First one is, what part of my life is asking for space? What part of your life is asking for space? The second one is, what identity am I ready to grow out of? Because you can't really grow into a new identity. Until you grow out of one. The other, the third one is, who am I becoming when I choose to release over holding onto stuff? So 3 questions. You can write those down and just use those for yourself, but I really want you to think about those. Again, you don't reinvent yourself by adding more. StanShererCoaching.com. If you put in the discount code MINIMALISM, you get a 50% discount off of the, uh, the, the monthly coaching. Again, if that's not for you, that's totally good. I do want to share 2 things though. that I want to give you. The first one is daily motivation. If you go out to, uh, if you go out to Patreon, www.patreon.com/standsurecoaching, you're going to get daily motivational posts. You're going to get short mindset prompts. You're going to get behind-the-scenes, uh, coaching insights. You don't have to do the paid one, just do the free one. Just do the free one, and that way we can, you know, I can share, you know, share daily posts with you, some daily motivation. You also get early access to workshops, not only like this one, but our other workshops that we do for, for a small fee. If you go out there right now to patreon.com and you sign up, I've got a Master Your Goals workbook. That I want you to have totally free, no obligation to it. All right, I'm going to go ahead and close out the slideshow part there and just kind of come back on screen. All right, and Snoopy, you have a great Thanksgiving holiday as well. I really do appreciate that. Um, and yes, I will go live again. That was kind of fun. I got a lot— I got some inputs off of YouTube Live as well. Hey, Jody, thank you so much for, for joining us. I really do appreciate you being here.
Yeah, thank you. Um, sorry, I didn't— I don't really know what to say, um, especially since it was like on Facebook Live or whatever. But, um, no, there is quite a lot of, you know, great prompts that you did have that caused A lot of introspection and reflection about what choices am I making and where do I think they're going to lead, or where, where do I hope they would lead, and what is the reality of the situation, right?
Right.
When we talk about like clutter and things like that, um, oftentimes it's because it's an emotional attachment, right?
Oh, you're absolutely right.
It's comfort, or it brings back some sense of nostalgia or something like that. Um, so no, there's a lot, um, that you did go over that kind of make me— kind of makes me think about everything. But yeah, thank you so much.
No, hey, that makes me happy to hear that. I appreciate the feedback on that. Um, those prompts— so I do, I do a lot of daily prompts on that page, on that Patreon page. And so again, you can join as a free member. We'd love to have you on there. And you know, I'll, I do videos Where I'll either do the prompt or, um, Kathy, you've, I know you've recently joined on there as a member. I'm trying to think of the other things I put on there. I'm going kind of blank, but there's, uh, there's daily prompts. There's, there are some behind the scenes things. And then any of the workshops that I do, I always announce 'em there first. So, by, by the way, how, how did you find us?
Uh, you know, uh, just through my website.
Okay, well, I'm really glad you did. I'm really— and please stay in contact. So I've got another class next Monday. Kathy, is that the one we're doing on travel or living your best life as you get, uh, get to be over 40? Brooks is looking up right now, but, but I normally do workshops on Monday nights and Thursday nights. So, so click that follow on Eventbrite and I would—
Sure thing.
I would love to have you back again. So thank you so much.
Yeah, thank you. Have a great night.
Hey, you too. Have a good one. Hey, uh, Kathy Brooks, I want to— let me kill the, the live feed here. Uh, hey, by the way, out on YouTube, please make sure that you send me, uh, an IM or a message and I'll get that information to you about, uh, other workshops. Also, if you'll go out to patreon.com/standsurecoaching, you'll get all my different updates and everything. So everybody on, on YouTube Live, I'm going to shut this one down, but thank you so much for joining.
