The Minimalist Guy

What are the essential elements of happiness? What role do physical objects play in a meaningful life? Freddie reflects on his childhood cleaning style, discusses his essential list for happiness, and gives his biggest health hack.

Episode Highlights

• 1:13 - Freddie's childhood cleaning strategy (aka before Hoarders was famous)
• 2:17 - Could my childhood cleaning strategy impact my adulthood?
• 3:55 - Freddie's epiphany
• 6:22 - The transformation of Freddie's NYC home
• 8:14 - Freddie's essential happiness list
• 9:19 - Action steps to take
• 12:32 - What minimalism is truly about

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• The Minimalists - https://www.theminimalists.com/

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EPISODE TRANSCRIPT

Freddie Kimmel (00:02.274)
Welcome to the Beautifully Broken Podcast brought to you by AmpCoil. I'm your host, Freddie Kimmel, and on this show, we discuss the common threads survivors share after walking through the fire, the practitioners making a difference, and the treatment modalities that deliver healing back into the hands of the people who need it most. Witness the inspiration we gain by navigating the human experience with grace, humility, and a healthy dose of mistakes. Because part of being human is being beautifully broken.

Freddie Kimmel (00:36.431)
So there are two ways of becoming rich. One is to acquire many things and the other is by desiring little. I had always been, you can ask my mom, a child who cleaned up his room by placing things out of sight. As far as the task of cleaning my room, I had this very interesting perception of what clean looked like. Ever since I was a little dude, I wanted to pack and stuff and hide things away.

So the space I was asked to clean or straightened up looked or represented a picture out of better homes and gardens. And the concept, this concept of putting things back in their actual place, it didn't sound awful to me. I think I just had too many things and the idea of finding a place for them all was sort of exhausting. So I cut corners. Now at any rate, I became an expert at my own methodology and it really did make me feel good to have a clean room.

My parents were happy and I have to admit on an emotional level, this probably made me happy. Yet in reality, if I revisit what was actually happening, the underside of my bed, the drawers in my room, the closets, they were anything but tidy and truth be told, my room probably looked like a junior version edition of hoarders. Now, I remember to this day, the piles upon.

piles of crap I stuffed into my dresser drawers and work desk. Stuffed animals, He-Man guys, plastic pieces from other toys, attack tracks, thunder tracks, old pens, dried up markers, and lord knows what else occupied the underside of my bed. So take one minute and just close your eyes and drift back in time and see if this ever existed in your childhood. You can go ahead and nod yes and we'll all.

feel that energetically on the podcast. Now, I can physically, if I go back, feel the clutter. And for some reason, I get this very strong emotional reaction when I do. Maybe it's a link to the childhood memories and feelings about home, or maybe it's the passage of time, which I always thought had a very strong emotional spark for me, or possibly the ability to deflect my attention to material.

Freddie Kimmel (02:54.541)
inanimate objects hidden throughout my room instead of the emotional awareness or coping mechanisms to deal with my feelings. My feelings, that's another podcast. So is this a bad habit? Again, I don't like good or slash bad dividing lines, but, and this is a really big but, I often wonder how the way I processed events and stress in my childhood

played into multiple bouts of illness in my early adulthood. So just consider the emotional charge or joy as we each toy or object came into my life and how like a drug that opiate high would spike and fade with each new addition, each new thundercat. You know, how the onslaught of additional stuff would wax and wane and eventually, eventually it would wind up.

under the bed. Now there's a story there and we could unpack that if we wanted to, but I want to keep this to under 10 minutes. So all those things, imagine this, they're all taking up space in my room, in my closet, but mostly I think they were taking up space in my emotional body. The body keeps the score. Read that one, get it on Amazon. You won't be sorry. So the things we own, they end up owning us. I'm drifting. I really want to keep this on minimalism.

So one day in my not too distant past, was cleaning and I had this epiphany. True happiness and joy, mean my joy, purpose, lasting bliss, love. If I look back on these moments in my life, in my present life, there is not one of them that is connected to a material possession like a toy or a gift or a home, anything that I had owned in my life.

In fact, I feel like they actually functioned as distractions. The fleeting joy from these things, like a new glow worm for a birthday party, or a cabbage patch kit at Christmas, or a lightsaber, the newest smartphone, they passed so quickly, just like a breeze through a leafy tree. It was an amazing addition to my collection of things, but in weeks, it was tossed on the floor,

Freddie Kimmel (05:19.938)
or the bed like a rock holding little to no value. I know everybody knows it's the same thing as getting a new car. You're so scared to scratch it. But once someone throws up in the backseat, it's just another place for you to go places. Or the new iPhone, you know, it's this wonderful machine with all the features and it's really great to take pictures with and use all the apps.

and it gets a couple scratches and cracks and all of sudden it's just a phone and you toss it around in a bed, even though it's an $1,100 object. So I want to go back here. My joy, my true moments of happiness for me were with my family or my friends in theater when I was singing, horseback riding with my family, fishing, Western rodeo. Did I mention I used to barrel race? I did.

I actually have a championship buckle somewhere, but that is also for a different podcast. So over the last two years, I've made this move, this shift in my NYC home. Progressively, one after another, boxes of things have left my home, workout equipment, extra silverware, shoes, old sweaters, closing night gifts, opening night gifts, posters, old technical devices, and so many more things that I'm not even gonna list.

It's not that I could no longer find use for these things anymore. Listen, I can always justify any of the affirmation items at some point in my life, but the reality was is that they were just taking up physical space and I wasn't using them enough to justify their existence. And they were taking up small amounts of emotional bandwidth.

as I'd periodically move them and store them in different drawers and change their resting place and took stock of their usefulness or lack thereof. And I'd think about that thing for a second, which at one time was very special to me. So it gets a little bit of my bandwidth without realizing what I had been moving towards is this very realistic trend of minimalistic living.

Freddie Kimmel (07:39.6)
Now there are a number of websites dedicated to living with the bare essentials of what you need. Taking the focus off the material things we think we need and placing the focus back on what's important. I'm gonna list a few here. So be less with more. Mr. Money Mustache, I love this one. It's more along the lines of money management and frugality, but it's right in alignment. No sidebar and the minimalist.

Check these guys out for great ideas and I promise you, you'll be happy with the time spent there. So my essential happiness list is as follows. Good food, deep, restful, quiet sleep, nurturing healthy relationships, my art or passion or writing, friends and family, and of course, vibrant freaking health. So remember the price of anything.

is the amount of life you pay for it. The energy of the space you create for your life by just keeping the essentials is limitless. There is an art to creating this energetic flow throughout your home and this has proved to be one of the biggest health hacks to me moving forward in my journey towards wellness. And it's something that you can do to upgrade your health today for free.

possibly making money if the extra bits laying around your house are sold in a garage sale, eBay, Facebook Marketplace or Craigslist. Those are some of the big ones. So I've got my action steps here as always. So first, before we just jump in, make a list of why you want to cut the excessive clutter in your home. Do you want more time with family? Do you want more money? Would you like more time freed?

up to do and focus on the things that you absolutely love. Don't start cleaning or decluttering for the sake of work. Find a reason that's inspired. If the value or the price or the gain is not strong enough, it's not gonna stick. So my why is energetic abundance. I can feel the energy about the area and freedom to move through that space with less attachment. This is priceless.

Freddie Kimmel (10:04.466)
And I continue to nurture this as my space and my goals become crystal clear, right? So number two, start with one area. Dedicate a clutter free zone. It does not have to be big. Maybe it's a kitchen table or a workspace.

Maybe this is your starting point and expand from here gradually pushing your borders to include other distant lands. You are a dictator of your domain. Aggressively move forward and allow the kitchen table cluttered with bills to claim sovereignty over Tupperware cabinets stuffed with bowls without lids and drawers packed with mismatched dried up felt tipped markers and rubber bands.

Number three, discard duplicates. Start with a few bags, walk around your home and take any double sets. Great examples are spatulas, measuring cups, extra sets of dishes, old shoes and high-waisted stonewashed jeans that don't fit. And even if they do fit, that magical new shape your body has evolved to over the years, it's time for them to go. Say this with me.

The physical manifestation of objects I don't use is stagnancy in my life. That's really good. One more time. The physical manifestation of objects I don't use is stagnancy in my life. So number four, donate, donate, donate. Someone else could use your unused stuff for good and consider if you will be donating,

to give to an organization that supports equal rights for all colors, all sexualities, all people, period. Just an idea. Number five, and to appease my friend, Colin Titmuss, recycle. The planet does not need assistance in expanding our current landfill challenge. I know Mother Earth will appreciate this. Number six, create an agreement. Create an agreement with yourself, you can't break.

Freddie Kimmel (12:21.835)
maybe an inverse ratio of things to go out verse coming in. Example, I am allowed one new shirt for every three I donate to Goodwill. I am allowed one new coffee mug with a pooping unicorn on it. For every four I donate to a local charitable organization. So in conclusion, and we're summing it up, for me, choosing a life of simplicity, simple meals, simple joys, cooking whole foods,

Simple rest has allowed me many, things, but most of all, freedom to pursue my dreams with a financial and energetic surplus. Minimalism is not about having less. It's about making room for more of what really matters to you. Namaste. Ladies and gentlemen, you made it to the end of the podcast.

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