#837: How to Simplify Your Life in 2026 — New Tips from Derek Sivers, Seth Godin, and Martha Beck

Hello, boys and girls, ladies and germs. This is Tim Ferris. Welcome to another episode of the Tim Ferris Show. This time around, we have a different format from my normal long form interviews. You can find eight hundred plus of those at Tim.blog slash podcast, but this time around I thought I would do something very self serving. There's something on my mind. As we head into the new year. Many of us Me too. Feel like we're drowning in invisible complexity. Or perhaps we simplified and simplified, but

Lo and behold. Without fail, complexity starts to creep back in. This happens, right? It's like going to the gym. You can't just go once, you need to constantly refine. and revert to simplify, simplify, simplify. So I wanted to hit pause. on long form interviews. We'll have more coming, but ask a simple question. What are the one to three decisions that I could make That would dramatically simplify my life in twenty twenty six, this upcoming year, right? In January, hopefully. To explore that, I invited three close friends and longtime listener favorites, Derek Sivers, Seth Godin, and Martha Beck, to share.

What they have done in their lives that has worked already. So from Derek Sivers, you'll learn how Derek uses a radical approach to living from first principles instead of default settings from Seth Godin, how a handful of hard rules can turn a messy professional life into something simple and focused on your best work, and from Martha Beck. How making one radical commitment forced her through growing pains, but led to a vastly simpler life built around peace. And meaning. And if you like this episode, I'll do more of these because certainly I want to beg, borrow, and steal from people like Derek. Seth. And Martha. And I've applied this a lot in my own life. In 2020, I used a guiding tenet that I learned really polished, I would say, from two other podcast guests, Greg McEwen and

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