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Emmy-nominated Netflix stars, podcasters, and New York Times–bestselling authors Joshua Fields Millburn and Ryan Nicodemus help millions of people live meaningfully with less. The Minimalists have been featured in TIME, GQ, ABC, CBS, NBC, BBC, NPR, and they have spoken at Harvard, Apple, Google.

Have to, Get To

By Joshua Fields Millburn ·

I woke at 4:29 AM last Thursday. Had it been a decade prior, that’d’ve been exactly fifteen minutes before my alarm, and I’d’ve panicked. Oh no! I have to get up in fifteen minutes!

Today, however, I don’t have to wake that early—I get to.

I get to write, read, exercise, travel, and go to bed early—all things I previously had to force myself to do.

What do you have to do? Would reframing those haves into gets remove some of life’s stress?