Becoming Minimalist

Never underestimate the importance of removing stuff you don’t need.

Encouragement provides us with motivation. It invites us to dream dreams of significance for our lives. And it begs us to work diligently with optimism and promise.

There are two distinct journeys toward a more minimalist life.

First, Minimizing. Almost all of us own more than we need, so the first step to owning just what we need is to own less. Declutter, as we like to say. Of course, there is a difference between minimalism and...

“It is not that we have a short space of time, but that we waste much of it.” —Seneca

Today is July 20. In other words, we are over halfway through summer. Here in the US, we are now closer to the start of the next school year than to the end of the last one.

And no doubt, the familiar refrain will begin again, “Where did the summer go?” It al...

One year ago, I started something new here at Becoming Minimalist: The Minimalist Life. 

The Minimalist Life is an online community where like-minded individuals work together, month by month, to bring simplicity into every area of life: home, finances, schedule, digital life, habits, and relationships (just to name a few).

It was designe...

Eighteen years ago, we decided to live with fewer possessions.

The decision was based entirely on external circumstances.

Simply put, we were tired of the never-ending cleaning and organizing our possessions required. We were tired of livin...