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Becoming a Minimalist: Your Guide to Living a Great Life with Less Through Minimalism
Becoming a Minimalist: Your Guide to Living a Great Life with Less Through Minimalism
Becoming a Minimalist: Your Guide to Living a Great Life with Less Through Minimalism
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Becoming a Minimalist: Your Guide to Living a Great Life with Less Through Minimalism

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** Discover that having LESS is MORE... Get more freedom, more time, save money and more, by eliminating the excess in your life and focusing on the essentials. **

Would you like to go to sleep at night knowing that your day was spent as you truly wanted to spend it? Would you like to feel sure that you didn’t waste time and energy on meaningless activity? Are you tired of listening to the thundering voice of consumerism instead of the quiet voice within you?

"Becoming a Minimalist: Living a Great Life with Less Through Minimalism" will show you (in a very concise manner) how to find what’s important in your life and rid yourself of what isn’t, so you can focus on what is truly important.

Minimalism is a flexible life philosophy that you can use to help create a more meaningful life. Use the principles in this book to learn about minimalism, what it is, how to live by its guidelines, how it can help you live with focus on what you truly value, and how you can integrate all of these principles into your life.

Get off the hamster wheel of buying, consuming, working harder, and only falling farther behind. Start focusing on the things in life that are the most important to you!

Make an investment in yourself, by picking up "Becoming a Minimalist: Living a Great Life with Less Through Minimalism" today!

LanguageEnglish
Release dateApr 1, 2014
ISBN9781632300089
Becoming a Minimalist: Your Guide to Living a Great Life with Less Through Minimalism
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Kimberly Wilson

Kimberly Wilson is a teacher, designer, writer, activist, and entrepreneur with a master’s in women’s studies. She is the founder of Tranquil Space Yoga in Washington, D.C. She penned Hip Tranquil Chick with hopes of inspiring fellow femmes to lead a mindfully extravagant life on and off the yoga mat. When she’s not bookstore browsing, you’ll find her designing the eco-luxe TranquiliT lifestyle clothing collection and her chunky gemstone jewelry line, sipping tea, or leading retreats globally. Her work has been featured on Martha Stewart Living Radio and in Daily Candy, Fit Yoga, and Shape. Kimberly founded the Tranquil Space Foundation to assist young girls with finding their inner voice, and she serves on the board of the Mid-Atlantic Yoga Association. Indulge in ongoing musings through her blog and podcast. Learn more at www.kimberlywilson.com.

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    A very minimalist book on minimalism. Quick, honest, unpretentious, and yet very effective.
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    Though the reader is not provided with a detailed breakdown of every element that makes up Minimalism, such as one would see in a how-to guide, the author provides a great foundation for the mindset that must be considered and adopted to benefit from this lifestyle.

    It is important to establish a basic understanding of the elements within Minimalism in order to apply it to one's life in a way that melds perfectly with one's desires. Within this book the reader will find many examples of a Minimalist approach to organization, decision making, and planning.

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    Brief. Practical. A wonderful introduction to minimalism. Well worth your precious time.

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Becoming a Minimalist - Kimberly Wilson

Introduction

We all begin life as minimalists, albeit self-centered ones. Babies are concerned with very, very few necessities—a reasonable degree of physical comfort, nourishment, and love. Perhaps the allure of minimalism is, at least in part, a desire to return to our origins—our true nature and essence. In our lives, we endure years of escalating material exposure. From childhood’s trinkets to young adulthood’s clothing to the cars and homes that drown our mature years in debt, we move farther and farther away from our true natures.

It is perhaps as a result of this distancing of self that minimalism is a recurring theme all over the globe, in every human effort. In painting and sculpture, minimalism can take the form of geometric abstraction. In literature, it can appear as very spare prose and surface description, leaving the reader to discern the true subject matter. In architecture, minimalists focus on cool lighting and empty space—the essence or soul of the space. In home décor, minimalism takes the form of very few simple accents that attract the eye and invite you to consider their basic nature —whether it is form or substance.

Do you find the concept of minimalism attractive? Have you outgrown the seduction of consumerism’s siren song? If you have, you’ll find generous rewards, from saving time and money, to protecting our precious planet, to being able to focus on what you value instead of on material goods.

Would you like to go to sleep at night knowing that your day was spent as you truly wanted to spend it? Would you like to feel sure that you didn’t waste time and energy on meaningless activity? Would you like to feel that you have done your part to reduce waste and pollution?

Read on to find out how you can make minimalism work for you.

Minimalism Today

Minimalism has a long tradition in history, art, and religion. Whenever people seek to find truth—either universal or of their individual nature—they strip down to do it.

From Buddha’s years of forest fasting to Christ’s contemplative time in the wilderness to all their followers, people have known that possessions obstruct any quest to identify what is important. We are awash in inspirational stories of austerity—St. Frances, Gandhi, Mother Theresa, the Shakers, the Quakers, and the Amish. But how do modern Americans take this inspiration and make it meaningful in their own lives? Let’s look at what minimalism can mean to us.

What Does Minimalism Mean?

What is minimalism? First, it’s a choice that we are privileged to make. It is not the grinding poverty and lack of possessions that much of the world labors under. It is not, for most of us, living in a cave or in a cabin on Walden Pond, although Thoreau’s two years of simple living deeply inspired him:

"I went to the woods because

I wished to live deliberately

To front only the essential facts of life.

And see if I could not learn what it had to teach

And not, when I came to die

Discover that I had not lived."

Minimalist living, for most of us in the modern world, is an effort to focus on the essentials. We try to base our work, home, recreation, etc. on what is important and eliminate what is not. In doing so, we can cut through the confusion and frustration of daily life—exposing the essence of our meanings and existence.

Because it is a personal choice, you can define your form of minimalism in a way that fits your life and priorities. Anyone can make it work. Yes, you can be a location-independent single twenty-something that owns only 100 possessions and be a minimalist. You can also be the kind of minimalist who lives in the suburbs and has kids who play video games. So long as you strive to live a meaningful life, free from nonessentials

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