Going minimal

Why go minimal? Are you able to clean your house in 30 minutes? Do you feel constant tension without any particular reason? Maybe you have relationships which drains your energy? You never have enough time for things you love? You binge buy stuff you don’t need or use?

If you see yourself in any of those questions you should try minimalism.

Where to start? Start small!

I do believe if you want to create new lifestyle for yourself, not just temporary change, you should start by baby steps. When new thing overwhelms, you are more likely to give it up. Imagine your end goal, how does it feel, what you have or don’t have. Then break it into smaller pieces and make a step by step plan how to get there.

Find out what is important to you

If you want to get rid of things you don’t want in your life, find out what is important to you. What makes you feel happy? When you feel that you can take over the world? Find these moments, analyze what made you feel you that way? You better than anyone else know what keeps you going.

Fix – don’t throw away

Here comes sustainable thinking. Don’t just throw away something you don’t like, maybe you can fix it? It applies to everything, from piece of furniture to your relationships and try to fix it right away. See what you could do to keep it, if there is no possibility to do so: give it away, sell or recycle.

Quality over quantity

It really helps to think about long term. If I buy it now, will I be using it in 5 or 10 years? Will this friendship last till retirement? Maybe you won’t be right every time, but at least you’ll be thinking about it.

Value your time

Time is money, cheesy but it’s true. If you are going minimal you won’t be spending your hard earned money on things you don’t like or think it’s useful, so you shouldn’t do same thing with your time. Do what you enjoy or what makes you grow, spend it wisely.

Fell happy with what you got

This is important: find time for slowing down and feeling that you’re happy. Truly appreciate what you got, look around you find things what makes you smile.

All of these principles can be applied to most of the components of life so try it!