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Becoming a Minimalist: Your Guide to Living a Great Life with Less Through Minimalism
** 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 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 Living a Great Life with Less Through Minimalism" today!
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 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 Living a Great Life with Less Through Minimalism" today!
45 pages, Kindle Edition
First published March 7, 2012
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Displaying 1 - 16 of 16 reviews
July 23, 2023
Minimalism is always an ongoing learning.
June 19, 2019
It's a book on minimalism so it is really short. Get it?!
Yeah, sounds like garden variety laziness to me too. Some books have a definable exact moment when you check out. For Confessions of a Sociopath: A Life Spent Hiding in Plain Sight, it was when the author mentioned the truly juicy confessions and then refused to share them. For Wilson's book, it is when the author says minimalism will allow your spouse not to work. Maybe if he or she lives on an otherwise deserted island and is not subject to taxes or has X-Men (Person?) mutant recovery powers and doesn't need health insurance, sure. Otherwise, keeping your closet tidy won't significantly impact your need to draw an income.
In short read Kondo Marie (日本)近藤麻理惠 instead.
June 13, 2017
I read this as an ebook because the books on minimalism that I wanted to read weren't available from my library. It was short and easy to read, though the chapter on home decor was a little grating; painting the walls of my home within three shades will not make me a minimalist, unless I'm staging the house for Real Simple magazine.
January 24, 2013
A bit boring :)
November 9, 2019
2.5/5
The beginning 'baby' analogy is something that stuck with me. Babies need food, warmth, and love to survive - they don't need all those toys and books and millions of other things human beings hoard. It made a lot of sense - that was about the only thing in the book that made any impact.
This book felt like an anthropologist's account of minimalists. It was a 'minimalist's do this' and 'minimalist's do that' kind of book, instead of giving advice on ways to achieve this lifestyle.
If you're beginning your journey into minimalism, this book isn't going to help you.
There was nothing inherently wrong with the book, but I'm also glad it only took an hour and a half out of my day.
The beginning 'baby' analogy is something that stuck with me. Babies need food, warmth, and love to survive - they don't need all those toys and books and millions of other things human beings hoard. It made a lot of sense - that was about the only thing in the book that made any impact.
This book felt like an anthropologist's account of minimalists. It was a 'minimalist's do this' and 'minimalist's do that' kind of book, instead of giving advice on ways to achieve this lifestyle.
If you're beginning your journey into minimalism, this book isn't going to help you.
There was nothing inherently wrong with the book, but I'm also glad it only took an hour and a half out of my day.
March 22, 2020
Summary: less stuff equals more happiness. I'm all about getting rid of needless excess to make room for what's important, but we can't all live within walking/ biking distance to work. (Some families require two cars.) It did briefly go over minimalism, from food to house to travel to hygiene. At least it was nice getting an opinion about all different aspects of the minimalist life. 2.3* (Audiobook)
January 13, 2019
Listened to this on audio. It was too short so I was disappointed. Wanted to learn more.
February 29, 2020
Good
A good and helpful book that enabled to deliver my house better than ever before. Take the time to read it.
A good and helpful book that enabled to deliver my house better than ever before. Take the time to read it.
March 8, 2020
This sounds like regurgitated online articles on minimalism, no actual advice.
February 20, 2019
Listened to via Scribd!
A short and interesting take on mininmalism. As I'm just starting out trying to live a more minimalist life this was a good start and pointed me in several research directions.
Definitely something for a beginner rather than those exerienced in the lifestyle.
A short and interesting take on mininmalism. As I'm just starting out trying to live a more minimalist life this was a good start and pointed me in several research directions.
Definitely something for a beginner rather than those exerienced in the lifestyle.
April 13, 2013
This is a well written book about the minimalist lifestyle what we purchase, to what we eat, to what we do, to how we decorate our homes. I am definitely NOT a minimalist. I am a minimalist wannabe - sort of. I enjoyed the book and thought it was really good.
May 22, 2012
nice book with practical tips on minimalism!
April 14, 2013
Really quick read. Very practical. Not preachy at all.
October 14, 2015
Short and clearly written
August 6, 2017
Very broad.
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