The Minimalism Challenge: 52 small changes and good habits that will simplify your life in a year

Streamline Your Life #1

by A. Edmond

Change your life with small changes that yield big results.

Is your life more difficult than it should be? Are you struggling with unnecessary complexities? Have you been wanting to build good habits that will help you simplify your life, health, career, style or other areas?

Believe it or not, life does not have to be so hard especially if you focus on what’s essential. If you are ready to overcome your complications and ready to live easy then this book is for you.

The Minimalism Challenge offers a full year’s worth of lessons on how to transform your life with simple steps that empower you to improve your decision-making, build good habits and focus on what matters most.

The book includes 52 weekly lessons grouped into 12 monthly life themes that teach you how to live easy for an entire year (and beyond) by cultivating awareness, clarity and focus:

Month 1: Simplify Your Life
Month 2: Simplify Your Desires
Month 3: Simplify Your Work
Month 4: Simplify Your Finances
Month 5: Simplify Your Space
Month 6: Simplify Your Relationships
Month 7: Simplify Your Health
Month 8: Simplify Your Mindset
Month 9: Simplify Your Schedule
Month 10: Simplify Your Tasks
Month 11: Simplify Your Taste
Month 12: Simplify Your Happiness

Before the book:

Overwhelming schedule
Stressful work
Cluttered home
Neglected relationships
Impulse shopping
Mindless consumption
Easily distracted
Negative self-talk
Fickle and indecisive
Lack of purpose

After the book:

Better finances
Enough energy
Streamlined space
Clear priorities
Better decisions
Organization & efficiency
Positive, abundant thinking
Purposeful living
Increased happiness

There is no "right way" to be a minimalist. Minimalism means different things to different people and with this book you'll build a solid foundation for making this philosophy work best for you. The challenge is not just about inspiration but motivation. You won't just think, you will act. You will de-stress, declutter, deprogram self-limiting thoughts, and eliminate distractions.

This is a suite of simple strategies designed to address the areas of life that tend to have the most complications. Each lesson dives into a variety of principles that will yield long term improvements to your thoughts, habits, and behaviors.

The Minimalism Challenge is the first book in the Streamline Your Life Series. These step-by-step guides support you on your journey to simplifying each area of your life — from work and wellness to style and relationships. Though lightweight and easy to read, they offer a wealth of inspiration and information on how to live a good life, effortlessly.

Genres: Self Help

Kindle Edition

Reviews

[Judi Easley · Rating 3 out of 5]

The Minimalism Challenge
52 Small Changes and Good Habits That Will Simplify Your Life in a Year
Streamline Your Life Series Book #1
A. Edmond
Minimalism Co, Oct 2018
241 pages
Self-help
Purchased for Kindle app
⭐⭐⭐

The cover is minimal, which fits the theme of the book, but is totally not eye-catching or appealing. Sorry, but that’s a star.

Minimalism is the latest big trend. The book is broken down into 12 themes, as in 12 months, then into 4 weeks to work on each theme. The themes are your life, desires, work, finances, spaces, relationships, health, mindset, schedule, tasks, taste, and happiness. I simply sat down and read the book. It was not the book to simply read. This is really a workbook to literally work with. Somewhere in my mind, there is a memory of an actual workbook to accompany this book, but I may be wrong. If not, then a notebook would be a good idea. There are things you need to do, exercises to do, lists to make, ideas to make note of. This is not just a book to read and set aside. If you are going to bother with this book, then you need to be prepared to work with it. To think about what it is telling you and think about the changes it is encouraging you to make and how much change you want to make or if you want to make any changes.

I found parts of this book totally boring because they were themes I wasn’t interested in doing anything with. Other parts of it were much more interesting as they appealed to me personally. As for changing, I’m not sure I’m meant to be a total minimalist. I do want to declutter my spaces and live with less, and I want to simplify my life some, but not as totally as this might indicate I should. For me, a lot of this was wasted. But for someone who is looking to really overhaul their busy, congested life and home, this book might be a place to start. It would help you to see where the worst congestion is and map a way through or around such problems, a way to eliminate such areas in your life and not reacquire them in the future. This book deals with every aspect of your life from your health and what you think, to your work, home and finances, to your friends and family, the way you make decisions and deal with disruptions. It attempts to help you style a whole new way to deal with your total life if what you want is a totally minimalistic life.

“The challenge is not just about inspiration but motivation. You won’t just think, you will act. You will de-stress, declutter, deprogram self-limiting thoughts, and eliminate distractions.”

I personally like a little clutter in my life. I recommend that you check this out for its definition of minimalism and see if it fits what you are looking for, or what you think you may be looking for. If it does, I think this might be a good way to achieve such a thing. But beware of how much you strip from your life. Some things once discarded can’t be reacquired and you may find your life a little bare. Recommended with reservations.

[Carol]

Eh. The book starts out with an encouragement to read it through and 5en go back and tackle the chapters a month at a time. And I thought, “ Yes! I’ll do that!” Then after I’d read it through, I thought, “Nah.” I just didn’t relate to much of it. The decluttering parts I’ve read many other places. And the parts of career were really about making money. Which honestly, as long as I can pay my mortgage and travel, I not interested in. It seemed like one of the breed of minimalism authors who made a lot of money in the business world, burned out, and then decided to re-group by plugging themselves as lifestyle coaches. Not for me.

[Ashley Salisbury · Rating 3 out of 5]

Ms. Edmond is an excellent author and her 52 small changes and good habits to simplify your life are well thought out, organized, and ready for you to incorporate into your everyday. If you are already on a journey of self-discovery and -development I feel like most of the suggestions will have already been covered in your researches. However, if you are just beginning your journey, there will be lots of ways for you to streamline your life and create personal happiness. There is something for everyone, and I think it well worth your time to read through it at least once, then go back and reread for implementation if necessary.

[Krymylda MacDonald · Rating 5 out of 5]

Extremely helpful

I truly enjoy the way the book is divided . Very easy to read and easy to implement in daily life. Highly recommended