In order to start living more minimally, the one thing you absolutely need to do, without fail is reduce your consumption. Buy less STUFF. We have all grown up in a world where you feel obligated to 'hunt and gather' when you are outside of the home. When you are at meetings and workshops, who doesn't take the free pen or sales merchandise that is on offer? If it is something we can take and feel we now 'own' it gives us that immediate gratification we all crave. To become a 'minimalist' it does take a conscious effort to reduce the purchases you make and what you bring into your household, however uncomfortable it can be. My biggest tip for stopping a spontaneous purchase?? Ask yourself the following; Will this item bring me joy and serve me for years to come? Do I have a place for this item? Am I ready to take this into my custody, to manage the item and love it like I do with all of my other belongings? Sounds like vows, right? It is usually the last bull...
At the beginning of 2020 I decided enough was enough. I was sick and tired of being sick and tired and needed to get myself out of a whole. I document my learning's whilst travelling down this journey toward financial freedom. I have already endeavoured some set backs and bumps along the way but who said it was going to be easy?