Simplify: 7 Guiding Principles to Help Anyone Declutter Their Home and Life (Joshua Becker, 2010)

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  • Minimalist
  • The more stuff you own, the more your stuffs own you.
  • 7 Principles
  1. Be convinced
    • Our actions follow our heart.
    • Benefits
      1. Spend less
      2. Less stress
      3. Easier to clean
      4. Freedom
      5. Good for the environment
      6. Be more productive
      7. Example for my kids
      8. Financially support other clauses
      9. Own higher quality things
      10. Less work for someone else
  2. Make it work for you
    • Rational minimalist
      1. We will intentionally promote the things we most value
      2. We will remove all clutter from our lives
      3. We will decorate in a minimalist style
      4. We will use our money for things more valuable than physical possessions
      5. We will live a counter-cultural lift that is attractive to others
  3. Jump right in
    • Victory leads to victory: do smaller and easier tasks first to build momentum
    • Minimalism encourages minimalism
    • Sell your stuff so to reduce your emotional attachment
  4. Stop the trend
    • Do not buy things that you will only use once or twice
    • Possessions do not equal joy
    • Consumerism encourages you to work harder
    • Consumerism will create more make-to-break products
  5. Persevere
    • Identify your clutter collection suite
      • Bed, clothes, dishes
      • Clutter box
    • Minimise your junk mail, best is not to get it at all
    • Stay ahead of the game with clothing
    • Purge your unwanted stuff in a periodic basis
    • Be ready for holiday/gifts
    • Think outside the box
  6. Share the joy
    • Peer pressure and influence
  7. Simplify everywhere
    • Do it for one, you will do it for all

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