Inspiring Simplicity. Weekend Reads.

Fill your life with stories to tell, not stuff to show.

The simplicity/minimalism movement is a beautiful community. And I enjoy any opportunity to promote writing that encourages people to live more by owning less.

So fix yourself a nice warm cup of coffee or tea. Find a quiet moment this weekend. And enjoy some encouraging words to inspire more simplicity in your life today.

Simplify Magazine. Simplify Magazine is a new, quarterly publication designed to help families focus on the things that matter most. I am excited to be involved with it. The first issue releases this summer, but you can sign up now to receive the first issue free.

How I Went From Being A Hoarder To A Minimalist | Mind Body Green by Eve O. Schaub. No one can clean your clutter for you. Clutter doesn’t have a place to go yet—they are objects in limbo that are the result of deferred decisions.

The Disease of More | Mark Manson by Mark Manson. Success is often the first step toward disaster. The idea of progress is often the enemy of actual progress.

How to Declutter the Toys | Simple Families by Denaye Barahona. Play with purpose.

How The Rich Are Poisoned by The Preference of Others | Medium by Nassim Nicholas Taleb. When people get rich, they lose control of their preferences, substituting constructed preferences to their own, complicating their lives unnecessarily, triggering their own misery.