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highly recommend using a set of prioritized inboxes.
Minimize Your E-mail Surface Area
The best action you can use to protect yourself (mainly your time) is to either redirect your extraneous inboxes to one central inbox, or to delete your extraneous accounts altogether.
Cell phones are, at present, our greatest modern tool for distraction and time-waste.
Small breaks are healthy, but incessant distractions can prevent us from actually living.
You simply set a timespan, say 1:00 AM to 7:00 AM, and your phone’s audio will be muted during that time frame.
If you are an extremist like me, you can go as far as to not have social media apps on your phone.
Remember, urgent and important are different attributes.
to conduct a quick monthly app audit.
For several years of my life I owned less than 100 total belongings.
Minimalist Mindset started to show itself in my physical world.
The only important metric is whatever arbitrary number you want to choose as your tool for getting more value out of the objects you choose to fill your life with.
The goal of minimalism with regard to objects is not to get rid of all of your things, instead it is to make room for what you truly think is important.
Once you start winning the battle over owning too many things, you will start to feel a growing sense of mental fortitude and freedom.
Create four piles for all of your belongings: Stuff to keep Stuff to donate
Stuff to throw away Stuff to set aside in a box
If necessary, start with only a specific closet or room and then move on to your entire house.
If all of your items do not fit on the floor within a room, subdivide the room and work on individual sections.
four piles mentioned before (Keep, Donate, Throw Away, Box).
two hardest kind of objects to get rid of were my books (see Chapter 15: Books) and my college t-shirts (see Chapter 18: Clothing).
For items that you just can’t part with, try putting them into a box and then storing that box in a hard to reach place.
If you legitimately need an item you have put in the box, you can open the box and remove it. Otherwise, the items should stay in the
even though you have been removing unimportant items from your life, you will be somehow still be adding items back in without even knowing it.
Donation Sundays. The technique is really quite self explanatory. Each Sunday, set aside a group of objects to donate.
In order to fight the influx of objects that the world is sure to send your way, you should try to donate or get rid of two things
for every one thing you buy.
Having an up-to-date list of all of your belongings has several benefits:
one aware of how much they own.
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brands, UPCs, and product models makes replaci...
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Books
With these thoughts, I packed my books into a box
cataloged them on a file on my computer
and stored the boxes in...
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thought about the replaceability of my books and finally was able to donate them to fri...
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Digital Clones
replace them with electronic versions.
Regardless of what you decide to do with your books, remember that you can move at your own speed.
be clear, the folder you create could be digital or tangible; the correct option is what works best for your lifestyle.
How often have you looked at your closet and felt a twinge of stress concerning your complicated clothing options? This stress will continue to exist every day if you don’t do something about it.
Think about how the clothing made you feel when you bought it. Thank the clothing for that feeling (you can do this in your head if other people are around, but don’t skip this step!) Acknowledge that the clothing has served its purpose by granting you that feeling. Put the article of clothing in the ”Donate” pile.
Being a minimalist is not simply an act done once, it is a constant art and lifestyle that requires maintenance. This attribute of continuity is one of the key differences between the idea of minimalism and the Minimalist Mindset.
Limiting rather than eliminating allows for acquaintanceships to evolve (some might get better), rather than negating the possibility of making more high-value friends.
In order to be a successful minimalist, you will need to be a successful trimmer.
wasn’t easy, but it was necessary in order to allow me to prioritize my time on the things that really mattered to me. It is that topic that is the theme of the next chapter.
how your money saving behavior affects other people.
others. If your efforts isolate you and offend other people, you are being cheap. If your efforts lighten your financial burden without negatively affecting others, you are being frugal.
Life is best spent with the people you love that love you back. All of your optimization goals should use this guideline as a compass. There is no greater prize than living life well with wonderful people. Don’t confuse your minimalism goals and accidentally subtract your life’s most important assets.
For most people, spending time with family is what you want to maximize time for, not what you want to minimize. Family should occupy some of the space you create in your life through minimalism techniques.
Actions Actions are the base unit of habits. They are the individual steps that are generally part of a bigger sequence.
