Simplicity in Action: Caroline McGraw
Editor’s Note: This is a post in the series, Simplicity in Action. If you’d like to submit your story of how simplicity has worked in your life, please read more here. You can…
The Truth about Simplicity
In thinking about and dissecting simplicity, I’ve come up with a few things that I know to be true. Simplicity has become a force in my life with benefits and…
Shadows in Life and Fiction
Just about everything casts a shadow, and it’s not a bad thing. Shadows help us perceive a third dimension in two-dimensional images like paintings and photographs. The length of a…
The Minimalist Photographer
You see them at the top of just about every post on this blog: professional, evocative photos that are not just illustrative or pretty, but are tied to a deeper…
all our fantasies
We all spend much of our lives in fantasies. I’m included in that observation: I fantasize about living a simple, minimalist life, I fantasize about traveling to foreign wonders, I…
minimal web
A website with the main purpose of having people read content would best serve its readers with almost nothing else but what’s needed for the reading experience. Strip a site…
Real Life Minimalists Update: Gigi
Every Monday I post Real Life Minimalists, a profile of one of my readers in their own words. If you’d like to participate, click here for details. Today, I’m happy…
Real Life Minimalists: Michelle
Every Monday I post Real Life Minimalists, a profile of one of my readers in their own words. If you’d like to participate, click here for details. This week, Michelle…
It’s easy to become an electro magnet for bullshit. It’s easy…
It’s easy to become an electro magnet for bullshit. It’s easy to get weighed down with all of our work responsibilities, paying bills, juggling our to-do lists. A lot of…
I’m not a religious man. But I can see things that tell me I’m…
I’m not a religious man. But I can see things that tell me I’m connected with all and all is connected with me. And I love because it’s my…
‘P’ is for Persevering: A-Z of Simple Living
{ via Pinterest – no original source found } “Do, or do not. There is no try.” – Yoda Starting something new is easy. 2nd January at the gym Salad…
9 Twitter Accounts to Encourage Simplicity
In anticipation of an upcoming post on social media, I understand the distraction that Twitter can become. Its constant stream of information can move us quickly from helpful to the…
Not More, Better
“Life is not a matter of chance… it is a matter of choice.” ? Ka 24 hours. Every day we get them. And every day we use them. Sometimes we use them…
How We Woke Up
By Joshua Fields Millburn & Ryan Nicodemus · Follow: Twitter, Facebook, InstagramEvery moth is drawn to light, even when that light is a flame, hot and burning, flickering, the fire…
Missoula and the Third Minimalist
By Joshua Fields Millburn & Ryan Nicodemus · Follow: Twitter, Facebook, InstagramIt’s been four months since we—Joshua & Ryan—made tracks from Ohio to our mountainside cabin in Montana. After 120…
The Power of Habit Investments
By Leo Babauta One of the things I’ve learned in my last 7 years of creating new habits is the power of compound habit interest. It sounds really obvious when…
The Meditation Diet: How I Lost 60+ lbs. by Savoring
‘When walking, walk. When eating, eat.’ ~Zen proverb By Leo Babauta Picture me 7 years ago, about 60 lbs. heavier than I am now, with a chubbier face, a growing…