How To Be A Minimalist

10 tips to declutter and make room for more joy in your life.

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When you’ve spent a significant chunk of your life coveting, consuming and collecting, there will come a time when the opposite has to happen.

At some point, you’ll need to confront the sheer volume of things that you own, and do something about them and your desire for more because of one or more of the following reasons:

• you’ve realized that all that stuff you own is making you feel drained instead of fulfilled and happy.
• you’ve spent just about all your money acquiring things in what you now realize has been a futile bid to impress other people, and are now all the poorer for it.
• you need to move house and as a result, have to deal with packing up everything you own or get rid of a sizable portion of your belongings.
• you’re tired of living in a messy, cluttered home and want to reclaim your living space by clearing it out.
• you’re overwhelmed with the amount of time, energy and money that maintaining everything you own’s been costing you, and want to simplify your life.
• you’re getting older and realize that one day, someone’s going to get rid of everything you own, and it may not be you.