VI – Clutter

“The things you own end up owning you.” Tyler Durden   If time is indeed money, than most of the things you own are getting into your pockets. I don’t mean just the time spent working to buy the stuff. I also mean the time spent researching, comparing, insuring, repairing, cleaning it and maintaining it. …

V – Goals: The Marathon I

“We can talk about the road behind, How getting lost is not a waste of time” Jack Johnson As a New Year’s resolution, and with the incentive of my friend L., I set the goal of running the Gold Coast Marathon on the 3rd of July 2016. I then downloaded a nice app to help …

IV – Habits

‘We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.’ Aristotle From all the information I've been gathering, if I were to take the practice of minimalism seriously I would have to adopt some new habits and implicitly let go of old ones. The main goal is to make the best …

III – Trying To Share

Sometime after my ‘Joshua Becker sponsored epiphany’ and the first steps into minimalism were taken, we spent a weekend with our friends ‘The A. F.’ family. We shared our enlightenment with them, to which L. jumped to the idea head first but R. was a bit more sceptical (even though she recently praised the virtues of …

II – The Beginning

All right then, let me start at the beginning (it’s usually best) of this journey. My introduction to Minimalism started in December 2015. My partner, the mother of my children, my better half, my love, the woman of my life (you get the gist), is (was?) crazy about organisation, especially the 1000001 things in the …

I – Intro

  “He made it to the ocean had a smoke in a tree The wind rose up set him down on his knee A wave came crashing like a fist to the jaw Delivered him wings ‘Hey look at me now’ Arms wide open with the sea as his floor (…) He floated back down …