Do you exercise? Regularly? And if you do, why? And how does this relate to your eating habits? If you investigate your relationship to exercise and eating, you’ll find a correlation between that and the practice of minimalism. The goal of our exercising and eating habits tends to be to…

I came to minimalist lifestyle coaching from a nonprofit career in sustainable buildings and neighborhoods. Resiliency is an approach to addressing global climate change, the most prominent issue in my work. Helping the planet and its built infrastructure become resilient requires action today to lower the impact of climate change…

“Comforts, once gained, become necessities. And if enough of those comforts become necessities, you eventually peel yourself away from any kind of common feeling with the rest of humanity.” — Sebastian Junger We build our abodes and collect the stuff that occupies them to make us feel safe and secure…

My mindset is minimalism. I see any item handed in my direction as a potential problem I want to avoid. I can organize any room in my mind. I keep my to-do list crisp. I regularly scan my apartment for things to release. I read books on behavioral economics, psychology…

Minimalism is a question. It prompts you to look at yourself and your lifestyle from a different lens. Minimalism isn’t an all-encompassing, singular question we answer. It’s a framework of questions that involves reconsidering daily decisions you don’t realize you’re making. Every time we take action, no matter how large…

I’ve worked with many clients who aren’t sentimental. They have little attachment to memory-infused possessions or family history in general. They only have these objects because sorting through, organizing, and managing their stuff is overwhelming. But they’re not particularly attached to the past. …

There is an assumption that if you experience the feeling of missing, something went wrong, that a mistake was made, or that things should be different. This fear of missing keeps us from letting go of something, particularly personal or sentimental items. It keeps us so fixated on the possibility…

Ever since I saw the first cha-ching! of interest accrue in my savings account, I’ve loved investments. I’ve continued to learn the benefits of delayed gratification as I’ve focused on project planning, creating day-to-day systems, and squirreling away money. Of course, these investment strategies are an integral part of a…

With the growing popularity of gratitude practices and gratitude journals, people are stepping outside of their hectic mindsets and daily challenges to recognize just how fortunate they are. It’s part of mindset change, which is an integral part of developing a minimalist lifestyle with ease. …