My Minimalist Living Journey: Defining How I Want To Live

Reading Time: 3 minutes

In January 2018 I read the book Minimalist Living: Decluttering for Joy, Health, and Creativity by Genevieve Parker Hill.

It is a short book, under 100 pages but it really made me define my minimalist living journey.

The Look and Feel of My Minimalist Home

The book asked: What do you want your home to look and feel like?

I want my home to be:

Clean

Airy

Comfortable

Warm

Cozy

Fresh

Spacious

Inviting

Calm

Open

Bright

Urban Jungle-like area

Our Minimalist Statement For Our Home

My Ideal Day

Another core question that Parker Hill asked in Minimalist Living was: What do you want your days to look and feel like?

It is a simple question but I paused and really considered what I wanted for my life and how I needed to organise my days so I can really enjoy my life.

These are essentials for my ideal day:

Spend more time working from home.
More time in a community of close friends.
More time reading and writing.
Less time in the confines of an office environment.

My Inner Life

The short exercises in the book genuinely shook me up. I needed more than the unconscious acquisition of things and I needed more than heading out to work each day and then getting paid. It was an unfulfilling cycle that I needed to break.

For my inner life I need to consistently work towards having and maintaining:

Intimacy with my partner
Less things and more quality experiences.
More money to finance these quality experiences
Calm
Gratitude
Confidence
Boldness.

What Minimalism Means to Me

I’ve identified three distinct meanings for my minimalist journey. My minimalism means:

Letting go of all that does not serve me well.
Letting go of obsessive thoughts.
Designing a life based on exactly how I want to live.

The most important tool that I have in this journey is my journal, I continue to journal most days.

In fact one of my favourite journals was the Q and A five-year journal that my team member Stephanie gave me for Christmas. I use this journal every night before bed. Then on weekends are really dive deeply into unpacking all my thoughts and feelings. I free write pages of thoughts and this is my primary means of releasing the obsessive thoughts.

I am happy with my minimalist living journey progress since January 2018.

Have you ever considered minimalism?

If you are on your own minimalist living journey, please share your process below.

Have a joy-filled week.