Simplify Your Life

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3) The Art of Simple Living: 100 Daily Practices from a Japanese Zen Monk for a Lifetime of Calm and Joy

In The Simple Living Guide Janet Luhrs demonstrates how to live a deliberate, simpler life—and savor it.
As Janet Luhrs says, "Simple living is about living deliberately. Simple living is not about austerity, or frugality, or income level. It's about being fully aware of why you are living your particular life, and knowing that life is one you have chosen thoughtfully. Simple living is about designing our lives...

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Masuno, Shunmyo

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4) Digital minimalism: choosing a focused life in a noisy world

"Does for mental clutter what Marie Kondo has done for household clutter." —Publishers Weekly
Relax and find happiness amid the swirl of the modern world with this internationally bestselling guide to simplifying your life by the renowned Zen Buddhist author of Don’t Worry.
In clear, practical, easily adopted lessons—one a day for 100 days—renowned Buddhist monk Shunmyo Masuno draws on centuries of wisdom to...

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Newport, Cal

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5) The Afrominimalist's guide to living with less

A New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Publishers Weekly, and USA Today bestseller
"Newport is making a bid to be the Marie Kondo of technology: someone with an actual plan for helping you realize the digital pursuits that do, and don't, bring value to your life."—Ezra Klein, Vox
Minimalism is the art of knowing how much is just enough. Digital minimalism applies this idea to our personal technology. It's the key to living...

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Platt, Christine

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6) Declutter Anything: A Room-by-Room Guide to Cleaning Your Home and Simplifying Your Life

When Platt set out on her journey to live with less, she just wanted to tame the chaos in her closet. After struggling with the austerity and whiteness of mainstream minimalism, she realized why minimalism often seems unattainable for so many: the emphasis on all-white, barren aesthetics distracts from the practice of living with intention. Here she gets right to the heart of how childhood experiences and expectations manifest in adulthood, the delicate...

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Morrow, Ed

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eBook, Kindle

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7) Decluttering at the speed of life: winning your never-ending battle with stuff

Discover new ways to clean your home and simplify your life in this handy and creative guidebook.
Does your house bulge with clutter? Are your possessions weighing you down? Is your home an unorganized mess?
Turn it around—ban sagging shelves, bulging cupboards, and bursting closets—with this fun and effective guide. In a step-by-step, easy-to-follow approach, the authors suggest ways to change clutter-accumulating behavior;

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White, Dana

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8) Lightly: how to live a simple, serene, & stress-free life

White has been on a "deslobification" journey for years. Now she shares the room-by-room decluttering strategies that transformed her home, walking you through applying the key concepts that will help you overcome the emotional challenges that make it difficult to let items go.

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Jay, Francine

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9) The minimalist home: a room-by-room guide to a decluttered, refocused life

"Life is weighing us down. Each day we add more possessions, more commitments, more worries, more stress to our lives. Striving for fulfillment, our closets become overstuffed, our calendars overscheduled, and our spirits overwhelmed. Instead of feeling happy, we just feel heavy. Lightlyoffers help. Whether you want to strip down your life to a backpack or free up some space in your closet, overhaul your schedule or gain back an hour in the evening,...

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Becker, Joshua

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10) Real life organizing: clean and clutter-free in 15 minutes a day

USA TODAY BESTSELLER • A popular minimalist blogger and author of The More of Less shows you how to methodically turn your home into a place of peace, contentment, and purposeful living.
One of today's most influential minimalist advocates takes us on a decluttering tour of our own houses and apartments, showing us how to decide what to get rid of and what to keep. He both offers practical guidelines for simplifying...

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Aarssen, Cassandra

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Declutter your way to happiness and peace of mind. Are you constantly cleaning up and clearing away clutter? Do you feel overwhelmed by your stuff? Whether you live in a studio apartment or a large house, we all face the challenge of staying organized so we have a tidy home that feels welcoming, peaceful and calm.

11) Slow: simple living for a frantic world

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McAlary, Brooke

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12) Voluntary simplicity: toward a way of life that is outwardly simple, inwardly rich

When McAlary decided that the key to happiness was discovering a simpler, more fulfilling existence, she reorganized her life to emphasize depth, connection and meaningful experiences. Here she provides practical advice and fascinating insights into the benefits and challenges of the slow life. From decluttering and de-owning to discovering mindfulness, she shows you how to create a life filled with things that really matter. -- adapted from back...

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Elgin, Duane

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13) The year of less: how I stopped shopping, gave away my belongings, and discovered life is worth more than anything you can buy in a store

"A manifesto for the only kind of future that promises sanity and the possibility of contentment. Bread and wine for the spirit." —Sam Keen, author of Fire in the Belly

Originally published in 1981 and hailed as the "bible" of the simplicity movement by The Wall Street Journal, Duane Elgin's classic Voluntary Simplicity has been completely revised for our modern times. Elgin, who was honored in 2009 by The Ecologist, the

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Flanders, Cait

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14) Meet the Frugalwoods: achieving financial independence through simple living

"In her late twenties, Cait Flanders found herself stuck in the consumerism cycle that grips so many of us: earn more, buy more, want more, rinse, repeat. Even after she worked her way out of nearly $30,000 of consumer debt, her old habits took hold again. When she realized that nothing she was doing or buying was making her happy--only keeping her from meeting her goals--she decided to set herself a challenge: she would not shop for an entire year....

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Thames, Elizabeth Willard

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"In 2014, Liz Thames and her husband, Nate, were conventional young urban professionals working nine-to-five jobs. But the rat race had worn them down, and they dreamed of becoming modern-day homesteaders in rural Vermont. Determined to retire as early as possible in order to start living each day--as opposed to wishing time away working for the weekends--they enaceted a plan to save as much money as they could. In less than three years, Liz and Nate...

15) Subtract: the untapped science of less

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Klotz, Leidy

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16) Feel better in 5: your daily plan to feel great for life

"Blending behavioral science and design, Leidy Klotz's Subtract: The Untapped Science of Less offers a scientific appreciation of why we underuse subtraction-and how to access its untapped potential. When humans solve problems, we overlook an incredibly powerful option: We don't subtract. We pile on "to-dos" but don't consider "stop-doings." We create incentives for high performance, but don't get rid of obstacles to our goals. Whether considering...

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Chatterjee, Rangan

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It only takes five minutes to start changing your life. For good.
Everyone wants to be healthy. But thanks to the unceasing distractions in modern life, virtually everyone also struggles to maintain this priority. And thanks to a flood of conflicting opinions and complicated programs, figuring out how to be healthy can be overwhelming. But what if all it took to make a real difference was five minutes of your day?
If you've...

17) The longing for less: living with minimalism

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Chayka, Kyle

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18) A simplified life: tactical tools for intentional living

"Kyle Chayka is one of our sharpest cultural observers. After spending years covering minimalist trends for leading publications, he now delves beneath this lifestyle's glossy surface, seeking better ways to claim the time and space we crave. He shows that our longing for less goes back further than we realize. His search leads him to the philosophical and spiritual origins of minimalism, and to the stories of artists such as Agnes Martin and Donald...

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Ley, Emily

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19) Minimalist moms: living and parenting with simplicity

Offers strategies, systems, and methods for simplifying, prioritizing, and living life intentionally, focusing on the areas of living space, style, food, scheduling, finance, hospitality, technology, self care, motherhood, and faith.

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Boden, Diane

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20) The buy nothing, get everything plan: discover the joy of spending less, sharing more, and living generously

Simple Minimalism for Your Family and Your Life

"Both practical and inspirational, you'll learn how to simplify and streamline your entire life." Morgan Tyree, @morganizewithme

A collection of minimalist quotes, daily wisdom, affirmations, and meditations that you as a busy mom can use to stay focused and inspired to live a minimalist lifestyle.

Make minimalist living possible for your family. Parenting

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Clark, Liesl

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