To succeed with minimalism, you need to adopt a minimalist mindset.
Only when you know your reasons will you be able to make minimalism stick.
This goes well beyond decluttering your wardrobe. A minimalist mindset signifies a radical departure from what we value as a society.
It affects everything — your behavior as a consumer, your productivity, even your relationship style.
On some level, all of us suffer from a lack of self-awareness.
It means that we are blind to certain negative behaviors in ourselves that are obvious to everybody else.
So what can you do?
In my experience, the paleo diet is the most sustainable way to get lean and stay lean.
Yet, some people are not losing weight on paleo.
In this article, we will look at the reasons and how to fix it.
When we want to succeed at something, we look at everything — methods, tools, training plans.
But we rarely stop to consider how much the people around us contribute to (or deduct from) our success.
But the truth is — you are who you surround yourself with.
“Where is this relationship going?”
If you have ever been asked that question, you have been on the relationship escalator.
It consists of a sequence of steps — dating, living together, marriage, children — that supposedly define a “healthy” relationship.
Price’s law predicts how a small number of people in a given group are responsible for most of the results.
Even more interestingly, it looks at how incompetency grows exponentially in large organizations.
This summary of “The One Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results” has several layers. It ranges from a quick overview to a detailed chapter-by-chapter analysis.
This way, you can get an overall feel for the book, or you may even decide to skip reading it altogether. You might also find the critique at the end helpful to put the presented ideas into perspective.
Would you like to read more, but never seem to find the time for it?
Then a reading schedule might be the answer to your problem.
By creating a well-defined system, you make sure you read all the books on your list. No more winging it.
There is this saying, which has been on my mind recently — “People make time for what they want.”
People usually quote that sentence when they are being ignored by someone. Meaning, if you really want to see someone, you will make time for that person.
With that hint of bitterness, the ignored person will usually file the issue away.
Building good habits is the key to a better life.
If you go to the gym each morning, you cannot help but get fit. If you train yourself to call 5 new clients each day, your business will prosper.
Yet the tricky part is not introducing the habit, but sticking with it.
This is where the 21/90 rule comes in. By not breaking the chain for 111 days, the new behavor will eventually become effortless.