Date Posted: 10/16/2012 3:54:00 PM
Posted By: Geekeijoe Membership Level: Silver Total Points: 453
“Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the larger things”, Said Booker T Washington. others say,”Thrift is not a natural instinct in human beings”. Minimalism involves extreme sparing and simplicity; furthermore it may be an intentional change in lifestyle. When you live with less, the less you need to earn as your needs also becomes less but on the other hand you may decide to earn more by working very hard for you to retire early.In the first place, minimalism awards more excellence. It is true to say that when you lead a simple life you say no to debts, in fact when you spend less and to your earnings you do lots of saving, you will surely have surplus money that you can decide on what to do, if you are a business person you may decide to expand your business and this way you earn even more or may invest elsewhere, some people tend to use more than they get and this has been a great challenge to them and to those who depend on them.In the second place, minimalism is intentional and leads to a simple life. “Simple living is freedom from over consumption”, it is also “intentional” as they say.” Some “minimalists” as they are called, choose this way of life intentionally, it is not a forced behavior to them, some of them drove in the most expensive cars and lived in the fanciest houses but out of intentions they decide to sell or even donate almost everything they have; surely some even move to new places and start their desired way of life; they start living in apartments and travel by public means. It follows that they spend much time with their families something they really value.In the third place, own less, live painlessly. They would get one smaller car and save gas, live in smaller houses and after paying rent, save to invest; they will no longer need to increase mortgage, they would even take mini retirements, these “minimalists” would even walk to work and eat less. They even don’t care about losing friends as for their friends they will term them to be crazy. Whatever they had with friends that would in return be an expense, they will stop at nothing to give it up, they now enjoy free entertainments; watching free programs, playing free computer games and will be staying indoors, this they call it “pain less life“all the same in their frugally life, they will always plan ahead.Lastly, minimalism is technology friendly. They say”technology makes minimalism easy” it is true, as a matter of fact with technology you do not have to own many books, simply, you can scan them and be reading them from your computer; instead of having many photo albums, you can keep your photos digitally, moreover, with technology you don’t need to buy a newspaper every morning, you can read it online.On the whole you can have a simple and less complicating life. People who lead this kind of life, “minimalists”, have less to worry about; all they have is within their reach at all times unlike those who lead expensive lives and own lots of properties. “Minimalists” have time for their families and also ample time to rest.
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