Embracing Minimalism Begins With Changing Your Focus

By Rachel Jones

Decluttering each area of the house is important, but if you have decided to embrace minimalism, it takes more than just dropping bags of donations off at the local charity. Embracing minimalism begins when you change your focus, your thought process, and what you view as a priority in your life. Decluttering can temporarily alleviate…

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Decluttering Through Distractions: How to Maintain Focus

By Rachel Jones

Focus is often hard to keep when the home is cluttered. And then as interesting things are found in the decluttering process, it’s easy to be distracted by reliving memories, finding magazines that you hadn’t had time to look through yet, or re-reading the story that your daughter wrote in 4th grade. Everyone struggles with maintaining…

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What is Minimalism?

By Rachel Jones

My favorite summary of minimalism is Joshua Becker’s quote: “Minimalism is the intentional promotion of the things we most value and the removal of everything that distracts us from it.” That is the main philosophy of minimalism. “Minimalism is a tool that can assist you in finding freedom. Freedom from fear. Freedom from worry. Freedom from…

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