Be a curator of your life. Slowly cut things out until you’re left only with what you love, with what’s necessary, with what makes you happy.
A minimalist realizes that acquiring stuff doesn’t make us happy. That earning more and having more are meaningless. That filling your life with busy-ness and freneticism isn’t desirable, but something to be avoided. A minimalist values quality, not quantity, in all forms.
We all know that possessions do not equal happiness. It’s just that we’ve been told this lie for so long that we start to believe it, our hearts start to buy into it, and it begins to affect the way we live our lives.
Digital minimalism definitively does not reject the innovations of the internet age, but instead rejects the way so many people currently engage with these tools.
Clutter is not just the stuff on your floor … it’s anything that stands between you and the life you want to be living.
There are more things to gain from eliminating excess than you might imagine: time, space, freedom, and energy, for example.
If our lives are burdened with clutter, we’re giving the best of ourselves away to the things that matter least.