🛍️ Diaries of a Shopaholic
German words: Weniger aber besser. The English translation is: Less but better.
Greg Mckeown • Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
I set an intention for 2025: fewer things, fewer tabs open at once - on my laptop and in my mind - but doing things well, present and mindful. Less, but better.
Tom Greenwood • What if the Key to Better Business Was… Less?
Vision 2026
The heart of minimalism can be summed up in this phrase: It is the intentional promotion of the things we most value and the removal of anything that distracts us from it. This promotion can be seen in how we spend our time, the artwork that we display, and even the clothes that we wear.
Joshua Becker • Simplify
“On minimalism:
The goal is not to have the least amount of things, but the optimal amount of things.
Two important footnotes:
(1) The optimal amount depends on your goals.
(2) The optimal amount is almost always less than you think.”
The goal is not to have the least amount of things, but the optimal amount of things.
Two important footnotes:
(1) The optimal amount depends on your goals.
(2) The optimal amount is almost always less than you think.”
James Clear • 3 Ideas, 2 Quotes, 1 Question (January 23, 2020) | James Clear
Things give meaning to the lives of people who are deprived of authentic human contact. It is not necessarily a quirk of the poor: the millionaire builds an ostentatious house; the CEO wears a Rolex; the politician has a few people in his pocket; the dictator has his disposable private army; the preacher surrounds herself with unread theology
... See moreGary Smith • Radical Compassion: Finding Christ in the Heart of the Poor
“To collect is to organize the world in your own image, and Aurora Sedge clearly had a very strong sense of who she was. You can tell a lot about a person by what they collect.