There comes a moment in time for all of us when we realize the rules just don’t work anymore.
Written by Everett Bogue | Follow me on Twitter.
There is a moment when we decide we can’t handle one more trip to Target, when we can’t buy another McChicken nugget. This is the moment when we begin to accept the unconventional truth of being a minimalist.
There is also a moment when we decide we just don’t want to go to work anymore. We don’t want to continue to be a cog in the system. We want liberation, not another flat screen TV.
We all could just as easily sit back and continue to be part of the problem, that’s easy enough. Just keep buying $2 goods from China in bulk. Put them in your closet, or fill up the other side of your two-car garage. That’s what they want us to do, that is what is easy.
But we don’t to anymore, so we decide to opt out.
I imagine the similar change in mindset happened to Jay Parkinson, when he decided to revolutionize the medical industry. He could have of simply joined part of the problem after med school, but he didn’t.
I imagine the similar change came over Mike Horn when he started What Is Fresh. He could have just kept on going to C-Town, and buying wilty greens, but he didn’t. Instead he created part of the solution: a website that tracks exactly which farmer’s markets are open in the city.
Now we don’t have to remember that the only good place in New York to get locally grown food is on Wednesday is Union Square, because we can just check.
The same change came over me, when I decided to limit myself to 100 things, and adopt a 30-day rule for my stuff. When I decided to live and work from anywhere.
The same change came over you when you stumbled across this blog, whether by word of mouth, or Twitter, or a link from another brilliant blog on the internet.
You decided to start accepting the unconventional truth about the stuff that’s cluttering your life. Physical, emotional, manifestations of time best spent.
You want to change, enough is enough.
But change doesn’t happen without action. You can read about being minimalist for ages, becoming minimalist is a different story.
I have a list of people living with 100 things on Twitter. It’s very short, I wish it was longer. I know there are more people out there like us, I know there are more people who have made this unconventional leap.
I need your help to find them.
- If you have less than 100 things, @evbogue me on Twitter and I’ll add you to this list.
- If you don’t have 100 things, retweet this on Twitter so people who do are able to find me.
- Follow the people on the 100 things list, because all of these people have made the leap. They are an inspiration.
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Thank you for your part in this unconventional revolution. I could not do this without you.
–Everett Bogue
