Welcome to Becoming Minimalist. If you are new, welcome! With over 1M readers every month, we’re honored to have new readers every day. If that’s you, welcome. I’d love to make your experience as comfortable as possible.
Most importantly, Becoming Minimalist is designed to inspire people to pursue their greatest passions by owning fewer possessions.
To find out more about my new book, Things That Matter, click here.
About Joshua Becker
My story begins in suburban Vermont while I was cleaning the garage, my wife was cleaning the bathrooms and my 5-year old son was playing alone in the backyard. I struck up a regular conversation with my neighbor who commented, “Maybe you don’t need to own all this stuff.”
The juxtaposition was striking. My possessions piled up in the driveway… my son in the backyard… my day slipping away… I immediately recognized something needed to change. My belongings were not adding value to my life. Instead, they were subtracting from it.
My family and I began donating, recycling, and removing our unnecessary personal possessions. We embarked on an intentional journey to own less stuff.
As a result, we discovered more money, more time, more energy, more freedom, less stress, and more opportunity to pursue our greatest passions: faith, family, friends. And we decided to write about it.
Becoming Minimalist quickly became a place to encourage others to embrace minimalism. It does not boldly require anyone to become minimalist overnight—nor does it specifically define the word for you. Instead, it encourages each reader to discover their own journey and the far-reaching benefits that come from owning less.
We are dedicated to rational minimalism and discovering what that uniquely means for us. And the more who are introduced to this life-changing message, the better! Because we’re all just trying to make the most of this journey called life.
Over the course of the last eight years, I’ve become a best-selling author and have written four books:
- Simplify: 7 Guiding Principles to Help Anyone Declutter Their Home and Life*
- Clutterfree with Kids: Change your thinking. Discover new habits. Free your home.*
- The More of Less: Finding the Life You Want Under Everything You Own.*
- The Minimalist Home.*
- Things That Matter*
Past media coverage includes:
CBS Evening News, The Wall Street Journal, National Public Radio (NPR,) The Guardian, The Boston Globe, The New York Times, USA Today, Washington Post, Forbes, TIME, Fox News, The Huffington Post, Minimalism Documentary (Netflix), Reader’s Digest, LA Times, Sirius XM, CNBC, TODAY Show, Chicago Tribune, Boston Globe, Good Housekeeping, and countless others you can find all over the Internet.
Our Articles
Get introduced to our simple message by reading some of our most popular posts:
- How to Declutter Your Home: 10 Creative Decluttering Tips
- What Is Minimalism? The 8 Essential Aspects of Minimalism
- The 10 Most Important Things to Simplify in Your Life
- 10 Reasons to Escape Excessive Consumerism
- 15 Clutter Busting Routines For Any Family
Or, to discover the importance of owning less, try one of these posts:
- Don’t Just Declutter. De-own.
- Minimalism Benefits: 21 Benefits of Owning Less
- Living With Less: 7 Ways to Sample Minimalist Living
We learned quickly that our journey to live with less on the outside would force our attention inward:
- How to Be Happy: 8 Ways to Be Happier Today
- How to Stop Comparing Yourself to Others
- 20 New Ways to Measure Success
- Learning to Consider Gratitude a Discipline
And would be entirely unique because of our life’s values:
If you really can’t get enough, browse our most popular articles. But be warned, there’s a bunch of information there.
Our Community
If you would like to receive new posts via e-mail, sign up here. We are also connected to our community through social media. Find us here:
- Facebook: Inspirational quotes and links.
- Twitter: Quotes, thoughts, links.
- YouTube: Promoting simplicity in home and life.
For interviews, media requests, or general questions, contact us at becomingminimalist@gmail.com
For more information on Joshua, visit his Wikipedia entry here.
Frank Szewczyk says
Cutting back is hard to do! We just moved to a different home after 20 years and the stuff I collected. I have parted with four boxes of books. Considering my library was 20 boxes I made “some” progress. As a pastor books are my addiction. I have a NOOK and Kindle but how to reduce even more seems difficult at best. Plus I have another dozen boxes of stuff like wires and chotchkies that are hanging around. I am happy I found this site for guidance. If anyone out there has a home office setup where you have your working books/stuff I would like to hear your suggestions.
Thanks
Frank
di says
Most of your books may be online.
di says
Donate books to a library. Donate other items to Good Will.
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Me says
>Neldian Galevski said, “I am looking for a woman to start the journey to become minimalist.”
The first step towards minimalism for you is to give up the idea of having a woman. One less thing to get rid of later ;-)
Rebecca Saha says
Just found you, and wanted to say “thanks.” You express a lot of what I have been feeling recently. We have sarted our own journey towards simplicity, and are blogging about it at http://thehomeplanetproject.wordpress.com/ We are glad to follow you, and be inspired to recommit to our own project each day.
Beatriz says
I’m so happy that I found this site.
I recently moved to Angola, so I had to pack all my stuff in one luggage of 30kg. Without knowing I was starting my way to becoming minimalist. I’ll grabe this opportunity and stop buy useless and meaninless things, and just have the essential in my new home.
Thank you for all the useful tips.
Bernadette & Aaron says
Hey Joshua
Stoked to have found your blog site, love what you’re doing and what you stand for! We’ve had similar realisations around materialism and minimalism, and are now living our lives drastically differently as a result (and loving it!) Look forward to reading your posts and sharing your awesome messages with our networks :-)
Bernadette & Aaron
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Farnoosh says
I remember us chatting about that very conversation at WDS last year, Joshua. Remember? It was wonderful meeting you and I see your blog has grown in influence. What a great thing to see! See you later this year (2013)? :)