Exploring ways to create time for a sustainable, meaningful life that makes you and your neighbors thrive
It’s the first week of autumn. Rain falls down, and I finally gave up my summer shorts and sandals a couple of days ago. September is a curious month: it’s sad to accept that the summer you waited for so long is over, yet the month is full of excitement for what lies ahead — [...]
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What is the first thing you do after you finish reading a book? Do you put the book down and go on with your life as usual, happy to have read some inspiring thoughts but otherwise unchanged? Or maybe you are the opposite kind of reader: excited by every new idea, jumping from one thing [...]
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Meaning. What a big word. When I say that I am looking ways to create a meaningful life, it sound grand and ambitious, doesn’t it? But what do I really mean when I say that? Am I looking for one big meaning, a magic pill that will guide me through all my actions once I [...]
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Traditionally the summer holiday, for me just like most people, has been the time of year when saving money is just a distant thought. With a lot of time at hand, consuming is an easy (and sometimes fun) way to fill the schedule. And if you travel, your salary is not enough: you will need [...]
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Even if you don’t share my love for the band Switchfoot, there is one song you should check out today. “American Dream” is a song about the very things we talk about on this blog and more broadly in the minimalist community: how wrong things go when “success is equated with excess“. The band goes [...]
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There are times when it seems like the world is never going to change for the better, and making a difference sounds like a distant dream. Today is not one of those days.
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On this blog, and on my newsletter, we talk a lot about how to make a living in a sustainable way, using minimalism as a tool to make it possible. But going from a consumer just like anyone else to a minimalist business owner can be a big jump. In fact so big that it [...]
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As I started writing this post, I had just sent out my first ever exclusive newsletter article to my subscribers (read more about why you too might want to subscribe). It was 7:39 AM and I had been up since five. Today, my alarm failed me and I woke up only at six, fired up [...]
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Since we were kids we have been taught the process for running our lives: “Get a degree. Go to work. Trade your time for money. Buy all the cool stuff your friends have — plus a bit more.” And we have learned to be rather good at it. Times are changing. We are starting to [...]
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In some ways, like how they jump in with both feet and enjoy the small things, children are role models who can show us how to live our lives. But many times they teach us in another way, by letting their human weaknesses show as caricatures of us grown ups. They don’t know how to [...]
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Welcome to my blog!
This is a blog about making time and creating opportunities for things that matter (you, your family, the community around you and changing the world for the better) through minimalism, slowing down and a never ending curiosity.
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