Joshua Fields Millburn Libri

I Minimalisti ti mostrano come disconnetterti dal nostro stato materiale condizionato e riconnetterti alla tua vera essenza: amare le persone e usare le cose. Questo libro non parla di come vivere con meno, ma di come vivere in modo più profondo e completo. Immagina una vita con meno: meno oggetti, meno disordine, meno stress e debiti, una vita con meno distrazioni. Ora immagina una vita con di più: più tempo, relazioni significative, crescita, contributo e contentezza. Quello che stai immaginando è una vita intenzionale. Per arrivarci, dovrai lasciarti alle spalle un po' di disordine. In Ama le persone, usa le cose, Joshua Fields Millburn e Ryan Nicodemus vanno oltre la semplice eliminazione del superfluo per mostrare come il minimalismo crei spazio per rivalutare e guarire le sette relazioni essenziali della nostra vita: oggetti, verità, sé, denaro, valori, creatività e persone. Utilizzano le loro esperienze e quelle delle persone incontrate nel percorso minimalista per fornire un modello su come vivere una vita più piena e significativa. Perché una volta che hai meno, puoi fare spazio per il giusto tipo di di più.

Minimalism is the thing that gets us past the things so we can make room for life's most important things—which actually aren't things at all. At age 30, best friends Joshua Fields Millburn & Ryan Nicodemus walked away from their six-figure corporate careers, jettisoned most of their material possessions, and started focusing on what's truly important. In their debut book, Joshua & Ryan, authors of the popular website The Minimalists, explore their troubled pasts and descent into depression. Though they had achieved the American Dream, they worked ridiculous hours, wastefully spent money, and lived paycheck to paycheck. Instead of discovering their passions, they pacified themselves with ephemeral indulgences—which only led to more debt, depression, and discontent. After a pair of life-changing events, Joshua & Ryan discovered minimalism, allowing them to eliminate their excess material things so they could focus on life's most important "things": health, relationships, passion, growth, and contribution.

"Like Henry David Thoreau, but with Wi-Fi." -Boston Globe What if everything you ever wanted isn't what you actually want? Twenty-something, suit-clad, and upwardly mobile, Joshua Fields Millburn thought he had everything anyone could ever want. Until he didn't anymore. Blindsided by the loss of his mother and his marriage in the same month, Millburn started questioning every aspect of the life he had built for himself. Then, he accidentally discovered a lifestyle known as minimalism...and everything started to change. That was four years ago. Since, Millburn, now 32, has embraced simplicity. In the pursuit of looking for something more substantial than compulsory consumption and the broken American Dream, he jettisoned most of his material possessions, paid off loads of crippling debt, and walked away from his six-figure career. So, when everything was gone, what was left? Not a how-to book but a why-to book, Everything That Remains is the touching, surprising story of what happened when one young man decided to let go of everything and begin living more deliberately. Heartrending, uplifting, and deeply personal, this engrossing memoir is peppered with insightful (and often hilarious) interruptions by Ryan Nicodemus, Millburn's best friend of twenty years.

Weniger ist mehr Stellen wir uns ein Leben mit »weniger« vor: weniger Sachen, weniger Stress, weniger Ablenkung, weniger Unzufriedenheit. Und jetzt mit einem »Mehr« an: Zeit, sinnstiftenden Beziehungen, innerem Wachstum, Zufriedenheit. Minimalisten wie Joshua Fields Millburn und Ryan Nicodemus konzentrieren sich darauf, Raum für mehr zu schaffen – um sieben grundlegende Beziehungen in unserem Leben neu bewerten und heilen zu können: die zur Wahrheit, zu Dingen, zum Selbst, zu Geld, Werten, Kreativität und vor allem zu anderen Menschen. Sie veranschaulichen das mit Geschichten, anregenden Fragen und Übungen. So verstehen wir, wie wir schädliche Verhaltensmuster beseitigen und Beziehungen besser pflegen können.

Was und vor allem wieviel braucht es, um ein erfülltes Leben zu führen? Ein Haus, ein Auto, ein Boot? Joshua Fields Millburn und Ryan Nicodemus hatten all das, dafür mussten sie aber auch auf vieles verzichten: freie Zeit für Freunde und sich selbst, Aufmerksamkeit für die eigene Gesundheit, Freiraum für vernachlässigte Leidenschaften. Nach und nach haben sie ihr Leben umgestellt und durften erfahren, dass es nicht viel für ein glückliches Leben braucht. Anhand von fünf Säulen – Gesundheit, Beziehungen, Leidenschaften, inneres Wachstum und die Bereitschaft, zeigen sie ihren Weg zu einem bedeutungsvolleren, erfüllten Leben und wie man tatsächlich mit weniger mehr vom Leben haben kann. Dabei geben sie keine klassischen Tipps zum Entrümpeln – die gibt es schon viel zu oft – sondern zeigen, wie man sich sanft einem minimalistischen, reduzierten Lebensstil annähern kann, um Raum für die wirklich wichtigen Dinge zu schaffen.