In this quick video, I'm going to share my perspective
about one mistake that I often see people making
when they begin to embrace a minimalist lifestyle.
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Like most things in life, minimalism is something
that can be defined in many different ways.
You may have people that practice minimalism by
owning less than a hundred items.
Or perhaps less than fifty items.
You may have someone that practices minimalism
by only putting one painting on each wall of their mansion.
It doesn't matter how you practice minimalism,
but it is super important to remember one thing.
A common mistake that I see is people taking minimalism
and using it to create just another impossible standard to live up to.
By the end of this year, advertisers will have spent almost six hundred billion dollars
creating their own unreachable standards
for us to try to meet by buying their products.
They're creating a life, happiness, and these ideals
that they're saying we can have by buying the products they sell.
And that is simply not true.
So don't let minimalism become just another one of those things
that you feel like you need to continually work towards
or something like the image of the perfectly white wall
and white bedspread and just filled with natural light.
It doesn't have to look like that.
If you want it to it can,
but that isn't what minimalism has to look like for you,
and it's super important to remember that.
You don't have to purchase a new, more minimalist bedspread.
You don't have to purchase a more minimalist table.
Maybe that'll be a good option for you down the road,
but you don't have to do that to embrace the freedom
that choosing to consume less and own less can give you.