We Live Simply Manifesto
I’m excited to announce that Friday I’ll be releasing a project I’ve been working on the past month (in between diaper changes and feedings) — The We Live Simply Manifesto, A Guide for the Rest of Us.
I hope it will be a helpful guide for those of you considering simplifying in 2011 as well as a guide and challenge for myself and others as we continue on this simple journey.
The guide will be available for FREE here on the site starting early Friday morning. I hope you’ll take the time to download it, read it and share it with your friends.
As a teaser, here’s the introduction I wrote for the manifesto:
When I launched WeLiveSimply.info in January of 2010, I was just starting to get serious about changing my daily consumption habits in an effort to be better meet the needs of those around me.
The website was launched as part journal and part encouragement for others, to consume less and be a blessing to those around us.
I was definitely no expert in the field but I started soaking up information from all sorts of places and finding out what worked best for me.
I love how Joshua Becker describes his lifestyle: “a rational minimalist.” That’s probably a good description of where I am in my journey as well.
Though I’m often leary to consider myself a “minimalist,” (I tend to shun labels) I agree that we each have to find the systems, methods and ideals that work best for us and our situation.
Simplicity, minimalism, anti-consumerism and other “isms” are all a wash if you don’t figure out what works for you and apply it in your own life.
As I continued on my journey, I wrote my own simplicity statement in March of 2010:
I will live simply by investing in people and reducing my
dependence on stuff so that I may truly love all that’s been
given to me and create a better world for those around me.
This mission statement has only become clearer over the past year as I continue to learn – through my own reading, as well as from the great submissions and comments I’ve received from readers of the site.
Now, as I look towards 2011, I’m now the proud father of two boys which makes these ideals take even more priority in my life.
So I write this “manifesto” not as an expert but as an outgrowth of these ideals and as a marker in time, hoping to encourage others – including my boys – to live a more simple life, so that others may simply live.
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Now, you won’t find how you should sell all your stuff and live off 100 things or less in this manifesto. (There are plenty of other guides out there for that.)
But what you will find are 25 things that that you can do to start Living Simply — today.
So be sure and check back early Friday morning to download your own copy of the manifesto.
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looking forward to it!