Minimalist Lifestyle Less is the New More

By Christina Simone

The minimalist lifestyle, originally inspired by the minimalist art movement, puts emphasis on simplification. When you simplify the seemingly complicated aspects of your life, you become more in tune with your heart’s desire.  

My hope is that this book inspires you to transform your life to do what you love, and do it with passion.  That you also take steps to set priorities in your life and reduce stress including eliminating unnecessary things in your life to gain freedom and inner-peace.  

This book will introduce you to the minimalist lifestyle and the principles behind it. It will also guide you in creating a minimalist home, a diet plan, and an exercise routine. Furthermore, you will learn about how to build a minimalist wardrobe, apply minimalism in personal finance, and how to enjoy traveling as a minimalist. 

This book is for everyone who wants to make their lives more meaningful by focusing on what matters to them the most. This is what minimalism is all about, and it all starts here.

Healthy Body + Happy Mind = Healthy Life

• Language: English
• Publisher: Christina Simone
• Release date: Mar 31, 2017
• ISBN: 9781520974132

Christina Simone

Christina Simone is following her dreams which is the focus of her first book "Less is the New More", an eBook to inspire you to transform your life to do what you love and to do it with passion. It will help you consider your priorities and reduce stress by identifying and eliminating the unnecessary things in your life. She is a very strong advocate of healthy body + healthy mind = healthy life which led her to publish her second book "The Little Book of Happy Simple Life Habits".

Book preview

1   Introduction - You don’t know how long you have on this earth

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Never get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life – anonymous

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My first thoughts of looking further into a minimalist lifestyle took place after contemplating this story following a particularly stressful day at work.  It is about a Mexican Fisherman, written by a man named Heinrich Boll in 1963. 

This is how his story goes:

There was an American investment banker who met a Mexican fisherman while standing at a pier. The American noticed that inside the Mexican’s boat were some big yellowfin tuna. He inquired about the quality of the fish and asked the Mexican why he didn’t try to catch more. The Mexican replied that he has caught just enough to provide for his family.

This led the American to ask what he does for the rest of the day, whereupon the fisherman replied that he sleeps late, fishes for a little while, plays with his children, naps during the afternoon with his wife, and spends his evenings walking around the village leisurely, sips wine and plays music with his friends with his guitar. To him, his life is full and busy.

What he said caused the American to flout and offer his help to make the fisherman’s business grow bigger. He boasted that if the fisherman would only spend more time fishing, he could buy a bigger boat to catch even more fish until he can have a fleet that will provide large amounts of fish to a middleman and enable him to start a cannery. This will then enable the fisherman to leave his coastal village and move to bigger cities to continuously expand his business.

The Mexican fisherman then asked how long it would take for this to take place. According to the American, it would take from 15 to 20 years.

The Mexican then asked what would happen next, to which the American laughed and said that the company would become an IPO and whose stock can be bought by the public to make the fisherman a millionaire.

But when the Mexican asked the American what happens next after that, the American said that he can retire, live in a small coastal fishing village sleep late, fish for a little while, play with his children, nap during the afternoon with his wife, and spend his evenings walking around the village leisurely, sip wine and play music with his friends with his guitar.

How does this story make you feel after you have read it?  Personally, it led me to seriously consider how I