The Japanese Art of Minimalism: 30-Day Minimalist Challenge to Declutter your Life and Experience The New More

By Dr. Joyce Fung and Rui Hashimoto

Are you feeling overwhelmed? Tired of constantly chasing happiness? Does your life feel out of control? Enough is Enough, it’s about time to reclaim that life that you should be living now!

We work to the point of extreme exhaustion. Everyone is just too rushed, hurried, and stressed. We alleviate our stress by using coping mechanisms that could potentially harm us – shopping for more stuff, binge eating, and engaging in time-wasting activities such as playing video games or even gossiping. We fill our lives with needless activities, relationships, and clutter. This makes us lose sense of who we really are and what’s important to us. This is the reason why the Japanese people have developed a lifestyle that strips away the inessential things in their lives. It’s called minimalism.

In this book, you’ll find proven strategies and step by step guide on how to practice minimalism.

Here Is A Preview Of What You'll Learn...
-How minimalism can help you clear your mind, get rid of physical clutter, increase your happiness, and improve your life
-Exciting and easy to follow morning routine exercises that energize your mind, body, and spirit
-How to recalibrate your focus
-How to end toxic relationship and forgive those who have wronged you
-How to organize and transform your personal space into a clean and neat place
-Tips that can help you save money and also make money out of the minimalist lifestyle
-The minimalist therapy
-Meditation techniques that help clear your mind and relieve stress
-Much, much more!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Dr. Joyce Fung
• Release date: May 19, 2018
• ISBN: 9780463332511

Dr. Joyce Fung

Joyce Fung is a best-selling author, speaker, and a passionate full-time doctor. Joyce has more than 20 years of working experience in Counseling Psychology. Joyce has experienced the power of minimalism herself through her working experience in Japan and is greatly inspired by it. She has found her deeper meaning of life through minimalism. Now, she has dedicated her life to helping others achieve the same as well.

Book preview

Table of Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1 – Minimalism 101: Why Less is the New More

What Is Minimalism?

The Reason Why Minimalism is Popular in Japan

The Main Principle of Minimalism

Golden Rules of Minimalism

The Magic of the Minimalist Lifestyle

Chapter 2 – The Minimalist Morning Routine

Day 1 – The Road Work

Day 2 – Hello Ice Bath

Day 3 – The 15 Minutes Meditation

Day 4 – Creating Your Ultimate Ten-Minute Journal

Chapter 3 – Declutter Your Office and Your Home

Day 5 – Get Rid of All the Things That You Do Not Want or Need

Day 6- Organize the Remaining Items In Your Home

Day 7- Keep Everything In Your House Squeaky Clean

Day 8- Donate Things That You No Longer Need

Day 9 – Pair Your Clothes

Day 10 – Use Plants as Home Décor

Day 11 – The Magic of Labels

Day 12 – Make Your Bed

Day 13 – Tidy Your Ride

Chapter 4 – The Power Of Focus

Day 14 – Recalibrate Your Focus

Day 15 – Ignorance Is Bliss

Day 16 – The Focus Minimalist

Day 17 – The Therapy

Chapter 5 – The Road to Productivity

Day 18 - Personal Goal Setting

Day 19 – Turn Your Office into A Zen-like Space

Day 20 – Knowledge Power

Day 21 – Manage Your Emails

Day 22 – Eliminate Distractions

Day 23 – Start With A Clean Slate

Day 24 – Do Not Do Anything

Chapter 6 – Simplify Your Financial Life

Day 25 – Do A Garage Sale

Day 26 – Create A Budget and Stick To It

Day 27 – Cook Your Own Meals

Chapter 7 – Ending Toxic Relationships

Day 28 – Stay Away from Toxic People

Day 29 – Learn to Say No

Day 30 – Forgive Even If You Don’t Feel Like It

Conclusion

Introduction

I want to thank you and congratulate you for downloading the book, The Japanese Art Of Minimalism: The 30 Day Minimalist Challenge.

This book contains proven steps and strategies on how to declutter your life and experience the new more!

We live in a world where stress is as common. We work to the point of extreme exhaustion. Everyone is just too rushed, hurried, and stressed. We alleviate our stress by using coping mechanisms that could potentially harm us – shopping for more stuff, binge eating, and engaging in time-wasting activities such as playing video games or even gossiping. We fill our lives with needless activities, relationships, and clutter. This makes us lose sense of who we really are and what’s important to us.

This is the reason why the Japanese people have developed a lifestyle that strips away the inessential things in their lives. It’s called minimalism.

Japan is one of the most visited countries in the world and it is does not disappoint. It is a fascinating country with marvelous blossoming trees, stunning sights, and unforgettable spots. The whole country is clean and clutter-free. You won’t see plastic wrappers on the street. But, what’s most fascinating about Japan is its people and how they live their lives. Japanese homes are extremely peaceful, organized, and beautifully simple. These homes do not have all those fancy décor and furniture that you’d find in European homes.

Japanese people also live a simple life. This is quite a surprise as Japan is, no doubt, the most economically advanced country in Asia. More and more Japanese people are joining the minimalist movement. They are beginning to discover and appreciate the value of owning fewer material things.

The minimalist lifestyle is grounded on the concept that Less is more. It is the process of living with only a few material possessions. The minimalist lifestyle also encourages you to eliminate all the distracting excess in your life. This simple yet powerful lifestyle is the ultimate solution to the common problems in this stressful modern world – debt, poverty, stress, clutter, depression, materialism, and distractions.

This book contains everything that you need to know about minimalism. In this book, you’ll learn:

How minimalism can help you clear your mind, get rid of physical clutter, increase your happiness, and improve your life

Practical exercises that can help you adopt the minimalist lifestyle in just thirty days

Exciting and easy to follow morning routine exercises that energize your mind, body,

Reviews for The Japanese Art of Minimalism

[Atul Dhar · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Very focussed and useful book. Interesting and useful to read.

[Meizi Liu · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

The book is very practical and easy to follow. It gives many constructive tips on how to live simple and happy.

[Pat · Rating: 2 out of 5 stars]

Great general ideas. Not too in-depth. But good practice for those who are just starting out

[Yasmin Wolf · Rating: 2 out of 5 stars]

There are a few topics very interesting, smart, and a few effective good inner work, practices and so. It helps to improve our lives.

However, I didn't like or agreed with most of the low vibration mindset, sounded negative and sort of limiting beliefs, almost like - preventing ourselves to live luxury, limitlessly... Remaining small. Means, hey prevent yourself to buy, to live nice and in abundance, accept what you already have and don't dare yourself to buy, and once upon a time, when you absurdly dare to buy something, wait and ask yourself ten thousand-fold if you need the item, don't buy after a decade and when you do just do it here and there but live minimally (which means - lacking and only desiring, multimillion-dollar life? Forget about that. You don't need anything at all anyway)

I don't know, but this is the feeling that I got reading some major parts, while there it was also some good tips to write down.

But overall, I didn't like it. That's just my opinion and try yourself and see if you like it. Some may or not, this is too personal.

[Sumit · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Great book. One must read it and practice it for great life. Declutter unnecessary stuff from ur life.

[Samantha Grace Erro · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

It's worth to read! I do enjoy reading it, interesting!?

[Cilica · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

The technique is equal to OSHO. I found it a good read. Though the writing style needs improving. An example: 'A lot' may be a commonly misused phrase in speech but used in a book as often as in this book, it is off putting.

[Daniela Zarate · Rating: 1 out of 5 stars]

General information that lacks specificity and can be found everywhere on the internet. Tips are very common sense or following any new internet trend