A particular thanks to every of you for making 2023 such an pleasant 12 months right here at Turning into Minimalist. It was my fifteenth 12 months of writing on this weblog, and I’ve beloved each second of it!
Whether or not you’ve been studying all 15 years, the final 15 months, or simply the final 15 seconds, I’m glad you’re right here.
Turning into Minimalist continues to achieve folks past my wildest goals as we develop yearly in new methods. As earlier than, this progress has occurred due to the assist from readers such as you—thanks for serving to to unfold the inspiration.
Thanks for sharing this web site on social media and along with your family and friends. This web site exists solely due to your assist all these years.
Listed below are some numeric representations of our progress:
- Turning into Minimalist was learn by practically 4 million folks final 12 months.
- Our Facebook page has over 2,700,000 followers and reached over 80,000,000 folks final 12 months. Thanks for persevering with to share our posts.
- 185,000 folks presently obtain Turning into Minimalist posts through e mail. Sign-up here to do the identical.
- Over 200,000 folks subscribe to our quarterly journal, Simplify Magazine.
- Over 3,000 new folks decluttered their residence final 12 months by way of the Uncluttered Course.
- 56 new movies had been posted to YouTube final 12 months and subscribers grew from 260,000 to 290,000.
- On any given day, over 1,000 folks actively use the Clutterfree App to declutter their properties.
- And our Instagram following is now over 102k folks.
All that to say, the affect of this web site (and extra importantly, what it represents) continues to achieve folks and alter lives world wide.
However a few of our most important successes this previous 12 months should not discovered within the numbers above:
- The Hope Effect. Our non-profit continues to alter how the world cares for orphans. Your continued assist allowed us to increase into two new places final 12 months: Nuevo León and Colima, Mexico. Greater than 3,254 beneficiant folks have donated and grow to be a part of the answer. Giving Tuesday 2023 was our single-largest fundraising day ever.
- Becker Method Professional Training. In 2023, I took my 15 years of expertise serving to folks personal much less and created a Coaching Course for Skilled Declutterers. The purpose is to: 1) Prepare as many individuals as attainable enthusiastic about serving to others personal much less; 2) Create an inventory of personally-trained professionals for individuals who need (or want) to rent somebody to work with them individually to declutter and reduce. Final 12 months, 70 folks went by way of the Certification Coaching and lots of of them may be discovered listed on the Becker Method Certified website.
- The Focus on Faith Newsletter. In April, I launched a brand new publication. Each week, I ship one e mail that features a passage of Scripture to meditate on and a 5 minute Jesus-focused devotional—deliberately written to maintain our hearts impressed and our minds motivated to dwell for God. This mission has grow to be a significant pursuit for me. It’s free for anybody who’s desirous about my faith-based writings and has grown to over 18,000 subscribers over the course of the 12 months. You possibly can join right here: The Focus on Faith Newsletter.
It has been a satisfying and significant 12 months for Turning into Minimalist. Thanks for being a part of it.
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In case you missed any, listed here are the highest posts on Turning into Minimalist from 2023.
Most Widespread Posts from 2023 (as decided by readers):
10 Signs You Own Too Much Stuff. In a world the place consumerism appears to progress unchecked and is even promoted by a lot of our leaders and mentors, how can we all know when we’ve got given in? How can we all know, on a private degree, once we personal an excessive amount of stuff?
100 Simple Ways to Immediately Improve Your Life. Generally drastic modifications are useful—quitting smoking, changing into minimalist, altering careers. However generally, only a easy change has the facility to enhance our lives and ship us down a brand new path.
21 Things To Do In the Morning Before Checking Your Phone. If you wish to break the behavior of checking your cellphone very first thing within the morning, right here’s an inventory of 21 issues you might do as an alternative.
15 Years, 15 Lessons: My Journey of Becoming Minimalist. It’s nearly unbelievable to me to suppose that this 12 months marks 15 years since that Saturday morning in Vermont after I was first launched to the phrase: minimalism.
10 Financial Decisions You’ll Regret 10 Years From Now. In the case of the choices we make with our cash, our selections as we speak create the fact of our tomorrow. They’re the constructing blocks that form our future.
My Private Favourite Posts from the previous 12 months:
Is Having a Lot of Money Really Something to Be Proud Of? Why are we celebrating it? Why are we chasing it? Possibly it’s not one thing to happy with… possibly it’s one thing we needs to be embarrassed about as an alternative?
Maybe Your Family Doesn’t Care About Money As Much As You Do. Possibly, simply possibly, probably the most significant factor to your loved ones has nothing to do with the cash you present. Possibly you are probably the most significant factor to them.
Yes, Decluttering Has an Endpoint—And It’s Wonderful. It’s simple to consider that decluttering have to be a endless cycle. And whereas it’s true that we have to keep vigilant in opposition to muddle returning, that doesn’t imply we by no means expertise the second of accomplishment.
You Matter to Me. Please know that I work laborious to indicate up for you with messages that encourage, inspire, encourage, and problem all of us—myself included—to dwell an intentional life targeted on issues that matter.
Most Widespread Visitor Posts in 2023:
I’m an American Nomad Traveling the World: Here’s What Other Countries Taught Me About Minimalism by Julie B. Rose. As an alternative of measuring web price, {dollars}, sq. footage, and model names, how about we rely the years and measure ‘wealth’ in freedom.
How I Found True Happiness Living with Less by Winnie. Embracing a minimalist way of life definitely didn’t occur in a single day, nevertheless it’s been a worthwhile and rewarding expertise. It’s unimaginable how one thing so simple as residing with much less has shifted my temper and perspective so enormously.
Why Decluttering Isn’t Like Waving a Magic Wand by Karen Trefzger. As I labored by way of the method—generally with fast successes and generally extra slowly and painstakingly—I started to really feel lightness and freedom.
How to Systematically Declutter Your Life by Mike Donghia. What it boils all the way down to is that this: the extra clear the trail, the extra confidence within the final result, and the extra pleasant the journey… the extra doubtless you might be to succeed.
Most Widespread Outgoing Hyperlinks from the previous 12 months:
Five Types of Habits That Will Radically Change Your Life | The Simplicity Habit by Julianna Poplin. Habits successfully automate our lives in a constructive approach and take the hassle out of performing a process; when one thing is a behavior, it’s nearly automated.
“Make Your Coffee at Home” And 50 Other Simple Habits to Save Money | Simple Money by Joshua Becker. In a world the place we’re bombarded with choices to spend, saving cash can typically really feel like an uphill battle. However what when you might save with out a vital overhaul of your way of life?
The 20 Greatest Decluttering Tips of All Time | No Sidebar. As you journey by way of these 20 decluttering suggestions, it’s possible you’ll really feel the urge to overtake your total house suddenly.
10 Daily Habits that Often Waste 90 Percent of Our Time and Energy | Marc and Angel Hack Life by Angel Chernoff. No matter your distinctive life scenario or the way you personally outline success, you possibly can’t grow to be an in a single day success. You grow to be profitable over time from all of the little stuff you do someday at a time.
Most Widespread YouTube Movies of 2023:
15 Little Changes You Can Make in Your Home to Help It Serve You Better. Does managing and sustaining your property trigger you stress? If that’s the case, listed here are 15 simple methods to make caring on your your property much less tense.
21 Life Changing Minimalist Experiments to Try in Your Home. Society is continually calling us to increase and improve each space of life: our residence, our automotive, our kitchen, our wardrobe, our expertise…. A Residing with Much less experiment supplies us the chance to see if there’s a extra intentional, extra targeted, higher option to dwell.
15 Clutter Busting Routines For Any Family. For years, our household has labored laborious to take away any muddle that begins to build up in our residence. Alongside the way in which, we’ve got picked up some useful muddle busting routines to assist those that are simply getting began with minimalist residing.
Whether or not you’ve been studying Turning into Minimalist for one week, one month, one 12 months or longer, thanks. This weblog owes its success to the assist of its readers. Thanks for studying. And thanks for sharing these posts with others.
I look ahead to an thrilling 2024.
I’m excited to supply the Uncluttered Course once more subsequent 12 months (registration will open on January third for the New 12 months’s Version) in addition to my Becker Method Certification course. If you happen to’d wish to know extra concerning the Skilled Coaching, you can sign up here to obtain specifics updates about it.
I’ll additionally stay energetic creating movies for YouTube and Fb and can proceed publishing Simplify Journal and Easy Cash Journal.
Along with persevering with to supply these beneficial assets, I look ahead to providing some new assets this coming 12 months. Extra particulars about that on January 1st.
Little question, Turning into Minimalist will proceed to evolve and be redefined.
However this web site will at all times keep true to its core message that there’s extra pleasure to be present in proudly owning lower than can ever be present in pursuing extra. We’ll proceed to ask as many as attainable to find this reality of their lives. And I hope you’ll be a part of us.
