Joshua Fields Millburn & Ryan Nicodemus help over 20 million people live meaningful lives with less through their website, books, podcast, and documentary. The Minimalists have been featured in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Boston Globe, Forbes, TIME, ABC, CBS, NBC, BBC, CBC, and NPR.

Becoming friends in elementary school, by age 28, both Millburn and Nicodemus held managerial positions at a regional telecommunications company.  

In an early interview, Millburn said, “I was spending so much time working to buy shit I didn’t need,” “I had everything I ever wanted, but it took getting everything I ever wanted to realize I wasn’t happy.” Both eventually left their positions to live a different way and promote a lifestyle to others in which they too could thrive.

Inspiring you to live a meaningful life, The Minimalists challenge you to take a hard look at your life, your possessions, your relationships and even your technology. To begin to chip away at the stuff we hold on to. To give yourself space to grow, and to love more.

From an energetic standpoint, clutter of any kind congests your environment, impairing the flow of life force energy running throughout it. Our possessions ideally should bring us joy and happy memories when we see them and use them, uplifting your spirits, flooding you with happy memories and inspirational thoughts. This is all good, because it brings a loving flow of life force energy to you which will ultimately help you at all levels of your being.

I don’t know about you, but when I clean out a drawer, a room, go through my closet and get rid of stuff or at the very least, organize it, it feels good, I feel lighter, with a renewed sense accomplishment. I have more space, I can find things, I now know what I have and I’ve probably found something I thought I’d lost or perhaps forgotten about. What has happened is this, not only have I moved physical stuff, I’ve released the life force energy related to it, based on why I bought it and why I kept it.

Upon donating it, giving it away or perhaps selling it, I’ve made room for more. More being, that if I pause and just be in that new energy, that new found space, without immediately filling it up again, something may come to me, that was hidden underneath the resistance to going through all that stuff in the first place. It’s amazing when you free up space in your mind and your surroundings. Your not as clogged up, life seems somehow a little easier.

I encourage to watch their documentary on Netflicks if you subscribe to it, or follow them on Instagram @theminimalists Maybe you can get can even get your feet wet and try out the 30-Day Challenge, getting rid of 1 thing on Day 1, 2 things on Day 2 and so on.

Visit their website at www.theminimalists.com  or check out their various podcasts.