To help you start the decade strong and keep the minimalism ideology with you throughout 2020, I listed some of the things you can practice this year that I might dive in as well.

PROJECT 333

This is all about having limited number of clothes for a certain period of time. In this you have to use a total number of 33 pieces of clothing for 3 months. You need to choose a total of 33 items, including your accessories, that you will use but undergarments is not included in your 33 items. The goal of this challenge is to make you see that you only need few things to survive a long period of time. I will take this challenge so stay tuned for updates.

INVISIBLE BOX

After purging you’ll have some items that you’re not sure if it’s still useful or should be thrown out so to help you solve the problem get a box designated for that kind of item. After done pilling those item together, put them in a box and keep it away for the next 3 months. If, after 3 months, you didn’t have the need to use any of the items inside the box then you can now let go of the box all at once. If you didn’t need it in the last 3 months then probably you wouldn’t be using it in the next couple of months or so.

CLEAR CACHE

Clean your phone for unused apps. Open your email address and unsubscribe to unuseful subscription lists and clean your email. I am guilty of letting my email drowns with many subscription emails that is usually sent to me on a daily basis.

Cut loose of all your social media platform subscription especially those shopping sites! After cleaning your inbox it will be much easier for you to maintain the cleanliness of your email if you will be deleting messages weekly or regularly.

DETOX

Social media detox schedule. Read or etc.

Take a step back from social media world and breathe in the life around you. Allow yourself to drop toxic friendships and relationships and just enjoy the real life. You can schedule a specific time of the day for you to be able to tend your social media tasks or be strict and limit yourself with certain amount of time.

We’ve seen people cutting off their toxic relationships for their own sake and I think that is one of the biggest sign of moving forward.

In this post I would like to ask my friends to cut me off if they think I no longer make them better.

We are aging and part of aging means growing up. We have to grow up and sometimes it also means leaving the people around us because we have to grow separately.

Really, cut me off. I won’t mind.

If I no longer make you feel better, if I no longer inspires you, if I no longer make you do the things you love, then by all means walk away from me.

Remember that I can only be an effective comfort zone for a certain period of time, and if I no longer have the power to make you have that push or reach that goal then what’s the reason of me staying?

If walking away means growth and giving you a better chance in life then I am running away.

If I am a true friend, which I want to think I am, then it only means that I want the best for you and being a hindrance to your growth is something I cannot let myself become.

They say tell me who your friends are and I’ll tell you who you are.

And if someone asks me that question I want to give them your name.

I want them to know that my friends are strong enough to know what they want and deserve. I want them to know that my friends won’t settle for less. And I want you to be just like that and more.

Why is it easy for me to let go of my friends, you ask?

Well sometimes cutting of friends is not enough. Sometimes realizing that you no longer contributes to one’s success speaks more than you cutting them off.

I think cutting off people is a sign of moving forward but realizing that you have to run away because you are no longer bettering someone is a sign of maturity.

It doesn’t matter who cuts your friendship first, what matters is that at the end of the day you will both grow. Unfortunately, separately, but growth nonetheless.

The only path I want you to see you go is towards success, and I believe that’s where we both want to end up so don’t worry, we’ll meet again. Running away doesn’t mean we can no longer be friends, it only means that we are letting ourselves grow the way we have to with the people who can better us.

Just always remember that even though I’m not there for you, I’ll always support you and I will always root for you. Doesn’t matter how, just know that I am rooting for you.

Just because we no longer better each other means that we have to invalidate our previous growth and it doesn’t mean we have to separate in a negative manner. I want to treat this as if one of us is about to go somewhere in year 1980. We won’t be able to communicate that much but upon meeting we’ll meet and click just like the old time.

I’m running away if it means grow not just for me but for you as well, I hope you are running towards success too. See you at the finish line…or maybe at the 2^nd or 3^rd lapse? Basta, we’ll see each other again.

Let me be a better person so I can be a better friend for you.