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The Danger of Trying to Be Too Productive

You can get addicted to anything, including exercise, knitting, reading, and even organizing. These are elusive addictions because they involve doing something we deeply enjoy or have positive benefits. The reasons propelling overactivity may be…

Dara Zycherman

Jun 8

The endless ways that minimalism is like exercise

Do you exercise? Regularly? And if you do, why? And how does this relate to your eating habits? If you investigate your relationship to exercise and eating, you’ll find a correlation between that and the practice of minimalism.

Dara Zycherman

May 9

To Live Simply is to be Resilient

I came to minimalist lifestyle coaching from a nonprofit career in sustainable buildings and neighborhoods. Resiliency is an approach to addressing global climate change, the most prominent issue in my work. Helping the planet and its built infrastructure become…

Comfort Versus Connection

“Comforts, once gained, become necessities. And if enough of those comforts become necessities, you eventually peel yourself away from any kind of common feeling with the rest of humanity.” — Sebastian Junger

Dara Zycherman

Mar 7

Getting to Minimalism through Mindset Change

My mindset is minimalism. I see any item handed in my direction as a potential problem I want to avoid. I can organize any room in my mind. I keep my to-do list crisp. I regularly scan my apartment for things to release. I read books on behavioral…

Dara Zycherman

Feb 7

Minimalism is a Question

Minimalism is a question. It prompts you to look at yourself and your lifestyle from a different lens. Minimalism isn’t an all-encompassing, singular question we answer. It’s a framework of questions that involves reconsidering daily decisions you don’t realize you’re making. Every…

Dara Zycherman

Jan 7

For Nostalgia’s Sake

I’ve worked with many clients who aren’t sentimental. They have little attachment to memory-infused possessions or family history in general. They only have these objects because sorting through, organizing, and managing their stuff is overwhelming. But they’re not particularly attached to…

Dara Zycherman

Dec 9, 2021

The Beauty of Missing

There is an assumption that if you experience the feeling of missing, something went wrong, that a mistake was made, or that things should be different. This fear of missing keeps us from letting go of something, particularly personal or sentimental items. It keeps us so fixated on the…

Dara Zycherman

Nov 8, 2021

Minimalism is the Best Investment

Ever since I saw the first cha-ching! of interest accrue in my savings account, I’ve loved investments. I’ve continued to learn the benefits of delayed gratification as I’ve focused on project planning, creating day-to-day systems, and squirreling away money. Of course…

Dara Zycherman

Oct 11, 2021

Gratitude is an Action

With the growing popularity of gratitude practices and gratitude journals, people are stepping outside of their hectic mindsets and daily challenges to recognize just how fortunate they are. It’s part of mindset change, which is an integral part of developing a minimalist lifestyle with…