A particular thanks to every of you for making 2023 such an pleasing 12 months right here at Changing into Minimalist. It was my fifteenth 12 months of writing on this weblog, and I’ve cherished each second of it!
Whether or not you’ve gotten been studying all 15 years, the final 15 months, or simply the final 15 seconds, I’m glad you’re right here.
Changing into Minimalist continues to achieve individuals past my wildest goals as we develop yearly in new methods. As earlier than, this development 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 together with your family and friends. This web site exists solely due to your assist all these years.
Listed here are some numeric representations of our development:
- Changing into Minimalist was learn by almost 4 million individuals final 12 months.
- Our Fb web page has over 2,700,000 followers and reached over 80,000,000 individuals final 12 months. Thanks for persevering with to share our posts.
- 185,000 individuals at present obtain Changing into Minimalist posts through e mail. Signal-up right here to do the identical.
- Over 200,000 individuals subscribe to our quarterly journal, Simplify Journal.
- Over 3,000 new individuals decluttered their dwelling final 12 months by the Uncluttered Course.
- 56 new movies have been posted to YouTube final 12 months and subscribers grew from 260,000 to 290,000.
- On any given day, over 1,000 individuals actively use the Clutterfree App to declutter their houses.
- And our Instagram following is now over 102k individuals.
All that to say, the affect of this web site (and extra importantly, what it represents) continues to achieve individuals and alter lives around the globe.
However a few of our most important successes this previous 12 months should not discovered within the numbers above:
- The Hope Impact. Our non-profit continues to vary how the world cares for orphans. Your continued assist allowed us to develop into two new places final 12 months: Nuevo León and Colima, Mexico. Greater than 3,254 beneficiant individuals have donated and change into a part of the answer. Giving Tuesday 2023 was our single-largest fundraising day ever.
- Becker Technique Skilled Coaching. In 2023, I took my 15 years of expertise serving to individuals personal much less and created a Coaching Course for Skilled Declutterers. The purpose is to: 1) Prepare as many individuals as doable enthusiastic about serving to others personal much less; 2) Create a listing of personally-trained professionals for individuals who need (or want) to rent somebody to work with them individually to declutter and decrease. Final 12 months, 70 individuals went by the Certification Coaching and plenty of of them will be discovered listed on the Becker Technique Licensed web site.
- The Give attention to Religion E-newsletter. In April, I launched a brand new e-newsletter. 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 stay for God. This venture has change into a significant pursuit for me. It’s free for anybody who’s thinking 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 Give attention to Religion E-newsletter.
It has been a satisfying and significant 12 months for Changing into Minimalist. Thanks for being a part of it.
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In case you missed any, listed below are the highest posts on Changing into Minimalist from 2023.
Most Standard Posts from 2023 (as decided by readers):
10 Indicators You Personal Too A lot 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 now we have given in? How can we all know, on a private degree, after we personal an excessive amount of stuff?
100 Easy Methods to Instantly Enhance Your Life. Generally drastic modifications are useful—quitting smoking, changing into minimalist, altering careers. However generally, only a easy change has the ability to enhance our lives and ship us down a brand new path.
21 Issues To Do Within the Morning Earlier than Checking Your Telephone. If you wish to break the behavior of checking your telephone very first thing within the morning, right here’s a listing of 21 issues you would do as a substitute.
15 Years, 15 Classes: My Journey of Changing into Minimalist. It’s nearly unbelievable to me to assume that this 12 months marks 15 years since that Saturday morning in Vermont after I was first launched to the phrase: minimalism.
10 Monetary Selections You’ll Remorse 10 Years From Now. With regards to the selections we make with our cash, our decisions at present 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 Cash Actually One thing to Be Proud Of? Why are we celebrating it? Why are we chasing it? Possibly it’s not one thing to happy with… perhaps it’s one thing we needs to be embarrassed about as a substitute?
Possibly Your Household Doesn’t Care About Cash As A lot As You Do. Possibly, simply perhaps, essentially the most significant factor to your loved ones has nothing to do with the cash you present. Possibly you are essentially the most significant factor to them.
Sure, Decluttering Has an Endpoint—And It’s Great. It’s straightforward to imagine that decluttering have to be a unending cycle. And whereas it’s true that we have to keep vigilant in opposition to litter returning, that doesn’t imply we by no means expertise the second of accomplishment.
You Matter to Me. Please know that I work exhausting to indicate up for you with messages that encourage, inspire, encourage, and problem all of us—myself included—to stay an intentional life targeted on issues that matter.
Most Standard Visitor Posts in 2023:
I’m an American Nomad Touring the World: Right here’s What Different International locations Taught Me About Minimalism by Julie B. Rose. As an alternative of measuring internet price, {dollars}, sq. footage, and model names, how about we depend the years and measure ‘wealth’ in freedom.
How I Discovered True Happiness Residing with Much less by Winnie. Embracing a minimalist life-style actually didn’t occur in a single day, however 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 the method—generally with fast successes and generally extra slowly and painstakingly—I started to really feel lightness and freedom.
Easy methods 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 consequence, and the extra pleasing the journey… the extra possible you might be to succeed.
Most Standard Outgoing Hyperlinks from the previous 12 months:
5 Sorts of Habits That Will Radically Change Your Life | The Simplicity Behavior by Julianna Poplin. Habits successfully automate our lives in a optimistic method and take the trouble out of performing a process; when one thing is a behavior, it’s just about computerized.
“Make Your Espresso at House” And 50 Different Easy Habits to Save Cash | Easy Cash 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 in the event you may save with out a important overhaul of your life-style?
The 20 Biggest Decluttering Suggestions of All Time | No Sidebar. As you journey by these 20 decluttering suggestions, you could really feel the urge to overtake your complete house all of sudden.
10 Every day Habits that Usually Waste 90 % of Our Time and Power | Marc and Angel Hack Life by Angel Chernoff. No matter your distinctive life state of affairs or the way you personally outline success, you may’t change into an in a single day success. You change into profitable over time from all of the little belongings you do someday at a time.
Most Standard YouTube Movies of 2023:
15 Little Modifications You Can Make in Your House to Assist It Serve You Higher. Does managing and sustaining your house trigger you stress? If that’s the case, listed below are 15 straightforward methods to make caring on your your house much less worrying.
21 Life Altering Minimalist Experiments to Strive in Your House. Society is continually calling us to develop and improve each space of life: our dwelling, our automotive, our kitchen, our wardrobe, our know-how…. A Residing with Much less experiment supplies us the chance to see if there’s a extra intentional, extra targeted, higher strategy to stay.
15 Litter Busting Routines For Any Household. For years, our household has labored exhausting to take away any litter that begins to build up in our dwelling. Alongside the best way, now we have picked up some useful litter busting routines to assist those that are simply getting began with minimalist residing.
Whether or not you’ve gotten been studying Changing 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 sit up for 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 Technique Certification course. For those who’d prefer to know extra concerning the Skilled Coaching, you may join right 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 worthwhile sources, I sit up for providing some new sources this coming 12 months. Extra particulars about that on January 1st.
Little question, Changing into Minimalist will proceed to evolve and be redefined.
However this web site will all the time 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 doable to find this reality of their lives. And I hope you’ll be a part of us.