Name: Terry Benzie's review of The More of Less by Joshua Becker
Item: The More of Less
Rating: 4
Author: Terry Benzie

Joshua Becker

Don’t Settle for More Most of us know we own too much stuff. We feel the weight and burden of our clutter, and we tire of cleaning and managing and organizing. While excess consumption leads to bigger houses, faster cars, fancier technology, and cluttered homes, it never brings happiness. Rather, it results in a desire for more. It redirects our greatest passions to things that can never fulfill. And it distracts us from the very life we wish we were living. Live a better life with less. In The More of Less, Joshua Becker helps you... • Recognize the life-giving benefits of owning less • Realize how all the stuff you own is keeping you from pursuing your dreams • Craft a personal, practical approach to decluttering your home and life • Experience the joys of generosity • Learn why the best part of minimalism isn’t a clean house, it’s a full life The beauty of minimalism isn’t in what it takes away. It’s in what it gives. Make Room in Your Life for What You Really Want “Maybe you don’t need to own all this stuff.” After a casual conversation with his neighbor on Memorial Day 2008, Joshua Becker realized he needed a change. He was spending far too much time organizing possessions, cleaning up messes, and looking for more to buy. So Joshua and his wife decided to remove the nonessential possessions from their home and life. Eventually, they sold, donated, or discarded over 60 percent of what they owned. In exchange, they found a life of more freedom, more contentment, more generosity, and more opportunity to pursue the things that mattered most. The More of Less delivers an empowering plan for living more by owning less. With practical suggestions and encouragement to personalize your own minimalist style, Joshua Becker shows you why minimizing possessions is the best way to maximize life. Are you ready for less cleaning, less anxiety, and less stress in your life? Simplicity isn’t as complicated as you think.

Finding the Life You Want Under Everything You Own

The More of Less

John Clements

HOME & HOUSE MAINTENANCE. Most of us know we own too much stuff. We feel the weight and burden of our clutter, and we tire of cleaning and managing and organizing. While excess consumption leads to bigger houses, faster cars, fancier technology, and cluttered homes, it never brings happiness. Rather, it results in a desire for more. It redirects our God-given passions to things that can never fulfill, and it distracts us from the very life we wish we were living. But it doesn't have to be this way. In The More of Less, Joshua Becker helps you: recognize the life-giving benefits of owning lessrealize how all the stuff you own is keeping you from pursuing your dreamscraft a personal, practical approach to decluttering your home and lifeexperience the joys of generositylearn why the best part of minimalism isn't a clean house; it's a full life. The beauty of minimalism isn't in what it takes away. It's in what it gives.

Terry Benzie

I have read all the books on minimalism.

Well, perhaps not all but it probably seems like it because a lot of them sound the same.

That said, I really enjoyed this book.

Part of my brain liked Peter Walsh's book "It's all too much" and another part liked Marie Kondo but this really is different in that it's a personal story that offers a sort of vision along with practical tips. He has basically a 'start where you are' philosophy and suggests we do what we can instead of requiring a perfect moment and absolute perfection.

A few people have mentioned Christianity in their reviews and I honestly held off reading this book for some time because I generally don't like the push from evangelicals (the author worked in various ministries for over a decade before writing this book) but found it to be sincere and more a story of the congruence of his faith rather than a suggestion that others need to adopt the same system. Religious stories sprinkled throughout the book supported the message and were of the sort that have parallels in other religions and cultures.

Fadi

والله كتاب ظريف، بيحكي فيه المؤلف عن فكرة التخلّي والزهد ومن منطلق ديني تشبهاً بالسيد المسيح عليه السلام.
وبيحكي عن آليات ترتيب المنزل، والتخلص من الأشياء غير الضرورية.
12 فصل، كل فصل فيه قائمة بالتعليمات الواجب اتباعها.
لغته سهلة، وبعض المعلومات مكررة.

Tracie McMurray

For being a Minimalist, Becker sure pads his paragraphs with extra phrases. It's like he took a weekly publication and put it into a book without revising. There were lots of, I'll tell you later what I mean, and then like I mentioned before, I'm telling you what I meant, and next time I will explain this topic even more. So much preview of what is to come and then review of what was just said... It was not a great book format.

However, there were some good pieces of advice in the pile of extra words. :)

daisy

a great book if u want to start implementing this lifestyle into your life

Eric Walker

"The More of Less: Finding the Life You Want Under Everything you Own" by Joshua Becker was a perfect book for me and anyone else who has stumbled upon this concept of minimalism but hasn't quite figured out what it means. I assumed that this book was going to tell me how to throw away almost everything I own but I quickly realized by Joshua's definition of minimalism didn't specifically talk about "physical things" and in fact, I feel this is a much better definition than what people think.

Minimalism: the intentional promotion of the things we most value and the removal of anything that distracts us from them

After reading that definition in the book it dawned on me as to why he titled the book "The More of Less."  Through the book, he explains this from his own personal story of why he wanted less as well as through the stories of others which are great examples of how The More of Less can take on many forms.  In fact, you quickly realize there isn't a wrong answer or a right way, you just need to figure out your own WHY.  It is a tough question that takes some time to figure out and I honestly believe it might change as you go. 

To read more of what I thought to check out my full review at https://stillthinking.me/the-more-of-...

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