Lifestyle Minimalism Summary

[Juan Cruz Giusto]

Most people’s life pace is too damn fast, too hectic, you have no time to contemplate, you have no time to introspect, to be aware of conscious, no time to strategize and no time for being.

You need to make a strategic change and slow down your life. You need to slow down your life from 25% to 50%. You need to do 50% less of the shit you do and what remains, do it 50% slower (like having a meal).

You need to eliminate all the activities that consume your free time. You want to aim to live a simple life. YOU NEED LOTS OF FREE TIME TO THINK (you can measure your wealth with how much free time you have). Free time has more correlation with fulfillment than success.

The environment you live is extremely neurotic and doesn’t help you in your self-actualization. The modern lifestyle that you live is unhealthy and neurotic. It’s impossible to be mindful and conscious with a fast pace.

You are so addicted to doing that you forgot about being. If you go to a 10-day Meditation Retreat, you can experience the joy of being and you will realize that many of the things you have are useless and don’t bring you fulfillment.

You can create a life in which you are more being than doing!

Careful with success, the only objective you have with success is to create more fulfillment, but this is a rat race.

YOU MUST STRATEGICALLY SIMPLIFY YOUR LIFE, this means:

-          Cut activities

-          Cut commitments

-          Pull out of hobbies

-          Brake relationships with people

-          Keep saying no to new stuff!

You need to renounce material life all together in the long run because it doesn’t work and doesn’t increase your levels of fulfillment!

You will have to renounce your current life your gain TRUE REAL LIFE! The shit you are living now is not a life, that is you being a hamster in a wheel. Your hyperactive lifestyle is bullshit. A fulfilled person doesn’t need to be hyperactive.

Strategy

You need to focus on the crucial things in your life and get ride off anything else. Key things to focus on:

-          Meditation

-          Enlightenment

-          Life Purpose

-          Education and Learning

-          Slow deliver mindful action

-          Contemplation

-          Being

You have to minimize:

-          Your friendships

-          Your relationships

-          Your family commitments

-          Your hobbies

-          Any fun activities you have

Think how your life can transform if you really apply these advises in 10 years. YOUR LIFE WILL BE RIDICULOUSLY SATISFYING AND EXTRORDINARY IF YOU DO THIS FOR 10 YEARS. You need to cultivate being and stop doing stupid shit, you need to strategize more! You need to create the lifestyle of a sage!

The rewards that comes when you focus on turning inwards and cultivation of beings are better than any success you can achieve or the best orgasm that you’ll ever have; you will feel like you are back in childhood, a sense of freedom and really being connected to reality.

You will need to let go of success and goals and give yourself more time to read, meditate and being. You need to say no a lot more, THINK LONG TERM! In your deathbed, all your social shit is not gonna matter, all your money is not gonna matter, all the fun things you did is not gonna matter; what is gonna matter is your connection to being and reality. Are you conscious of your own existence? YOU NEED A SPIRITUAL CONECTION TO REALITY AND TO THE PRESENT MOMENT.

You are not gonna be able to rip the rewards in the first months, you need years and years of work to start feeling a real connection to reality.

You need to release, let go and exhaust your carnal cravings (food, sex, drugs, music, fun, stimulation in very sort). You need to exhaust and release those!

YOU CANNOT EVEN IMAGINE THE MAGNITUDE OF AWESOMENESS THAT YOUR LIFE CAN ATTAIN IF YOU FOLLOW THESE ADVICES.

[Zane]

I strongly agree with the concept of lifestyle minimalism. I've been applying it by reducing my course load to 3 classes instead of the standard course load of 4 classes so I can improve my time management. It's been highly effective for me! I will apply lifestyle minimalism in my life by eliminating the need for a family or a wife and to be single. However, I will cultivate a few meaningful relationships and not eliminate pleasure from my life. I will focus heavily on discovering my life purpose, my self-actualization, and on dedicating my life to traveling. I experienced being by sitting in a quiet and relaxed environment like a lake and in Central Park and in the park on a summer's day and I realized how deeply relaxed I felt. I advocate lifestyle minimalism in moderation and I want to apply a middle ground. I want to dedicate my lifestyle to discovering my potential and creativity, to exercise my potential and creativity, to focus on my happiness, and to discover my purpose and to educate myself. 

Edited May 26, 2016 by Zane