Break the Twitch: A Practical Guide to Minimalism, Intentional Living & Doing More of What Matters

From the creator of the award-winning Slow Home podcast comes Slow - the perfect companion on the long road to living a simpler and more fulfilled life. Once upon a time, Brooke McAlary thought she was close to having it all. Married to a wonderful man, mother to a lively young daughter and pregnant for a second time, she'd acquired all the things she'd once thought important - holidays, cars, a renovated home. Yet despite this, she found herself utterly despondent.

In her late 20s, Cait Flanders found herself stuck in the consumerism cycle that grips so many of us: earn more, buy more, want more, rinse, repeat. Even after she worked her way out of nearly $30,000 of consumer debt, her old habits took hold again. When she realized that nothing she was doing or buying was making her happy - only keeping her from meeting her goals - she decided to set herself a challenge: she would not shop for an entire year. The Year of Less documents Cait's life for 12 months during which she bought only consumables.

Can't say no you see the world "SALE"? Even though you struggle with debt and have no savings? Do you wonder at the end of the month where your money went? Minimalist Money Makeover will show you a way out of bloated credit card misery and teach you how to keep a budget that covers all your needs. Finances don't have to be painful. This is not a "get rich in a month" book. I can promise, however, that following the tips in this book, you'll eliminate debt, learn how to save, account for all of your expenses, and never feel your accounts running low again. The budgeting techniques presented in this book are applicable to any income, and you can adjust it to your needs to serve you the best.

Francine Jay pioneered the simple living movement with her self-published bestseller, The Joy of Less. In this fully redesigned and repackaged edition - featuring never-before-seen content - Jay brings her philosophy to more listeners who are eager to declutter. Rather than the "crash diet" approach found in other tidying up books, Jay shares simple steps to cultivate a minimalist mindset and form new habits, paving the way to lasting success.

What would you focus on if you were no longer weighed down by your unwanted responsibilities? If you want to add something meaningful to your life, like traveling to exotic places, composing beautiful music, or experiencing a new friendship in a foreign language, you will need to figure out how to eliminate other things from your daily routine.

What if everything you ever wanted isn't what you actually want? Twenty-something, suit-clad, and upwardly mobile, Joshua Fields Millburn thought he had everything anyone could ever want. Until he didn't anymore. Blindsided by the loss of his mother and his marriage, Millburn started questioning the life he had built for himself.

Imagine getting everything done while having the spare time you need to relax and pursue your passions. Imagine improving your career, home life, relationships, and health, spending a fraction of the time and effort you believe is required. It's possible. And the solution is surprisingly simple. Get 80/20 Your Life! How to Get More Done with Less Effort and Change Your Life in the Process! Amazon best-selling author Damon Zahariades offers a clear, practical, and easy-to-implement strategy for getting extraordinary results in your life with less action.

Do you often lose focus? Convince yourself that your tasks can wait...when they can’t? Can’t follow any change in your habits more than a few weeks? And when your deadlines arrive you start panicking so badly that you won’t be able to figure even where to start your task? The time to do something about your bad habits is right now! Otherwise, you are in the danger that you will never start. Learn to identify, prioritize, and focus on your most important tasks and get them done.

In Chasing Slow, viral sensation and HGTV.com star Erin Loechner turns away from fast and fame and frenzy. Follow along as she blazes the trail toward a new-fashioned lifestyle - one that will refresh your perspective, renew your priorities, and shift your focus to the journey that matters most.

Do you ever find yourself ruminating about frustrations while driving and you can't seem to determine how to handle a situation? Do you ever find you have trouble falling asleep or staying asleep throughout the night because you are unable to let go of your mental chatter? Do you ever find you have doubts that interfere with your ability to move toward your goals? Feel overwhelmed? Or think your life is spinning in stress? Find out more....

From the beginning, Geneen Roth was told she was too sensitive, too emotional, too curious, too demanding, too intense, and too big. Yet gaining and losing weight for decades did not improve her self-worth or reduce other people's criticisms. Like most women who struggle with their weight, she believed that if she could resolve what seemed to be the source of her self-hatred - how and what she ate - she would be thin, happy, and free. That belief, she discovered, was false.

Stop enabling, people pleasing, and being so agreeable. The Art of Everyday Assertiveness is a guide for the chronically nice, overwhelmed, and accommodating. It is a deep psychological dive into what makes us lack assertiveness and how to systematically combat those compulsions.

Minimalism is not just a series of actions but also a total mind-set shift. It recognises that modern-day abundance has not increased our level of happiness - in fact we are less happy than generations before despite having more - and it argues that embracing less will allow us to live more fully. This handbook gives us the tools to achieve this complete life-changing mental shift, teaching us how to search for items and thoughts that add value to our lives and how to get rid of nonessential physical and mental clutter.

You need to exhibit self-discipline 365 days in a year. What if you had a companion who would remind you daily to stay disciplined and persevere, even when the going gets tough? 365 Days With Self-Discipline is a practical guidebook for embracing self-discipline in your life. You'll learn how to do this through 365 brief, daily insights from the world's brightest minds, commented upon by best-selling personal development author Martin Meadows.

With all our best intentions and rich resources, why is it so hard to slow down, simplify, and care for ourselves? Why are we so afraid to let go? In A Year to Clear, leading space-clearing expert Stephanie Bennett Vogt takes you on a journey of self-discovery, letting go, and transformation. Each of the 365 lessons - organized into 52 week-long themes - offers daily inspiration designed to release stress and stuff in ways that lighten, enlighten, and last.