'THE ADVANTAGES OF LIVING WITH LESS : MORE TIME FOR PURPOSE'

Minimise your options and find peace...

In a fast expanding and materialist generation like ours, being minimalist could bring some serious advantages. We are currently living at time where spending habits have become uncontrollable. We engage ourselves into financial engagements in the forms of loans, bonds, credit cards that we cannot afford at times. As a result, our lives revolve around mounting bills and move away from the most important topic: 'Fulfilling our destiny on earth.'

Being minimalist, in my opinion should be a temporal choice. You do not have to reduce all your financial options for ever. Some people adopt minimalism as a full time option, like spiritual monks do...and I respect that.

If you are going through the pressures and demands of our current lives, you will soon understand that some financial decisions have a tendency to submerge what matters the most. When your heart constantly questions the goal of your existence in Christ, you will sooner or later, be faced with the obligations to find the answers.

But it will very difficult, if not impossible to create space for finding answers when your current financial decisions are totally distracting you away from your real dreams. Those distracting objects come in the forms of debts (sometimes useless), unaffordable and vain bills (often avoidable). At a long run, those financial objects become the reason why we get up and go to work.  We simply get up to work because we have to pay a cell phone or a TV contract we could not afford at the first place...

  Imagine a life driven by simply paying the bills...There must be more than that in Life. Surely!

Before taking on a financial decision that could turn your life into slavery, ask yourself these questions:

-Can I really afford that option?

-Is there any cheaper way of getting that option? (is there any Second hand item available ?)

-Is that option vital for my Life?

-Will that financial decision influence my life purpose negatively or positively?

   If the answer to question number 3 is NO, then you should really question that financial or material decision.

  These are some of the advantages of filtering your material choices through a minimalist mind:

 -Increase in your savings.

  -Protection against useless financial distractions such as bad debts, vain bills.

  -You create more time for your real purpose. Instead of working for your bills with overtime or with  a second job, you now have the option of working towards what fulfils your life (even on a part time basis).

-By spending less, you increase the chances of paying off debts faster.

 Why minimalism should be temporal? (in my opinion)

 You are not forced to make it a full time option. I just believe that it should be  a good viable way of living during certain specific times of life such as during:

 -Societal  and economic crisis.

  -Personal financial crisis.

  -Moments where your soul needs to find purpose by releasing yourself from non-vital financial and material demands.

 It takes a lot of courage to be minimalist, but when the purpose of your existence is at stake, it becomes worth it.

Maurice Kande.

 

 

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