I’ve written before about Greg McKeown’s book, Essentialism and how it changed my mindset toward life goals and more. McKeown urges us to recognize time and energy as limited resources, and to be intentional about how we spend them. Just as minimalists recommend clearing physical clutter, McKeown endorses clearing the things that clutter our daily schedules and our minds. He delivers the harsh but powerful truth that we cannot do everything we want to do. Rather, we have to choose what we value most and consciously discard those things that don’t support our highest priorities. I had already been dabbling in minimalism when I encountered this book. Its message that…
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In this post, we’re going to explore the Enneagram 3. For more information about the Enneagram and how personality typology can help us choose meaningful goals and live a more intentional life, please check out my first post on the Enneagram 1. My intention with this series on what the Enneagram types need to let go is to demonstrate how our minds collect “psychic clutter” – unhelpful beliefs, habits, and thought patterns. I write a lot about minimalism and clearing material clutter on this site. But it’s even more important to clear this mental and emotional clutter. If you don’t know your Enneagram type, you can take a test. However,…
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For fuller context on the Enneagram and how personality typology can be helpful in narrowing down our goals and living a more intentional life, please check out my first post on the Enneagram 1. In this post, we’ll focus on the Enneagram 2. To summarize, my intention with this series on the Enneagram types is to show how our minds collect mental and emotional clutter – unhelpful beliefs, habits, and thought patterns. And how clearing that psychic clutter is just as powerful as clearing our physical clutter. According to Enneagram theory, there are nine personality types, all based in a core fear. Each of these types has unique positive qualities. They…
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If you’re reading this, you have an internet connection. That means you view daily messaging about dieting, weight, and body image. We’re bombarded constantly. Magazines at the check-out aisle, pop up ads on websites, Instagram reels, and TikTok beauty influencers are all implanting the idea in your mind that you should – at all times – have “achieving bodily perfection” as a top priority. Apparently, it needs to be a top priority for absolutely everyone. Why should it be a priority? ….Because! When I was growing up in the early 2000s, there was very little messaging to counter this idea. By now, there’s been a backlash in the form of…
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Although I often share minimalism inspiration and decluttering tips on this site, I also like to explore how those concepts can be applied to our broader lives and even our psyches. Our lives are not only cluttered with material possessions. Our minds are also cluttered with unhelpful beliefs, habits, and thought patterns. Could the principles of essentialism and minimalism help us clear out mental and emotional clutter, as well? One tool that can be very useful in exploring this topic is personality typology. I’ve written about the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) before – exploring how knowing our personality type can help us narrow down which decluttering advice will actually work…
