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    The Joy of Less - Purging: Joy of less, #3
    The Joy of Less - Purging: Joy of less, #3
    The Joy of Less - Purging: Joy of less, #3
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    The Joy of Less - Purging: Joy of less, #3

    By Cary David Richards

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    Discover why simplicity is the essence of happiness

    (Includes free download!!)

    How to get off the stress, complexity and overwhelm merry-go-round and simplify your life.

    The second book in Cary David Richard’s two book series on minimalist living details how to simplify your space and gives you down to earth real world strategies for declutering your home.

    After being forced by circumstances to downsize and simplify, Cary David and his wife Jeannie came to realize that their new minimalist life style had some very tangible and far reaching benefits. They began to re-think their previous lives of consumerism and the habit of accumulating more and more “stuff”.

    Through the conscious implementation of minimalist living they realized that living with less brought a freedom and clarity not available in their previous lives.

    Never setting out to become minimalist, the couple embarked on a journey of simplicity and discovered what was most important to them in the process.

    Reading this book will re arrange how you view your possessions and allow you to become more conscious about the acquisition of more stuff in your life.

    Through the lessons that Cary David and Jeannie learned over the last seven years of exploring minimalism you will come away with a new understanding of the benefits of decluttering your life.

    Once free of the burden of clutter and complexity new vistas will open to you. Just imagine being able to breathe again, living in a serene, nurturing, welcoming environment, free of stress and worry.

    A world of decluttered simplicity awaits. Get the book today, scroll up and click on the “buy it now” button

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCary Richards
    Release dateJun 26, 2016
    ISBN9781533771667
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      The Joy of Less - Purging - Cary David Richards

      Why I wrote this book.

      In 2007 my wife Jeannie and I lived in a 3000 square foot split level house with a two car garage on a corner lot in a nice upper middle class neighborhood about 20 minutes north of downtown Seattle, Washington. We had three cars, one for each of us and one for the kids to use, a bunch of nice furniture, more lawn and garden implements than you could fit into a True Value hardware store and an open wheel sports racing car along with a mini race shop in the garage. Life was good, or so I thought...

      In reality I was living a very high stress, What have you done for me lately, corporate sales lifestyle, working 50 or 60 hours a week and then spending another 20 hours or so on a real estate investment side business. Jeannie worked retail, and between the two of us we barely made enough to cover all the bills each month. We’d say hello in the hallway a few mornings per week and other than that we’d hardly ever see each other. We had gotten ourselves stuck on a treadmill of consumerism and debt, and the paychecks were beginning to run out of breath.

      I was starting to wonder how I could step off that treadmill, but I didn’t have to wonder very long because it was all about to come crashing down around us. I’ll spare you the gory details and just give you the short version.

      Two things happened almost simultaneously:

      I was corporately downsized out of my job.

      (Okay, they fired me)

      And

      The real estate market experienced the greatest value readjustment since the 19th century.

      (Okay, the market crashed!)

      Change came at us at a rapid pace. We had to sell almost everything. We liquidated all of the real estate, sold two of the cars and got rid of the split level house utilizing a short sale. We moved into our last remaining and smallest rental property. Our savings was completely depleted and my credit was shot. I ended up unemployed, broke and wondering what the hell happened—I was devastated!

      Then, slowly at first, but gaining momentum as time passed, I started to notice that our simpler, slower lifestyle had some real benefits. I began to wake up to the fact that the corporate sales lifestyle I’d been leading not only hadn’t been feeding my soul, it had actually begun to suck my will to live!

      Our new lifestyle triggered a tremendous sense of relief. With much less stuff (and fewer bills) I could breathe again. A pathway opened up for me as I took stock of what I was doing and why I was doing it, and identified those things that were truly important in my life. This new paradigm had, in a way, been forced on me, but over time it became a journey of self-discovery and fulfillment that I wouldn’t trade for all the money in the world. I came to believe that I would be much happier and more fulfilled if I could nurture my creative side. (I’d fallen into my sales career almost as an afterthought years earlier.)

      Now I spend my time on things that feed my soul and contribute to others, rather than worrying about how much commission I would have gotten from this week’s sales. Living a de-cluttered life and focusing on things that really matter to me has created an environment of joy and fulfillment that was unavailable in my former life.

      Jeannie and I have pared down our material possessions to those things that we truly value. We live in 900 square foot cabin that butts up against a county park that includes coyotes, rabbits, squirrels and raccoons. We wash our own dishes and go to the Laundromat every Saturday or Sunday. Being conscious of what we purchase, we only buy those things that create value or reduce complexity in our lives.

      Over the last few years we’ve reduced our debt to close to zero and the number of bills we pay has been cut by more than half. I spend my days writing, working on my blog, books and internet marketing business. Jeannie works part time at a small furniture consignment store. We own one car and way, way less stuff. Is it perfect? No.

      I don’t think perfection is the goal, but we lead a low stress, simplified, joyous and fulfilled lifestyle that not only contributes to our wellbeing but contributes to others as well.

      This is the second of a two book series that is designed to impart the lessons and strategies we have learned so far on our simplification journey. Book one in the series dealt with adjusting your attitudes about and relationships to your stuff in an attempt to prepare you mentally and emotionally for the projects we’ll show you here in book two.

      Am I a minimalist? I don’t know.

      I really didn’t go down this path in an effort to get labeled as one thing or another. I just know that living with less and reducing complexity in our lives has worked very well for us over the last few years, and I’m excited to be able to bring you some techniques and strategies to help you do the same if that is where your path is leading you.

      Please take what lessons you

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