The Troubling Nature of Pop Culture

We’ve all been MTV’d. We grew up with popular nonsense invading every dark corner of our media-saturated lives: The glowing box in the living room showcasing ideal families in ideal homes living ideal lives. The car stereo blaring soul-crushing top 40-isms during rush-hour traffic. Newspapers foretelling inescapable doom and…
A Single Tweet Changed My Life

I never asked for this. I stumbled into minimalism serendipitously and haphazardly, not knowing what I was looking for. The year was 2009, early autumn. And as the leaves resisted their change in color, my dying mother resisted the division of cancer cells in her body as they metastasized beyond her lungs to other vital organs and…
Going with the Flow in DC: Accidentally Planning Life’s Most Memorable Events

Sometimes the best plan is to have no plan at all. Wing it. Play it by ear. Go with the flow. We embraced this kind of no-plan planning…
The Mess We Made in Rochester

We all make mistakes. Sometimes our mistakes take us to an unexpected place. Other times we screw up and we have to face at the mess we’ve made. We were standing amidst one of those mistake-fueled messes last night at Boulder Coffee in Rochester, NY…
The Short Guide to Getting Rid of Your Crap

I recently teamed up with one of my favorite writers, Julien Smith, to write The Short, 16-Step Guide to Getting Rid of Your Crap, an essay for his popular website. It was a fun collaboration that resulted in a great piece of narrative nonfiction…
On The Road with The Minimalists

The fourth leg of The Minimalists 33-City Meetup Tour starts on May 2nd. Find your city and RSVP for free here. If you don’t see your city listed, don’t fret! You can attend The Minimalists Live Online Meetup…
When Everything Is Your Favorite Thing

When you get rid of most of your stuff, your life invariably changes. But there was also an unexpected benefit from my newly uncluttered life: now I truly enjoy everything I own…
Successfool

We used to be “successful.” At least that’s what everyone said. People frequently told us that we had things “figured out,” because by age 27 we both worked “great” six-figure jobs and we owned all the things that were supposed to make us happy. But we sure didn’t feel like we had it figured out…
Let’s Trade: Our Free Book for Your Review

Free is the new black. When an idea is powerful and free, there are no barriers to prevent it from spreading. When an essay or a book resonates with us—when it adds value to our lives—we tend to share it with others. In fact, such sharing has been the key to this website’s growth…
I Will Always Be OK

I will always be okay. I will always be successful. I will always be happy. I will. Think about these two words for a moment. Life’s revelations are found in the simplest of words. That’s why most people…
Joshua Fields Millburn on Publishing

I am a writing evangelist. I self-publish because it’s currently the best option for me and for my readers. I wouldn’t sign with a publisher just for the sake of being “a published author,” which by itself is an empty endeavor that reeks of pretense…
10/10 Material Possessions Theory

How important is the stuff in your life? Your material possessions—those things you’ve worked so hard for, slaving 40, 50, 60 hours a week to acquire—how much value to they actually add to your life? We bet it’s less than you realize…
Letting Go of Shitty Relationships

Some relationships are incredibly pernicious. We often develop relationships out of convenience, without considering the traits necessary to build a successful relationship with another person—important traits like unwavering support and shared trust and loving encouragement…
Announcing How to Write Better

Hello. Professor Millburn here. If you’re serious about improving your writing, this class is for you—regardless of your current skill level. Whatever your skill level, I won’t judge you. Rather, I want to show you how to write clearly, concisely, and beautifully. I want to help you create powerful writing that grabs people’s attention and adds value their lives…
Digital Clutter Is Different than Physical Clutter

Digital clutter isn’t nearly as problematic as physical clutter. Don’t believe me? Then try to move 2,000 books to a new residence. That said, digital clutter can still be a significant problem. We advocate digitizing your your physical items whenever you can, especially with those old CDs, DVDs, photos, and files of paperwork you hardly ever need…
Deleting the Music You No Longer Listen To

Are you actually going to listen to that Ricky Martin album again? Then why is still on your iPod? Why do you keep music you haven’t listened to in years? Do you keep it just in case? I certainly used to…
Helping Hands: Mark’s Story of Contribution

The most important thing we can accomplish with our website is contribute beyond ourselves. To do so we share our journey, our struggles, our experiments, and our stories in hopes that it will inspire others…
How I Got Rid of 2,000 Books and Started Reading More

I used to own 2,000 books. Slightly more than that, actually. I had all kinds of books: hard covers, paperbacks, trade paperbacks, literary fiction, writing and grammar books, books of photography, self-help books, my dead father’s collection of old medical journals, genre fiction, those cute little pop-up books, you name it…
Quitting Your Job Is Easy

Scores of people ask us how to quit their jobs. Much of the time it feels like they’re simply asking for our permission. The truth is you don’t need our permission. Quitting your job is incredibly easy…
Making Money as a Writer Is a Curious Thing: The Dollars and Cents of Full-Time Writing

How do you make money? I’ve gotten this question a lot. It fascinates me that so many people are interested in this. I guess I never thought about how much money my favorite authors make. I never thought, “I wonder how…
Decluttering Your Mental Clutter

Those voices inside your head won’t be quiet. All you can hear is your boss telling you to have those reports done by Friday or your daughter reminding you that there’s soccer practice this Saturday or a parent’s voice telling you that they’re going to need you to help them drop off their car at the mechanic’s…
Creating Daily Writing Habits

I like to wake early, before the rest of the world. As soon as I’m awake, no matter the time, I get out of bed immediately and start my day. My writing space looks like this. I write six or seven days a week, three to twelve hours a day, but I don’t have a routine…
Accessible, Affordable Content for Everyone

The vast majority of everything we write is available for free on this website—accessible to anyone with an internet connection. We provide free content because we believe in adding value to other people’s lives. Free knocks down many barriers and gets our work into the hands (and minds) of hundreds of thousands of people…
I Don’t Need Much

When life is simple, I don’t need much to live. I don’t need much to pursue my passion. A cup of coffee, a place to write, and my thoughts tumbling onto the page will do just fine. I don’t need much to cultivate meaningful relationships…
Reprogramming the Twitch: Lessons Learned from Two Months Without a Phone

Two months ago I decided to 86 my phone for sixty days as an experiment, just to see what would happen, just to see if my world would keep spinning. People were shocked. Some were appalled. Some people were worried about me. Going without a phone for any extended period of time seems to be the modern day equivalent of a vow of silence…
Honey I’ll Be Back, I’m Going to Go Meet These Two Guys I Found on the Internet

The third leg of our 33 City Meetup Tour starts next week. You should come meet us if you’re nearby. If you haven’t RSVP’d yet, you can do so for free. Warning: if you plan on attending, be prepared for plenty of hugs…
Two Years Later

Note: One year ago today, I left my corporate job to pursue a full-time writing career. I wrote this essay reflecting back on the last two years of my life. My mother died two years ago. Her death was a life-changing, horrific experience for me. But it was also the impetus of every change, big or small, that has occurred in my life over the last two years…
You Are Inadequate

You bear witness to proof of your inadequacy every day: you see it on your TV, hear it on your radio, stare back at it on your computer screen and on highway billboards. There are plenty of messages all around you to reinforce your utter inadequacy…
Letting Go of Your DVD Collection

Are you one of those people who collects DVDs, proudly displaying your stockpile on a wall or shelf or special area designated for your dozens of favorite movies? Have you ever thought about why you own all those DVDs? Do you plan on re-watching the same movies three or four times? If so, we’d like to posit a solution…
Live a Meaningful Life for Less

Minimalism: Live a Meaningful Life is our finest, most important creation to date. It’s also the best thing we’ve ever written about Minimalism and will likely serve as the cornerstone to our work for years to come. It took us a year to write this book. Today we are lowing the price of this book from $24.99 to $7.99…
Inbox Minimalism

More apps. More programs. More devices. More ways to pay. More places to subscribe. As a connected society, we are constantly being offered more and increasingly specialized products. Having a camera app isn’t enough. We want a camera app specifically for taking pictures of documents. Having a PDF reader isn’t enough. We want…
The Commodification of Love

There’s another holiday lurking somewhere around the corner. Valentine’s Day. Mother’s Day. Sweetest Day. Birthdays. Christmas. We’ve programed ourselves to give and receive gifts on these and many other holidays to show our love for one another. We’ve even been told that gift-giving is one of our “love languages.” This idea is utterly ridiculous, and yet…
Mistakes vs. Bad Decisions

A politician cheats on his wife, gets caught, and says he “made a big mistake.” A businesswoman omits some revenue on her taxes and says something similar to the IRS. A son lies to his mother and later fesses up to his “mistake.” In truth, these examples aren’t…
The Power of a Hug and Five Other Lessons Learned on the Road

The old apothegm about the teacher learning more than his students is true. Suffice it to say, we’ve learned a lot during our 33 City Meetup Tour thus far. The third leg of the tour starts in March if you’d like to meet us. Lessons Learned on the Road…
Comments Killed the Internet Star: Why The Minimalists Killed Comments on Their Site

What Happened to the Comments at The Minimalists? A couple months ago we were listening to an interview with Seth Godin on Zen Habits. About twenty minutes into the interview Leo asked Seth why he removed comments from his website (something Leo had already done as well). Seth talked about how hard it it was for him, but he gave some good reasons why he had to do it…
Shopping or Finding Meaning

Unlike some men, I used to enjoy shopping. The act itself felt therapeutic, and it took my mind off the vapid, empty life I was leading. I bought things to pacify the sadness and discontent within. Clothes, gadgets, and accessories were my holy trinity…
The Compelling Beauty of Free

Life can be mighty expensive inside the flashy walls of our consumer culture. Dinner and a movie. Daily venti lattes. That cute new outfit. Those cute shoes to go with that cute new outfit. The price of a couple hotdogs and a beer at a ball game. Not to mention all…
Giving Away Your Best Work for Free

Sometimes you create something you’re so passionate about, something you’re so happy with, something you believe will add so much value to other people’s lives, that you feel compelled to give it away for free. This is why I decided to give away best thing I’ve ever written…
Is This What You’ve Been Waiting for Your Entire Life?

A year ago I knew I wasn’t happy. I felt the discontent deep inside me. It rattled my bones. Just one year ago, I knew I wasn’t living a healthy life, I knew I wasn’t focused on my relationships like I should be, I knew I wasn’t pursuing my passions…
First Thing in the Morning: Why I Wake at 3:30am

I wake up early. Often around 3:30am, before the rest of the world. Not every day, but most days. For the longest time I didn’t know why I enjoyed getting up so early. Even when I worked in the corporate world, I didn’t know why…
Deciding to Live with Less

I pulled into my driveway on a sunny March afternoon like I had hundreds of times before. Before I exited my Jeep I could see the screen of my kitchen window was shredded and a power cord from some electronic device was dangling from the sill. It was clear that an unwelcome visitor had…
Pushing Through Frustration, And Why I’m Getting Rid of My Phone

Whenever I make a big change in my life, I tend to get frustrated. When I got rid of television, the first few weeks were frustrating. When I killed the killed the Internet at home, the first month was frustrating. When I stopped buying stuff for a year…
Resolving to Learn from Failure

I failed last year. A lot. I failed more times than I can count. No matter how often I fail, the fear of failure is always sharp and cutting and it never feels good. At the beginning of 2011 I made my first ever New Year Resolution…
A Year End Review: How Everything Can Change in a Year

We started The Minimalists one year ago this month. Since then almost everything in our lives has changed. A year ago we both worked for large corporations. Now we work for ourselves and pursue our passions every day. A year ago we were unhappy with our lives. Now we…
Questioning Stuff

Have you ever looked around your home and wondered why you have so much stuff? Or do you, like most people, simply accept the stuff that’s there because it’s your stuff? Instead of question why you have the stuff, do you just spend hours…
Why?

We keep buying stuff. We keep working at the same jobs we hate. We keep accumulating debt. We keep the same friends. We keep buying new cars every few years. We keep eating junk. We keep avoiding the gym. We stay in hurtful relationships…
The Man Who Dies with the Most Stuff

If I know anything about being an American, it’s that the man who dies with the most stuff wins. At 13, I was well on my way to winning. Somehow, I had developed a love for bargains. After-Christmas sweater sales. Thrifted jeans for…
Getting Rid of Just In Case: 20 Dollars, 20 Minutes

People often hold on to things just in case they need them. They don’t let go because they might need something in the future. And they pack too much stuff for trips and vacations just in case they might need it…
Don’t Flinch: A Conversation with Julien Smith

There were five people who inspired me to make radical changes in my life over the last two years. Julien Smith was one of those people. I started reading Julien’s essays a few months before Ryan and I started The Minimalists. His essays were the…
Consumerism

I’m the pack of lies that keeps you “safe.” I’m the thoughts you’re too ashamed to share. I’m the crushing feeling you feel inside. I’m the memory you can’t get out of your head. I’m the lust, the empty desire. I’m the fear, the greed…
Live a Meaningful Life

Live a Meaningful Life is our finest, most important creation to date. It’s also the best thing we’ve ever written about Minimalism and will likely serve as the cornerstone to our work for years to come. It took us a year to write this book—a year of creating the best material possible and…
The Rats in the Tunnel

There is light at the end of the tunnel. Intuitively, we all know this. Even when it’s hard to find, we know it’s there somewhere—somewhere just beyond the bend, somewhere within reach. Finding the light isn’t the hardest part of life’s journey…
If, Then

People concoct all kinds of excuses to explain their bad decisions: If I had more money, I could be happy. If I had better genes, I could lose weight. If I had more time, I could exercise more. If I liked vegetables, I could eat healthier. If I had gone to college, I could be successful. If this, then that.
How Do I Get Him to Stop Watching that Damn TV?

A reader wrote us the other day seeking our advice: I am working on creating a minimalist lifestyle for my family, but I have hit a roadblock and hope you can help, especially from the male perspective. In our house we watch TV, always have. I despise the TV because…
The Blackest of Fridays

This Friday is the busiest shopping day of the year: Black Friday. Retailers prepare months in advance for this day—preparation that’s meant to stimulate your insatiable desire to consume. Doorbuster sales. New products. Gigantic newspaper ads. TV, radio, print, billboards…
How Minimalism Saved My Life

I was lost. But I made it look like I knew the way. That was a couple years ago—back when I had the job, the paycheck, and all the stuff, all of which formed my personal identity, an identity I clung to with a reptilian clutch. But I wasn’t happy. And buying more stuff didn’t…
Updates, Interviews, Books, and Tour Stops

It’s a busy time of the year for The Minimalists, but we’re enjoying every minute of it. Here’s what’s happening right now in our world: tour update, books updates, JFM update, interviews, and free essays…
Email for Minimalists

I manage my email vastly different than I used to. When I worked in corporate America, I would get 150 to 250 emails a day. The first thing I did in the morning was reach for my BlackBerry…
Please Masturbate in Your Own Room

This is a picture of a warning sign in the dorms at Miami University (Ohio). While it’s a fairly humorous warning, the last line also seems to be a suitable synecdoche for the online world: “Please masturbate in your own rooms.” Of course it sounds vulgar, but…
Changes in the Rearview

I was talking to a nice guy who was in dire straits the other day. He laid before me many of his problems. His marriage was crumbling. He was in massive debt. He was making less money than he used to. He was living an unhealthy lifestyle…
They’re All Just a Bunch of Hippies!

A loyal reader recently sent us an email titled “They’re All Just a Bunch of Hippies!” The email portrayed a certain sentiment that is often expressed by people who hear about minimalism the first time. And it’s an odd sentiment…
The Definition of Success

For us, success is a simple equation: Happiness + Constant Improvement + Contribution = Success. That’s the only kind of success we know of. If we’re not happy, then we’re not successful. We weren’t successful when we had corporate careers and…
The UnAmerican Dream

The American Dream. The white picket fence. The large suburban home. The nice car. The big-screen TVs glowing in multiple rooms. The safe, reasonable nine-to-five. The corner office. The suit and tie…
Announcing the First Leg of The Minimalists National Meetup Tour

So, why have a National Meetup Tour? Great question—we’re glad you asked. First, we want to get out there and interact with you face-to-face, share ideas, get ideas, and have a great time with you. Second, because…
Imperfect Is the New Perfect

Perfectionism is a futile endeavor. As a perfectionist, I speak from experience. And this essay is my confessionary hymn. At times my perfectionism haunts me all the pleasure of “getting it right” can be immediately wiped out by small, debilitating imperfections…
My First Fiction Book: Falling While Sitting Down

Writing and reading literary fiction has been my passion for a long time. I’ve worked incredibly hard this year writing the best fiction of my life. While I work through multiple revisions and drafts of my novel, I decided to publish four of my favorite stories…
30 More Life Lessons From 30 Years

Yesterday was my 30th birthday. The big three-oh. To celebrate, here’s another 30 life lessons to accompany Joshua’s 30 Life Lessons and Leo Babauta’s 38 Life Lessons I’ve Learned in 38 Years from earlier this year…
Of Course It’s Unreasonable, Dummy!

I recently imagined an elaborate, expansive conversation between my 27-year-old self and my 30-year-old self. It was not a pretty exchange of dialogue. Suffice it to say, there was a vast ideological dichotomy between these two guys…
Being Laid Off from My 6-Figure Job Is One of the Best Things that Ever Happened to Me

I sat down in the conference room and slid his birthday present across the table. It was September 29th—my boss’s birthday. It was also the day I lost my job. My boss, my boss’s boss, and a lady from human resources were sitting on the other side of the large conference table…
Moving Beyond Goals

You can’t manage what you don’t measure. This was the corporate mantra by which I lived for a long time. And it’s total bullshit. We used to measure everything at my old job…
Dealing with Overwhelm

Throughout my thirty years on this earth, I have struggled with one emotion more than any other: the feeling of overwhelm. That changed this year though. Until this year, I was overwhelmed by my job. I was overwhelmed by the amount of email in my inbox. I was overwhelmed…
18 Minute Minimalist Exercises

I used to be horribly out-of-shape. A couple years ago, I couldn’t do a single push-up. And I certainly couldn’t do a pull-up. Hell, I didn’t exercise at all. Or, when I did exercise, it was sporadic; it never lasted more than a few days before I gave up. Sound familiar?…
Do You Know What Your Neighbors Are Up To?

Do you know your neighbors? I mean do you really know your neighbors? I live in a condo development in which there are roughly 80 units, and until recently I really didn’t know any of the people living there other than a few of their names and faces. I didn’t value the relationships…
Don’t Upgrade

The newest, latest, greatest version of Product X is available today. It’s only X dollars and it does all the cool things you never knew it could do. And if you act now, Product X will change your life. But we know we don’t need Product X to live a meaningful life…
Winning Without Playing the Game

We woke up last Saturday and discovered that our new book, “Minimalism: Essential Essays,” had reached #6 in the Amazon Kindle Store under “Non-Fiction: Self-Help, Happiness.” Suffice it to say, we were amazed. It was shocking to see our book at #6 on Amazon…
7 Ways to Make Conversations Meaningful Using Minimalism

Our relationships are one of the most important aspects of living a meaningful life. Conversing with a close friend can be one of the most meaningful experiences we have. And yet we often don’t value these conversations like we should…
Our First Book — Minimalism: Essential Essays

“Minimalism: Essential Essays” is an edited collection of 29 of our favorite essays about living a more meaningful life with less stuff. This 133-page collection also contains a special forward by Joshua and Ryan, as well as two bonus essays that can’t be found anywhere on the web…
Living with No Goals

Joshua just finished writing an essay called “100 Days with No Goals,” which you’ll be able to read soon. That essay is about his experimentation with a no-goal lifestyle. We won’t spoil the fun for you now, but I will tell you one thing…
Your Own Advice Is the Hardest Pill to Swallow

Giving advice is pretty easy, isn’t it? Anyone can give advice. Anyone can make recommendations. Anyone can tell you what to do. But just because someone gives you advice, it doesn’t mean it’s the correct advice for you…
Minimalism Is Not a Radical Lifestyle

Some people meet me and when we talk about minimalism they think I live a radical lifestyle. They say things like “I could never be a minimalist.” But the truth is that my lifestyle is not radical…
Celebrating 100,000 Monthly Readers (and 10,000 Hours Per Month)

We never expected this to happen, especially not this fast—not in less than nine months. It’s hard for us to believe it, but we are happy to share some exciting news: The Minimalists recently reached a milestone—more than 100,000 monthly readers…
Does Minimalism Make You Complacent?

I was explaining minimalism to a group of people at a dinner one night last month. A guy wearing a post-workday suit-and-tie combo peered at me skeptically when I told him I have no goals, when I told him I have no daily routine, when I told him I have little concept of time…
My Minimalist Workspace

Although I don’t have a daily routine, I spend most mornings in solitude, writing at my desk—my minimalist workspace. The picture above is honestly what my desk looks like every day…
I Could Never Do That!

We tell ourselves all kinds of lies to justify our actions—lies to justify our decisions. One of the biggest lies I used to tell myself was that I could never do something—That sounds great, but I could never do it!…
Getting Rid of Gifts

Our culture is a gift-giving culture, one that places great emphasis on giving physical items to other people as a measurement of caring. It seems silly to even write that, but it’s the cold truth. We often give gifts to show we care. So, on your birthday and a handful of holidays, people…
Struggling with Choices

The first time I met Jonathan Mead in person, he asked me if he should call me Joshua or Josh. My answer was simple: “call me whichever name you prefer, whichever name makes you feel the most comfortable.” We are often troubled by such answers…
Jealousy Is a Wasted Emotion

We all get jealous, don’t we? Actually, no, not everyone experiences jealousy as an emotion. I don’t get jealous. That’s a weird thing to read, isn’t? Well, it’s a weird thing to say too. But it’s true. I don’t experience jealously as an emotion. Why?…
5 Ways to Create Solitude with Minimalism

Our daily lives are filled with noise. Every day it’s getting harder to turn down the volume. Even the places in which we use to find brief stints of solitude have been enveloped by our heavily mediated culture: airports pipe “info-tainment” into our heads via overhead HD monitors…
The Invention of Our Discontent

Let me tell you about the monster who rides on my shoulders. I can’t see him, but I know he is there. I sense that he is covered in mauve shag-carpet, has overly goggly eyes, and a gaping black maw with a felt tongue inside. I also sense that his name is Howard, but I could be wrong…
I Counted All My Stuff then I Threw Away the List Because I Didn’t Want It to Count as One Item

The most blatantly wrong misconception we encounter about minimalism has to do with the act of counting your possessions. “I could never be a minimalist, because I don’t want to live with less than 100 things.” We hear that a lot…
Forever Does Not Exist

Everything is ephemeral. On a long enough timeline, everything ends. The relationship you are in now will end. The happiness you will experience tomorrow will end. The depression you feel today will end. Your life will eventually end. Nothing lasts forever. And yet…
Favorite Clothes of a Minimalist

What does a minimalist wear? I’m surprised I get this question as often as I do, but, given the many misconceptions surrounding minimalism, I suppose it’s a valid question. My answer: a minimalist wears his or her favorite clothes and nothing else…
Labels Are Necessary

“I don’t label myself a [blank], but…” We hear prefaces like this all the time. There seems to be this strange misnomer promulgated throughout the internet (and throughout our day-to-day lives for that matter) that labels are a bad thing…
Ending the Tyranny of Cool

Not too long ago, I wanted to be so freaking cool. Being cool was important to me. It mattered. I had to have the the perfect clothes with the right logos. I had to have my shiny Lexus with the tan leather interior and in-dash navigation system. I had to have…
Letting Go of Sentimental Items

My mother died in 2009. It was an incredibly difficult time in my life, it goes without saying. She lived a thousand miles away and after she passed it was my responsibility to vacate her apartment in Florida. It was a small, one-bedroom place, but it was packed wall-to-wall…
Killing Time: Over Time I Got Rid of Time

Last week, I was walking the streets of Dayton, Ohio, the sun overhead like a peephole into hell’s own self-consuming heart, and someone stopped me and asked me for the time. I looked up at the sun-kissed sky and responded with two words: “It’s daytime”…
Singing Stones: Finding Life’s Beauty & Meaning

Near the Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay tri-border, there are two wonders of the world. The first is the world-famous Iguazú Falls, which pours 1.5 million liters per second over a system of 300 waterfalls. The immense, three kilometer system attracts millions of jaw-dropping visitors every…
30 Life Lessons From 30 Years

Last week I turned 30. And during the journey to 30, I’ve have learned so much. Here are 30 of the most important life lessons from those 30 years. Each lesson is a brief summary of that lesson, some of which have a link for further reading if you’re interested…
Minimalism Scares the Shit out of Me

Let’s be honest: minimalism scares the shit out of you, doesn’t it? You’re worried you’ll get rid of stuff you might need later. You’re worried what your friends/family/co-workers/neighbors will think about you? You’re worried you’ll lose your identity, your status, and…
Killing the Internet at Home Is the Most Productive Thing I’ve Ever Done

Earlier this year I made the conscious decision to remove all internet service from my apartment. It ended up being the best decision I ever made with respect to productivity. Why did I get rid of the internet at home? There is one primary reason: I was not content with my productivity.









