This month I read a life-changing book: Project 333: The Minimalist Fashion Challenge that Proves Less Really is So Much More.
In January I talk about this challenge in detail and how it played out in my life. For me the better part of the guide was when the author talked about life topics like being creative and breaking rules. (Hint: Creative people live longer.)
To get followers to buy the book I’ll quote from it. The single most useful advice was asking readers what other rules we could break along with fashion rules.
To wit:
We should break written and unwritten rules such as “The rules and expectations that other people have quietly (or not so quietly) set for you.”
Isn’t that how it goes that other people think they know what’s best for us. We fall in line and sink into doing what they say. Then we get ill conforming to this false version of ourselves.
It’s time to take back our lives. To trust ourselves to know what’s right for us in terms of how we should think feel live act love and dress.
Our uniqueness and our differentness are gifts we give each other.
Let’s not allow those “minders” to impact how we feel about ourselves.
Lastly: author Courtney Carver gets this imperative stance right too:
“Just because things are crazy around you doesn’t mean things have to be crazy within you.”
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