HELLO EVERYBODY, the new month has just begun and that means it's time to take up a new challenge to free myself! My goal in March is to live without my smartphone and social media sites every Sunday. I have four Sundays to try this experiment and to find out how it works for me or if another day would be more convenient. Or if there are situations in which I really have to use my phone.

In case you speak German and would like to know all my reasons for doing this, you can read this post about quitting social media. Maybe I can translate this blogpost later but to summarize my reasons in just a few words:  Social media, such as  Facebook, I can obtain with my laptop aswell. On the other hand, my phone distracts me a lot and I am still wasting too much time on it. Well, it is time to change something again. Of course, it won't change my user behaviour immediately but this month's challenge is supposed to be a small experiment. I want to figure out how important my smartphone is for me and how it influences me during school times or when I am busy clarifying some organisational things. But therefore I still have a house phone or one can write me an oldschool e-mail. 

I am very curious how the next four Sundays in my life will be and whether it will change my behaviour to a point where I can even spend two days a week without my mobile. 

♥Lea

HELLO EVERYBODY, I still have a lot of thoughts about minimalism in my mind. As you might know, I have been thinking about this topic for quite a few months now and begun to live this lifestyle more and more. Since the day I started, I have been feeling a lot freer and more energetic than before. Of course, this is not the end of my journey and that's why I made a plan for 2016 to reach my goal step by step.   
This plan is split up into 12 goals I want to approach, one for each month. Every month I will take up a small challenge to free myself. It doesn't matter that January is over and February has already started because you can choose for yourself and set varying objectives if you feel like you want to take a similar path.
In this post I will just briefly mention my goals and then go into detail about a few. Today, I will do so for January and February.

In Januaury I accomplished my first goal which was a very important one for me. I went through my drawers and sorted out all the things I didn't need. Do you also have this one drawer where you just put in EVERYTHING because you think: "I might need this in some months!" (NO, YOU WON'T). All this cleaning up can get pretty exhausting, but, it is worth it. I re-decorated my room as well and put away the things which restrained my "view". Now I feel way more comfortable in my room.

FEBRUARY - starting with meditation 

Some weeks ago I started meditating; for 5 minutes, every day, immediatly after I get out of bed. I've always had problems with inner unrest and my troubled mind easily upset me which led to stress. I don't think that it's just delusion, I definitely feel more relaxed since I've started. All I can say is: just try it out!


MARCH - launching the "sunday-without-smartphone-and-social media"