| The Fourteen Steps 1. Take the first step: commit yourself to walk this walk! 2. Determine your own Core Priorities, your personal choice in life, love, and work. 3. Do an inventory of everything you've got. 4. Examine your commitments in life: which connect to your core work? 5. Become conscious of what makes you happy. 6. Be aware of people whose basic needs are not being met in today's world. 7. Know what you consume. 8. Be conscious about your money. 9. Become a gardener, at least a virtual one! 10. Do a "media & communications audit" to see how you connect with others and your culture. 11. Begin choosing ways to reduce consumption. 12. Purge your stuff. Edit your closets, drawers, and wardrobe. 13. Become aware of what you plan to buy next. 14. Join forces with others in this process. |
| Tell us your story! What commitments have you made? What difficulties have you faced? What has worked for you as you chose to live more simply? How have you adjusted your lifestyle to one that is more sustainable? In what ways have you grown to be in solidarity with the poor of the world? Click here to send us a note and we'll share your story with others. To send us a video, song, pictures, poetry, or other media, simply attach it to an e-mail and send it to this address. |
| Two powerful resources Click on the cover to buy the book. A New Look at Prayer: Learning to Listen to Your Inner Guide by Bill Huebsch This carefully written e-book helps you recognize your own inner voice which leads to "right living." Driving the Speed Limit: Learning to Live Simply, Sustainably, and in Solidarity with the Poor by Bill Huebsch This e-book provides you with a road map (almost literally) to help you make choices which are both satisfying and in support of the common human good. |
| Key Links Just Faith A site which supports a parish program to teach in depth about just living. Catholic Relief Services A powerful agent of change in the world, also leading the US implementation of this movement. Common Hope A non-profit agency working to end poverty in the third world by establishing there a middle class. |
