Many minimalist Remote Workers and Digital Nomads in the Canaries have only one backpack with all their belongings… Minimalism, less is more, and frugal, are trends for many young generations.
Due to our consumption system, we are facing huge challenges on our planet, climate change, pollution, inequalities, etc… The “American Dream” is turning into a nightmare, competition and acquiring more material possessions drive many people’s lives to depression and lack of meaning…
We all know we can´t keep taking resources from our planet in a non-regenerative way, this lineal consumption system is not sustainable…
Freedom and Remote work
Remote Work is here to stay, commuting to the office or living in a permanent city is not a possibility for many workers anymore…
Digital Nomads travel while working, they want the freedom to choose a coworking space or coliving in the country they have more interest in a particular season.
Many Remote Workers don´t have any plans to buy a new house in the center of their hometown. They prefer traveling as much as possible, not accumulating more stuff, but experiencing a beautiful sunset on a beautiful beach…
Less is more, and the meaning of more is also shifting to new values…
Minimalism
Embracing minimalism is essential for the remote work lifestyle, some remote workers understand the crisis we are facing and they are adapting their values to this new situation, looking for work-life balance, freedom, nature, community… what matters…
Older generations are facing deep emptiness after focusing their entire lives on accumulation. Having as much as possible and more than others doesn’t mean anything for many remote workers anymore.
How can minimalism help remote workers?
The consequences of focusing on the important and getting rid of distractions are clarity, productivity, consciousness…
- Clutter-free environment, reduce distractions in your workspace and house.
- Less Stress by simplifying
- Eliminating the unnecessary – trigger productivity
- Time management- fewer distractions help you focus on the important
- Reduce, to embrace a new definition of happiness
- Environmental Impact- we have to live with nature, we are interbeings…
- Creativity increases due to clarity…
- Traveling requires simplicity…
- Single-tasking to embrace a minimalist mindset and productivity
- Save money or even a lot of money a year…
Less is More…
We do all our check-ins face-to-face, I love it, and for us is one of the most important moments in our community, waiting for a new member before coming, opening the door, shaking hands, and helping them with questions about our neighborhood, the community…
If community is about taking care of others, relationships, and love, then technology doesn’t work for our check-ins…
Some community members arrive with many bags and backpacks, struggling to walk but other minimalist remote workers in Canaries travel with just one small backpack and something else in their hand…
When you start questioning the way you live, why and how you live, many things begin to be left over, you realize that you don’t need that much in your life and that many belongings do not help you lead a full life…
Minimalism In EcoIsleta
Decluttering can have an important impact on your productivity, by decluttering you remove unnecessary items and distractions creating a peaceful environment, and as an evident consequence, clarity will arise…
We have decluttered our space embracing minimalism.
EcoIsleta Coliving is a worker’s house from the XX century, a simple, humble, warm house, where you can feel the way they had to live, with just the essential…
Rooms have only the basic elements to live and work, free from distractions. Just some art on the walls from a local artist, Felo Monzón, to inspire you…
The ceiling wood talks about an old way of construction that we don’t use anymore. The hydraulic hand-made floors are about tradition and hard work…
This house is trying to show you our identity, based on some important values, like hard work, family, love, solidarity, and community.
Furniture is strong, made on hand, with raw materials, reusing pallet wood…
Community Spaces
Our rooms are small, but our open community spaces are big, we try to help you focus on relationships, not on stuff, which is one of the most important values of a minimalist mindset.
Ask yourself what is most important in your life, relationships, shared moments, friends, family, or possessions, that mindset guides our coliving design, if community is more important than anything else, then open shared spaces have to be bigger than rooms…
With two terraces and an open kitchen, coworking, and dining room, our coliving offers a space where interactions are easy and quick…
These sunny terraces will help you to be in a good mood, be more productive, more open, and more happy, and that´s our main goal, happiness…
Embracing minimalism will give you more time for connection and community. You will prioritize the people and relationships that matter most to you…
You don’t have to worry about cleaning, maintenance, multiple bills, etc… focus on community… Fewer possessions, mean less time for cleaning, and more time for yourself and personal growth…
EcoIsleta Values
We believe in a community based on some common values, like
- Regeneration
- Less is more
- Give first
- Collaboration
- Community
And all that helps us to prioritize our design and our offer…
We think we should rethink the concept of luxury in a new way, not as having expensive possessions, but as sharing time and being happy while living a meaningful life with other people. We think of community as luxury, as premium, as wealth…
The future depends on these important values, we all know that we can not keep living separate from nature, taking resources and not regenerating our impacts…
We need to live a better life, with meaning, sharing, and collaborating with others to be happy… and that is what minimalist remote workers in Canaries are looking for, happiness…
Let´s keep talking about it
We do weekly community dinners to talk about these topics…
