Use these techniques to create a simpler life that’s more meaningful to you:
Everyday Simplicity With a few Simple Changes
Do you feel like life is too hectic to enjoy it? By creating a few simple habits life can be much simpler. If you want more free time, fewer obligations, and less clutter in your life, then remove the things that don’t matter from your life and add things that do. A few daily habits can make a big difference in creating more simplicity in your life.
Remove some of the clutter and distractions from your daily life:
Create routines:
Routines are just a series of habits. You can have a routine for cleaning the kitchen or completing a report at work. Routines simplify the amount of thinking you have to do. You can use your intellectual resources for other things.
A few other examples include a morning and evening routine for yourself, a yard work routine, an after-school routine for children, or an exercise routine.
Know your priorities:
Identify your daily priorities every day. Make a list each evening for the next day and stick to it. If you understand your priorities, it’s easier to simplify your life, because you know what matters and what doesn’t.
Assess your commitments:
This includes regular social activities, committees, clubs, and other commitments. Compare these to your list of priorities and goals. If a commitment doesn’t help you accomplish what’s most important to you, consider quitting.
Don’t be afraid to say “no.”
Before adding new commitments to your life, remember to review your priorities and goals. Be willing to decline any offers that complicate your life unnecessarily. Be brave and tell a few people “no.” It will do wonders for your self-esteem and support simplifying your life.
Start at home:
Go from room to room and consider everything. What do you not use? What do you not need? What do you not love? If you don’t use, need, or love it, strongly think about getting rid of it.
Spend 15 minutes picking up the house each night:
Make it a ritual for the entire family. Several pairs of hands can get a lot done in 15 minutes. Set a timer and have a race to see who can get the most done.
It’s possible to prevent most of the clutter in your home by putting things away when you’ve finished using them. Everything that you have to pick up and put away is something that someone failed to put back in the proper place. Enforce this rule with all members of your family.
Create a basic filing system:
At the very least, assign a file drawer in a desk as the home of your filing system. There are also portable containers that hold file folders. Organize your important papers, paid and unpaid bills, and anything else that needs to be saved.Put the cell phone away for at least an hour each night:
Put the phone away and interact with your immediate environment. Maybe you could read a book on simplicity.
Get ready for work or school the night before:
Rather than rushing around in the morning making lunches and searching for papers or clean clothes, get everything ready the evening before.
Have you noticed that simplifying your life is mostly about doing a few simple things each day? It only takes a few new habits to enhance your life and create a greater sense of well-being.
Repeat the process again every few months. The first round will produce a lot of benefits, but you can simplify your life even further.
