People tend to complicate life too much, and, as a result, we end up living it in chaos and confusion. You may not notice it, but one of the main obstacles to your happiness is precisely that complexity in which you live. Simplifying life is merely identifying what things (in the broad sense of the term) you need to live well and eliminate the rest. So simple (and complicated at the same time) like that.
What is the true meaning of simplifying our lives? The objective of this is twofold:
- To have more time to dedicate it to those tasks that make you feel fulfilled in life or to spend it with the people you love
- Free yourself from the ties of the material and avoid financial dependence and, with it, have more resources to allocate to what adds value to your life. The tips that you will read below are directly aimed at achieving these two objectives.
Identify Your Priorities and Make Your Life Turn Around to them
What are the activities that most satisfy you? What activities would you like to dedicate your time to? Make a list of those 4 or 5 activities that bring more satisfaction to your life. My current list of priorities: reading, writing, exercising, undertaking, and connecting with other people. Everything that does not have a direct relationship with any of these activities, I try to avoid it or eliminate it from my life. If you do the same, you will see how your life revolves around those things that you want to do. Removing everything that does not relate to your priorities from your life, you get more time to do what you like. Visit here for more information.
Give, Sell or Discard Any Object You Do Not Use
People tend to accumulate objects that we do not use in our homes with the hope that later they will be useful to us. Freeing ourselves from the objects that saturate our homes has a very positive impact on us. It is as if cleanliness and exterior order had the same effect on our interior. To move objects around us more confusion and stress, less objects around us more clarity of ideas and inner peace.
The plan that I am following to clean my house of unnecessary objects is the following: every Sunday I select 5 objects that I have not used for a long time, and I get rid of them. It is advisable to give them to someone who can provide them with the use or sell them, if it is not possible or is a lot of trouble for you, you can simply self-store them away in a rented storage unit. It’s your choice.
A trick: the fewer cabinets, drawers, boxes, and shelves you have at home, the fewer objects you will accumulate uselessly. Limit the amount of furniture you have at home that is used to contain and store objects and in turn, accumulate less unnecessary objects.
To give you an idea, among the things that I’m going to undo (give away, sell or throw) this week are an electronic piano, two broken computers, a printer-scanner, a briefcase to carry the laptop, notes of the career, etc. So every week until my house there is what is strictly necessary.