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Simple Living Manifesto ~ Part Two (2)

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 08 May 2014 15:27:00 +0000

Edit your rooms. One room at a time, go around the room and eliminate the unnecessary. Act as a newspaper editor, trying to leave only the minimum, and deleting everything else. Article here.
Edit closets and drawers. Once you’ve gone through the main parts of your rooms, tackle the closets and drawers, one drawer or shelf at a time.More here.
Simplify your wardrobe. Is your closet bursting full? Are your drawers so stuffed they can’t close (I’m talking about dresser drawers here, not underwear). Simplify your wardrobe by getting rid of anything you don’t actually wear. Try creating a minimal wardrobe by focusing on simple styles and a few solid colors that all match each other. Read more.
Simplify your computing life. If you have trouble with too many files and too much disorganization, consider online computing. It can simplify things greatly. Read more.
Declutter your digital packrattery. If you are a digital packrat, and cannot seem to control your digital clutter, there is still hope for you. Read this guide to curing yourself of this clutter.
Create a simplicity statement. What do you want your simple life to look like? Write it out. More here.
Limit your buying habits. If you are a slave to materialism and consumerism, there are ways to escape it. I was there, and although I haven’t escaped these things entirely, I feel much freer of it all. If you can escape materialism, you can get into the habit of buying less. And that will mean less stuff, less spending, less freneticism. Read more.
Free up time. Find ways to free up time for the important stuff. That means eliminating the stuff you don’t like, cutting back on time wasters, and making room for what you want to do.
Do what you love. Once you’ve freed up some time, be sure to spend that extra time doing things you love. Go back to your list of 4-5 important things. Do those, and nothing else. Read more.
Spend time with people you love. Again, the list of 4-5 important things probably contains some of the people you love (if not, you may want to re-evaluate). Whether those people are a spouse, a partner, children, parents, other family, best friends, or whoever, find time to do things with them, talk to them, be intimate with them (not necessarily in sexual ways).

Simple Living Manifesto: 72 Ideas to Simplify Your Life

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 06 May 2014 17:23:00 +0000

Hye guys, today I want to share one of the best articles on how to simplifying your life by Leo Babauta. There are 72 of ideas and I am gonna share little by little. Take your time to read and just do it....

A simple life has a different meaning and a different value for every person. For me, it means eliminating all but the essential, eschewing chaos for peace, and spending your time doing what’s important to you.

It means getting rid of many of the things you do so you can spend time with people you love and do the things you love. It means getting rid of the clutter so you are left with only that which gives you value.

However, getting to simplicity isn’t always a simple process. It’s a journey, not a destination, and it can often be a journey of two steps forward, and one backward.

If you’re interested in simplifying your life, this is a great starter’s guide (if you’re not interested, move on).

The Short List

For the cynics who say that the list below is too long, there are really only two steps to simplifying:

Identify what’s most important to you.
Eliminate everything else.

Of course, that’s not terribly useful unless you can see how to apply that to different areas of your life, so I present to you the Long List.

The Long List

There can be no step-by-step guide to simplifying your life, but I’ve compiled an incomplete list of ideas that should help anyone trying to find the simple life. Not every tip will work for you — choose the ones that appeal and apply to your life.

One important note: this list will be criticized for being too complicated, especially as it provides a bunch of links. Don’t stress out about all of that. Just choose one at a time, and focus on that. When you’re done with that, focus on the next thing.

Make a list of your top 4-5 important things. What’s most important to you? What do you value most? What 4-5 things do you most want to do in your life? Simplifying starts with these priorities, as you are trying to make room in your life so you have more time for these things.
Evaluate your commitments. Look at everything you’ve got going on in your life. Everything, from work to home to civic to kids’ activities to hobbies to side businesses to other projects. Think about which of these really gives you value, which ones you love doing. Which of these are in line with the 4-5 most important things you listed above? Drop those that aren’t in line with those things. Article here.
Evaluate your time. How do you spend your day? What things do you do, from the time you wake up to the time you go to sleep? Make a list, and evaluate whether they’re in line with your priorities. If not, eliminate the things that aren’t, and focus on what’s important. Redesign your day.
Simplify work tasks. Our work day is made up of an endless list of work tasks. If you simply try to knock off all the tasks on your to-do list, you’ll never get everything done, and worse yet, you’ll never get the important stuff done. Focus on the essential tasks and eliminate the rest.Read more.
Simplify home tasks. In that vein, think about all the stuff you do at home. Sometimes our home task list is just as long as our work list. And we’ll never get that done either. So focus on the most important, and try to find ways to eliminate the other tasks (automate, eliminate, delegate, or hire help).
Learn to say no. This is actually one of the key habits for those trying to simplify their lives. If you can’t say no, you will take on too much.Article here.
Limit your communications. Our lives these days are filled with a vast flow of communications: email, IM, cell phones, paper mail, Skype, Twitter, forums, and more. It can take up your whole day if you let it. Instead, put a limit on your communications: only do email at certain times of the day, for a certain number of minutes (I recommend twice a day, but do what works for you). Only do IM once a day, for a limited amount of time. Limit phone calls to certain times too. Same with any other communications. Set a schedule and stick to it.
Limit your media consumption. This tip won’t be for everyone, so if media consumption is important to you, please skip it (as with any of the other tips). However, I believe that the media in our lives — TV, radio, Internet, magazines, etc. — can come to dominate our lives. Don’t let it. Simplify your life and your information consumption by limiting it. Try a media fast.
Purge your stuff. If you can devote a weekend to purging the stuff you don’t want, it feels seriously terrific. Get boxes and trash bags for the stuff you want to donate or toss. Here’s my guide on decluttering. Here’s a post on starting small. More on purging below.
Get rid of the big items. There’s tons of little clutter in our lives, but if you start with the big items, you’ll simplify your life quickly and in a big way. Read more.

TO BE CONTINUED & STAY TUNE...... :)

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The Tips - Part 7 (Simplifying Our Life)

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 04 Mar 2014 09:59:00 +0000

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Spend time with people you love. Re-evaluate time spent with people you cannot mingle with and choose to spend more time with people you can enjoy. Whether those people are a spouse, a partner, children, parents, other family, best friends, or whoever, find time to do things with them, talk to them, be intimate with them.
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Spend time alone. Alone time is good for you, although some people aren’t comfortable with it. It could take practice getting used to the quiet, and making room for your inner voice. While it may sound new-age like, it is extremely calming. And this quiet is necessary for finding out what’s important to you.
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Simplify your interactions. There are some absolute basics that can make your relationships far simpler, far less trying on your nerves and time:
- Learn to say no. If you can't say no, you'll always be the person who is trying to fix everyone else's problems as well as your own. Learn to discern what is important enough to agree to and say no to the rest.
- Don't keep giving to people who always take and fail to reciprocate. Don't try to please others by neglecting yourself.
- Use your instincts. Don't be easily led. If you feel there is something wrong, there probably is.

The Tips - Part 6 (Simplifying Our Life)

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 04 Mar 2014 09:58:00 +0000

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Simplify your health. There are a number of ways to make your health care less complicated:
- Choose a healthy diet and exercise daily.
- Monitor your blood pressure and heart rate at home. Keep a record of comparison for your physician.
- Avoid smoking, alcohol, drugs and risk-taking behavior, such as base jumping or speeding.
- Have regular pampering treatments, such as massages.
- Meditate. This has long-term benefits and helps to keep you focused on what really matters.
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Save for an emergency. One credit card and $1,000 should be sufficient for an unexpected car or home repair.
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Find a good physician. Be sure they listen carefully before treatment is prescribed.
- Request copies of your doctor visits and tests for review.
- Your accurate history enables a physician to make a better decision.

The Tips - Part 5 (Simplifying Our Life)

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 04 Mar 2014 09:57:00 +0000

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Simplify your online life. Your online life can quickly dissolve into a mess. Bookmarks here and there, emails cluttering up the inbox (many unread), sites you've joined and have no memory about, etc. All of this has the potential to decrease the utility and enjoyment of time spent online and give you a sense of complexity that really shouldn't be there given the ability of technological solutions to clear the clutter. Avoid this by simplifying your online life as follows:
- Declutter your digital packrattery. Do a massive purge of the things that are cluttering up your computer, start keeping things simple and maintain a regular purging regime.
- Try to keep your email box empty. Answer, file, or delete emails upon reading.
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Simplify your media diet. TV, the internet, radio, magazines, newspapers, podcasts - there is a lot of media available. The trick is to use media effectively without letting it dominate your life.
- Take regular media fasts. Have weekends where you are completely unconnected to the internet, the TV, your electronic games.
- Place timers on electronic things that suck your time without you noticing. If you can spend more hours than you'd like online, install a timer – and use it! You might be surprised at your level of intensity. Even if you simply add in enforced regular breaks, your use of the technology will instantly simplify.
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Simplify your communications. Communicating with other people is a vital part of life but it can be too easy to let it take over in the form of IMs, emails, texting, etc. Limiting the times for communications can help you to keep this part of your life simple and effective.
- Keep email replies to certain times of the day only. Stop checking them every few minutes. Turn off the ping noise to stop your reaction for checking.
- Make all return phone calls at a set time of your day.
- IM or text for a limited time each day.

The Tips - Part 4 (Simplifying Our Life)

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 04 Mar 2014 09:55:00 +0000

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Cut back on the amount of time spent working. If you are working longer hours than what you're being paid for, it's time to reassess why. Ask yourself what you're getting out of and be honest. If you keep telling yourself "just this once", how many times will it take before that excuse runs dry?
- See if you can work less hours than now. Ask for a part-time role. Readjust your spending habits to cope with the decrease in pay, increase in time for yourself.
- Leave your work at work. Quit taking it home every day. If it didn't get done at work, it's time to reassess your working habits. Ask yourself what value you and your workplace are getting from taking work home every day.
- Stop working weekends. Even if you love your work, dragging work into your weekends starts unbalancing the proportion in your life. You might not feel it right now, but eventually, this will lead to burn out and/or passion reduction. Block off every weekend for the next six months. Not a single one of those weekends can include work from now on.
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Simplify work tasks. Our work day is made up of an endless list of work tasks. If you simply try to knock off all the tasks on your to-do list, you’ll never get everything done, and worse yet, you’ll never get the important stuff done. Focus on the essential tasks and eliminate the rest.
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Try commuting less. See if you can perform some telecommuting for a change, even just a few days a month.
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Take break times. Whatever your job, however much you love it, breaks are an essential part of rejuvenating your life. Life becomes much more complicated when you stop seeing things afresh. So, be sure to take all breaks, from morning tea and lunch, to vacation times. Your work won't feel half as complicated on your return.
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Clear your desk. If you have a cluttered desk, it can be distracting and disorganized and stressful. Clean it off regularly, perhaps every Friday afternoon before leaving work.

The Tips - Part 3 (Simplifying Our Life)

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 04 Mar 2014 09:54:00 +0000

Simplify your financial life. Finances enable us to thrive by owning a home, running a car, putting our children through education, enabling us to take vacations in interesting places, and ensuring we can survive with all the basics. Instead of resorting to the temptation to stick your head in the sand and hope that your finances will simplify themselves, here are some great ways to simplify them:

Create a minimalist budget. Learn to manage your money regardless of your income. Save for the future.
Pay cash. If you don't have the money, you won't spend it.
Think before you buy. You may not really need it.
Save receipts for six months to a year and store them in a large envelope or shoe box. Keep important receipts with warranties. Making it easy to find everything will remove the panic if you need to return broken or unwanted items.

The Tips - Part 2 (Simplifying Our Life)

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 04 Mar 2014 09:52:00 +0000

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Simplify your daily chores. Think about all the stuff you do at home. Sometimes our home task list is just as long as our work list. And we’ll never get that done either. So focus on the most important, and try to find ways to eliminate the other tasks (automate, eliminate, delegate, or hire help).
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Simplify your wardrobe. Owning fewer clothes of better quality means you'll always look good and feel good and you'll spend less time deciding what to wear.
- Have a versatile, but basic wardrobe.
- Choose a few basic essentials and styles.
- Mix and match two or three colors.
- Add different tops to black pants or blue jeans.
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Downsize your life.
- Have a small, but comfortable home. Less clutter, more space to move, breathe, and do the things you really care about doing.
- Learn to live with less. Buy less, savor quality more, and put the spare money in the savings account for a rainy day or a reward vacation.
- Rent rather than buy a home or items you need to use. Then the repairs, rates, and dry rot are someone else's problem, not yours.
- Trade your car for a smaller one. Find something that works for your family but is smaller than an SUV.
- Own fewer items but make sure that what you do own has greater versatility. Objects able to do double, triple, etc., duty are the most desirable to have around. Remember that working to pay for objects is not an ideal approach to living happily; review your priorities.
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Prepare quick meals. Find recipes that are quick to prepare. Spend the spare time enjoying the meal and your family rather than over-complicating the cooking process.
- Make use of the internet for fast recipe finds. Look in your pantry to see what ingredients you have. Decide the main ingredient that you feel like consuming for that meal and type it (and maybe some of the other ingredients) into a search engine with the word "recipe". Don't labor the search process - check up to 5 recipes and choose one for that meal. This can be a lot faster than browsing through cookbooks.
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Simplify your parenting. Many modern day societal expectations have brought about a parenting revolution where parents are doing everything for their children, from their homework, to tying their shoelaces, to letting adult kids stay at home when they've long outgrown it. Stop doing it all for them and simplify your parenting, safe in the knowledge that in doing so, you're also raising a resourceful and resilient child rather than a child who expects everything to be done for them.
- Teach by omission. Don't make lunch, don't clean the dirty clothes, don't put the toys away. Expect your child to start doing things for themselves at age-appropriate stages. It isn't easier to "just do it" for your child in the long run, as that teaches your child you'll always do it and that they don't have to. Do tell your children where they can find the things to do tasks for themselves, showing them how the first few times, but then let go.
- Create a chore chart for all children to follow and complete weekly. Involve them in its creation and they'll be more ready to buy into using it.
- Stop reading parenting manuals, books, and blogs. Other people's parenting advice can often be a source of distress and perfectionism that you can do without in your life. We have the innate ability to be good parents, and you're more likely to be a good parent if you're seeking out other people's advice than not. So trust yourself more and do what comes naturally. Your kids will appreciate not seeing "How to Tame Unruly Kids" open on the sofa!
- Allow your kids to discover nature more often and push them outdoors. There is plenty to keep them enthralled in nature and it's free, interesting, and healthy. Many children deprived of time in nature are suffering from "nature deficit disorder", which impacts parents too because you're always on the treadmill of finding things to keep your children from getting bored or experiencing life's little bumps and scrapes.^[1] Let go of your fears and find the benefits for both of you.
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Expect everyone in the house to pull their own weight. After all, it's everyone's home and everyone is responsible for its maintenance. Avoid letting anyone off the hook. If you have been doing so, it's never too late to change. Sit down and hold a family meeting about how the whole family is now going to simplify home life and discuss together what each person's role will be.
- Accept that people won't change. However, demonstrate to them that this isn't about changing. It is about doing chores and tasks that are everyone's responsibility and that nobody is more qualified than anyone else to do the cleaning, clearing away, and laundry, meaning that everyone is equally suited!
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Prepare celebrations and gifts in advance. Avoid last minute anxiety and craziness by having these things already organized well in advance. Keep a gift cupboard to help you throughout the year, along with a list of favorite homemade gifts that can be produced quickly and easily.

The Tips - Part 1 (Simplifying Our Life)

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 04 Mar 2014 00:36:00 +0000

Hi everyone. Good day and how do you do?. Hope everybody is in good health and condition. I came across this WikiHow and found this beautiful articel in simplifying our life.

Starting out

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Try the simplified approach to simplifying. This is about identifying what’s most important to you and eliminating, or downsizing everything else. While the remainder of this article provides specific examples of how you can simplify your life, don't sweat the simplification process, or you might be tempted to put it aside too, overwhelmed by changing all the things you're finding too complex in your life. It is important to realize from the outset that:
- Simplifying your life is a journey, not a destination. What might work for you this decade might not fit the next.
- You will find some dead ends that don't work for you. That's perfectly fine; just keep learning and unlearning as you go. Don't judge yourself harshly in the process.
- Sometimes others around you will feel threatened by your need to simplify. Be gentle with them because they are probably feeling mired in complexity deep down and wish they could simplify too. When you're ready, you can help them simplify too.
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Create a simplicity statement. What do you want your simple life to look like? Write it out.