Keep Life Simple – 9 Ways To Simplify Your Days Quickly
Want to keep life simple? Here are 9 ways to simplify your days so that your life is so much easier from hereon.
Let’s talk about keeping life simple.
If you’re like me, there’s a good chance your life and days are busy….really busy.
Once upon a time our days seemed to go so slow, especially when we were younger but now not so such.Our days as adults seem to fill up quickly, leaving us distracted and stressed.
It’s challenging to keep life simple and be happy and healthy when chronically stressed.
One solution is to simplify your day.
By following a few easy rules, you can simplify your day and remove a lot of the stress that you may be experiencing.
Now it needs to be said: change can be easier when implemented in steps. For best results, take some time to put these techniques into action.
Get used to using one strategy and then move on to another to seamlessly incorporate these changes into your life.
Follow these steps to simplify your life and your days will be more enjoyable:
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TIP # 1 – Consider what’s most important.
Simplifying anything always starts with determining what is most important and figuring out how to eliminate the rest.
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Ask yourself now: What are the 4 or 5 most important things in your life? Make a list.
- Now, think about your activities, tasks, and commitments that are congruent with your list.
- Start eliminating the items that fail to support your priorities. Fill your heart with what’s important and be done with all the rest.
- Do what you have to do so you can do what you want to do.
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TIP # 2 – Know what your perfect day looks like.
It’s hard to achieve something if you’re lacking a target.
So visualize your perfect day.
Everyone’s perfect day is different but try to at least understand what yours looks like. Have you ever given this some thought?
For me the perfect day would start with listening to some music I love and end with immersing myself in a warm bath followed by a great book.
What does your perfect day look like?
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TIP # 3 – It’s okay to say “no.”
When faced with opportunities to add activities to your life, consider your priorities list.
If a new activity doesn’t fit with your list, just say “no.”
- If you’re afraid you might disappoint others by turning down their request, remember that when you do too much, the quality of your contribution is minimized.
- Remember you are saying NO so that you can concentrate on the things that are really important to you.
- Do yourself a favor and learn how to say no without feeling like you need to explain why.
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You’re letting yourself and your family down more when you take on too much.
- Give yourself permission to say NO to anything that makes you unhappy and/or drains your energy.
- You have to learn to say no without feeling guilty. Setting boundaries is healthy. You need to learn to respect and take care of yourself.
- Hint: don’t say maybe if what you really want to say is NO.
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TIP # 4 – Prioritize your tasks.
Before you go to bed each night, make a list of the three top things you want to accomplish the next day.
Make a second list of things you’d like to accomplish, but they aren’t critical.
- Avoid doing items on the second list until the first list is complete. You need to take care of what is most important first ALWAYS!
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TIP # 5 – Schedule time to do the most important items.
If it’s important to complete a certain task, decide exactly when to do it.
These appointments should be bordering on sacred.
Nothing should get in the way.
Turn off your phone and stay off the internet!
You are in control of your time and you decide what you get to do with it.
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TIP # 6 – Slow down.
Going a little slower won’t decrease the amount you accomplish.
Rushing instead is just wallowing in nervous energy that makes you tired, less effective, and prone to mistakes.
Smile and breathe.
Everything is easier if you simply slow down.
If you’re always racing to the next moment, what happens to the one you’re in? Slow down and enjoy the moment you’re in and live your life to the fullest. Nanette Mathews
Sometimes our stop-doing list needs to be bigger than our to-do list. Patti Digh
Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Make the Now the primary focus of your life. Eckhart Tolle
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Instead of saying ‘I don’t have time’ try saying ‘it’s not a priority,’ and see how that feels… I have time to iron my sheets, I just don’t want to. But other things are harder.
Try it: ‘I’m not going to edit your résumé, sweetie, because it’s not a priority.’ ‘I don’t go to the doctor because my health is not a priority.’ If these phrases don’t sit well, that’s the point. Changing our language reminds us that time is a choice. If we don’t like how we’re spending an hour, we can choose differently. Laura Vanderkam
Once she stopped rushing through life, she was amazed how much more life she had time for. Unknown
Slow down and enjoy life. It’s not only the scenery you miss by going too fast – you also miss the sense of where you are going and why. Eddie Canto
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TIP # 7 – Try single-tasking.
Multi-tasking has been shown to be a less efficient way to work.
Focus on one task at a time. Complete it and then move on.
- This is a great opportunity to hone your ability to focus.
- Remember multi-tasking arises out of distraction itself.
Multi-tasking is the ability to screw up everything simultaneously. Jeremy Clarkson
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TIP # 8 – Batch the smaller tasks.
When possible, have time scheduled to do all of your phone calls at once.
The same goes for dealing with e-mails or any other similar task.
These are great to do at the end of the day when your energy is low.
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TIP # 9 – Leave some space in between.
It sounds counter intuitive, but you can get more done if you take a short break between tasks.
Have a drink of water and move around a little bit.
Breaks are important.
Relax.
- It’s not necessary to cram one task right on top of another.
Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes…including you. Anne Lamott
Sometimes you gotta take a break from all the noise to appreciate the beauty of silence. Robert Tew
Making your day as simple as possible is almost magical.
By focusing on the most important items each day, you eliminate a lot of clutter in your life and your mind.
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So in the end the ability to simplify your life and days is up to you.
Consider taking on these 9 strategies to simplify your day. You’ll feel much more peaceful and get more of the important tasks accomplished.
Get started today and your days will become so much more enjoyable.
Simplify for yourself, your business, your family and your dreams and great results will follow.
The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak. Hans Hoffman
Our life is frittered away by detail….simplify, simplify, simplify. Henry David Thoreau
Maybe the life you’ve always wanted is buried under everything you own. Joshua Becker
Wishing you the best of luck with simplifying your life.
Much love,
Frances Vidakovic
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