How To Live A Simpler Life – 15 Hacks To Simplify Your Life
Want to know how to live a simpler life? Here are 15 hacks to embrace today to help you simplify your life and keep it simple!
Let’s chat about how to live a simpler life.
It’s often been said that a simple life is a happy life. Thankfully there are many things you can do to make your life simpler and easier to manage. This way you can have more time for your priorities in life.
A simple life is not seeing how little we can get by with that’s poverty but how efficiently we can put first things first. . . . When you’re clear about your purpose and your priorities, you can painlessly discard whatever does not support these, whether it’s clutter in your cabinets or commitments on your calendar.Victoria Moran
It’s the simple things in life that are the most extraordinary. Paulo Coelho
Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough.Charles Warner
The greatest step towards a life of simplicity is to learn to let go.Steve Maraboli
A little simplicity would be the first step toward rational living, I think.Eleanor Roosevelt
Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life, and the labors of life reduce themselves. Edwin Way Teale
That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.Henry David Thoreau
If you are looking to live a simpler life, consider applying these 15 hacks to your life and enjoy your newfound freedom (and spare time!).
HOW TO LIVE A SIMPLER LIFE
TIP # 1 – Limit yourself to one task at a time.
Although some individuals like to brag about their great multi-tasking skills, science has proven they may be incorrect.
You can be much more efficient if you stick to one task at a time until completion, and then move on.
HOW TO LIVE A SIMPLER LIFE
TIP # 2 – Do something peaceful in the morning.
If your morning is peaceful, the rest of your day is likely to follow suit.
You could meditate, read, write in your journal, or take a long walk, anything you find soothing before you start your day.
HOW TO LIVE A SIMPLER LIFE
TIP # 3 – Eliminate paper from your life.
Bills and other records create clutter and chaos.
They’re also prone to getting lost.
Paying your bills online keeps things neat and orderly.
It’s also a lot easier to see if you remembered to pay.
HOW TO LIVE A SIMPLER LIFE
TIP # 4 – Make a list of the things you want to purchase and wait 30 days before acting on it.
Impulse purchases create clutter and waste money.
If it’s really an impulse item, you’re likely to lose that impulse within a month.
Put the item on the list and see if you still want it next month.
HOW TO LIVE A SIMPLER LIFE
TIP # 5 – Limit your email.
Allow yourself to send 5 emails a day, 5 sentences each.
This way, you’ll only answer the most important emails and only say what truly needs to be said.
HOW TO LIVE A SIMPLER LIFE
TIP # 6 – Get rid of twice as much as you bring into your house.
If you buy something new, get rid of 2 items.
Your life will be so much simpler over time if you don’t accumulate more things than you really need.
HOW TO LIVE A SIMPLER LIFE
TIP # 7 – Take 5 minutes each day for the most chaotic area of the house.
Every home has that one area that doesn’t seem to stay clean and clutter free.
Vow to spend just 5 minutes each day focusing on cleaning up that targeted area.
Set the timer and get to work.
You will be surprised at how much you can get done in 5 minutes and this will keep that area from getting out of control.
HOW TO LIVE A SIMPLER LIFE
TIP # 8 – Have a media-free day each week.
There will be no TV, computer, or radio permitted.
Turn off the iPad and iPod.
Do something outside or read a great work of literature,
preferably without your Kindle – just an old-fashioned hard copy book.
HOW TO LIVE A SIMPLER LIFE
TIP # 9 – Say “no” more often than you say “yes.”
Yes you have permission to say NO to the things that deplete your energy.
You also have permission to say no to anything that doesn’t feel right or that would equal you saying no to something you really wish you could say yes to.
It’s up to you to control your time in order to simplify your life.
HOW TO LIVE A SIMPLER LIFE
TIP # 10 – Pay your bills on the same day and time each week.
Pick a day and make it bill day.
Make sure to schedule it into your diary.
That way you will avoid forgetting about the bill or being late with your payments.
It’s less financially stressful.
Paying all the bills at once requires a significant chunk of money and time which is why it’s easier to consistently pay a few bills each week.
HOW TO LIVE A SIMPLER LIFE
TIP # 11 – Read your news online.
Newspapers tend to wasteful (read it once and off to the bin after that).
You might find an online subscription is usually less expensive and doesn’t add to your clutter.
HOW TO LIVE A SIMPLER LIFE
TIP # 12 – Sort your mail each day.
Avoid letting it sit in a pile.
Toss the junk.
File what needs to be filed.
Open everything and give it a quick glance.
If your electric bill is triple what it ought to be, now is the time to start dealing with it.
HOW TO LIVE A SIMPLER LIFE
TIP # 13 – Think before you speak.
Many relationship issues can be avoided by holding your tongue for a few minutes.
Words are hard to take back. It’s like minimizing relationship clutter.
HOW TO LIVE A SIMPLER LIFE
TIP # 14 – Put things away when you’re done using them.
If you hate to clean and de-clutter, avoid making a mess in the first place.
If everyone in the house follows this tip, the amount of housework is greatly minimized.
HOW TO LIVE A SIMPLER LIFE
TIP # 15 – Create routines.
Laundry on Saturday.
Vacuum on Tuesdays.
Bills on Friday.
The less time you have to think about what to do, the more you can get done.
And the more free time you’ll have.
Can you think of any additional hacks that would apply to your life?
I would love to hear them!
The best place to start is by targeting the areas in your life that seem to have the most chaos.
By specifically focusing on these more complicated areas you will reap greater rewards than worrying about the small details in areas that are already fine in your life.
Simplicity of living, if deliberately chosen, implies a compassionate approach to life. It means that we are choosing to live our daily lives with some degree of conscious appreciation of the condition of the rest of the world.Duane Elgin
Voluntary simplicity means going fewer places in one day rather than more, seeing less so I can see more, doing less so I can do more, acquiring less so I can have more.John Kabat-Zinn
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