How easy is it to live? Learning to be simpler!

 

It's easier to live - to get rid of the unnecessary. This is how you can live easily!

The less we store unnecessary things in our lives, the less we stress ourselves. As a result, our new life becomes easy and enjoyable! Let's put things in order at home and in life, let's start living simply!

What is minimalism? This is when there is nothing superfluous in life. You live and possess only what you need for life. The first thing that comes to mind is the lifestyle of hippies and gypsies. But this is far from the case and is a delusion. The concept of minimalism implies the concept of the priority of quality over quantity in every aspect of our life.

Once you change your worldview and find your way in life, you will be rewarded: you will have more freedom, more money, more opportunities to meet people, and much less stress.

It is known that Albert Einstein dressed as modestly as possible and simplified his lifestyle. He did not wear socks, braces, belts, ties, he very rarely cut his hair. But this did not prevent him from being a genius and enjoying life!

Will we be slaves to our things?

In addition, a huge amount of property ties us to the place. Over the past 60 years, there has been a tendency in the world to almost double the area of ​​apartments and houses, and that we need a place to store household appliances, clothes, and other things!

The fewer things we possess, the freer we can move around. You think that benefits make your life more comfortable, but most likely they just limit and impoverish you and your life.

The steps of an easy life

You cannot wake up in one day and change your life. This is a lengthy process. Don't do everything at once. Start with one thing, complete it completely. Take a short break and you'll be motivated to move on to the next one. Below are some tips to make your life easier.

We clean up the house

Getting rid of trash at home! How do put things in order? Start with one room at a time. If this is too much for you, take apart one shelf in the closet. Divide all things into three categories: keep, give or sell, throw away. Don't leave things that you think will come in handy someday. Decide about each thing, how much you need it, can you live without it? Is it necessary to have three wine corkscrews? Store your fishing rod if you last went fishing 7 years ago? Protecting jeans that you liked in the hope of losing weight?

Organize and organize

Often at home, we are hampered by “visual” garbage: scattered magazines, TV remotes, cups, pens, cluttered windowsills with a bunch of knickknacks collecting dust. All this jumble is annoying, even if you do not attach any importance to it. Do not leave the item, return it after use to its place. Rearrange furniture to make it easier to move around the house. Your home is the home where you live, not the home where your belongings live.

You need to love people and use things, only the opposite happens in life.

Put all the things that you very rarely use in the pantry, buy boxes from IKEA, put things in them and sign where what lies. Maybe you need to go back to step # 1 and get rid of these things?

Stick to budget

Home bookkeeping and personal finance are extremely important. Prepare a budget that suits your needs. Buy only what you cannot live without, write a list of essential items and products at the beginning of the month and adhere to this list purposefully. Avoid taking credit cards with you to the store to resist the temptation, especially at the beginning of the month when you feel like you're on a budget.

I have been using CoinKeeper for over a year now, which allows me to record income and expenses, plan and track my home budget, and build charts. You can try it or use any other, there are a lot of them now.

Unsubscribe from unnecessary subscriptions

Have you noticed how many notifications, mail, SMS messages, spam, magazines, newspapers, news on social networks have been received lately? Maybe because we ourselves signed up for all this? Do we really need it? How much time do we spend scrolling through news and reviews, deleting promotional emails? Unsubscribe from all unnecessary groups, block spam in your mailbox, filter messages.

I received at least 20 emails every day. And almost all of them were with offers to buy something. Electronics stores, travel agencies, virtual stores of various small things, letters from a distant relative from Nicaragua, who suddenly died and left me his inheritance, and now asks to send him my passport data.


For a month I unsubscribed from every letter that came to me, I diligently clicked on the Unsubscribe button. Now I receive no more than 2-3 letters a day. And a distant relative from Nicaragua has not written for a long time ...

If you still subscribe to paper newspapers and magazines, and then do not know where to put the waste paper and put it in the far corner of the closet in the living room, then subscribe to the electronic version, if necessary. Get rid of waste paper!

Also Read: Why self-help books don't work

Use only one thing

If you are serious about living in minimalism, then strictly follow this principle. If you have a scarf for the winter and you buy another one, then it's time to get rid of the old one. You don't need to have two things with the same function. Don't make a mausoleum out of store-bought items. If you keep buying, then you will not be able to get out of the clutter of your life. Plan a day in the month when you can get rid of all the duplicate things.

Rejoice in simplicity

Live Less Is Better! Having got rid of the desire to possess a large number of things, you will learn to enjoy simple things, enjoy every day without spending any effort on “getting” things, and travel towards your happiness!

How often do you say to yourself: "A little more, a little more, and I'll be happy?" But if you are unhappy with what you have, then by doubling it, you will be just as unhappy as before.