This means getting rid of all kinds of entanglements, spending this time with the people you love and doing what you like. Avoid some trivial things, and your life will become more valuable.
However, making life simple is not as easy as it sounds. A simple life is a process of life, not a destination.
If you want to make life easy and simple, please continue reading:
If you think the following 72 ideas are too long, you can simply summarize them as follows:
Define what is most important to you.
Focus on what is most important to you, and nothing else.
Find 4-5 things that are most important to you. What is the most important thing for you, and what makes you value it most? What are the 4-5 things you want to accomplish in your life? At the beginning of simple life, take the answers to the above questions as the benchmark of your life.
Examine your pursuit. Review everything in the past, such as work, family, rights as a citizen, children, hobbies, your second job and so on. What is the most important thing for you, what do you like best, and what is one of the 4-5 things you pursue in your life? Give up answers that are incompatible with the above questions.
Look at your time. How do you spend your day? What have you been doing all day from the moment you open your eyes in the morning to going to bed? Make a list to see if these are consistent with your ultimate goal in life. If it doesn't agree, stop doing these chores at once. Redesign your day and focus on your ultimate goal in life.
Reduce your work tasks. Our working days are always full of endless tasks. But if you cross all the tasks off the schedule, you will end up with nothing, even the important things for you can't be realized. The correct way is to concentrate on the key and important things and give up the rest.
Reduce housework. Carefully sort out the things that need to be dealt with at home to see if they are endless like work tasks. We also feel powerless about too much "homework". Focus on the most important things and minimize the tedious work. This can be achieved by using automatic equipment, deleting tasks, entrusting help, and hiring services. )
Learn to refuse. Rejection is the key habit to simplify life. If you don't know how to refuse, your burden will be too heavy.
Control your communication. Our daily life is occupied by various communication methods: e-mail, instant messaging tools, mobile phones, handwritten letters, skype, twitter, various forums and so on. If you don't control it deliberately, these behaviors will occupy all the time in your day. Therefore, we should control our communication, such as checking email only at a certain time of the day (I suggest keeping the frequency twice a day, which varies from person to person). As for instant messaging tools, once a day is enough. For telephone communication, we should also pay attention to the control of answering time. For other communication tools, too, set a time limit and then strictly abide by it.
Control media entertainment. This advice doesn't apply to everyone. If media entertainment is really important to you, please skip this suggestion. But I still want to say that daily life should not be dominated by a lot of TV, radio, internet and magazines. If life is simplified, it is necessary to limit convenient pastimes.
Clean up the clutter. It will be great if you spend a weekend cleaning up the clutter. Pack things that are no longer needed and donate them to others or throw them away.
Clean out your closet. Is your wardrobe full enough to explode? Clean out your closet and throw away all the clothes you never wear. Create a wardrobe made of clothes with the simplest styles and colors.
Use less digital products.
Write a statement about your simple life.
Control your desire to buy. You can avoid becoming a materialist and a consumerist. If you can get rid of a materialist's consumption habit, you will be less enthusiastic about something, spend less money and buy less things.
Release your time. Spend more time doing things that are important to you, less useless chores, and make time to do things you like.
Do what you like. Do what you like in your spare time, do 4-5 things that are most important to you, and do nothing else.
Spend time with the people you love. The 4-5 most important things for you may include being with the person you love (without this, you have to rethink these 4-5 most important things for you). These people may be your spouse, your partner, your children, your parents, your family or your good friends. Take time to do something with them, or open your heart to them.
It is good for people to find time to be alone, although some people are not used to it. Being alone brings you inner peace and makes you listen to your inner voice-although this statement is novel, it can definitely calm you down. Do what is really important to you.
Chew slowly. If you always gobble, you will not only miss the delicious food, but also eat badly. Chewing slowly can help you lose weight, help digestion and let you fully enjoy life.
Drive slowly. People always honk their horns angrily when driving, which harms others and does not benefit themselves. Slowing down your car can not only make your trip safer, save your gas money, but also calm your heart.
Live in the moment. This sentence is of great significance to simplify your life. Living in the present can keep you sensitive to life and let you know what is happening around you and in your heart, which is of great benefit to your body and mind.
Organize your life. Many times our life is chaotic, because we have never thought about life. The correct way is to do one thing at a time and try to improve efficiency, so as to simplify these things, then write them down and stick to them.
Simplify your mail (file) system. If you don't do this, your mail (documents) will soon pile up. A simple mail (file) system can help you.
Clear your desk. A messy desk can only distract your attention and aggravate your anxiety. In fact, you only need to develop a few small habits to keep your desk tidy.
Life rules. A simple and regular rhythm of life is the key to simplifying life.
Empty your inbox. Is your email box full of countless new and read emails? If so, then you are all in the same boat. But there are a few simple steps that can make you more efficient.
Thrift. Thrift means less shopping, less desire to buy, and less footprint. These are closely related to the simple life.
Simplify your room layout. Simple room layout only includes the necessities of life, no more, no less, absolutely quiet.
Consider choosing a smaller residence. After cleaning the room, will you find that you don't really need much living space? This is not to suggest that you move to a small boat, but if you are willing to choose a small residence, it will not only save you money, but also be easier to take care of.
Choose a car with a small displacement. This is crucial. You may not need a large-displacement car or SUV. They are not only more expensive, more fuel-intensive, more difficult to maintain, but also more difficult to find parking spaces. You don't have to choose a small car, especially if you have your own family, but you can always choose a car big enough for you and your family to get in. Maybe you can't do it now, but please take these into account when you buy a car in the future.
Satisfaction is an eternal feast. The materialistic society makes us want more and more: you can get the latest gadgets, all kinds of clothes, all kinds of shoes ... but when it will end, no one knows, so everyone starts buying again and again. Contentment can help you get rid of the cycle of desire and sell only what you need.
Make a weekly menu. If deciding the daily meal is a headache for you and your family, prepare a weekly menu. Think about what you should eat for dinner every day from the perspective of a week, and then buy the food you need in a week. Then you will know what to eat for dinner. Abandon complicated cooking methods and choose simple and easy to operate.
Eat healthily. You may think that healthy eating habits have nothing to do with a simple life, but think about it. If you eat too greasy, high-salt and high-sugar foods and fried foods every day, your risk of getting sick will increase a lot. Constantly sick, hospitalized, in and out of pharmacies, undergoing surgery, injecting insulin ... that's it. An unhealthy body is a burden, and a healthy diet can help you avoid this burden.
Exercise. Just like a healthy diet, in the long run, it simplifies your life and is even more beneficial: it helps to alleviate your worries.
Clean up first, then clean up. People are always used to putting things in drawers or closets before handling them, which will make drawers more messy and throw away unused things before sorting them out. If you clean it up well, you don't have to do it at all.
Everything goes in and out. Although this is a cliche, it is really the best advice to keep everything in order.
Looking for a simple world inside. Although I don't believe in God, I think it's better to spend some time discovering the simple world inside than to put myself in a noisy environment. Take time to pray, keep a diary, get to know yourself, or get involved with nature. In short, take some time to discover your inner self.
Learn to release stress. Everyone has pressure. No matter how you simplify your life, there will still be pressure (unless you get the final liberation and die). So, learn to release pressure.
Don't rely on cars. Frankly speaking, I didn't do it completely, but in fact many people did. If I have no children, I will definitely choose walking, cycling or public transportation, because it will not only reduce expenses, but also give you more time to think. Cars are troublesome: bills, auto insurance, annual inspection, security inspection, maintenance, gasoline and so on all need your consideration.
Find your own way to express your feelings. Whether writing, poetry, painting, making movies, designing web pages, dancing, skating or other hobbies, we all need to vent our emotions. Finding such a way will enrich your life, and let these replace those chores.
Simplify your goals. Instead of setting many goals at the same time, it is better to set only one goal. This will not only reduce your stress, but also make you more successful. You will concentrate all your energy on this unique goal and increase your weight for success.
Do one thing at a time. Completing many things at the same time can only make people more nervous and anxious, thus becoming inefficient. So, try to finish one thing at a time.
Simplify your file system. It won't help to pile up files, but a really effective file system will help you.
Stay calm. If a little thing makes you angry and stressed, your life will not become simpler and simpler. Learn to release and keep a peaceful mind.
Watch less advertisements. The essence of advertising is to arouse people's desire for consumption. Reduce exposure to advertising. Whether it's print, website or TV broadcast, it keeps your heart clean.
Live with a purpose. Do everything carefully and slow down the pace of life.
List important things every day. Only finish the three most important things of the day every day. Don't let so many things on the list that you can't finish them in a day. Only do three things a day, and these three things make you feel most fulfilled.
Have a regular life. Regular work and rest greatly simplifies your life.
Writing in the morning. If you love writing as much as I do, turn it into a calm and rich ceremony for you.
Idleness is an art and an indispensable part of life.
Read Walden Lake. This book is the essence of simple life.
Emphasize quality, not quantity. Don't let unimportant trifles fill your life. Instead, it is better to create a pure land that belongs to you. Once you have it, you want nothing more.
Reading, reading, simple life. This book is my favorite book describing simple life.
Make your day full of simple fun. List simple pleasures and use them to enrich your day.
Clean up your RSS reader. If you have a lot of feed, sooner or later you will be overwhelmed by the pressure.
Make your backyard easy to take care of.
Go into battle lightly. If you always have a bulging pocket, consider carrying only the most important things with you.
Reduce online time.
Distribute your income reasonably. Although it is not easy, I am working towards this goal myself.
Simplify your budget. Many people avoid the budget because it is a complicated matter, but in fact it is very important.
Travel with less luggage. No one wants their journey to be hindered by big bags and small bags.
Use a minimalist and efficient system. Everything else is redundant.
Leave enough space. Whether it's a date or something, don't arrange one thing after another. Leave a gap in everything, and you will live more easily.
Find a place close to work. This means that you must work nearby or choose a residence near your workplace, both of which can simplify your life.
Always ask yourself: will this make my life easier? If the answer is no, then consider starting over!