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Top 10 Simple Ways to Simplify Your Life 2. SISO [Something In, Something Out] Want to buy a new book? What book are you willing to let go of? Keeping the objects in your home at a manageable, controllable level is a critical component of leading a simple life. You need to “feel” free in order to “be” free. 3. Minimize. The fewer things on a table, the fewer things to pick up and dust. The fewer things on your desk, the fewer things to distract you. The fewer the items, the simpler the choices. 4. Know your personal boundary between storage and stockpiling. For each of us this is different, but simple means you are not running out every five minutes (or week) to replenish something. It comes from a sense of abundance. Stockpiling is the result of fear of running out and comes from a sense of scarcity. 5. Eliminate the word ’should’ from your vocabulary. Life cannot be simple if we are still trying to live up to other people’s expectations. Or have expectations of what others ’should’ do. ‘Should’ may be the saddest word in the dictionary. 6. Don’t put it down. Put it Away. Take the extra seconds NOW. It really saves hours later. [Also, develop mantras such as this that help. Another favorite: Dinner isn’t over until the kitchen is clean.] 7. Remove yourself from negative situations and people. You do get to choose the people you willingly spend your time with or what you spend your time doing. If you always leave a place or people feeling drained, angry, dejected, or violated, then make a new choice. 8. Don’t take it personally. Most of what others say or do is about them, not you. If you carry that to the next logical step, that also means that much of what you say about others is really about you…. hmmm.. 9. Choose “true-to-self” over everything else. Whenever you need to make a choice, always take the path that is in harmony with your core values and beliefs. Notice where you feel the discomfort in your body. I find that discomfort in my head, throat or chest is fear. Discomfort in my stomach or gut tends to mean something is out of integrity. 10. Accept responsibility. Once you accept responsibility for everything in your life two things happen. One, you stop being a victim and that is much simpler. Two, you claim the power to change your future, and it doesn’t get much simpler than that! Quotes: “Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.” -Albert Einstein “It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences.” - Aristotle “Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you’ve imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler.” - Henry David Thoreau “There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit.” - Alexander Pope “All things are difficult before they are easy.” — Thomas Fuller To fly, we have to have resistance.–Maya Lin
A certain man planted a rose and watered it faithfully, and before it blossomed, he examined it. He saw the bud that would soon blossom and also the thorns. And he thought, How can any beautiful flower come from a plant burdened with so many sharp thorns Saddened by this thought, he neglected to water the rose, and before it was ready to bloom, it died. So it is with many people. Within every soul there is a rose. The God-like qualities planted in us at birth grow amid the thorns of our faults. Many of us look at ourselves and see only the thorns, the defects. We despair, thinking that nothing good can possibly come from us. We neglect to water the good within us, and eventually it dies. We never realize our potential. Some people do not see the rose within themselves; someone else must show it to them. One of the greatest gifts a person can possess is to be able to reach past the thorns and find the rose within others. This is the characteristic of love, to look at a person, and knowing his faults, recognize the nobility in his soul, and help him realize that he can overcome his faults. If we show him the rose, he will conquer the thorns. Our duty in this world is to help others by showing them their roses and not their thorns. Only then can we achieve the love we should feel for each other; only then can we bloom in our own garden.
No need to force your kids to spell right lah? And this is good news for people who want to be writers but cannot spell for nuts! So, for the times that you keep looking at the dictionary to find out how to spell a particular word….here’s something that will totally boggle you. Olny srmat poelpe can raed tihs. cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The it deosn’t mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Amzanig huh? yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt! if |
