Simplify Your Life
100 Ways to Slow Down and Enjoy the Things that really Matter.
- Reduce the clutter in your life.
- Use "speed cleaning" to clean your house.
- Cut your grocery shopping time in half.
- Buy in bulk.
- Plant a garden.
- Run all your errands in one place.
- Cut your laundering chore in half
- Stop buying clothes that need to be dry-cleaned.
- Leave your shoes at the front door.
- Go for patterned carpets.
- Use food trays.
- Keep your plants outdoors.
- Get rid of your lawn.
- At the very least, simplify your lawn maintenance.
- Pets simplified.
- Moving simplified.
- Recycling simplified.
- Move to a smaller house.
- Drive a simple car.
- Sell the damn boat.
- Build a simple wardrobe.
- Reduce your go- entertainment.
- Rethink your meals with friends.
- Turn off the TV.
- Stop the junk mail.
- Cancel your magazine subscriptions.
- Stop the newspaper delivery!
- Drop call waiting.
- Don't answer the doorbell, either.
- Get rid of your car phone.
- If you don't like the holidays, bow out.
- Stop sending Christmas cards.
- Gift-giving simplified.
- Traveling simplified.
- Take a vacation at home.
- Get out of debt.
- Live on half of what you earn.
- Rethink your buying habits.
- Change the way you shop.
- Reduce your needs for goods and services.
- Get rid of all but one of your credit cards.
- Consolidate your checking accounts.
- Use this simple check register system.
- Consolidate your investments.
- Pay off your mortgage.
- Next time you buy a car, get it secondhand.
- Teach your kids fiscal responsibility.
- Quit being a slave to you Day Runner.
- Work where you live or live where you work.
- Do what you really want to do.
- Turn your hobby into your job.
- Work less and enjoy it more.
- Stop the busy work.
- Include your family in your work life.
- Simplify your eating habits.
- Always split a restaurant meal.
- Have a fruit or juice fast one day a week.
- Make water your drink of choice.
- Eat a muffin.
- Pack your own lunch!
- Beware exercise equipment, fire your personal trainer, and go take a walk.
- Get up an hour earlier.
- Be in bed by nine one night a week.
- Throw out everything but the aspirin.
- Create your own rituals.
- Learn to laugh.
- Learn yoga.
- Learn to meditate.
- Slow down to the posted speed limit.
- Clean up your relationships.
- Just be yourself.
- Trust your intuition.
- If it's not easy, don't do it.
- Stop trying to change people.
- Spend one day a month in solitude......(My favorite)
- Teach your kids the joy of solitude.
- Do a retreat once a year.
- Keep a journal.
- Do one thing at a time.
- Do nothing.
- Take time to watch the sunset.
- Just say no.
- If you can't say no, prevaricate.
- Resign from any organizations whose meetings you dread.
- Learn to reinterpret the past.
- Change your expectations.
- Review your life regularly to keep it simple.
- Ten minutes to drop-dead gorgeous.
- Kick off you high heels-and keep them off.
- Take off your plastic nails and throw out the nail polish.
- Stop carrying a purse the size of the QE2.
- Minimize your accessories.
- Rent rather than own.
- Get rid of your cars.
- Get rid of your phone.
- Stop making the bed.
- Get rid of all the extras.
- Build a very simple wardrobe.
- Pray.
- Believe in yourself.
These are just a few ways to Simplify Your Life. I believe in most of them....
To read up on each one, but the last 2 , which are mine, read SIMPLIFY YOUR LIFE Author-ELAINE ST. JAMES-also the author of INNER SIMPLICITY.







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