Simplify Your Life

100 Ways to Slow Down and Enjoy the Things that really Matter.
  1. Reduce the clutter in your life.
  2. Use "speed cleaning" to clean your house.
  3. Cut your grocery shopping time in half.
  4. Buy in bulk.
  5. Plant a garden.
  6. Run all your errands in one place.
  7. Cut your laundering chore in half
  8. Stop buying clothes that need to be dry-cleaned.
  9. Leave your shoes at the front door.
  10. Go for patterned carpets.
  11. Use food trays.
  12. Keep your plants outdoors.
  13. Get rid of your lawn.
  14. At the very least, simplify your lawn maintenance.
  15. Pets simplified.
  16. Moving simplified.
  17. Recycling simplified.
  18. Move to a smaller house.
  19. Drive a simple car.
  20. Sell the damn boat.
  21. Build a simple wardrobe.
  22. Reduce your go- entertainment.
  23. Rethink your meals with friends.
  24. Turn off the TV.
  25. Stop the junk mail.
  26. Cancel your magazine subscriptions.
  27. Stop the newspaper delivery!
  28. Drop call waiting.
  29. Don't answer the doorbell, either.
  30. Get rid of your car phone.
  31. If you don't like the holidays, bow out.
  32. Stop sending Christmas cards.
  33. Gift-giving simplified.
  34. Traveling simplified.
  35. Take a vacation at home.
  36. Get out of debt.
  37. Live on half of what you earn.
  38. Rethink your buying habits.
  39. Change the way you shop.
  40. Reduce your needs for goods and services.
  41. Get rid of all but one of your credit cards.
  42. Consolidate your checking accounts.
  43. Use this simple check register system.
  44. Consolidate your investments.
  45. Pay off your mortgage.
  46. Next time you buy a car, get it secondhand.
  47. Teach your kids fiscal responsibility.
  48. Quit being a slave to you Day Runner.
  49. Work where you live or live where you work.
  50. Do what you really want to do.
  51. Turn your hobby into your job.
  52. Work less and enjoy it more.
  53. Stop the busy work.
  54. Include your family in your work life.
  55. Simplify your eating habits.
  56. Always split a restaurant meal.
  57. Have a fruit or juice fast one day a week.
  58. Make water your drink of choice.
  59. Eat a muffin.
  60. Pack your own lunch!
  61. Beware exercise equipment, fire your personal trainer, and go take a walk.
  62. Get up an hour earlier.
  63. Be in bed by nine one night a week.
  64. Throw out everything but the aspirin. 
  65. Create your own rituals.
  66. Learn to laugh.
  67. Learn yoga.
  68. Learn to meditate.
  69. Slow down to the posted speed limit.
  70. Clean up your relationships.
  71. Just be yourself.
  72. Trust your intuition.
  73. If it's not easy, don't do it.
  74. Stop trying to change people.
  75. Spend one day a month in solitude......(My favorite)
  76. Teach your kids the joy of solitude.
  77. Do a retreat once a year.
  78. Keep a journal.
  79. Do one thing at a time.
  80. Do nothing.
  81. Take time to watch the sunset.
  82. Just say no.
  83. If you can't say no, prevaricate.
  84. Resign from any organizations whose meetings you dread.
  85. Learn to reinterpret the past.
  86. Change your expectations.
  87. Review your life regularly to keep it simple.
  88. Ten minutes to drop-dead gorgeous.
  89. Kick off you high heels-and keep them off.
  90. Take off your plastic nails and throw out the nail polish.
  91. Stop carrying a purse the size of the QE2.
  92. Minimize your accessories.
  93. Rent rather than own.
  94. Get rid of your cars.
  95. Get rid of your phone.
  96. Stop making the bed.
  97. Get rid of all the extras.
  98. Build a very simple wardrobe.
  99. Pray.
  100. 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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