You Need To Hear This!

1: Stop hoping for more, because it’s unlikely you’ll get it — It’s a waste. Give up on lavish homes, expensive cars, and branded clothes. Instead, focus on simplicity. Just enough. Getting by. No debt. A bit of peace, simple clothes, and a simple life.

2: Ditch grandiose dreams of holidays and travel, fans and followers. Just try to be good, and decent, and do good and decent things, and accept that about life.

3: Detach from money. Earn it, sure, any amount of it you feel you can… but spend only what’s necessary regardless. Leave the rest alone, it doesn’t matter. Have it there, building up, available for something when you need it, or an emergency, or a treat. It doesn’t matter how much you have, spend only what you need to. Chose the cheap brands, shop local and fresh where possible to help your community, look after what’s yours and be frugal.

4: Read books, watch tv, smile, walk, exercise a little, enjoy sex with your partner, sleep a lot, and make the most of whatever you have.

5: Waste no time scrolling social media, clogging up your mind with false messaging, advertisements, and the prettied-up lives of others.

6: Play simple music as a backing track to your life; like piano pieces. There’s a lot of talent in the various genres of modern music, but the lyrics aren’t always conducive to your own peace. Save all that for parties and radio stations so as to not bombard yourself with subliminal sub-texts and artificial dips and rises in your emotions.

7: Stop chasing more and start embracing what you have. Start making decisions that lead to less stress, less worry, less financial burden. Make simple moves toward simplicity, and enjoy that journey.

8: Avoid the news, and don’t listen to those gurus that have nothing to talk about outside of money or identity politics. Seek inwardly instead of outwardly. Expansion of consciousness and awareness over expansion of possessions and power.

9: Don’t watch porn or lose yourself in sexual fantasy. Enjoy the intimacy you have with a single partner and deepen your bonds without strain to impress, longing for ‘more’ or ‘different,’ or the constraint of unattainable expectation.

10: Don’t play with fire, because you will get burned… and some of those burns will leave scars deeper than you can ever heal.

11: Grow close with your partner and don’t find things to argue about. Don’t involve yourself in conversations based around segregation or pitting men against women or vice-versa. We’re all capable, we all have negatives and positives in our histories, and we are here together right now because the universe sees fit. Respect that, honour it, and don’t strain it over things that have no impact on the current situation.

12: Enjoy the simplicity of a home-cooked meal. Relish in the combining of ingredients, stay humble and appreciative as you eat. Rice dishes and stews and good ole’ meat & veg. Not every day needs to be a massive feast cooked up for you and delivered to your door. Relax, cook, fuel your body, and be thankful for the simple blessing of having food readily available at each mealtime.

13: Do not compare yourself or your loved ones to the models and influencers of the world. That image is meticulously crafted over many years, with a focus on the perfect exercises and the perfect food. Be strong, be agile, be mobile and able, but don’t chase the body images of athletes and A-listers unless you are one yourself. If an ordinary and able body isn’t enough for you or your partner, then it’s the mind and it’s media consumption that needs addressing, not the body itself.

14: Meditate, walk, journal, write, read, draw, have fun!! But stop looking outwardly to those hollow and shallow goals. Deepen the connection between yourself and yourself, yourself and your loved ones, yourself and your community, and be happy on your journey toward simplicity.

15: Anything that comes your way can then be accepted with open arms. Stop chasing the things you think you want and you may find they end up in your lap, but if not, who cares? You don’t really want it anyway. Focus on the basics, look after what you have. Get by, and more than anything, be a good and decent person.

Life really is that simple.