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How to live a simpler life by following these 11 helpful tips

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By MalaimuthuPublished about a year ago 5 min read
How to live a simpler life by following these 11 helpful tips
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How to live a simpler life by following these 11 helpful tips

People like simple things more, yearn for a simpler life, and want to be away from the self-evident chaos. We live in a poor society every day and experience all kinds of human relationships in the workplace. We feel nervous and unable to relax. Many of us living in an affluent world are experiencing various pressures. When we feel overwhelmed, we may try to live a simpler life and make more deductions to make ourselves more relaxed. So how do you live a simpler life? Here are 8 tips that may help you.

Steps on how to live a simple life

Live a simple life, because simple is the most real and often the most precious, live a simple life and make yourself happy. Here is a list of 11 useful tips on how to live a simpler life.

1. Be kind to yourself

More happiness, less sadness; More truth, less hypocrisy; More relaxed, less hectic.

Times change and so do people. If you can't bear it, let it go; If you can't hurt it, look below; If you can't figure it out, don't; If you can't hate it, you have to cure it. Life is a cultivation process, why look at people and things with such an unreasoning heart, to train yourself and shorten the years?

2. Be happy with what you have

Never compare yourself to others, you should know that you have something unique. When many people hear this sentence, they may say: There are many people in this world who are better than you and work harder than you.

I want to be the first. OK, but so what? Because no matter how hard you work, there will always be people in this world who are better than you, happier in life, faster growing in wealth and smarter than you. It's not sad.

3. Reasonable consumption

Do you feel sad that your house is full of unnecessary things? To avoid unnecessary consumption, you can make a list before shopping, start with practicality and reduce the pursuit of beauty and economical and environmentally friendly brands.

4. Develop an awareness of minimalism

Minimalism is something that many people want to do in modern times but don't. It begins with small things, gradually grows larger, and points to the surface until it finally takes shape.

5. Define your boundaries

Sometimes I hope to have too many friends and associates, so I let others intrude on me, which can cause too much trouble with others and make me uncomfortable. At this point, you can listen to your heart and reluctantly accept.

6. Maintaining authentic relationships

It's not necessary to fully invest every emotion, start from the heart and ask more about your own feelings. If a relationship is draining you emotionally and energetically, you should consider whether to continue or let it go. Family, friendship and love all need to be managed and don't forget to focus more on those who are good to you.

7. Try to be alone and find yourself

The better you know yourself, the better you can be. Solitude is a great way to think and reflect, from small daily matters to big decisions.

8. Beware of your jealousy

Jealousy makes life miserable, not happy. Jealousy comes from one's own hardships and cold reception. Generally, people with strong jealousy often fail. Because of their inner sensitivity and inferiority complex, they think badly of others, and they are usually hostile to others, shameless, selfish, vindictive, and critical of others.

When a person is envious of others, he always pays attention to the advantages of others, but he cannot notice his own superiority. In fact, everyone is inferior to others. When others surpass us in some aspect, we can consciously think about where we are worse than others, thus bringing our imbalanced psychological balance back into balance.

9. Don't get caught up in accumulating wealth

Charlie Munger once said: "Life is not about the intelligent accumulation of wealth." Modern people are always interested in earning money and supporting their family. Of course, there are elements of difficulty in survival.

However, if you want to be happy, if you want to find a way out when you're in pain and confusion, or if you want to live a simple life, you need to surround yourself with the love of your family and friends. Broad minded. You will see that life is nothing but money. In addition, there is a wider world.

10. Know how to enjoy yourself

In life, others chase houses and castles. A romantic scene, a stone bench in a flowerpot, just sit and drink, a song, a cup of tea and enjoy.

Home is cozy and comfortable, why come down? Wouldn't it be nice to have a song, a cup of tea, grow flowers, fish and enjoy the beauty of nature? Isn't it often said that contentment is always happiness? We are happy to be happy with our heart and wealth. Even if we don't have much wealth and the income of those in positions is not high, we have nothing to worry about. People have ideas and wealth of ideas is real wealth.

11. Live healthy

Good living habits and lifestyles are the basic conditions for our health. Being active, happy and physically healthy is the only way to perform well at work. Regulate work and rest time reasonably and scientifically, work and rest, moderate rest, avoid getting up late, go to bed early and get up early, understand your "physiological clock". May your life always be active, happy and full of sunshine.

Health is the basis of everything. Money is wealth, youth is capital, but what is wealth without health? Without health, youth is no longer an advantage, and if you lose your health, you lose everything.

Conclusion

The ultimate purpose of life is to make your own life better. The biggest regret in life is when I look back on my life as I get older and realize that, in the end, I owe myself so much.

Life is not easy and it is only when one reaches it that the unevenness, twists and turns of the road become apparent. Don't regret too much in your life. If you want to live a simple life, from now on, learn to appreciate yourself, work hard to treat yourself well, and manage yourself well. If you do the above eight things, you will find that your heart is always full of sunshine and harmony and everything you see is beautiful.

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