Clutter, high maintenance, lack of time, not enough space, and debt. One solution to these problems: simplify! Simplifying my life has been an obsession of mine for a good part of the last decade, as it has allowed me to devote more time on my passions and less time on things like infrastructure.
Recently I reviewed the “Simplify Your Life” page I wrote in 2002. I was pleased to see that those tips are still mostly relevant to life five years later and that I have indeed been practicing most of them during the last half-decade.
The only tip I had to revise extensively was in regards to a cell phone. Continue reading »
We live in a frenetic, consumeristic world inundated with advertising that can get overwhelming at times. Too often we find ourselves having or wanting too much stuff, often resulting in more clutter and less time (due to working harder and longer to acquire or maintain those things) and fewer dollars to do things we truly would rather being doing.
A way to solve this problem, therefore, is to simplify our lives, which is not living in poverty or deprivation, but focusing on doing and acquiring only things that are most important to us. Often it also means reducing or eliminating certain things we have in order to prevent wallowing in disorganization, debt, time-consuming maintenance, etc. Continue reading »
