Living Ideas

The Benefits of Living Simply

• Peace of mind. Simplifying your life can help you to release the tight grasp material possessions exert upon you. It will help you to stop pursuing soul-crushing activities for the sole purpose of having enough money to acquire new things. Ultimately, this will add more peace to your life.
• Higher productivity. If you are less distracted, you will become more productive. Living a simple life helps you to spend less time with activities that are not relevant. As a result, your time is less consumed by possessions.
• Clarity and focus. When you simplify your life, you gain more clarity on what is really important to you. It allows you to focus on exactly those aspects of your life that add true value.
• Freedom from possession. Living simply provides a way of enjoying life without being dependent on material possessions, accomplishments and other rather superficial things. It also encourages us to free ourselves from being possessed by things.

• Save money. It goes without saying that living simply helps you to spend less on things you don’t really need. It can contribute to a certain level of financial freedom if you only buy what you really need.
• Own better and more valuable things. Instead of owning many things of low quality and value, simplicity provides the opportunity of having things of higher quality and value.
• Freedom from comparison. Comparisons are almost always unjust. We simply lack the right metrics to compare the accomplishments of our lives with those of others. Discontent and unhappiness is the inevitable result of comparing yourself to others. Living simply helps you to free yourself from the need to compare.

There are many more benefits to living simply. But I think those mentioned above summarize a great deal of the manifold advantages that come from simplifying your life.

The 40 Best Ideas to Simplify Your Life

Simplifying your life isn’t always easy. And it certainly doesn’t happen overnight. The number of people who become minimalists from one day to the other is relatively small. However, one does not necessarily have to instantly rid everything from one’s life in order to live simply. It can prove to be far more beneficial to simplify your life step-by-step. By taking small steps you can change your life gradually. A little less here and a little less there can provide great results in a relatively short time. It also gives you the advantage of doing things more intentionally and with greater thought. Additionally, doing it step-by-step prevents you from acting too hastily, without thinking things through.

Consider the process of simplifying your life as a journey. It’s not so important to reach the destination quickly. Instead, it’s important to change a wide variety of beliefs, mindsets and habits throughout the course of the journey. Almost anyone can de-clutter to the greatest extreme. But only few would be truly content and happy with the result. Therefore, think of getting to simplicity as the gradual process of learning to be content with less.