How to simplify your life now ?

  Living a simple life gives you more time and energy to pursue what you need the most in life and will lead you to a more purposeful and contended life. So, living simple is what gives you lasting happiness and peace. We all right now are getting more and more busy in filling our days with unwanted complicated activities. The abuse and misuse of the technology has made this fact even more worse. The following information is a little hard to digest, but by using the concepts, it makes lot of things more simple in your life. 

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Less stuffs

 What you normally think is that, the more stuff you own. The more happy you are. But, the reality is just the opposite. The more stuff you own, the more you have to work to maintain the stuff and the lifestyle and the stuffs starts to own you. Owning couple of houses, cars and costly gadgets just leads a lot of maintenance and constant headache. 

When you own something, it takes and holds a fraction of your energy. If you just own what is really necessary for your immediate use, then you will have freed up a lot of energy at your direct disposal. Nowadays lot of minimalism concepts are floating around in the internet. People are gradually learning this practical concept to be more and more important.

Less Tech

You cannot imagine living a day without google or the dozen other tech related stuffs, that we use everyday like smartphones, television and like. The technology is seriously researching on increasingly more ways to capture your attention. Your attention is their money. They track your history and show relevant advertisements, considering their service of showing you relevant resources for what you search for, or providing you the services. 

But now, we are more addicted to technology without even our awareness. I use an app called Space to track my phone usage. After tracking only i came to know that i use the smartphone on an average of 3 hrs a day and unlock my phone nearly 50 times a day. Just imaging how distraction the technology has become. We have to be more vigilant in conserving our dopamine which is the motivation hormone. We have to use it on something useful to the society, than watching cats jumping on trampoline in YouTube or constantly checking watsapp, facebook feeds. Warren Buffet still uses handwritten letters to correspond with others, he doesn't use email. We cannot live like Buffet, but we can be more aware of our tech usage and redirect it towards lesser and more vital things, than to use it to waste our time and energy.

Vital few

As we are running after so many things in our life. There are very few things that we really need to live simple. Those are enough food, simple cloths and place to live, and few people with whom we share a meaningful and good connection. That is all we need. It is good to find what you are passionate about, which makes your work more satisfactory and something that you will look forward to and love instead of resist to do. The inner aspects that we seek constantly are joy, peace, bliss and knowledge. Make sure you have loads of those in your life. Fill your life with meaningful activities that replenish them when you feel some of the tanks get dry.

This image shows a list of simple things to do that can hack your happiness chemicals. Please do notice that this list is not filled with technology, exotic stuffs or huge amounts of money. Have a simple, happy and contended life.