LIFE'S SIMPLICITY

Life is simple, we all know the basic rules to live a healthy and simple rich life. But following those basic rules is what makes it hard, because the easiest things are best said than done.
The hustle and bustle of our everyday life helps us to forget how simple life is, or how simple life can be, or better still, how simple we can make life be.


Just so you know, most of the books I've read on simplifying life, turned out to be pages of complications, how can a book on simplifying life not be in itself 'simple'. Life has its own ebbs and surges of complications and simplicity, and I'm going to help you through my method of simplifying life today.
So I’ve boiled it down to a simple method of Four
Laws of Simplicity that
you can use on any area of your life, and in fact on
your life as a whole:
1. Collect everything in one place.
2. Choose the essential.
3. Eliminate the rest.
4. Organize the remaining stuff neatly and nicely.
Life is really simple, but we insist on making it
complicated. – Confucius
To illustrate, let’s take a quick look at how to
declutter a drawer.

Let’s say this is the worst junk
drawer in your home — it has take-out menus from
restaurants that closed down a dozen years ago,
manuals for computers that used DOS as their
primary OS, tools that you have no idea how to use,
more rubber bands, paper clips and chopsticks
than you can ever use, mementos from your
unfortunate foray into rubber stamp hobbying,
souvenirs from that 'Olumo rock' trip you’d rather
forget about, not to mention a funky smell that
reminds you of gym class.

You could spend all day sorting through such a
mess and still have a mess. (Or more likely, you’ll
close the drawer and forget about it.) But let’s see
how the 4-step method would be applied to our
drawer:
1. Collect. Take out everything and put it in a pile.
Empty the entire drawer, and pile it all on a counter
or a table. Take everything out, down to the last
paper clip.
2. Choose. Pick out only the few things you love
and use and that are important to you. Just sort
through the pile, picking out the really essential
stuff. Be very selective. Put the important stuff you
pick out into a separate, smaller pile.
3. Eliminate. Toss the rest out. You know you’ll
never need those manuals again. Don’t be
sentimental with this step. Either throw everything
into a big trash bag, or find a new home for some
of the items if you think someone might have a use
for them — donate them to charity or give them to
a friend who would love them. And yes, you have to
toss out all the chopsticks.
4. Organize. Put back the essential things, neatly,
with space around things. Clean the drawer out
first, of course, and put the very small pile of things
you chose back in the drawer, grouping like things
together and leaving space around the groups.
Having space around things makes everything look
neater and simpler.

That’s it. You now have a very nice, simplified junk
drawer, with (let’s hope) a much less funky smell.
This simple method can be applied to every area of your life. My suggestion is to work on one area at a time and the move to the next area.
My above rules might be complex if not applied to a real life situation, let's put them into use here;
Before I sleep, I make a collection of all my activities for the next day, the classes I have to attend, the cloth I get to wear, the food I'll eat and so on, this way I have COLLECTED my list for the day. Then I CHOOSE those of utmost importance to me, if I don't have enough time to cook, I can scrap it out of the list and get food at SUB. Cooking as been ELIMINATED from the list, then all I'm left with is ORGANIZING, organize your day and give yourself breathing spaces, don't choke up all your already choked up list, when you have a free time, maximize its use.
As I said, living a simple life is easier said than done, just because you've planned your day doesn't mean it would work out how you've planned it, leave room for unexpected situations and be ready to tackle them head-on, even if it kicks you off the track, with a well planned day, you wouldn't fall too far off.
As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will
be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will
not be poverty, nor weakness weakness. – Henry David Thoreau

PEACE