20 Ways to Simplify Life | Clearing The Clutter In Your Mind To Start A Simple Life

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You don’t need to uproot the family to simplify your life. There are many ways to simplify life just by clearing the clutter in your mind. When life is busy endless tasks are constantly bombarding us and making it difficult to take small moments to enjoy our life.

As a busy working mom myself, I found it difficult to relax long enough to enjoy my family and my life. I was constantly stressed about what needed to get done for the family, the house, work …. the list goes on and on.

I found small ways to simplify life for us, and each time I made these changes life got better bit by bit. I’ll be honest with you, when we don’t follow some of these, life doesn’t go as smooth for me and I find my stress levels increase. I’d thought I’d share some of my secrets with you, so you find ways to simplify life for yourself and start your simple life journey.

20 Ways To Simplify Life

1. Share the planning role with the family and download a free shared calendar app.
2. Set up a family communication center to manage paper coming in, meal planning and special event reminders.
3. Ask the family to help you around the house and accept the imperfect results.
4. Figure out how to be more productive at work and work less overtime. The Productivity Blueprint (found in Simplify Life Your Way) is the perfect tool to help.
5. Make family time a priority.
6. Find ways to build strong relationships with your spouse and kids.
7. Keep the bathroom cleaning products under the sink for those quick clean opportunities.
8. Automate the bill payments and savings for big annual expenses.
9. Set up a morning routine that reduces stress and gives permission for quiet time.
10. Set up a meal planning routine, that uses a slow cooker for busy nights.
11. Let the kids make their own school lunches.
12. Set up a digital cookbook so you don’t have to search for your favorite recipe.
13. Stop expecting perfection from everyone. Embrace their imperfections.
14. Love your life and practice gratitude for the little things.
15. Practice hygge to help bring some balance in your busy life.
16. Do outdoor activities with the family, taking time to enjoy the healing power of nature.
17. “Unplug” yourself and do a social media mini vacation.
18. Avoid negative influences with relationships and the media.
19. Life is too short to hate your job. Discover new opportunities and set relevant goals to help you get there.
20. Set up a nightly routine to unplug, relax, and enjoy some quiet time.

Starting Your Simple Life Journey

Starting your simple life journey doesn’t need to include uprooting your family or selling all of your stuff. You don’t need to make big life decisions to start your simple life journey.

I’m not knocking people that make the decision to sell their stuff and move to the backcountry or into a tiny home. These people amaze me. Seriously I don’t know if I could do that!

I do know that the simplest way I could start my simple life journey was to reduce the clutter going through my mind. I needed to find small ways to simplify life bit by bit. I knew that by starting small I could find more time to relax and enjoy life more.

To start I needed to first resolve that I needed two things:

1. I needed to ask for help and be honest with why I needed help
2. I needed to accept that perfection isn’t the goal; finding ways to enjoy life more is more important than perfection.

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I started my simple life journey using the tools I use at work while helping people be more productive and efficient in their daily routines. Trying to figure out where to start your simple life journey can be overwhelming. We don’t want to add to your overwhelm at all, so I’ve created the Pillars of Life that will help you sort through your chaos bit by bit and help you start your simple life journey.

Remember that there are many ways to simplify life just by clearing the clutter in your mind. I’ve given you 20 ways to simplify life but there are many more ideas that I’m sure you can come up with yourself. After all, it is your simple life journey. I hope to see you in the Pillars of Life Project and hear the exciting ways you are simplifying your life.

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