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Want To Lean Great Ways To Simplify Your Life? Start At Home
If you want to simplify your life and declutter your life, you will need inspiration and motivation. You additionally have to learn the art of “letting go.” Simplicity brings life balance, freedom, happiness and emotional wellness.
It is easy to simplify your life if you have the right tools to do so. You can make your life less complicated and distraction free, enabling you to focus on the more important stuff. Who doesn’t want to live a happier life?
I will give you the tools, and you take action. Today.
No need to procrastinate; apply these techniques and enjoy the lifestyle change, free of chaos and overwhelm.
Here are five easy things you can do today to simplify your life.
Action #1: Practice Gratitude Always
When you focus on the positive and happy things happening in your life, you are happier, healthier and more fulfilled. Speaking positive affirmations to yourself on a daily basis is vital to your emotional wellness and taking action to simplify your life. Take time daily to reflect upon the things you’re grateful for.
Make gratitude a habit so you can: improve your emotional wellness cope better with stress increase your happiness improve your health improve motivation build self-esteem and self- confidence.
It is important to focus on what you are grateful for, the things that make you feel thankful. In order to simplify your life, focus on the good things that are happening in it. Not on the things that are not going your way.
Write down all the things you are grateful for and put them on post-its, on the refrigerator, or on a bulletin board in your office. Wherever you will see them often enough to be reminded of them.
Action #2: Declutter Your Home
Decluttering the rooms in your home can be such a freeing experience.
Do you have rooms in your home with piles of clothing on the floor, stacks of bills on the table and piles of “stuff” thrown into a basket you’re not sure where to put? Then it’s time to declutter.
Start in the living room and kitchen as those as the two spaces you use the most in your home.
The less stuff you have, the less time to make it look neat and keeping it neat. Consistency is key, so you have to declutter. Do one room at a time.
Turn on some nice, fun, upbeat music and get started. You won’t believe how much faster you can get stuff done when you can sing and dance a little while doing so.
Plus – it helps burn calories! This is a win-win situation.
How To Go About It?
Finish that room completely before moving on to the next. Doing several rooms at the same time will leave you feeling overwhelmed, a home full of junk everywhere and more chaos than when you began.
You don’t want to end up frustrated by the process. Once you learn to manage clutter, you will feel more in control.
Make it fun by using the 12-12-12 technique.Find 12 items to throw away, 12 items to donate, and 12 items to be returned to their proper place.An easy way to organize 36 things in your home.
“The more you own things, the more they own you” – unknownClick To TweetAction #3: Create An “Outbox”
An outbox? What’s that? An outbox is a place for you to keep everything that needs to go out of the house. From bills that need to be paid, letters for the post office (if you still do that, LOL).
Ideally, this would be placed in the entryway/hallway, so you can take it with you on the way out the door. This is an easy way to simplify your life because you will declutter every day.
It is important for you to remember to use it, and not just use it as a place to toss papers and forget about them.
Action #4: Prepare For Tomorrow
In order to have a less stressful morning, I like preparing certain things the night before. I hate nothing more than waking up in the morning, going into the kitchen and finding it in a messy state. It just makes my skin crawl.
Aside from that, I don’t like to rush in the morning.
So here’s are some of the things I like to do:
- Before I go to bed, I make sure all dishes are clean and put away, or at least in the dishwasher. Out of sight.
- Kitchen counters wiped down and clean.
- Table is set for breakfast.
- Clothes to wear to work the next day have been picked out. I like to have two options because I can be very indecisive. If you have kids, lay out their clothes as well.
- Pack all bags. Yours and the kid’s school bags. This will prevent you forgetting any essentials that need to be taken with you.
Planning Helps To Lessen Overwhelm
Simplify your life by preparing ahead of time. These are things that are easy to do, won’t take you more than 10 – 15 minutes the night before, but will save you a lot of time in the morning.
You will find that your mornings are less stressful, and you can leave the house feeling more relaxed.
“Always plan ahead. It wasn’t raining when Noah built the ark.” - Richard CushingClick To TweetAction #5: Go Green! Plants, Plants, Plants!
Do you know that plants help to detoxify the air inside your home? Plants help to increase oxygen levels, and our bodies appreciate that.
It is great to have indoor plants that purify the air and rapidly removes formaldehyde, which can pose a significant danger to our health.
Such plants help deter illness, boost healing and clean the air in our homes.
The Top 10 plants for removing indoor pollutants are:
- Peace Lily (Spathiphyllum wallisii)
- Golden Pothos (Scindapsus aures)
- English Ivy (Hedera helix)
- Chrysanthemum (Chrysantheium morifolium)
- Gerbera daisy (Gerbera jamesonii)
- Mother-In-Law’s Tongue (Sansevieria trifasciata ‘Laurentii’)
- Bamboo Palm (Chamaedorea sefritzii)
- Azalea (Rhododendron simsii)
- Red-Edge Dracaena (Dracaena marginata)
- Spider Plant (Chlorophytum comosum)
Plants Will Change The Way Your Room Looks, Feel, and Smells!
Don’t move your plants around too much. Plants need time to get used to their new environment. You will notice quickly whether or not a plant is happy where you have placed it.
Water your plants regularly (watering needs will differ from one season to the next) and make you clean the leaves of your plants too. Once you get into the habit of decluttering your home and simplifying your life, you will find yourself becoming more intentional with what you buy and the items you bring into your home.
Getting The Hang Of Simplifying Your Life Takes Time And Effort
Try not to hang on to things “just in case” you might use it sometime in the future.
If it is just collecting dust or if you have not used it, worn it, or touched in six months to a year, then get rid of it. Donate it, sell it, or give it away.
Someone else may be in higher need of whatever items it is you decide to give away. When you simplify your life, you won’t waste time having to search for things, reorganize shelves, drawers, and closets or search through stacks of papers all over the house to find important letters of bills to pay.
The feeling of having more room to breathe, living in a cleaner more organized space will leave you feeling happier and more productive.
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What steps have you taken to simplify your life?
Have you made changes that have saved you time, decluttered your home, or increased your productivity?
Share them with me in the comments section below.
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I love your action tips for simplifying your life. I love your list of plants, although I have a black thumb. Do you recommend one that is fool-proof?
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Thank you for sharing with us such a great and informative article. We are trying for a while now to minimalize our life so that we have more time for our children. It’s going really slow. Your tips could definitely help us.
These tips are so great! My partner and I have just spent a lot of time sorting my house, although there’s still so much I need to declutter. I think I’m going to employ some of your tips!
nice informative post.
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Amazing tips! These are really helpful. Keep up the good work!
I’m in desperate need of decuttering my home. I’ve been working away on it but sometimes it seems like the clutter grows faster than I can sort it. I love plants but sadly many are poisonous to pets and that’s a problem for us.
I was basically forced to declutter and downsize when my husband and I split. I LOVE not having so much useless stuff laying around taking up space! It’s been two years and I still find things all the time to donate or sell on eBay!
Love the practical tips that you give! I will definitely be implementing some of these into my daily life!
I love your tips!! I need to work on the decluttering bit!! I find myself having loads and loads of different stuff that I don’t actually need but I still hang on to them. I love the idea of outbox!!!
This is lovely. The music helps me a lot and I think I am going to get some new plants. As I bring them in I am going to give away a decor item for each new plant. That way I am not just adding stuff.
Thank you so much Anna! So glad to see you on here! Yayyyyy!!!! I think that is an excellent idea of adding and decluttering. A very good strategy. xoxox S.
Love all these ideas!!! I sure like to declutter and keep my house clean of unnecessary stuff but my husband is too attached to everything … I have to clean when he isn’t home … lol …
Awesome tips.I def need to get better at preparing for tomorrow. I always plan to but I usually just fall asleep.
Hahahahahaha. Just make it a priority Anastasia, you can also do it in the early evening instead of before going to bed, so you don’t end up falling asleep 🙂 Have a great day, Sheri
I really need to declutter. I know that’s my big issue right now and my apartment feels overcrowded. I need to do some spring cleaning!
I love to Spring clean and really get rid of things that forever seem to accumulate. I am getting better and minimizing all the junk, but it is a process that takes getting used to.
Lovely post dear 😀
You have shared some spot on tips which I agree with. Plus love the list of plants for removing indoor pollutants as I love having pants indoors too, will look out for them and get those babies home 😀
Thanks for sharing dear 🙂
Thank you Sushmita. I love having plants, they make such a difference in a home and so far as they help keep you healthy, then why not? Hope you get some nice ones. xoxo S.
Great tips to ease the stress 🙂 I’ve started to clean the kitchen and wash up before I go to bed so it’s lovely in the morning. Makes such a difference! Ree love30
Yes Ree it does! It just gives the feeling of clean and free in the morning instead of “oh gosh, I need to do all these dishes!”. LOL. Definitely a better way to begin your day.
I really need to declutter. We are currently living half in a house and half in a storage unit, and I can’t wait for the day that I get to go through everything and purge. Thanks for the great post, I’ll have to keep it in my backpocket for when we get in!
Such great advice. Im always speaking things out loud so the universe csn hear me. I love the outbox idea. Im definitely trying that out.
The Universe will hear you loud and clear Marisa. I wish you all the best. 🙂
If not anything (which is a lie), that de-cluttering part helped me so much. When I moved, I cleaned my entire house and threw away a whole box of clothes I might ‘need’. More like rags. Simplicity in the end is just the key
Going to declutter my room today because of this post! 😀 thank you!
I love this topic! I just posted a similar one on my blog, simplifying and organizing your kid’s keepsakes. I like how you’ve included indoor plant recommendations and how you’ve emphasized usability.
Mae
Great post, I need to declutter for sure, that is one of my biggest problems, lol!
Well, I’m not a minimalist person, and I need a lot stuff to make my life easier and be happy. For instant, in the kitchen I do need many of household appliances that are on the market if I want to prepare my meals more quickly.
Loved this! I declutter my home twice a year and actually at the very moment I’m doing so. It’s so refreshing!
This is such great advice! I’m all about minimalism and decluttering these days. I’ll have to try the 12-12-12 challenge when I do my next big purge.
It will help you so much! You are going to love it! let me know how it goes.
I’m actually in the process of shifting some aspects of my life, this was perfect! I’m doing some of these (I can’t speak enough on the power of positive affirmations) , and some I will try–I could use some indoor greenary. Thanks for sharing.
I agree..Positive attitude is half battle won.I like the collection of plants mentioned for positive energy. something like negative ions:)
Thanks for your tips, I am seriously thinking on decluttering my house as I just have too much stuff so this post was really helpful and I will try the 12-12-12 technique. I do try and organise myself as much as I can for the following day as it does mean less stress in the morning :).