Thursday, April 2, 2009

~ Less is More ~

Life is draining the life out of me! And I keep adding on to my never ending to-do-list! Everything to me is like top notch priority and i am freaking out!! 24 hours, only one me!!! So the other day, while i was in the library, i think it is just fate is trying to help me too! i found this book - "7 practical steps to leeting go of your burdens and living a happier life"
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So i have browsed thr and extracted the essence from the introductory chapter and decide to share with my ever-busy friends also...

Simplicity in its basic form means just being.

The aspiration for simplicity often turns into a process of growing complexity.

Tidying up
1) Your things - everything you own (more than 10,000 things!!!)
2) Your finances – cash and account balances + debts and loans + behavioural patterns and mental blocks with $$$
3) Your time – wife/husband/darling, boss, colleagues, customers, family, everyone stakes a claim to your time & daily routines and duties, hobbies. Where do you find the time just for yourself, to catch up with your self, time to think and do nothing?
4) Your health – long term prevention of illness, keeping fit!
5) Your relationships – social networks (friendly relationships or social engagements can be complicated)
6) Your life partnership – the significant other!
7) Yourself - life’s goal, own idea of fulfilment and happiness, life’s purpose

So learn to integrate these into your daily life:

1) Reduce things by half instead of doubling them
2) Get rid of junk instead of piling it up
3) Relax instead of stressing
4) Slow down instead of speeding up

Seems like a good pick hor... tsk tsk...Will update progress if i ever get to finish the book hee~

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