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1. We create our own struggles

1. We create our own struggles

 All the stress, all the frustrations and disappointments, all the busyness and rushing … we create these with attachments in our heads.

By letting go, we can relax and live more simply.

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3. Distraction, busyness and constant switching are mental habits

3. Distraction, busyness and constant switching are mental habits

We don’t need any of these habits, but they build up over the years because they comfort us. We can live more simply by letting go of these mental habits.

What would life be like without constant switching, distraction and busyness?

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6. Find joy in a few simple things

6. Find joy in a few simple things

For me, those include writing, reading/learning, walking and doing other active things, eating simple food, meditating, spending quality time with people I care about.

Most of that doesn’t cost anything or require any possessions (especially if you use the library for books!). I’m not sayi...

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7. Get clear about what you want, and say no to more things

7. Get clear about what you want, and say no to more things

We are rarely very clear on what we want. When we see someone post a photo of something cool, we might all of a sudden get fixed on doing that too, and suddenly the course of our lives veer off in a new direction.

What If we knew what we wanted to create, how we wanted to live … we could ...

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2. Become mindful of attachments that lead to clutter and complexity.

2. Become mindful of attachments that lead to clutter and complexity.

For example, if you are attached to sentimental items, you won’t be able to let go of clutter.

If you are attached to living a certain way, you will not be able to let go of a lot of stuff.

If you are attached to doing a lot of activities and messaging everyone, your life will be co...

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5. Create space between things

5. Create space between things

Add padding to everything. Do half of what you imagine you can do.

We tend to cram as much as possible into our days. And this becomes stressful, because we always underestimate how long things will take, and we forget about maintenance tasks like putting on clothes and brushing teeth and ...

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4. Live in Full-Screen Mode

4. Live in Full-Screen Mode

Imagine that everything you do — a work task, answering an email or message, washing a dish, reading an article — goes into full-screen mode, so that you don’t do or look at anything else. You just inhabit that task fully, and are fully present as you do it.

What would your life be like? ...

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8. Practice doing nothing

8. Practice doing nothing

Just sit there and do nothing.

What happens is you will start to notice your brain’s habit of wanting to get something done — it will almost itch to do something. This exposes our mental habits, which is a good thing.

However, keep doing nothing. Just sit for awhile, resisting the ...

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