8. Practice doing nothing

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...

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 ...

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...

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 ...

 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.

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? ...