5 Tiny Changes to Live a Simple Life | Less But Better

These are 5 changes I made to start living a simple life with less complications in my life.

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Chapters:
00:00 Complications in life
00:36 Self image
02:33 Goals
03:54 Space
05:33 Social expectations
07:24 Relationships


My life was the opposite of simple. I was doing so much and wanting so much, leaving me feeling constantly depleted and stressed all the time.

So when I transitioned to a simple life, I never looked back. My days are not perfect and there are always ups and downs. But just getting rid of so many non essentials I used to busy myself with has been helpful in simplifying life.

Here are 5 small changes I made to live a simple and less complicated life.

Self image

Society often bombards us with unrealistic beauty standards, which create a toxic environment contributing to a poor self image.

We may think that if we exercise more, take more supplements, buy nicer clothes, or do more for our skin, we'll feel better about ourselves. There's nothing wrong with pursuing a healthy lifestyle, but what's wrong is basing our worth on our appearance.

I'm pretty sure that if we never watched a single ad or saw someone to compare ourselves with, I doubt we'd even question our worth. The ironic thing is that when we think of ourselves more, we may think less of ourselves.

We can't control the media or the society from glorifying superficial appearances. But we can choose to focus more on maintaining a healthy lifestyle, embracing our unique physicality, and realizing that our worth has nothing to do with our appearance.


Goals

Sometimes it's easy to get lost in these strict deadlines we set for ourselves. But what is important is seldom urgent and what is urgent is seldom important. The key is in differentiating and not blurring the line between the two.

So what if I don't reach my intended milestone as quickly as I wanted? So what if I don't finish decluttering my inbox or my entire home in a week?

It's not about quitting goal setting entirely but examining the intention behind it. It's determining whether it's worth the stress and the anxiety or not. Because "if anything costs us our peace, it's too expensive."

Space

I was always fond of self help books and felt I could learn a lot from them. However, what I have observed is that the trend seems to focus on how to do more things to improve our lives. There are formulas to optimize our work, be more successful, have greater productivity, and perfect our skills.


While they may be helpful for others, for me, I end up feeling a bit stressed. It’s as though I need to be doing things all the time to become my best self.

So I figured to simplify my life, I would rather make subtractions than make so many additions. I’m tired of rushing around so much in life that I was not even aware which things I was doing that are harming me.

When we hold space for ourselves, we are able to feel, express, and be present. It’s treating ourselves with care, kindness, love, and compassion that we deserve.

Social expectations

For me, simple living means not giving into social expectations. It’s living a life that is authentic to us. When we don’t consider what we truly want out of life, we end up observing what others do and move through the world checking similar boxes and following the same scripts.

It’s true that nobody is born in this world knowing exactly what they want. It always takes some trial and error and asking the big questions.

Relationship

In the past, I associated myself with people merely because of proximity. These were colleagues at work, schoolmates, bosses, and acquaintances. I’m not saying that they were bad relationships. But other than a shared, yet blurry history or present location, there’s really not much I had in common with some of them.

It’s okay to be nice and kind to everyone as much as possible, of course. However, I have become more deliberate with the relationships I keep. I may only have a handful of people in my life whom I truly cherish and prioritize, but that’s really the point for me. Relationships require time and energy, so I would rather have few but meaningful ones than many shallow ones.

Thanks for watching this video, I hope this added value to you. Wishing you a lovely day or night and I hope to see you again next time.