Ok your desire to want more is no fault of your own.
It's simply hardwired into your brain's natural functions and in order to change
that you have to be willing to embrace the fact that's a human.
In other words accepting your natural faults and practicing better habits
that will guide you down the path you want to head in towards an intentional
and purposeful higher quality of life with less. Ok, wait, I think I dove in a
little too quickly and lost you let's start this conversation at the beginning.
Now learning how to once less is impossible to do until we fully
understand why we want more in the first place and a generalizing and explanation
for this isn't always fair right because we're all different we have different
stories and different backgrounds and reasons why we are the way we are right
it's what makes us unique and while these things and ideas help shape our
actions and our way of thinking I do believe that there's one thing we have
in common that's helping to drive this behavior of wanting more that's separate
from the idea of it being a natural fault of ours and that thing is a
gratitude or the lack thereof. See if we're not grateful for what we have
regardless of how much or how little it is
there will always be a void there; a sense of dissatisfaction, an urge to buy
and want more. I know for me one of the reasons I ended up with so much stuff at
the very beginning of my journey, clothes and shoes in particular, is because I was
never satisfied or happy with what I had. I always felt like I needed something.
There was something missing as if what I had wasn't enough right.So how did I do
it. How did I learn how to want less and what tools can you use to do the same in
your life. Four things; number one is I learned how to live with enough. Meaning
I practice gratitude daily through my writing, verbally by literally talking to
myself out loud even mentally being conscious of the thoughts I was having
and changing them if they start to drift into a negative direction
but even more than practicing gratitude every day I would also pause at random
moments throughout any given to hate and just reflect on how my day was going, the
thoughts was having even my overall fillings
right and doing this consistently helped me to understand what enough was for me
and how to be happy with that. Number two as I learned how to control my impulses
and I did this by taking a step back and gaining an understanding of what
triggered me into wanting more. See every impulse is caused by something and in
this case wanting more or buying more right could be triggered by
dissatisfaction or the lack of gratitude like I said or it could be boredom or
comparison or the idea of trying to keep up with the Joneses or any number of
other things where hate but see when we can understand what triggers us as an
individual it then allows us to control those impulses and stop them before they
turn into actions. Number three as I learned how to let go. Let go of
comparison, let go of my fantasy self, let go of the mental and emotional clutter
that I had that was stopping me from thinking clearly about this behavior I
had around wanting more see letting go and decluttering are two different
things but you need to do both in order to make progress on your journey see the
cluttering is an awesome offensive tool that helps you clear the clutter in your
life right but on the other hand letting go is a defensive tool that helps
prevent that same type of clutter from returning so if the goal for you is to
want less to own it less in life to be grateful and happy for what you have you
have to learn how to let go. Number four is I learned how to build the right
habits. Habits shape our lives more than we probably realize I love this
statement and the truth that holds if you haven't noticed but see when we
implements the right habits into our lives
it makes making changes and committing to them easier because we're then making
a complete lifestyle shift so really without building habits that supports
wanting less you'll never be able to completely make this idea stick in your
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