Hey welcome to daily inspiration with B
I'm B from Pinch Me Living. Today we are
talking about how to simplify your life
this is a topic i'm super passionate about.
My husband Aaron and I have spent the
last five or six years totally simplifying
our life. Really consciously decreasing
complexity and really bringing in a more
minimalist approach in terms of how we
be inside of ourselves as well as how we
live our life in the external physical
world. So I'm going to share with you a little
bit about that and then i'm going to
give you a few tips. I just want to
prompt you and prod your a little bit to
help you see that if you choose to, you
can be super powerful about simplifying
your life. You know there's so much
complexity in our world and so much
pressure, that it
really helps immensely for your
mental & emotional well-being and for you
to have the highest level of peace, joy and
happiness in your life that you
consciously chose to simplify things.
So as you might know we live nomadically
so we move around, we don't have a
fixed location anymore.
We sold our home we sold everything that
we own. We literally have a car and a
couple of suitcases and that is it
ok so we've gone the extreme version of
minimalistic living by getting rid of
literally everything that we own - all our
positions, and learning how to simplify
the structures of our lives and our
commitments and responsibilities in
order to focus as much as possible only
on what is meaningful and important to
us only on the necessities in terms of
what we need and structure to live our
lives and to obviously operate and this
world and society and how it functions
and that has made a tremendous
difference to the level of happiness
that we have and I want that for you. So
obviously all of us a different and
you're gonna want to live your life in
your own way and what rock your boat
and what's important to you. But you know for me
I've gone to the extreme of things like
for example I used to hate getting mail
ok i just used to go to the mailbox and
there would be mail and things to open it was just
like one thing in my life that I didn't
need another thing coming at me right.
You've got emails coming at you, you've got the
phone going, you've got txt messages
coming in, you've got social media, you've got
all of these different things coming at
you and I was like how can I minimalize
this amount of stuff that I'm having to
deal with? So I literally went about
ensuring I did not get any mail
obviously living nomadically I had to do
that anyway because I was never gonna
get the mail because I wasn't gonna be in one
place to receive it but I literally
every time I got a piece of mail
I would contact whoever sent it
to me and say please don't send me mail. I don't
receive mail. If you want to communicate
with me you need to send it electronically
and if you can't do that then it's
obviously not that important and I don't
really care.
So you get brutal about it. Like I want
to live in a world where I don't get a
whole lot of stuff coming at me and so
you get very very specific and very
determined and you set boundaries around
yourself and you tell people that is how
you live and if you do that
what happens is, is that people align with
that as much as they possibly can and you
simplify your life. A really simple way
to start to simplify your life is to
look at your physical spaces right, and
so you look at decluttering your
physical environment, you look at
decluttering your work desk and your work
environment you declutter your bedroom,
you declutter your home, you declutter
your garage, you declutter inside your
car you consciously do that and here's a
benefit of simplifying your life by
decluttering all of the stuff that you
have around you. If you have less
clutter around you, you feel less
cluttered inside your mind. I'll tell you
what people come to me for support with
finding peace and clarity within
themselves mastering their mind, being
more soul aligned, feeling their intuition
they've got too much noise going on within them
and i'll tell you what when you have got
a lot of clutter and demands and stuff
coming at you and your physical
environment is cluttered it makes it a lot
more challenging to find your stillness
within yourself because you're triggered
by all that stuff going on around you
so as you declutter the external
you're actually decluttering the
internal, it gives you much more power to
find your pace. Another idea for
simplifying your life is look at what
your commitments are. So many people have
commitments to things they don't
actually want to be doing and they just
feel obligated and they stick to those
commitments. Part of simplifying our life
for Aaron and I my husband has been
we've gone really really clear and
conscious about what are we committed to
what are our responsibilities and making
those ones that have really meaningful
so you start to ask yourself does this
thing I'm committed to this
responsibility lift me up or drag me down
is this something that lights me up or
makes me feel obligated and then you get
brutal about it. You might have all of
these reasons why you think you have to
be doing the things you're doing you
want to challenge those. So you start to
ease yourself out of commitments that
are just simply not aligned to you. If
you want to live a life where you
feel free where you're doing stuff that
lights you up where your joyous you
gotta get rid of stuff that doesn't do
that to you
you got to get rid of the things that
drag you down and away from that. But
you gotta get brutal about it. It's about
having boundaries - I don't do stuff
because I feel I should, I do stuff
because it's right for me and here's
what you need to do that
you need to learn how to say no. When you
in something learn how to say no so
you can extract yourself from it and to
realize you're allowed to do that
without having to justify your reason
you can just politely 'extract yourself
and also when things are coming at you
in future to know very clearly what you
do want to take on board as a new
commitment responsibility and what you
do not and be very conscious about
making soul aligned intuitive choices
and learning how to say no "it's okay
thanks very much but that's not
something that really resonates with me."
The more you do these things the more
simplified your life will become
remember we can declutter the things
that are coming at us, we can declutter the
the physical spaces around us, we can
declutter our obligations and
responsibilities and as we do so we also
start to declutter our mind we're less
triggered, we're more free to think the
way that works for us, to be the way
that works for us and to do things that
work for us. If this video has been
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