4 Super Reasons You Will Love "Easifying" Your LifeWritten by Kathy Gates
Are you someone who wants a simpler life, but who associates simplifying with giving away everything you own, and going back to baking your own bread? Unfortunately, that attitude can scare you away from making simple (pardon pun) kind of changes that can make your life so much easier, better, and happier. Instead, let's agree that simplifying means whatever you want it to mean in your own particular life. For me, it means eliminating stuff around me that I find neither useful nor beautiful, and trust me, other people would not always agree with my definition of useful or beautiful. However, it also means setting up systems to make sure that I have easier ways to handle some age-old problems in future. To me, simplifying means "ease-i-fying" (ok, so there's no such word, but maybe there should be!). Easifying defined would be, "minimum effort for maximum pleasure:" Easifying simply looks at problems of everyday life, then poses creative - easifying - solutions. Here are 4 super reasons that you will love easifying your life. 1. Less Stuff, Fewer Problems: With less stuff cluttering up your life benefits are easy to see. You'll have less stuff to clean, (yippee!), less stuff to have repaired (more cash flow!), less stuff to dispose of (environmentally good!), and less stuff to find (halleluiah!) Just pick one room in your house and look around it. How much of that stuff are you really enjoying and getting use from? How much of it is an aggravation for cleaning, repairing, losing, fixing, disposing of, etc.? I'll bet you a paycheck (not really!) that it's at least 75/25. 2. Less Effort, More Energy You'll have less fear and worry associated with carrying around a lot of stuff. It will simply require less effort. By simply combining things into one (aerobics and weightlifting at same time), by setting up a system to do work for you (a bill paying system), by eliminating a task altogether (delegate it to someone else), you'll be calmer, not stressed with day to day logistics of stuff. An example I love to use is freedom that comes from not smoking. It's not freedom from habit that most people notice first. It's no more worrying about having enough cigarettes, no more fears of not being able to find a lighter. You'll feel more in control of your time, your space, your energy.
| | THE CONNECTION: Simple SmilesWritten by Joanna M. Carman
Smiles have power relative to an ant's physical ability. They can cheer someone up, improve your own mood, and make world a more beautiful place. It amazes me how few people actually use them in their everyday lives.I recently bought a tanning package at a new facility and am, so far, unhappy with it. My tan is beautiful and dark, so that makes me feel good, but I just don't feel good about being there. It's almost as if I'm burdening employees when I walk in door. Without looking up from their computer, they ask my last name and how long I plan to tan for. They bark a bed number and that's it. The only emotion I seem to get is from sign taped to each stalls' door instructing tanners to bring out their towels and goggles emphasized by three exclamation points. As I bring out my goggles to front counter, none of three employees turns in my direction to retrieve them. So, I set them on counter and walk out door without so much as a "Bye" from any of them. As a result, I want to go back to my old tanning facility. There, I received a smile as soon as I walked in door and right before I walked out. So what's big deal about employees of my new tanning place not smiling at me? Well, simply put, it's because I walk into that facility for 20 minutes of relaxation after a long day at work and 45 minutes of traffic, but still manage to strap one on for them.
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