How to get Simplicity in life

Simplicity isn't easy thing. In amidst of crisis and transition from one job to other or place, someone has to decide to simplify his life, get rid of the junk and focus on what he wanted to do. He is not all the way there yet, but he is heading in the right direction. In the end, it just took four simple, but difficult and bold steps.

1. Develop a life philosophy. Before you make any major (or even minor) transition in your life, you need to know why you're changing your life. You need a purpose. You need a prioritization system.You need a life philosophy, a distilled set of principles that reflect your values.To understand your values is to understand how you want to spend your time. Different people have different life philosophies.                                                 Some value family and quality time with their spouses and children. Others prefer friends or work. Unless your value system involves mass murders, your values aren't any better or worse than others. Your life philosophy is a statement of what makes you happy and gives you purpose in life.                                                   It's not something to be taken lightly. Personally, my purpose in life is to connect with others peoples. That's my first priority. That's my life philosophy. I also care about my friends, family and the world, but whenever I must make a choice, I'll usually choose writing.                                                                                                                                     
2. Divide up your tasks into must-dos and want-dos, and eliminate everything else. You have to do some things even if it doesn't fit into your life philosophy, like pay bills, eat and sleep. These are necessary things that you can't avoid.On the other hand, you have your want-dos, the things that you love doing when you're not paying your bills, calling your mom or dad, and fixing the garbage disposal.                                         Accomplishing the must-dos makes it possible for you to have time and space to achieve your want-dos. After all, it's hard to write that novel you've always wanted to write if you're constantly fighting the IRS and a roach infestation. Everything else? Junk them. They're a waste of your time. Yes, I'm talking about looking at LOLCat pictures! (Unless, of course, you want your life purpose to be 'looking at LOLCats and giggling ... unless, of course that is part of your life philosophy and you want some levity.)                                                                                    
3. Reduce clutter, both physical and mental. Clutter is more than untidiness. It's superfluity. It's excess. With unnecessary things piling up in our homes, offices and minds, simplicity becomes impossible.                                     
4. Go on an information diet. We live in a wonderful world where information is no longer the exclusive domain of the wealthy, the educated and the privileged. That Internet has democratized information to such a degree that anyone with an Internet connection can look up almost anything. But that doesn't mean that we should look up everything. The sheer amount of information available has led to data bloat.                         Information is presented in such a way where the unimportant is equally accessible as the important. It's easy to forget that it takes time to consume the information, time that could be better spent elsewhere. This is where your life philosophy becomes crucial. Think about what kind of information will advance your life philosophy (will it make you a better parent? A better friend? A better thinker? A better worker?) If the answer is no, don't read it. Turn off the monitor or phone and do something more useful. Two years ago, I used to read all of the political and news outlets.                                                                                                                 I knew what was going on in Sudan as well as I knew what was going on down the street. I felt like I needed to be up-to-date with world affairs to be a good person. Except...well, the data didn't help me achieve my goal of writing a book. In fact, it distracted me from my goal. So, I simply stopped reading news outlets, perusing blogs and watching news programs.                                                                                                       You know what? I'm far happier now. I focus on what I care about--writing and storytelling. Now that my mind isn't occupied by yet another scandal, I have time to read and write. Yes, I'm not the most well inform person, but now I have time and energy to create, not just consume. Some people's values will drive them to consume news. That's cool, but it's just not my value system. (I do hope, however, that these people let me know if the apocalypse is coming.)