Mr. Simplicity And The Simplicity Lifestyle

  “By removing the physical distractions around us, we’re able to look inside ourselves and begin the process of mental, emotional, psychological, and spiritual decluttering.” -  “Love People Use Things” by The Minimalists No matter what, We will experience some kind of conflict today. Whether it is at home, at work, or when We are out and about conflict will happen and usually pretty unexpectedly.  When We are in conflict with others We must change Our ingrained negative habitual thinking and grow as individuals, otherwise the conflict will persist indefinitely.   When this happens We will take several deep breath‘s before reacting asking ourselves why We truly feel upset.  Then when We pinpoint the true reason that We can ask ourselves how, when, and where is the best time to broach the difficult subject.  Then when We have the dreaded confrontation We will only discuss one issue at a time with the intention of coming up to some kind of resolution or at least a compromise.  We will n

  “Hatred never ceases by hatred; it only ceases by love.”  -  “Mindfulness: A Practical Guide to Awakening” by Joseph Goldstein Our minds are extremely powerful, it’s possible to change the world one thought at a time.  We only know Our world by Our interpretations of Our senses and the abilities of Our brains and bodies.  We can’t sense everything that is truly happening in the moment so We have learned to filter and prioritize incoming information. The information We get is not the whole picture so Our thoughts become biased and can distort reality negatively.  First an event occurs. This happens as Our senses interact with the world, other living beings, Our personal histories, experiences, future possibilities, and ideas about Ourselves which We have pieced together using Our biased, limited, and distorted realities.  After the event comes Our beliefs and thoughts about the event, this includes Our attitude, rules, demands, images, meanings, and Our own mythologies.   Then comes t

It’s Summer’s time, 1987, my friend and I are hanging out at the Laundromat scavenging for quarters that adults dropped by accident while doing their laundry. We have been crawling on our hands and knees for about half an hour. My friend lets out a yell of excitement as he holds up two shining disks, “Jack pot!”  We both scramble to our feet and ran out of the Laundromat. We know exactly where we’re going.  There’s a small store in the middle of town that sells soda for fifty cents, and if we return the glass bottle we get ten cents back, which goes inevitably to our next soda purchase. Each bottle holds twelve ounces of soda, so it cost us only forty cents for each of us to enjoy six ounces of soda. I thought it was a pretty good deal until I told my Mom about it that night. She laughed and said that when she was my age she could get a soda for a quarter and she would get back five cents when she returned the bottle. My mind was blown. How could twelve ounces of soda only cost twenty

  “Being independently wealthy is every bit as much about limiting needs as it is about how much money you have. It has less to do with how much you earn—high-income earners often go broke while low-income earners get there—than what you value. Money can buy many things, none of which is more important than your financial independence.” -  “The Simple Path To Wealth” by JL Collins One of the bigger benefits of pursuing The Simplicity Lifestyle is that it gives us ample opportunity to talk to, teach, and work with our children about how to live a meaningful life with less and how to grow true wealth.  We can teach our children that we are not defined by the things that we own, but by the actions that we take. We can talk to our children about being intentional with what we let into our lives and what we keep in our lives. We can show them the benefits of living with less clutter. We can demonstrate how living a minimalist lifestyle makes it easier to keep things organized so we can thin

  “By removing the physical distractions around us, we’re able to look inside ourselves and begin the process of mental, emotional, psychological, and spiritual decluttering.” -  “Love People Use Things” by The Minimalists Close friends are like family we get to choose! Friends should have a positive influence on our lives. Friends should also share our Core Values.  That doesn’t mean that they should be the same as us. Truthfully it’s good to have friends that are very different than us. Sameness of purpose is not sameness of persons. As long as another is a good person that is trying to better themselves they will make good friends.  We can usually tell after hanging out with a person for a short period if they have a positive or negative influence on us. If we continually notice that something doesn’t feel right when we hang out with a friend then there is usually something that isn’t right. This “something” should be discussed and if the other person gets offended or mad and isn’t