Recently, I came across the book I Feel Simple Life by Japanese writer Yoshiki Sasaki, which gave me a lot of inspiration.
Yoshiki Sasaki, 36, unmarried, now lives a comfortable, calm and contented life alone.
Two years ago, he was a poor editor and rented a house of more than 20 square meters. The small room is full of books, CDs, clothes and sundries. He is most afraid of opening the curtains and spends every day in the dark.
When he finally made up his mind to lose something, his life changed.
After living a minimalist life, he compressed everything around him to the maximum extent, just to meet the basic needs of life. He began to fall in love with the sun and drank tea in the sun every day.
There are no sundries at home, which can save a lot of time to do housework and travel with friends.
A clean and refreshing environment is more likely to stimulate creative inspiration. He can concentrate more on reading and writing. Not only did he become the editor-in-chief in just two years, but he also published his own book.
Jobs once said: Your time is limited, please don't live for others. Similarly, don't live for sundries. We don't need anything to enrich our lives.
When the author came into contact with minimalism, he began to have a new understanding of life and redefined the "happiness" that everyone longed for.
Once a chaotic life consumed his life. Now, after throwing away 98% useless things, he said: I have few things, but I am lucky every day.
The author lists the things that changed 12' s life after throwing things away. After reading the whole book, he suddenly realized that breaking up can bring such a big change to a person's life. Share it with you here.
1, more time.
Life is short. If you waste time on things, it's really a waste. After breaking up, the home became empty, saving time for housework. When the home becomes extremely simple, people's desire will be reduced, and they will stop desperately buying in buy buy, thus saving time for shopping and Taobao. Reducing options is necessary to speed up decision-making and save time. But you can save time to do more meaningful things.
2. No longer influenced by the media and advertisements.
Our life is always full of all kinds of information. When we turn on the computer, promotional information always comes to us. It teaches you how to manage money, how to be beautiful, and the importance of learning a foreign language well. Faced with this situation, film director tom Shadyac hit the nail on the head: In a word, you are not good enough now.
After pursuing minimalism, we realized that "we have all the necessities." As long as you think you have everything, you can turn a blind eye to the messy external information. Minimalism makes us understand that I don't lack anything.
3. Minimalists only need 30 minutes to act.
Many people have had similar experiences. Every time you move, you have to find a moving company, which is very expensive. It will take a day to move and a few days to clean them up completely. After pursuing minimalist attention, the author packed all the luggage in 30 minutes when moving, and moving was as easy as going out at ordinary times.
The time spent wandering has decreased.
In a messy room, people always feel very tired and want to close the curtains to sleep, but when the home becomes bright and clean, everything can be done quickly and the mood becomes much better.
5, the time to find things has been reduced, and things will never be lost again.
With fewer things, you will know the location of everything clearly, so you don't have to waste time looking for things anymore.
6. Have enough time to build a happy life.
Tim Cather, an American psychologist, pointed out that time wealth can bring happiness to people more than material wealth.
After reducing the items, the disposable time will increase, the home will be refreshed and the mood will be refreshed. You can have more time to enjoy life, enjoy emptiness, and pay more attention to beautiful things, such as the sound of waves on the beach and the bonfire in the distance. As long as your heart is clear, you don't even have to go to the seaside, relax in a nearby cafe and seriously feel the pleasure and comfort of the moment. Minimalism brings people closer to happiness.
7. Don't be chased by trifles.
In the crowded and busy modern society, we often fidget. When life becomes extremely simple, you will no longer be chased by trifles, and you will no longer waste time on trifles. You can calm down and visit the museum seriously, so that you can have a comfortable and rich 24 hours.
Thoreau, who wrote Walden, said, I enjoy life itself and will never lose its freshness.
1, a clean environment makes people feel happy.
What is more refreshing than going home and looking at a clean and tidy room?
The less things, the easier housework.
Instead of buying a variety of cleaning appliances advertised by the market, it is better to reduce your own items and liberate yourself from the roots. With fewer things, housework becomes easier.
3. Develop good cleaning habits.
Aristotle once said that we are made by repeated actions every day, so Excellence is not an act, but a habit. When housework becomes easy, you will get used to cleaning every day and keep it clean and tidy. Do what you have to do, and you will like yourself.
4. Reduce items and like yourself.
Defeat yourself who used to be troublesome and hate housework, and you can feel the real feeling of "controlling" yourself, so that you can be more confident, like yourself more, challenge more other things with your confident self, and your life will change accordingly.
5, feel the daily small fortunate.
After giving up something, your mind will change. Finish housework, take a leisurely walk, feed pigeons in the park and feel the nature. I believe this is everyone's ideal life, and a refreshing life gives you eyes to rediscover beauty.
1, don't move
Taylor Detton said in Fight Club: You can only be free if you give up everything. Many people always feel that their houses are small. When their income increases, most people will move to a bigger place, because they feel that the bigger they are, the more comfortable they are. The author has been living in a house of 25 square meters, and moved for the first time after 10. Moreover, the new home is only 20 square meters, and it only took 1.5 hours to move, which is very happy. If your life is minimalist, there is no need to move unless there are other reasons.
2. Freedom to leave.
Minimalism, you can start at any time and carry all the items on your shoulders.
3. Save the cost of living.
If there are fewer things, you can rent a smaller house, and the rent will be much cheaper.
4. Get rid of self-restraint.
Many people live in the bondage of self and the expectation of others. For example, my hobby is reading. I have to read a lot of books to prove myself. The author thinks he is a movie lover, so he bought a lot of CDs. In fact, most of them have never been seen, and they are not his favorite. After pursuing minimalism, he no longer paid attention to quantity, but only looked at the works he thought must be seen. No longer force yourself, life is much more casual and much happier.
5. Emancipate from desire.
When you become a minimalist, you only pay attention to what you need, noisy advertisements and the lives of rich and famous people will be automatically blocked, and shopping will not be as impulsive as before, but you will always ask yourself: Do I need it? Nothing special. It feels good.
There is a way to make people unhappy instantly, and that is to compare themselves with others. There is no end to comparison. There are people better than themselves everywhere. After learning to give up, the author no longer compares with others, never envies others to buy things at will, and has bid farewell to that mood.
1, experience can't compare.
The happiness that goods bring us will never last longer than experience. Instead of constantly buying things in order to compare with others, it is better to accumulate experience through improving actions, which can make life colorful. No, let yourself really live for yourself. I already have everything I need, so I don't need to compare myself with others.
2, no longer afraid of other people's eyes.
Only you care about your face. Instead of spending time choosing clothes, spend time on more creative things. Other people's views can't be proved after all. You can eat alone and sing k alone. No one will give you strange eyes and do whatever you want. No one will care what you do.
3. Abandon things that satisfy vanity.
Only by abandoning all the books piled on the shelf can you concentrate on reading a book that you are really interested in. As a result, you will read more than before. After abandoning old books, the author became interested in different fields. Let go and embrace new things.
1, the original super introverted self has changed.
After becoming a minimalist, I have plenty of time. I used to care about anything that others couldn't challenge, but now I'm taking action. The author challenged the diving that he wanted to learn many years ago, formed the habit of meditation, took yoga classes in the gym, called people who wanted to see, met minimalists all over the country, set up his own website, moved out of the house where he lived for 10 years, confessed to the girl he liked, and wrote a book of his own. After that, the author still studied English in the empty room and planned surfing, mountaineering and other sports, which he dared not do before, because he abandoned the clutter at home.
I didn't regret it, but chose to regret it.
Fear of challenge is more regrettable than failure. Success or failure, success is victory. Minimalism makes people empty. Only after emptiness will more and fresher things be injected, and people will be inspired to challenge what they have been afraid to do.
3. Become optimistic.
We are always dissatisfied with the status quo and always feel that we don't have much money and love, but minimalism shows us that as long as we know our minimum living cost and the minimum amount necessary for our life, everything will become simple. Minimalism has nothing to lose, so everything is optimistic.
Jobs said that deciding what not to do is as important as deciding what to do. Everything will send a silent message. The messy room seems to remind you all the time that it's time to clean up. The English books on the shelf will remind you that it's time to learn English. After the sundries are reduced, the information transmitted by the items will also be reduced, so that you can focus more on better goals.
1, take important things seriously.
We all have the experience that people with messy desks are not necessarily efficient. In order to concentrate on achieving the goal, we can only reduce unnecessary things. Minimalism is a person who cuts things for important things. Messi ran 2 kilometers less than other players in the race. Not only do you not run when you return to defense, but you also sprint less when you attack. His only concern is scoring, focusing on more important things, distributing his physical fitness reasonably, and trying not to run at other times.
2. Learn to do subtraction.
At present, it is not uncommon for many companies to need more than a dozen departments to approve a document, which greatly reduces efficiency. Jobs is the best person who can use subtraction, and the lengthy cross-departmental running-in is what he hates most. Jobs thinks that the more seals he agrees with, the more boring the idea becomes, and the slower it will be realized. What Jobs values most is not what he did, but what he didn't do.
3. Concentrated flow produces happiness.
Concentration makes people happy. Concentration gives people a sense of accomplishment, and a sense of accomplishment brings happiness.
4. Reduce network connections.
Modern people are kidnapped by friends. Look at your mobile phone once every 1 minute, and you won't feel safe without me for a day. This phenomenon makes people nervous. Japanese writer Tami Zhiyan introduced an interesting example in "Suggestions for Digital Drug Rehabilitation". When he checked in at a hotel, he helped guests to store their mobile phones and computers. Some bars stored their mobile phones at the door, so that customers who bought them could only concentrate on drinking beer and chatting with others.
5. Return to yourself through minimalism.
Many of us are living for others, just as the author once only cared about what everyone likes. After simplifying household items, the author began to realize that information should be minimal, and he believed his inner thoughts more. It is more important than paying attention to the comments of other irrelevant people, even if you are struggling, try to take action.
Since there are so many smart people in this world who can make money, of course, there are also stupid people who have unlimited desires.
1, minimalism, or save money.
The existing goods can satisfy themselves, and the material desire itself is weakened, and the pressure is correspondingly reduced. Without too much pressure, you will no longer decompress by shopping and overeating, and your mood will be happy, and your work and life will naturally go smoothly. You can also save a lot of money.
2, no longer buy because of "want".
Instead of spending money on things, it is better to spend money on "experiencing" people, enjoying travel and getting in touch with nature. This is the best way to spend money. Minimalism has changed our way of life.
Einstein once said that a table, a chair, a plate of fruit and a violin are enough to make people happy.
1, minimalists will become thinner.
After the sundries are reduced, the circulation of qi is promoted, and the body is naturally thin. People will forget the pressure when eating and only eat the part that meets their own needs.
1. People are no longer regarded as objects.
In the busy life, we become rigid, the relationship with friends and family becomes indifferent, and people are "materialized". After pursuing minimalism, we will pay more attention to people, be more considerate of others and improve interpersonal relationships.
Close people no longer quarrel about who does housework.
Without heavy housework, couples can have more time to concentrate on talking with each other, face each other well and promote intimate relations.
3. Look at others more correctly.
Minimalism makes people stop judging a person by whether they have something or not. She won't be much nobler than others just because she carries a lv bag, and treat everyone as ordinary people. No matter who you face, you won't feel inferior.
4, know how to share, and have sex with others.
Rich interpersonal relationships must be shared, and when they are satisfied, they are more willing to help others.
Just do what you should do today.
Give up things and let the author know that things that may be used one day in the future can only be owned at that time. Throw away things and let people learn to live in the present.
It is because of lack that I know how to be grateful.
Appreciate what you have now. No matter how many things you buy, if you don't have gratitude in your heart, you will soon get bored. As long as you are grateful, a small amount of things can satisfy people. And the moment of gratitude is the happiest.
May everyone learn to give up and live a happy life.