• Reduce the clutter in your life.
• Use the unclutter system.
• Use "Speed Cleaning" to clean your house.
• Cut your grocery shopping time in half.
• Buy in bulk.
• Plant a garden.
• Run all your errands in one place.
• Stop buying clothes that need to be dry-cleaned.
• Keep your plants outdoors.
• Simplify your lawn maintenance.

2. Your Life-Style:

• Move to a smaller house.
• Drive a simple car.
• Sell the boat.
• Build a simple wardrobe.
• Reduce your go-go entertainment.
• Re-think your meals with friends.
• Drop call waiting.
• Don't answer the telephone just because it is ringing.
• Turn off the TV.
• Stop the junk mail.
• Cancel your magazine subscriptions.
• Stop the newspaper delivery.
• Don't answer the doorbell either just because it is ringing.
• Gift giving simplified.
• Stop sending Christmas cards.
• Take a vacation at home.

3. Your Finances:

• Get out of debt.
• Live on half of what you earn and save the other half.
• Re-think your buying habits.
• Change the way you shop.
• Reduce your needs for goods and services.
• Get rid of all but one of your charge cards.
• Consolidate your checking accounts.
• Teach your kids fiscal responsibility.

4. Your Job:

• Stop being a slave to your Day Runner.
• Work where you live or live where you work.
• Do what you really want to do.
• Turn your hobby into your job.
• Work less and enjoy more.
• Stop the busy work.
• Include your family in your work.

5. Your Health:

• Make water your drink of choice.
• Simplify your eating habits.
• Have a fruit or juice fast one day a week.
• Always split a restaurant meal.
• Pack your own lunch.
• Beware of exercise equipment, fire your personal trainer, and go for a walk.
• Get up an hour earlier.
• Learn to laugh.
• Learn yoga.
• Learn to meditate.
• Slow down to the posted speed limit.

6. Your Personal Life:

• Clean up your relationships.
• Just be yourself.
• Trust your intuition.
• Stop trying to change people.
• Keep a journal.
• Do one thing at a time.
• Take time to watch the sunset.
• Just say no.
• Resign from the organizations whose meetings you dread, and aren’t beneficial to you.
• Learn to reinterpret the past.
• Change your expectations.
• Review your life regularly to keep it simple.

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