Uncomplicate Your Life

There is a gadget for everything, and it is created to supposedly simplify your life. Your phone has an app for banking, buying, driving, exercising, sleeping, and everything in between. Amazon has what you need just a click away and delivered the next day, box after box. Social media contains ads for the latest style and what to drink to make you feel younger and have more energy. It seems every media outlet or podcast has the solution for your life.

The more one gains in possessions, the more they possess you. Material possessions are necessary for day-to-day living. You need clothing, food, a home with necessities. Society encourages the need for the latest, the biggest, the newest and improved, and the more you have the better you will live and feel. It is finding the time to learn and use all these newly acquired items. Do you really need all of them? Is your life so much better or does it feel more overwhelming now with all the latest technology and stuff?

So how do you choose what is right for you? Just because someone else has the fastest and most up to date version, is that important to you? Start with your own values, morals, beliefs, truths, and needs. This is the foundation for your life and helps determine what you choose to put into your life. When you encounter things that do not fit into this foundation, do not put it into your physical space or your head space. Just because other people place value on it, does not mean it has value to you.

Acquiring stuff whether material or emotional can complicate your life and hold you back from enjoying the life in front of you. If something does not give you fulfillment and joy, serves a necessary purpose or has a sentimental value, give it away if it is a material possession. Release it if it has an emotional hold on you that no longer has value.

Simplifying your life in material possessions may be difficult for some of you. The stuff of life has a hold upon you. You enjoy collecting things and having an abundance of what you enjoy. There is nothing wrong with collections as long as they do not control your life and become more important than actually living life. Recognize material possessions have value but do not give purpose and fulfillment.

Define your space and set limits. Define how you choose to live your life and what is important to you. Nobody else can decide for you. It is your choice where you put your focus in life and what you make most important. You are a spiritual being whether or not you have made a commitment to living out your faith. This foundation should influence all areas of your life.

You also have the right to choose who you allow in your physical space and emotional space. You have preferences, and you need to focus on those who are healthy for you and those you feel a responsibility. Live your life based on your priorities not on what others want for you. You were created to live life fully and abundantly, and it is up to you how you define it. Create your own healthy boundaries and limits.

Elaine J. Sturtz

Living In The Different