A toolbox to simplify your life

This text has been adapted, with permission, from an article [in French only] published in Coopérateur magazine.

Your life is complicated and overloaded. That’s why you should eliminate or reduce non-essentials and make room for what’s important. Here are a few examples of categories to help you get started.

1. Possessions

These are the objects you own, or the concrete, physical things you can touch. While they bring pleasure, they also require management. For example, the more clothes you have, the harder it is to organize them in your closet and dresser.

You can, for example, make changes to:

• clothing

• the contents of your buffet

• knick-knacks

• dishes and cooking appliances

• tools

• paper clutter

• equipment

• machinery

2. Decision-making

Decision-making requires energy. The more decisions you have to make, the more exhausted you become. To counter this, you can set up routines, protocols or systems. The brain, knowing in advance what it is being asked to do, won't have to decide on new information. For example, in the morning, when you eat the same breakfast and wear the same clothes, you conserve energy for the other tasks in your day.

3. The to-do list

It includes all the things that keep popping into your head and never go away. Just cross the items off your list. You'll see, it can be very beneficial.

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