Simplifying through elimination

Most people want more friends, more money, more items, and more everything. Most often, this is the hardest way to improve. Eliminating the unnecessary things from your life is probably easier for you. It benefits you as much as focusing on the most important things. Addition is much easier than elimination. Most often, your outcomes suffer through addition. It is more probable that eliminating things will improve your outcomes.

Elimination is hard, because world gets complicated all the time. You have too many tasks, people, and clutter in your life. The amount of all the things in your mind, at home, and at work is enormous. Most of them are useless. Even most things in your laptop and in your smartphone are useless. You waste your most important commodity, time, to these useless things. And even most people in your life have negative influence on you. You waste your time with them. All the useless things just make your life more complex. If you want to have a simpler and more enjoyable life, you should reduce the amount of things in it. You may have to hurt somebody´s feelings. You have to pay the price to get better outcomes in your life. But it is worth the effort.

Eliminating unnecessary tasks

You waste time by doing the unnecessary tasks. You cannot eliminate all of them. You should then consider delegating them to others, automate them, or minimize their bad effects on you. You have a limited amount of time during the day. And you have even more limited amount of best hours during a day. You should use these hours for the most important tasks in your life. To make sure this happens, you should eliminate all the unnecessary tasks or transfer them to worse hours during your day. Unnecessary tasks have some common characteristics:

• Tasks you don´t like
• Tasks you are bad at
• Tasks that are always interrupted
• Tasks that are not necessary for your life or your career
• Tasks that have done the same way for decades
• Tasks in which your colleagues are useless or unreliable
• Tasks in which the schedule has erupted and the end is not in sight

You can probably define more characteristics for the unnecessary tasks. Everybody doesn´t have the same list of characteristics. Instead of believing in my list, I encourage you to consider your own one and taking necessary steps to diminish their effect on you.

Getting rid of unnecessary items

You have thousands of different items at your home. These items have some costs you probably haven´t thought about. They cost you time, space, effort, mental bandwith, etc. You may even have a garage or some warehouse space for your unnecessary items. You will probably think they are worth more than they actually are. You can probably get some money for them or some favors by giving them to someone else, but that makes your life more complex. All these items have some common characteristics:

• You haven´t used it for a while
• They take too much space
• Their maintenance costs are high
• They were gifts you hate
• They are too difficult to use

It is not easy to let these items go from your life. You may hurt somebody´s feelings, etc. Keep things simple when you get rid of these items. Start with one item that is easy to get rid of.

Eliminating people from your life

Your brains are not designed for having too many people in your life. Some anhropologists have come to conclusion that people can have between 150 and 250 relationships in their lives. The amount of close relationships is much smaller. You should eliminate as many bad relationships as possible to make room for the good ones. There are some common characteristics of bad relationships:

• They drain your energy
• Only one person gets all the benefits from it
• Meeting them is no fun for you most often
• You don´t trust the other person
• The drama is always present in this relationship

Relationships are probably harder to eliminate than unnecessary items or even tasks. You can even have some close relatives that have a bad and uncorrectable relationship with you. You can have friends you have known since childhood. You cannot change others. Therefore, the best way is probably to have some distance from them. Social skills are not my thing. I am bad at them. Therefore, you shouldn´t really believe me. Think yourself and have your own conclusions.

It is harder for you to eliminate things in your life. Whether they are tasks, items, or people, your ego reduces your willingness to get rid of things. You believe that your tasks, items, and people in your life are more valuable they really are. It happens to everyone. My texts are more valuable to me than for the rest of the world, even though it is hard to believe. Simplifying life is beneficial for everyone, maybe except kids. Simplify your life and enjoy better outcomes!

-TT