What truly makes up a Meaningful life? Is it money, beauty, prestige? Is it a loving family, a bustling dream career, the satisfaction of knowing you have the nicest house on the block? What is it and how can you get it? According to psychologists. A meaningful life is a construct having to do with the purpose, significance, fulfillment, and satisfaction of life. What drives our purpose and gives us fulfillment is what makes us all unique as humans. As alike as we may be our desires can differ. Simple Living is a way of life that allows us to connect with your true desires and live a life that is free from outside demands. It seems that simple living and a meaningful life are a match made in bliss. Simple living allows us to stop living in the bubble of obligations and appearances. To disengage from what society thinks is meaningful, or our parents, our peers. Simple living allows us to finally look at our true desires as the unique people we be. Find 13 more Extraordinary Benefits of Simplifying your Life. If you are ready to take control of your life and find the meaning in every moment then simple living can certainly help you get there. In this post, you will find ways that simple living can help you create the meaningful life that you have been searching for. You may be surprised. It may be simpler than you thought. Know What is Important One of the first things that seem to happen organically when you begin to simplify your life is a shift in perspective. It is kind of amazing that the simple act of vowing to unplug or downsize can quickly begin to alter the way your brain looks at life. Suddenly the things that may have stressed you out before become nonexistent. Puff! Soon you won’t even care what car Susan is driving or how much Diane’s husband makes. What is important is YOUR own life. Your perfectly simple and full life. The first step to having a meaningful life is understanding what is meaningful to you. I guarantee you when you really think about it, it is the simple things. Start Simple Living today. Get the Ebook. The Year of Simple Living – 12 Months to a Simplified Life Make Time for your Passions A driving force for a meaningful life is to have a desire, a drive, a goal, an aspiration. It could be being healthier, or learning a new skill, or moving up in your career. Simplifying your life is a great way to connect with your skills and discover your true passions. Not your job, duties or desire to please others but your own passions. The things that light you up inside and set your soul ablaze is what really adds meaning in our lives. Discover new passions with these Simple Habits that can Transform your Life. Simple living gives you time, space and the energy to discover and feed those passions. Take it from me, before I began simplifying my needs I was too busy running around checking things off my to-do list on how to live the perfect life to know what was really important to me. Let go of Things, Embrace People Decluttering, downsizing, unplugging. These are all forms of letting go. Letting go of things is a huge practice in Buddhism and means much more than freeing up space. Letting go of material things, thoughts, feelings, and ideas help us, practice detachment. A key aspect in breaking down the cycle of suffering we all as humans are stuck in. The best thing about learning to let go is that it allows you to also open up. What do you think happens to all of those emotions of love, caring, and tenderness that you may have projected onto your home, your clothing or your makeup collection? It doesn’t leave your body when you get rid of those things. That’s not what letting go is. The energy just transforms. If you want to create a meaningful life then letting go is the perfect way to reuse that energy to embrace the people in your life instead. All that care, attention and happiness can move from those old patterns into new forms. Energy is cool like that. Get started by Letting go of these 128 Items. Less Technology more Experiences As a blogger, it may come as a surprise to you that I am not completely connected to technology all the time. In fact, disconnecting from technology regularly is something I really strive towards. I would rather spend face to face time with the people I care about. Or go to the beach, or a walk in the park then sit on my phone reading comments from readers or trying to make my Instagram look pretty. Don’t get me wrong I love my readers and I love me some technology. But simple living has taught me you cant trade the real thing for technology. This simple shift in habit has added so much meaning in my life and really helped me to not only see what matters most but go out there and gain something from this world through experience not theory. Try the 21 Day Home and Technology Cleaning Challenge. Embrace Alone Time Having a real relationship with yourself is the most important part of having a meaningful life. Seriously just think about it. What does it matter if you do everything else on this list if you don’t at the end of each day smile with yourself, laugh with yourself, love yourself? Simple living really helped me develop a solid relationship with myself and in that relationship is where I really find the meaning in my life. Start Simple Living today. Get the Ebook. The Year of Simple Living – 12 Months to a Simplified Life Stop with Perfectionism People are driving themselves crazy trying to be perfect. Or at the very least appear perfect. Social media may be the latest form of mass perfectionism but people have always been like this. In the 60’s it was the battle of the housewives, the 80’s the battle of the power suit and god knows before that it was probably the battle of the cave drawings. But hey, it’s not all bad. Competition has allowed us all to evolve. However, it is important to remember the only person you should really try to compete with is yourself. Gather inspiration from others, learn from others mistakes but don’t compete. The drive to do better needs to be directed inward. Simple living may help provide you with that insight. Or it may just help you change what you strive towards. Either way, it can be a catalyst in helping you form a meaningful relationship with your inner perfectionist. Would you like to embrace the simple life? Get the ebook The Year of Simple Living – 12 Months to a Simplified Life

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