For more than a decade, I have been learning to live a simpler life. Not simpler as in "lean". Simpler than in "significant". I have been working to eliminate many of the intricacies of life, so we can spend more time with the people we love and do more activities that I love. This means that little by little I have been getting rid of the mental and physical disorder, and eliminating everything but the essential, so I only have what gives me value.

My overall goal is to live a very simple life for most of the things that fill my life, leaving room for what really matters. A life that is not a constant occupation, haste, and stress, but contemplation, creation, and connection with people and projects that we love.

Of course, that does not mean that it has zero disorder and complications. I am human and I live in the real world with everyone else. I have a home, possessions, computers, gadgets, distractions and occasional occupations. But I reduced it to make space.

Today, at dawn I have been reflecting on this simpler life that I have created for myself, and I thought I would share some of these reflections with you.

Some lessons I learned about living a simpler life:

A simpler life is about subtracting the obvious and adding the meaningful. Therefore, you are rich in proportion to a number of unnecessary things you can live with. You can not live a simpler life if you are not willing to change and let go of what you are accustomed to. Letting go of old routines and habits and building new ones can be difficult, but it's easier if you do a 30-day challenge. Drop something for 30 days and see how it affects your life. (Let the TV go no more continuous, random and distracted noise in your home).

When traveling light luggage, we are freer, less burdened and less stressed. This applies to traveling for life too, not just traveling by an airport. Removing unnecessary elements from your physical space can lead to a less crowded mental space. These visual distractions drag us and distract us from more ways than we often realize. Over-thinking is one of the most extreme sources of stress and mental disorder. The key is to realize that the problem is not the problem. The problem is the incredible amount of excessive thinking you are doing with the problem. Let it go and be free.

Positivity is always worth it to simplify results. Then, before you waste it on anger, resentment, resentment or envy, think of how precious and irreplaceable your time is. The simplest secret to happiness and peace in the present is to let every circumstance be what it is, rather than what you think it should be, and get the best out of it.

Gratitude always makes life easier to deal with. Because happiness is easier when you stop complaining about your problems and you begin to be grateful for all the problems you do not have. The feeling you feel when you do something important (and true) is much better and less stressful than the feeling of sitting or wishing you are doing it.

How many times have you thought "this does not work" or "something is not right" or "things have to change"? - those thoughts and words are from your inner voice. It's your wake-up call. You do not need a major life crisis to wake you up. And nobody needs to tell you because you already know. Your inner voice has been trying to tell you, but in case it has been a challenge to find time and space to listen to chaos, it may resonate with one of these situations.

- If your life is on autopilot, this is your wake up call.
- If you never put yourself first, this is your wake-up call.
- If you have become someone you do not recognize to please other people or to pursue some version of success
  that does not resonate with you, this is your wake-up call.
- If you constantly numb with food, shopping, drink, television or other distractions, this is your wake-up call.
- If you are tired, beaten, stressed and completely exhausted, this is your wake-up call.

Getting your alert call is not the difficult part, answering the call is. Choosing to answer the call instead of ignoring it is difficult. At this point, it may be easier to keep going, going and coming. But you know that if you do not find a way out of the endless cycle you're in, it's going to get worse. The great change comes from hundreds of small steps and they all matter. You do not have to have a perfect plan for the next 10 years or even the next 10 days. All you need is an open heart and the next step. Not all steps, not one big step, only the next.
 
And, finally, share this writing with any other person who can benefit. 

Sincerely hope that you are waiting for a simpler and happier day,