30 ways to make your life more simple

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we are living in the world full with new technology and we have to deal with new media in every day of life. Although, the new media are moving so fast, we do not have to follow them in 100%. In order to live simply, we should use 24 hours a day in the way of simple by avoiding technology as much as we can. We have to remind ourselves that we can control our life instead of let new media control our way.

There are many ways in order to make your life more simple.

1. Resign from a commitment you’re not passionate about.
2. Stop trying to be perfect.
3. Implement a basic cleaning schedule.
4. Sign up for automatic billpay.
5. Automate a portion of your investing.
6. Clean out your media collection and keep only the items you love.
7. Plant perennials that will automatically bloom next spring.
8. Clean out your purse or wallet.
9. Put a paper shredder next to your mail spot.
10. Winnow your wardrobe down to pieces that work together.
11. Delete any social networking accounts you don’t actually use.
12. Add your number to the do-not-call list.
13. Create a car maintenance schedule and post it somewhere you’ll see it.
14. Design a filing system that you can stick to.
15. Start your day with a healthy meal.
16. Turn your phone off when you need quiet time.
17. Invest in a programmable thermostat.
18. Set one good goal, and go achieve it.
19. Record your good “shower” ideas and then implement them. (Don’t we all get our best inspirations in the shower?)
20. Write to a friend with (gasp!) pen and paper.
21. Set limits on your bad habits, and reward yourself when you stick with them.
22. Stop trying to be a saint and indulge yourself every once in a while.
23. Pay off your credit card debit.
24. Avoid watching commercials and reading advertisements.
25. Rediscover the pleasure of reading purely for enjoyment.
26. Plan two weeks of delicious meals ahead of time and skip the nightly grocery run.
27. Go to your doctor for a preventative checkup.
28. Remember the joys of doing nothing.
29. Singletask as much as possible.
30. Learn to ask for help.

(source:http://www.onsimplicity.net/2008/07/30-ways-to-make-your-life-more-simple/)

my life has changed with new media.

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Although, I am not the person who have lived with the new media long enough but I am the one who can tell that my life has changed since I become involve with Facebook. For example, I live in the apartment with my 2 roommates. In order to communicate to each other, sometime instead of talking directly we are using Facebook to communicate to each other. We are too lazy to just walking to another person room and have a conversation in face to face. I know it is a bad habit but I still do it. I think that is the reason why I try to avoid using Facebook in the unproductive way.

I have to confess that I have never heard about Twitter until I take this class. When I registered, I realize that my life has struck with new media by updating my status all the time. In the same time my parents who live in Thailand cannot catch up with new media, they never know that much what’s happening in my life and they never know how can get into new media. The only way my parents can do is waiting for my phone in order to ask me some questions that “ How are you doing?” “ How’s everything in your life?” This is the simply question for my parents to ask me and for me to answer. Part of me, I am glad that my parents is not addicted to Facebook otherwise I believe they will want to know anything from my life in America. And I am certain that it is just another side of my life that I do not want them to engage. Sometimes we may forget that while we are sitting in front of the computer to update our status, there are some people waiting for you in another part of the world.

slow down and enjoy the basic of our life

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In today's world of hustle, bustle and busy lives, the simple life can be hard to find. We have to accept that technology is part of our life. Moreover, we try to use the benefit from them as much as we can in the same time of forget the day that we used to live without them. We are starting to forget human feeling in the real conversation by texting in stead. If you look carefully ,we are sometimes too busy wasting our time to talk with our friends on mobile phone, gossip with them on blackberry, and update our status all the time on Facebook and Twitter. Well, when life is too busy with new media, we should slow down to enjoy some of the basic fundamentals of simple life such as turn our phone off when we need quiet time and remember the joys of doing nothing.

There are many beautiful spaces in our life, but we fail to recognize them because we can't see the stuff we own. When we own something, we have to appreciate and enjoy with it. Because nothing can give us permanent and true happiness. We must take time to enjoy the simple things in life, and slow down and see what's in front of us.

it's Fall

life is not stable like the dead leaf fall from the tree.

just live you life as simply