1. How much space is there in your thinking?

Usually after cleaning the house, looking at the clean, neat, airy, fragrant house – you feel very in love with life. We often spend time cleaning the house, those who are diligent clean it every day, those who are less diligent clean it once a week. However, we don’t spend that much time cleaning up our thoughts.

Think about yesterday, how much time during the day was your head really empty, empty, not thinking about something? Do not remember the past, nor imagine future scenarios. If you’re lucky, you’ll have a few spaces like that when you’re driving, when you’re showering, or when you’re getting ready to sleep. But sometimes at those times your brain is thinking at full capacity.

Ecstatic thoughts and ideas often appear at times when our brain is “empty”, just like the water in a river becomes clear and visible when the sand settles to the bottom. Every day you should also spend time cleaning your mind so that it can be clean, neat, and airy like you are cleaning the house.

If you clean the house with a broom, mop, or floor cleaner, the mind can clean with meditation. If you believe in religion and spirituality, you can practice meditation according to Buddhist books and programs (refer to the books of Master Thich Nhat Hanh).

2. Principle number 3 in choosing

Your day is a series of decisions. There are decisions that are difficult to make because you are faced with so many options. Take a simple example, Tiki is on sale and there are many items you like but you don’t have enough money to pay for all those dozens of items, what will you do?

You can try to apply principle number 3 in choosing: if out of dozens of items, today you could only choose the 3 most important things at this moment, what would you choose?

The same goes for daily to-do lists or weekly, monthly, and yearly goals. What are the 3 most important things you need to achieve today? What are the 3 goals you have to accomplish this week? What are 3 things you want yourself to achieve this year?

Limiting it to rule number 3 (or whatever number you want) makes it easier for you to make a choice.

3. ‘Consume’ what you actively want on social networks

Every day we “consume” and fill our heads with a lot of information on social networks. Many of which we do not proactively do, but are suggested by algorithms based on our activities on social networks.

Because we are not proactive, the information we consume these days has a lot of ads and a lot of negative news. This causes a headache, and a “pain in the wallet”.

To reduce headaches and wallet pain, as well as a way to apply a minimalist mindset, practice choosing to actively consume what you want on social networks.

Before opening Facebook, Tiktok or Instagram – stop for a second and think about what information you intend to find, who to chat with or what to do on those websites. If you have a specific purpose, open it and do exactly that, then close it. If you need to read a person’s message again, open that person’s account to read, then close. Don’t wander around to see if there’s anything new in the newsfeed. Don’t click on the notification to see if anyone has ‘liked’ or ‘commented’ on the status you just uploaded. All of those actions will draw you into social network addiction.

When your mind and thoughts begin to simplify, that is the first step for you to start simplifying other things around your life such as finances, furniture… Start from within yourself. .