* Edited to add a link to a fabulous resource from Leonie Dawson ..
So the focus has been mostly about love this week; whether it’s love of pancakes or the love of (or lack of love in) your life, but I’m not going to be talking about love today.
I want to talk about how you KISS
Wikipedia’s definition: ‘KISS is an acronym for “Keep it simple, stupid” as a design principle noted by the U.S. Navy in 1960’. Well I would never be so rude as to call you stupid, so you might want to change it to Keep It Short & Simple, Keep It Sweet & Simple, Keep it Seriously Simple?!
So what do I mean? Life can be complicated, if we allow it to be. We have to make so many decisions in a day and often we make things a whole lot harder than they need to be. Even buying a coffee nowadays is a challenge; you get asked, ‘Would you like cream, marshmallows, skinny or whole milk, decaf or regular coffee, tall, skinny, to stay in/to go??’ Phew, decisions, decisions!
My most peaceful and calm days are when I keep things simple, so I now try and simplify life by making very small changes. If I can create a habit or routine to make life easier then I’m going to give it a go. I don’t know about you but I’m a big list maker. I love having lists in little books that I can then work through and I hate to admit it but I get a great sense of satisfaction when I tick them off as completed! The trouble was my lists were getting so long that at the end of the day I would be moving them over to the next day and feeling as though I’d achieved nothing. One of the big changes I’ve made is to prioritise my top 3 tasks for the day. By having to think of just 3 things you then have to prioritise what’s really important to you. At the end of the day it’s likely that you will have achieved 1, if not all of them, which gives a great sense of satisfaction instead of feeling like a failure. Leonie Dawson has created a really colourful poster here that can be a great help with daily to do’s.
So my questions to you are..
- How can you simplify your life today/this week/this month?
- What needs to happen to make your life a whole lot easier?
(I’ll leave you to decide what the two ‘S’s represent!)
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Oh this is so true !! I used to write gigantic to-do-lists … and they literally paralyzed me. Now, when I do feel overwhelmed, I jot down the most important things – and work on those. By the way, the KISS-formula is known over here in Germany, too ;-)) and yes, we call it “Keep it Simple and Stupid” ;-))
It seems I read this post exactly when I needed it! Hmmm prioritising my to do list down to three things in a day. So simple it will work! Thank you Ruby. PS why are Woemen’s to do lists longer than men’s generally?