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5 Strategies I Am Using to Simplify My Life
Peace and happiness, I believe, lies in the little things.
January 1st, 2022, I gaze with admiration as the sparkling colours of fireworks adorned the dark starry night over here at Castelvetrano — my little Sicilian town of Italy.
Here in Italy, we call the first day of the year, CAPODANNO.
A time when family and friends are filled with gratitude and celebration. But there was something else in my mind. As I took it all in, I realise this was a moment of pure bliss. Because at that moment, nothing else mattered.
“Why can’t life always be this blissful?” I thought. “What would it take?”
The previous years have come with many ups and downs. Plans, hopes and dreams that never materialised. Lost, disappointment and heartbreak filled the list of my experience. And these complicated kinds of stuff in life weigh heavy on our body and mental health. I’d love to live a simple life, that's free of complications and unnecessary drama.
I got back into the house and searched within me, then came up with the following areas to enable me to live a life of simplicity and pure bliss.