6 Ways to Simplify Your Life

From Fast Company Issue 15 - June 1998 - Page 156
By: Michael Warshaw

Advice from best-selling author Elaine St. James.

Elaine St. James's best-selling books are themselves
marvels of simplicity. They are short, well designed,
and organized for quick reading. They offer hundreds
of techniques - some modest, some radical - to simplify
your life. Here are six of our favorites. Here are six
of our favorites.

1. Resign from any organizations whose meetings you dread.

2. Learn to live with less information: Stop watching TV
news. Cancel half your magazine subscriptions.

3. Work where you live, or live where you work.

4. Be in bed by 9 p.m. one night a week.

5. Live on half of what you earn, and save the other half.

6. Keep asking, "Is this going to simplify my life?"