Life Motivation, Living Below Your Means and A Simpler Life
Living life to the fullest has a lot to do with motivation, living within your means and keeping things simple. Failing in any one of these areas will rob you of the best life has to offer.
Fortunately, there is a ton of great guidance available to help us stay on track in each of these three important areas.
Today, I want to share with you six excellent articles from each of the other members of the Life Skills Network that offer indispensable advice for staying motivated, managing your finances and keeping it simple.
Life Motivation
Without motivation our lives become stagnate. We fail to achieve anything. We grow bored and disillusioned.
Revitalize your dreams! Create a vision for your life. Pursue significance!
In How To Walk On Water, Marc lays out a very specific set of steps for maintaining and pursuing our life motivation. I love his suggestion to follow your heart and to be who you were born to be.
Once you’ve set your heart on achieving something specific, then follow Ron’s advice on how to Use the TRACK Method to Achieve Your Goals. This plan will help you to be consistent and to measure your progress toward fulfilling your dreams!
Living Below Your Means
In our economy it is more important than ever to be financially responsible. Money is the grease that makes our lives whir. It opens up opportunities and enables us to invest in significant causes.
Debt is like a ball and chain. It makes us a slave to those we owe. We can’t afford to move to the place we really want to live because our cost of living is too high. With debt, we can’t take our dream job or strike out on our own as an entrepreneur because we can’t survive any dip in our income. We are shackled to paying our bills.
However, as Madison points out, Gettin’ Out of Debt is possible. All you need is determination and a clear plan. Becoming debt-free isn’t always easy, but it is simple!
I believe frugality and avoiding debt are essential to good financial health, but some ask Is Frugality The Anti-Stimulus Plan? Are we being bad citizens by saving instead of spending? The government and media seem to believe so.
I would side with Frugal Dad on this question. I believe that true economic recovery begins when individual citizens start living below their means!
A Simpler Life
Remember the old saying, “Keep it simple stupid”? This is wisdom to live by. Complications rob us of our joy.
Sara asks, Does Decluttering Make Sense in Hard Economic Times? When scarcity seems to threaten us as a part of this recession, we might develop the tendency to hoard things. However, there really isn’t any shortage of goods to buy. In fact, bargains are plentiful.
Hoarding just creates clutter which frustrates and burdens us. We are better off dumping all the extra weight we carry in our lives to make ourselves lean and mean. This way we can be prepared no matter what happens.
Of course, it isn’t just stuff that complicates our lives. We can also mess things up by allowing external circumstances to distract us from what matters the most.
In Putting First Things First – Where Are You On The List?, Corey points out that we need to make time to take care of ourselves. If we want our relationships to survive under stress, we first have to tend to our own needs. The article is written mostly to moms, but it applies to us all.
Motivated, Frugal and Simple
I truly believe that these are three keys to a rich and fulfilling life. It takes effort to stay focused and on track in each of these areas, but the payoff is well worth it. A super-charged life is available to us all where these three exist.
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Great post as always.
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Call me biased, but I think Happiness should be part of this trio. You can be frugal, simple, and motivated and not be happy.
Great post!
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