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First Steps In Simplicity: Determine What Is Important

Simplicity is not about wholesale cutbacks and deprivation. Simplicity is about creating a life for yourself that is full of meaning. Most simplicity books talk about cutting back to what is important, but my responses always have been, “How do you know what is important?” and “Why determine what is important?” The first question is something that is going to vary between people, and I will tackle it in the future article. The second is easily addressed, and is one of the most important concepts in simplicity.

Before You Can Purge, You Need To Know What To Keep

If you go on a wholesale downscale, you will end up removing things that are important. So in order to make simplicity work as a pleasant task, and not as a punishment, you must know what to keep in order to know what can be removed.

Most of the time that I see “determine what is important” in relation to simplicity, it refers to the big questions in life: what should I do to make a living, how should I live, who should be in my life. But I think it is just as necessary to know what is important in your sock drawer. Eventually the same sense of what is important pervade all areas of your life.

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