Tiki Kustenmacher with Lothar J. Seiwert
Easy is right
Begin right and it will be easy.
Continue easy and it will be right.
The right way to go easy
Is to forget the right way
And forget that the going is easy
-Chuang Tzu
The step pyramid model
- Your things
· sort out your work place
· un pile your office
· clear your environment
· overcome your forgetfulness
1. unique location
2. unique color
3. unique name
4. positive emotion: associated with a pleasant feeling. for example, put a bit of potpourri (aromatic oil) in the key box.
☺: most important is everything has its place
- Your finance
- get rid of money blockages
80% of Germans regard freedom from money concerns to be requirement for a happy life (Institute in Germany)
Develop equanimity
Apparent paradox the way of simplification: “you can earn money only if you can let go of it”
Have courage
Change your language when it comes to money and earning:
DO NOT SAY … INSTEAD SAY …
I can’t … I can …
I don’t know how to … I’ll learn how to …
I wish, I … I will have …
Discover your mental barrier
1. Things our parent said
2. What if-worries
- What happen if I’ve become unemployment?”
- What if the business we’ve set up fails?”
☺: Have a clear, attractive image in your mind –a positively formulated life aim that you want to achieve. And don’t make excuses
- break the money spell
- get rid of your debts
- stop worrying about security
- work out your own concept of wealth
- Your time
- separate your action
- rid your life of perfectionism
- relieve strain by firmly saying “No”
- slow down your life
- escape now and then
- Your health
- get your body to produce the chemicals that cause happiness
- unleash your enthusiasm
- take the strain out of physical fitness
- purify your body
- the best way to relax
- Your relationship
- use networking to end isolation
- untangle your family ties
- prepare for your funeral
- weaken feelings of envy
- let go of anger
- Your life partnership
- develop your relationship
- take the drama out of your discussion
- balance the relationship between work and private place
- unlock your sexual energy
- make joint decision for you old age now
- Yourself
- discover your goal in life
- develop your strengths
- relieve your conscience
- understand yourself
GET OUT AND GO!
The simplifying ideas
Every simplifying idea that we introduce to you is based on simple principle: less is more. You achieve (reach) more when you reverse (membalik) the spiral of complexity. This is why we say: reduce thing by half instead (dari pada) of doubling them, get rid of junk instead of piling it up, relax instead of stressing, slow down instead of speeding up. Integrate these principles into you everyday life in a conscious way. You will then find yourself well along on your journey to simplification