Recipe for Simplicity by Linda Breen Pierce

1. Don’t let any material thing come into your home unless you absolutely love it and want to keep it until it is beyond repair.

2. Live in a home with only those rooms that you or someone in your family use every day.

3. Limit your work (outside of the home) to 30 hours a week, 20 if you are a parent.

4. Select a home and place of employment no more than 30 minutes away from each other.

5. Limit your children’s extracurricular activities to one to three a week, depending on age.

6. Take three to four months off every few years and go live in a foreign country.

7. Spend at least an hour a week in a natural setting, away from crowds of people, traffic, and buildings.

8. Do whatever you need to do to connect with a sense of spirit in your life, whether it be prayer, religious services, journal writing, meditation, or spiritually-related reading.

9. Seek the support of others who want to simplify their lives.

10. Practice saying no.

[via - lifehacker]