 You know, everyone is unique, and there are a thousand different ways you can simplify your life. But there are some things that everybody can do. Hey there, njroute22.com. Here's another vlog, a general interest vlog, and it's about life's simplification. And you see a million articles out there about simplifying your life, decluttering and all that. But you know, everybody's different. Everybody has different things complicating their lives. For whatever reason. But I decided to talk about a couple things that everybody can do probably like today. And the first thing I like to point out is everybody should look at all the optional things that they're doing. Whether it's for work or entertainment, you know, especially like TV and video games and other little recreational hobbies. While they're fun and everything, you should probably cut 90% of them out. And that includes friends and acquaintances as well. Everybody has way too many friends and they're always busy being tugged in one way or another. And that just takes away from your own personal time and time to grow mentally and time to rest and time to just reflect on life. If you're constantly doing something, life will be gone before you know it. And the same thing goes for technology. Any technology that you're using. Because technology, while they claim everything is easier, you work more efficiently and so on. That's not true. You know it's not true. You just keep adding more little things in your life and then all of a sudden before you know it, you have 100 app notifications, ding in your phone. You constantly have to check things, upgrade them and they usually don't work. And you have to mess with the settings and you're sitting there fiddling with your phone all day. It's probably best to go back to how things used to be and just do things manually and mentally instead of having a phone to rely on because I really think it does create more problems than it solves. I guess you could keep your bare minimum on your phones or like email maybe. Texting is just I think ridiculous. I don't text at all. But if you need that, fine. Where are you? What time? When are you going to be here? That type of stuff. But another thing I think, or you can have your banking. If you need to deposit checks instead of having to go all the way to the bank, that might save you some time sometimes. But another thing that I think really helps people a lot is to stop bringing their technology to bed. They play games or look at entertainment or watch videos on a tiny little screen and constantly have to hear the dinging and ringing and binging. And then the first thing they do when they wake up is look at the phone again. And that's just, it dictates how you think for the day. It kind of shapes your initial emotions of the day. If you're reading things and thinking about things outside of your own immediate world, your bedroom and your house or apartment or whatever you live in. So I think it's good to start the day fresh with the mind, the thoughts that were on your mind when you woke up instead of having to think about what was on your phone. That's just very important to us. And if you're a city dweller or have been for a long time, I think the city really complicates things too. It's just densely populated. There's noise. And even if you work in the city and that's what you want to do, that's fine. I think if you relocate to a quieter location further away from the city, that really helps simplify things. And now, don't get me wrong, when you have a house and a lot of property that adds new things that you have to do. But there's something different about doing it in the peace and quiet of the wilderness. And it's more personal. When I have to fix things or care for the land, it's something about it doesn't feel complicated and troubling to me. It's more of me connecting with the earth. I don't mean to sound like a hippie, but it feels different than doing hectic modern-day things. But here's another important thing that we like to stress. And it helps calm your mind as well. It stops caring about what other people think of you. Everybody's looking for acceptance always. And a lot of it has to do with likes and shares and all this on the technology-related social media platforms. But if you just feel confident in what you're doing and focus on that and not worrying about everybody else's comments and so on, it makes a big deal. And that can also help you simplify your life because you're not worrying about everybody else and changing your ways because somebody has something to say about you. I understand when you want feedback, you can get feedback, but I wouldn't worry too much about what other people think of you regardless. And in the end, I think everybody needs to go through this stuff, this complicated stuff in order to feel appreciative when they take a step back. By not experiencing life, it has its downsides too. It's probably good to quote-unquote, get it out of your system. All the frenetic paces of life in this instant, city living. Or having a busy body life where you're constantly doing things. Every day of the week, you have something going on. It's probably not such a bad thing to experience that for a period of time, but it's my true belief that people have an expiration date in terms of how much they can handle long-term. If someone can do it their entire life and drop dead being busy, that's fine. But I don't think that's natural. I think anybody that's reached that point where they need to be busy all the time, there's something else wrong. So that's it. Try and have a nice, simple weekend. Don't pressure yourself with a lot of things on your plate. And I think if you keep that up, your life will definitely get better. Have a nice weekend.