Logan J. Davisson - The Colors Of A Optimistic World

Restricting media consumption today sounds like an unsolvable task. After all, almost all communication takes place via smartphones and the like. We have an important message for you: The e-mail or the SMS are waiting for you, if necessary even several days! Would you really miss all the unchecked images in Instagram? No! No! No! At best, you'd miss the habit. To limit your media consumption for more quality time with yourself or your loved ones, you should start by finding out when you are distracted by media. Is it the night before sleep, is it on the train to work? You are probably not bothered by the use of the media itself (or is it?!), but rather by the way it is used. So instead of reading posts that don't concern you on Facebook or looking at women's exchanges, you could take exciting books in digital or printed form as a distraction. Set a daily time limit for your media consumption - how about 30 minutes? If you get bored outside these 30 minutes, this is the perfect opportunity to get really creative!

Changing shopping habits is not always easy. Especially because we are firmly convinced that we really need all these things. The next time you have a special offer or advertising that makes you think you really need a particular product, you put it on your 30-day list. In these 30 days you have enough time to think about whether you really need this item. After an average of three days it becomes clear: "I definitely don't need this item to be happy." In this way many impulse purchases can be averted and you will quickly develop a new connection to really important purchases. If the purchase is really important, in 99% of the cases you will not be made aware of it by an advertisement, but will encounter this necessity in everyday life. This rule will feel strange at first, after all you are acting against your habits. After about 30 days you will get used to this method and after a few months you probably won't need this 30 day rule anymore, because you don't do impulsive buying anymore.

There are many different ways to declutter. A proven technique is the sorting of objects according to different categories. Colours can be used very well for this. Red stands for "can definitely go away", yellow means "can maybe go away" and everything that ends up in the green category "may stay". With this method you take one room after the other, empty it completely and then start sorting out or categorizing it. From the potted plant to the last sock, you pick up all the items in your hand and decide which categories they belong in. All items in the Green category can be returned after cleaning up the cleared room. You will notice that one or the other piece of furniture has also had its day - get rid of it! If possible, the items in the red category should be disposed of on the same day, so that they do not sneak back in and still find a dusty place. All properties in the yellow category are allowed to stay for 30 days in a place such as the cellar or attic. After this time you can consciously go through these items again and decide whether they belong to the green or red category. Most items will be in the red category after 30 days!

When clearing out, you should proceed intuitively and decide from your gut whether you want to keep an item or not. A rational decision aid is whether you have used the item in the last 30 days or whether it is used once or twice a year (camping, diving, etc.). An emotional decision-making aid is whether one associates this object with beautiful memories of situations or dear people and thus contributes this object to daily happiness. All items that can be found in these two categories may remain natural. With all other items you can draw a courageous line and give them away, sell them or throw them away, depending on their condition.

Depending on the size of the apartment/house and the accumulated possessions, it can make sense to bring one or more helpers into the boat to clear out the trash. With a little good music and a few tasty cuts, clearing out can also be a lot of fun! However, you should choose your clearing out helpers well, because if you have chosen people with a passion for collecting, your project will be much more difficult. Who in your circle of friends and family has the ability to support your decisions, who stands behind your project and can be a good support for your clearing out action? It's not always the best friend!

Planning a decluttering operation is very helpful. Especially when it's the first decluttering. Then knowing exactly how to carry out such a clearing out action effectively saves a lot of time and nerves. If you have a whole day or a whole weekend, you may be able to clean out your entire apartment on those days. This is of course less suitable for families with young children, as the family rhythm must of course continue so that there is no medium-sized chaos. You can also take one room a day. This takes a little more time, but you can clear it out without any time pressure. Start with the least used room and work your way up to the most used room. Experience has shown that this makes it much easier to clean out, because the rhythm of everyday life is less disturbed. With growing experience in clearing out, the most elaborate room can also be successfully cleared out. So how about the following order: storeroom, attic, garage, cellar, hallway, bathroom, bedroom, dining room, kitchen and then living room? Make a plan, set time limits and go for it!

This is a sure long-term solution to master material chaos, even without strict clearing out. You will ask yourself with each purchase which two things you would exchange for this item. Shopping is no longer just about material value, but also about ideal value. This makes impulsive buying decisions more difficult, since you have to think carefully before you buy a T-shirt which two other possessions from your inventory you would like to give away. So the value of your different possessions is questioned again and again and at the same time more and more things disappear from your possessions. So that's how you kill two birds with one stone!

Some people actually have a television in every room. All of us don't have a single TV. That doesn't mean that we don't watch television at all, but that we watch what I really want to see on the laptop. So we are not dependent on following the apparently randomly arranged television program of the different stations, but can research quite purposefully to different topics and look at exactly what I need or really want to see. How about you? How often do you turn on the TV because you are really interested in the program and how much do you really need your TV? Try to get by without a TV for 30 days. You will soon see that you can think of many other beautiful activities with which you can definitely fill your time more sensibly.

Most of us strive for some ideal of beauty, but in the fewest cases we have created this ideal of beauty ourselves, but simply adopted it from the media. Of course, this is not bad as long as we do not harm ourselves psychologically or physically. One of these beauty ideals in our society is to use a fragrant body lotion, to buy a whitening toothpaste or to colour your hair regularly. It also works without these artificial cosmetics. Body lotion, toothpaste, shampoo, deodorant and the like can be conjured up in just a few minutes using natural ingredients found in every kitchen. Instead of the chemically contaminated lotion there is then a high-quality olive oil on the skin. Body care can also be minimalist - and much healthier than the artificial alternatives! Rethinking one's own beauty standards can at best have a positive effect on one's own body image, mood and the stock of cosmetics in the bathroom.