How do we simplify our lives?

Its amazing how hectic and busy our lives are and instead of endeavouring to make them simpler we are excelling ourselves in complicating them further.The clutter that we collect in our emotional and physical space is ever increasing.Starting with the physical space the amount of things that we accumulate for comfort and self worth enhancement is tremendous.The high that we get from unbridled and unconscious consumerism is so transitory.Once the high  from one purchase subsides the search for another high starts.The addiction is self destructive.We need to control this behavior, declutter and reduce our wants.This is possible only if we are willing to be more conscious about how we choose to fill the emptiness, lack of self worth  and the absence of  goals in our lives.
The emotional space has its own culprits in the garb of difficult relationships and situations.We need to simplify our emotional lives by learning how to deal with the toxic demands made on us, by them.Running away from them is not a solution but having a neutral to positive attitude, altering our expectations to a lower level and undertaking affirmative action  can go a long way in washing the negative clutter off our minds.