1. Be awesome.

‘Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.’ ~ Albert Einstein. Success is not about achieving something in the future, but about doing something right now that you love. So forget about “success”, and just find joy, passion, love, awesome-ness right now, in this moment. Just go out and do it..

2. Do with less

We’re all bombarded by advertising every day, claiming that we need one more thing, that we’ll be happier if we just buy more. It’s not hard to understand how we’re conditioned to want to spend, but it’s hard reversing the work of (rough estimation) hundreds of billions of corporate spending to make us want just one more thing.

“…by simply living frugally throughout our life.” In other words, not spending more than you earned. Buy less stuff. All that happens is that you need to clean it, move it, manage it, insure it.

And living within your means is key. Spend money on maintaining relationships.

3. Have no expectations

It can be really hard to find friends if you really really need to find friends. Be okay with being alone, and let things happen. Don’t be running around asking everyone on the street ‘will you be my friend’ ‘will you be my friend?’ No one wants to be friends with you if you’re like that. Instead focus on what kind of value you can add to the lives of others when they come in contact with you.

4. Being balance

Many people are frantically running around the streets trying to get things done. These people are tweeting and phoning, they’re stressed out and consuming. They’re fat and they’re sad, and they don’t know what the problem is.

Balance is an element that we’ve lost in the modern age. I believe one of the primary keys to a happy human being is living a balanced lifestyle. This is a lifestyle without sacrifices, without compromises. It’s life where you aren’t forced, obligated, or otherwise enticed to work 70 hours a week.

Being minimalist is a way to achieve balance in your life. By limiting yourself in life to what is absolutely essential to your existence, you’ll have more time for yourself. You’ll have more time to exercise and cook beautiful dinners again. You’ll able to focus on career goals that matter and not simply banging out the next widget.

5. Walk slower

Everyone in modern society is rushing somewhere, but where are they rushing to? I’d love it if I had the answer.

Rushing does the opposite of getting you to your destination faster. In fact, by rushing you make mistakes, you can hurt yourself, you’ll stress yourself out. All of these problems accumulate until you’re not a very effective person anymore. Slow down and you’ll notice that your productivity will improve..

6. Do one thing that you really love

By getting rid of all your clutter, you’ll find that you spend less time maintaining your existence and you’ll have more time to do what you really enjoy doing and to do what’s important to you. So ask yourself now; what’s the most important thing to me? Now answer it. Then do it..

7. Spend an hour in silence

Silence is important, it gives you time to reflect on your life, what you’re doing right, what you’re doing wrong. Important answers can come to you in the space between doing. Lock yourself in a room, step out on the front porch, or go sit in a coffee shop and stare out the window. Answer will come to you. The most important thing is to not do anything.