Simplicity Keep your life as simple as possible. Whatever you fill your life with, you will also fill your mind with, and a lot of it is just clutter. The clutter keeps you from thinking about anything meaningful, and not thinking about anything meaningful keeps you from doing anything meaningful. Therefore, get rid of everything extraneous in your life. Material possessions, mediocre friends, unnecessary responsibiities, etc. These things are just filling up your time and space and preventing you from realizing your full potential. People like to fill their lives up as a means of chasing happiness. Filling up only covers up what lies beneath. How do you really feel about your life? When you start emptying out, when you excavate down to bare bones of your life, that’s when you discover how you really feel. Then you can start building a strong foundation for happiness.