Simplicity

If you keep life simple people will often laugh at you. Don’t listen to these people.

They will tell you that life isn’t simple, and it isn’t, but often what’s bothering you is.

The solutions may not be simple, that’s true, but recognising the problem and its effect on you is a good start.

We want to move. We don’t have the money so we can’t. Simple. Accepting that helps.

In those situations you move on to making a mindset shift. You have to control your mind and focus on what you need to do to get to the next step. It can be done.

Trivialising

Simplicity is not trivialising. Far from it. It’s simply (sorry) breaking down a problem and bringing it down to a size where you can cope.

I was very nearly homeless with two cats when I was 34. Worse still my entire family were happy to let that happen. I was made redundant just before I got a mortgage after my divorce. So I do know ever it’s kind to be in an impossible situation.

I also know that seeking the simplest possible solution is about all that you have mindspace for. Complexity is too overwhelming.

One size never fits all

No one trying to help can ever come up with all the answers, but we can do just that – try. People like me try because we’ve been there and what you’re going through does matter. We know that.

So I hope this blog has at least given you one simple, easy technique, that will help you to clear your mind so that you can think.

I know what I would have been thinking about if I had been made homeless that day – keeping my cats safe – and that would have saved me. It would have focused me. I would have done anything and everything. I would have found a way. In saving them I would have saved me.

Simple. What matters is always a good focus.

Deb xx