{"id":17331,"date":"2017-05-15T05:03:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-15T12:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bh.becomingminimalist.com\/?p=17331"},"modified":"2017-05-15T06:14:35","modified_gmt":"2017-05-15T13:14:35","slug":"better-ways-to-measure-your-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.becomingminimalist.com\/better-ways-to-measure-your-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Better Ways to Measure Your Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Note: This is a guest post from\u00a0Lisa Avellan of <a href=\"http:\/\/simpleandsoul.com\">Simple and Soul<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17332\" src=\"https:\/\/www.becomingminimalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/measure-your-life.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"314\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.becomingminimalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/measure-your-life.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.becomingminimalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/measure-your-life-300x157.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This world is obsessed with measuring up. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/cutting-through-advertising-clutter\/\">Research<\/a> shows we are exposed to thousands of advertising messages every day\u2014and hidden inside each of those ads is a mistruth: &#8220;You don\u2019t measure up until you buy our product.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ad agencies are good. Real good. They know how to sneak into our psyches and change the story we tell ourselves. Before long our brains begin to believe their lie\u2014that our lives can be measured by what we buy, wear, drive, and live in. And while their bottom line bursts at the seams, the consumer is broke\u2014financially and otherwise.<\/p>\n<p>Measuring up is breaking us up.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/08\/15\/business\/15sell.html\">This NY Times article<\/a> from 2008\u2014written during the Great Recession\u2014shows how powerful a slogan like, \u201cLive Richly\u201d can be. It even contributed to the housing bubble that negatively impacted so many lives.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s very difficult for one advertiser to come to you and change your perspective,\u201d said Sendhil Mullainathan, an economist at Harvard who has studied persuasion in financial advertising. \u201cBut as it becomes socially acceptable for everyone to accumulate debt, everyone does.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Everyone does it, so that makes it okay. As a culture, we begin to measure our lives by the things we can buy, because others are buying it too.<\/p>\n<p>The simple life is not immune to these advertisements. And we aren\u2019t immune to the struggle of measuring our life by standards that contradict the way of simplicity. The nature of today\u2019s world, being in constant reach of advertising through screens and print, demands our intentionality of focus on the true measures of life.<\/p>\n<p>Designing a simple life invites us to measure our lives differently. We realize as we pare down that we don\u2019t have to keep up. We don\u2019t have to buy, borrow, upgrade, or upsize to secure our place in the world.<\/p>\n<p>I need reminders often that my worth isn\u2019t found by the world\u2019s measuring stick. I get to define my own success, and live a meaningful and abundant life.<\/p>\n<p>You do too. Try these new measurements for size, and simplify.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>5 Better Ways to Measure Your Life<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>1. Gratitude.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>With a measure of gratitude, you gain the world. When you are grateful for what you already have, you don\u2019t need more. Gratitude is always enough.<\/p>\n<p>This perspective is a shield to the thousands of messages of \u2018not enough\u2019 we hear every day. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.becomingminimalist.com\/thanks-for-gratitude\/\">Gratitude turns what we have into enough<\/a>. We don&#8217;t <em>need<\/em> to have those shoes, that device, or\u00a0and that new car.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2. Generosity.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>To measure the man, measure his heart.<\/em>\u201d Malcolm Forbes once said.<\/p>\n<p>A great gift of simple living is the freedom to give. The infinite freedoms available when we design a life of less allows for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.becomingminimalist.com\/10-simple-ways-to-become-a-more-generous-person\/\">infinite ways to be generous<\/a>. Whether it\u2019s with our time, money, talents, hospitality, donations, or airline miles\u2014when the measuring stick of <em>things<\/em> ends, generosity keeps growing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>3. Contentment<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Advertisers bank on the public\u2019s perpetual discontent. In fact, they create much of our discontent through their stealth word play and product development. It\u2019s evident in the lines outside Apple stores days before the next iPhone is released, which has just enough new capabilities to make the previous model obsolete in the eyes of the consumer.<\/p>\n<p>Contentment is not the satisfaction of want; it\u2019s the pursuit of having enough. And it invites <a href=\"https:\/\/www.becomingminimalist.com\/the-unmistakable-freedom-of-contentment-and-how-to-achieve-it\/\">an unmistakable freedom<\/a> into our lives.<\/p>\n<p><strong>4. Availability<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bobgoff.com\">Bob Goff<\/a> is known for his fun and whimsical personality. He famously put his personal cell phone number in the back of a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2pNexAY\">NYT bestselling book<\/a>, and he expects and answers calls. He makes himself available.<\/p>\n<p>He also says he plans his calendar nine months and one day in advance, no further, in case he is to be become a grandfather.\u00a0 His purpose is to be available.<\/p>\n<p>Busyness is no way to measure a life. Busy is a thief. It\u2019s a phantom measure of worth and success and it will never get as much done as availability will. <em>Remain available.<\/em>\u00a0<em>Learn to say no, and measure your life by the things you get to say yes to.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>5. Purpose<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.<\/em>\u201d Ralph Waldo Emerson is quoted as once saying.<\/p>\n<p>If we pay too close attention to how the world measures life we will never understand the difference that our life, our one life, can make. Simplicity of home, time, and character magnifies the very things we were designed for\u2014it points us to the significance of who we are.<\/p>\n<p><em>We are purposed for much more than our net worth and closet size.\u00a0<\/em>Simplify and live well.<\/p>\n<p>The Great Recession of 2008 changed us. More and more people are looking for a new way, a simple way to live. As advertisers revamp their messages toward this post-recession culture, we can redefine the measure by which we live. It helps to remember the best things in life can\u2019t be pitched in thirty second ads.<\/p>\n<p><em>***<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Lisa Avellan blogs at <a href=\"http:\/\/simpleandsoul.com\">Simple and Soul<\/a>\u00a0where she inspires and equips others to\u00a0live with intention. You can also find her on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/simpleandsoul\/\">Facebook<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Note: This is a guest post from\u00a0Lisa Avellan of Simple and Soul.\u00a0 This world is obsessed with measuring up. Research shows we are exposed to thousands of advertising messages every day\u2014and hidden inside each of those ads is a mistruth: &#8220;You don\u2019t measure up until you buy our product.&#8221; Ad agencies are good. Real good. 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