The Ease Of An Extra-Ordinary Life.

Changing your mindset.

Once you have realized that your ordinary life is actually an extraordinary one, you will never go back. It is a thought process that I hope everyone will stumble on sooner rather than later.
( See yesterday's blog. )

When you see your life from this new angle, it is as if a burden has fallen off of you. We all carry around this rucksack of ' must-haves or else ' ideas. We must have a bigger and shinier car. We must have a house in a better area. We must have the trendiest clothes. We must put our kids in the best ( & most expensive ) schools...

You know, once you let go of this constant need of having the next thing, life balances itself out. Not buying or upgrading everything to the newer option, saves you a lot of money. For whatever reason, most of us have created this lifestyle that automatically involves debt.

When you get down to the ' nitty-gritty ', even though you live in a mansion, drive a luxury car and send your kids to private school, more often than not, your bank owns it and you, ensuring you pay off your lifestyle almost until you retire. Refreshingly, if you chose to keep the car until it gives in, stay in your first house for aeons and send your kids to a normal yet good school, you might retire 10-20 years earlier!

Living within our means takes a bit of backbone, courage and initiative but all of us can do it. This is the beauty of being happy with your (extra)ordinary life, because it takes away that constant need to buy more, bigger and better.

Dare I say, once more and more people return to an (extra)ordinary life, families will benefit. Parents will be home more and not in a constantly exhausted state. Parents will have time to spend with their kids. Parents will enjoy spending time with their kids. Parents will take back the child rearing duty from that omnipresent computerized child nanny...

...Imagine a world where the computer, Xbox, iPad, iPhone, Wii or TV is changed back to " face-to-face / proper eye contact " time with your family? At least for a few hours each day.

There is a wonderful blog to follow. Mr Money Mustache is living this life to the fullest, and he is only in his 30's. How you might ask? Well, go an have a peep into his life...

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