The Benefits of Minimalism
A Perfect Lifestyle for Seniors
the junk drawer. Once you’ve taken this first step, move on to something bigger. Soon, you’ll find yourself making steady and rewarding progress throughout the rest of your home. In the process, pay attention to what you want to keep. Carefully select which objects mean the most to you and which ones are still useful. These are the belongings you should surround yourself with. THE BENEFIT OF MINIMALISM Minimalism will help you feel more comfortable in your home and open up other possibilities. You will have more room to invite guests and family over, and you’ll have a sense of space and freedom. Additionally, this lifestyle can also help with your finances. You’ll be less tempted to buy what you don’t need, and you may even rearrange spending priorities or downsize your living space (less rent!). If you surround yourself with meaningful and useful items, you will feel more at peace. Ultimately, minimalism encourages us to free ourselves from the many things that own us as much as we own them. Don’t allow accumulated objects to clutter up your home and life. Take the leap and start living a carefree, minimalist lifestyle.
As we get older, we tend to hang on to mementos that brought some type of meaning to our lives, even after time has diminished their value. Though we may be emotionally attached, this clutter can eventually overwhelm us, especially as seniors. If you find yourself drowning in items you no longer need or want, consider a minimalist lifestyle to free up your space — and your mind.
MINIMALISM Before taking on a minimalist lifestyle, it’s important to understand what it entails. When someone hears the word “minimalism,” they might think it means getting rid of their possessions one by one, but that’s not entirely true. Instead, minimalist living focuses on having less clutter in our lives but still keeping the things we truly value and enjoy. The idea is to get rid of things we no longer use or need.
MINIMALIST LIVING To embark on a minimalist lifestyle, focus more on the present and consider the value your personal belongings have in your life now . Sorting through hundreds of items with thousands of memories is a daunting task, so it is best to start by removing things that might not require emotional or physical strain, like old magazines, broken items, or clutter in
The Benefits of Video Chatting
3 Reasons You Should Start Today
GET HEALTHY Current circumstances have forced many medical facilities to get creative with continuing to help their patients. Telehealth, or virtual doctor visits via video chatting, is a great option in these unusual times. There’s a lot your doctor can show, teach, see, and diagnose by visual deduction alone. If you’re going through recovery or trying to manage pain, visiting with your doctors and therapists via video is much better than not visiting with them at all. GET SAVVY There’s no denying it — learning a new skill is useful! There’s certainly tech out there that might be too complicated for many of us, but video calling and other similar tech is so user-friendly that learning to use it is easy. And once you do, it’s a breeze when you want or need other video calling programs down the road. You also open yourself up to a better attitude about other fields of technology that could be useful to you in many ways. Don’t let social distancing keep you from having meaningful or helpful conversations. Explore video chatting and stay connected with the important people in your life. If you’re eager to try telehealth, call our office, and we’ll walk you through the setup so you can start learning how easy and useful video chatting really is.
It’s a common misconception that video chatting technology is reserved for younger generations. Research shows that the 65-plus age group is one of the fastest-growing groups to adopt a variety of digital technology, video chatting included. So don’t let your fear of the unknown keep you from making meaningful and useful connections, especially during a time when we need them the most. GET PERSONAL There’s no feeling quite like interacting with other people, but when circumstances make that difficult, video calls are a great alternative. They keep you personally connected with one another by allowing you to actually see each other while having conversations. Those conversations become more meaningful because you have facial expressions and body language to “read” when you talk, just as you would in person. A regular phone call just can’t provide that benefit.
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