How Can Simple a Lifestyle Be Your Access to Greatness?!

Daily life in Ancient Egypt revolved around the Nile and the fertile land along its banks. The annual flooding enriched the soil and brought good harvests and wealth to the land.

People generally built their own mud brick homes, grew their own produce, and traded in the villages for food and goods they could not produce themselves.

Most ancient Egyptians worked the land as field hands and farmers, or as craftsmen and scribes, with only a minority section of society enjoying the privileged lifestyles of the nobility.

Despite of the majestic legacies left behind by the ancient Egyptians, you can see from this scene of their daily life how simply they lived and how important simplicity was in their lives.

The fact is that simplicity is an important key to finding joy in life.

You can always see and feel the simplicity in the ways of thinking and living of successful people. They understand that simplicity opens the doors to great opportunities and makes them more admirable and attractive to others. Successful people believe that simplicity gives them access to greatness.

As Leo Tolstoy once said, “There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.”

Our modern day lives, however, tend to be very complicated, which makes our ways of living and thinking complicated as well. To truly be successful and experience the joy of life, you need to use your creativity to discover a way to bring your life back to simplicity and peace.

Consider what Henry David Thoreau once said: “Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand. Instead of a million, count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumbnail.”

So get rid of all those “extras” that do nothing but clutter up your life and keep you from attaining joy! Instead, follow Charles Warner’s advice: “Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough.”

The ancient Egyptians built their homes from mud bricks—and yet they still managed to build those marvelous Pyramids!

It is easy to discern the beautiful lesson left to us by the ancient Egyptians—that simplicity is the path to joy, peace of mind, and greatness. Try your hardest to protect your attitude from the complexities of modern life, and work on developing simple ways of living—and of doing business as well!

Here’s your takeaway…

Think simply, live simply, and do business simply!

That is one of the BIG secrets to finding JOY in your life.