Less Doing More Living

Less Doing More Living is based on the assumption that the less you have to do, the more life you have to live, and helps you implement this philosophy into your life by giving you real-world tools to boost efficiency in every aspect of your life.

Think you can remember everything and juggle multiple things at a time?

Not really, do you?

But we still try, every day.

Instead, let digital technology help you out here! By creating an external brain, for example.

You can use a tool like Evernote to literally store every information you potentially come across.

To-do lists, groceries, decoration ideas, articles, notes, it’s a one stop shop for everything. Texts, pictures, and even hand-drawn notes go in there, and it’s searchable, meaning you can find everything again easily.

There’s no storage limit, and the algorithm organizes things in a way which is similar to how your brain saves information.

It links similar posts together in bigger networks and therefore the search results are very accurate.

Note: I’ve been using Evernote for 3 years now and it’s a lifesaver indeed!

Stop trying to remember everything, it’s just not necessary any more.

As my grandma used to say: Knowing means knowing where to find it!

Do you know how sometimes architects shape rooms in a really weird way?

There’s often that one little space in the corner where your desk is, that’s not really accessible, because nothing fits there. 10 years ago, if you wanted a custom shelf to exactly fit into that corner, the only way was building it yourself.

Today, you can have the same thing done and shipped to you within a matter of days, thanks to 3D printing.

Ari, for example, used Shapeways to build a custom wall mount for his computer. All he had to do was sketch a design on paper (yes, bad drawings are okay) and have someone on Fiverr turn it into a 3D model.

The model was then uploaded to Shapeways and a week later, his own custom wall mount was in the mailbox.

And if you thought that’s brilliant, consider this: He then used Shapeways’s website to sell 6 more of these wall mounts to others, who had the same computer as him, and made $400 off of it.

Customizing your tools and adapting them to your own needs can not only make your life easier, but also help others who have the same problem – compare that to “being difficult” by wanting something custom in a restaurant.

An entirely new perspective, right?