![IMG-20250801-WA0004~2.jpg](https://images.hive.blog/DQmZj8CYcaLvNb3c7zJuteaod5jRfz5p4tUaMs6G6FydsJ2/IMG-20250801-WA0004~2.jpg) Rules are very important in a person's life especially the ones that guides a person to peace or good conduct and respect. When we were children our parents creates rules for us that helps to guide us to become better adults, now that we've grown we also make our own rules. If I had to create a minimalist plan with no more than 5 rules, I would make sure that each of them are simple to remember but strong enough to guide my daily life. I'd make sure those rules are helping me live my life with intention and to leave room for what truly matters, it's not just about owning less items. So I'll try to list out the five rules I'll create for myself if I were to have a minimalist plan. ### ***My Five Rules for a Minimalist Life***
**1. Possess only what adds value.** Everything in my home must have real purpose, it's either practical purpose or deeply meaningful. If it isn't really working or feeding my life, then it leaves. This will help me to clear out clutter and embrace gratitude. **2. Spend not with impulse but with intention** Before getting a new item I want to pause and really think if the item will really be of use to me, knowing if I really need it and if I'll still value it in a few months to come. This will help make sure I'm making a conscious choice in my spending and not that of reflex. **3. Treasure and protect my time**

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Time is an irreplaceable resource and it tends to fly . So I try to commit to fewer activities, try mot to do to much, listen to my body and always make space for rest, creativity and my family and friends. **4. Choose quality over quantity — in everything.** In my choice of friendship, clothes and other projects, I would rather have a few that I truly cherish than a thousand of them I could barely keep up with. This helps to keep living higher and richer. So yes, quality over quantity at any time. **5. Live with gratitude daily.**

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Even from my childhood ive always been taught gratitude, and without gratitude, life gets so empty, worthless. But when there is gratitude, we're thankful for what we already having and we become cheerful. So even though there are goals I have that still seems unreachable for me, everyday I still take a moment to appreciate every I already have, I have roof over my head, food to eat, my family. We get to see how gratitude can turn "less" into "enough".

So this five rules helps my minimalism journey to be less about deprivation and more about alignment. This helps to build my life in a way that everything it it is what truly matters _{Images belong to me}

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