Simplicity is Simple!

Simplicity is often taken for granted. It includes making daily choices that support having just enough on our plates and not too much. Ensuring this can include saying “no” to requests that make our plates overflow and at the same time saying “yes” to ourselves.

When was the last time you spent hours lost in a good book or lying back and listening to your favorite music rather than just having it on in the background while driving from A to B?

Choosing simplicity for our lives can range from daily choices affecting how much we are doing to thinking further about our lifestyles over-all. This can include thinking further about our careers, our current job, whether to add another job, how we spend money, and on what. It may mean some soul-searching about what materialistic items we want versus what we need.

Over-all, there seems to be a correlation between simplicity and stress. The more simple we can make our lives, the less stress we feel…