Do you remember the good old days?

Have you heard of the good old days? You know what I'm writing about, the days where people spent there time together as a community. The days where people looked after each other, where people sat on the back porch for a drink with the neighbours while the kids went off to the park and play. The good old days weren't perfect, but they did have their strong points. The first and foremost was that life really was less complicated. It is amazing to me how the choices we have in our modern free world can be liberating and suffocating at the same time.

It seems that these days you really have to look out for yourself, and make all of the choices along the way with limited guidance, or at least limited time to make sense of any of the guidance that is given. A lot of the stress, lack of community, and self doubt that is carried around by people in the world today can be changed simply by simplifying. Simplification is the one single way that you can change your daily existence to feel good in your life. Use it as a screen for the choices you make, and watch how your life will start feeling less stressful, and there will be more time to enjoy your day to day existence.

When a new opportunity, or commitment request comes along ask yourself, does this simplify my life?

This may not be the only tool you use to screen new commitments that fight for your precious time, but it can be one tool to help you enjoy your life to it's fullest.