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 Simplify our lives

“It’s just all so complicated.” “I can’t seem to slow down, there’s so much going on that I have to attend to…” “It’s hard to keep up, I just don’t understand…”

Confucius, that smart cookie, once said, “Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.” I know I’m not the only one who finds myself yearning to understand how in the world I’m supposed to face and conquer the daily, I swear hourly, challenges that whip up in my face. Life is clearly hard, is meant to be hard, and is out to simply make my days difficult.

Or is it? Consider an alternative with me if you will.

Life is as simple as you would like for it to be. All of us have the ability to simplify our lives, even if we are in situations that really seem impossibly complicated. You have to break the belief you hold that life owes you anything, or that it should make anything easier on you, because that belief system will leave you stuck trying to defy.

It turns out, you can enjoy the simplicity of life any time you’d like.

All that’s truly necessary is that you get a meal. A meal doesn’t have to be expensive or fancy, or even exceptionally healthy, if we’re going to really be honest. A meal is survival. It’s lovely to enjoy one, but it’s necessary to have one.

Work smart, choose to love what you do. Buy what you can afford, spend only on things that actually matter and keep going. Allocate time to spend with people like friends and family, but give yourself time and space to be concerned only with yourself.

We humans love to allow pressure to mount up and make things look like they’re much worse than they are. In reality, work on prioritizing, consider your possible course of action and the results of possibilities, and you will be amazed at how often a natural order of priority can be picked out.

Everything in life can’t be resolved at the same time. Slow down, take your time, go step by step. Choose to be happy you woke up this morning, not angry that you are already behind.

Accept that life is simple and you will enjoy it more. If not, you will always be struggling through, trying to get by. It’s going to be alright… just slow down and find the simplicity of it.

The simplest solutions are often the right ones… remember that.