I’ve been thinking a lot lately about essentialism and minimalism.
I’ve been reading Essentialism – The Disciplined Pursuit of Less by Greg McKeown and I watched Minimalists on Netflix recently.
I’ve always been a fan of decluttering and do this regularly, but I could definitely get better at buying less stuff.
It’s not that I buy that much either, but if I really start living the principles of essentialism and minimalism, I wonder how much less I’d buy.
I’m also wondering how much less I would do.
I’m at a place in my life where I’m lucky enough to love everything I do for my work; but I’m also really busy, working usually six, sometimes seven days in a week and often long days with both a full time job and side biz.
My dilemma is that whenever I think about working less, I’m not sure how, as I honestly love everything I do and I also quite enjoy being busy.
I just read the quote: “beware the barrenness of a busy life” ~ Socrates.
This isn’t true for my own life as I get so much fulfilment from what I do.
But I can definitely see how it can be true for a lot of people, and I can also see how I’ve sometimes filled my spare time up with things on a to do list that might go against being an essentialist.
So my aim is to keep an eye out for those fillers on my to do list that I really don’t need to do, so I can have more free time for myself and my fam.
Any of this resonating for you?
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Catcha on the flip side,
