If my conversations with others are any indication, I am not alone in sometimes feeling a sense of overload – a need for less. So I expect fellow Kansans will find inspiration from Russ Gerber’s article “The Need for Less and More” in the July 20 Psychology Today about rethinking what matters most in your life to experience a life that is happy, healthy, and productive. Russ Gerber spent many years in news programming, most notably with the Christian Science Monitor. He is passionate about the health care debate. Please enjoy the excerpt of “The Need for Less and More below and follow the link at the end to read the entire article.
If, as they say, cleanliness (and clutter-free living) is next to godliness, then my future is bright.
It’s always been appealing to me to pare down unimportant things and filter out the excess information that quickly adds up to an overloaded life. Streamlining whenever possible comes natural and feels right.
Which is why you can imagine my delight when spotting the book The Power of Less by Leo Babauta. Thumbing through it I could see how much he, too, values identifying what’s essential, staying focused on things that matter, setting limits on the non-essential stuff that easily clutters schedules, and seeing the positive impact this has on our lives.
Conventional wisdom says that in today’s multi-channel, multi-tasking world such a blueprint for bringing order makes a whole lot of sense.
But conventional wisdom, it turns out, goes only so far.