Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!

Simplicity!

Thoreau admonished his contemporaries in the nineteenth century to reduce the complexity in their daily lives: "Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand."

Time is a limited resource and there are increasing demands on this resource.  Psychologist Tim Kasser shows in his research that time affluence is a consistent predictor of well-being, where material affluence is not. Time affluence is the feeling that one has sufficient time to pursue activities that are personally meaningful, to reflect, to engage in leisure.

Time poverty is the feeling that one is constantly stressed, rushed, overworked, behind.

To raise our levels of well-being, there is no way around simplifying our lives.

Think of at least three ways that you could simplify your life and take the first tiny step. A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

I wish you the best for 2015!

Happy New Year!!