If you could achieve greater happiness, health and success by doing either MORE or by doing LESS which would you choose?

If you could achieve greater happiness, health and success by doing either MORE or by doing LESS which would you choose?

That probably seems like a daft question, right?

Why would you choose to add stuff to your to do list taking away more precious time when you could choose to do less?

Logically you wouldn’t of course yet this is the trap that almost all of us fall into.

Often starting from a position of overthinking, overwhelm, low energy and time poverty we decide we want to improve our experience of life in some way and the solution we reach for is to ADD EVEN MORE to our schedule.

As if adding even more will move us to a place where we’ll have more energy, more patience, less overwhelm and greater time freedom…

Sounds completely illogical when you see it mapped out like that right?

On top of that it’s also worth considering that we live in a world of cause and effect which is to say that everything you are experiencing in your life right now is the result of what you ARE doing not what your AREN’T doing.

So why do we instinctively reach for more?

Because it’s easy.

It’s shiny, sexy, uncomplicated, it’s an escape from reality, an imagined simple future without the pain of looking at the current reality.

Over there, that new action looks straight forward yet to be tarnished by the reality of actually fitting it into your life and the discomfort of actually doing it.

But the pain/ discomfort/ overwhelm that is driving the desire for this new reality is the result not looking carefully and deeply at the current reality. The stuff that’s actually true right now.

When you look at what is true right now it becomes obvious what you need to STOP doing.

And when you do stop much of the overwhelm goes away, some more energy comes back in and even some more time.

Now you have a much better platform from which to decide on what to do next, don’t you think?

Better still you are coming from a position of stability and confidence rather than one of overwhelm and uncertainty.

Before you start chasing the future, you need to make sure you’re firmly grounded in the present.