A Complicated Life

"Maintaining a complicated life is a great way to avoid changing it."

-- Elaine St. James


I know, I know, the complications aren't your fault! People just demand so much of you. There's work and school and kids and relationships, and shopping and golf, and hell, there's only so much time.

True, there are only 24 hours in a day, no matter how you slice it. Everybody gets the same 1440 minutes each day, and yet some people chase their tales like toy poodles on crack, while others glide through life like a pod of dolphins at play. Sure, you can try stress management, time management, and, most of all, self-management, but the real answer can be summed up in one word -- simplify.

Do you really need to do all the stuff you do? Do you really enjoy all the relationships in which you're involved? Do you really use all the junk you own? No, I didn't think so. And yet you keep doing them, and keeping them, and they keep complicating your life.

If you truly want to change your life you must be ruthless! Clutter, complications, crazy commitments and all that other crap must go! You may think it's all so important now, but once you jettison it, you won't miss it for a heartbeat. In fact, you'll relish the new found freedom that comes with simplicity, as well the space you have to make the changes you really want to make.

Now's the time. Start today. Uncomplicate your life by sending an email to withdraw from a boring committee, or clean out your closets, or balance your checkbook and put your bills on automatic payment, or put that obnoxious, incontinent schnauzer to sleep (sorry, just kidding). There are so many ways you can remove complications, that to piss and moan about your life being too complicated is just downright selfish!

Creation needs space. The only way to create the space is by destruction. Destroy your old negative patterns, destroy the complications that eat up all your energy and keep you from changing and creating. You can do it! Do it now.

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