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Keeping things simple…

You ever caught yourself unconsciously overcomplicating things in your life? I know I have. Over analysis, overthinking, running in circles, but going nowhere.

We loose our ability to be rational when we try to figure everything out, because thats an irrational thing to do. We’ll never have all the answers, we don’t need to.

We need the right answers for our journey and purpose. Let’s simplify our lives so we can focus more in depth on our mission, focusing less on what we can’t control.

Imagine a camera, aimed for a beautiful shot of a unique looking tree, but the photographer thinks to themself, “I need to see more of the surroundings”, so they back up from the cool looking tree, but they still try to keep it in the shot.

Next they think “ok well I also want some of the lake in the photo”, so they move over to the side a little. They take some photos half heartedly but now they see something else off in the distance, it looks shiny and they start heading over to check it out. Excited about what they’ll find, forgetting about the cool unique tree.

This is how we forget the beauty in simplicity and we stop noticing the unique opportunities in front of us, there’s always something better around the corner.

When we live that way we miss the moment and we don’t capture opportunities presented to us… Because we don’t even see them, we’re busy scanning the horizon.

So let’s simplify, let’s keep first things first. Let’s be direct, like a laser beam. Wishy Washy doesn’t cut it, sorry. We need to know where we're going, we don’t need to know exactly how we’ll get there. We can let go and trust the source for that part.

Divided attention can’t achieve very much, it has less force, less power, less focused energy concentrated towards a goal. Imagine sun rays all around us, they have energy of course and we can feel it on our skin. Now imagine taking a magnifying glass and focusing the energy of the sun rays. It’s intense. Thats harnessed focus.

So let’s be absorbed by what we do, all in when we’re working. Merging into the flow state undistracted by the tornado of news, apps, junk and nonstop nonsense.

I know it’s easier said than done in this age we live in, full of addictive stuff designed to grab our attention and snare our focus. Let this piss you off if it helps. Our attention is currency and they’re stealing it. But it’s our responsibility not to allow our valuable time to be syphoned away by things we don’t want to engage in.

Let’s be obsessed with our craft (in a healthy way), let’s be present when we work and play, so we can put our best into our labour and be our best for those we love.

See the distractions like mosquitoes trying to suck your life force. We can use bug spray called passion. We love our mission so much we’re unwilling to be moved. We are on a journey and nothing can stop us if we just focus and don’t give up.

At first we may fail at keeping things simple, but we simply notice and refocus. We only truly lose if we give up and quit. Worry is overthinking too, it’s a thief of joy.

So, whats one way you can simplify your life today?