Shortly after I started my company, I realized that my life was getting very complicated. Not only was I struggling to juggle family, chores, errands, and finances, but each day was an intense intellectual challenge that left me exhausted at the end of the day. I had to figure out ways to make my life easier--or at least less complicated.
I started to let go of things that I could live without, or without doing. I didn't comprehend at first what was happening, but over time I noticed that as I dropped items off my "to do" list, my life was becoming slightly easier, less complex.
The first thing to go was my bed - I stopped making it. (Yes, my spouse could have picked up this chore, but my goal wasn't to make other people's lives more onerous, but to make mine easier.) I haven't made it several months, and it feels good. I do less laundry/ironing, and a lot less yardwork. Instead of planting flowers this spring, I divided some of last year's perennials and stuck in a few tomato plants. Very low maintenance, but still nice to look at. I mostly walk to work, so car maintenance has all but disappeared. My home is not perfectly neat, and the windows are a little dirty, but my life is easier, and I'm just a little bit less stressed. And right now, every item I can cross off my "to do" list is a blessing.
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