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Subtract at home

man's legs and seat back view from airplane seat — Travel as light as you possibly can.

Spend 50 days in a small motel room with no closet, no TV, no chest of drawers, no AC. You quickly learn what is essential, and what you can do without.

Subtract at home.

Less is more.

Take only what you need, only what you can carry.

Everything else is non-essential.

Shed what distracts or complicates.

Subtract decisions, habits, possessions, structure and processes that keep the main things from being the main things.

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Stunningly less needy

A menu photo eliminated need to hold a physical menu. The line was so short I didn’t have time to pull up the app to get the menu there.

Stunningly less needy.

When you look around at your personal belongings, are you stunned by how little you need?

The freedom from the weight of possessions is a joy you only know when you have only what you need.

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Guard your shedding

Pelicans in tree with moon — Saw the moon. Saw the Pelicans. Wondered if a photo like this was possible. Without going out of my way, it was.

Guard your shedding.

Shed like you mean it.

And guard your ability to say goodbye to things that take up physical, spiritual, and emotional space.

In the photo above, i shed any hope of this photo as we walked along the beach. The moon and pelicans seemed miles apart from our angle.

As we walked back to our room, it just happened – i let go and then it found me.

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Shed and donate your unused stuff

Trunk full of Goodwill donations, in the 1990 Camry – a car that’s driven infrequently. The trunk acted as a storage closet for the past month or so.

Dress pants Goodwill donations — Dress pants, some with price tag still on.

Goodwill receipt — Receipt, December 11, 2017.

Shed.

Let go.

Make it a habit.

Watch yourself soar in your freedom.

Freedom from the weight of things you’ll never use.

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First Principles Thinking screen shot. “Read ’em and weep”. Or, read ’em and rejoice.

Shed.

You don’t have to be a big-city genius to know that life comes down to a few basics.

Everything we have, do, yearn for, and are afraid to let go of holds us back from feeling completely alive.

Sure, life is hard.

Why make it harder?

Shed.

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