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The Gift of Subtraction by Julian Saunders of richenregular.com

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The Gift of Subtraction by Julian Saunders of richenregular.com

Whenever we're faced with a challenge that must be overcome or an opportunity to take advantage

of something cool, our instincts kick in telling us, what can we do? Is there an app we can download

or a website we can look at real quick? Can we ask Alexa or Siri, should we reach out to such and

such to help us think this through? Let's add it to the to-do list on the shared drive so that we

can revisit this thought later. We're get it done, kind of people, so our natural instinct is to

immediately jump into action. This is all fine if it helps to accomplish things we've set out to do,

but we've learned that an even better way of getting things done is by having less and having

less to do. Simple concept, but not an easy one. So many people, us included, treat their

overwhelm with addition. We habitually add things to our lives like products, services, features,

subscriptions, calendars, houses, cars, lists, bells, whistles, phones, apps, and responsibilities,

instead of just simply saying, nah, this revelation really sunk in years ago as we visited the

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