290: 10 Life Choices to Simplify & Welcome a Calm & Contented Everyday Life
The Simple Sophisticate - Intelligent Living Paired with Signature Style
Shannon Ables
4.7 • 944 Ratings
🗓️ 12 October 2020
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
"Creating an environment in which you can have a greater sense of clarity and calm . . . The result is a mind that feels much calmer and clear." —Andy Puddicomb
Having an abundance of choices is a valuable asset and an extraordinary opportunity. However, unconsciously, when we don't filter our seemingly unlimited choices, we welcome more unnecessary stress into our daily lives.
As someone who wholeheartedly embraces and celebrates choice, understanding the right balance of how much choice is helpful until it tips over into distraction, confusion and paralyzation, upon obtaining, significantly increases the level of contentment in everyday life.
Andy Puddicomb's seemingly simple advice is too often overlooked or forgotten, however is insightful and sage advice if we are seeking tranquility in our everydays.
The clarity we may need to welcome into our lives could be ushered in seemingly anywhere and everywhere. The variable is each of us. Where do we need calm in our lives? Where are we feeling harried, run-down and over-extended? Often we don't realize it is the over-abundance of options that is standing in the way of a sea of calm that carries us more gently and enjoyably through our days.
It has been argued that a large portion of our life experience is determined by a few key decisions. Coined the 80/20 rule, or more officially, the Pareto Principle named after Italian economist Vilfredo Pareto in 1906 to describe the wealth inequality at the time, the concept has expanded to apply to a variety of aspects of life beyond business.
And while, the formula isn't exact, it is a concept worth pondering. When we think about our choices as investments in our lives, what choices will reap the most benefit, the best and longest lasting outcomes? Whether regarding our health or contentment or financial stability, quality choices, purchases and pursuits are wise investments which eliminate excessive, repetitive and time-consuming choices that may fill up our days and minds unnecessarily.
Today, discover 10 areas of life to consider paring down your choices and thereby, scaling up the overall quality of your everyday life and peace of mind.
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| 0:49.8 | signature style. I'm your host Shannon Ables and whether you're listening on your commute, exercising, working in the garden or sitting down with a hot cup of tea or a cafe or a cafe a |
| 1:01.2 | thank you for tuning in. |
| 1:02.7 | Let's get started. Welcome to the 290th episode of the simple sophisticated. Today's topic is about choices and which ones to welcome into |
| 1:29.1 | our lives regularly and which ones to say Tata to basically and I've been thinking a lot lately about which choices have been helpful and with all the new choices we're making or being forced to make, |
| 1:42.0 | or being forced to make depend on the situation or |
| 1:44.5 | circumstance, what ones would be most beneficial and why are they so helpful and |
| 1:51.2 | which ones are not and why? So when a quote popped up recently it |
| 1:56.7 | just grabbed my attention and I seized upon it and I came up with a list of 10 life choices to simplify and welcome a calm and contented everyday life. Before I get to that though, this week's Petit Placier is a nibble that I have been enjoying as of recently and probably will continue to |
| 2:15.8 | enjoy for quite some time. It's very inexpensive and it's certainly an everyday luxury |
| 2:22.1 | so I'm excited to share that with you |
| 2:23.6 | at the end of today's episode. |
| 2:25.4 | Let's get into the 10 life choices |
| 2:27.1 | to simplify and welcome a calm and contented everyday life. |
| 2:30.2 | And it begins with a quote that started at all. |
| 2:33.0 | It's from Andy Pettico, Headspace, as we know. |
| 2:36.0 | He's the voice of the Head Space app, |
| 2:37.5 | but he shared this thought and it was simple, but it was insightful. |
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