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This is not true for all the world, but for so much of the world, we have a lot of convenience and opportunities.

We can just go down to the corner store and get the things we need, like the plastic bins or the hot dogs that have been on the rollers for four days,

whatever it is. But the point is, we have ways to solve our problems and there's a whole

industry about helping you stay organized. This is John

Filler along with Danny Werter and that problem of organization may be because

you need those plastic bins but it might be because yet just have too much stuff.

I was talking to somebody today earlier who's said I'm kind of a minimalist.

I throw a lot of things away.

That means I might buy a cookie sheet four times because I used

one and I gave it away and then I did the same thing three you know three more times

but there's something to be said about learning to live with less.

There really is. From a psychological counseling perspective, it does truly create

peacefulness in the home. There's just something about it. Well, number one is you have to take care of less. You have to clean less. But then you're not bogged down by the need for more. Your brain learns how to live satisfied.

And that's such a hard place to get to,

but such an important place to go and to model for our kids

that we can be satisfied with little and once you can do that then

you can handle all kinds of other things and really what families are grasping

for right now that what they're longing for is peacefulness.

Our schedules get cluttered, our relationships get cluttered, and our homes get cluttered,

and we go for everything that seems good instead of figuring out what's

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