Hello and welcome back to practicing human, the podcast where every day we're getting a little better at life.

I'm your host, Corey Miscara.

In today's episode, we're going to talk about the path to wholeness and why simplicity may be better than more goals.

More to come on that in a moment.

First, let's settle in together with the sound of the bells. I'd like to read you a quote by Dr. Scott Barry Kaufman.

He says, in the rush to feel whole, people will often add more and more goals to their plate

when in reality what people often need is to add more simplicity and minimalism to their

lives so they can energetically put their entire being into deepening something that is

already meaningful I'll read that one again.

Okay, and the rush to feel whole,

people will often add more and more goals to their plate,

when in reality what people often need is to add more simplicity and minimalism to their lives,

so they can energetically put their entire being into deepening

something that is already meaningful. So notice how that lands for you, as with all of the quotes

and poems we share on this podcast. The first line, well, it's all one line, but the first thing that stood out to me is this

adding more and more goals to the plate.

Now, I recognize this in my own personality structure, and that ever since I was a kid,

I've always liked growing things, building things, doing new things.

I even like creating checklists and crossing things off.

There's a lot of healthy satisfaction, in my opinion, that I get out of adding more goals and

just growing.

And I think all of us in general as human beings core to a sense of

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