Keep it Simple! (a different perspective on the paradox of ‘stuff’)

Having less versus living joyfully…

Thanks to Free-Photos on Pixabay for the image

We Love the Message, not so Much the Reality

We love the message ‘keep it simple’ and we probably know there’s some truth in it. Yet… most of us don’t live it. Most of us don’t tend towards simplification, we tend towards complexity. We love the shiny, we buy the new books, we devour ideas, we discuss and argue the nuances…

I get it, me too.

This is not going to be a call for minimalism, not at all, I love my ‘stuff’ with lots of colour and a little disorder. I have pets so it’s impossible to keep a clean house (my excuse anyway), I like to write so of course I create ‘output’. I could debate ideas for hours with my friends, and do, more than ever in this lockdown, which has been one of the things I’ve appreciated.

I’m definitely not the person to tell you ‘less is more’ but I do want to tease apart the difference between the creating and the creation.

First Principles?

I have a client who loves to go back to first principles. She’s a complex thinker, an analyst turned senior leader and she likes to understand things (which can sometimes be a cause of stress for her.)