The holiday season is all around us, and joy is in the air — as well as a sense of more.
After loading more onto our Thanksgiving plates, we begin thinking about what additional items we’d like to buy for Christmas. A few days later, we reflect and plan for the year ahead.
I have mixed feelings about New Year Resolutions, as if it’s our only opportunity to reflect on the past and plan for the future. In reality, we can change at any time. Yet if the end of the year provides that additional motivation to make a change, who am I to discredit it?
While we plan on the year ahead, how do we achieve the life we want? We know more items aren’t the key to contentment, and new goals or habits aren’t either.
Life can be better when we embrace subtractions.
Fewer obligations give us more time.
Consuming less junk food shapes a healthier lifestyle.
Spending less money promotes more savings.
When we aim for less of what we don’t want, we get more of what we do.
So when you make plans around “new year, new me” also consider how the new year can bring new subtractions.
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