I want to simplify my life. This is difficult for me. One of the best things I can do is a self-evaluation to clear out the chaos. However, being honest with myself is troublesome. I’d rather have someone else tell me the hard truths. Ultimately, that feels expensive.

Simplifying also means thinking about the costs that come in the form of time, pressure, stress, as well as finances.

It all takes thinking time and preparation time. I’m not sure when I can carve out the clutter to get to the simple.

It’s hard to walk the line of being informed, being outraged at the news, and not caring. I don’t get on Facebook much anymore because it’s designed to suck my attention, and I don’t want to be sucked in anymore. It’s easy to stay on the 24-hour news cycle and get outraged. Just as easy, you can watch a wasteland of “reality” TV. Better yet, get into arguments on the internet or spend all your time telling others what’s wrong with them.

I have more important things to worry about. I prefer my focus to be laser beam tight. I pay attention to what’s important.

Are you?

I’m terrible at meeting my goals. I set monstrous goals and always fall short. What I should do is take the time to figure out the process of achieving the big goal. What are the smaller goals that I can do every day to finish a big goal?

Time to make a real plan. Execute the plan day by day. Achieve success. Seems easy enough.