Here's why you need a more simple life

Cru’s Letter

If you keep inviting complexity into your life, your life will be complex.

It’s that simple (or complex lol).

We’re all so motivated to DO more and find the next opportunity that’s going to solve the problems at hand. The issue is that most forms of “doing” are just distractions from the focusing on the foundational stuff.

Ya know… self care, mental health, space to just think.

When you focus on these important things, your capacity for the other stuff increases drastically but it’s only on the other side of sacrifice and precise prioritization.

You might be the kind of person that can get A LOT done in a day and quite frankly, that’s awesome. It is likely, though, that if you can do a lot, you require more and more of yourself until it feels like too much.

This is where complexity comes into play. To have more responsibilities, in more categories of your life, with more people involved, you’re running away from the most settling kind of life-design…

Simplicity.

Simplicity is what grants you the necessary space to work through the big picture stuff.

Simplicity lets you preserve your energy that you only have so much of.

Simplicity is what allows you to build systems in your life/work that relive stress instead of creating it.

Building a life of simplicity requires the discipline of saying “no.”

Not every opportunity that comes your way is a good one to take advantage of because a good opportunity might pull you away from a better one.

Here’s an example:

Maybe, this month, you’re really focused on setting healthy sleep routines in your life because you know it’s going to suit your goals in the gym. One day, you get invited to a networking event that you think would be a great chance to meet some cool people and it starts at 9pm. Given the focus you’ve established, the good opportunity to go to the event might truthfully be a distraction from doing the fundamental work of fixing your sleep schedule. This doesn’t mean the event is a “bad” thing to do, but it does add more complexity into your current set of goals which is a burden to fundamental change.

Social complexity is another weight that a lot of people have to bear arbitrarily. If your energy is spread among too many people, you’re gonna find that you can’t show up fully in any given interaction or relationship.

We all know quality over quantity applies heavily to relationships because strong understanding in one person is worlds more valuable than surface level acquaintanceship with twenty.

Complexity is not all bad but if you feel overwhelmed by the normal state of your life, it’s probably a sign to condense down. Here are a couple ways to do that:

• try eating the same thing every day

• stick to a more “rigid” schedule for some time

• refuse to take on more work “opportunities” when you’re already too busy

In designing a more simple life, you may initially feel like you’re missing out on all the good stuff but once you feel peace in who you are and how you live at a baseline, you’ll have all the room in the world to add meaningful complexity back into your life.

-Cru

P.S. If you’ve watched more than one of my youtube videos, you know that my life is pretty simple and consistent. Things will surely evolve but creating space for myself will always be a staple to my lifestyle.

I posted a video recently about what life looks like when you take action and I think the simplicity speaks for itself…

Check out the video below: