DeepThinking - How To Make Your Daily Life Simple

Ronald Regan - a genius at making life appear simple - once said:

It's true hard work never killed anyone, but I figure, why take the chance?

It's amazing when you are sick how much falls by the wayside: life does gets simpler to live. People become important, while your "to do" list ceases to matter. Clarity often emerges. An acquaintance recently concussed himself into hospital - that short stay transformed the idea of his whole life. How can you live in this simple revelatory state all the time? When I read how confused and overwhelmed some of my ATSuccess Village members feel about what they are doing with their biz, I see my own confusion reflected in their behaviour. We want too many things, we have too many fronts we are challenging at once. Alexander's work teaches us that stress is a result of overdoing, or doing inappropriately. You discover that freedom is not something you add to your movement, it is what you are left with after subtracting the unnecessary. This is a universal truth - not only in how we co-ordinate our movement, but in how we co-ordinate our lives. The Hospital Metaphor Experiment For the next week, imagine you are ill in hospital and simply can't do everything any more. What do you give up? What is left? Certainly you give up your daily lists - what you must do becomes obvious. You give up answering every email; you give up feeling you must respond to everyone's request. Give up being polite and good and trustworthy to others, and instead become polite, good and trustworthy to your Self. If you don't want to go out, don't. If you can't stand email today - ignore it. If your to do list is overwhelming you - tear it up. Think of the one thing you really need to do, and do that. Then do the rest only if you feel up to it. Only if you want to. Sure, you will make some messes. But my guess is way less than you imagine. And the benefit is that your life will become simpler, clearer and freer. Be in a hospital that is called "Looking after me first" and see what happens. It's how you teach AT, so why not how you live too? Start the week with one, just one, simple thing you want to achieve. Start each day with one, just one, simple thing you want to achieve. Do that first, before anything else. Then when that's done, your day is over. From now on, you can do whatever pleases you. If it turns out that you feel like looking at your emails, go ahead. If it turns out you feel like saying yes to a request, say yes. From a place of your looking after your health, decide: "Yes, I actually want to do this now." When those voices start: "I should do this. I must do this" say… Wait. I am in the hospital of me this week. I have a perfect excuse. Less is simple.