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401K, the last and most important result of all those years.I could and did fill that void with the more essential things, home and family. My former morning rush became a leisurely daybreak routine. My former Cuisinart programmable, bean-grinding, coffee appliance became a Keurig pod.Simplify.The next phase was downsizing. Find a new and simpler place to live. One that didn’t involve exterior and lawn maintenance. Simplify. Get rid of almost everything from the three-car garage except one small toolbox. If it can’t be fixed with a screwdriver, it’s someone else’s job. Simplify.Unload the majority of ten rooms full of accumulated possessions and keep only what was needed. Sell two expensive, high-maintenance luxury automobiles and buy one small, virtually maintenance-free economy car.Simplify.Trade fifteen years worth of accumulated high-end camera equipment

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for a mirrorless system with analog dials. Consolidate multiple outlets and markets for my photography into a few easy, consistent winners. Do the same with my writing. Drop the various markets and time-consuming query processes and find a single outlet for my words. Simplify.Take up the guitar. Some pieces of wood, carved and glued together as they have been for five-hundred years. Stretch some steel wire across a hole and pluck them with my fingers. Learn one note on one string.Simplify.People say that life is complicated. But that is only because we complicate it. Our day to day existence doesn’t have to be so convoluted.Choose what is important. Leave the rest.Simplify.This article could have exceeded 1,000 words with multiple examples, use cases, and references. But I said what needed to be said and no more.Simplify.</article></body>

One Word Says It All

I started to go through my usual routine of finding a catchy title for this article but then realized the irony, so…

Simplify.

I’ve been going through a process of simplifying my life for about five years now. It began with retirement. Suddenly something that occupied almost a third of my life was gone.

So simplify.

I deleted all previous work-related programs and data from the computer and purged documents from my office. The only thing left was the connection to my 401K, the last and most important result of all those years.

I could and did fill that void with the more essential things, home and family. My former morning rush became a leisurely daybreak routine. My former Cuisinart programmable, bean-grinding, coffee appliance became a Keurig pod.

Simplify.

The next phase was downsizing. Find a new and simpler place to live. One that didn’t involve exterior and lawn maintenance. Simplify. Get rid of almost everything from the three-car garage except one small toolbox. If it can’t be fixed with a screwdriver, it’s someone else’s job. Simplify.

Unload the majority of ten rooms full of accumulated possessions and keep only what was needed. Sell two expensive, high-maintenance luxury automobiles and buy one small, virtually maintenance-free economy car.

Simplify.

Trade fifteen years worth of accumulated high-end camera equipment for a mirrorless system with analog dials. Consolidate multiple outlets and markets for my photography into a few easy, consistent winners. Do the same with my writing. Drop the various markets and time-consuming query processes and find a single outlet for my words. Simplify.

Take up the guitar. Some pieces of wood, carved and glued together as they have been for five-hundred years. Stretch some steel wire across a hole and pluck them with my fingers. Learn one note on one string.

Simplify.

People say that life is complicated. But that is only because we complicate it. Our day to day existence doesn’t have to be so convoluted.

Choose what is important. Leave the rest.

Simplify.

This article could have exceeded 1,000 words with multiple examples, use cases, and references. But I said what needed to be said and no more.

Simplify.