The Greatest Lie You’ve Ever Been Told (and why you still believe it!)
It’s not that simple.
That’s it, that’s the lie.
Okay, we’re done here. Bye!
I’M KIDDING! Please don’t leave yet!
In all seriousness, how many times have we been told, you can’t do that because… You dream too big! It’s too good to be true! Reality is NOT that simple! And the list goes on!
First of all, those things are the projections of someone else’s limitations and beliefs. Secondly we are trained to fail for the benefit of others. ( I go into detail about this in Stop Making More Decisions.)
I also talk about how this applies to building my online income in this video!
How Does Knowing This is a Lie Help Me?
I’m going to pull an example from my video. I had sat at my desk for nearly 2 hours trying desperately to finish my worksheet. It needed to be on one page and formatted so it was both readable and printable as well as easy to access.
I was using the free version of Canva, because that’s what “everyone” says to use for quality printable/digital products, but I had very little experience using Canva. So nearly 2 hours later I was exhausted and frustrated, I still didn’t have a useable worksheet and my video needed to be uploaded ASAP!
I went to bed angry and let down, wishing Canva worked like Power Point and Kit. I use them for my Blog so they were familiar and easy for me to use. “DING” The lightbulb moment happened…. It couldn’t be that simple… could it?
OF COURSE IT’S THAT SIMPLE!!!
We, as a society, have been conditioned (from a very young age) to accept the belief that If the solution to the assigned task is simple, then the results are not going to be “good enough”. But this thinking is so far from the truth!
Simple solutions most often produce your best results because the methods used are familiar and/or less stress inducing. This allows you to focus on the quality of the work you are doing instead focusing on the system your “supposed” to use.
How Do I Stop Overcomplicating My Daily Life?
The first thing we need to do is look at the daily systems and routines that are already in place. It’s not looking at WHAT you do but HOW you do it.
Want to stop drinking so much coffee? Switch to Decaf.
Want to have more time in the morning? Pair down your wardrobe to your favorite essentials and mix and match through the week. Simplify your make up to 1 or 2 favorite looks. Have 2 or 3 favorite, easy breakfast meals and stick with those throughout the week.
You’re not changing your routine, you’re changing how you live in it.
And I can hear it now…. But Jamie Lee! I can’t just throw out my cloths and just keep the work stuff, that’s time consuming/expensive/boring/wasteful/I don’t know what I use most each week/overwhelming!
The reality is very simple, put the cloths you use most during the week away together, put your weekend cloths away together, and your special occasion cloths away together. Everything else needs to be put out of the way. Then see what you use and when you use it and put it away accordingly. Don’t just throw things away and hope for the best.
Will this work for everyone? No.
Is it a good place to start learning that simplicity is effective? Yes.
Can this thinking be adapted to other areas of your life? Absolutely.
Accepting simplicity, especially when we are trained to complicate things, is uncomfortable at first, but with practice it becomes easier to apply simplicity every day.
Why We Believe Life Can’t Be Simple
I am saying this from 30 decades of lived experience, we are trained to fail. And by proxy, we then have been trained believe that anything done outside of those learned systems and methods are wrong.
From the passed on beliefs and behaviors of our family, to the education institutions curriculums, even the very community we choose to be a part of, all of our lives we have been trained to stay as we are and where we are for the people and organizations to benefit from our minds and labours.
This is why we continue to believe if something is simple or done simply, it’s just not good enough.
THIS IS JUST PLAIN WRONG!
SIMPLE IS GOOD
Simple meals are good. Simple Cloths that are comfortable and stylish are good. Simple methods, routines, activities and solutions ARE GOOD!
And a Simple Life is Good Too.
That’s the Simple Truth.
