{"id":698,"date":"2018-07-09T14:55:55","date_gmt":"2018-07-09T18:55:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lyricwell.com\/blog\/?p=698"},"modified":"2024-11-16T20:56:05","modified_gmt":"2024-11-17T01:56:05","slug":"what-could-you-accomplish-if-you-had-less","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lyricwell.com\/blog\/what-could-you-accomplish-if-you-had-less\/","title":{"rendered":"What Could You Accomplish If You Had Less?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m currently reading a book called\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/smile.amazon.com\/Material-World-Global-Family-Portrait\/dp\/0871564300\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Material World: A Global Family Portrait<\/a><\/em>. It documents the lives of average families in thirty nations around the globe. Each family was photographed outside their home surrounded by all of their possessions &#8211; something I can&#8217;t even imagine trying to do. While the book is old, written in 1995, it shows how simple some people lived. That has made me consider the things I own and why I own them. Of everything I own, what is really necessary? What is enriching my life? How much of my time is spent taking care of those things? How much more could I accomplish outside of taking care of those things if I didn&#8217;t have as many?<\/p>\n<h2>More Time to Accomplish the Important<\/h2>\n<p>Having less means having less to clean, clean up, maintain, etc., and more time to do what&#8217;s important to you.\u00a0Since I&#8217;m a bit of a nerd and like numbers, let&#8217;s say you got rid of enough to save you 15 minutes a day not having to take care of that stuff. Doing so would give you 91 hours and 15 minutes (almost 4 days) worth of time to work on more important things!<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately the math is the easy part, getting rid of the stuff is much more difficult. Consider the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/makespace.com\/blog\/posts\/letting-go-of-stuff\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reasons we hold on to the things we have<\/a> and how to let go, then decide if the things you have are worth the time they take.<\/p>\n<span class='bctt-click-to-tweet'><span class='bctt-ctt-text'><a href='https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?url=https%3A%2F%2Flyricwell.com%2Fblog%2Fwhat-could-you-accomplish-if-you-had-less%2F&#038;text=The%20price%20of%20anything%20is%20the%20amount%20of%20life%20you%20exchange%20for%20it.%20-%20Henry%20Thoreau&#038;related' target='_blank'rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it. - Henry Thoreau <\/a><\/span><a href='https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?url=https%3A%2F%2Flyricwell.com%2Fblog%2Fwhat-could-you-accomplish-if-you-had-less%2F&#038;text=The%20price%20of%20anything%20is%20the%20amount%20of%20life%20you%20exchange%20for%20it.%20-%20Henry%20Thoreau&#038;related' target='_blank' class='bctt-ctt-btn'rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Share on X<\/a><\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m currently reading a book called\u00a0Material World: A Global Family Portrait. 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