Chapter
17
Priorities&White Space
Our lives resemble the busted white ’89 Buick at our local grocery store parking lot, bursting at the seams with toys, trash, and newspapers galore—a perfect candidate for the next episode of Hoarders on A&E. We are stuffed to the gills, drowning in a sea of more stuff: more tasks, more noise, more people who are no longer aligned with who they are.
And it’s only getting worse.
This culture of more acts as deadweight at best and an anchor to keep us stuck at worst. We use a lack of clarity as an excuse as to why we’re not making the progress we desire.
While we may feel we’re not the hoarder in the parking lot, we tend to do this with our lives. Because of the pressure to hustle, succeed, and figure out our ...
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