233: Divine Subtraction: How Less Can Create More Peace, Freedom & Abundance

What if the thing you need more of in your life is actually less? Less scrolling, less explaining, less worrying, less rushing, less taking responsibility for the things that aren't even yours.

We currently live in a culture that tells us that more is more and that more is always better.

And so we seek out more productivity, more money, more followers, more self-improvement, more information, more things on our to-do list.

And if we're unhappy or if we're overwhelmed, then our first instinct is to ask, "Okay, what else do I need to do?" But what if that's the wrong question? What if instead of adding something to your life, if instead you just took something away? Today we're going to be exploring the idea of divine subtraction.

This is the idea that sometimes we actually are able to create more abundance, more peace, and more space in our lives, not by adding more things to it, but by eliminating the things that no longer serve us.

And I think that this is an especially important conversation for those of us that tend to over-give.

Because when you're used to taking care of everybody else, then your instinct is often to do more, to try harder, to communicate better, to give more, to sacrifice more, explain more, fix more.

But sometimes the most loving thing that you can do for yourself, it's not adding something else to your to-do list.

It's actually taking something off of it.

And so today we're going to look at a few everyday examples of what can happen when we stop asking, "What do I need more of?" and instead start asking, "What might I need to eliminate?" Because sometimes less, it really is more.

[chuckles] So let's explore a few examples.

And as I share these with you, then I want you to notice what it is that we're creating abundance-wise when we eliminate a few of these things, okay? Because this is divine subtraction.

This is abundance through subtraction.