What if life could truly be easy?  That lightens me up just thinking about it!  As I read Jennifer Jeffries’s book  “7 Steps to Sanity,” she suggests that we “chill out” as a major way to create ease in our lives.  Her major option for “chilling out” was surprising and refreshing.

Jennifer is a woman who has been through corporate “burn-out,” and that experience really rearranged her priorities.  Today she speaks frequently with corporate groups.  When she encourages CEOs and their employees to “chill out,” she finds out what they currently do to experience more ease in their lives.  She found that they frequently add recreation homes, toys, cars, and gadgets.  The result for those people often is not more ease but more stress.  The stress came from adding expenses which meant more work to pay for them.
 
Her recommendation for ease is to soak up the beauty in the life you currently have, verses adding one more thing that adds financial stress.  Evidently, the Aussies, like many Americans, have a penchant for complicating life by purchasing more rather than by simplifying our needs.

I remember as a child traveling to my grandparent’s cabin at Deep Creek just outside of Livingston, Montana,.  The vacations spent there brought lots of joy.  As the family dispersed after my grandparent’s death it seemed that keeping up the cabin became more of a chore than a joy to those living near-by.  Thus, what once brought us pleasure, may not currently bring us as much ease as it brings expense.  So, how do we adapt to what is true in our lives today?

What will you do to add ease to your life?

How does your spending support ease in your life?