Cut the tethers for the simple life

A tether is a cord that anchors something movable to a stationary point. Our lives get filled with these tethers that restrict our goals and limit our prosperity. Those houses we buy, the jobs we take, bad habits we aquire, and a myriad of other things in our life limit our choices. Our available choices only become more varied when we seek to cut those tethers. Cutting a tether is often a hard choice and we must concentrate on doing one at a time.

Each tether we cut, we have more motion to explore new areas of our life. I envy those that can cut all their tethers at once and fly free. Freedom can be both exhilarating and terrifying at the same time. This may be more than you are comfortable taking on at one time. Some can only cut one tether while they tether a different part of their life to something else. Staying tethered will keep you from living the simple life

I currently have almost nothing tethering my life. Some of the tethers I cut myself and some were cut by others. I don't have a house, a wife, or debt. The only person I have to support is myself and I am healthy. The simple life is calling me.  Either way, I find myself free to explore in a way that hasn't ever happened before in my life. The rest of my life should be quite a change from the years already passed.

Live Simple Live Free

We always want to know the answers to the most intriguing questions of the Universe. There just doesn't seem to be enough time to discover the answers. Answers that we desire but do not really  require to live our life. The fact is that we adorn our life with so many baubles that we obscure the simple prosperity of life. A plain and simple life removes the clutter so happiness and contentment can surround your soul.

Redefine your definition of success from a prosperity associated with money to one associated with living an honorable life filled with the wealth of hope, faith, and charity. Become a steward of your own life. Don't let society sway your mind with images of instant gratification. Those images clutter your life and obscure its real purpose.

Apply the 80% rule. You will find that 80% of the activities and items we have in life contribute only 20% to our success. Make an inventory of those activities you do each day and the items you have in your possession. Eliminating one item can remove several activities required to maintain that item. Prune back your life one branch at a time until you have nothing left but the plain and simple requirements for living. Each day will seem simpler and much less stressful.