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FROM THE FOUNDER
We can all do with less
You will be less stressed and might find your business more successful if you can shed some baggage.
I ’m three days into a four-day spring break camping trip with my 13-year-old daughter, Hazel, and her best friend, Lilly (they have been inseparable practically since birth). And the full recognition just hit me (not for the first time, mind you!) this morning, as I sit here at a picnic table drinking my coffee with our female Great Pyrenees, “Bella,” that we can all do with less.
Mark Zweig
On this trip, our meals have been simple and our days have been even simpler. Three of us are living comfortably in what is probably, at most, a 240-square-foot space. And while I can’t say everything happens faster (try cleaning a cast iron skillet in a motorhome sink or changing clothes in a bedroom that has about 12 inches of space surrounding the bed), it all still gets done and you have so much time for solitude and reflection. Of course, being the compulsive cleaner and fixer that I am, the condition of our RV is making me want to take it home and rip everything out for a top to bottom cleaning, and it’s driving me a little mad that I cannot fix the leaky kitchen faucet because I somehow left my camper toolbox either at the
last campground we went to or at home. But those minor irritations aside, the taste of minimalist life is quite enjoyable. Instead of working on my yard and cleaning my cars and working on a house down the street that we are redoing – as I do most every other weekend – I can pretty much do absolutely nothing if I want to for most of the day. I think most of our readers can identify with me when I say that all of the stuff we aspire to own can become a trap. And it seems like one that so many successful people fall into. Every single thing you own has other purchases and other activities tied to it. And it takes up space.
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THE ZWEIG LETTER MARCH 31, 2025, ISSUE 1579
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