The #2 Secret to Having a Great Life – Part 1
Reduce Your Commitments
Secret #1 was to simplify everything. Put that together with a reduction in unnecessary commitments and you have a strategy to dramatically increase the amount of time you have to spend doing those things that you really want to do – those things that will lead to Your Great Life. See the How to Have a Great Life Life series for the most powerful method available for figuring out what makes you truly happy and fulfilled.
Over time you have accumulated your commitments one at a time. In isolation each one seemed justified at the time you made the commitment. However you can’t make those decisions in isolation and you are likely operating under an assumption of unlimited bandwidth when you do so.
Imagine you found a great cause or charity that you wanted to donate a small amount of your time towards. Let’s call it C1. Imagine that C1 is unarguably worth 30 minutes of your time each week. What’s 30 minutes when you can contribute so much right? Then you find another cause C2 that is also worth 30 minutes of your time each week so you commit to C2. You can play this scenario out over and over until you have committed to cause C3, C4, etc. What happens when you get to C50? C100? The mistake you are making is assuming that your time or bandwidth to do these things is unlimited. You are not considering each commitment in the total context of every single minute of your life and all of your other commitments, needs, desires, etc. You also are not considering it in the context of other potential uses of that same time resource.
The same thing applies to your money. If only everyone gave $10 a week to help this or that children’s charity the world would be a better place. Yes but at what cost? There is a limit. Further when you allocate $10 to one thing you are not allocating it to another. The whole idea of wastefulness in consumerism is at best an oversimplification and simply a value judgement. One person’s hedonistic indulging may be another person’s food on the table. When I indulge in a tropical vacation there are local people living there who are putting food on their poor families tables as a result.
Personally I think the #1 contribution I can make to the rest of the world is to take care of myself and my family and not become a burden on anyone else or destroy the planet in the process. If I produce more than I need I will likely be helping a lot of other people indirectly. When I can afford to pay for my own health care I am also paying for someone who cannot. It’s built into the price. When you are a net producer you are ultimately giving to others regardless of what anyone else thinks.
This does not help you with figuring out how to identify and eliminate commitments, but I hope it eases your mind a little when you do start that process. If you are committed to having a great life with the limited number of minutes you have to live, you need to feel comfortable with this process. Part #2 will give you some ideas on how to go about identifying and making these reductions. Also keep in mind that I am making no judgments on what might constitute your particular great life. To some people a life totally devoted to helping others with little consideration of self is the ultimate great life. To that person, reducing commitments that are not geared toward helping others are the kinds of commitments that need to be reduced. To each his own.
Have a Great Life!
Chuck Stanley
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