Is Less, More?

#Simplicity.

As a boy and young man growing up my father often used the phrase: “less is more”, long before it became part of the popular lexicon.  While the lesson was lost on my youthful ignorance, as I advance in years, the wisdom of the phrase resonates with me more and more.

The question before us in a busy active world is:  can we simplify our lives, and thereby make them more meaningful?  It is tempting to believe that “more is more”, especially when we are building a business, audience, or customer base.  However, is it possible that “less is more” powerful?  In dialogue with Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau is quoted as saying: “Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify, simplify!”  Emerson in reply is reported to have said: “One simplify would have sufficed”.

How can you be more by doing less?