What we remove is often more important than what we add.
It doesn’t matter if we’re building products, buying things, cooking a meal, or planning our social calendar, things end up getting messy, bloated, and inefficient when we get caught in the trap of always adding more.
Removing stuff is hard though. It forces us to decide on the relative importance of things. It’s easier to skip deciding and live with the clutter.
But when this happens, our possessions end up owning us, our processes slow us down, our products become unusable, our meals are a traffic jam of flavours, and our social calendars are exhausting.
So, what’s one thing you could remove to make next week easier?