Since we create complexity in our lives, we can also work to eliminate it. But wait, you say, what about the things that enter my live that add complexity, that I can’t do anything about, things like my kids, my boss, that pile of laundry in the corner. AH.
We tend to get caught up in the literal. There will always be a layer of complexity that we can’t LITERALLY make disappear (no matter how badly we wished we could). The complexity we do have control over however, is our thought process. In and of itself that pile of laundry is just a thing. It doesn’t actually have meaning, until of course, we invest it with some.
That’s the difference. How we think about things, how we initiate things, how we interpret things, how complex our relationships are, how complex our environment is (for example, if our house is a mess and how that stresses us out), is all a product of how we’ve thought about these things and what meaning we’ve given them.
Change the meaning, eliminate the complexity.
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