Keep it simple

As I'm preparing for the weekend, I've been noticing how many things are simple:

• The amazing human body is mostly water.
• The way most people feel loved is by listening to them.
  
• People with food, water, shelter and love can be happy.
  
• The great speeches were short and simple like the Gettysburg Address and Churchill's 630 word Blood, Sweat and Tears Speech.

A good marriage, a healthy family life, a stronger career can all be improved with some attention to simple things done consistently over time. Too often our lives are cluttered:

• 150 steps to financial freedom
• 100 ways to a better marriage
• a 500 page book on how to overcome depression

God didn't mean for life to be so complicated. I'm realizing more and more that it's not God or others that complicate my life. It's me! K.I.S.S....Keep it simple Sally, Steve...Shawn.

Simple health....simple life

I'm renewing my commitment to health at the start of this year. Probably like me, you're thinking about that too. The holidays get us out of our schedule.

I saw an interesting article that talked about the myth that small changes don't matter. According to this author, when assistants switched from using manual typewriters to computers, they spent 200 calories less per day. That equals ~20 pounds per year! Small things matter. "It's just another M&M." Turns out that according to this article, you'd have to walk the length of a football field to burn the calories of one M&M. Ouch. Read it yourself here.

I'm getting pumped about the idea of a simpler life. Tomorrow I'll begin this new series. Ryan Stoops spoke last weekend about having a single purpose. I really long for a simpler life.