I expect to have some questions or arguments to this post, and I am great with that. I love conversation about ideas where I can hear and learn from other perspectives. But today I’m going to give you mine and tell you why I think it’s a good approach for your own life.

“It’s simple. You just (fill in the blank .)”

How many times have you heard this? Better yet, how many times have you said it? We like to reduce entire ideas and systems into prescriptive statements, a bullet-pointed list to check off and turn in for a gold star.