What Is The Good Life

January 23, 2014April 20, 2017

Tip #23 – Define what the “good life” is for you, that does NOT include a life of goods.

It is easy to get caught up in the consumerism lifestyle of America. We think that acquiring and accumulating will make us happy. Yet our desire for simplifying is exact opposite of this mentality – that is why living this way, is so difficult. What does the “good life” look like for you? What will it take? What changes do you need to make?

Kristin’s Action Plan: A simple life I think, is “the good life” because it does not include a life of goods, but a life of contentment and peace. Onward with my desire to live with less!

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