The case for keeping things simple

A lot of clients want to have their cake and eat it – and they want it yesterday! ‘I want to be rich but I want a simple life’, is something I hear quite often. With the help of technology, it is easier nowadays to generate a passive income with little to no manual input, and many people are working towards this.

Online influencers professing to be business gurus have been selling this dream for a while now. From the driving seat of their new Ferrari, they offer passive income strategies and instructions on how to automate processes. For a small price, they promise you six figures and the life you always dreamed of.

Naturally, people want to earn as much as they can with as little effort as possible, but if it were that simple, wouldn’t everyone be rich? The reality is that very few people are actually achieving this lifestyle with minimum effort. Generally speaking, the more you want, the more conditions that need to be met

I like to look at this phenomenon in a different way. I’ve found that, what often prevents people achieving a work life balance is just that their lifestyle can only be maintained with that level of work and income. If this is the case, you can’t achieve true balance, because there simply isn’t enough hours in the day.

My advice here, to people that truly want balance, is to live more simply. Extravagance and excess is going to cost you and anything to puts additional pressure on your finances, is going to require you to work more.

In a world where you are constantly told to reach for more, try to simplify what is important to you. You will likely find that what is important to you, doesn’t cost that much. This realisation will free up time for the work life balance you always dreamed of. The new Ferrari is not what is important here, it’s the free time to spend with friends and family, doing what we love.

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