We need to set priorities and spend the lion’s share of our time on what matters. We need to say no to nonessential things. We must give up things we’ve been doing for a long time, unaware that they don’t matter much. Just because we’ve been doing something for all our life doesn’t mean we need it. Hear out Seneca: “Until we have begun to go without them, we fail to realize how unnecessary many things are. We’ve been using them not because we needed them but because we had them . . . One of the causes of the troubles that beset us is the way our lives are guided by the example of others;
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