“If you seek tranquillity, do less. Or (more accurately) do what’s essential… Because most of what we say and do is not essential. If you can eliminate it, you’ll have more time and more tranquillity.”

The Lesson:

As a founder running iPropty and juggling other businesses, my default mode is always more. More features, more meetings, more growth, more code. In marketing, part of my training is the belief that optimization means addition.

But today, this passage stopped me cold.

Tranquillity and efficiency don’t come from doing more; they come from the ruthless elimination of the non-essential. It’s about looking at a bloated to-do list or a complicated business process and asking, “What can I delete?”

I applied this to this very blog today, even this one. I stripped the sidebars, killed the analytics, and turned off the comments. By doing less here, I created a space that actually gives me peace instead of anxiety.

Take Away: Look for the bloat in your operations, and start subtracting.

– Oluboba