Journal
My Simplicity Experiment Month One

Each year for the past three years I have sat at the Winter Solstice and chosen an aspect of my life to focus on over the next 13 moons.
In 2023 it was finding freedom - changing my business and life around so that I felt more free, something that culminated in working from Naples for a month this time last year.
In 2024 it was my health - I have an auto immune disease and there isn’t much that I can do about that, but I wanted to see what I did have control over. I’ve talked about the transformation here.
This year is all about simplifying. I began with working out what a simpler life means to me - to winkle out what it was I’m craving. It was blank sheets, space for creativity and above all focus.
Like many people I have found that my ability to focus has declined over the past few years. I find it difficult to sit with a book and read for any length of time, unless I’m in a cinema my mind wanders through movies, even walking without checking my phone is a problem.
For that is what it is - I have let my phone become a pull on my attention, a siren call calling me to check for messages, to google something, to spend a ‘few minutes’ scrolling. I’ve been trying to curb this - it is off at the weekends - but I knew that this, my relationship with my phone, was where I needed to start.
I talk about what I have been doing, the experiments and the results in this video. What worked, what didn’t and what I am going to incorporate into my life.
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