Do you fill your bowl?

In our culture, our instinct is to fill the bowl.

We’re used to having a coffee that nearly reaches the rim or a level of debt that’s just below our debt limit.

If we don’t want to risk spilling the hot coffee or be caught with not enough credit to handle an unexpected crisis, then, we can get a smaller bowl. It’s simple.

(And if we want to do more of something, the path is just as obvious!)

If we have our bank automatically siphon off $10 a week to savings, we’ll discover that our checking account balance doesn’t change so much.

And if we put a smaller scoop in the candy jar, we’ll take less every time!

Often, the real problem isn’t what we have, it’s how big our bowl is. That’s why they suggest that if you want to eat less, use smaller plates!

And we all know that we choose the size of the bowl as well as what goes in it! So depending on whether we want to spend less money or lose some weight, we can remember that it isn’t so much the wish or resolution to do it that will make it happen.

We can just choose to eat that elephant in smaller bites.

(or is it that frog we were supposed to eat?)

I really get that for me:

•  scheduling less into my day,
•  using a smaller scoop,
•  putting that money in a savings account before I even see it,

means that at this time of life I choose a smaller bowl and experience the idea that  “Less is indeed more.”

So, how big a bowl are YOU choosing for your life?

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