What is "more"?

The desire to have more, drives us forward. We want more money, more houses, more food , more beautiful clothing, etc. If you slow down, you will notice that you actually don’t need more. There is always sufficient or abundant things around you and it is your mentality that is driving you.

Buddha taught us to be contented. By knowing that we do not need the extra or more, we will live in happiness. There is a saying “ little is more”. How can it be, little is little and who can little be more? If we have little, we treasure the little and we enjoy more fully on the little that we have. If we have a lot, we will not treasure the bits that we have and we will not enjoy it but rather we will waste it or we do not know the importance of the little.

If we have a long life or assuming that we cannot die, our time is meaningless. We will not treasure our time on earth. Every minute or seconds will be the same. No need to track time because we never can die. But , if we have only 50 years to live, we will start to treasure time and once, it is getting shorter, we will have to treasure the minutes and seconds of living. Each passing moment is a treasure. This concept apply to the meaning of “more”.

Now at this age, I look back and a lot of time have passed by and the remaining is getting less. Time seems to pass faster as our remaining time on earth is getting less. Every second or minutes are precious moments and yet, I have not fully realized it. There are so many things to do but yet, I don’t know what to do. To handle the big pebbles first or the small ones first ? The small ones are the easier ones to resolve but the bigger pebbles are the more difficult and bigger issues to handle.

This is your choice. To handle the big pebbles or small pebbles is our priorities in life. How do we look at things and there is no absolutely right or wrong ? It is a matter of choice. If we look at the principle of 80:20, we realized that we spend 80 % of our time solving 80% of our pending matters in life instead spending 80% of our time in 20% of our priority matters which covers 80% of our pending issues in life. Simply say, 20% of our priority issues affects 80% of our life’s issues. If we look and analyze carefully, we can zoom and focus our energy instead of spreading our resources.

Look clearly, slow down and visualize and you will realized your direction and it will be a purpose driven life.

Namaste.