You Don’t Need More. You Need Less.

He kept adding more—until the weight made him break.
More productivity hacks.
More supplements.
More books.
More pressure to “figure it all out.”

But no matter how much he added, it never felt like enough.
Because the truth was… he wasn’t missing something.
He was carrying too much.

That was me.
I didn’t need another routine.
I needed a reset.

Before You Add More, Try Subtracting

I learned this the hard way:

When things feel off, it’s usually not about what you need to start doing.
It’s about what you need to stop doing.

Instead of another overhaul, I asked myself a different question:
What small things am I doing that are quietly making me worse?

And once I asked, the answers came fast:

• I stopped journaling at night.

• I stopped laying out my workout clothes.

• I started checking my phone before I even left bed.

• And I let go of the simple habit that used to ground me most: walking outside, in silence, no agenda.

None of these felt like massive mistakes.
But stacked together, they quietly steered me away from the version of me I was trying to become.

The One-Degree Difference

Imagine a plane flying from Los Angeles to Rome.
Now imagine it’s just 1 degree off course.
Over time, that tiny misalignment would land it in the wrong country—hundreds of miles off.

That’s how habits work.
They don’t just shape your day.
They shape your destination.

The Smallest Shifts = The Deepest Change

Life doesn’t need a full reset every time you feel off.
Sometimes it just needs a one-degree shift.

Maybe that’s:

• Drinking water before your coffee

• Moving your body for 10 minutes instead of scrolling

• Journaling instead of bottling

• Shutting the laptop before your spirit shuts down

• Saying what needs to be said, instead of waiting in silence

The shift doesn’t need to be big.
It just needs to be intentional.

Final Thought

When life gets noisy, our instinct is to pile on more.
More habits. More systems. More pressure to get it right.

But what if the solution isn’t addition?
What if it’s subtraction?

Start here:
Ask yourself not, “What should I do?”
But:
“What’s one thing I need to stop doing?”

Then make a small, honest shift.
Just one degree.
Just one decision.
That’s how the alignment begins.

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Until next time,
– Linford