The Practice of Doing Less, On Purpose

By Leo Babauta These days, a lot of people I talk to are feeling burnout — exhaustion from endless work that can often feel pointless, overloaded lives with not enough restorative rest, constant replying to messages and overwhelmed by information, drained by social media scrolling, and inundated with stressful world news. If you’re feeling this, I’m going to share a skill that sounds simple, but can be deceptively difficult: doing less, on purpose. What I’m talking about is doing less as a deliberate practice, not because of a failure to keep up. We’re making a deliberate choice to do less, no

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