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Sometimes it helps to get a little dose of encouragement—along with a good cup of coffee!—to start the day.

Hopefully the message below will help you get off to a good start for the week.  Please feel free to forward the newsletter on to others that you think would benefit from the content.

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Enough

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Chasing More… and Finding Less

We’re living in the most affluent, most convenient, most option-filled time in human history. With a tap, swipe, or click, we can have almost anything we want—delivered right to our door. Need coffee? A car? A new couch? Done. Want five different brands of the same thing? You got it.

And yet… despite all of this abundance, despite all these choices, happiness seems harder to come by than ever.

Why is that?

I believe it's because many of us have fallen into a subtle but dangerous trap—the belief that more is better. More money, more clothes, more gadgets, more stuff. The shelves are stocked, our carts are full, but our souls are often running on empty.

Let’s be real—consumerism has become an art form. Advertisers know exactly how to push our buttons, stir up a little FOMO, and suddenly we’re halfway to buying something we didn’t even know existed an hour ago.

And here’s the kicker—we know it. We know this. But still… we buy.

(DISCLAIMER: You can NEVER have too much fishing tackle. That’s just science. Fishing tackle is clearly, clearly, an exception to this entire topic.)

Jokes aside, it’s not just about the things we buy. It’s about the mindset we carry. A quiet voice that whispers, "You don’t have enough. You aren’t enough." And so we keep chasing more—thinking fulfillment will arrive in the next delivery box.

But what if we paused?

What if we stopped asking “What else can I get?” and started asking “What truly matters?” What if, instead of more things, we pursued more meaning? More time. More presence. More connection.

I don’t have all the answers. But I do know this: When I take the time to reflect—to step back from the noise and the scrolling and the Amazon cart—I’m reminded that less can actually be more.

So here’s a challenge for all of us:
Take ten minutes this week. Sit quietly. No screens. No sales. Just think. Ask yourself what enough looks like. You might be surprised by how much you already have.

That brings us to this week’s question:

• What is enough to you?

Thanks for sharing a bit of your time with me this Monday morning.  

Have a great week!

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Monday Morning Motivation - Volunteer