Why choosing simplicity unlocks faster progress

Imagine driving a car with a manual choke, constant gear shifts, and a vent you can’t turn off. After a minute you’d say: “This is ridiculous.” You’d fix it—or trade it in.

Your daily routines are the same: each extra decision and needless step chokes your focus—like a half-closed vent sucking the power from your engine. Complexity may feel like productivity, but it’s just busywork. Every bit of clutter in your process is a drag on your momentum.

That’s why the world’s most productive people swear by simplification. They trim the fat, automate or outsource repetitive tasks, and batch work into time blocks. By doing one type of task at a time—say, all approval emails at 2:00 PM—they let their brains zip through without braking for context shifts.

Simplicity isn’t laziness; it’s strategic energy management. You free precious mental horsepower to invent, solve, and create. A small investment in simplifying one process can pay dividends of time, calm, and real progress far beyond what you’d expect from a thousand extra hours of “effort.”

Drop a line in your day promising yourself simplicity: Remove the unneeded steps from your morning routine, batch salads for the week, or use keyboard shortcuts. Every time you train your day to be friction-free, you win back minutes of flow and clear your mind for what really matters. Give yourself the gift of simplicity tomorrow.