It's Just STUFF
1. The stuff you can buy is a distraction that won’t help you reach your goals.
It’s like an addiction or a temporary fix. And no matter what you see online, in magazines, or on TV shows that promote home and garden ideas or lifestyles—even simple or minimalist lifestyles—remember, it’s a business trying to sell you products that promise happiness. Don’t fall for it.
2. Stuff creates a false sense of self.
With ever increasing push towards bigger, faster, newer; we find ourselves unconsciously fashioning ourselves into things we think we want to be or what others want us to be. We allow labels and the glamour of it all to define us and somehow become so accustom to them that without them we feel we are nothing. It's one thing to dabble and find yourself and who you want to be. It's another to let it take over like some horrible Invasion of the Body Snatchers movie.
The path with the least resistance, the path that offered the most immediate reward will not leave time for the hard stuff: goals, passions, and relationships.
3. Stuff can blind you.
Friends and people will come and go in life, but do not find yourself being naive and seduced by stuff. It will surely blind you with false motives & desires. It can also blind you from seeing other people's truths'. It can actually push out your true nature of self with little to no room for growth and/or to breath as well as the people that mean the most to us.
4. Material stuff keeps you busy with…material stuff.
What’s the point of spending time and effort on stuff when it leaves little or no time for your real goals or quality relationships? The problem is not spending money but not allowing ourselves to worship materialism and sacrifice our goals, self, or others.
What’s the point of spending time and effort on stuff when it leaves little or no time for your real goals or quality relationships? The problem is not spending money but not allowing ourselves to worship materialism and sacrifice our goals, self, or others.
5. Stuff distracts us from ourselves.
A solid relationship is created with empathy, love, and communication, not stuff. Many of us nurture marriages, friendships, and other relationships with cars, houses, clothing, fame, and glossy magazines with products that promised the good life. And underneath it all [in the heart of hearts], we just want the space to work on our goals, not another set of china, a new TV, technical car gadgets, or a new iPod. We yearn for a connection with self and others.
Some stuff is important, and there’s nothing wrong with buying what you need.
But it’s about priorities and the price you might pay for stuff that doesn’t support your goals and dreams. Think about it.
Are you working toward your goals and the things that truly matter to you?
A solid relationship is created with empathy, love, and communication, not stuff. Many of us nurture marriages, friendships, and other relationships with cars, houses, clothing, fame, and glossy magazines with products that promised the good life. And underneath it all [in the heart of hearts], we just want the space to work on our goals, not another set of china, a new TV, technical car gadgets, or a new iPod. We yearn for a connection with self and others.
Some stuff is important, and there’s nothing wrong with buying what you need.
But it’s about priorities and the price you might pay for stuff that doesn’t support your goals and dreams. Think about it.
Are you working toward your goals and the things that truly matter to you?
originally written by Leah McClellan
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