The Morning Mood
With Kimberly Reuter: Less is More - My Coach’s Greatest Lesson
So I'm interviewing my coach Alicia on my podcast yesterday...
She's calling in from her gorgeous home on Portugal's coast, and I'm asking about her greatest life lesson. I'm expecting some deep philosophical answer about leadership or mindset.
Instead, she starts talking about shoes.
"Kim, I used to think I couldn't walk into Martha Stewart's office in Target clothes," she laughs.
Now she owns maybe two pairs of really nice shoes instead of twenty. Her European apartment is tiny compared to her old life. But here's the plot twist...
She's never been happier.
"If something comes in, something has to go out," she tells me, gesturing toward those Portuguese cliffs where she takes two-hour beach breaks in the middle of her workday.
It hit me like a brick wall.
We've been brainwashed to think success looks like payments - mortgage payments, car payments, credit card payments. But Alicia's living proof that success can actually look like... freedom.
Less stuff. More life. Less accumulation. More creation.
She calls it the American bias for "more and bigger." And honestly? I felt personally attacked. 😅
Why do we equate having more with being more? And what would our lives look like if we measured success by freedom instead of payments?
