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When money feels harder than it should

#MaslowInsights
June 02, 2026•1 min read

I’ve been listening to the book Essentialism again recently, and one idea keeps coming back to me:

Less, but better.

It’s one of those ideas that seems to apply to almost everything — work, commitments, health, parenting, even how we spend our time.

And strangely, I think it applies to money too.

Most people don’t intentionally make their financial life complicated.

Life just happens.

A higher income. Kids. More commitments. More accounts. More decisions.

And before long, money starts feeling harder than it should.

Sometimes the answer isn’t adding another strategy, account or financial “thing”.

Sometimes it’s stepping back and asking:

What actually matters most?

What can be simplified?

Because clarity often comes from subtraction rather than addition.

A small reminder that sometimes simpler really is better.

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