m i k e b r e v o o r t

Macgyver didn’t exactly keep it simple, but he certainly could do a lot with a little. He was (ahem, IS) the master of using what he had instead of focusing on what he didn’t have.

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In a culture that’s all about choices, we never seem to have enough and we’re not happy with what we have. Too many times I got wrapped up the creating rationale for more “stuff”… basically if I get X, I can do Y and then I’ll be happy. It wasn’t until I became a Christian that I finally broke that cycle. This new perspective have been extremely liberating…

Anyway, Lee Lefever wrote a great post about the constraints he defined to govern the creation of his Paperworks shorts. This sums it up pretty well: “You might think that having constraints is limiting, but I think the opposite. Constraints are liberating. By narrowing the scope of possibilities down to only a few ways to present ideas, we can eliminate needless decision making and complexity.”

Life is only as complex as we make it. My life would be so much simpler if I didn’t get in the way, but I digress…