Tools for a Conscious Living Part I: How Much Is Enough?

In a world engineered to keep us chasing more, Tools for Conscious Living invites us to pause, reflect, and reconsider what truly matters. This seven part series encourages intentional choices grounded in our values, beginning with one essential question: How much is enough? Here are practical ways to start slowing down consumption and living more intentionally today:

• Consume less, desire less, want less – consumption directly impacts the planet’s environment (everything we consume comes from the resources on this planet), and uses up precious resources needed for basic necessities of food, water, housing, health, sanitation etc., for billions of people on this planet.
• Simplify your life, spend more time on creating quality of life rather then material wealth.
• Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Compost. Reduce your consumption, reuse what you can and recycle what you can’t.
• Redefine your economic outlook to value social and environmental costs in every day decisions and make your consumer choices based on the actual social and environmental costs of the goods you buy.
• Support locally owned businesses and services instead of externally owned big corporations. It builds community and money spend on local businesses stays within the community as opposed to going out of the community.