Choosing/Decision-Making

Following up my first post on this topic, and while the options below don't have to be exclusive, people usually choose as if they are. Do you prefer . . . Eating a lot Or feeling satisfied? Spending time in planes Or going on an adventure? Briefly visiting many Or spending time with some? Fitness Or explaining why you aren't? Sampling food made for tourists Or learning to prepare what nearby farmers grew? Obesity and explaining how you're healthy to people who don't believe you Or fitness so they ask how to be like you? Success every time Or resilience? No constraints Or creativity? Picking up other people's litte Or leaving it for someone else? Leaving garbage for future generations Or avoiding disposable stuff? Built…

Following up my first post on this topic, and while the options below don't have to be exclusive, people usually choose as if they are. Do you prefer... Ice cream or exercise? Living with a personal shortcoming Or facing and resolving it? Any food available any time you want it Or being unavailable when out of season? Being as fit as you want and can be Or explaining why you aren't? Having anything you want whenever you want Or making due with what you have? Having no problems Or having problems and learning to overcome them? Success every time Or resilience? No constraints Or creativity? ... and so on.

While the options below don't have to be exclusive, in many cases people choose as if they are. Would you rather... Eat ice cream or exercise Watch TV or write Drive to the beach or pick up litter from your local park Only look at a man or woman you're attracted to or approach him or her and introduce yourself Not try or risk failing Eat out or cook Take the elevator or the stairs ... and so on.

Minimalism as a lifestyle seems popular. I consider the name backward. I avoid labels, but I think this one is nearly the opposite of what it describes---a lifestyle about maximizing, not minimizing. The term maximalism seems already taken by something irrelevant to what I describe below, so I may be too late, but I suggest considering changing it. The term minimalism means different things to different people, but the following people and communities seem central to it, and the theme uniting them is less---less stuff, clutter, distraction, etc. The minimalists, including this post explaining minimalism, What is minimalism? Mnmlist.com, including this post explaining minimalism, minimalist FAQs Becoming minimalist, including this post explaining minimalism, Benefits of minimalism Be more with less, including this post explaining minimalism, 25…