2025 Issue #49 🟢

Happy Sunday, Reader!

Greetings from Sheboygan, where we are SO grateful for everyone who participated in Purple Tuesday and everyone who has purchased gifts from our Lemonade Stand this holiday season. (There's still time to get something Adultitis-free for your favorite people.) Thank you for your support! 🙏

I recently uncovered an article I wrote several years ago that feels especially poignant in this holiday season that urges us to push for more, more, more...

I’ve never appreciated Dr. Seuss more than since having kids. He made books as enjoyable for adults as they are for children. Hands down, I would rather read ANY Dr. Suess book over the Disney Princess Golden Books that were the focus of Lucy’s attention when she was a tot. The former is fun to read, the latter comes off like a lifeless book report of an otherwise entertaining movie. (Just the facts, ma’am.) After reading Cinderella for the seven hundredth time, there are only two possible forms of relief: either a cannonball to the face or a reading of Hop on Pop.

Have you heard the legend that Green Eggs and Ham was written on a bet? It’s no legend, it’s true. After writing The Cat in the Hat using only 233 words, Seuss’ editor bet him that he could not write a book using no more than 50 words. Seuss won the bet when he wrote the now classic tale about some oddly-colored proteins.

Which brings me to an important lesson. And no, it’s not that you should try new things in a box or with a fox. You see, Green Eggs and Ham is Dr. Seuss’s best-selling book of all time. And it contained fewer words than any of the others.

Although it goes against what we learned in kindergarten, sometimes less is more.

During the Civil War, Edward Everett, who was considered one of the great orators of the day, gave a speech that lasted two hours. But no one remembers it, because it was overshadowed by Abraham Lincoln, who used just ten sentences to deliver his Gettysburg Address.

But this lesson applies to more than words.

Less clutter is more space. Keeping your house, bedroom, or office desk free from clutter leads to more clarity and more space in your head.

Less activity is more freedom. Not saying yes to every invitation, working fewer hours, and limiting how many extracurriculars your kids are involved in leads to more family time and the freedom to do more things that feed you.

Less disruption is more productivity. Close your office door and turn off email alerts, and you’ll get more done. Turn off the TV at dinner, and your conversations will be more fruitful.

Less stuff is more experience. Spending less on the newest fashions, furnishings, and gadgets gives you more money to make memories and create scenes.

We here have made a mission out of believing that less stress is more fun.

And apparently, less Disney Princess Golden Books is more sanity.

Are you looking for more of something in your life? Space? Money? Productivity? Freedom? Family Time? Fun?

Maybe the answer lies in doing less of something else.

🤔 I wonder…what do you need a little LESS of in your life right now? Reply to share your thoughts with me, or join the conversation in the Escape Adulthood League!

Stay young and stay fun,

P.S.

The Cure Adultitis Institute has acquired a very disturbing report being circulated by Adultitis, designed to ruin the holiday season. We hope that, as sobering as it may be, this report will reveal the sinister methods Adultitis is using to compromise your position. Please use extreme caution when sharing it with others.

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