Life has a natural tendency to become filled with more. We are rarely looking to downgrade, to simplify, to eliminate, to reduce. Our natural inclination is always to accumulate, to add, to upgrade, and to build upon. Given this tendency, I believe that taking active steps to reduce the flow of unquestioned consumption makes our lives better. Personally, my goal is not to reduce life to the fewest amount of things, but to fill it with the optimal amount of things. The strategies on this carousel will help you consider how to do the same.