I knew I had to make a change but wasn’t ready to change everything – so I decided to tackle our possessions first. I committed to buying less, reducing our things and moving from a 2400 sq. ft home to a place half its size. As we did that, something magical happened. It cleared my mind. I had more energy. I had energy for life’s real matters. So 2018 the word “light” represented my year. I tried to make decisions based on whether or not the result would cause me to feel weighed down long term. This led to me making some extremely hard decisions. This meant letting go of what I am to become what I might be. The more I did this, the less I desired, and as a result, I felt I had more. More peace. More joy. More calm. More room to be. At the same time, it made me question what is the “American Dream”?Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness…right? Well, I feel we as a society now equate happiness with material wealth. Are we so busy pursuing the “modern American dream” yet we never see America? I felt I was!