Less is More

"STOP ADDING MORE TO MY PLATE!"  (says no one) Stop!   Giving my over filled life one more task!   (says almost no one) No matter how big you are your plate can (and will) overflow until you learn Less is More Thinking. In the twenty times I have presented my session “Less is More” at teachers conferences.]   We will do this together in a book. 1.   Our session will begin with a plate full of mini chocolate bars.   2.   A volunteer will comes up and hold the plate.   3    We establish that teacher’s workload (plate) is full.   4.   I will ask that teacher what items have been added to their plates in the last two years.   5.   With each addition to the teacher’s plate, I begin dumping more chocolate bars into the plate.   6.   No matter how hard the volunteer teacher at the front tries to balance all the additions to her plate chocolate bars spread all over the floor.   7.   The plate has a finite capacity of what it can hold.   Teachers had numerous stra