We have a tendency in life to over complicate our choices.
With so much on offer to us in terms of products, activities and services, we feel short changed when we receive something basic, even if basic it is the best thing for us!
After all, who would settle for "Silver Service", when you could have "Gold Service" with added knobs on!
But there is an old saying that "if something seems too good to be true, then it probably is".
We recently bought a new product which offered a "free gift" to every purchaser when using the code provided with the product at their website. Unfortunately, there was nothing "free" about the supposed "gift" at all - the code merely granted access to a 'discount" against the further spend of an annual subscription for product support services.
And we have been observing Her Majesty the Baby's choice of iced creams of late.
She has in recent months sampled a range of flavours, from strawberry, to bubblegum, to 'smarties' to 'cookie dough dynamo'.
Yet it appeared to us when watching her absolutely devour, fuss free, a simple version of vanilla that she appeared to enjoy this far more than other more complex but exiting sounding flavours.
It occurred to us that too many choices actually make our life harder, not easier.
Choice, after all, is usually a justification for a service or product provider adding cost!
Netflix, for example, couldn't charge its current monthly subscription if it only offered one movie per month to viewers.
Car manufacturers would lose billions overnight were they prevented from offering "add ons" to enable the Jones family to differentiate their new model from the Smith family's, and so on.
We have a term for this tendency to overcomplicate choice simply because it is available and ignoring the value of basic offerings in the process.
We call it "the Package Buffet Effect".
To explain this, imagine sitting in the dining area of a big hotel on an all inclusive holiday where people can help themselves to the vast array of open buffet foods....
How many people mix all kinds of foods they would never ordinarily combine and which obviously don't go together in a pile the size of which they could never comfortably consume???! 🤔
The answer: nearly all of them.
Because point is this:-
more choice = more complication = more chance of making the wrong choice = MORE STRESS!!
We therefore cram our plate with everything for fear of missing out, but in the process ruin our meal and in all likelihood give ourselves indigestion.
So, from time to time, while it might be perceived as unexciting, feel free to go "back to basics" in life, as it can really be for the best!
PS Her Majesty the Baby has also developed a taste for frozen yoghurt, which can be a mega healthy alternative to iced cream for kids and adults alike!
Big, uncomplicated, iced Love ❤️ 😍 🤘💯