Hey America, are you ready for a non-tariff solution for balancing your books?

When Trump declared an all-out trade war with the rest of the world by slapping "reciprocal" tariffs on pretty much every country, his message was: the ATM machine is closed! All these countries are ripping America off! It stops now!

In his view, whenever there's a trade imbalance, there's also a power imbalance — the one who's buying more than they're selling is getting hosed. Tariffs are supposed to restore some fairness. "Trade deficits are subsidies, pure and simple."

But that's not true. Not only is it not true, it's not the point. There's a piece of the story that's missing here, and Trump seems to be the only one who doesn't see it. The reason all these countries are selling too much to America is that America is asking for it. It's demanding more and more and more.

It cannot satisfy its appetites with its own home cooking: it's gotta order out.

There's an obvious way to fix this, and it's not tariffs. It's much simpler. But at the same time it's exponentially harder, because it insults "the American way" — that god-given right to scratch every itch, indulge every whim, put everything on plastic and don't pick up the phone when the creditors come calling.

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Swear off clocks.

Instead, tune in to the rhythms of the turning world. Locate yourself in space and time by the feeling you get when you look up at the sky, by the sound of birdsong in the morning. And, later in the day, by the mood of the people around you.

Then slow down. Whenever you're even a little overextended, insert a sacred pause, a micro-Sabbath, right there in your day.

Then declutter. Get rid of your car, your dishwasher, your air conditioner, your electric can opener. Not all at once: take your time. Do it bit by bit when it feels right to make those edits to your life.

Then stop visiting supermarkets and go radically local instead.

Then wean yourself off your phone till you're only on it for a tiny fraction of every day — be more present than ever.

Sounds crazy I know. But is it any crazier than what's happening to us right now — most of us half-assing our way through life with weak stabs at change that don't cut the sadness and anxiety one bit?

Think of the all-in as Plan B — because Plan A isn't working so well — a last-ditch attempt to yank yourself out of the corpo-consumer-capitalist death machine before it totally engulfs you.

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Hot off the press is the newest report of the Global Flourishing Study — an ongoing project managed by Harvard and Baylor which checks in with hundreds of thousands of folks in 22 countries to see how they're doing. "Flourishing" might best be described as truly crushing this thing called life. You're happy, you're healthy, you're at peace. Once again this year, the Scandinavian countries came out on top.

The big surprise was who came out on the bottom: Japan, the UK, and the United States. Countries with among the highest GDP in the world.

WTF?