Start with a little less hot sauce if you're a little spice averse. To lessen the amount of heat in this chili, you could also skip the diced green chiles, and the jalapeños (or just take out the seeds). The seeds are where all of the heat is held in these little peppers anyways! Additionally, you could keep all the ingredients, but just add more cream cheese later on! We like this option too, it adds more fat and delicious creamy flavor to the chili. We are all about flavor around here, that's number one. Add what you like!