100 Thing Challenge
One of the things I love about Twitter is that you can get to know people before you purchase, read or recommend their product. As you may have noticed, I like reading and recommending things from good people. I started following Dave Bruno, the author of The 100 Thing Challenge last summer. I gravitated to [...]
Commit to Change: mini-mission
The best way to give yourself an easy out when it comes to change is to try. It starts out innocently enough with a sentence like, “I’m going to give it a try” or “I’ll try and see how it goes.” That usually turns into, “I tried it and…” or “I tried but…” This mini-mission [...]
Why Daily Deals are Dangerous
I understand that there are some very responsible people in the world who can use credit cards for points, coupons for cash savings, and cheat (binge) days on diets to sustain weight loss. I am not one of those people and you probably aren’t either. I usually don’t read the newspaper anymore, so I don’t [...]
Adventures in the Love of Running
I implore you to see exercise (and life!) not as goals to accomplish, but adventures to experience. You’ll be amazed at what you find out about yourself. – Matt Frazier It is that statement that makes me want to learn more from a guy like Matt Frazier. I’m not going to say I never want [...]
The Upside of Beginning
I remember learning to become a photographer. It wasn’t in the dark room, or in art school. I was 11 or 12, and out on the docks in Newport, Rhode Island with my dad. I was shooting with my first 35mm camera, a chunky Minolta. I had already learned how the camera functioned, but I [...]
5 Simplicity DIYs (you’ve been too scared to try)
Editor’s note: This is a guest post from Caroline McGraw of A wish come clear. There are a lot of things you’ll never know until you try. Below are 5 areas I thought belonged to the experts…until I gave them a shot. I’d realized that thinking, “I can’t do that” was just a default mental [...]
I Love You. I Love You Not.
Even though we celebrate Thanksgiving once a year, we live a better life if we practice gratitude every day. Valentine’s Day comes once a year, and likewise, if we practice love everyday, our lives become richer. One simple day dedicated to love can be a reminder of the people we love, and how we want [...]
Getting Simple Sucks Sometimes
In her recent post, Simplicity is Not Easy, sustainable, simplicity blogger Lynn Fang wrote, “All new lifestyle changes eventually become like second nature, at which point you might think it’s ‘easy’. But transition periods can be fraught with insecurities and hidden obstacles. For most, moving from model American consumerist party-goer to simple living expert doesn’t happen [...]
10 Simple Ways to Eat Better
Once upon a time, when you were a child, you thought about food differently than you do today. When you were a child, you didn’t care about calories or carbs. Organic and Grass Fed meant nothing to you. You didn’t worry about eating 30 grams of protein within a 1/2 hour of waking up, or [...]
Pass it On: mini-mission
For some reason, most people that are simplifying their lives and trying to live with less, exclude books from the decluttering process. I am one of those people. There is something about the written word and books that comfort us. After I read a good book, I put it on the shelf for the next [...]
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