Simplify Your Closet by Eliminating these 33 Annoying Things
If you want to simplify your closet, dress with less and save your time and energy for something other than answering the question, āwhat am I going to wear today?ā or if you often find yourself thinking, āI have nothing to wearā this list of 33 annoying things to eliminate from your closet will help. [ā¦]
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Read more21 Simplicity Quotes to Help You Simplify Your Life
Use these simplicity quotes for inspiration, motivation, laughter and relief. They will make you smile and help you stay focused on whatās important as you embrace a simpler life. If you want to simplify your life, surround yourself with inspiration and support from books and blogs to quotes and notes. When I make a big [ā¦]
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Read more20 Things My 90-Year-Old Grandma Told Me to Stop Worrying About So Often
Worry gives small things a big shadow.
Some people wait all day for 5pm, all week for Friday, all year for the holidays, all their lives for happiness. Donāt be one of them. Donāt wait until your life is almost over to realize how good it has been. The secret to happiness and peace on the average day is letting each moment be what it is, instead of what you think it should be, and then making the very best of it ā less worry and more presence every step of the way.
So go ahead and sing out loud in the car with the windows down, and dance in your (moreā¦)
Read more12 Sticky Notes We Should Read Every Morning this Summer
Itās not what you say to everyone else that determines your life; itās what you whisper to yourself that has the greatest power.
The best lessons we learn in life are the lessons we learn over and over again. The human mind needs lots of reminders ā lots of practice ā to operate effectively. For example, deep down we know itās OK toā¦
Say ānoā
Speak up
Tell the truth
Believe differently
Change our mind
Prioritize our needs
Learn from our mistakes
Embrace our imperfections
Forgive and seek forgiveness
Begin again, with grace and gratitude
Yet, we often (moreā¦)
Read moreWeekend Favorites: snowball decluttering method, the perfect nap and gratitude
Weekend Wisdom: Simplifying isnāt easy but it does make everything easier. Birthday hike. Last week I went out early to hike in one of my favorite spots. Iāve been keeping a 5-year journal for about a year and a half and seeing that last year on my birthday, I started my new year with this [ā¦]
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Read more3 Daily Habits that Keep Holding 90 Percent of Us Back (Week After Week)
If it keeps you busy but will hold you back someday, itās a distraction.
Thereās a big difference between empty fatigue and gratifying exhaustion. Life is too short not to focus more on what matters most. And life is definitely too short for habits and routines that keep you stuck in a cycle of feeling like youāre a day late and a dollar short. So today, letās discuss three incredibly common patterns of behavior that keep the majority of us (myself included for several years) stuck in that cycle, week after week.
1. We keep trying to overcome the odds in an unsupportive environment.
No matter how strong you are, and no matter how much determination and willpower you have, if you keep yourself positioned in an environment that works against your best intentions, you will eventually succumb to that environment.
This is where so many of us make life-altering (moreā¦)
Read moreWeekend Favorites: minimalist kitchen, simplicity quotes and how to retire early
Weekend Wisdom: Rest brings us back to the gentlest versions of ourselves. Alpine lake. Even though it will be close to a hundred degrees this weekend, a few days ago I hiked to this incredible alpine lake covered with ice. It was so unexpected! We had a little picnic of hardboiled eggs and iced coffee [ā¦]
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Read more3 Fundamental Lessons Most People Learn Too Late in Life
āIn elementary school my parents told me it didnāt matter what I did when I grew up, so long as it made me happy. āHappiness is the whole point of life,ā my father said. āBut it doesnāt always come easy. Your mother loves to help people in need, so she became a psychiatric nurse. I love reading, writing and poetry, so I became an English teacher. We both find happiness in the hard work we do each day.ā
A few years later when I was in junior high, my sixth-grade homeroom teacher put me in detention for ābeing difficult.ā She went around the classroom and asked each student what they wanted to be when they grew up. When she got to me, I told her I wanted to be happy. She told me I was missing the whole point of the question. I told her she was missing the whole point of life.ā
Thatās an old parable my grandmother recited to me countless times when (moreā¦)
Read more10 Good Reasons to Let Go of Things Sooner Rather than Later
The most powerful changes happen when we decide to take control of what we do have power over, instead of craving control over what we do not.
Holding on is hard. Holding on contributes to stress, unhappiness, relationship problems, and so much more. Yet, as human beings, we cling desperately to almost everythingā¦
We donāt like change, so we hold on tight to the past.
We want life to be the way we think it āshouldā be.
We get attached to our ideals even when they hurt us.
Over the past 15 years, as Marc and I have gradually worked with hundreds of coaching clients and live event attendees, weāve come to understand that the root cause of most human stress is (moreā¦)
Read more20 Things My 80-Year-Old Dad Was Right About
āOne day you will look back and see that all along you were blooming.ā
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Twenty-eight years ago, when I was a freshman in high school, my English teacher gave my class a homework assignment entitled, āAdvice for a Younger Generation.ā The concept of the assignment was simple: Each student had to interview a person who was over the age of 25, gather enough information to write a basic biography of their life and find out what their top tips are for a younger generation. I chose to interview my dad. He was (moreā¦)
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