• natachagj
• Mindfullness
• July 2, 2024
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• 2 minutes Read

Weekend 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 […]

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• natachagj
• Mindfullness
• July 2, 2024
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• 10 minutes Read

3 Daily Habits that Keep Holding 90 Percent of Us Back (Week After Week)

If it keeps you busy but will hold you back someday, it’s a distraction.

There’s 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 you’re a day late and a dollar short. So today, let’s 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 (more…)

• natachagj
• Mindfullness
• July 2, 2024
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• 2 minutes Read

Weekend Favorites: snowball decluttering method, the perfect nap and gratitude

Weekend Wisdom: Simplifying isn’t easy but it does make everything easier. Birthday hike. Last week I went out early to hike in one of my favorite spots. I’ve 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 […]

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• natachagj
• Mindfullness
• July 2, 2024
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• 5 minutes Read

12 Sticky Notes We Should Read Every Morning this Summer

It’s not what you say to everyone else that determines your life; it’s 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 — lots of practice — to operate effectively. For example, deep down we know it’s OK to…

Say “no”

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 (more…)

• natachagj
• Mindfullness
• July 2, 2024
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• 12 minutes Read

20 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. Don’t be one of them. Don’t 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 — 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 (more…)

• natachagj
• Mindfullness
• July 2, 2024
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• 8 minutes Read

3 Fundamental Lessons Most People Learn Too Late in Life

“In elementary school my parents told me it didn’t matter what I did when I grew up, so long as it made me happy. ‘Happiness is the whole point of life,’ my father said. ‘But it doesn’t 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.’

A few years later when I was in junior high, my sixth-grade homeroom teacher put me in detention for ‘being difficult.’ 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.”

That’s an old parable my grandmother recited to me countless times when (more…)

• natachagj
• Mindfullness
• July 2, 2024
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• 6 minutes Read

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, “what am I going to wear today?” or if you often find yourself thinking, “I have nothing to wear” this list of 33 annoying things to eliminate from your closet will help. […]

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• natachagj
• Mindfullness
• July 2, 2024
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• 9 minutes Read

10 Things We’ll Regret When We’re Older If We Don’t Stop Now

You can stop doing these ten things when you are 23, 35, 62, 84 or any age to avoid regret when you are older. And more importantly, so you can start enjoying your life more right now. Living with regret can be very painful. Dan Pink, author of many books including, The Power Of Regret, […]

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• natachagj
• Mindfullness
• July 2, 2024
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• 9 minutes Read

10 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 everything…

We don’t like change, so we hold on tight to the past.

We want life to be the way we think it “should” 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, we’ve come to understand that the root cause of most human stress is (more…)