• natachagj
• Mindfullness
• July 25, 2024
• 161 views
• 6 minutes Read

5 Tricks to Try If You Feel Frustrated When Decluttering

Simplifying and decluttering is not all sunshine and rainbows. Sometimes you will feel frustrated when decluttering. You may also feel sad, stuck and overwhelmed. It’s natural that we’ll feel all of the emotions when embarking on a task like decluttering. Because letting go of stuff can take a long time and require you to make […]

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• natachagj
• Mindfullness
• July 25, 2024
• 176 views
• 2 minutes Read

Weekend Favorites: 7-minute life, running late and 10 simple living tips

Weekend Wisdom: In the end, organized clutter is still clutter. If you don’t use it or adore it, let it go. Making friends. One of my favorite things about hiking, aside from the incredible views and space to clear my mind and stretch my legs is meeting new dog friends. This little guy was a […]

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• natachagj
• Mindfullness
• July 25, 2024
• 191 views
• 12 minutes Read

10 Daily Habits that Often Waste 90 Percent of Our Time and Potential in Life

Patience is not about waiting, it’s the ability to maintain a positive outlook while working hard for what you believe in.

Have you ever told yourself that you’re going to make something happen and then nothing happened? All details aside, it’s because you didn’t have the right habits in place — the little things you do every day that build up to something bigger. Your habits truly make or break you. Because in all walks of life you become what you habitually do. You will never make progress or change your life until you change something you do daily. The secret to your success is always found in your daily habits and routines.

In other words, regardless of your unique life situation or how you personally define success, you can’t become an overnight success. You become successful over time from all the little things you do one day at a time.

Failure occurs in the same way. All your little daily failures (that you don’t (more…)

• natachagj
• Mindfullness
• July 25, 2024
• 230 views
• 2 minutes Read

Weekend Favorites: kitchen spaces, key to longevity and 5 decluttering tricks

Weekend Wisdom: In a noisy world, gentle words rise. Last pass. I just finished the last, last round of edits for Gentle and I’m all out of words for today. I’m ready for a big restful weekend! You too? Ok … onto the favorites 24 ways to simplify your life in 2024 (it’s not too […]

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• natachagj
• Mindfullness
• July 25, 2024
• 233 views
• 7 minutes Read

10 Kitchen Spaces that Probably Need Decluttering Soon

I could be wrong but it’s probably time to declutter your kitchen. Because the kitchen is often where we spend the most time; to gather, nourish, work and relax it may require more frequent decluttering. Consider what “enough” means to you as you move through each space decluttering your kitchen. Working space by space instead […]

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• natachagj
• Mindfullness
• July 25, 2024
• 165 views
• 8 minutes Read

20 Essential Things to Start Doing for Your Own Happiness and Peace of Mind

Patience isn’t about waiting; it’s the ability to keep a good attitude while working hard for what you believe in.

As you move through the days and weeks ahead, remind yourself that it takes roughly 66 days to form a habit on average. So for the next nine and a half weeks, consciously leverage the actionable reminders below to look at the brighter side of your life, and you will gradually rewire your brain.
1. Start steadying yourself with simple rituals.

When life feels like an emotional roller coaster, steady yourself with simple rituals. Make the bed. Water the plants. Rinse off your own bowl and spoon. Simplicity attracts calmness and wisdom.
2. Start filtering out the noise in your life.

Be careful about who you give the microphone and stage to in your life. Don’t just listen to the loudest voice every day. Listen to the (more…)

• natachagj
• Mindfullness
• July 25, 2024
• 193 views
• 11 minutes Read

10 Mindful Ways to Remain Calm When Others Seem Out of Control

You can’t calm the storm. What you can do is calm yourself, and the storm will gradually pass.

Over the past decade, there’s a way of being I’ve gradually been cultivating in myself — I’ve been taming my tendency to get riled up and argue with people when their behavior doesn’t match my expectations.

As human beings we all have an idea in our heads about how things are supposed to be, and sadly this is what often messes us up the most. We get frustrated when things don’t play out the way we expect them to, and when people don’t behave like they’re “supposed” to. We expect our family to act a certain way, our friends to always be kind, and strangers to be less difficult.

And when reality hits us, and everyone seems to be doing the opposite of what we expect them to do, we get triggered — anger, frustration, arguments, tears, etc.

If you can relate in any way at all right now, it’s time to remind yourself of the truth: (more…)

• natachagj
• Mindfullness
• July 25, 2024
• 176 views
• 6 minutes Read

8 Judgment-Free Ways to Change Your Shopping Habits

If you want to change your shopping habits, you may have experienced this shopping scenario. You find the perfect thing, add to cart and realize you have to spend a little bit more to get free shipping. So you keep shopping. Or like I used to do, maybe you buy things you don’t really want […]

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• natachagj
• Mindfullness
• July 25, 2024
• 192 views
• 9 minutes Read

11 Old-Fashioned Relationship Habits We Should Bring Back

Love is great when spoken, but greatest when shown. Do little things daily to show your loved ones you care.

Yesterday afternoon I was sitting on a park bench in the early afternoon when an elderly couple pulled their car up under a nearby oak tree. They rolled down the windows and turned up some jazz music on the car stereo. Then the man got out of the car, walked around to the passenger side, opened the door for the woman, took her hand and guided her about ten feet away from the car, and they slow danced to a song under the oak tree. It was such a beautiful moment to witness.

This morning when I opened my laptop to write, the elderly couple immediately came to mind. I spent a few minutes daydreaming about them, wondering how long they had been together and what their best relationship advice would be. And just as I caught my mind wandering even further off, a new email from a reader named Cory popped up in my inbox. The first line of the email was a question: “Any good old-fashioned advice for strengthening our relationships?”

The synchronicity of my daydreaming and Cory’s question made me smile. So in honor of that beautiful elderly couple, and in service of Cory’s relationship inquiry, here are some old-fashioned habits we can practice bringing back into our relationships: (more…)

• natachagj
• Mindfullness
• July 25, 2024
• 193 views
• 2 minutes Read

Weekend Favorites: time capsules, election anxiety and a solo summer to-do list

Weekend Wisdom: “Going to bed early is how adults sleep in.” – Laura Vanderkam Oh hi! It’s early morning hiking season in Utah because it is way too hot to be active outside during the day. And guess who else hikes early in the morning? Mosquitos! Even though I got a few bites and even […]

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