Simplify These Five Areas to Save Time Every Day
On an almost daily basis, I come up to bed at night and greet my husband with a long, dramatic sigh. “What’s wrong?” he asks. I sigh again. “There’s all these things I want to do but I never seem to have the time to do them!” It is the complaint that has plagued me, […]
Stop Chasing Happiness. Choose Joy Instead.
It is the time of year where we hear a lot about joy. We sing Joy to the World when it comes on the radio or at church on Sunday morning. We receive Christmas cards from loved one that wish us “Peace and Joy”. We spend most of our time obsessed with the pursuit of […]
Finding Contentment with Your Home, Even When It’s Not Your Dream
Note: This is a guest post from Mollie Donghia of This Evergreen Home. Home. There’s no place like it, as Dorothy said. For each one of us, home can be seen as many different things. A safe place. A location where our most fond memories are made. A setting to host friends and family. An […]
Four Lessons Learned from a Season of Pruning
I was not born with a green thumb. I struggle to keep cut flowers alive, even when they come with plant food. I tend to forget about our plants and shrubbery on the back patio until they are so overgrown that I can’t stand it anymore. Then I take out the gardening shears and get […]
My Ten Favorite Quotes from The Minimalists’ Book Love People, Use Things
The Minimalists’ book Everything That Remains introduced me to minimalism back in December 2014, and completely changed the trajectory of my life. After watching their most recent documentary Less is Now, I was excited to read their most recent book Love People, Use Things. The book takes readers through seven aspects of relationships: stuff, truth, […]
Five Things I Learned About Habits from Exercising for a Year Straight
What does it take to maintain a daily workout habit for a year? Many people want to make exercise a priority, and according to one study, “doing more exercise or improving my fitness” was the top New Year’s resolution for Americans for 2021. I’ve always been fairly consistent with exercising in the morning before my […]
Live Your Dash with No Regrets
My grandmother passed away on September 8, one week before my 41st birthday. As I wrote the poem that I recited at her funeral, I was in awe at what a full, amazing life she lived. The things that changed in her 102 years on earth is mind-boggling. But through it all, my grandmother stayed […]
9 Minimalist Tools to Help Declutter Your Life Now
Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by Julia Ubbenga. In a recent conversation with a good friend, I recognized myself three years ago. “I can’t stand the mess in our home,” she expressed. Following her toddler around the playground with her, I listened. “We can’t have people over like we’d hoped to when we […]
The True Value of our Stuff
One of the heartwarming stories coming out of the 2020 Toyko Olympics is that of Polish javelin thrower Maria Andrejczyk. Andrejczyk, who won the silver medal, announced on her Facebook page on August 11, 2011 that she was auctioning the medal off to help fund the transportation and life-saving surgery of Miłoszek Małysa, an 8-month […]
Cycle Syncing: The Secret to Successful Decluttering
Like many stay-at-home moms, I love listening to podcasts while doing otherwise mundane chores – laundry, meal prep, dishes, and cleaning to name a few. Lately I’ve been hearing a lot about cycle syncing. Cycle syncing means you “adapt your diet, exercise routine, social calendar, and even important work engagements to the different phases of […]