Simple Pleasures

Weekend Wisdom: Juggling everything makes it impossible to enjoy anything. Something you probably don’t know about me is that I have pretty major dental anxiety. It took me a long time to…

Sometimes you get mad at me when I suggest that you simplify your books because books are awesome! You love books. I love them too. Before I let go of my books, I always considered them a protected…

Weekend Wisdom: If catching up worked, you’d be caught up by now. Maybe it’s time to relax instead. Even though I’m looking forward to fall, I’m cherishing the last…

Did you ever think that clutter might be making you sick or stressed, or that it is preventing you from healing? Living with less clutter can actually improve your health. Stress and overwhelm…

Please enjoy this guest article from Procrastination Coach, Dr. Christine Li. Why can’t we stop procrastinating? Procrastination is such a frustrating phenomenon, isn’t it? We know that our time…

Weekend Wisdom: Owning less is gentler than organizing more. I wrote a section of my book, Gentle on this patio in the mountains so I brought her back to show her where we did the work.…

A daily decluttering routine has been an important part of my simplicity journey. A consistent decluttering routine allowed me to move from constant overwhelm to slow and stead decluttering progress.…

Weekend Wisdom: In the end, organized clutter is still just clutter. Last weekend, the temps cooled down and I went to the farmer’s market. I went to the gym, took a long walk and watched…

A few weeks ago, I had coffee with friends and we talked about how to spend less money. Our conversation was wide ranging and interesting. I noticed that my friends want to spend less money for…

With all of the ideas to stress less out there, you’d think we’d all be walking around without a worry in the world! Of course there are real reasons in the world and our own lives that we…