Month: January 2013

Feeling cooped up? Looking for ways to pass the long winter days? Use them to save more moolah: Ways to Save While You're Stuck Indoors This Winter Related Reading: Make…

If you often have a long list of to do’s unfinished at the end of the day, you might first want to read How to Get to the End of…

Welcome to this week’s issue of Weekly Simplicity Tips. I updated my bio page this week. Anything I missed? I also updated the blog so it can be accessed by…

So, i’ve worked out that writing is not what I want to do with my life. I’ve decided to stick with the things that i’m good at. If you are…

I’m a big fan of music and have always had a large collection of CD albums and a large Hi-Fi system. About 10 years old I ditched my old Hi-Fi…

Editor’s Note: This is a post in the series, Simplicity in Action. If you’d like to submit your story of how simplicity has worked in your life, please read more here. You can…

In thinking about and dissecting simplicity, I’ve come up with a few things that I know to be true. Simplicity has become a force in my life with benefits and…

Just about everything casts a shadow, and it’s not a bad thing. Shadows help us perceive a third dimension in two-dimensional images like paintings and photographs. The length of a…

You see them at the top of just about every post on this blog: professional, evocative photos that are not just illustrative or pretty, but are tied to a deeper…

We all spend much of our lives in fantasies. I’m included in that observation: I fantasize about living a simple, minimalist life, I fantasize about traveling to foreign wonders, I…

A website with the main purpose of having people read content would best serve its readers with almost nothing else but what’s needed for the reading experience. Strip a site…

Every Monday I post Real Life Minimalists, a profile of one of my readers in their own words. If you’d like to participate, click here for details. Today, I’m happy…

Every Monday I post Real Life Minimalists, a profile of one of my readers in their own words. If you’d like to participate, click here for details. This week, Michelle…

It’s easy to become an electro magnet for bullshit.  It’s easy to get weighed down with all of our work responsibilities, paying bills, juggling our to-do lists.  A lot of…

I’m not a religious man.   But I can see things that tell me I’m connected with all and all is connected with me.  And I love because it’s my…

{ via Pinterest – no original source found } “Do, or do not. There is no try.” – Yoda Starting something new is easy. 2nd January at the gym Salad…

“The mass of men worry themselves into nameless graves while here and there a great unselfish soul forgets himself into immortality.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson Your actions today will have…

In anticipation of an upcoming post on social media, I understand the distraction that Twitter can become. Its constant stream of information can move us quickly from helpful to the…

“Life is not a matter of chance… it is a matter of choice.” ? Ka 24 hours. Every day we get them. And every day we use them. Sometimes we use them…

By Joshua Fields Millburn & Ryan Nicodemus · Follow: Twitter, Facebook, InstagramEvery moth is drawn to light, even when that light is a flame, hot and burning, flickering, the fire…