Category: Insights

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…

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…

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…

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…

By Joshua Fields Millburn & Ryan Nicodemus · Follow: Twitter, Facebook, InstagramIt’s been four months since we—Joshua & Ryan—made tracks from Ohio to our mountainside cabin in Montana. After 120…

By Leo Babauta One of the things I’ve learned in my last 7 years of creating new habits is the power of compound habit interest. It sounds really obvious when…

‘When walking, walk. When eating, eat.’ ~Zen proverb By Leo Babauta Picture me 7 years ago, about 60 lbs. heavier than I am now, with a chubbier face, a growing…