We all know the feeling—the feeling of swimming inside your brain because you've got so much to do you can barely keep track of it all. I don't think anyone likes it, but short of quitting your responsibilities and moving to an undiscovered island, how do you really have less to do? When It's …
More Moments that Matter | Becoming Minimalist
We sat in a circle with our knees touching, making a pen out of our bodies—a pen that contained two of the fluffiest, most silky-smooth bunnies you've ever seen. The kids and I stroked their fur until the one named Lily (a boy bunny who was clearly named by the little girls who own him) hopped …
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Using Minimalism to Balance Your Uptight Soul
If you had to use a picture to show the inside of your mind, what would you choose? I'd choose two. First, a photo of my bedroom, the quilt pulled tight so you can't see a wrinkle, the navy accent pillows upright and in position, a candle and a book on my bedside table. Then, a photo of …
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Let’s Stop Feeling Guilty About These 7 Things | at No Sidebar
The other day at school pickup, I yawned—the kind of yawn that is much too big to cover up—and said to a friend, "I don't even have an excuse! I just woke up from a nap." She looked at my incredulously, adding that she almost never sits down during the day and can't remember the last time she …
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Challenge Yourself: 8 Movements to Explore This Year
"There should always be a healthy tension between the life we have settled for and the desires that still call us." John O'Donohue One of the messages that threads this website together is my voice saying, you do enough, you are enough, you don't need MORE. When I first got it in my head to …
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10 Low-Input, High-Yield Ways to Simplify Your Life | At Simple As That
For my husband’s graduate degree, we moved to Indiana. It wasn’t long before we felt the pull. The tug toward an elevated point of view. After four years of college on the bench of the Rocky Mountains, we’d gotten used to being able to hike or drive to amazing vista points. But now, we found …
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