Last night, my 67-year-old mother called me to ask if she should move to Hawaii for a few months before a planned move to Florida from California.I was actually rather shocked – this is, after all, the woman from whom I’ve learned my lifelong belief in saying YES to travel in any form, whenever the […]
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Most articles about saving money talk about cutting out cable, or reducing your cell phone bill, or calling your insurance company to get a better rate. But are those things really enough to make a significant difference? Today, I want to talk about some things that most of us don’t even question, but that are […]
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What percentage of your weekly activities are obligatory as opposed to desired? I think I need a giant blinking light over my bathroom mirror that reads “Do you really WANT to do this?” in bright pink lettering. Maybe then I’d remember not to overload our calendars so much that I end up wanting to quit absolutely […]
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I’ve discovered that my inner peace, and the extent to which I feel centered, is incredibly affected by how cluttered and disorganized my home is. Basically, if I need to rest but am surrounded by chaos, I can’t really relax until I’ve dealt with the clutter. I think this is probably true for a large […]
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As I sat down to write this, I thought I should do a quick Google search to see how others define simplifying. But you know what? I didn’t, because it doesn’t matter how other people define it. Here’s what I mean when I say simplifying, and how it’s improving my life. Play & Passion Don’t […]
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When I was a kid, getting to go out for a restaurant meal was usually a special occasion. Either that, or it was Wednesday night pizza night after soccer practice. Either way, it was something to look forward to, and something that’s somehow carried over into my own family in capital letters. In my mind, […]
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I don’t know about you, but we frequently have a stack of Amazon boxes on the table near the front door, because parts were ordered for some project we haven’t tackled yet. So, these parts sit there in their boxes, awaiting the day that we get around to that particular project. Last week, I wrote […]
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We hear about mindset everywhere these days – mindset for losing weight, mindset for making more money…and I tend to believe it’s true, that you have to change the underlying beliefs that are driving your actions in order to create long-term change. So, today I want to talk about adopting a mindset that automatically reduces […]
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A couple of weeks ago, my mother sent me, my aunt, and one of my cousins this article from USA Today: “Why your home is a worse investment than you think.” Right now, my mother is renting a house while she figures out where she wants to live next. Last August, she sold her two-story […]
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This post is inspired by Steve over at ThinkSaveRetire, whose post listing ways he “Won’t be a Dumbass” in 2018 just landed in my inbox. I don’t typically do New Year’s Resolutions either; while there are absolutely things I want to achieve each year, they’re rarely oriented around January 1st. So, let’s start with a retrospective […]
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