6 Ways To Keep Simple From Getting Complex
EDITOR’S NOTE: This is a guest post from Leo Babauta, author of Top 25 blog Zen Habits and best-selling book, The Power of Less. When Apple designed the beautifully simple iPod, with its minimalist interface, they must have faced a conundrum: How do you keep things simple when there are always other important features you [...]
Simplicity: The Value of JUST ENOUGH
Image courtesy of Raelene G Let’s say you’re looking to buy a new office chair. You’re standing in the store, staring at your two options. Very similar in shape, size and color, these two chairs have much in common. You sit down in the first one…fits like a glove! You then peruse its options and [...]
A Night In The ER Really Gets You Thinking | Part 2
Image courtesy of suvodeb I’m feeling MUCH, MUCH better! Still not quite 100%, but a whole lot closer than I was when I posted the first part of the this post on Thursday night. First, I just wanted to thank everybody who took the time to stop by and leave their words of encouragement. This [...]
A Night In The ER Really Gets You Thinking
Image courtesy of joncallas How do you go from feeling like all is well, to staring at the GE logo of the emergency room CT scanner in a matter of hours? Monday evening seemed like any other day until I started feeling the onslaught of abdominal discomfort. I went to bed concerned, but not enough [...]
How To Be Relentless When Decluttering Your Life
Image courtesy of JacobEnos Over the weekend Liz and I continued in the pursuit deculuttering as we prepare for the nursery. The last couple of weeks have been filled with your typical trashing of this, recycling of that and so on. But now all the obvious stuff is gone and we’re moving into those items [...]
Nursery Prep: A Lesson In Simplicity
Image courtesy of annia316 BE SURE to check out my video interview with John Chow over at The Blueprint. This weekend marked the first time Liz and I had actually STARTED preparing the baby nursery. For being 5 and a half months pregnant, Liz did very well at carting things up and down the steps [...]
Gratitude: The Key Ingredient To Frugality
Image courtesy of SnoShuu Recently I’ve been going through a transition period in my work life. I’ve mostly moved away from my computer consulting business and am now making the Internet my new office. Overall this is going amazingly well, but not without a few bumps in the road. Both Liz and I knew that [...]
New Year Prep: Simplifying After The Holidays
Image courtesy of gcquinn I’m very excited about the New Year! 2009 should be a wonderful year to all who embrace their potential and remain flexible. Even in light of the economic ‘crisis’ I’m confident in the immense opportunities that await us in the coming months. But to be fully prepared and ‘running on all [...]
Interview With Leo Babauta: The Husband, Father, Blogger and Author
Today we have a very special guest of “Motivate Thyself”. Leo Babauta, author of zenhabits, Write to Done and a few very successful books, is here to answer a few questions and give us a little more insight into this great success story. My goal with this Q and A is to tap into areas [...]
The Rats Stole My 'Stuff'!
Image courtesy of badoo tealeaf What if all your EXTRA belongings were to suddenly disappear? Let’s say your attic/shed/basement, or where ever you store that extra ‘stuff’, were to just vanish into thin air. Would you REALLY miss it? Well, that’s what has kind of happened to Liz and I and we’re about to find [...]
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