Obligations – Step 2 in Simplifying

I know, I am slightly late a day late posting the second step to simplifying your life.   Last week, you should have been focusing on identifying the things you want in life, from big to small, the things that you think will make you happy.  
This week, the focus is on obligations.  We all have them.  [...]

The economy

There is no doubt, things are scary out in the world today. The entire first world is in trouble with issues that hearken back to 1929. Are we there yet? No. Will we get there? I don’t think so but then neither did the people who experienced the Great Depression.
One thing is certain, those that [...]

Simple living quote of the week

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. (Economy) Walden, Henry David Thoreau
Thoreau is talking about the race of men that are born into an ideal that one must work and toil the best parts of his life away in order obtain the trappings of success.  I think this is one of the most important [...]

Simplify – Taking the first step

This post begins a new idea.  There is a lot of information bandied about on the net about simplifying your life but there isn’t really a “step-by-step” guide so to speak.  The sheer amount of information can be overwhelming and a life change isn’t easy, often it is hard to find a place to start.  I [...]

Your Money or Your Life

Your Money or Your Life  is one of the best resources to changing the way you view money.  It really explains well the actual rather than initial cost of the products you own.  With maintenance, cleaning and repair, often your stuff ends up owning you because the more you own, the more you have to [...]

Simple living quote of the week

As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness. .  – Henry David Thoreau

The art of saying “No”

This lesson was hardest for me.  I hate saying no.  I am a doer, I get a charge out of helping people so when a call would come across for help, I would volunteer and then think “why did I do that?”.  Finally, my health forced me into a semi-recluse state.  In order to heal myself, [...]

Simplify Dinner

We need to eat but I hate cooking.  A connundrum is it not?  
I work from home and I have arranged my life around principles of simplicity by not taking on a lot of extra curricular activities so technically I have “more” time than many Americans.   But when you work from home, you have to be extra diligent [...]

All Son Sunday

Life gets busy, even when you try to live simply.  To counter-balance being working parents, we have a weekly standing date.   Because we aren’t religious, we reserve Sunday mornings to afternoons for all “son” Sunday.  This is time dedicated to spending time with our son.  We usually do something he likes to do like putt putt. 
This time is just for the [...]

Wow

This blog is not a political blog but I think this is an opportunity to stop and think about how far we have come and where we have yet to go.
What a momentous occasion – the United States, after a long history of slavery, Jim Crow, Separate but (un)Equal segregation laws, the civil rights fight in the [...]