Simple Living Week 2: Evaluate Your Time/Commitments

To approach this past week, I decided to write down everything I did, hour by hour, for the week.  After Saturday, I would total up the hours spent on my tasks and evaluate them to see whether they are in line with my values and goals.  Among other things, I found that I spend, on [...]

Simple Living Week 2: Purge Your Stuff

In continuing to simplify my life, I’ve just completed a second step: decluttering my home.  I’ve gone through my whole house, separating everything into four different piles: Keep, Donate, Recycle, and Trash.
I was ruthless when going through my house, and made sure to keep only what I KNEW I would use/wear.  I am very pleased [...]

Simple Living Week 1: Values

For week 1 of the Simple Living process that I’ve undertaken, I am creating a simplicity statement. This involves making a list of what is most important to me, what I value most in life, and what I want to do in my life.  By putting these priorities in writing, I can focus on these [...]

Time to Simplify

For a good long time, I have been annoyed and stressed over clutter.  I don’t like clutter- at work, at home, on my computer, in my head- at all.  Recently, I decided to take some action to reign in the clutter in my life.  After searching for simplifying tooks, I stumbled on this website: http://zenhabits.net/
On [...]