Love
For Today: Be
Gather ye rose-buds while ye may, Old Time is still a-flying; And this same flower that smiles today Tomorrow will be dying. BY ROBERT HERRICK Reduce distractions : you cannot stop and gather the rosebuds with your nose stuck in your phone. Duh. We get tired of hearing it. We get tired of telling ourselves this. But then we get the itch and the twitch and we for…
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minimalism
Less Is Now- Reduction Challenge
In Less Is Now , the Minimalist end with a challenge to reduce items every day for the month of January. Reduce 1 on the 1st, 2 on the 2nd.... 31 items on the 31st. I thoroughly enjoyed this challenge until the last week. One note is that I tried to keep this challenge to just my items. I would have had to reduce items that I love, use, or need if I had truly…
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Goals
How to achieve Consistency
Today can be your Day 1. Day 1 of push-ups. Day 1 of meditation. Day 1 of green smoothies. Day 1 of living with less. Day 1 of positive self-talk. Day 1 of moving your body. Day 1 of enriching your mind. Day 1 of sobriety. Day 1 of self-prioritization. What's your Day 1 going to be?
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Goals
3 Days To Smash Those Goals
The single most important thing you can possess when turning goals into reality is consistency. It's not perfection. It's not luck. It's having the strength and courage to show up over and over again. The balls to get up over and over again. Baby steps when needed and giant leaps when the energy is there. That's all. Progress over perfection.…
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Goals
Stretch Goals
"Morning stretch" by Lottie's pets & stuff is licensed under CC0 1.0 As you consider new goals, either for 2021, the week, the month, etc... consider turning them into stretch goals. Stretch goals are to stretch you. Not necessarily achievable. How can you tell if it's a stretch goal? Can you currently map out how to achieve the goal?…
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Year in Review
2020 Favorite Books
I read and listen to a lot of books so granular details unfortunately aren't going to happen unless I do it immediately after consuming the book. When I look over all the books I checked out from the library, these are the ones that stand out. I found either the whole book great or something provoked a thought. There are so many books that are just a regurgit…
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Challenge
2nd Challenge of 2021 Complete - No Buy
I have gone off the rails with my spending and feeling like "we deserve" and "everyone else" and every other excuse possible. As with all things, I needed a reminder of my main goal to be out of consumer debt people over things I thrive with less So to kickstart things, just like I did with the carnivore diet, I just completed a 1 week chal…
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