If you’re wondering how to eliminate stress, simplify, and possibly change the entire course your life (for the better), a “Life-Elimination Diet” may be your answer. This Project Simplicity post comes with a big announcement about our family and life that definitely impacts this blog. Here we go… In nutrition, an elimination diet basically means…
Project Simplicity: Your Edit Button
Since launching this “Project Simplicity” series, minimalism and simplifying has gone totally mainstream. Awesome. We are all realizing that enough is enough! Life is better without the clutter. There is one thing that fills up our lives with more clutter and unnecessary “stuff” than anything else; one thing that can completely rob us of our…
Project Simplicity: How To Start Minimalizing
You may love the idea of a clutter-free life, but the question remains… “How Do I Start To Minimalize?!” (Don’t worry, Mom. I know this isn’t a word. “Minimizing” is correct, but playing off “minimalism” is what I’m doing here.) Minimalism doesn’t happen overnight, and there isn’t a “right” way to do it. Please do…
Project Simplicity: Silence
I have four children now. They all want to listen to Greatest Showman at full blast whenever possible. The baby even wiggles along to the music, fascinated by his rockstar older sisters. Today I discovered one of the most valuable, treasured things in the world: silence. I had a rare experience of silence for the…
Project Simplicity: Minimizing Stuff to Maximize Life
As life becomes more complicated with kids and the homestead and responsibilities, I’m constantly asking myself, “how can I simplify my life?”. When life gets too complicated, I suffer and so does everyone in my life. I get angry and irritable too often and I feel like I’m not doing anything very well, including being…