Tag: simplicity
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Stop it! Rework it! Reclaim time and sanity by cutting things that don’t matter.
Sometimes we get it all wrong. In order to achieve a better life we feel like we have to have more, do more and accomplish more. Sometimes more helps, but most of the time “better” is about doing the right things, not more things. Sometimes when we’re feeling behind and overwhelmed we need to SIMPLIFY, […]
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Simplifying solves problems.
“The hardest thing in the world is to simplify your life. It’s so easy to make it complex. The solution for a lot of the world’s problems may be to turn around and take a forward step. You can’t just keep trying to make a flawed system work.” – Yvon Chouinard
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First things first. One thing at a time. Start now.
With the holidays just around the corner, my to do list (and, probably yours!) just keeps growing. It’s easy to get stressed and overwhelmed. But that mental energy spent worrying about what needs to get done doesn’t really get anything done. So instead, I’m trying to live out the advice above. First things first – […]
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Good enough stuff
People talk about how Americans consume for meaning. We create who we are by the clothes we wear, the decorations in our homes, and the cars we drive. We shop for entertainment. We get more stuff to fill our time. One way to attempt to avoid the consumption trap is to focus on good enough. […]
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Life changes and peripeteia
There’s a TED talk by Mike Rowe, host of the Discovery Channel’s Dirty Jobs, where – in the midst of talking about castrating sheep – he mentions two words he learned from his classics teacher in college: anagnorisis and peripeteia. Anagnorisis refers to that moment when a character makes an important discovery. Peripeteia is related – it’s […]
Jon Sampson 