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Category: Simplicity

Posted on April 5, 2015December 28, 2019

Saying No to Distractions

I was preparing for dinner and thinking about what I wanted to read while eating when a voice said “just stop”. It wasn’t an angry voice. More like a gentle…

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Posted on December 15, 2014December 29, 2019

More about rushing…

According to Cheryl Richardson, I may be addicted to adrenaline. Which explains a lot about rushing, the topic of my previous post. It also makes me laugh because when I…

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Posted on November 30, 2014December 2, 2014

Slowing Down

Today has been a quintessential Stella Sunday… and I really needed that calm, timeless day to recharge my batteries. I have been rushing too much lately. So this morning, instead…

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Posted on October 15, 2013

Travelling at the speed of…bicycle

The muffler on my car stopped muffling. In fact, it fell off completely, making the most horrendous noise as I left it behind. Back when I wrote about simplicity here…

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Posted on January 14, 2013August 4, 2013

Efficiency Revisited

I took the leap. I got a Smart Phone in the interest of efficiency. Remember the discussion about notebooks and having everything in one place? Well, I am a list…

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Posted on June 18, 2012August 4, 2013

The Fullness of Nothing

Living in a one room house has some extra challenges. Like when it’s time to repaint. There is no second room to live in while the job is getting done.…

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Posted on June 20, 2011October 11, 2013

When the Going Gets Tough…

I met the show stopper this week. It all began innocently enough. It was week 5 of working with the “fantastic checklist” of affirmations by creativity coach Eric Maisel:  “I will…

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Posted on April 17, 2011October 11, 2013

View from the Treetops

This has been a week of radical ideas perched in my forest of familiarity. Unlike the Green Peace rebels though, these radicals called for cutting some big trees. I started to get nervous.…

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