The leaves fell off the trees, I began to oversleep, and stay up too late. What does that mean? It’s the beginning of the end! Kidding…That hard shift into winter is rough on our good habits and best intentions. So what can we do to winterize habits that we built in the summer with all that sunshine to help us out? Year after year I’ve plotted away at a New Year resolution with little to…
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Work Activity into Everyday Life
Like many others, one of my values is to be an active person. I grew up on a farm. My mother would kick us out of the house from at least after lunch till supper. I didn’t have to work activity into everyday life, or at least it didn’t seem like work. In fact, it was play! During summers, we would ride our bikes, play with frogs, build forts, and play pretend all afternoon. As…
Reduce Television Time
I work at a computer most of the day and go home to rest. This year I decided to start spending time doing the things that I’ve adopted minimalism for. One of those things is a more active lifestyle and the other is more time being creative. In order to make room for these things I had to reduce television time, so I set out to refocus my living room away from television. It’s amazing…
Overcoming Struggle – My Mindset
I was going to be a success story… I’d prepared my mindset for overcoming struggle. After all, the most interesting stories have conflict. I’d read many stories of overcoming obstacles or at least fighting the “good fight”. These are fascinating stories. Didn’t everyone love the story of triumph emphasized on Oprah? The Error of Relying on TV and Movies for Narrative I have started many journeys fully intending to struggle a bit. Anytime you learn…
Improve Food Safety at Home
After experiencing some allergic responses to foods and food mold, I decided it was critical that I implement a home kitchen sanitizing system that I could maintain. I knew and used some basic food safety techniques already but they weren’t enough. I have to improve food safety at home through regular cleaning as well as during cooking. Forming a new habit has a very low chance of lasting, unless I tie it to an existing…
Improving my relationship with food
I hate food and food hates me. You wouldn’t know it from looking at me as I am overweight. However, I eat because I must and what I eat never seems to be the right choice. Do you ever feel this way? Someone says, “You should eat healthier” so you eat your egg and toast with orange juice for breakfast, your spinach salad for lunch, and a scrumptious guacamole and pitta bread for supper. But…
The Breathwork Experiment
I was introduced to Breathwork through a class I signed up for, Minimal Wellness by Rebecca (Becca) Shern, who shared 3 audio clips for guided breathwork by Michelle D’avella. You can find the specific products I used here. I wasn’t sure what the benefits were supposed to be, but I believe the intention was to deal with stress. Has there ever been a phrase that people say to you that drives you nuts? For me…
Budget Reduction – Meal Planning
Budgeting has revealed several categories of unnecessary over-spending and a general lack of control. When you first start budgeting, similar to the Konmari system, you are instantly surprised to discover where your money is going. This is really just tracking your spending. When you begin to build the budget you start to see where you’re excessively spending. I really can’t say I was surprised in my food spending. Food is complicated for me and we’ll…