Simple Living

I subscribed to a handful of carefully selected blogs that offer me ways to live simply. And I choose to read only those few because I know my limit and what I can digest. I realized early on in [...]

Tell me if these statements resonate: I want to be clutter-free but I want to keep everything. I like my stuff. It can be hard to reconcile both things. After all, how to declutter and be [...]

Not too long ago, in a marketing course I was taking, I learned of the importance of having a set of core fundamental beliefs. It was suggested that having these basic beliefs was a foundational [...]

There are a few words and phrases I am just not too fond of: should do miscellaneous someday And of course, one of my least favorite, later. As in “I’ll do it later”. I am not sure when uttering [...]

Decluttering comes with many benefits but achieving a clutter-free home isn’t always easy. Sometimes the lack of ease comes from just not knowing how to do the work, or where to start. Many times [...]

I never set out to be a minimalist per se. Yes, as a professional organizer it would seem that minimalism would be part of the gig. And while it is my go-to solution for any problem it [...]

It’s the ding that really gets me.  My husband and I are sitting out on the porch in an almost-fall-like morning, sipping a cup of coffee when I hear it. The ding of an incoming message [...]

Minimalism gets a bad rap. I say that, of course, because as a minimalist lifestyle coach and professional organizer, I have run into my fair share of neigh-sayers. I have met, worked, and spoken [...]

James Clear writes in his book Atomic Habits that every action you take is a vote for the kind of person you want to be. He was referring to building habits based on becoming that person. When I [...]

The benefits of minimalism can be hard to see sometimes. It is, after all a way of life that is often misdefined and easily misunderstood. But when you welcome minimalism into your life it [...]