Essays
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🔒 Apr 18, 2023: Your "Silent To-Do List" Is the Number One Barrier to Your Simpler Life
Apr 14, 2023: What Life Did Your Parents Want for You? What Life Did You Want for Yourself? What Life Are You Living?
🔒 Apr 11, 2023: Executing the "Five Pillars" Simple Living Rule in 11 Pictures
🔒 Apr 4, 2023: 7 Ways Croatians Smash out the Good, Simple Life (That You Can Adopt Too)
🔒 Mar 28, 2023: The "Slog-It-Out" Method Is the Best for Slow but Extremely Sustainable Growth
Mar 24, 2023: 12 Areas of Life to Embrace "Outside the Box" Thinking
🔒 Mar 21, 2023: You Don’t Need to Wait Until You Have the So-Called “Perfect Life” to Enjoy Yourself
🔒 Mar 14, 2023: Here's Why You Should Let Your Kids Do Things
Mar 10, 2023: Guest post: You Don’t Need a Conventional High-Paying Job to Live Comfortably
Mar 3, 2023: The Tiny House Movement Should Be so Much Better than It Is
Feb 24, 2023: 3 Years On, What Is the Place of Simple Living in Our Post-Pandemic World?
🔒 Feb 22, 2023: What's More Important in Food - Recipe Authenticity or Flexibility?
🔒 Feb 21, 2023: Trying to Regain Control in an Uncontrollable World
Feb 17, 2023: The Joneses Don't Just Live Next Door Anymore, They Live in Your Pocket
🔒 Feb 14, 2023: There Are 4 Words That Encompasses Everything Simple and Straightforward Is About
Feb 10, 2023: The Quiet Power of Rejecting "Comfort Creep"
🔒 Feb 7, 2023: Barcelona Does Things to A Person
Jan 28, 2023: Musings I've Had on Life Since Staying in the Poorest Country in Europe
🔒 Jan 24, 2023: 4 Things I Did to Unbusy Myself in the Last Few Weeks
Jan 20, 2023: Traveling in the Age of Instagram and Over-Tourism (Musings from Inside the Alhambra)
🔒 Jan 17, 2023: Guest Post: You Won't Believe How Many People Have $1,000 Car Payments (by Rocco Pendola)
Jan 13, 2023: A Minimalist Manifesto Made For 2023
🔒 Jan 10, 2023: Say No. But Say Yes Too.
Jan 6, 2023: Simple Living Can't Exist in The Metaverse
🔒 Dec 20, 2022: Flamenco, Sunshine, and Living a Simple Life Andalusian-style
Dec 16, 2022: Mariah Carey - The Unintentional Messiah of a Minimalist Christmas
Dec 9, 2022: Gift Giving During a Cost of Living Crisis
Dec 2, 2022: A Simple Way to Slow Down Your Life That You Can Do Today
Nov 25, 2022: The Dirty Little Secret About How Black Friday Sales Really Work
Oct 7, 2022: When Everyone Around You Worships at the Font of Busyness, How Do You Stop Yourself From Doing the Same?
Sept 30, 2022: Guest Post by Ben Le Fort: Here's the Exact Amount of Money That Buys Happiness
Sep 23, 2022: "Besa" - an Albanian Word for the Lost Art of Generosity and Trust
Sep 16, 2022: You Can't Buy Hygge
Sep 9, 2022: Why Do We Assume We Can't Change as We Age?
Aug 19, 2022: Dancing like You're a Four Year Old Listening to Metallica
Aug 5, 2022: How Long Do You Think Success Takes to Achieve? Double It
Jul 29, 2022: Nobody Will Remember Your Stuff. But Hopefully They Might Remember You
Jul 20, 2022: Guest Post by Rocco Pendola: How A Simple + Straightforward Approach To Money Can Positively Impact Your Financial Future
Jul 15, 2022: How (And Why) Do You Transition from a "Normal" Life to One with Just 134 Items?
Jul 1, 2022: Dealing with Massive Amounts of Stress When All You Want to Do is...Not.
Jun 24, 2022: An Old Croatian Man Just Taught Me the Importance of Simplifying Our Daily Routines
Jun 17, 2022: You Can Learn a Lot from Watching "The Most Beautiful Sunset in the World"
Apr 29, 2022: Thinkers vs. Doers. Which One Are You?
Apr 15, 2022: The "5-Minute Mindset" Just Blew My Mind
Mar 26, 2022: Want to Change Your Life? Quit with the Blame
Jan 21, 2022: You Can't Do It Alone (That's a Lonely, Expensive Place to Be)
Dec 24, 2021: On Finding a Path Through the Mud
Dec 6, 2021: Do You Actually Like Where You Live?
Nov 25, 2021: To Live a Different Life to Everyone Else, You Have to Be OK with Being a Weirdo
Nov 18, 2021: Why Do We Stake so Much on What Might Happen…
Nov 11, 2022: "Cozy Minimalism" Is Here - and I've Given It a Makeover
Nov 4, 2022: White Space Makes a Simple Life Even Simpler
Oct 28, 2022: No One Will Cheerlead Your Simple Life - That's What Makes It so Hard
Oct 21, 2022: Are You Choosing Quality or Quantity in Your Life Right Now?
Oct 14, 2022: When Life Gets Too Much to Handle, Use This "Re-Grounding" Technique
Sep 2, 2022: One Tiny Step Towards Simple Living Could save You Multiple Days of Wasted Time and Energy
Aug 26, 2022: To Live Simply and Sustainably Means Making Your Peace with Inconvenience
Jul 22, 2022: Your Emotional State Can Have a Big Impact on the Way You Declutter Your Home
Jul 13, 2022: If You Want to Simplify EVERYTHING, You've Come to the Right Place
Jun 10, 2022: 100 Super Easy Items to Get Rid of Today
Jun 3, 2022: When Was the Last Time You Truly Took a Day off from Everything?
May 27, 2022: Sorry Marie Kondo but You're Wrong About Minimalism
May 20, 2022: Did You Know the SLOW in "Slow Living" Is an Acronym?
May 6, 2022: 4 of My Mother's Best Sustainable Living Tips
Apr 22, 2022: How to Commit Harder to Fewer Commitments
Apr 8, 2022: The 4 Best Simple Living Decisions I Ever Made
Apr 1, 2022: The Power of Thinking Small
Mar 18, 2022: Simple Living Resources I Couldn't Live Without
Mar 11, 2022: The Simple Living Spectrum
Feb 18, 2022: Not Everything in Life Has To Be Financially Motivated
Jan 28, 2022: Who Knew a $10 Bathmat Could Signify the Difference Between a Mediocre and a Marvellous Life
Jan 14, 2022: You Meet the Nicest People on a Mountainside
Jan 7, 2022: Slow Down, Duck. You Owe It to Yourself
Dec 16, 2021: 6 Little Things I've Done This Week to Help Me Feel Grounded in an Uncertain Time
Nov 9, 2021: If You Had to Live with Just 100 Items, What Would They Be?
Nov 5, 2021: If Your Neighbour Wins the Lottery You Are More Likely to Go Bankrupt
Aug 30, 2021: There's an Alien Living in Barcelona