The power has been out since yesterday, cell phone service is out at the house. Our weekend Anusara yoga immersion cancelled. Print-making art class was cancelled. Snow slides from the neighbor’s roof have been crashing onto the side of my house make us jump out of our skin. Thank goodness the pipes haven’t frozen (though [...]
You wouldn’t start making a batch of brownies 10 minutes before you wanted to serve them. What about getting the ingredients, mixing it up, preheating the oven, letting them bake, giving some time to cool, and then cutting them up and arranging them on a serving plate? (Beh, who needs a serving plate? I’ll just [...]
Are you addicted? Do you let yourself get lost in it? Are you a user to avoid other things? Why do you spend as much time as you do on email? For some time now I’ve been cutting way back on the amount of time that I spend doing email. I’ve set up rules for [...]
The one-hundred-twenty-fourth issue of the Project Simplify newsletter The Simplifier, titled “Hail, O’ Bill Trainer!”, is now archived on our newsletter archives page. Read the full issue here. Listen to the audio version here. Subscribe to The Simplifier here.
Here is the audio edition of our newsletter The Simplifier Issue #6.4 – “Hail, O’ Bill Trainer!” NOTE: The links that are mentioned throughout this recording can be found in the web version of this newsletter. [Audio clip: view full post to listen] (If you don’t see an audio player or link above, you can [...]
Let’s talk about bills. They happen. Repeatedly. For many people, bill paying is a bit stressful so the easier you make it on yourself the better. (If your bill paying situation is dialed in and hassle-free, Congrats! You can skip on to the next section.) Here are 3 ways to simplify your bill pay process. [...]
[This column originally published in the February 2011 publication of the Nevada City Advocate.] Recently a fellow Toastmaster began her speech with the idea that nature abhors a vacuum. “How else would you explain that whenever you make space in your schedule, it gets filled immediately?” she pondered. Not being familiar with the saying, “nature [...]
