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    Tips to Simplify

    This is an archive of all of our site's past entries in the Tips to Simplify category. Click on a title to read the full entry.

    Designing your schedule: Holding space

    The Tip Allow time in your schedule to hold space for your well-being. Your wise-self knows approx how much. The Tip Explained Have you ever thought that your schedule looked doable, yet your experience left you feeling rushed and bewildered about where all the time went? It’s easy to look at availability in terms of [...]

    Diving into the soil

    Your personal foundation forms the basis of your workflow. When it supports you, life is good. When it’s weak, you waste time trying to track down stuff falling through the cracks. Questioning the foundation model. While foundation implies solidity and strength, which is good to base your work life on, it also implies a one [...]

    Getting silly with transition time.

    The last post ended up in a medical airlift rescue due to the dangers of inadequate transition time. Now let’s take transition time to the mindfulness camp. The photo is what some of us did at the end of the Wisdom 2.0 Conference. “Wha’ the–,” you may ask. Indeed. At the end of the second [...]

    Changing gears mid-pedal

    When I was a bicycle tour guide in Italy, I remember rounding the corner in the support van to find one of our clients, Joe, in the middle of the road, on the ground, screaming in pain. Joe was in his ’70s, and had already had a few hip and knee replacement surgeries. He had [...]

    A morning practice to prep for anything

    In her book The Artist’s Way, Julia Cameron advocates “morning pages”, a fantastic practice. Basically, this means to free flow write 3 pages first thing in the morning of anything. Not meant for anyone or any purpose other than to skim the scum of gunk off your mind. I’ve been doing a variation of it [...]

    Emerging from the river of stress

    Ahhh, the first workshop session was last night and it went great. Rather than talk about the ‘shop, his post, will be about was the day leading up to it. Still had a lot to do: finish up and print the handouts, get binders for the handouts, set up the refreshments, assemble the binders, and [...]

    Re-routing frustration

    Got frustrated this morning because of email. It appears that my emails to a particular person, which I thought were really quite clear, were actually written in a lost language. In other words, she responded as if she didn’t understand them. Two of ‘em. What is the appropriate response on my part? Frustration is certainly [...]


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