Here’s what it all boils down to:

Breathe.

Smile.

Listen.

Love.

Enjoy.

:)

Shawn Tuttle
Chief Simplifier, Project Simplify
Editor, The Simplifier

“A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think.”

-Eleanor Roosevelt

Here are Shawn’s hand-picked selections from the Project Simplify blog:

This section provides an update on the Natural Professional, a Project Simplify adventure.
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The NP Handbook TOC
Rather than introduce this with the merits of simplifying large quantities of info into an abbreviated format, let’s cut to the chase: The working draft of the handbook’s table of contents has been posted at the NaturalProfessional.com blog.

It’s broken up into three sections:

• Reclaim Your Life
• Align Your Habits with Success, and
• Bathe in Bliss.

Reclaiming Your Life deals with getting back in control over how you spend your time and energy. Aligning Your Habits roots your daily actions in practical, sustainable habits. Lest we fall into the mindless productivity trap, Bathing in Bliss weaves in the heart-based awareness that helps you remain aware of your greater purpose.

Constructive feedback is welcome and appreciated in the comments section. It’s exciting to finally put this out into the world – please let me know what you think!

The Logo
The hand-drawn style logo has been updated to include our fearless natural professional, soon after a successful briefcase spearing. Not that I have anything against briefcases…well actually, I do, but mostly I just wanted to show her living large and in control. :)

You might wonder what’s with the stick figures? Well, what’s simpler than a stick figure, right? And isn’t it common to yearn for “simpler times”? Well, the Natural Professional is all about reconnecting with the essence, and finding those “simpler times” right now. So our characters, primitive though they may seem, are merrily finding their way in the modern world—and hopefully inspiring you to do the same.

More adventures of our cave-art compatriots are literally on the drawing board as I write this, so if you like our heroine and her pals, fear not…more friends are on their way!

My approach to life planning has long been to choose outrageously-huge goals which, when pursued, would create hundreds of challenging and interesting sub-goals, most of which would be enjoyable and satisfying on their own.

That way, whether or not I become president or start a band or become a famous author and filmmaker and actor or create a new educational system or bring back the drive-in or become a billionaire or run a marathon or yes, even write a Broadway musical, I would have a good time and learn a lot on my way there. And even if I never reached the pinnacles of my three dozen careers, I would get a lot of cool things done.

And it’s working! ("Finally," he muttered under his breath.) Not only that, but it looks like I may even reach one or two of the actual end-goals someday. Huzzah! But there’s this one little huge tiny giant problem: I have the World’s Largest To-Do List.

I’m not currently allowed to tell you that it’s…

Finish reading “The World’s Largest To-Do List”