10 Ways To Reach Financial Freedom
I was once that girl you would see every weekend at the shopping mall, swiping her credit card on her latest designer heels in exchange for that shopping high and high credit card debt. My relationship...
View Article9 Ways To Simplify Your Life
Take some time this week to simplify your life. This means focusing on the important things and getting rid of anything else that takes up your time, energy, space and money. It is time to get rid of...
View ArticleDe Clutter Your Home And Make Space For Abundance To Flow
Do you have a space in your home that makes you feel a little overwhelmed? It may be that drawer that is overflowing with old bills and takeaway menus, or is it your wardrobe that is jam packed full of...
View ArticleTips for Living a Simple and Minimalist Life
The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak. ~Hans Hofmann, Introduction to the Bootstrap, 1993 A simple and minimalist life has a different meaning and...
View ArticleChoose Quality Over Quantity
Often people attempt to live their lives backwards: they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want so that they will be happier. The way it actually works is the...
View ArticleSimple Living: Save Money And Resources By Finding Ways To Reuse Old Stuff
Before you throw away those used cans, empty glass sauce bottles, paper or anything else for that matter, check to see if you can reuse it somehow. In this article you will find ideas on how to reuse...
View ArticleFree 30 Day Simple Living Challenge
There is no denying that modern life is hectic and fast-paced, and once you get caught up in the whirlwind of trying to be something to everyone, it takes a lot of effort to break that cycle. The truth...
View Article10 Picture Quotes About Simple Living
In todays world where everything is super easy to replace, we tend to be a world of consumers, as a result this excess can actually decrease the enjoyment in life. By reducing excess and getting to the...
View ArticleSimple Living Challenge Day Six: How To Declutter Your Virtual World
So a few days ago we did a little decluttering around the home. Now it is time to sort out that mess within your virtual world. Maybe it is your email inbox that is completely out of control, or is it...
View Article30 Day Simple Living Challenge Day Eleven: Identify Your Values
Today we are going to discuss values and how knowing and understanding your values allows you to start creating a more simpler life that is in alignment to who you truly are. What matters most to you...
View Article30 Day Simple Living Challenge Day Twelve: Downsize Your Life
Live a simple, uncluttered and productive existence Everyone is talking about “finding your dream and living your passion”; it has become the buzz phrase of the millennium. However so many people are...
View Article30 Day Simple Living Challenge Day Thirteen: Create A Mindful Home
Your home is your sanctum, it is a place where you should be able to retreat and rejuvenate. Coming home should make you feel good, it should be a decadent and special space that gives you a sense of...
View Article30 Day Simple Living Challenge Day Fifteen:16 Ways To Find Meaning And...
A big part of the simple life is mindfully creating a life that is purposeful to you. Let’s face it, working life takes up most of our time, so therefore it probably should have meaning and purpose...
View Article30 Day Simple Living Challenge Day Sixteen: Believe In The Power Of Intention
Today’s challenge hopes to inspire you to give up on that endless battle of trying and striving, and instead, just roll and create with the universe by allowing your true music to come to the surface....
View Article30 Day Simple Living Challenge Day Eighteen: Ways To Be Frugal Which Lead To...
I have a confession; I have to be one of the world’s greatest cheapskate’s. No I am not THAT person that makes smug comments about prices and complains to innocent shop assistants. But when it comes to...
View Article30 Day Simple Living Challenge Day Nineteen: Nourish Yourself Well With The...
We get bombarded by the latest fads on a daily basis – there is always some new fad superfood while suddenly something that was once considered healthy for us now causes cancer. It gets overwhelming...
View Article30 Day Simple Living Challenge Day Twenty: Have A Positive Impact On Others...
Set out to change the world, one step at a time and what you will discover is that you change your own world at the same time Kindness promotes wellness A huge part of finding happiness in the simple...
View Article30 Day Simple Living Challenge Day TwentyTwo: Create A Stylish Minimalist...
La mode passé mais le style reste. (Fashion passes, but style remains.) –Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel In 2012 The Daily Mail reported that women spend on average $125 000 on clothes in their lifetime. Wow...
View Article30 Day Simple Living Challenge Day TwentyOne: Ways To Become More Self...
I dream of having my own little stone cottage hidden away in the Australian wilderness. It will be as self-sufficient as possible and I picture it with fields of botanicals and herbs so I can make my...
View ArticleSimple Living Challenge Day TwentyThree: Your Purpose In Life Is To ‘Just Be’
Become less, so you can be more – Eckhart Tolle I am currently reading the book A New Earth By Eckhart Tolle (yes I am a bit late on the wagon), however even though the book has kept appearing and...
View Article30 Day Simple Living Challenge Day TwentyFour: The Secret Of Happiness? Stop...
So what is the secret of happiness. It is not as elusive as many would make you believe – actually it really is very simple. The main principles of happiness have to do with practicing gratitude,...
View Article30 Day Simple Living Challenge Day TwentySix: Live With Mindfulness
When walking, walk. When eating, eat ~Zen proverb In the chaos and busyness of the modern world, there is great beauty that can be found in simply doing. We’re overwhelmed wildly by whatever emails,...
View Article30 Day Simple Living Challenge Day TwentySeven:Connecting With Divine...
You hear of many stories of people in their darkest hours having an ‘awakening’ ‘seeing the light’ ‘connecting to divine wisdom’ ‘finding god’ and so forth. Recovering drug and alcohol addicts, people...
View Article30 Day Simple Living Challenge Day TwentyEight:Live With Sincerity And...
I have taken a short break from the simple living challenge, as I wasn’t quite clear on how to end it. I could have done some small articles on why you should take the car more, consume less and so...
View Article30 Day Simple Living Challenge Day TwentyNine:Live With Gentleness & Serve...
As mentioned in my last post, I have decided to include Lao Tzu’s cardinal virtues in the 30 Simple Living Challenge. These 4 virtues are simple and illuminating; they seek to guide us in living a life...
View Article30 Day Simple Living Challenge Day Thirty: Make The Shift
So you have read the 29 other posts, maybe even felt a little motivated and inspired at times. Well today is the day you go from ‘wishing’ or ‘talking’ about becoming to actually ‘becoming’. Today you...
View ArticleA Guide To Minimalist Living
As most of you know, I have recently sold my trendy Sydney 3 bedroom-2 bathroom terrace house for a move to the country. A move that also happened to involve selling most of my possessions, so that I...
View ArticleSteep Your Soul With A Daily Tea Ritual
Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the world earth revolves – slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future. Live the actual moment. Only this moment is life –...
View ArticleThe Art Of Living: How To Turn Daily Living Into An Act Of Grace
Modern day theory says that we should all strive to ‘become our purpose’. For many of us, this mainstream thinking then turns daily life into a constant act of ‘striving to become’, hours are wasted as...
View ArticleA Different Kind of Luxury: Japanese Lessons in Simple Living and Inner...
For a great read check out A Different Kind of Luxury: Japanese Lessons in Simple Living and Inner Abundance [click here] written by Andy Couturier. There is a book that I am reading at the moment...
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