When something doesn’t go how you want it to, what’s your first instinct? If you’re like many people, you’ll dig in and fight to make things the way you want them. But, doing battle takes a ton of energy and rarely changes the outcome. This week’s Simple Living Sunday theme is acceptance. I’m not talking about giving up, but rather knowing when it’s time to make peace with a situation and move on.
Simple Living Sunday – Boost your optimism
Do you consider yourself more of an optimist or a pessimist? World events over the last couple of years have made it difficult for even the most optimistic among us not to sink into the depths of fear and despair. Today, on Simple Living Sunday, we’re looking at ways to boost our optimism and approach each day with a more positive outlook.
18 simple ways to celebrate spring
Spring is here! I am more than ready to say good-bye to a harsh winter with an abundance of cold and snowy weather. Although the calendar says it’s spring, we’re probably still a few weeks away from consistently warm spring weather here in Ontario. Even so, just knowing the worst is behind us is enough to lift my spirits. With that in mind, today’s post has 18 simple ways to celebrate spring.
Simple Living Sunday – Increasing happiness
Today is International Day of Happiness, a day set aside globally to make people’s overall wellbeing a priority. To mark the day, this week’s Simple Living Sunday theme is happiness. Read on to learn more about this day, how experts measure happiness, and what we can do to bring a little more of it into our lives.
Simple Living Sunday – How essentialism can improve your life
Do you ever feel like your life is a treadmill? Like you’re constantly running, but you’re not really getting anywhere? Last week’s Simple Living Sunday theme was about the search for balance in our lives. This week, we follow that up with a look at essentialism and how applying its principles can improve your life.
Easy ways to stay energized when working from home
As we start to emerge from the pandemic, many employers are returning staff to the office. For a lot of people, working from home—at least part of the time—will be the new normal. If that’s the case for you, now is a good time to revisit your working habits. With that in mind, today’s post has eight easy tactics I use to stay energized when working from home.
Simple Living Sunday – Searching for a balanced life
What comes to mind when you hear the word balance? If you look it up in the dictionary, you’ll find different definitions. My favourite is from the Oxford dictionary: “a situation in which different things exist in equal, correct or good amounts.”
This week, on Simple Living Sunday, it’s time to restore equilibrium by reflecting on the elements of a balanced life, and identifying areas where we can make adjustments.
Retire retirement! Plan your best years now!
It’s ReFired Not Retired Day—a day dedicated to changing the way we think about how we’ll live the last third of our lives. Today, I’ll look at why the time may have come to retire retirement, and focus instead on creating a plan to make the most of our best years.
Simple Living Sunday – Small steps to improve our patience
Are you a patient person? How do you react to a long line at the supermarket checkout, or a traffic jam on your way home from work? In a world where we demand quick service and instant results, minor inconveniences quickly escalate into major stressors. We’re just not willing to wait for anything.
Today, on Simple Living Sunday, we’ll take a deep breath and look for ways to improve our patience.
Time management tips to help you get more done today
Did you know today is Single Tasking Day? It’s a day to put multi-tasking aside and focus on getting a single task done. To mark the day, today’s post will look at the productivity cost of that task switching that we’re all guilty of. Then, I’ll provide time management tips to help you get more done, today and every day.