I don't know about you, but I am trying to simplify my home, not clutter it up. And when it comes to birthdays and Christmas, I for sure do not want to clutter up the homes of the people that I love.
Gift giving is hard. It just is. Especially when I feel like everyone I know already has everything they could possibly want or need.
On today's episode I share with you some of my favorite gift ideas for the people on your list that take up little or no space at all.
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For today's episode, we do something a little different. Instead of giving you my thoughts on a topic, I instead share with you an article written by Shawn Achor, who is a Harvard trained happiness researcher.
The article is about one particular happiness habit... it's called "The 5 Minute Fix".
Then, afterwards, I share with you Shawn's five tips to get some peace and quite.
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Happy Thanksgiving! This time of year we are all taught to count our blessings. Say thank you. Consider yourself lucky. Be grateful for all that you have.
These are things that many of us were taught when we were younger so that we would grow into decent human beings with good manners. But it turns out, there's a lot more to this whole notion of gratitude.
In today's episode I share with you some advice from a professor of pyschology on how to tap into the benefits of gratitude.
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This is the Part 3 in our three week series on the topic of how to declutter your brain.
For this week, I give you some very practical, simple actionable tips and techniques that you can do every day throughout the day to help keep your mind decluttered.
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Episode #67: Good Night, Sleep Tight! (PART 1)
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For my crazy busy family, life never seems to stop. And with Thanksgiving coming up and then Christmas just around the corner it has started to get even busier. And when life gets busy, my to-do list gets longer.
It seems every other minute something new that I need to do, or buy, or remember, jumps out at me. My brain gets flooded! The question is, when life gets crazy and your to-do's begin to multiply, how do you keep track of it all?
The answer may seem simple - and maybe a little obvious - but if you think of something you don't want to forget, you have to write it down.
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Today we are going to continue with a topic that we started last week: how to declutter your mind. Because, if you're anything like me, sometimes the thoughts that spin around in your mind can feel chaotic and overwhelming. Is it possible to simplify our brain? Yes. Yes it is.
If you didn't get a chance to listen to last Monday's episode, go back and push play on Episode #111 How To Declutter Your Mind (Part 2).
Today I go over a handful of the different types of negative thinking patterns that we all tend to struggle with. I also give you some very specific ways as to how to challange and replace those negative thoughts.
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I am a recovering pack rat. And to this day I am still extremely sentimental. For me, there is a huge connection between memories and things.
But over the years I've had to dig deep and somehow change my relationship with stuff. I've needed to figure out how to hang on to memories without needing to hang on to the things that are associated with them. Because while I want my life to be filled with moments and memories, I don't need it to be filled with stuff.
On today's quick and brief "3 Minute Thursday" episode of Life Made Simple, I share with you a story about how I recently let go of something sentimental for the sake of simplicity. I'll admit, it was hard, but necessary.
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You know I love talking about how to simplify and declutter your house. As a professional home organizer, I've dedicated my life to helping people let go of all the clutter laying around their homes... all the stuff that eventually sucks up their space, their time, and energy. I want to help people exchange all the unnecessary physical clutter in their homes for serenity, peace and happiness.
But at times we need to consider a different kind of clutter. I'm talking about the non-physical type of clutter that we all have in our lives. Today, I talk about mind clutter. The clutter that we have complicating our brain. More specifically, the negative thoughts that fill up our minds and fog our vision.
Unfortunately, for many of us, a cluttered mind can be a lot worse than a cluttered home or workspace. When your mind is cluttered with negative thoughts, you can easily feel stressed, anxious, restless, unfocused, and overwhelmed.
And we all know that the process of decluttering our homes isn't always easy. But decluttering your mind, can seem almost impossible! It’s not as if thoughts are just laying around, waiting for you to tidy them up. It's not like you can just simply pick through them all, find the good ones that should be kept and then toss the unwanted ones in the donation box. I wish it were that easy. But the mind isn’t like an inbox that you can just sit down and sort through. It's more complicated than that. Or is it?
Negative thinking patterns are something that I've struggled with many times throughout my life. Through my own experiences and with all the research that I've done over the years, I now want to share with you what I've learned when it comes to simplifying a mind that can easily be cluttered with negative thoughts.
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Episode #81: How To Simplify Your Brain When It Gets Complicated
Episode #82: Ask CarlaRae: Can I Really Control My Thoughts?
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