Month: December 2016

It’s the Holidays, Who Wouldn’t Want More?

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It seems everyone I’m coming in contact with lately is adding one more task to their list or one more activity to their calendar.  There’s even a commercial on tv that challenges us, “Who wouldn’t want more?” As someone who is actively minimizing I’m paying close attention to the idea of “more.”  We’ve been conditioned to believe that more is better.  My husband and I often joke about one of our college accounting professors instilling in us … Read More

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What CAN You Do?

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We all experience unfortunate situations that throw a big old wrench in our plans.  For me recently, the wrench was a power outage on a Friday morning in December.   Whatever its nature, the wrench is almost guaranteed to create internal dialogue like mine when the power went out at 8AM:      “Ugh!  How am I going to shower and get dressed in the dark before the painters arrive?“      “Oh no, the painters!  They can’t possibly finish … Read More

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