Category: Improvement

As part of the on-going battle against clutter and attempting to pare down our possessions, I’ve implemented a new rule around gifts.  No physical gifts (birthday or Christmas presents, and the like) unless they are either on an Amazon wish-list, or in special cases cleared by a spouse.  Money is always good, gift certificates, nicely…

I promised post-garage-sale coverage, but I’m going to wimp out and simply point you to this wonderful write-up: The Yard Sale! Despite hitting the gym somewhat infrequently lately, traveling a lot, eating big family dinners, I have somehow hit 240.0 lbs as of this morning.  Something about lower stress meaning lower cortisol?  I dunno.  But…

As part of the push to streamline, simplify, and improve life in general, we’ve been piling unused, unwanted, and unopened things in the guest room.  Tomorrow we’re going to put them all out in our driveway and have a yard sale.  I’ve never had one before, so I’m a little nervous that no one will…

You have two options: Either don’t ever take three weeks off from your trainer, OR, if you have done that, never ever ever go back. With my travel I ended up going about a month between sessions with my trainer. I’d been hitting the gym some though, mostly cardio, and was feeling pretty good. I…

There’s an e-mail concept called Inbox Zero, the term was coined by a guy named Merlin Mann who is somewhat of an expert in practical GTD (getting things done) and generally improving how you work. Or at least how I work. He has a website called 43folders where you can find some good posts and…

We started building a garage sale pile in the guest room. It’s already pretty massive. I didn’t realize how much STUFF we had around that we didn’t use. Things that are in great condition, nothing wrong with them, just not part of our lives now. Hopefully, once we finish going through the house, when we…