Practical Ways to Improve Your Home, Life, & Budget
You want to simplify your life this year, right? Who doesn’t! But what’s the point of simplifying things? Well, if you noticed, this blog is called The (mostly) Simple Life, and I love helping people simplify. But what is that (mostly) all about? The (mostly) of The (mostly) Simple Life is all about the parts […]
I’m over reading about how to set S.M.A.R.T. goals. That’s right, I said it! There’s definitely some good goal setting thoughts inside of the smart goals acronym, though I’m not 100% on board with all of it. But I feel like you can’t read a single thing about goal setting right now without running into […]
It’s that time again! And this year, you are going to crush your New Year’s resolutions, my friend. No joke. This year is different for one very important reason: You’re going to set your New Year’s resolutions differently this year. Huh? Stick with me here. This year, instead of focusing on the end goal or […]
Austin and I are planning a trip to Italy next year, after our debt is paid off. It has me researching frugal ways to learn a foreign language. (Yes, I realize the photo above is of the Eiffel Tower in France 🙂 ) We definitely want to know and understand enough Italian to be able […]
My goal to read more books this year is already off to a great start! I’ve averaged two books per month, plus I always listen to audiobooks while I walk Mozzie, so I’m getting in a lot of reading in. This goal nicely coincides with my desire to spend less mindless time on social media. […]
80% of New Year’s resolutions fail by February. How are you doing so far? If you already feel like things aren’t going as planned, I’d like to suggest a new tactic to help you achieve what you want: Don’t Set Goals (or New Year’s resolutions). As an avid goals setter, I almost can’t believe I […]
So I was looking at common New Year’s resolutions that people make and found this one: To Live Life to the Fullest. Being the ridiculously practical person that I am, I couldn’t help but think that this is an odd resolution. It’s just so vague. What exactly does it mean? How do you know if […]
I’ve discovered something big in the last few months. It’s going to help you achieve exactly what you want in life. Yeah, it’s that big 🙂 With the new year approaching, I want to tell you the secret to achieving your goals before you set New Year’s resolutions that you give up on around the […]
“Your greatest danger is letting the urgent things crowd out the important.” ― Charles E. Hummel, Tyranny of the Urgent The “everyday” always seems to be the enemy of achieving big things. There are things I’d like to achieve but never get around to working on because of cooking, cleaning, basic work tasks, and all […]
Yup, you read that right. It’s the end of March and I’m just now setting goals for 2017. The last few years I have eagerly set goals for the coming year by the beginning of January. In fact, as I was cleaning out my desk in January of this year, I found where I had […]
