Welcome to the annual top blog posts of the year!  As we do, we're bidding adieu to another year of Live Simply, the blog, by looking back at the posts you made the most popular, most read, and most shared. For the next two weeks, a concise list of stand-out blog post stars will be yours to peruse. Revisit posts that struck a cord. Read posts you missed during the year. Bask in a Live ...

Welcome to the annual top blog posts of the year!  As we do, we're bidding adieu to another year of Live Simply, the blog, by looking back at the posts you made the most popular, most read, and most shared. For the next two weeks, a concise list of stand-out blog post stars will be yours to peruse. Revisit posts that struck a cord. Read posts you missed during the year. Bask in a Live ...

Welcome to the annual top blog posts of the year! As we do, we're bidding adieu to another year of Live Simply, the blog, by looking back at the posts you made the most popular, most read, and most shared. After seven plus years of writing this dang thing, I'm certain of one thing: it's practically impossible to predict which messages are going to fall flat, and which are going to spread like wildfire frosting on ...

Happy Hanukah, kids! Today's post is likely the last new one you'll see from me until 2018. This isn't really goodbye, though, since we've got our top posts of the year on deck; stay tuned for all that jazz. In the meantime, let's get down with the holiday simplification tips. Stress, be gone. 1. Make a to-do list. It's the surest way to stop your mind from feeling like it's swimming with information and ideas. ...

They say there's no time like the present, but I find the here and now still manages to be a sorely insufficient source of motivation for most people to tackle organizing projects on their own. There needs to be another catalyst at play--a reason for people to dig into the trenches--so that the organizing is a continuation of the project, not the starting point. An occasion where lots of things from a similar category or ...