Archives
Here you can find every article I’ve ever written for The Simpler Life broken down by the month it was released. I removed any update and Simple Saturday posts that were scattered throughout the archive.
October 2009
- What is thesimplerlife.net?
- Why Simplify?
- “How Can You Possibly Be Qualified to Write About This Stuff?”
- Find Your Values to Simplify Your Life
- The Paradox of Data Collection and Living Simply
- Rational Thinking and Simplicity
- Why Does Simplifying Feel Good?
- Get Out of Your Comfort Zone by Hyper Simplifying
- Developing an Autotelic Personality, or, How to Enjoy Everything
- What Is the Difference Between the SIMPLE Life and the SIMPLER Life?
- 10 MPH: Segway Road Trip Across America
- Book Review: The Power of Less
November 2009
- How Do You Start Simplifying Your Life?
- Does Technology Simplify or Complicate Your Life?
- The Importance of Starting Right
- The Importance of Ending Right
- Find Your Anti-Values
- Becoming the Best At What You Care About
- The Role of Self-Discipline in Self-Development
- Getting to Minimal: What Really Needs to Be Tracked?
- Ernest Hemingway and Simple Writing
- Book Review: In Defense of Food
- Quality Over Quantity is the Core of Simplicity
- Using Your Free Time To Support Your Passions
December 2009
- Living Like a Bestseller
- Thanksgiving is More Than Once a Year
- Book Review: Flow
- The Beauty of the Late Night Brain Dump
- Slay Monsters With Your Self-Discipline
- Using Evernote to Make Christmas Shopping Simple
- 14 Links to Make You A More Intelligent Person
- Attention to Detail vs. the Curse of Perfectionism
- Simplifying Your New Year’s Resolutions
- In Which I Write an Article About Not Writing an Article
- Simplicity and Flow: A Guest Post
- A (Kind Of) Minimalist’s Christmas List
- Get to the Source of Your Procrastination
- Autotelism in Action
January 2010
- 18 Things I Do When I’m Bored But Want to Pretend I’m Being Productive
- Looking Forward and a Brief Announcement
- Simplifying Happiness the Dalai Lama Way
- Use the Fear of Hypocrisy as Motivation
- The Essentials of Simplicity, Part 1: Use All You Have
- Demand Excellence by Living a Life of Abundance
- The Essentials of Simplicity, Part 2: Purging
- What’s In Your Backpack?
- The Essentials of Simplicity, Part 3: Want Less
February 2010
- How Much Is Too Much?
- How To Leverage Low Energy Into High Returns
- Book Review: The Art of Being Minimalist
- The Software I Use to Simplify My Life
- There’s No Speed Limit So Raise Your Expectations
- Stop Worrying About What You Can’t Control
- Are You Tweeting at the Expense of Being Tweet-worthy?
- Book Review: Project M-31
- Book Review: Simplify
- The 5 Habits of Spectacularly Unsuccessful People
- The Benefit of Giving Yourself Value Next-Actions
March 2010
- Stop Making Simplicity So Complicated
- The Hierarchy of Simplification
- The Benefit Of Documenting Your Opinions
- The Simplest Task Management System Ever
- Paradoxical Simplicity
- 5 Minimalist Things I Do That Piss Off My Girlfriend (And Other Normal People)
- How to Produce Remarkable Content With Three Tools: A Guest Post
- 3 Reasons We Like Reading Common Sense Advice
- 3 Steps Toward Mastering Your Digital Clutter
April 2010
- How To Take a Minimalist Road Trip
- Setting Them Up and Knocking Them Down: Analyzing My 1st Quarter Writing Goals
- How Do You Stay Motivated Through Monotony?
- Video Interview With Everett Bogue
- 4 Ways To Close The Open Loops That Are Driving You Nuts
- How To Use the Path of Least Resistance Productively
- 5 Tips to Shatter Your Productivity Bottleneck
- Simplifying Your Digital Life: A Guest Post
- Your Most Important Relationship Is With Yourself
- How To Set People On Fire
- Are We All Just Trying Out For Something Bigger?
May 2010
- 10 Ways to Take Control of Your Life: A Guest Post
- 5 Reasons to Live in a Treehouse: A Guest Post
- “Living the Simpler Life” E-Book Available Now
- Putting My Money Where My Mouth Is
- 3 Ways to Take Control Of Information Overload
- Audio Interview With Jeffrey Tang
- Book Review: The Talent Code
- Are You Too Comfortable?
- I’m Never Using the 5 Letter “B” Word Again
June 2010
- A Few Thoughts on Affiliate Links and Trust
- My Minimalist Confession
- Moving Beyond the Low-Hanging Fruit of the Simplicity Movement
- A Tribute to John Wooden
- Minimalist Business: How to Live and Work From Anywhere
- Audio Interview With Tammy Strobel
- Let Me Be Your “Holy Shit Effect”
- Feats of Focus: Micro-Sculptor Willard Wigan
- Lessons From a Blogging Newbie
July 2010
- Uncovering Who You Are With Minimalism: A Guest Post
- Do More Great Work, Part 1: Where Are You Now?
- Break Out of that Rut By Doing Something Crazy
- Digital Overwhelm: 4 Problems and How to Fix Them: A Guest Post
- Minimalism is for Suckers: Be a Conscious Maximist Instead
- 3 Steps Toward True and Permanent Happiness
- Feats of Focus: Lewis Pugh, the “Human Polar Bear”
- Book Review: “Inside-Out Simplicity” Is What It’s All About
- Interview With a Born Again Runner: My Mom!
- Do More Great Work, Part 2: What Are You Like At Your Best?
August 2010
- 30 Things I Don’t Have Time For (And You Don’t Either)
- The Personal Development Gospel of Wealth: Don’t Hoard Your Riches
- 4 Simple Ways to Experience Presence: A Guest Post
- 5 Ways to Dominate Your Laziness Today
- Earning Achievements in “You: The Video Game”
- 5 Tips to Take Your Learning Off Auto-Pilot
- 3 Areas of Your Life You Can Gain More Control Over Today
- Simple Food and Eating: 8 Tips to Get You on the Right Track Today
- Book Review: “Smalltopia”
September 2010
- Rethinking Necessary in a World of Abundance
- The Slippery Nature of Planning
- Simplifying Isn’t Easy
- I Murdered My E-Book and Feel A Lot Better For It
- Do More Great Work, Part 3: What’s Calling You?
October 2010
- Simplicity Can Save Your Life
- Happy Birthday, The Simpler Life!
- Finding Your Sweet Spot In Life: A Guest Post
- Making Footprints
- 7 of the Best Free Life Changing and Inspirational E-Books Available Today
- An E-Book Redesign and Sale
November 2010
- Living In The Midst of Your Mistakes
- Tackling the “Brandwagon” as a Sovereign Zen: A Guest Post
- Do More Great Work, Parts 4 & 5: Picking a Project and Getting Started
- Power of Deep Practice
- What is Consciousness?
- Pre-Launch Interview Series: Courtney Carver
December 2010
- Pre-Launch Interview Series: Srini Rao
- Pre-Launch Interview Series: Adam Baker
- Pre-Launch Interview Series: Karol Gajda
- Regaining Consciousness Launches Today!
- Keep Your Stick on the Ice!
- Do More Great Work: The Final Installment
- Could The Guerilla Influence Formula Help You With Your Great Work?
- Introducing the Exploring Consciousness Free E-Course
- This Is What I’m Teaching
- Why You Should Focus On Process, Not Results
- A Life Adrift, 5 Lessons I Learned At Sea: A Guest Post
- Looking Back Means Looking Forward: 2010 In Review
January 2011
- Why I’m Deleting My Facebook Account
- This Is Real Life
- Re-Affirming My Minimalist Beliefs
- Living Beyond Books: Embracing Minimalism
- Simplicity Requires Courage, Or Does It?
- Focusing Passion Means Opening and Closing Doors: A Guest Post
- The 100 Thing Challenge: A Book Review
- The Mediocrity Mill: The Problem With American Education
- Out of Sight Minimalism
- It’s Not the Tools, It’s the Carpenter
February 2011
- 5 Simple Ways to Live More Mindfully: A Guest Post
- On Blogging Without the Internet
- Life of Adventure Wrap-Up
- You Can’t Hide From Difficulty
- An Interlude of Sorts
- Old-Fashioned Augmented Humanity
- Why Obliviousness Is Not a Valid Path to Simplicity
March 2011
- How Do You Know What You’re Capable Of?
- Don’t Get Lost in the Noise: A Book Review
- And That Has Made All the Difference
- The Power of Macro Focus
- Breaking the Alliance of Perfection and Procrastination
April 2011
- Why I’m Taking a Semi-Digital Sabbatical
- What The Future Holds
- Focus vs. Doing Work
- Minimalism is a Mindset: A Guest Post
- The Anatomy of a Major Life Change
- Who Decides What’s Good Enough For You?
- Taking Happiness Into My Own Hands
- Resetting the Defaults Across Your Life