I recently read Why Smart Executives Fail And What You Can Learn From Their Mistakes by Sydney Finkelstein. Much of the book was fairly specific to the business world, but there was one chapter titled, “The Seven Habits of Spectacularly Unsuccessful People.” Finkelstein analyzed many, many instances of failed businesses and the habits that their [...]

After a blogger has established himself and his blog over the course of a couple months, the next logical step seems to be writing an ebook. Recently Everett Bogue of Far Beyond the Stars wrote his first ebook, The Art of Being Minimalist (reviewed here). Now, David Damron of Life Excursion, and more recently, The [...]

In part one of this series I talked about the principle of using all you have. To begin living a simpler life, it is necessary to use as little of something as possible at at time. I talked about the example of chapstick and pens, but this principle applies to anything that is used up [...]

I hate being bored. I almost feel guilty because I know how much I could be doing with my time and how much information is at my fingertips with the internet. There is no excuse to be bored and yet, sometimes it happens. I decided to sit down and make a “bored list” of things [...]