What is minimalism? It’s not just about material things and decluttering, although it does most often start here. Basically it’s about living a meaningful life, finding out what really matters to us, where we want to focus our energy, time and attention. The best explanation is given by The minimalists. They explain every aspect of …
The benefits of keeping a diary
Why keep a diary? Because it just makes life better. In time we learn about when we feel the most comfortable writing it; everyday, once a week, maybe only once or twice a month. Depends on our dedication or simply just the need to »say« something, the choice is ours alone. Sometimes it may be something that …
Reaching goals and letting go
These notes are inspired by the book The Sorcerer’s Apprentice by Evald Flisar. Just to be clear, all my posts, categorised as “thoughts” and “books” are a mixture of the book review and my own opinions and experience. Same goes for both parts of this post. “The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.” – William …
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
By Jared Diamond The author concentrates on why and how some of the ancient as well as some modern civilizations have collapsed or succeeded and also how or why some of the modern ones are possibly going to fail. It all seems that many, so called mysterious, society collapses have been caused at least partially …
DIY gift idea – quote notebooks
One night at the beginnig of December I went to bed thinking what I could give as new year presents to my closest friends. Some of them are really hard to find the right kind of gifts for. So this idea jumped to my mind – a very personal gift. A notebook containing hand written …
How to find our wild nature (part 3)
Procrastination. Something we all do. Laziness is a part of human nature; once we’re in a safe place, why move away from it? We may only have partially achieved our goals but we’re comfortable now, we’re safe and we just don’t feel like moving forward. The thing to say about this – there’s never a …
How to find our wild nature (part 2)
Restraining creativity can express in dreams; I have heard (and read of) several people, mostly women, talk about a terrifying dream of a, so called, dark man. These dreams are not bad, as creepy as they may be. They are very informative and mainly encourage creativity. They tell or remind us we aren’t using our creative …
How to find our wild nature
This post was inspired by the book Women who run with the wolves (more about it at the end of part 3), where the author writes mostly about the power of women, but since I believe we are equally powerful (just in different ways mostly), I’m writing this in general. It goes for each and …
DIY earring display
It’s actually only partly DIY, here’s why. 🙂 You know how we sometimes get presents on a beatifully decorated piece of cardboard? Usually there’s a card or a small jewelry box or mainly something small on it. It’s just to represent and sort of show off the gift. I like decorating gifts and sometimes make these …
No shampoo hair care using baking soda
A lot has been written about all the »magic« qualities baking soda has in this world, including the topic I shall write about today. Following the discussions I had with my friends, only one uses baking soda as a shampoo regurarly, some (3) have tried it, but do not make use of it regurarly as …