06-26-10

Top 10 Links of the Week

10) Sim­ple and Con­sis­tent Par­ent­ing: Ten Key Strategies

The most impor­tant thing I learned is that par­ent­ing is rel­a­tively sim­ple if you focus on this one thing: consistency…some sim­ple strategies.

9) How to Stop Doing “Stu­pid Work”

Stu­pid work” hap­pens when you give into fear, give up cre­ative con­trol, and stop doing work that matters.

8 ) Eat­ing Health­fully– A Long Term Vision

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a life­time.’ ~Lao Tzu

7) Argu­ing: The Non-​​Simplifying Attribute

My life is not sim­pli­fied by bring­ing emo­tion into a topic that I may not have too many con­cerns about orig­i­nally. I man­age to sim­plify my life by stick­ing to accep­tance of dif­fer­ing opin­ions and growth from that.

6) Time Wasters and their Solutions
There are short­cuts we can take to help us with our daily tasks, and to help opti­mize our pre­cious time.

5) MINIMALISM VS DEBT: 7 SIMPLE STRATEGIES TO LIBERATE YOUR FINANCES

The solu­tion to any debt prob­lem is eas­ily said than done, but I’ll go ahead and say it: to get out of debt you have to spend less. Easy, right? Well, not so much for many people.

4) 18 Things I Wish Some­one Told Me When I Was 18

This morn­ing I was read­ing a book at my favorite beach-​​side cof­fee shop when an 18-​​year-​​old kid sat down next to me and…then, with eager, hon­est eyes, he began ask­ing me one ques­tion after the next.

3) 7 New Blogs on Minimalism/​Simplicity You May Enjoy

Each of the fol­low­ing 7 blogs are less than 6 months old. If you haven’t checked them out yet, you may enjoy perus­ing them this weekend.

2) Who Is Your Band of Brothers?

Regard­less of what you’re try­ing to accom­plish in life, you need a core group of peo­ple you can depend on through thick and thin.

1) Ten Sim­ple Ways to Build Each Other Up

We are liv­ing in a self-​​serving, self-​​centered, and self-​​obsessed mod­ern day rush-​​rush soci­ety filled with neg­a­tiv­ity and con­stant tear­ing down of oth­ers. If you want to really dif­fer­en­ti­ate your­self in this world, be people-​​oriented and start to focus on build­ing oth­ers up.

Andrew is a 20-​​something Chris­t­ian who adopted a sim­plis­tic lifestyle after grad­u­at­ing from col­lege and real­iz­ing the van­ity of rush­ing around and all the mate­ri­al­ism of our soci­ety. He wants to squeeze the most out of life and live each day extra­or­di­nar­ily through sim­ple means. Andrew is the author and edi­tor of Live [Sim­ply] Free, and con­tin­ues on the jour­ney of declut­ter­ing and sim­pli­fy­ing his life. Fol­low him on Twit­ter @Andrew_Randazzo.
Andrew Randazzo
  • The Roman­tic Realist

    Really enjoyed this post, espe­cially the link about build­ing each other up. Thank you for shar­ing it.

  • http://livesimplyfree.com/ Andrew Ran­dazzo

    Hey, thanks for check­ing out my site, glad you liked it. Look for­ward to hear­ing from you again.