With each new year comes the rewarding and fun task of choosing a fresh planner. As I've already written about, I love using Cal Newport's Time-Block Planner to schedule chunks of time to work on writing projects https://danalaquidara.com/2022/08/08/minimal-monday-25/ . But I use a separate tool, an agenda, for my weekly and monthly calendar and to-do … Continue reading Minimal Monday
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A few weeks ago, I wrote about how a minimalist philosophy is one of subtraction. If you missed that post, you can read it here: https://danalaquidara.com/2022/08/22/minimal-monday-27/ . I am revisiting the topic because I keep bumping up against the truth of it in my every day life, and especially lately in my writing life. Being … Continue reading Minimal Monday
Minimal Monday
What I love most about a minimalist philosophy is that it can cover our inner and outer worlds, our belongings, habits, thoughts and defenses. It is not a mindset in adding, doing, changing, but rather one of uncovering. Simplifying is subtractive, not additive. It is stopping the critical thoughts, removing what is blocking your innate … Continue reading Minimal Monday
Minimal Monday
Here are four things that having a deadline for finishing my book is teaching me: #1 I should have stopped procrastinating long ago, and taken my creative work more seriously. Now that I have a guarantee of publication, I have to acknowledge all of the time that I could have been working on my book … Continue reading Minimal Monday
Minimal Monday
I have a deadline of October 31st this year for completing the final edits to my memoir. I've got a lot left to do and now Halloween is hovering over me like a taunting ghost, as if writing down my deepest thoughts and memories isn't spooky enough. Fortunately, I have fallen madly in love with … Continue reading Minimal Monday
Minimal Monday
I've noticed for a long time now, that when I refuse to engage my 'worry thoughts' and simply and truly Let Go, the issue or outcome tends to work out. It has been such a strong and welcoming truth for me, in fact, that I have been consciously practicing the Art of Letting Go. Write … Continue reading Minimal Monday
Minimal Monday
Summer can be a fun season with all the events, activities, mini-vacations and days in the sun. But for someone like me who lives a healthier, more productive and creative life when I follow a routine, summer can easily throw me off my game. It's not that I want every single day to be the … Continue reading Minimal Monday
Minimal Monday
My very first memory of sugar is of being about three and a half years old and finding an open jar of butterscotch sauce in my family’s refrigerator. Where was the lid? What luck! I don’t recall any other time of helping myself to the fridge at such a young age, but on this day, … Continue reading Minimal Monday
Minimal Monday
It is amazing to me how our attitude about time can actually change our experience of time. In his book The Big Leap, psychologist and author Gay Hendricks writes that “Time feels like an ever-present entity, hovering in the background of our lives.” But to expand time, he explains, we simply need to bring our … Continue reading Minimal Monday
Minimal Monday
This is the day of the Boston Marathon, a race that takes place every year on Patriots Day in Massachusetts. I grew up just down the street from the start of the race, so it was tradition to see the runners off every third Monday of April. In later years, both of my sisters ran … Continue reading Minimal Monday
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