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Welcome to Growth Week in the Simple Living Challenges!

Every Monday we do different challenges toward simple living.  They include cleaning, organizing, moving things out of house and more.

This week is about focusing on adding more of what you want into your life. When you add what you love into your life, it makes it easier to part with the things that are less important.

One of my favorite sources of growth in the last few years have been books.  Books have a way of stretching my thinking and helping me focus.

I wanted to share with you today my top 5 favorite growth books from the last few years. Your assignment this week is growth, if you are looking for a new book to reach check these ones out

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Getting down and dirty today.

Ready?

Have an old box laying around that you can use to ship some things out of the house?  Grab it!

Every Monday we have a simple challenge, each week of the month has a specific theme — this week is week 1 which means.

Something is leaving the house

Either by donating … or by trash, it’s sad, but lots of the ‘stuff’ we hold onto really doesn’t have much value to anyone else but us.

Ok, grab the box and lets go!

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Welcome to Week 4.  I am really excited to say that it is week 16 of the Simple Challenges!  If you started in January with us, you have been simplifying for 4 months already!

That is some progress!

Where are you at? What is different?

• Are you thinking different?
• Does your house look different?  
• Has it made a difference to your stress level?

The really exciting thing is that you are making habits!

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Welcome to Simple Living Challenge week 3!  I hope you had a bunch of fun on the growing week last week.

This week is back to work.  

This week we are going to make a big difference to a small space.

Ready?

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Welcome back to the Simple Living Challenges!

Week 2 of the month is a fun week, a week where we can focus on growing and adding instead of focusing on all the excess.

Week 2 is the week we focus on learning and personal growth.

This is the week we can nurture the part of who we are that is different than everyone else, really find our individuality.

Ready for a specific growth challenge?

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Welcome to the beginning of month 4!

Want to see what we have been up to for the last 3 months?

I am so excited to be starting April!  I understand that winter has beauty and that there are lots of outdoor sports to do during the winter… but I just don’t like winter.  I was born and raised in Canada… and I am still a big cold weather wimp.

So the start of April is cause to celebrate!

Ready to do some cleaning and saying ‘good-bye’ to winter?

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We made it to the end of the month!  This is the 4th Simple Living Challenge this month and the 12th of the year.

This week we are planning, recording our accomplishments, dreaming and celebrating for the week.

This week I thought I would see if I could challenge you to do something every day.

Are you ready?

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Welcome to Simple Living Challenge week 3!  I hope you had a bunch of fun on the growing week last week.

Today we are going to be organizing and selling in a pretty expensive part of the house.

Nope, it’s not the closet…

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Welcome back to the Simple Living Challenges!

Week 2 is a week we focus on learning and personal growth.

Lots of simple living, minimalist living, and organization is focused on the clutter (both inside out outside).  It is important to de-clutter but this week is about the reason for the de-cluttering.

With all the extra stripped away, what do you want to do with your time?  Who do you want to be?  What do you want to give?

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Ready for another month of simple living habit creation?  Have you been following along for the last few months?

If you are new to the blog feel free to join in today or take a look at what we have been up to.  

The basic idea is to create simple living habits, each week of the month we do a different challenge.  Each of the 4 weeks is something that needs to be continually happening in simple living so if you do them each once a month you will be set.  …but back to this week.

Week 1 is the big cleaning out week!

… and the challenge for this month could end up being a big one..

Ready?

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