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Enjoying dinner in the Mission District of San FranciscoWe all want to live richer, more purposeful and rewarding lives, but sometimes inertia gets in the way. I want to experiment with my own life by mindfully simplifying everything I do, cutting out the clutter to get to the heart of my ideal existence.
Author Archives: Marie Williams
Prepping for a New Fitness Regime
Today I started a fresh workout regime. I’ll be doing INSANITY workouts and following a very healthy diet plan where I eat lots of good, healthy food, often (five-ish meals per day). I’ve done INSANITY before in two or three false starts, but this time I’m determined to go through the full two-month regimen without [...]
Posted in Fitness, Health & Fitness, Inspiration, Productivity, Routines, Sanity
Tagged Beach Body, fitness, Insanity, routine, workout
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Review: La Fresh Acetone-Free Nail Polish Remover Pads
Being a product junkie, I’ve decided I should start blogging all the products I’m trying out so that you, the masses, can glean insight from my experience. These nail polish wipes are, in a word, AMAZING. SO AMAZING. I can’t stop raving about how amazing they are. I ordered an 8-pack a few months ago, [...]
Posted in Beauty
Tagged La Fresh, mini, minis, nail polish, nail polish remover, nails, travel
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A Shot of Culture
I feel like I’ve been on a long-term binge of mental junk food and candy. The Us Magazines, gossip blogs, tweets and Facebook posts in my world do not do much to help me toward my goals and I feel unsatisfied and sick after bingeing on them, yet still I continue dipping in to it [...]
Posted in Inspiration, Productivity, Routines, Sanity, Self Discovery
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Letting Go
Lately I’ve started a habit that has had profound benefits to me. I close out of everything when I leave my computer.
Posted in Inspiration, Organization, Productivity, Routines, Sanity
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Used Up
I love using what I own, down to the the very last drop. There is something so satisfying about looking at an empty bottle or jar, and knowing that you squeezed every last smidge of value out of a product.
Posted in Beauty, Organization, Productivity
Tagged less, Organization, productive, stuff, use
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My Fitness Routine
I recently started reading a book, The Checklist Manifesto. It’s written by a surgeon who observed the use of routine checklists in medical procedure and found that the benefits of using simple lists of actions helped save lives and increase efficiency by incredible margins. It’s a fascinating book. I’ve always been obsessed with the idea [...]
Posted in Fitness, Health & Fitness, Routines
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Gamer Girl
A few months ago, my boyfriend, who knows my gaming tastes perfectly, recommended I try playing Portal. Portal 2 had just come out and we were seeing billboards promoting the game all over San Francisco. It looked interesting. I was intrigued. And once I started playing the game, obsessed.
Posted in Tech
Tagged And Yet It Moves, gaming, Portal, Portal 2, Trine, Valve, video games, World of Goo
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Clutter Makes Me Angry!
For the past two and a half years, I have been moving toward a minimalist lifestyle. I thought I was making solid progress. Until I moved out of my apartment at the beginning of this year and realized how much crap I still have in my life.
Posted in Organization, Productivity
Tagged clutter, decluttering, filing, minimalist, moving, Organization, paper, shredding, unpacking
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Vegetable and White Bean Stew
As part of my search for lunch recipes on Stone Soup, I alighted on this delicious-looking vegetable & white bean stew recipe. I love zucchini and tomatoes together, so the fact that this recipe included both sealed the deal. My mom used to cook sliced zucchini with onions and chopped tomatoes, and after you sprinkled [...]
Posted in Food, Health & Fitness
Tagged Jules Clancy, mozzarella, smoked paprika, spinach, stew, Stone Soup, tomatoes, white beans, zucchini
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Proatmeal
I am in the midst of doing Insanity right now. I did P90x last fall and loved it. Insanity seemed like the logical next step. Except for a short break to account for the craziness of SXSW last weekend, I’ve been working out six days a week for the past three weeks. The problem, though, [...]
Posted in Food, Health & Fitness
Tagged berries, breakfast, Costco, Dinner, exercise, Food, Glorious One-Pot Meals, Insanity, lunch, oatmeal, P90x, protein powder, The Stone Soup, walnuts
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