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Are you eating your frog?

Hope you’re having a great week so far. This is a timely reminder for all of us to Eat the Frog. If you’ve forgotten about the principle, here is my article where I explain it some more. By the way, your free printable, the Eat the Frog form, is waiting in your welcome pack when […]

Smart phones – blessings and curses

I love my iphone probably more than I should. I don’t have the typical problems of ignoring people in front of me while I play with my phone, check “likes” and comments on instagram or facebook but it started to bother me that I was wasting so much time on Facebook every morning. At least […]

5 reasons I still love my Kindle after 3 years

My hubby asked me to send a book to his Kindle and when I went into my account, I realised today is my three-year anniversary with my Kindle. It’s been love at first sight Well, three years in and I still love my Kindle like nobody’s business! No clutter – I have over 200 books […]

Are you making time for your life?

I’m really loving the cooler autumn weather so much. We had about 12 or 13 non-stop days of rain early in March which was, honestly, terrible, especially since it’s so unusual for this climate. Although after about a week, I actually googled and saw that it’s perfectly normal for Jhb to have a lot of […]

Bookshelves – before and after

These bookshelves were driving me nuts. Mostly they stay organised but as I remove books to reference something and quickly just put them back (while the light is off as this is actually the kids’ bedroom), they start looking horrible. I’d planned to attack these shelves a few weeks before I did but, […]

Quarter 1 goals recap

Friends, can you believe 3 months of the year have already passed? I’m kind-of speechless. I’m doing okay so far. 11 out of my 51 goals are done, which is 22%. That’s very slightly under where I should be by now. In true “Marcia” fashion, I’ve already identified ways to get a head start on […]

Some reading for the weekend

I’ve decided to make this a monthly feature on the blog. It’s not going to be all pretty, perfect pictures and Pinterest-worthy spaces. Rather, I want to make you think differently with posts that inspired me or challenged my thinking about living a fuller, more intentional life. Do you need a fresh financial start? How […]

The most popular question on how to simplify your life

The biggest question I’ve received over the years on simplifying your life is this: What is the ONE thing I can do that will help simplify my life as quickly as possible? Do you know what my answer is? Learn to say no. Seriously, it’s that simple. - When you say no, you stop overcommitting. […]

White space… of the physical kind

In Gretchen Rubin’s book, The Happiness Project, one of the actions she takes is to leave a shelf bare and clean, and not feel the need to fill every shelf with something. I talk a lot about this with respect to time but I must confess, a physical shelf in my house without nothing sounds […]

When did you have your last errands day?

Happy Human Rights Day! Hope you had lots of white space today. At the beginning of the year I made a list of things that had to get sorted out. There was a lot on that list… post office phone calls to many different service providers hairdressers errands – returning things, exhanging other things for […]