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Simple Life Together
by Dan Hayes & Vanessa Hayes, Daniel Hayes
Leading a Simple Life in the Modern World
Episodes
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SLT071: The Power of Habit
Never underestimate the power of habit. In mid-April of 2014, I decided that I needed to make some positive changes to my morning ritual. I’ve talked about my morning ritual a few times on the Simple Life Together podcast, and we discussed the power of habit, routines and rituals back in Episode…
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SLT070: Voluntary Simplicity with Miriam Ortiz y Pino
We’ve mentioned in previous shows…sometimes simple isn’t easy. Consistent, voluntary simplicity can be even harder. Matter of fact, it can be an awful lot of work to make simple easy, but in the end we’re opting to live simply intentionally…in as many areas of our life as we can. And that’s going...
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SLT069: Head Over Heels In Love With Simplicity
The number one reason we love simplicity is that it gives us flexibility to live our lives the way we want. Sure, it takes some real effort to get to the point where we could drop what we were doing and take a 30-day vacation, but once you get to the point where you can shape your life to do the...
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SLT068: Simple Living with Liz Neighbors
We’ve been sharing our story about simple living here since the tail end of 2012. But we know we’re not alone when it comes to simple living! We put the call out in our last episode for more volunteers to share their story here on Simple Life Together. Well…you answered the call and and today we...
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SLT067: Simplify Your Wardrobe Redux
Way back in Episode 47, Simplify Your Wardrobe, we explored our relationship with the clothes that we wear and asked ourselves some questions such as: So what things shape your current wardrobe? What does your wardrobe look like now? What would your ideal wardrobe look like? and What are some of...
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SLT066: Predict Your Future
Abe Lincoln said, “The best way to predict your future is to create it.” When living simply, taking action now can help you shape the life you want to live. Back in Episode 38, we talked about the concept of preparation meets opportunity. You may recall a few lines from that show that went like...
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SLT065: Strategic Simple Living
When it comes to making long-term plans for our lives, we all go through a “dream stage”…where we just kind of day dream about what our life might be like. Seriously, we’ve all, at some point in our life, thought about what it would be like to win the lottery or be super rich…and you kind of lose...
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SLT064: Healthy Smoothies Made Simple With Farnoosh Brock
We hinted in Episode 63 that we’ve been enjoying more and more healthy smoothies. About two and a half years ago we did a 12-day juice fast. Since then, we’ve slowly incorporated juicing into our lifestyle at least 3-4 times/week. By doing that…juicing became a regular part of our life. We became...
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SLT063: Five Steps to Simple Living
When it comes to simple living, or making any changes in life, there always seems to be plenty of experts around telling you what you should do, and how you should do it. Looking to get in shape? You can find an endless supply of “experts”…many of which will directly contradict each other…that…
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SLT062: Stop the Accumulation of Clutter
We all have clutter in our lives. Naturally, one of the first steps on the road to simplicity is to challenge what and how much you consume. The basic idea here is that, the more you consume…meaning buy, acquire, receive, etc…the more complicated your life can be, and the more clutter you have,...
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SLT061: Simple Living With Kids
The number one question we are asked, is about simple living with kids: “Is it possible to simplify your life with kids?” Of course it is! Now we know not everyone has kids, but even if you don’t you probably have nephews or nieces, or friends with kids. So, the good news is that even if you…
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SLT060: What’s Your Simplicity Splurge?
So we talk all the time about scaling back, editing, etc. But there’s probably one thing or another that you’ve decided would be your simplicity splurge. That something that you’re just not going to scrimp on. Well, that’s perfectly fine. We all seem to have that little something that we’re just...
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SLT059: Make the Most of Your Margin
So now that you’ve been working on building some margin in your life, maybe it’s a good time to start thinking about how you can make the most of your margin to make your life fuller. Not fuller with with stuff, but fuller with satisfaction. We named our teardrop “The Guidon”. Maybe we should…
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SLT058: Maintaining Simplicity…Don’t Let Your Simplifying Work Go To Waste!
Maintaining simplicity is an important step in making sure your simplicity efforts don’t go by the wayside. We’ve said all along that simplifying your life isn’t a one time deal…it’s a lifestyle. And as with any lifestyle or major focus area in your life, you have to nurture it and care for it,...
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SLT057: Simple Living with Tania Ginoza of MauiShopGirl.com
We’ve been sharing our story about simple living here since the tail end of 2012. But when it comes to simple living, we know we’re not alone! So, in this episode of the show we have our very first Simplicity Profile! We’ve mentioned a few times that there would be a few changes coming in 2014…
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SLT056: Beware of the The Comparison Trap
Whether we’re hard-wired for it, or it’s learned behavior, we all fall victim to the comparison trap from time to time. Whether it’s houses, cars, paychecks, toys (I’m not just talking about kids’ toys here, I’m talking grown up toys like boats, motorcycles, gourmet kitchens, tech gadgets, you…
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SLT055: 7 Habits for Highly Effective Simplicity
If you’ve ever ready Steve Covey’s The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (one of our all time favorite books), then you know that by doing just seven things, you can be well on your way to becoming more effective at what you do. Now, if you’re ready to simplify your life a bit and really need a...
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SLT054: No Limits? Setting Limits to Simplify Your Life
Setting limits isn’t as popular in our advertising culture as buzz phrases like “No Limits”. When we think of “limits”, it’s typically in a negative sense. So, when setting limits on ourselves, like when we go on a bad diet, or a too tight budget, or worse, when someone or something puts limits…
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SLT053: Fewer Things, Fuller Life! Are You Ready?
On our journey toward a more simple life in the modern world, one point that keeps hitting home is that less is more. We like to say, fewer things, fuller life. Last year, we started the Edit & Forget It Challenge to eliminate 2013 things from our lives and hundreds of you joined us. Well, we’re...
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SLT052: Make It Your Best Year Ever in 5 Simple Steps
If you’re like most people you probably have intentions to make some serious changes and make this your best year ever, right? Well, we want to help make 2014 YOUR year to simplify! And even if you’re not listening to this at the beginning of the year, or heck, it might not even be 2014 anymore...
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SLT051: Simplicity Quick Start Guide
We always call what we’re on a “journey” because we always seem to be learning new things, paring down to less and less, and finding ourselves in new circumstances along the way. But in the beginning, it sure helps to have a little bit of a roadmap. We’ve never been the types to tell you “this is...
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SLT050: Our Top 20 Simplicity Websites
It’s our 50th episode and we wanted to pass on our Top 20 simplicity websites, and also our favorites for minimalism, lifestyle and more! You know, we have so many resources available to us these days that sometimes it’s hard to separate the wheat from the chaff, as the saying goes. It’s nice to...
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SLT049: Live The Life of Your Dreams
So, if you’re anything like us you want to live the life of your dreams, right? Well the life of your dreams is different for everyone, but the one common thing is that we all need to set up some mileposts to guide us along the way. Maybe you’ve heard the saying that ‘A goal without a plan is a...
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SLT048: To Do Lists In Four Easy Steps, & an Interview with Erik Fisher
Let’s face reality…we all have To Do lists. And while they seem to be never ending at times, To Do Lists can be a good thing. It kinda means we’re still alive! If you don’t have any in your life, then you’re probably dead! So, knowing that we’ll always have To Dos, maybe we should have a plan for...
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SLT047: Simplify Your Wardrobe
Is it time to simplify your wardrobe? Think about it, what is it that dictates how big your wardrobe is or how many clothes you have? Is it fashion and changing trends? Is it utility? Is it the weather or the climate? Is it an expectation of society or your social circle? Is it the activities…
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SLT046: The Random Show
Today… we’re going completely random on you! We have a bunch of short, unrelated topics that have been simmering for a while or just been on our minds and we figured it was time to put them out there. So we figured that maybe a few short bursts of ideas or tips might be helpful. A lot of these...
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SLT045: Your House Is On Fire, You Can Save 5 Things. What Are They?
What are your most important things? We talk a lot about getting rid of “stuff” on the show, and in our lives that’s what we’ve tried to do. We’ve gotten rid of just about 3000 things this year alone and have a couple hundred people who’ve joined in on it by accepting the Edit & Forget It...
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SLT044: What We Got Here Is Failure To Communicate!
Way back in Episode 10, we’ve talked a little about communication and how it can make your life simpler….that is if it’s effective communication. Ineffective communication on the other hand can can make your life a lot more complicated and often leads to confusion, stress, resentment, anger and...
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SLT043: Are You Making the Most of Life’s Experiences & Lessons Learned?
It can be way too easy to just go along in life and keep your head and eyes straight forward, just plowing ahead. But when we do that we often miss out on the importance of the experience’s life offers us along the way. Wouldn’t it be great if these experiences could make our journey simpler…
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SLT042: The Upside of Downsizing
Downsizing is a word we hear a lot about these days, and I’m surprised at how often it’s talked about in the negative sense versus the positive. If you’re not familiar with the term, typically, we hear “downsizing” being used in one of two contexts: the first is as a business term, used when...
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SLT041: Are You Losing Focus? Even Ben Franklin Had a To Do List!
Are you losing focus? We’re in what could easily be called the Age of Distraction. Between all the media sources we’re exposed to, all the forms of Social Media, instant communication and technology at our fingertips…we’ve just become inundated with ready-made distractions to keep us from meeting...
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SLT040: How To Organize Your Photos
Be honest. If you’re like us you probably have thousands of photos, digital or print photos that are totally disorganized! You have the best intentions, but you probably have no idea how to organize your photos. Welcome to our world! We were thrilled to have the opportunity to interview Cathi...
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SLT039: Simple Meal Planning & Paying For Excess Baggage
Let’s face it, there are some situations in life that cause us stress that we just don’t need. The bad kind of stress…the kind that holds us back. Not the good type of stress, the kind that propels us forward. Two things that came to mind for us. The first was meals and how we overlook some…
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SLT038: Preparation Meets Opportunity, and Making Food Simple
For years, I would tell my students that the most exciting moments in life are lived at the intersection of Preparation and Opportunity. It’s that mix of thrill, the crescendo of anticipation turning to fulfillment…when something that’s been building is finally imminent. And sometimes it lasts an...
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SLT037: Procrastination, and Doing a Personal Review
Let’s face it, we all suffer from procrastination once in a while. Sooner or later we need to deal with. Ironic right? If procrastination is something you’ve struggled with, there are a few things you can do to help overcome it. Along the same lines, as we go through life we all pick up bad…
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SLT036: Busy Is The New “I’m Fine”, & Back To School…Simplified!
Busy Is The New “I’m Fine”, & Back To School…Simplified! Dan’s Topic: Simplicity Resources So what’s your default response when someone asks you “How’s it going?” I’ve been noticing that the most common response is…“Busy!” I’ve even found myself guilty of it from time to time. I’m not sure if...
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SLT035 Living in 50 Square Feet…Vacation Simplified
Living in 50 Square Feet…Vacation Simplified! We’ve had a standing dream: More time with family, and way more time to enjoy the outdoors! We’ve mentioned on the show that have been trying to sell our 4 acres overlooking State Natural Area in the Texas Hill Country. Well, we sold it, and it freed…
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SLT034: Let’s Talk Money, & An Interview with Bonnie Dewkett
Let’s Talk Money, & An Interview with Bonnie Dewkett, The Joyful Organizer Whether we like it or not, many things in life boil down to relationships. We all have a relationships with money and we all have relationships with the “stuff” in our lives. Again, just like many other things in life, our...
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SLT033: A Simple Life Together Update, and What’s the Value of Simple?…an Interview with Joel Zaslofsky
An SLT Update, & the Value of Simple w/Joel Zaslofsky Well, we’re a little over 6 months into this “whole blog/podcast thing” and we figured it was time for an update. Actually, we’re probably way overdue for an update! There are some things upcoming that you may be interested in and we’ll also…
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SLT032: It’s All About the Choices We Make!
It’s All About the Choices We Make! It’s true. There’s no getting around it. Generally speaking, the way we end up is all about the choice we make in life. Now certainly there are some cases where, as the bumper sticker says, “Things Occur”, but for the most part the course we choose to take…
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SLT031: Simplicity Resources & Learning Styles in Organizing
Simplicity Resources & Learning Styles in Organizing Wow! There is so much information out there to simplify our lives that some times it can get pretty complicated!!! Isn’t it great to have a resource you can go to to find most of what you need on a subject in one location. That’s when a site…
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SLT 030: Buying Time, and Where Do I Start?
You’ve Got Plenty of Time, and Where Do I Start? You can’t buy time. Some may want you to think you can, but you can’t. Time is most likely the most democratized asset we have. As we live our lives, it doesn’t matter who rich or how poor you are, we all get the same amount: 24 hrs in a day 168...
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SLT029: Beginning Our Simple Journey, & Finally an “About Us” Video
Honestly, we had other plans for this week’s show, but we got a bit sidetracked. Here’s how: We finally got around to doing our “About Us” video for the website! When we first started the show 6 months ago, we put in a placeholder that said something like “we’ll be doing a About Us video soon.”...
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SLT 028: The Cost of Clutter & Managing Passwords with 1Password
The Cost of Clutter and Managing Your Passwords with 1Password Be sure to subscribe in iTunes and leave a review in the iTunes store! It helps others find the show! Thanks! Google Drive Tutorial Yay! The Google Drive Tutorial is now available for purchase! This tutorial is just over an hour long...
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SLT 027: Organizing Important Documents & An Intro To Google Drive
Organizing Important Family Documents and an Intro to Google Drive Be sure to subscribe in iTunes and leave a review in the iTunes store! It helps others find the show! Thanks! Vanessa Topic: Organizing Important Family Documents I read somewhere, that “family and home office filing systems are a...
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SLT 026: Spring Cleaning Your Home, Life & Tech
Spring Cleaning Your Home, Life & Tech Be sure to subscribe in iTunes and leave a review in the iTunes store! It helps others find the show! Thanks! Vanessa Topic: Spring Cleaning Your Home and Life Spring cleaning is all about de-cluttering, deep cleaning, and prepping for the summer! ceiling…
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SLT 025: “Someday” Isn’t On The Calendar & An Interview With Kerry Reifel
“Someday” Isn’t On The Calendar & An Interview With Kerry Reifel of The Simple Year Be sure to subscribe in iTunes and leave a review in the iTunes store! It helps others find the show! Thanks! Dan and Vanessa’s Topic: “Someday” Isn’t On The Calendar As we traditionally do when we have a guest...
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SLT 024: Simplicity Can Be Complicated & Tackling Piles of Files
Simplicity Can Be Complicated & Tackling Piles of Files with Smiles Be sure to subscribe in iTunes and leave a review in the iTunes store! It helps others find the show! Thanks! Dan’s Topic: Sometimes Simplicity Can Be Pretty Complicated One of the major topics people talk to us about is how it...
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SLT 023: Simplicity “Traps” & There’s an App for That!
Simplicity “Traps” and There’s an App for That! Be sure to subscribe in iTunes and leave a review in the iTunes store! It helps others find the show! Thanks! Vanessa Topic: There’s an App for That! I often get asked about how I stay so organized…a natural question I suppose since I am a...
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SLT 022: Life’s Spam Filter & Simplicity for a Lifetime
Life’s Spam Filter and Simplicity For A Lifetime Be sure to subscribe in iTunes and leave a review in the iTunes store! It helps others find the show! Thanks! Before we get to the topics…we wanted to let you know that we had a terrific Skype visit with Mohamed Tohami of Midway Simplicity not too...
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