Welcome to this week’s issue of Weekly Simplicity Tips. This was a great weekend with nothing going on. So Saturday I spent relaxing, renewing and reading. And Sunday I caught up on email, laundry & paper.

I also tried my hand at digital scrapbooking for the first time.

1. Create a budget for your next vacation and start saving.
2. Remember money is just energy – it’s not good or bad. It only has the value you give it.
3. To make the good times feel like they last longer, savor and use your senses to slow down time.
4. How is your focus? How much stimuli do you have going? TV, ads, computer games, emails, cell phones.
5. Share something you feel shame about with a compassionate friend and watch the shame drift away.
6. Are you doing something right now, just to gain approval?
7. Worry is negative anticipation instead of anticipating good things. Take action instead of worry.

Solutions 

Declutter Club begins April 23

Does your home nurture you? Or isn’t it squishing you out with the clutter? If your flat surfaces always are piled with stuff and you run into things too often with your shins, join us in creating homes that you want to be in.

http://www.encouragingcoach.com/programs-decluttergroup.htm

I haven’t done this before, but thought it would be fun to give away one spot in the Declutter Group which starts April 23.

You want a simple plan, that will integrate into your busy life and will solve your clutter problem.

So I have created the: 6-Week "Get a Handle on Your Clutter" Group. I love simplicity as most of you know, so I didn’t want this to be a complicated, time waster.

Instead I have laid out the plan step-by-step in an easy to use workbook.

With weekly chats in my chat room and message boards for daily challenges with one another you will get the support and encouragement you need to keep on going. You are definitely not the only one struggling with your home.

So how do you enter?

Just post below why you want to join the Declutter Group. Don’t worry it’s not going to be judged. *shudder*

I’ll be picking a name randomly with random.org. I will be choosing Friday and will email the winner.

Read more about the Declutter Club here.

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UPDATE: And the winner is Roberta Nichols. Congratulations!

I believe one of the best ways to get to the core of what’s important to you and to travel the road towards simplicity is to ask the right questions. So I am starting a series called Moving Towards Simplicity. You can answer these questions in your journal, in the comments below or at the MySimplerLife Facebook page.

Question #3:

What Do You Bring to Others?

Sometimes we don’t see this, so we can ask our friends and family. It doesn’t have to be work related. What do people thank you for? What are you known for? What’s really easy for you?

This is what is at the bottom of my newsletter:

I help the overwhelmed create saner, simpler lives. I deliver…

Untamed possibility. Breathe easier simplicity. Hope.
On the wings of understanding and encouragement.
Step by step breaking down from “no way! “ to “why not?”

How about you? I bring…