Motivation

SouleMama did a post like this the other day, and it inspired me to make my own. It’s good to sit down and think of …

Contentment is not a natural propensity of man. Covetousness, discontent, and murmuring are as natural to man as thorns are to the soil. We need …

I thought all these pictures on my memory card were random, but really, they’re not. They all capture small, simple happinesses. I take pictures of …

Hey everyone! Lookee here. I’m on my blog twice in a single day. How about that? (Incidentally, I made it through my presentation this morning! …

Every Thanksgiving since my blog’s inception (um, a whole three years), I’ve made a list of 50 things I’m thankful for. Fifty doesn’t really have …

Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would …

The thoughts I’m going to share today have been sort of percolating in my brain for some time, but after reading the comments on one …

Sometimes, sunshine-y, look-at-the-glass-half-full sort of bloggers get flack from their readers over their incessant cheerfulness. “Be real!” “Life isn’t perfect.” “It’s all a sham.” “No …

If you’re new to this whole being-responsible-with-your-money-thing, you may occasionally hit bumps in the road where you feel like all of your motivation is gone. …

On Sunday, I was chatting with some friends at church, and my friend Karyn told me that I needed to trot out a few more …

Yesterday I got this note from a reader, and instead of sending my reply back to just her, I thought I’d share my response here …

As you regular readers know, I think contentment is a key part of living a frugal life, and part of being content is focusing on …

(my baking efforts from yesterday) For those of you that are new-ish…a Thankful List is an annual tradition around these here parts. I list 50 …

At least, that’s what Everett Bogue* says….that we shouldn’t write posts about it when we mess up. And that we shouldn’t show weakness. *I do …

(in case you’re just getting here, you may want to check out the previous posts in this series: Look for the good, and Stop looking …