Archive | July, 2009

This minimalist’s take on food

29 July 2009

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Not to long ago I got a mail from Jean asking me how I handled food and eating. She herself found that “a simple (mostly raw) seasonal consumption of food works best” I have just one guideline I try to follow in all food: Concerning food that I buy/prepare myself. If I can’t tell what’s [...]

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If you want to be free, stop choosing

27 July 2009

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Every day we make choices in our life, what to drink what to eat, where to go and what to do. But those are not the choice I want to talk about here. I want to have a closer look at those other choices otherwise known as taste or value. As soon as we value [...]

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My blogchallenge, a weekly update 14

26 July 2009

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Okay, so here it is again back by demand. I skipped number 13 and now it’s on to number 14. With further distractions here are the numbers: Average number of pageviews over this week: 171 without going “viral” this week. So they’re real numbers. Last time I had 230, but that was with a huge [...]

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My blogchallenge and the weekly updates, times have changed

24 July 2009

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As you might have noticed, I didn’t do an update last weekend and wasn’t planning to do one this week because they were there for a reason and that reason is no longer applicable. So far nobody protested but I wonder if there are people out there who really liked them and want me to [...]

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On Authenticity, what are your claims?

23 July 2009

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I don’t know where I’ve read it exactly (might have been Seth’s purple cow but I’m not sure) but on the Internet if people perceive you to be an expert in something, you are an expert. Somehow I find this very dangerous, I’ve been blogging on several topics over the past months and already I [...]

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1 Step to creating a Minimalist Home

21 July 2009

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Yes, it takes just one step to transform your home into a minimalist living space. It’s huge actually and if you want to give it a go there are a lot of smaller steps to go through: Throw away everything you haven’t used in a year Get rid of paperwork/magazines Find a way to properly [...]

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A short post on packing less, the minimalist on vacation

20 July 2009

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I just got back from a two week vacation. There were three of us and we had a car at our disposal. Although I consider myself a minimalist I still was packing a big weekend bag, a backpack (my laptopbag) and my mediation mat (even rolled up it’s still quite big). My in-line skates were [...]

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The failed blogchallenge and the growing blog

16 July 2009

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Some time ago I started a blogchallenge. My challenge was to grow my blog by 1600% in three months, which ment the following OR I have more than 500 pageviews a day for 7 consecutive days. OR I have more than 300 subscribers to my RSS feed This challenge is the reason why I’ve been writing [...]

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The upside down swan and the curse of productivity

14 July 2009

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Are you one of those people who constantly try to “hack” their life and productivity with all kinds of “Getting Things Done” tactics and to-do lists? Are you constantly trying to squeeze as much tasks in an hour as possible? Are you constantly on the lookout for the next big thing in organizing? Are you [...]

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My blogchallenge, a weekly update 12

11 July 2009

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Although I’m officially on vacation and so working a little less on my blog things still keep getting better and better. I even found the time to write this weekly update again. If you’re wondering where I’m at right now. I’m not going to disclose my exact position but I reached: “51.39943, 4.21195” within twelve [...]

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