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Minimalism 102: Digitizing Your Life

Digitizing as much of my life as possible has been an ongoing and particular struggle for me. When there’s a lot of it, wow it can be time consuming. There’s a lot of it because it has accumulated over most of my life: a decade’s worth of filled notebooks from coursework, workshops, and events I’ve attended and learned from; boxes of old family photos, VHS tapes of my childhood, CDs of music and…

Minimalism 101: Tackle the Easiest Stuff First

Where to begin? Choose to begin by tackling the easiest and perhaps the smallest space first. Maybe that’s a linen closet for you. I usually start with a closet since it’s the most compact space and you’re limited to only so much to work with, which I believe forces us to be most creative. Whatever place in your home you choose to start with, be intentional because you want to go for at least a…

Why You Should Adopt Minimalism and Clean Out Your Life This Year

We got through 2020 together, apart, struggling or just okay. But maybe you still have a little bit of new year motivation to take on some goals (resolutions, habits, whatever you want to call them).  If so, I challenge you to direct your whoosh of initiative-taking energy into minimalism!  Minimalism is about decluttering your life of excess material things and obligations. My first…

How much random stuff do you have at home? Have you ever tried selling some of it on Ebay (complicated) or Craigslist (frustrating), delivering it to Goodwill (deflating), or throwing it out (depressing)? Have you heard of the Buy Nothing Project?  It’s not a non-profit or a start-up organization. Instead, the project likes to call itself a social experiment. It originated on an island off the…

Some U.S. Colleges (like UVM) Are Showing Us How To Manage Living a New Normal

It’s officially near late October and the colleges across the United States that decided to reopen this fall semester are well past a point of reckoning. The end of August and into September felt ominous, the threat of college life shutting down again like many did in March looming closely. By week two of September we started to hear about which schools were not doing so well, failing to enforce…

Are Work-From-Home Extensions Predicting the End of This Pandemic?

While cities and states across the nation continue maintaining their own bubbles of restrictions or a lockdown, companies are also making their own calls for how much longer they should allow or require their employees to work from home.

As of early September 2020, major companies have extended their work from home policies: until January 2021 – Amazon, Reuters news; until July 2021 – Google,

Embracing Changes in Your Routine Can Help You Live A Better Life

By Dr. Yesel Yoon

HOBOKEN, NJ.

I’m a creature of habit. I preach routines. Needless to say, I’m not a huge fan of disruptions.

No one has to look very far to find ways our lives and routines have been disrupted whether it’s because of the COVID-19 pandemic and/or social and political events. When our routines change, it’s normal to feel more anxious and stressed.

While I’m sure you…

Graduating Law School From Home

In a recent phone call with my cousin Sarah, I told her a big “congratulations!” She is now part of a New York law school’s class of 2020 and is blessed to already have a job lined up once she passes the bar this fall. But like many graduates this year, Sarah doesn’t get to have the big university celebration she deserves.

“In the beginning when school shut down I was like, oh it’s okay, it…