Black Friday... the official start to the holiday rush and buying season.  Millions of Americans will get up early on Black Friday to beat the massive crowds.  They will compete for the nearest parking spaces, wait in long lines to buy more stuff just because it's on sale. Many of these frenzied sale shoppers will [...]

Sitting in a restaurant recently, as I looked around there was the all-too-familiar scene of people engrossed on their phones.  One young family in particular caught my attention.  The mom, the dad, the young teenager, and his younger sibling sat with their heads down, buried in their devices.  They spent nearly half of their time [...]

Rita Wilkins, author of the new book Downsize Your Life, Upgrade Your Lifestyle: Secrets to More Time, Money and Freedom says there are ways to break the log jam. Throughout her career, Rita Wilkins, "The Downsizing Designer," has many times found herself in the middle of husbands and wives who couldn't agree on whether to sell their [...]

It's a beautiful Sunday afternoon and I thought I’d reflect on a few things. I had a wonderful conversation with someone yesterday who was considering downsizing. Now that I'm considered the Downsizing Designer, people are asking me that all the time. One of the questions was, “Are there downsides to downsizing?” Now, as many of [...]

The people and activities in your life have a profound impact on how happy you are with your life. But many of us don’t consciously choose those things. We sort of go with the flow of whatever shows up in our lives. Sometimes great people come into our lives and sometimes we find ourselves around [...]

I'm back from my 30 day journey to the south of France, where I was testing a new lifestyle business model called working three days and playing four.  Today I'm working from home, on my balcony in Washington Square overlooking Washington Square Park. Today is one of those three work days, because we are still [...]

Today I'm in Arles, France, a beautiful vibrant town with art everywhere and there's this huge art festival with over 200 artists here. So it's a pretty busy little town right now, but so friendly. So today, I'm going to just talk to you about a few things that I've learned about myself on this [...]

Welcome to another day of my 30 day journey to the south of France. Today I'm working remotely from the Port of Marseilles.  This is what it looks like to be working from here. How can you not be inspired by this? As many of you know, I'm testing a new lifestyle business model called [...]

By Guest Blogger, Leana Dell, Author/Speaker/Podcast Host Comfort zone. It has a nice ring to it, doesn’t it? I envision a quiet evening wrapped in a blanket and drinking a hot cocoa by a roaring fire. And why not add an adoring little dog at my feet for good measure. Joy. So, if comfort zones [...]

Jonathan Look shares a story of a similar journey to finding a better lifestyle in retirement.  Like most of his generation, he was a happy boomer consumer but realized that he needed to get rid of most of his possessions (including his house) to live out his new adventurous vagabond lifestyle he wanted to create [...]