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7/7/2015

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Here are some of the sites and books which have been most helpful to me in my Live Simply Simply Live adventure.

I look forward to hearing what works for you!

There is an overwhelming amount of information and advice (and utter rubbish) out there, and I am very choosy about my sources

For Simply Eat I read lots of books and looked at lots of websites but these are the 'keepers' which continue to inspire: Zoe Harcombe, Mireille Guiliano and David Servan Schreiber (video here). Harcombe for great recipes and a three meals a day of real food approach, Guiliano for 'joie de vivre' and an emphasis on quality not quantity, and Servan Schreiber for his intelligence and taking the long view.

Under Simply Home  and Simply Organise  the redoubtable Fly Lady and Marie Kondo have made housekeeping easier and more fun than I could have imagined! Quite an achievement.

Simply Move and Simply Fitter were my greatest challenges but I've found the Scottish Ballet exercise video and Swimming Without Stress (free videos).

Chris Baty makes me laugh and get on with it - I don't know if it changed my life, but it certainly changed my Februaries! See under Simply Write.

Under Live Simply Leo Babauta's Zen Habits and Byron Katie's The Work (the four questions and the turnaround) continue to be useful.
 
(I realize I have planned far too many links in this one post - forgive me if I add them later in the week......)

Last but at least as important as mentors are the readers of this blog - thoughtful, sensitive, encouraging and inspiring. Generous with ideas, ready with sympathy and kind words - for other commenters as well as for me, I could not do it without you!


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Thank you so very much.
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rusty duck link
7/7/2015 08:36:03 am

You have inspired me Freda, in shedding some of the needless complexities of life. I'm truly in awe of your simple, elegant, pared back style, some of which may have found its way into my home too. Thank you.

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Freda
8/7/2015 06:10:18 am

Thank you, Jessica for your kind comments...

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elaine link
7/7/2015 05:26:44 pm

I do like your approach to life - always looking to learn something new it makes for interesting reading and ideas for inspirational living.

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Freda
8/7/2015 06:11:09 am

Thanks for all your comments Elaine.

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cath
8/7/2015 01:45:53 am

You have really interesting mentors. Marie Kondo came to me through you. Leo Babauta and Fly Lady too and could have worked for me under different circumstances.
Now that I have trouble reading a screen holding much information, images, moving objects, colour, etc Fly Lady is too difficult for me, which seems a pity, even Leo Babauta's minimalistic page has a layout that causes problems if his text is long.

Happily your page is always like a breath of fresh air. And the text is breathing as well, in this case meaning enough whites in it. That is a way of 'walking your talk' I greatly admire.

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Freda
8/7/2015 06:14:50 am

Fly lady is wonderful but the site design is terrible! Likewise Gretchen Rubin now - it is so cluttered. I'm so glad my blog is easy for you to read. There is a fashion for coloured type now which is difficult for me - I'm a bit guilty myself as my type is grey not black - I may have to change it to read it myself!

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Swissrose link
12/7/2015 07:39:26 am

I found Flylady very early on when she had just started and still think she taught me a huge amount - however, I too find her site has not developed well; plus she always swore there would never be advertising… it's all a bit complicated these days :(.
Marie Kondo came out in German before it came out in English, interestingly, so got a fair amount of coverage to pique my interest!
Although I enjoyed Mireille Guiliano, the one who really got me started was Jennifer Luhrs back in the 90s, along with Elaine St. James (where are they now?!).
You also mentioned Sarah Ban Breathnach - Simple Abundance was so inspiring and I really wanted it. First I walked into my local (Swiss) 2nd hand store and found a copy on the only shelf of English books! Then when I was in the US in 2000, a copy jumped out at me from a 2nd hand bookshop there - it just had to be and gave me a copy to pass on, as well :) I still go back to this book often, I've always loved books that are chronological by day, month, season etc., such a sense of order lol.

Lotta link
8/7/2015 05:37:32 am

It's funny the ways mentors come into your life when you need them. Sometimes you don't even know what you need, but it appears anyway. I'm very grateful for that. Thank you for sharing all yours, I do admire your openness and sincerity.

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Freda
8/7/2015 06:15:51 am

Sometimes it is nothing short of magic!!

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Freda
13/7/2015 01:02:40 am

Swiss Rose I think we have a lot in common!




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