simplyminded

I’ve recruited some fantastic bloggers to fill in for me while I take some time off for my wedding and honeymoon.  Today we kick things off with a guest post by one of my favorite bloggers:  Sam Spurlin of The Simpler Life.  Take it away, Sam!

Moving is a moving experience.

Silly puns aside, I think you know what I’m talking about. Packing up all your earthly possessions and trucking them from one space to another is usually quite eye-opening. It tends to be a lot of hard work but the final result, that feeling of being settled in somewhere new, is excellent. Every time I move I always love that feeling of newness, freshness, and opportunity that comes from setting up a new living space. Where does that come from and what can you do to capture that feeling other than when you actually move?…

I’m getting married in nine days.

Wow.

It’s hard to believe the wedding is almost here.

Let me give you some background.  My fiancée and I have been dating each other for over eight years; since we were both teenagers.  We’ve been engaged now for over a year.  To put it simply, we’ve been waiting for this a long time.  It’s pretty unreal to think that the moment has nearly arrived.

I wanted to take a break from all the preparations for a moment of reflection.  It’s easy to get caught up in all the things that need to be done—and there are many—which can turn these last few days into a whirlwind of frenzied activity.  So I thought I would press pause for just a few minutes, and reflect on how I feel about the whole experience of getting married…

I just wanted to give anyone out there a brief update on things.  Obviously there will not be a new post this week.  I’ve just been far too busy with things now that there are only a few weeks to go until our wedding…

photo by Joseph Brauer

What’s stopping you from living a remarkable life?

This is the inevitable question that arises after my post from last week about living a life worth reading about.  Most of us would agree that we want to live a memorable life.  So what is it that keeps us from living that way?…

photo by procsilas

If your life were made into a book, would it be worth reading?

When is the last time you sat through a two-hour movie that was solely about someone’s dull, average life? A movie where the only things the protagonist does is wake up in the morning, go to work from 9-5, go home, flip on the TV for a few hours, and go to bed.  Repeat every day for forty years, retire, then die.  No one would watch that.

So why is that how most of us are living our lives?…