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intentional living – XtremeCuztoms

Category: intentional living

Spend Your Time Intentionally

I’ve seen a lot of people with goals about changing how they spend their time. They want to spend more time with their family, have a better work/life balance, read more, or spend more time outside. These are wonderful goals. They all involve something that theoretically is pretty simple: changing how you spend your time….


Physical and Emotional Clutter

Not long ago, a Realtor dropped off the flier announcing plans for the annual neighborhood garage sale. “Join us to make this the biggest sale ever!” the flyer read. Since making our move to Colorado, we have never participated in this annual ritual. This year would be no exception. I’ve learned the hard way that…


Living Life in the Slow Lane

A simple statement I’ve been reminded of recently is that we can’t do everything and expect to do everything well. Our society prioritizes efficiency and productivity. Many work long days, fill every minute of their schedules, rush from one thing to the next, and create systems that allow for tasks to get finished faster. I’ve…


Turning Mundane Tasks Into Acts of Compassion

Whether you are naturally curious or easily distracted, you’ll probably agree that it can be challenging at times to focus on the normal, everyday tasks that make up life. Every time we start one task, we feel the pull of a dozen other tasks waiting on our to-do list. Or we don’t feel quite in…


How to Live Intentionally

I can guess two things about you: You’re reading this article, so there’s a good chance that you’re at least an occasional reader of self-help advice. You stopped on this particular headline about living more intentionally, which tells me that maybe you feel like you haven’t figured it all out yet. That’s OK. Who has?…


Be. Do. Go.

I sat on my bed looking at the last page of a journal I’ve yet to use. Almost three years ago, a dear friend of mine wrote an encouraging note starting with the phrase “Go. Do. Be.” I remember walking into 2015 with this phrase at the forefront of my mind. Years later, this phrase…