When I first decided that I'd had enough of my rampant spending and the insidious system that encouraged it, I realised that a lot of t...

I love being alone. There is something about living alone for a few days that puts life into perspective and cleanses the soul. It does for...

I have written in the past about how trying to be perfect holds you back rather than helps you. Life as we live it is a changeable feast and...

If you decide to take the big leap of faith and turn your back on this consumerist society we live in, often you'll produce some of you...

It's a fine line we walk sometimes - that line between having enough and having too much. One of the things that confuses many of us wh...

I am filled with unmitigated optimism at the moment because I have made some decisions lately, based solely on what I want to do. Selfish I...

Writing a book and gaining an amount of public exposure because of it has been rewarding but also had a down side. The down side is that I ...

I'm trying to re-establish my routines - the main one that got me through every day before I modified much of it to write my book, but ...

Before the global financial crisis (GFC) started in 2008, there was rarely anything in the press or on TV about budgeting, going back to ba...

My sister Tricia is visiting from the Blue Mountains so we took the opportunity to invite our cousin Susie and her husband, Nick, over for ...

We had a delightful day out on the water last Friday. A short drive over to the coast, then a 90 minute ferry trip along the Noosa river an...

I think the only times Hanno and I have eaten breakfast out was when we've been travelling but last week we had breakfast at a local be...

I've had many opportunities to think about my simple life over the past six months and to meet and talk with others who are living this...