From late 2009 to early 2012, I wrote a column for Project Simplify’s e-newsletter The Simplifier, called The Not-So-Simple Life. It’s a first-person accounting of my efforts to find simplicity despite being a very non-simple person in a very non-simple world. I’m really proud of it, and I think it holds up, as a cautionary tale if nothing else . :-) Hope you enjoy it!

You can start with the first introductory column and click your way through from there, using the “Next Entry –>” button to the right of the screen which shows on each column…

(Introducing…) The Not-So-Simple Life

…or just pick one that catches your fancy below!

2010

The Not-So-Simple Life: Rhymes with “Mess”

The Not-So-Simple Life: Wanted – Someone to Help Me Pile More On

The Not-So-Simple Life: Upping the Ante

The Not-So-Simple Life: The World’s Largest To-Do List

The Not-So-Simple Life: Christmas in March

The Not-So-Simple Life: A Tasty Treat (That Will Consume Your Life)

The Not-So-Simple Life: A Man of Many Nations

The Not-So-Simple Life: Turning the Tables on Time

The Not-So-Simple Life: A Heaping Helping of Self-Help

The Not-So-Simple Life: Saving Money by Spending Money to Save Time

The Not-So-Simple Life: As Simple as Twitter

The Not-So-Simple Life: “Quick – We Need This Thing Thingied! Can You Help?!?”

The Not-So-Simple Life: You Left Your Oven On

The Not-So-Simple Life: Note to Self: Make Notes to Self

The Not-So-Simple Life: It Wasn’t Me! (But It Will Be)

The Not-So-Simple Life: Where It All Began

The Not-So-Simple Life: All I Ever Really Needed to Know I Learned from a Degenerate 22-Year-Old

The Not-So-Simple Life: To Do List or Not To Do List? That’s Not the Question.

The Not-So-Simple Life: The Fear of Sunshine and Gold

The Not-So-Simple Life: My Life as a TV Network

The Not-So-Simple Life: Walking It Off

The Not-So-Simple Life: Flashback: Shutting It All Down

The Not-So-Simple Life: The Night Before Perfect

2011

The Not-So-Simple Life: Mind-Mapping 2011

The Not-So-Simple Life: An Accountability Festival!

The Not-So-Simple Life: The Liberating Loosening of Losing Loose Ends

The Not-So-Simple Life: Turning Mountains Into Molehills

The Not-So-Simple Life: Me Versus the Tree

The Not-So-Simple Life: Rules for Keeping Your Head Cool in a Disaster (and in Life)

The Not-So-Simple Life: Deciding to Be Caught Up

The Not-So-Simple Life: My Own Worst Frenemy

The Not-So-Simple Life: The Double Shake-Up

The Not-So-Simple Life: The Storage Trap

The Not-So-Simple Life: Life in The Big House

The Not-So-Simple Life: Deserting the City

The Not-So-Simple Life: Defining Simplicity

The Not-So-Simple Life: Wishing for a Wee Bit of Weeble-izing

The Not-So-Simple Life: Are You Done Yet?!?

2012

The Not-So-Simple Life: You Can’t Change People (But That Doesn’t Mean People Can’t Change)