Links Around the Blogosphere – An Ounce of Inspiration

I'm in the middle of some pretty significant life changes at the moment.  Sometimes the old is tough to push your way through, but I know I will be better for it.  I am coming to peace with stuff (I hope) and am hopefully opening myself up to some big gains in actualizing the important and essential things in my life.  Alot of this is cryptic-speak I know, but if you're following along lately, you'll understand…just try to clear out the unessential so that I can fully appreciate the essential.

This week brings another terrific list of articles that are helping me on my path.

One of my favorite blogs is Think Simple Now by Tina Su. Unfortunately for us thirsty readers, she's been incommunicado for three months while visiting an Ashram in India.  She's come back with a new level of enlightenment and has shared her experience in this article, Living Enlightenment – A Personal Report.

Part of my process of Minimizing and getting down to the essential means that I also have to control my commitments.  Learning the art of saying No is critical to that.  Patrick has a nice piece at Unwrap Your Mind regarding this, called No Fu – The Warriors Way to Say No.

I am always interested in articles about reducing stress.  We live in a bigger, better, faster world and it's very difficult to unplug from all that.  I like this article by Ali over at Dumb Little Man called, Kill Your Stress – 8 Stress Busting Techniques.

And back to the minimlism topic.  I liked Patrick's comment on my peace called Mnmlsm from Wednesday of this week, where he mentioned that the real key is to come to piece with stuff.  This, I whole-heartedly agree with.  Leo Babuata's article on How to Let Go of Possessions speaks well to this.

And a new free eBook for everyone, thanks to Jonathan Mead over at Illuminated Mind who has written about escaping from the Rat Race with, The Zero Hour Workweek.  And a blogging friend of mine, JS Dixon, has just gotten one of his articles published there.  Check out, Triple Your Rate of Failure and You Might Succeed.