The Basics: Keeping Your Area Clean

If there’s one thing that motivates me to get everything else done, it’s keeping my room clean. For some people, maybe the bedroom is not that motivator. It might be the kitchen or the bathroom or the laundry room.
But for me, making sure my bed is made, my clothes are all put away and my [...]

The Basics: Water

Yesterday’s basic leads pretty well into today’s, but this one can stand alone pretty well, too.
Drinking water every day is one of my basics because it makes me feel so darn good. I don’t have to worry about how my body is going to handle all the sugar that’s often found in Coke.
By “coke,” I [...]

The Basics: Running

Today’s post is doing double duty as I continue to write about the basics and also take part in Works-for-me-Wednesday. If you’re here from Shannon’s blog, thanks for visiting. If you like what you see, please consider subscribing to my feed!
Monday we talked about how to focus on the basics, and yesterday I wrote about [...]

The Basics: Spending Time With God

Yesterday I told you that my four basics are God, exercise, water and bedroom. For the rest of the week, I’ll be focusing in on one of those things each day.
My list of basics has four items, but if I only had to pick one item, the fundamental thing on my list would be [...]

What Are the Basics? Where Can I Get Some?

Introducing: The Basics
What’s the most important thing in your life? If you were allowed to have only three goals each morning when you woke up, what would they be?
How can we determine if we’re taking care of the basics? And if we realize that our lives are not simple, what can we do to get [...]