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		<title>Magpie Suggests: The Art of Being Minimalist</title>
		<link>http://www.magpie-girl.com/20100312/magpie-suggests-the-art-of-being-minimalist/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:33:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rachelle</dc:creator>
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Remember last month when I gave Everett Bouge&#8217;s The Art of Being Minimalist a kind of lackluster review in this post on *8Things to Minimize?
I changed my mind. (You knew I&#8217;d come around, didn&#8217;t you Everett?)
It&#8217;s sticking with me, this little book, and the ideas presented in it are turning &#8217;round and &#8217;round in my mind. Since [...]]]></description>
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		<title>*8Things: to Minimize</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 12:17:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rachelle</dc:creator>
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When I got sick with debilitating chronic pain, everything had to change. My once busy calendar had to be cleared. The defacto commune had to move out of my house. I had to Do Less. A lot less.
Thankfully, due in no small part to the book The Power of Less: The Fine Art of Limiting Yourself [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The DO LESS Revolution: Finding Your One Goal</title>
		<link>http://www.magpie-girl.com/20090904/the-do-less-revolution-finding-your-one-goal/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 11:29:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rachelle</dc:creator>
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Important Announcement
Hello Revolutionaries! It&#8217;s time for an important troop briefing. This will be the last DO LESS Revolution post at Magpie Girl. Why you might ask? Because the Revolution is going underground briefly so it can re-emerge as an Ecourse on doing less and living more.
 Through comments and emails I&#8217;m finding that while this material [...]]]></description>
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		<title>*8Things: Enormous Time Suckers</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 04:03:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rachelle</dc:creator>
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For more about *8Things, click here.
You know you have them. Those tricksy little things that suck away your time and cast your good intentions into the corner of the universe reserved for socks-that-get-lost-in-the-dyer.
I am a particularly good victim to these little items. And while I&#8217;m not sure what to do about them, I thought if [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DO LESS Revolution: Holiday Edition</title>
		<link>http://www.magpie-girl.com/20090704/do-less-revolution-holiday-edition/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2009 02:24:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rachelle</dc:creator>
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The DO LESS Revolution is on much needed R&#38;R . Please come on back next week for my guide to the DO LESS Vacation. Happy Canada Day and Fourth of July!

			
				
			
		


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		<title>The DO LESS Revolution: Choosing the Essential</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 23:56:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rachelle</dc:creator>
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Hello Comrades!
Have you been writing down your M.I.T.s (most important tasks) most days? Did you create your list of Guiding Values? Oh, Leo would be so proud!
Today in The DO LESS Revolution we are going to experiment with &#8220;Choosing the Essentials&#8221;. Like Leo says, when you choose the essentials you do less but accomplish more [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lessons from an Artist: Blogging Without Obligation</title>
		<link>http://www.magpie-girl.com/20090612/lessons-from-an-artist-blogging-without-obligation/</link>
		<comments>http://www.magpie-girl.com/20090612/lessons-from-an-artist-blogging-without-obligation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 06:55:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rachelle</dc:creator>
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Hello Loves,
You are probably wondering where *8Things and The DO LESS Revolution are this week. The answer is &#8220;late,&#8221; that&#8217;s all just late.
You see my dear hubby is in the States which means I am single parenting, with migraines, in what can only be described as B.Y.O.A. rainfall (Bring Your Own Ark)&#8212;which of course, I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DO LESS Revo Bonus Post: Clear your Clutter!</title>
		<link>http://www.magpie-girl.com/20090608/do-less-revo-bonus-post-clear-your-clutter/</link>
		<comments>http://www.magpie-girl.com/20090608/do-less-revo-bonus-post-clear-your-clutter/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 04:36:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rachelle</dc:creator>
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There are things you want to be doing with your life. There are adventures to be had, projects you’d love to dive into, and people you want to have time for. You want room to breathe, to think, to play.
Yet, there it is. The stuff in your home, the paper piles in your home office, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Saturday Housekeeping</title>
		<link>http://www.magpie-girl.com/20090606/saturday-housekeeping/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Jun 2009 08:15:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rachelle</dc:creator>
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Hello Loves,
There&#8217;s a lot going on over here, and even now I hear the sound of my hubby vacuuming &#8212;unbidden!&#8212; downstairs. While he does the IRL housekeeping I&#8217;ll do the virtual stuff. Here&#8217;s what&#8217;s going on today in Magpie Girl world.
Soulsisters!
Are you coming on the Soulsister&#8217;s &#8216;09 Retreat? Do you wish you were? Do you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The DO LESS Revolution: Uncovering Your Guiding Values</title>
		<link>http://www.magpie-girl.com/20090605/the-do-less-revolution-uncovering-your-guiding-values/</link>
		<comments>http://www.magpie-girl.com/20090605/the-do-less-revolution-uncovering-your-guiding-values/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 16:35:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rachelle</dc:creator>
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Hello Revolutionaries!
This week we are going to uncover our Guiding Values so next week we can apply them to choosing our  Essential Tasks. This will free us to be concentrated powerhouses who DO LESS and LIVE MORE! But before we do, let&#8217;s do a brief check-in so you can feel great about how far you&#8217;ve already come.
Last week our [...]]]></description>
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		<title>*8 Things: Guiding Values</title>
		<link>http://www.magpie-girl.com/20090604/8-things-guiding-values/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 12:55:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rachelle</dc:creator>
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In our on-going mission to DO LESS, we will be taking a look at our values, and using that list to make decisions about which and tasks and projects we take on. Even if you aren&#8217;t a DO LESS revolutionary, it can still be enlightening and guide-like to check in with your values pyramid every now and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The DO LESS Revolution: Setting Limits</title>
		<link>http://www.magpie-girl.com/20090529/the-do-less-revolution-setting-limits/</link>
		<comments>http://www.magpie-girl.com/20090529/the-do-less-revolution-setting-limits/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 16:16:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rachelle</dc:creator>
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Why Less is Powerful
Six years ago I was diagnosed with an untreatable condition, status migrainosus (chronic daily migraine). Suddenly, most of my time was spent either managing my health, or being in pain. This left little space for anything else. As I listened to the waiting room conversations at the pain clinic, I knew I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>*8Things: I Need Less Of</title>
		<link>http://www.magpie-girl.com/20090528/8things-i-need-less-of/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 15:10:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rachelle</dc:creator>
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Over at  The DO LESS Revolution, we are getting ready to get rid of a bunch of stuff on our To-Do list. 
Sometimes, I think we take the idea of Doing Less too literally, restricting ourselves to reducing only our external tasks and chores.  But our internal tasks demand our time and energy as well. By internal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The DO LESS Revolution: Observe Closely</title>
		<link>http://www.magpie-girl.com/20090523/the-do-less-revolution-observe-closely/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2009 15:32:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rachelle</dc:creator>
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Hi y&#8217;all. So how did that Have-Done List work out for you last week? I&#8217;ve heard from a few of you and the general response seems to be:
&#8220;Holy Sh*t! Look at all that stuff I just did!&#8221;
In the movie Sneakers there&#8217;s a scene where Robert Redford&#8217;s character is repeatedly saying the team&#8217;s code word over [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Do Less Revolution &#8211; The Have-Done List.</title>
		<link>http://www.magpie-girl.com/20090515/the-do-less-revolution-the-have-done-list/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2009 07:45:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rachelle</dc:creator>
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To busy to read a blog post? You can listen-a-long here:  
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My memories from the days of raising infants are a bit on the fuzzy side. I didn&#8217;t really hit my stride until the toddler era. But there is one memory that stands out loud and clear: 
Paul comes home from work and asks me how [...]]]></description>
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