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Life Made Simple with CarlaRae

Inspiration and motivation to help simplify your home, time, to-dos, health, relationships, and emotional well-being. Since 2001, CarlaRae has been a Professional Home Organizer and Life Coach helping families and individuals clear the chaos and clutter from their lives. She launched this podcast to help bring even more people the freedom of simplicity. Each episode gives you practical tips and resources that you can implement today to find balance in your everyday life to become happier and healthier once and for all. With no judgment and with complete understanding, CarlaRae will inspire you to let go of everything holding you back in life while focusing on what really matters to you. She offers plenty of free worksheets, guides, and other amazing resources to help you along the way. The Life Made Simple Podcast is home organizing, time management, personal development, priorities, productivity, motivation, family, relationships, diet and exercise, weightloss coaching, and so much more!

Copyright: © 2020 CarlaRae Arneson

Latest Episodes:

#117: The 5 Minute Fix Nov 27, 2017

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For today's episode, we do something a little different. Instead of giving you my thoughts on a topic, I instead share with you an article written by Shawn Achor, who is a Harvard trained happiness researcher.

The article is about one particular happiness habit... it's called "The 5 Minute Fix".

Then, afterwards, I share with you Shawn's five tips to get some peace and quite.

Links Mentioned in this Show:

Episode #47: How Do Digital Distractions Impact Your Life?

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Simplicity University: SimplicityU.com

Free Guide: "9 Ways to Simplify Your Life"

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Free Download: "5 Steps to Organizing Your Home"

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Website: CarlaRaeArneson.com

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#116: A Few Thoughts On Gratitude Nov 23, 2017

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Happy Thanksgiving! This time of year we are all taught to count our blessings. Say thank you. Consider yourself lucky. Be grateful for all that you have.

These are things that many of us were taught when we were younger so that we would grow into decent human beings with good manners. But it turns out, there's a lot more to this whole notion of gratitude.

In today's episode I share with you some advice from a professor of pyschology on how to tap into the benefits of gratitude.

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Simplicity University: SimplicityU.com

Free Guide: "9 Ways to Simplify Your Life"

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Free Download: "5 Steps to Organizing Your Home"

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Website: CarlaRaeArneson.com

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#115: How To Declutter Your Mind (PART 3) Nov 20, 2017

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This is the Part 3 in our three week series on the topic of how to declutter your brain.

For this week, I give you some very practical, simple actionable tips and techniques that you can do every day throughout the day to help keep your mind decluttered.

Links Mentioned in this Show:

Episode #67: Good Night, Sleep Tight! (PART 1)

Episode #69: Wake Up, Sleepy Head! (PART 2)

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#114: Write It Down! Nov 16, 2017

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For my crazy busy family, life never seems to stop. And with Thanksgiving coming up and then Christmas just around the corner it has started to get even busier. And when life gets busy, my to-do list gets longer.

It seems every other minute something new that I need to do, or buy, or remember, jumps out at me. My brain gets flooded! The question is, when life gets crazy and your to-do's begin to multiply, how do you keep track of it all?

The answer may seem simple - and maybe a little obvious - but if you think of something you don't want to forget, you have to write it down.

Links Mentioned in this Show:

Episode #90: My Favorite To-Do List Tool

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#113: How To Declutter Your Mind (PART 2) Nov 13, 2017

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Today we are going to continue with a topic that we started last week: how to declutter your mind. Because, if you're anything like me, sometimes the thoughts that spin around in your mind can feel chaotic and overwhelming. Is it possible to simplify our brain? Yes. Yes it is.

If you didn't get a chance to listen to last Monday's episode, go back and push play on Episode #111 How To Declutter Your Mind (Part 2).

Today I go over a handful of the different types of negative thinking patterns that we all tend to struggle with. I also give you some very specific ways as to how to challange and replace those negative thoughts.

Links Mentioned in this Show:

Episode #111: How To Declutter Your Mind (PART 1)

Episode #17: A Simple Mantra To Get Through A Bad Day

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#112: I Can't Believe I Just Did That! Nov 09, 2017

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I am a recovering pack rat. And to this day I am still extremely sentimental. For me, there is a huge connection between memories and things.

But over the years I've had to dig deep and somehow change my relationship with stuff. I've needed to figure out how to hang on to memories without needing to hang on to the things that are associated with them. Because while I want my life to be filled with moments and memories, I don't need it to be filled with stuff.

On today's quick and brief "3 Minute Thursday" episode of Life Made Simple, I share with you a story about how I recently let go of something sentimental for the sake of simplicity. I'll admit, it was hard, but necessary.

Links Mentioned in this Show:

Episode #91: A Unique Strategy To Help You Let Go Of Keepsakes

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#111: How To Declutter Your Mind (PART 1) Nov 07, 2017

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You know I love talking about how to simplify and declutter your house. As a professional home organizer, I've dedicated my life to helping people let go of all the clutter laying around their homes... all the stuff that eventually sucks up their space, their time, and energy. I want to help people exchange all the unnecessary physical clutter in their homes for serenity, peace and happiness.

But at times we need to consider a different kind of clutter. I'm talking about the non-physical type of clutter that we all have in our lives. Today, I talk about mind clutter. The clutter that we have complicating our brain. More specifically, the negative thoughts that fill up our minds and fog our vision.

Unfortunately, for many of us, a cluttered mind can be a lot worse than a cluttered home or workspace. When your mind is cluttered with negative thoughts, you can easily feel stressed, anxious, restless, unfocused, and overwhelmed.

And we all know that the process of decluttering our homes isn't always easy. But decluttering your mind, can seem almost impossible! It's not as if thoughts are just laying around, waiting for you to tidy them up. It's not like you can just simply pick through them all, find the good ones that should be kept and then toss the unwanted ones in the donation box. I wish it were that easy. But the mind isn't like an inbox that you can just sit down and sort through. It's more complicated than that. Or is it?

Negative thinking patterns are something that I've struggled with many times throughout my life. Through my own experiences and with all the research that I've done over the years, I now want to share with you what I've learned when it comes to simplifying a mind that can easily be cluttered with negative thoughts.

Links Mentioned in this Show:

Episode #81: How To Simplify Your Brain When It Gets Complicated

Episode #82: Ask CarlaRae: Can I Really Control My Thoughts?

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#110: Schedule Time To Be Unscheduled Oct 26, 2017

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For many of us, daily life – as I'm sure you've noticed – has become an endless, exhausting to-do list.

For me, when I see open time in my calendar it means opportunity... opportunity to do more. But, if I'm not careful, openness that turns into opportunity results in overwhelm.

On today's episode we look at the importance of scheduling unscheduled time.

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#109: Frugality vs Minimalism - How To Find A Balance Oct 23, 2017

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Today we look at a popular notion that I've seen many times in the field of home organizing and simple living. It's the idea that frugality and minimalism go hand in hand... I have to say I've seen these two terms tossed around together quite often.

The truth is, while there can be a little overlap and these two terms can in some ways be combined, their meanings are very different. On our quest to find simplicity in our lives, it is so important to understand the difference between these two concepts and how they can actually at times either complement each other or clash.

Links Mentioned in this Show:

Episode #15: Do You Have A "Just In Case" Mentality?

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#108: Real Fast, Real Food Meals Oct 19, 2017

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For today's quick and brief episode we're going to talk about healthy eating. More specifically, I'm going to give you some really easy, real food meal ideas.

Yes, real food. It's a term that's tossed around a lot these days. But what exactly is "real food"? While there is no official definition for the term, after looking around on a few real food blogs I found that there is a general consensus for what it means.

Real food is wholesome and nourishing. It is simple, whole food. Pure and unadulterated, sustained yet unchanged by man.

It's food made simple. It's clean eating.

Sometime in the next few months we'll plan on having a longer full length episode on the topic of real food. But for now, on today's episode I give you some quick and easy meal ideas that involve real food in the microwave... because when it comes to cooking, how much quicker can you get?!?

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RECIPES:

Microwave Meals from Melissa Harrison on BuzzFeed

Healthy Dorm Room Recipes on Greatist

Healthy Mug Recipes on Greatist

FREE DOWNLOAD: Nutrition Guide

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Episode #7: The Ultimate 3-Day Jumpstart To Good Health

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