by Amanda @ Amanda's Great Idea | Jul 11, 2017 | Travel
*this post may contain affiliate links Okay, confession time. I am a pretty even-tempered person. It takes a lot to get me to the emotional extremes. Sometimes I chalk this up to the fact that I am an emergency medicine provider and I’m not easily surprised by...
by Amanda @ Amanda's Great Idea | Jul 6, 2017 | Home Keeping, Motherhood
3 steps to overcome paralysis by analysis A few weeks ago, I wrote about paralysis by analysis, and how sometimes having too many choices prevents you from doing any one thing. This concept goes by a few different terms, including decision fatigue, the paradox of...
by Amanda @ Amanda's Great Idea | Jun 20, 2017 | Travel
Skip to the free travel-themed printables! When you think of a minimalist vacation do you think of two adults and two one-year-olds piled into a Subaru for a 1000 mile round-trip road trip? Maybe not, but I’ll tell you how I overhauled my usual vacation M.O and...
by Amanda @ Amanda's Great Idea | Jun 12, 2017 | Home Keeping
How often do you get home from work, look around your house, and feel so overwhelmed with the amount of clutter and undone tasks that you don’t do anything at all? If you’re anything like me, this may be a regular occurrence for you. Some days, I’ll...
by Amanda @ Amanda's Great Idea | Jun 5, 2017 | Home Keeping, Motherhood
Why Minimalism May be the Solution to a Problem You Didn’t Know You Had There’s something that’s been weighing on me lately, and pretty heavily, I might add. I’ve been feeling overwhelmed, and I’ve finally figured out why. I feel that my...