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How Decluttering Helps You Change Your Life

January 7, 2016 By Uncoveries

This is the fourteenth article following The Irony of Quitting My Job to Take a Sabbatical, the first in a series on what I learned and what I’d recommend from quitting my job to take a six-month sabbatical (without another job in sight). Last time, I talked about how the most important aspect of your life is often a lesson we need again and again. Below, I share the role decluttering played in building up Uncoveries and crafting the life I really wanted.

“The first step in crafting the life you want is to get rid of everything you don’t.”

– Joshua Becker


I’d made big progress in quitting a job that wasn’t fitting.

The next contributor was key in how Uncoveries got started and how I embarked on the path I’m on today.

Before I left for Prague, Anthony and I attended a conference on simple living and met a likeminded community of folks who were questioning the pressure around the fast-paced and constant consumerism in mainstream culture. The conference inspired me to barely buy any souvenirs during my trip; the past me likely would’ve bought at least three times more.

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Filed Under: Sabbatical, Simplicity Tagged With: Creative ideas, Creativity, Decluttering, Energy, Letting go, Openness, Productivity, Purpose of a Sabbatical, Quitting Your Job, Sabbatical, Simplicity, Slow down, Solitude, Taking a Leap, Taking a Sabbatical, travel, Trying new things

10 Ways To Foster Creative Ideas

December 28, 2015 By Uncoveries

This is the twelfth article following The Irony of Quitting My Job to Take a Sabbatical, the first in a series on what I learned and what I’d recommend from quitting my job to take a six-month sabbatical (without another job in sight). Previously, I shared the process of how I came to realize the real purpose of a sabbatical. Here I share 10 ways to foster creative ideas from what I learned in my sabbatical and post-sabbatical days.
Ways to Foster Creative Ideas

“Creative activity is a type of learning process where the teacher and the pupil are located in the same individual.”

— Arthur Koestler


The creative ideas didn’t come initially.

While my sabbatical was meant to be open-ended and exploratory, I was secretly hoping that some revolutionary idea would shine down one day in all its glory and clarity.

Eureka—I’d know the answer to what was next for me. It’d have made a great story, but unsurprisingly that didn’t actually happen.

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Filed Under: Sabbatical Tagged With: Change, Creative ideas, Creativity, Exploration, Idleness, Inner critic, Letting go, New ideas, Openness, Productivity, Purpose of a Sabbatical, Quitting Your Job, Sabbatical, Slow down, Solitude, Taking a Leap, Taking a Sabbatical, travel, Trying new things

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