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Declutter, Reset, Enjoy: Cecilia's Five Steps.
Step One Find a problem Something unlovely about your life you want to change, yet don't know how. 'I want more time' 'I want more...
Cecilia Macaulay
Mar 3, 20192 min read
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Treasure is never convenient.
You have to stretch to get the really good things. Thats the rule. I'm so glad lovely Julie took a plane and a train and a bus to come...
Cecilia Macaulay
Mar 1, 20192 min read
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Honor your Inner Chicken
Chickens try new horizons. When they fail and get shoo'ed away, are they embarrassed? No, they are indignant, and leave with beak held...
Cecilia Macaulay
Feb 28, 20192 min read
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Romancing the Cow
"I had a cow that was so in love with her calf, she just licked him for a whole month' said Farmer Bob. Its a wonderful feeling 'I love...
Cecilia Macaulay
Feb 27, 20191 min read
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Hurry Hurry Monster
Yesterday I dropped in to Elinda's place, just down the road from Gardenfarm. Elinda is an artist, she is always making something. She'd...
Cecilia Macaulay
Feb 26, 20192 min read
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It Only Takes One Good Family
This is the bathroom at the Chai Night share house in Sydney. Chai Night is a monthly open talent party, in a private house and garden....
Cecilia Macaulay
Feb 25, 20192 min read
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Optimize your Outdoor Office
Here is where I wrote yesterday's blogpost 'Powered by Elves', and here are my recommendations for your effective outdoor office: 1. Get...
Cecilia Macaulay
Feb 25, 20191 min read
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Powered by ELVES, no magic involved.
The company that makes the most reliable, affordable cars in the world supplements its workforce with ELVES, nicknamed 'Karakuri'. Though...
Cecilia Macaulay
Feb 24, 20192 min read
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Re-design the low point of your day
Pick whichever part of your day is predictably unpleasant, and re-design it. I gave this exersise to my audience at my Vivid Ideas...
Cecilia Macaulay
Feb 23, 20191 min read
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Low-Energy Suburbia, Samurai-Style
I couldn't believe my eyes. The houses were very similar to the suburban Australian home I grew up in, with a back garden, lemon tree,...
Cecilia Macaulay
Feb 22, 20191 min read
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We both get what we want
She is mint, and wants to live in Denmark, moist and shady. He is chamomile, and wants to live in Greece: hot and dry. They both get what...
Cecilia Macaulay
Feb 20, 20193 min read
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Future Generation of Yourself
One profound sentence can cause your life trajectory to effortlessly change tracks. Younger me put astonishing freely-given effort into...
Cecilia Macaulay
Feb 20, 20191 min read
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Monster in the cupboard.
Decluttering leads to surprises. At Professor Marcs today we found thousands of dollars worth of fancy health and beauty products, all...
Cecilia Macaulay
Feb 19, 20191 min read
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Declutter for a tiny shared bathroom
This humble, unrenovated bathroom did heroic work, and was my trusty partner in keeping my housemates and guests all squeaky clean,...
Cecilia Macaulay
Feb 17, 20192 min read
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Top three things to do with an orange
I don't really eat oranges. They are too exciting, and too sugary. In recent years, Ive been buying them for their skins. Somebody gave...
Cecilia Macaulay
Feb 17, 20191 min read
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Are You are Person of Vision?
People say there is nothing interesing in Surfers Paradise. I know thats not true, because there is this rat. He lives on the tarmac. A...
Cecilia Macaulay
Feb 15, 20191 min read
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Give Romance
When I was a teenager, I remember the thrill of getting an anonymous Valentine's day card in the letter box. It gave me days and days of...
Cecilia Macaulay
Feb 15, 20192 min read
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Kaizen: A Wastefully Misunderstood Word
Kaizen is a word made famous by the success of The Toyota Way, and generally translated as continuous incremental improvement. A few...
Cecilia Macaulay
Feb 14, 20194 min read
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World's Most Unapreciated Useful Skill
I can make cats come to me in the street. Its my party trick. There are two steps. First, you use a trilling miaow which is cat language...
Cecilia Macaulay
Feb 12, 20191 min read
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The Sandpit of Dreams
The gap between where you are and where you want to be, its too big. If you are making the most of your short time on this planet, you...
Cecilia Macaulay
Feb 12, 20192 min read
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