by Ali Schiller | Jul 25, 2025
Part 3: Doing Less of What You Don’t Want to Do What if you had permission to do less? So many of us carry a long to-do list packed with obligations we didn’t consciously choose. Don’t think about doing less as a proclamation of laziness. It’s not. It’s about... by Ali Schiller | Jul 18, 2025
Part 2: Consuming Less I’ve been thinking a lot about my personal consumption ever since I broke up with Amazon and realized we were buying a lot of stuff we didn’t need. To the annoyance of my kids and the reluctant support of my husband, we’ve limited our Amazon... by Ali Schiller | Jul 11, 2025
Part 1: Less Stuff The Joy of Purging How much of what surrounds you do you actually use or love? I have to credit Marie Kondo here because her 2014 book, The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up, helped me do the most thorough purge of my adult life. I can say for... by Ali Schiller | Jul 3, 2025
At Accountability Works, we see accountability coaching as a way to cultivate awareness so that you can make better, more aligned choices. You are always accountable. Whether you act or don’t act, decide or defer, you live with the consequences. That’s the... by Ali Schiller | Jun 25, 2025
We tend to measure success by what got finished. Boxes checked. Goals met. But there’s another kind of success: quieter, less visible, and equally worthy of attention. Sometimes, what’s most important isn’t whether you “got it done,” but how you are different for... by Ali Schiller | Jun 19, 2025
A Word on Cycles, Seasons, and Solstice I started getting a weekly vegetable box in my mid-20s, back when I lived in San Francisco. I was studying Ayurveda back then and it was important to eat with the seasons. It would take years before I could successfully cook...
