Just uploaded another video on YouTube. This one is dedicated to my niece and my girlfriend. It is both of their birthdays today! Hope you both have a fantastic day. Also, I am curious what you readers wish for on your birthday. Post a comment below and let us know!

You can find videos in my Video Posts category or on my YouTube account. Here is a text version of the video for those of you who can’t play it or don’t have audio. Enjoy!

“Hello! Welcome to another Simple Sapien video post. Today I wanted to say happy birthday to my niece, Francesca, who’s turning 5 and my girlfriend, Kristen, who is turning 23 today. Happy birthday to you both.

On that subject, I was curious what you guys wish for on your birthday. For me, when I was a kid, it always seemed to be the material things that mattered the most. Like a snowboard, drum set, guitar, that kind of stuff. But now it’s turned into more situational type stuff that I wish for. For example, the well being of another person, success in your career, or meeting someone new. That kind of stuff.

And I was just curious what you guys wish for on your birthday these days, if you do wish for anything at all. Let us know what kind of things you wish for in the comments and once again happy birthday to my niece and my girlfriend today. Hope you all had fun watching the elections last night. That was exciting. I will talk to you guys soon. Thanks!”

This is a video about living your day with intention. It is easy to get overwhelmed or go off track if your day is not planned out. Living your day with intention will be much easier if you:

• Make a to do list for the day.
• Prioritize that list.
• Include mindsets.
• Be spontaneous later!

You can find videos in my Video Posts category or on my YouTube account. Here is a text version of the video for those of you who can’t play it or don’t have audio. Enjoy!

“Hey guys! This is Jack Rugile from Simple Sapien coming at you with another video post. Today I want to talk about living each day with intention. What this is, is just breaking down your life day by day. Don’t event think about the week. Don’t think about the month. Don’t think about years from now. Just take your life in small pieces, day by day.

What I do is when I wake up in the morning, once I get out of the flustered mindset of being in a dream, I’ll just pull out a little notebook paper and make a small to do list for the day. It’s more than just a to do list. It includes mindsets that I want to live by for the day and specific tasks that I need to get done. So I’ll wake up, take 5 minutes and do that. And the list will be prioritized for the tasks. All the important things that need to get done right away, I will get them done first. Get them done and out of the way. And then the less important ones will be done after that.

But there’s also a mindset section which is things that are general that you will be doing throughout the day that you want to remember. For example, eating healthy. I am not going to write down specific meals that I”ll eat, but I want to keep that general mindset in my brain throughout the day. Everytime I pull out the list, I will see that. So I will have eating healthy, things like being environmentally aware, staying positive. It is so easy for me to get negative when I have a bad argument with a girlfriend or a family member. Sometimes just staying positive can help with that. Being nice, I will write down. Be nice to day and don’t be negative. It is amazing how much this helps me because everytime I pull that list out I’m reminded of the mindsets I want to work on that day.

Having this list keeps me from floating around throughout the day, going from thing to thing, not getting anything done, and spending too much time on the fun stuff that can really be saved for later. This doesn’t quite make sense, but what I do is I plan on being spontaneous and free after those tasks are done. Planning to be spontaneous sounds kind of silly, but it works. I get everything I need to get done, done early and then I have this big chuck of free time at the end of the day where I can be lazy, I can have fun, I can work more on stuff, I can do whatever I want. I am completely free because everything has been taken care of.

It just helps keep me focused and living with intention. Breaking it down day by day makes it so much easier. Writing a week to do list can be kind of overwhelming. A day list is much smaller and much more managable. It’ has helped me a ton. I hope it helps you guys out too.

Be sure to check back at Simple Sapien soon for more video posts and regular posts. Subscribe to the RSS feed if you’re looking to get easy updates. I will talk to you guys soon, alright?”

Hey guys, here is my very first video post! I am going to try to do one every once in awhile to keep things fresh. Text can get old and stale after a while. I will be using YouTube to host my videos. I introduce myself in this video and talk a little bit about Simple Sapien. Here is a text version of the video for those of you who can’t play it or don’t have audio. Enjoy!

“Hey guys. This is Jack Rugile from SimpleSapien.com. Just wanted to do a little video post. I’ve never done one before, so it’s all experimental. I wanted to let you know a little bit about myself, my blog, and what I am trying to accomplish with it all.

I’m not an expert on simplicity or anything like that. I don’t have a completely simple life either. I am basically just trying to share my ideas about simplicity, frugality, environmental sustainability, relationships, personal growth, and just trying to become a better person in general. It is one of my first internet endeavors so I am learning through the process.

What I am finding out is that the best content is from you guys. It is from the comments and the feedback that I get. I try to stimulate the conversation and put out some ideas, but you guys can run with it and share your experience in life. I am sure there is so much that you have experienced that I will never even come to see in my life.

Thank you all for checking out the website. Be sure to subscribe to the RSS feed. If you are not sure what that is I have a small link on the front of my website. You can check out what it is. It’s just an easier way to stay updated with the site and other sites as well. Thanks for checking out SimpleSapien.com and I hope to see you guys around. Thanks!”