Tag: lessons

General, Mindfulness, Technology

The Social Media Detox That Changed Everything

Corie Muldoon
The Social Media Detox That Changed Everything

The simplest way to improve your social media experience? Start removing instead of adding.

I just deleted over 2,000 Instagram followers and unfollowed 500+ accounts. Next up: Facebook friends

Here’s what I’m keeping:

  • People I genuinely know and like
  • Accounts that inspire without overwhelming
  • Connections that feel reciprocal and real

What I’m removing:

  • Random followers from years ago
  • Accounts that drain my energy
  • Anyone who fails the feel-good test

This isn’t about being exclusive or mean, it’s about being intentional. Quality connections over vanity metrics. Real relationships over random follows.

The result? I already feel lighter. My feed shows people I actually care about. My mental space feels cleaner. Instead of scrolling past hundreds of strangers, I’m seeing updates from friends and family who matter.

Social media should enhance your real relationships, not replace them with shallow connections to people you barely know or like. It’s a hard truth. Control what you can. And part of that is filtering what content you’re consuming.

Try this today:

Look at your feeds. Do you genuinely care about the people you’re seeing? If not, give unfollow.

Ready for your own digital detox?! Take it one platform at a time. 10 minute intervals going through your friends list. Instagram let’s you remove followers too if someone is following you that you don’t want.

Slow and steady progress. Peaceful warrior type shit.

Getting Started, Lifestyle, Productivity

Basic Home Cleaning Schedule

Corie Muldoon
Basic Home Cleaning Schedule

A clean home is a happy home. A clutter free home = a clutter free mind. When we deep clean our homes, we’re quite literally deep cleaning our minds too. Our outer world reflects our inner world.

I love cleaning! There I said it! Something about the process, and completing a task that helps the hive as a whole. Cleaning is a great deposit for your home life, positively affecting you and everyone you live with.

That just cleaned feeling, when you finally sit down, light a candle, maybe hit a joint, and soak it all in. Just being. Quiet, clean, happy, at peace.

Below is a basic home cleaning schedule I’ve been using with success. Remember a little bit everyday adds up. If you can commit 10 minutes a day to cleaning, it’ll go a long way.


Daily

Make bed as soon as you get up

Wipe down kitchen counters and sink after meals

Quick pick-up of toys and clutter

Vacuum or sweep high-traffic areas


Weekly

Monday: Dust living areas, dining room, and hallways

Tuesday: Bathrooms (sinks, toilets, showers, bathtubs)

Wednesday: Mop kitchen and bathroom floors

Thursday: Vacuum or mop other floors

Friday: Clean kitchen (counters, sink, stove, refrigerator)

Saturday: Wash bed sheets, blankets, and towels

Sunday: Wipe down door handles, light switches, and windowsills


Monthly

Deep clean bathrooms (scrub sink, toilet, shower, bathtub)

Deep clean kitchen (oven, microwave, cabinets)

Wipe down windows, blinds, walls, and doors

Vacuum or steam clean furniture


Seasonally

Spring: Clean out closets and donate unwanted items

Summer: Clean out garage or storage areas

Fall: Clean out gutters and downspouts

Winter: winterize home (pipes, hoses, etc)

Check and replace air filters once per quarter


Remember this is just a basic schedule and you may need to adjust it based on your personal preferences, lifestyle, and the size of your home.

Happy cleaning!

Healthy Habits

Get to know your plants

Corie Muldoon

We have about 20 plants in our apartment right now and I absolutely LOVE them. They teach me so much and love unconditionally 🙂


Mondays are watering day; also a day I like to send good vibes to my plants to help them grow.

Me singing to my plants:

“Everybody keep growing … you are loved … and you are blessed!”

~ realizing I could use some lovin too ~

Me singing to myself:

“Keep growing Cor … you are loved .. and you are blessed!”

Plants teach us how to love ourselves and others. You can get to know your plants by focusing on one at a time and learning how to care for it properly. Add to your plant collection once you feel like you know your plant(s) and what they need to thrive.

Other lessons from plants:

  • Plants teach us that each of us are VERY particular with our unique combination of likes, preferences, and viewpoints.
  • Plants teach us that some may eat more than others and that’s okay because it’s what’s right for them.
  • Plants teach us that we all thrive in a specific environment. Ie. some of us love sunlight and water… while others could do without the light and/or water all together (crazy to me but true!).
  • Plants teach us that something we may do often, others may hardly (if ever) do at all.

Plants have this unspoken language about them ~ universal language ~ that we can pull lessons from to help us live a healthier, more compassionate, and emphatic life.


What kind of plants do you have at home? How do you care for them? What have they taught you? Let us know in the comments below!

General, Lifestyle, Mindfulness

Hospitality

Corie Muldoon

I recently applied for a lead hostess job on Indeed, and they asked for my thoughts on what hospitality means to me. This was my response. I wanted to share because I feel it’s important to remember that attitudes and the way we do life is contagious. How’re you operating? Do people walk away from you or your business feeling happier and more fulfilled? If not, a genuine boost in hospitality could do the trick.

“Hospitality is overdelivering on the customer experience.

A hospitable worker is warm, proactive, and genuine in their approach to the customer.

The worker treats the customer like family and will always think ahead and deliver on customer needs, ideally before the customer realizes they need it.

Using drink refills as an example, I have a simple rule: Never let a customer get to an empty glass.

When you see their drink has half to a quarter left…

Automatically bring out more water if water is what they’re drinking.

Or ask if they’d like a new drink if it’s paid refill.

When the customer stops ordering alcohol, bring out water.

Think ahead. How would you like to be treated when you are in that position? I know I hate a dry mouth, and I’ve never complained about having too much water while I’m out to eat.

Where else can we overdeliver on the customer experience?”

x Corie

Ps – I’d like to note that the restaurant I applied to reached out two days later inviting me to a sit down with management! Boom!

Goals, Mindfulness

A League of Their Own

Corie Muldoon


The Women’s Save the Redwoods League was an influential local force in the growing movement to save the redwoods in the early 1900s.

Keep in mind that at the turn of the 20th-century, the culture and norms of the Victorian era still dominated, and there were few ways for women to engage outside the domestic sphere.

So all across the country, women formed clubs to find creative means of civic engagement and community leadership.

Through these clubs, women exerted a discreet and lasting influence on the future of the developing West. Fortunately for the iconic redwood forest, in California, women’s clubs were on the forefront of forest policy reform.

The women were highly respected members of society, and they utilized their prominence to raise support for the cause.

They even employed the methods of environmental activism decades ahead of their time by placing themselves in the path of loggers!

They quite literally used their standing to defend the redwood trees, knowing the loggers — their friends, neighbors and family members — wouldn’t dare to harm them.

The influence of California women, and Humboldt County women in particular, in the early efforts to save the redwoods cannot be overstated.

Before it was a movement, before their communities approved or even understood, these women spoke to the national imperative to save the iconic ancient redwoods.

And they took action, persisting for years in the face of apathy, obstruction, and their own families’ self-interest, and helped to save some of the world’s most special places.

Source: savetheredwoods.org


This was such an incredible site to visit and if it wasn’t for the brave and courageous, we all would not have the chance to enjoy these big and warm spirits.

It’s a great lesson on following your heart and doing what’s right with persistence, regardless of what others may think or say!

x Corie

General, Healthy Habits

Simple life lessons from Tony Robbins

Corie Muldoon

Change your story, change your life.

A belief is a feeling of certainty.

Turn your mess into your message.

The past does not equal the future, unless you live there.

With the right story and state of mind, you can make anything work.

Happiness is a decision.

Change your environment, focus, and language.

Your words create your world.

If we’re in our head, we’re dead.

Avoid emotional stacking.

Complexity is the enemy of execution.

Be really clear of what you really want and where you want to be.

Clarity is power. The more clear you are about something the more power you will have.

Where am I really? Rate where you are and where you want to be.

How’re you going to close that gap? Emotional hunger and intensity.

Crush, destroy, and replace any story of limitation: excuses on why you’re not where you want to be.

Suffering is not in the facts, it’s in the perception of the facts.

Your story is creating the pain: what’s bullshit about the story you’re telling yourself?

Stretch philosophy: when you say you can’t, switch to MUST. If you want freedom, you have to stretch yourself further.

Learned helplessness. Let life happen- surrender to it.

Massive action is the cure all.

Give more than you ever expect to receive and you’ll have nothing to worry about.


x Corie