Sean Dixon

Multnomah County

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572 TOTAL

participant impact

UP TO

90

minutes

spent learning
UP TO

630

minutes

not spent in front of a screen

Sean's actions

Simplicity

De-Clutter My Home

I will de-clutter, clean, and donate or recycle unneeded items in my home.

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DAILY ACTIONS

Simplicity

Disconnect from Email

I will disconnect from my email when not working or studying.

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Health

Audit Toxic Cleaning Products in my Home

I will spend 30 minutes researching toxic chemicals found in cleaning supplies and personal care products and remove them from my home.

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Nature

Support Local Pollinators

At least 30% of crops and 90% of flowering plants rely on pollinators to produce fruit. I will spend 30 minutes researching which plants support local native pollinators and plant some in my yard.

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ONE-TIME ACTION

Simplicity

Needs Vs. Wants

I will adopt a "Needs Vs. Wants" approach and only buy things I need.

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Waste

Learn About & Practice Sustainable Fashion

I will spend 30 minutes learning about sustainable fashion and begin trying to practice it in my own life.

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ONE-TIME ACTION

Participant Feed

Reflection, encouragement, and relationship building are all important aspects of getting a new habit to stick.
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To get started, share “your why.” Why did you join the challenge and choose the actions you did?

Sean Dixon 10/19/2019 4:44 PM

I find the less "stuff" I have, the more free and happy I feel. And the more I use items that my grandmother would recognize, the more my stress level goes down.

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REFLECTION QUESTION
Simplicity De-Clutter My Home

How can you prevent yourself from accumulating more things in the future?

Sean Dixon 10/19/2019 4:40 PM

One change that has helped me to avoid acquiring more is to limit any new plastic into my home. If I want a utensil, box or tool of some kind, then the item must be made of wood, metal, bamboo or glass. Sometimes this costs more, and it encourages me to take better care of these items so they will last.

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REFLECTION QUESTION
Simplicity Disconnect from Email

Notice how much time you were spending checking email away from work and make note of that. Now that you have stepped away from it and have not been checking, what changes are you noticing in your thoughts, use of time, stress and energy levels?

Sean Dixon 10/16/2019 1:01 PM

My stress has decreased since turning off all alerts on my phone except for text alerts. I've found I don't miss these alerts at all, and I'm never going to turn them back on. I simply spend less time thinking about work when I'm at home and I'm free to enjoy everything else more. Learning to devote time in a focused way to my different responsibilities must involve detaching from technology. I find this especially challenging, but worth it.

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REFLECTION QUESTION
Waste Learn About & Practice Sustainable Fashion

How can you express your personality, creativity, and values in ways that don't require fast fashion or buying more clothes and accessories?

Sean Dixon 10/16/2019 12:57 PM

I've always enjoyed buying secondhand because it makes me consider purchases I might not have entertained before. When buying new clothes, I try to limit myself to natural fibers, and when economically feasible, purchase directly from textile artists to ensure they are receiving more money for the work.

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