How many of these toxic habits are you stuck in? We all want to live happy, carefree lives. Every single one of us. Right? I mean, I sure do! I want to know that I'm doing every possible thing that I can to live my best, most joy-filled life. It's a major goal of mine, for obvious reasons. So what if I told you ...
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15 Sweet And Simple Ways To Be An Above-Average Friend in 2020
How to be a good friend? Times are changing, and so are friendships. Twenty years ago, friendships took work. They were more intentional. If you wanted to connect with a friend, you had to make a phone call. If you wanted to find out every last detail about their lives, you caught up for lunch. If you wanted to ...
How To Live Your BEST Life Now (Even If You Don’t Have It All Together)
Live your best life! It's one of those catch phrases we see popping up everywhere - from memes to hashtags to Instagram influencers (who, let's be honest, are literally being paid by brands to "live their best lives"). The world is pretty convinced that you need to live your best life - now! Living your best life ...
Self Improvement Resolutions That’ll Make You An Epic Human in 2020
Do you dabble in new year resolutions? Do you vow every year to lose weight/learn another language/travel more/save money/cure cancer? Of course you do. There is something rather thrilling about staring down the nose of a brand new, untainted, mystery-filled, whole entire year. It always gets me a bit ...
17 Kick-Ass Commitments That Will Make Your 2020 Sensational
Are you a fan of new year's resolutions? I'm not one to set them, personally. I've learnt from experience that they rarely work out for me. But I do still love the hope and the feeling of opportunity at the start of a new year. I love the idea of the coming year being different from the last. And I like to think, ...
Think You Know Yourself? Try These (Free) Revealing Personality Tests…
Look. I don’t mean to brag, but when I was in primary school, I had a subscription to Total Girl magazine *smug face*. I know, I know — pret-ty cool. I used to love doing the quizzes inside. I don’t know why, because it was usually like “what flavour ice-cream are you?” (Vanilla, if you were wondering. Boo.) Point is, ...
Tips For Ditching Negative First Impressions and Changing Your Mind About People
I think I'm a pretty good judge of character. But then we all do, don't we? I make up my mind about people swiftly. I have opinion-forming down to a fine art, and can make a firm judgment call with very little background information. First impressions are my jam. It looks silly written down, but you know ...
How To Set New Year Resolutions You Might Actually Keep
I can’t be the only one who is living in mild denial that the year is almost over. I have embraced the festive period the way I always have (with unchained enthusiasm) but also with tempered apprehension for what lurks just around the corner; the New Year. It’s not the mere changing of a calendar that sets my ...
Girl Gang: Why we need female friendships
Oh, if only I could go back in time to my fifteen-year-old self and deliver a sharp right hook to her cheek for ever suggesting that “hanging with boys is so much better than girls; they are just so much drama.” (I also thought fingerless gloves and lace edged leggings were acceptable in broad daylight, so really what ...
How to Adult: A Crash Course In Acting Like A Grown-Up
When I was in my mid-twenties, my cousin and his wife invited me to their daughter's first birthday party. The party was lovely, but that wasn't what struck me about the experience - rather, it was my cousin's wife, Jen, and her bevvy of elegant friends. Jen has been in the family since I was in my teens, and to me ...
When You’re Always Looking Forward… And You Reach The Finish Line
You know that feeling you get when you’re coming to the end of a really big goal you’ve been working towards and looking forward to reaching? Well, I got that feeling last week. It wasn’t quite the feeling I had expected.I guess there are lots of different types of goals, and they probably produce different emotions ...
Confessions Of An (Ex)Extrovert: Embracing a Quieter Me
I have always considered myself an extrovert. As I sit in my family’s holiday home, blinds open revealing the lake across the green grass and the setting sun creating a sparkle off the water through the bushes, I think about how peaceful it is. Going away with 7 of your family members straight after a busy ...