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 ...
Challenges
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 ...
The ULTIMATE Spring Bucket List
Tell me I'm wrong. It feels like yesterday that you were pulling on your boots and scarf to brave the weather. You were sipping hot chocolates, bundling up under cozy blankets, reading that awesome Hygge book that everyone's been Instagramming non-stop, pondering the correct pronunciation of the word ...
The September Challenge: Spring Clean Your Life!
Welcome to September! Winter has finally collapsed into spring and with it has brought the candescent month of change. For the next thirty days the season challenges you to take a breath and revisit your environment, both externally and internally. To cull the toxicity and clutter from your life and ease into October ...
Embrace the Struggle (and grow!)
We spend so much time and effort running from pain. We actively avoid it. Many of our emotionally-based decisions subconsciously hinge on the thought, “will this hurt me down the track?”. We seek the easy path, even if it’s the longer one — sometimes even if we know it will hurt someone else. And it makes sense, why ...
Tips for Keeping a Clean(er) House
I know we've covered this before, but I am not a brilliant housekeeper. Despite my poor Mum's best efforts to get me to do chores when I was growing up, it didn't stick. I just didn't have the clean gene. The moment I married Chris (also a terrible housekeeper*) and moved out of home, it was all over. Dishes stacked ...
For the Love of All-Natural Locks: Why I Quit Hair Colouring
I made a weird bet with a friend a few years ago. I declared that I was going to stop colouring my (at the time, box-ginger) hair, and she bet me $20 that I wouldn't handle it well - either I would begin to start colouring it again at the first sign of re-growth, or that I would chop it all off to avoid facing years ...
Productivity at its best… and worst
As I was sitting in my lounge room, avoiding my long list of to-do tasks (and any form of productivity for that matter), my hand clutching a glass of wine and my eyes fixed on an episode – or two… or three – of Gossip Girl, something strange happened to me. I found a Blair Waldorf that I liked. Or maybe even… ...
10 Easy Pick-Me-Ups to Brighten Your Day
Life, man. It can be rough around the edges. Even the strongest of us can get caught up in its crazy whirlwind and find ourselves left spinning on the floor sometimes. When I'm feeling off-kilter, I tend to focus on what is causing me to feel that way, rather than considering ways to cheer myself up. And that rarely ...
Start Your Day Well with a Morning Routine
Did you make yourself a new years resolution surrounding your health, fitness or well-being and feel like you’ve already fallen off the wagon? We’ve all done that, so don’t beat yourself up about it. Sometimes we give up because we set ourselves unachievable goals, we don’t have the accountability or steps in place ...
5 Essential Steps to Overhaul Your Personal Finance
How's your financial situation looking? Are you pinching every penny you can? Living pay-check to pay-check? Paying for everything on a credit card and hoping not to get too far behind in paying it back? More money than you know what to do with? (Ha!) Personal finance is an area that I am weirdly fanatical about. Maybe ...
New year, new me, same resolutions
By the end of 2016, I had broken all of my New Year's resolutions. *gasp* Don't judge me! I know I'm not alone! *points vaguely into crowd of everyone on the planet* I know you feel me. Every year. Every year without exception, I fail every one of my resolutions. Here, I'll share. This was my list of ...