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 ...
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Millennial Memory Keeping: 5 Modern Methods To Create, Capture and Keep Your Memories
I AM SO GRATEFUL FOR THE TIMES WE ARE LIVING IN. We are living in an age where technology and creativity are at an all-time high. The ways we can connect with people are almost infinite. The availability of information is exploding. And no matter what you want to do, try or discover, there's an app that will help you ...
Essential Self-Care Tips For The Full-Time Worker
Full-time employment can be tough on a lot of people. At some point, every full-time worker has come to the realisation that they spend more waking hours with their high-maintenance boss than with their spouse and loved ones. That stings! Unfortunately, as a full-time worker it can be easy to fall into the trap of ...
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 ...
The Beauty and Power of Encouragement
We all need encouragement. There’s something beautiful about an encouraging word. It can be a moment of sharp, sweet air. The kind that takes you by pleasant surprise. It can be a life vest. The kind that stops you from floundering. It can be a flicker of light – the kind that dances in your eyes for minutes ...
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 ...
How to Accept Others’ Success and Use It To Leverage Your Own
Alright. I don't like to get gripey on here. But just give me a moment. I promise I will turn things around pretty quickly. A friend's sister and bro-in-law very cleverly paid off their mortgage in under five years, and recently our local news did a story on them. It was very exciting seeing the video grabs come up ...
Inspiration vs Influence: Know the Difference
Hi, my name is Klara, and I'm addicted to external influence. That's a weird thing to admit, isn't it? But it is what it is. When there's a gap in my life, I look externally, rather than internally, to find a way to fill it. I'm the person who can be convinced to form an opinion or even change my mind on something by ...
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 ...
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 ...
3 Gorgeous Free Printables to Kick Start Your New Year
Happy new year! Really, the new year is sort of thrilling, isn't it? I always look back at the enormity of the year prior, knowing that I couldn't have possibly pictured so many of the things that happened, and then I look forward to the new year, wondering what will happen that I can't yet picture? What adventure ...