What to do when it gets hard to get going? While the weekend can be a time to rest and reset, it’s also a time to work towards some of those personal goals and projects. If you are like me, you find it difficult to get a bit of momentum to get going around the […]
I had never been a fan of mindset activities or aligning to values and accepting the mental head space was never considered seriously until my 30s. Call me a pessimist, but I considered myself a realist; if it was not tangible it didn’t really exist. Some days I wonder whether we all go through this […]
As simple as this sounds, checking in on my progress has made the biggest compounding change in my world! For this entry, I am going to talk about personal finance management; though I have found that the principle idea is applicable in so many aspects of life. So this story starts off when I was […]
Learning to be happy for others has been a long path for me; I guess I have always had a competitive streak, and the thought of someone doing better just makes me jealous. But I don’t think I am alone; I think we all just don’t admit it to ourselves, let alone others. Though I […]
One little difference that I have for around the house is to open all the windows and blinds and let all the natural light and fresh air in. As simple as it sounds changing the light can transform the space and your mood. I had never really considered the notion that our environment impacts us, […]
Being someone who either has their mind deep in thought or nose locked into books I generally have a skewed concept of time and am rather forgetful about the tasks that need to be completed to “adult” correctly. I found keeping a routine really helps me maintain a certain standard of life. But how to […]
If it is important to you – you will make the time One thing that I have noticed retrospectively is that leaving high school created a huge hole in my social circle, almost instantly. I am deeply introverted and tend to get caught up in my work and creative projects. Failing the act of remembering […]
Managing this blog is a one-man team and a task that is slotted in between all other life activities as I have identified in grey time. I find that the best method for me is having notes [I use google keep] open where I draft the paragraphs – it allows me to passively chip away […]
If you have read my blog chronologically you might have seen a trend that I create worksheets for everything. Upon reflection, I think it is my method of feeling in control. Which lends itself well to this blog, in my humble opinion. I have found that writing it out into the physical world helps to […]
There was a moment back in April 2020, in the midst of pandemic lockdowns, when I got a lot of time to reflect on how I was going in life. I soon realised that I wasn’t hitting all my targets, and even worse I had paid no attention to what I really needed either. I […]