- Consumerism, Decluttering, Mindfulness, mindset, minimalism, Self awareness, Self growth, self help, Simplicity, The environment
Hooray It’s World Book Day – 12 Books Which Have Changed My Life
It’s World Book Day so grab a cuppa, curl up in your favourite chair and lose yourself in a great book. Even if it’s ‘just for five minutes’, I implore you, sit down with a good book and realise that a whole hour has flown by. I’ve always loved my books. I was that kid at school who loved being ‘punished’ by being forced to pull out my reading book in silence, and was annoyed when I had to put it away. Oh, and don’t even think about interrupting me in the middle of a sentence… As a child I absolutely loved horror books, especially the Goosebumps series. Now I’m…
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When Others Don’t Get It – How to Live The Life You Were Meant to Live
When you live a counter cultural lifestyle people will have something to say, usually by those closest to you. As I’ve become more and more minimalist, one of the silliest comments said to me is ‘’you won’t be happy until you’re living in a cave and shitting in a hole in the ground’. Pretty extreme, right? But, so what if that WAS the way I’d be happy? (I wouldn’t be, but still…what if?) I also recently left Whatsapp and Facebook and some of the comments were ones of downright panic and exasperation. “But how will you keep in contact with people? It’s kind of stupid in this climate!” But I…