- Healing from the past, Hoarding, mindset, minimalism, Self awareness, Self growth, self help, Simplicity, Writing
My Hoarder Past- How Minimalism Changed My Life
Photo by Denys Nevozhai on Unsplash I’ve been a minimalist now for 5 years – perhaps even longer. Looking around my house now and reflecting on life’s current trajectory, it’s hard to believe I was once a hoarder who sat in my gaming chair with no desire or direction. Tell a lie, I did have desire – to buy even more amazing and cool stuff to fill the shelves in the gaming room. My bank account was almost always in minuses, but no matter what I bought there was always more on my wishlist. I was never satisfied, yet I was always certain that one more figurine, one more bag, or one more…
- 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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Starve Your Inner Critic and Claim Back Your Power
Almost everybody has an inner critic, that snide, sniggering, scoffing voice at the back of your head that says you aren’t good enough, pretty enough, smart enough, strong enough, or deserving enough. And let’s face it -with all the ways we have to compare ourselves to everyone around us nowadays, as well as intense marketing designed to reinforce beliefs that you’re lacking in some way unless you buy their product, is it any wonder that those internal insults become ever louder? “I’ll never be able to live like him/her” “My writing’s crap compared to this” “I’m not smart enough to go for the job I want” “I’ll never be disciplined…