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Apr232015

Reframing Your Fears and Shaking The Hand of Success

reframing fear

image credit: kikizo.com

No matter what type of success you strive for, you will at some stage have to take action and step out of your comfort zone. You will have to face your fears and just go for it. If you don’t, your dreams will always remain dreams and your success will never materialise.

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Apr172015

The Importance of Balance in Life

balance is the key to happiness

The sun has come out to visit today and it has made me so grateful that I work from home and am in charge of my own schedule. It wasn’t always this way and I did begin my adult working life in a 9 to 5 job where I stayed for ten years. I always had a passion for writing but at that stage I wasn’t aware of the fact that I could get paid to write and the internet was still relatively new. There were no blogs back then. Facebook and Twitter didn’t exist either. I’m pretty sure there was no MySpace or even Bebo when I was out working. Gosh, it makes me feel old now.

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Apr152015

My Experience with The 30 Day Weight Loss Challenge

weight loss challenge

photo credit: blog.yvettesalva.com

Yesterday, I spoke about the journey to smoke freedom that I had been on this past year. I also mentioned the weight gain I had experienced too. Today I want to tell you about one method that I have been using to help me shed the pounds that have crept up. This method isn’t a diet or starvation technique. It’s not a “spend an hour at the gym everyday” method either. This is actually a natural method to weight loss that actually makes a great deal of sense and works.

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Apr142015

Overcoming Obstacles and Reaching Goals

It’s been a year of changes for me. My biggest achievement being the fact that I am now officially a non-smoker. I am absolutely thrilled with this as I have been smoking since I was 15. Now I know that if you have never smoked you probably won’t get why I am so thrilled with this achievement, but for those that know the struggles faced when quitting this dreadful habit, I just wanted to say thanks for all your support and kind words.

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Jul142014

Blogging Should Be Fun

Fun

 

As you probably noticed, my blog has been really lacking posts this year. There is one main reason for this, and that is that blogging stopped being fun.

Since 2004, I have been working as a content writer and for the most part, this involves keeping up to date with Google algorithm changes, learning search engine optimisation, and ensure that the content I write for my clients gets results.  Because of this, I found myself constantly searching for witty titles, ensuring that keywords were incorporated into my posts, and more. Eventually my blog which had been my fun escape became more like a chore.  I didn’t want to spend the time searching for relevant images, adding meta data, coming up with keyword enriches, catchy titles, or researching endlessly for statistics and data.  The purpose of my blog was a creative outlet and I lost that.

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Jul092014

New House, New Office and New Website

Positive Changes

 

It’s been a very busy couple of months for me and my family.  We have moved house and in doing so, I received a fabulous new office.  This is a lovely, large, open plan area upstairs in our new home.  It is an attic conversion room, with plenty of sky lights and amazing views over the countryside.  It really is just perfect for working in.  I have been asking the universe for my ideal home for quite some time now and I always included my own office space to work from.  Well, it looks like my wish has arrived and I am so excited to be able to work in such a tranquil area away from all the noise and busyness of the rest of the house.

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