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thoughts from me to you

Why parental time is stressful (and how to deal with anger)

When was the last time you heard someone shout?  When was the last time someone shouted at you? I ask these questions because, as with most of the stuff I write on here, I didn't just pluck it out of my backside, I found myself asking it of myself. Turns out, I last...

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Ten questions to ask yourself to prepare for change

As I'm currently debating a few life changes coming up, I've started asking myself a few important questions. Some of these seem quite straight-forward but they do make you think about what's really important and the why behind the change you're considering. As with...

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Making a stand (even when it means losing business)

This week I learned a valuable lesson, which I thought I'd learned quite some time ago - the art of saying no. I think the universe sometimes decides I need to learn a lesson, then conspires to throw everything at me at once so I DEFINITELY learn it. Here's what...

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Why I rewrote the website & being true to yourself

Oh Hello! How's tricks? I started writing a post this morning but just deleted about 300 words and decided to write this instead. The reason? I was falling in to the same trap I've been falling in and out of all year. I was writing about what I wanted to write about,...

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How to hustle in a job you hate

Now, you may think I'm writing this out of some need to get off my chest that I hate my job. I actually don't at this point. I actually quite like my job. As far as jobs go, it challenges me, gets me in to an environment where I meet cool people and gets me out of bed...

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What to do when you don’t have a holiday coming up

This may seem like an odd thing to be writing about given I've just spent a wonderful week in Italy, but since I now don't have anything planned until my trip to India in October, I am starting to get cabin fever already. The problem with having a 'secure' job is that...

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