Ever since we stepped into December, I have been thinking a lot about 2022. I have found myself casting my mind forward, dreaming up new desires and thinking about what I want to create in my life in the coming year. You see, I love to approach December as a month of preparation. Rather than …
Turning Inward During Winter
Winter allows us to feed the flame in our own centres by reading or researching to nourish our dreams and plans for the future. In the depths of winter, we can forget that bare trees will once again be full with foliage, and grass and flowers hidden beneath a blanket of white or a deceptive …
Some of my Favourite Money Saving Tips
After nearly a year and a half of living within a 5-kilometre radius of my home, I’ve had plenty of time to reflect and review my financial situation. If a global pandemic and reduced income don’t make you re-evaluate your finances, I don’t know what will. Over the past 12 months, I’ve realised how unnecessary …
13 ways to Live a Well-Designed Life
One of the most exquisite pleasures in my experience has always been having time at home without a to-do list. To enjoy the sanctuary that comforts me, rejuvenates me and allows me to dream so that when I do step outside into the world I can do, seek and produce, is one of the things …
Simple Ways to Build Your Ideal Lifestyle
The ideal lifestyle is possible. Everyone can live the way they want… and in fact, they do. Because the way you live now, regardless of whether you like it or not, is what you chose to live like. Living your Ideal Lifestyle is about doing what you love, becoming someone you can be proud of, …
Interview with Will Williams – Vedic Meditation Practitioner
Vedic meditation is a methodology that arose in ancient north India around 10,000 years ago. It is the oldest technique still alive in the world today and stems from the incredibly advanced Vedic civilisation that gave birth to so much knowledge and wisdom in India and beyond. I got up-close with Will Williams who is …
Working towards Creating My Ideal Lifestyle, not Retirement
Financial freedom does not always mean saving enough to retire early. For many, it means adjusting their career and their lifestyle, so that they love what they do, and also love their life. It’s important to make a dream list and be as thorough as possible. If you get crystal clear about what you want …
Normalise Slowing Down
There’s so much we’re expected to fit into a day. Do this. Go here. Remember this. Take that. Pick up this. Finish that. And we wonder why, at the end of the year, we catch ourselves saying: “Time is moving too fast”! No, time isn’t moving too fast, we are. When did we collectively start …
Make everyday Magical
This is what life is about and I intentionally try to bring these feelings into my day to day life by focusing on what I can control – simple pleasures that remind me of my own rules for creating everyday magic. When I remember these rules – I am comforted. I am bliss. I am …
The Importance of Slowing down
Some days you just want to crawl under the covers and stay there. One of the biggest revolutions is to just simply to slow down. For the last year and a half, my main focus has been to slow down and just be. Instead of working most of the time, I’ve started spending my time …