Happy New Year! How are you feeling today? Are you in the mood for setting goals? Or does it all feel a little overwhelming? I firmly believe that, in order to make improvements to life, you often don’t need anything. Instead, it might be better to lose something.  Ultimately, you may need to have less…..in […]

So the way the oxygen mask theory goes is that if you’re in the unfortunate position of being on a plane which is about to nose dive, you should secure YOUR oxygen mask before helping anyone else – including children. If you don’t, you risk not being able to help anyone at all. Because, to […]

Perfectionism has long been thought of as the key to success…. But when someone utters the words “I’m a perfectionist” what I hear is: “I’m struggling with a need to feel that things are perfect and I’m vigilantly pursuing it. But no matter what I achieve, I fail to feel self acceptance. Instead I’m back […]

I don’t tend to focus on the costs of clutter. Instead, I prefer to explore the far reaching benefits of decluttering, organising and simplifying homes and lives. Every so often though, I think it’s useful to look at the downsides, so as to remind myself why I feel so strongly about the concept. There are […]

Fake. Doesn’t drum up particularly positive connotations does it? In fact, fake might make you think: substandard, poor quality, cheap, an insult to the authentic counterpart. However! Not always….. I propose that fake – or faux, as I’ll more politely put it – is having a moment right now. AND, very excitingly, faux products can […]

All of us on this planet have this in common: we all have the same number of hours in a day. Consider exactly how you spent each second of this time over the last 24 hours…. If you thought it could have been your last day on the planet, would you have done anything differently? […]