We live in an era of disturbance, of interference, of distraction yet our futures will be determined by the amount of attention we pay to the present. Lots of things have changed for me lately, some big moves have been made for sure and I’m looking ahead to the future, but should I be?
So it’s here. My last day of employment and the start of the exciting laptop-living freelance life. But as I sit here alone at 8.30am on my last day in the office, I can’t help to think what I’m leaving behind.
There are so many life clichés – Life is short | Live for today, not for tomorrow | Live every day like it’s your last | Dream like you’ll live forever, live like you’ll die today… But they are cliché for a reason, because they are true.
We all change right? Maybe as a result of something happening in our lives, something negative or positive, something in our control or out of it, but for me, it’s ultimately an age thing.
So last week social media was a flood with images of children’s school reports, news on how well kids had done in their exams, what level they finished the year at, which is all lovely to see, but I’ll be honest, for my two, I mostly skipped all that.
So being an ambitious person, I’ve always been one for pushing harder, for wanting to achieve more, for wanting the bigger and brighter things in life, and going above and beyond, certainly in my working life to get what I know I’m capable of. How age changes things.
Memories. One of my favourite pastimes. Making them, remembering them, laughing and smiling about them. It brings me so much joy to take my mind back to the places I hold close to my heart, to be there again, to remember how I felt at that exact moment in time, to relive it in my […]
Besides being a good parent, spouse, friend etc., if you were selfish for a moment and had one wish, one wish to be whatever you wanted to be in life, what would you say?
Is it really that hard? To find the balance I mean. The balance between work life, kid’s life, house life, your life. There’s no rule book, we know that, I’ve scoured the Amazon Best Sellers list a good few times looking for all the answers of how to juggle life, so maybe coming up with […]
For those of us too close to 40yrs than we’d like to admit, we all remember growing up in the 80’s, something I for one am kinda proud of. Perms, stonewashed jeans, Grotbags, BROS and Walkman’s are all things I’m sure we all remember vividly from that time in our lives, but sitting in my […]
Not having enough time is something I’ve always blamed on having children, between playing housemaid, taxi driver and referee, they tend to suck up every last minute of any potential downtime in the day, whilst I’m trying to make it go slower. We’re all busy in our lives, juggling our commitments and chores, but is […]
We all had that dream growing up right? You know the one, having loads of money, the big house, nice cars in the driveway, multiple holidays across the globe, designer clothes. The one when you had made it, you were finally on the map, you were rich! So how’d that one turn out for you?
It was a cold November Friday night at the pub where I usually worked but a night off meant I could enjoy the atmosphere from the opposite side of the bar, which was quite lucky when I saw this cute guy walk in.
So work has been a little pants of late, no change to the status quo there, and Friday, I decided enough is enough. I do my job, and I do it very well, but could I do more if the shackles came off and the company allowed me to work my magic and make them […]
We all get those times, as parents, when we need a helping hand, when we need someone to tell us what to do, or how to do it, or at least give us a confidence boost and tell us we’re not ballsing the whole thing up and that our kid is not gonna grow up […]
My new year’s resolutions are generally the same every year; stay healthy, save money and learn something new, however this year, there was one more that I had been thinking about for some time.
So breathing is the one thing that we’re not taught to do, it just happens. Like losing a sock in the washing machine, or consuming a whole pack of Jaffa cakes even though you only meant to have one. Breathing is always there, it’s the one thing that we do constantly without giving it a […]