We typically associate eating well with long-term gains like weight loss and an increased lifespan – but did you know that a healthy diet provides short-term benefits, too? From boosting your mood to giving you the energy you need to get things done, adding diversity to your menu might just be one of the smartest…
4 ways to stop comparing yourself to others right now!
Teddy Roosevelt was right— comparison truly is the thief of joy. This has LONG been my favourite quote and recite in most interviews. Comparison is the highway to take us straight to misery town, and we need to pump the breaks and do a u-turn if we want to be content. But in a world…
5 tips to balance study, work and life
It feels like you’re juggling a thousand things and you jump from one priority to the other. I do it all the time. It’s a constant dance of dealing with deadlines and responsibilities that can leave you feeling exhausted. Whilst managing 3 businesses, blogging, accounting, a social life, a fitness regime, meditation practice, family contact…
How to deal with Imposter Syndrome
Do you truly believe deserve to be where you are? Feel like your always ‘winging it’? Wonder if you can actually pull off the new project / job / work for a client that you said you could? Same. We all deal with it: feeling of inadequacy, self-doubt and paranoia about others thinking we’re something we’re…
Mindfulness not your thing? Why not try mindLESSness
I’m sure that by now you would’ve heard of mindfulness. But if not, basically it is a technique that draws on Buddhist practices that teaches you how to be in the moment. Since most of us these days are stress heads this technique provided a useful way to escape and de-stress. Mostly it involves a…
10 signs you are terrible at relaxing
For a lot of us Type-A personalities out there we struggle to find our off-switch. Personally, some days I feel like my off-switch has bee totally fried. And whilst we can all appreciate the importance of chilling out, sometimes it’s a little harder to achieve than you would think. Relaxing to us is pretty much…
A letter to my 20 year old self.
Dearest Sal, You feel pretty average about life right now. You’re completing an expensive degree that will turn out to be pretty irrelevant, but know that it’s a rich life experience. Granted, not one that you’d choose to live through again, but it will add a log to your fire of resilience. And shit, will…