ROMANCING THE EVERY DAY
In striving to live a fabulous life, have I actually been missing the remarkability of the every day in front of me? Dismissing each day in favour of the future.I realise that wrapped in my striving is a part of me that is rejecting ordinariness. As though if I capitulate to it, then I am losing myself. Giving up on my dreams. Accepting mediocrity. Settling.
POPULAR POSTS: AN OPEN LETTER TO MOTHERS
Mothers everywhere, please let it be known – I’m in awe of you. Do tell me, how do you do it? I’ve been working full time this week and my niece is over from Perth with my parents – and I wonder to myself, how the feck does any woman do this motherhood malarkey?
POPULAR POSTS: BECAUSE SOMETIMES I’M TOO NICE
Too many women end up exhausted and depleted, because they are spreading themselves too thin. Spreading themselves too thin helping people who should be helping themselves. Spreading themselves too thin by being too nice to everyone. Spreading themselves too thin by saying yes too often.
OFFICE POLITICS AND OTHER REASONS TO QUIT YOUR JOB
Here are 5 reasons you should quit your job and hit Seek quicker than Kim Kardashian leaving a marriage … including when you’re bored beyond belief and the people around you make you want to call OOO to perform emergency CPR on your soul.
POPULAR POSTS: HOW TO OVERCOME POWER TRIPPERS IN THE WORKPLACE
We’ve all worked with people who get an erection whilst wielding their over inflated sense of self importance over others, just because they have a title. Otherwise referred to as a wanker …
GUEST POST: THE PERFECTION OF ORDINARINESS
Laura Valerie writes … “Nothing is so commonplace as the wish to be remarkable”. It’s an oft-quoted line, and I am sure I have heard it before. Yet, this time, it hit me like a ton of bricks. I realised exactly where I had been going wrong: I was trying, with all my might, to be remarkable. When the truth is that I am ordinary. And that is not a depressing revelation. In fact, it is liberating. Let me explain.
IT’S ALL ABOUT ME – AND WHY SHOULDN’T IT BE?
Womankind has come a long way in the self-care movement. We know that giving is a great joy, but unless we take care of ourselves, then we can’t possibly take care of others. However, when we do carve out time for ourselves, do we really enjoy it, or we are still hijacked by a hefty side serving of guilt and lashings of oh-my-god-shouldn’t-I-be-flying-to-a-third-world-country-and-devoting-my-time-to-feeding-the-poor?
WHY GOOD MANNERS NEVER GO OUT OF STYLE
Coco Chanel said fashion fades but style is eternal, and I think it’s safe to say that she would have considered manners the height of style. Not the pretend kind of style that uses social status or designer labels to project a certain image, but the real kind that emanates from within and radiates beauty, [...]
GO ON ADMIT IT, DO YOU HAVE AN INNER NANNA?
Glamour has always been my religion. I am known for never leaving home without gloss, wearing heels just to do the grocery shopping, blow drying my hair to within an inch of its life, finding any occasion I can to don a set of false eyelashes and forgoing cooking in favour of the David Jones [...]
TIPS FOR WRITING KICK ASS RESUMES THAT WILL HAVE EMPLOYERS AT HELLO
Soon after, I scaled the dizzying heights of the recruitment ladder, becoming a bona fide recruitment consultant, ingesting coffee into my veins like a heroin addict, inhaling my lunch behind a computer screen so I could work through my “break” and eating more blueberry danishes from the downstairs cafe that I care to remember. After leaving the industry vowing never to return, I eventually dipped my toe back in the shark infested recruitment waters setting up shop as a resume writer for a number of years. So, yes, like I said. Bona fide.
FINDING THE COURAGE TO TAKE A LEAP OF FAITH
We’ve all stared down the barrel of making a decision that requires us to take a leap of faith. A decision that requires us to trust what we feel inside versus practical evidence. Because when it comes to taking a risk for what matters the most to us, it means we have to be strong [...]
THE NEW “C WORD” – COMPARISON
When many women look in the mirror, far from fairest of them all, they see too much of this and not enough of that, and lo and behold, if that isn’t enough, they start putting themselves down in comparison to others. Nasty and to be avoided at all costs – just like someone mouthing the [...]
EASTER EXCESS? MAKE MODERATION YOUR MANTRA FOR MAY
If it’s annoying me or preventing me from approaching my days with ease, then it’s being scrutinised like a princess about to walk down the aisle and thrown out like a guest wearing white at a royal wedding.
WHAT ARE YOUR TEN COMMANDMENTS?
i) Thou can’t live without a weekly blowdry at the hairdressers. Or manicure. Or pedicure. Nor should one feel guilty about indulging in such activities. Yes, never underestimate the power of good hair to one’s psyche.
LIVING SAVVY COACHING UPDATE: MONDAY BITES
As regular readers will be aware, the fabulous Jo Bassett from Living Savvy is currently coaching me to help me maintain my mojo in 2011 whilst I work towards my dreams of becoming a published author and fulfill other long held dreams for myself.
