When times get tough, you have to think back to basics. Are you eating properly? Are you exercising regularly? Are you checking in on yourself regularly (which I define as once a day)? Are you keeping contact with those you love? Are you expressing yourself in some way or another? These are such normal parts …
When you live in a foreign culture, there really is something you learn every day. In the case of Japan, even after 10 years I’m still learning things. I remember, it took me four years to realise that everyone was carrying a handkerchief to wipe their hands in the toilets, and that’s why often (probably …
My mother in law gave me something amazing and simple that I had never even thought was a thing. It was a set of beads like the ones that Buddhist monks use, and she instructed me to keep it in my car. The reason? I guess she knows that sometimes I let out my stress* …
January is too obvious, and December too busy. No, the best time to start something new is November. We have an image in our minds of starting fresh in the new year, new year, new you, so the saying goes, but why not get a head start? I f you’ve already built the habit by …
On Tuesday, I wrote 36 pieces of content for an upcoming promotion. The content is a draft for posts for Instagram, so each one is relatively short, but it still takes some thought and effort. I proved to myself that it was indeed possible to do something like that if you plan it and are …
Today I was lucky enough to wake up to a live streaming of the formal opening of NZ’s 53rd parliament. We basically just watched the MPs come up one at a time, swear their allegiance to the queen, and then sit back down. What was interesting though was that some MPs chose to swear their …
A close friend of mine was having trouble. It seems they were beating themselves up for not being good enough. If you give it a little perspective though, they’re in a tough situation for anybody, so it’s no doubt that they were feeling a bit overwhelmed. In times like that, I said, it’s perfectly fine …
The backburner is just a guise for the resistance. If you’re like me, your to-do list is out the window, and you have a whole lot of half-done jobs sitting waiting to get done. They may come in a number of forms, an essay, a blog post, raw video footage waiting to be edited, this …
Being able to look after yourself both physically and mentally while alone is an important life skill. As we are social creatures who crave company, being alone can really make you feel lonely. But it’s important to know that being alone and feeling lonely are two different things.
In situations where it feels as if the world is against you, you’ve been let down, you’ve been outcast, others succeed at your expense, in these situations you have to remember that you have a choice in how you react. Do you lash out and be aggressive against those who have done you harm? Do …
