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How to Get Clarity on Your Dreams and Why It's So Important

Earlier this year (better late than never) I finally realised  that living your dream life leads to ultimately living the most exciting life possible ( you can read about my road to that discovery here ). Having dreamed about a better, no, amazing, life, the best life possible for me, for several years I was very clear on what my dreams were. I also had quite a clear idea how to get there and decided that I would do what I could to make them come true. I'm still working on that, taking action every day. Well, most days. Perseverance is the key. But what if you don't have a clear idea about what you want or what your dream life would be like? The good news is that the answer is somewhere deep inside you, all you need to do is dig it out. Here are some ways to do it. Write down your answers to these questions: What makes you feel truly alive? When you're at your happiest, what is it that you're doing? Let's say you won the lottery and had so much money you'd ...
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How to Get The Most Exciting Life Possible

It's been a while since my last post... for most of that time I never thought I'd be writing another post here again. But here I am. A combination of things last spring spurred me into action - feeling particularly low and stuck for several weeks late last winter. 'Is this all my life’s going to be?' started flashing in my head. Panic! Surely not? It simply couldn't be! But what if it was?! Then I had a health scare that could’ve ended badly. Luckily it was good news but I’m actually glad I had the experience because it was the wakeup call I had needed. I had to change my life – superficially everything was alright but it just wasn’t the life I really wanted to live. It was not going to be it! Soon after a book entered my life. The most important ones always seem to know when they are needed. This time it was Hal Elrod's 'The Miracle Morning: The 6 Habits That Will Transform Your Life Before 8AM' . As someone who loves her bed in the mornings I wasn’t ex...

Sod it - I'll just be boring for a while

In my last blog post  I was talking about starting fun winter projects to while away the winter months, all with good intentions of course. Well, I did get my pattern magazines out and I got an idea of the bag that I'd sew for myself, I've even been searching for flats to buy online (haven't viewed any though so difficult to make progress) but new recipes? No, haven't tried a single one. Something went wrong after that. If there'd been a soundtrack playing, it would've come to a sudden end with a terrible record scratch sound. I just got fed up with the feeling that I had to be doing something all the time, something that seemed okay and even fun but somehow wasn't. I think my intention was right but my way of going about it was wrong. I was fighting against to-do lists and even nice things were becoming chores. Then two things happened. One, I was reading a wonderful book called 'The Map' by Boni Lonnsbury . In the book she was talking about t...

Fun winter projects

Winter's my least favourite season, I'm really not a winter person at all. I come from a country where winters are cold and long with lots of snow and I used to find it so depressing at times that it made me cry and feel that I was held a prisoner by the snow and cold and that there was no way out. I think it's quite safe to say that I have seasonal affective disorder but I'm also happy to say that living in London where winters are quite mild has cured me of it. Mostly. I still find that winter makes me want to hibernate a bit, you know that feeling when you just want to curl up under your duvet and never get out of bed till it's March and there's some spring in the air? Doesn't exactly spell exciting so I'm thinking that having some projects to work on during these winter months would be a good way to distract myself from thinking about the dark and cold so much and would give me something fun to do. So I've put my thinking cap on, as you do. Thin...

A hiker on a beach holiday

I'm happy to report that even though it's been quite a hectic week, I also managed to do some exciting things, or things that weren't particularly exciting but will hopefully lead to exciting things. I've joined an outdoor group. I like hiking, during my years living in Scotland I did that quite regularly and even bagged a couple of munros, and I've also been on hiking holidays in Tenerife, Mallorca and the southwest US. Weirdly enough, I haven't done any hiking in England in all my years of living in London. It's time to change that. I found this outdoor group nearby where I live which was organising a meeting for new members and I signed up for it well in advance. Easy peasy, a couple of clicks on my laptop and it was done. But this week, when the event started getting closer, I wasn't that enthusiastic about it anymore. It now actually meant that I needed to leave my warm and cosy home one night and go out in the dark. What? Leave the comfortabl...

Now let's set some exciting goals for 2015!

It's 2015! Dare I admit that I'm not a person who gets very excited about celebrating the end of one year and the start of another? Quite the opposite in fact, it just upsets me that another year is gone again, that time is rolling on, yada yada... With an attitude like this, I hear you thinking, no wonder I'm in the predicament of leading a boring life in the first place. I couldn't agree with you more. In my defence I must say that this year on NYE I was a bit jetlagged having just returned from a holiday in Mexico (!!! see, I can do exciting stuff! More about it in my next post.) two days earlier so I was tired and, gulp, in bed before midnight. The only fireworks I saw were on telly. Image: Happy New Year! by Swallowtail Garden Seeds on Flickr I do find that a calendar year is an excellent unit for setting goals though so that is one thing I like about the start of a new year; setting new goals to achieve in the year ahead. I don't like calling them reso...

'Tis the season to be jolly. No?

Christmas is nearly upon us. How did this happen?!? Just a moment ago it was early November and there weren't very many signs of the festive season out there yet and all of a sudden it's all in full swing. This happens every year, too. I never seem to learn. I'm going away this Christmas, in fact I'm going away in about a week's time so I'll be missing a lot of the lead up to Christmas. Hooray for the holiday but... as much as I'm looking forward to lazing in the sun for two weeks, I'm also a little bit sad for missing out on Christmas at home in London. Christmas under palm trees won't quite be the same as Christmas in ...um... wet and cold London, will it? What I won't miss though is the manic hunt for Christmas presents that seems to have lost all proportion. A few years ago I was dangerously close to stop celebrating Christmas all together because I was finding it very stressful to try to come up with ideas of presents for my love...