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Raising Kids to Have a Voice of Their Own
Times have changed since my youth. Some for the better and others not so much. I woke up recently stuck with the phrase, “children should be seen and not heard”, running through my head. I heard this a few times growing up. We chose a different route when raising our kids. We are raising kids to have a voice of their own while still being respectful. The parenting style that I grew up with, was not the parenting style that I intentionally chose to follow. While I love my parents deeply, I also know the thoughts I struggled with growing up. Ones that I never expressed openly, but ones that…
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How to Create Healthy Habits When You Feel Like a Failure
Life is a challenge and you feel like you’ve failed yourself. Things need to change but you don’t know how to create healthy habits that will finally stick. Do you find yourself saying, “Why should I keep trying when I’ll just fail again?”. I want you to stop and look at how you are feeling when you say this to yourself. How does this make you feel? Why are you beating yourself down? Would you do this to those you love? Feel all of these feelings and remember them. As you practice this first method you will start to be more mindful of how you talk to yourself and how…
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How to Create Custom Routines | Create a Life You Love
Have you spent hours searching Pinterest looking for a routine checklist that you can use to improve your work-life balance? Only to figure out that it won’t work for your schedule. Now what?! All that time wasted, just to discover your life wasn’t exactly the same as everyone else. I have a news flash for you. No one has the same lifestyle, daily schedule, or textbook chaos! Everyone’s life is unique just like yours. All is not lost though, because you can learn how to create custom routines so that you create a life you love. Whether you are looking to reduce the stress in your life, improve your work-life…
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Being a Control Freak Affects Your Work-Life Balance
If you are struggling with finding a work-life balance then you might just be a control freak. Don’t worry though, you aren’t alone and it’s natural for you to want control. The downside is that being a control freak affects your work-life balance. In this article, you’ll discover if you are a control freak, how being one affects your work-life balance, and how to be less of one towards others. I’m going, to be honest with you. I am a control freak and have been for many years. I am also a control freak that is constantly learning to be less controlling of others so I can create a life…
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3 Ways You are Sabotaging Your Happiness
You aren’t happy with your life but don’t know why? Are your days spent with frustration, emotional outbursts, boredom, or overwhelm? Do you want to be happier but just can’t get through a single day without something destroying it. I get it. I’ve been there. I’ve been sucked into that seemingly endless negative cycle. Life isn’t easy but here is the hard truth, you are sabotaging your happiness. Your happiness has a lot to do with not having life goals, not having the right life goals, or maybe how you are managing the progress for your life goals. (that’s a lot to take in, so I’ll explain further down) Life goals…
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5 Ways Hygge Uses Intentional Living
After researching creating an Intentional life and what is Hygge life, I’ve discovered why the Danes are so great at balancing personal and professional life. They use intentional living to enhance their Hygge lifestyle. Here are 5 ways Hygge uses Intentional living. How is this helpful? Well if you are struggling with gaining a semblance of balance in your life between striving to meet your career goals, Hygge might be something to intentionally add to your life. Do you need to go all drastic and be all Hygge, all the time? No. I personally didn’t know about Hygge when I started my simple life journey, but have since discovered that…
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Defining Freedom for Life Goals | Mindsets and Barriers
Many of us have types of freedoms listed on our life goals: financial freedom, time freedom, and lifestyle freedom are just a few common freedoms listed on life goals. I’m guilty of this too. The problem starts with how you are defining freedom for life goals. Is your definition of freedom holding you back? Is your definition of what freedom means to you creating a barrier for you to overcome? In order to achieve your life goals, you will have barriers challenging your success. You may even find yourself in a rut and need to figure out how to overcome those mental barriers. If you find yourself wandering in life…
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Can You Hygge The Office | 30 Days of Hygge Challenge
Can you Hygge the office? It is Day 30 of my 30 days of Hygge challenge and I was tasked to add Hygge to the office. This took me a few days to think through because I don’t have a desk office at my day job. So how could I add Hygge to work when I don’t have a typical desk? To work through this task I started thinking about what is Hygge life. The root of Hygge is building relationships and taking care of yourself by balancing professional and personal life. The Danes have mastered how to bring this balance through Hygge life. I came up with a few…
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Group BBQs are Hygge | 30 Days of Hygge Challenge
BBQs are a staple activity for many Canadian homes. When you look at what is Hygge life gathering with friends is Hygge, and eating outdoors is Hygge. The result? Group BBQs are Hygge. It’s Day 29 of my 30 days of Hygge challenge and we were tasked to have a bonfire with friends. Instead, we had a group BBQ, where we surprised my Mother-in-law. All of the kids and most of the grandchildren traveled from around the country for this surprise family gathering. We could have complicated the weekend with food lists and endless planning. Instead, we simplified it and focused on being able to spend time together. Letting the…
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Crafting together is Hygge | 30 Days of Hygge Challenge
It’s day 28 of my 30 days of Hygge challenge and we were to do a craft together. I don’t do crafts often, mostly because I have to see a use for them after their done. They have to be a functional part of my decor or a useful planning or organization tool. I’ve come to learn through this Hygge journey that crafting together is Hygge, so how could I make this task happen? It was the night before my daughter’s last exam of the school year and she was finishing up her final studies. Disrupting her was not an option, so I opted to delay this task. The next…
