When I was in primary school my two best friends were Chuck Lee from Hong Kong and Puja from India. With my Irish parents maybe we three shared a bond of second generation kids that we didn’t understand at the time. We were just three friends navigating the ups and downs of school life at…
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Resolve
When you look at the figures the number of people that make resolutions and don’t keep them is staggering. One thing I learnt a long time about in Boots is that in order to achieve the goal you need to know your motivator.
5 surprising things to get me through LockDown II
Well we are all back here again and I don’t know if its the weather or the fact that its the second time but I feel a lot more fed up about this lockdown. I’ll take any small pleasure where I can get it and I’m trying to stay as positive as I can. A…
7 Days of Summer
I thought that this week I’d be having a quiet week at home getting back into the routine. Getting clothes and lunch boxes ready but now the week is here I’m not ready for it to end.
Remodelling
The shutdown came so suddenly we didn’t have time to prepare really. If we had more notice would it have been like when you go on holiday. We try and get all our affairs in order so you can relax for a while without the real world knocking. But this was all so sudden. The engine…
A fish out of water
For the first time in my life I have no desire to travel. In fact discussions about going on holidays reinforces the feeling that I don’t want to go anywhere.
7 Ways to Survive Social Distance
The biggest challenge is to continue to be as ‘normal’ as possible, while completely changing how you do it. It’s going to be more important than ever to look after our mental health.
Empower Your Little Women
#InternationalWomensDay As a mother raising a daughter you want her to be confident and kind and rising sons you want them to know how to respect women. Today I love to celebrate women. Their achievements, their resilience, the support they can be to each other and their potential. Agree with it or not, like it or not, on the…
Australia Day
Oddly enough I’ve been to Australia but Australia Day has very fond memories for me living in Kuwait. Living in this small Arabic state is defiantly a unique life experience. For start it’s a dry country so going to the pub to meet your friends is never on the menu. The first time I went…
3 simple things to change your year
3 min read – Only about 20% of us actually keep our resolutions. So today we thought about our huge goals and did some simple exercises to set ourselves up for success. We had a inspirational hour of taking time out and thinking about what to do for the year.