The Lockdown Reflection Poem – The Brown Minimalist

Lockdown has given us all some time to take a step back and reflect on how we see ourselves, as well as how we live our lives. This time has been an enlightening experience for many and has led them to relight their creativity and passion for life itself. Today’s blog is guest poem by The Brown Minimalist, all about The Lockdown Reflection. I hope you all enjoy it!

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What do we mean by Success – Blog 16: Your Failures?

Failure is something that we all face at one point or another in our lives and provides us with the opportunity to learn about where we went wrong, to ensure that we improve or learn a particular thing for the future. As we grow older, our concept over what the word “failure” changes, but can we use our failures as a measure of how successful or not we are in life? That’s what we’ll be looking at in today’s “What do we mean by Success?” blog!

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How To Kick Start a Minimalist Lifestyle

Are you interested in finding out how to kick-start a minimalist lifestyle? Do you want to find out how to declutter your house? Do you need to rethink your approach to buying new things, or maybe how you see empty space? Then today’s guest blog, by the amazing “Mind. Beauty. Simplicity“, is the blog for you!

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What do we mean by Success – Blog 15: Your Grit?

Grit is a trait that we commonly use and require in life, but can it be used to determine whether we are successful or not? Today’s blog in the “What do we mean by Success?” series is going to look at what we mean by ‘grit’, the effects that it has on our life and if we can use it as a measure of how successful or not we are in life!

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Is It Your Fantasy Self Talking? — Mind. Beauty. Simplicity

A little below 30 degrees, wind & snow hitting my bare face as I look down the snowy mountain. Gripping my poles, I give myself a push & glide down effortlessly from side to side. I can barely see what’s in front of me. A white dusting is all that is visible. I close my […]

Is It Your Fantasy Self Talking? — Mind. Beauty. Simplicity

What do we mean by Success – Blog 14: Your Resilience?

Resilience is something that we all possess in life, some may be seen as being ‘more resilient’ than others, some conversely my be seen as ‘less resilient’ or maybe ‘not as resilient as somebody else’. So if it exists inside all of us, can we use it as a measure to determine how successful we are? That’s what we’ll be looking in today’s “What do we mean by Success?” blog!

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Sweeney’s Blogs Update – August 2020

Sweeney’s Blogs has gone through a lot of changes over the last few months, and I haven’t really taken the chance to sit down and discuss what has been happening with the page and where I am planning on going with it in the future! There hasn’t been an update post since April 2020, so here is a Sweeney Update for 2020!

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What do we mean by Success – Blog 13: Balance?

Balance is something that so many people strive to meet in their life. To many, balance is like an ideal way of living, the balance between working and relaxing, the middle ground, so to speak. Can the balance that we maintain in our life be equated to our success? That’s what we’ll be looking at in today’s “What do we mean by Success?” blog!

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What do we mean by Success – Blog 12: Goal-Setting?

Setting goals and milestones is a part of life that comes naturally to so many. Goal-setting allows us to plan the different paths and routes that we want to explore in life, so the question rises, can we use them to determine whether or not we are successful? That’s what we’ll be looking at in today’s “What do we mean by Success?” blog!

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Minimising Our Possessions in Lockdown – The Brown Minimalist

Do you ever wonder about how you can reduce the number of possessions you have? Have you got some stuff in a draw that you have wanted to get rid of for a while but just have never got around to clearing it? Well today’s blog, written by the Brown Minimalist, is the blog for you!

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Top Tips For A Good Night’s Sleep — Musings of a Milettennial

For the past couple weeks, I’ve been sleeping much better. I used to toss and turn, sometimes for hours every night, and now I fall asleep within minutes of going to bed. So I thought it was worth taking note of all the things I’ve been doing differently these past two weeks, in case they […]

Top Tips For A Good Night’s Sleep — Musings of a Milettennial

Pause, Reflect, Create — Thee Heart of The Matter

pause /pôz/ verb 1. interrupt action or speech briefly. noun 1. a temporary stop in action or speech. When’s the last time you truly sat with yourself and took a deep breath in? When you allowed your natural body clock to awaken you without the aid of an alarm. When you rolled out of bed […]

Pause, Reflect, Create — Thee Heart of The Matter

What do we mean by Success – Blog 11: Our Social Media?

Social Media has very rapidly become a part of every way that we love our daily lives. For something that we use multiple times a day, can we use it as a measure of how successful we are in life? This is what we are going to be looking at in today’s “What do we mean by Success?” blog!

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Motivation Comes From Within — Pointless Overthinking

Have you ever really wanted to do something but just kept putting it off and off? Do you every wonder where our motivation really comes from? This blog answers those questions and so many more and is a great read that I would recommend to anyone!

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“Wash out this tired notion that the best is yet to come.” – Dave Matthews I had to remind myself this week that motivation comes from within. It certainly does not come from the expensive, fancy bike I ordered and have been waiting for the past 7 weeks. It was supposed to be delivered next […]

Motivation Comes From Within — Pointless Overthinking