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10 of My Simple Life Pleasures

August 18, 2020November 1, 2023by Olivia78 Comments

What is a simple life pleasure you may ask?

it’s life’s simple pleasures – the moments, sensations, and actions that we experience, feel, and do every day, often without taking notice – that can lead to an unequivocal amount of joy.
Mirele Mann – Goodnet.org

They are small parts of your day, that just bring you so much joy. They might be small or irrelevant to others but to you they could make a huge difference in your mood or the outcome of your day. Today I’ll be sharing with you my 7 simple life pleasures, and I want to hear yours too!

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Life

The Value of Doing The Things That Scare You

August 17, 2020November 1, 2023by Olivia46 Comments

If you’re anything like me then I run away from fear and the things that make me scared, and I think thats quite common. Very rarely do I face my fears and push through my comfort zone. Maybe because I am scared I wont be able to do it, or I’ll change my mind at the last minute? Who knows why, but I know there is value in doing the things that scare me. So today I thought we could have a discussion and talk about why its important that we do these things and what we can benefit from it.

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Blogging Tips

6 Ways to Overcome Writers Block

August 14, 2020November 1, 2023by Olivia89 Comments

The most annoying thing that can happen to anybody who writes anything is writers block. We have all been there. Itching to post something new but having zero ideas. It’s the most frustrating thing isn’t it? You can kind of send yourself crazy forcing yourself to get out of it, but sometimes that can actually make it worse. I have some tips that im going to share with you today that will hopefully help in combatting the dreaded writers block!

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Relationships

5 Lessons I’ve Learnt From My Parents

August 13, 2020November 1, 2023by Olivia43 Comments

For me, my parents have played such an instrumental part in my life. They have taught me right from wrong, how to cook, clean, be a kind loving woman, how to have respect. I could go on and on. So I thought I’d share some specific lessons that I feel as though my parents have taught me in my 25 years of life and hopefully they can be lessons you can learn from too. This post is going to be a little more personal than any of my others, so I hope you enjoy learning about my family. If you do want to learn more about me, I have a 15 questions to get to know me better post you can go and have a look at here.

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Guest Posts, Relationships

How to Stop Saying Yes When You Want to Say No

August 12, 2020November 1, 2023by Olivia46 Comments

[Guest Post]

Hi there, my name is Pooja and I have a blog called lifesfinewhine. Olivia and I have collaborated on this post and it has been such a fun experience. We really hope you enjoyed reading our posts as much as we enjoyed creating them for you guys. This was a topic we decided to discuss because we realised that many of us struggle with saying no even when we really don’t want or need to. It’s difficult to say no for many reasons but it is also vital to say no when we have to. Here are my five tips on how to say no and to read Olivia’s five tips head on over to my blog.

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lifestyle, Relationships

Holding a Grudge: How to Let Go of Hurt

August 11, 2020November 1, 2023by Olivia78 Comments

It’s so easy to hold a grudge and it’s so hard to let go of it. I’m still learning on how to do that myself. It’s easy for me to sit here and say “let it go” but I don’t know what it is you’re holding onto. It might be big, it might be small. But all I know is that holding onto hurt only hurts you more. Join me as I go through some tips that help me when I feel like I need to let go of hurt.

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lifestyle, Relationships

4 Ways to Improve Communication in Your Relationships

August 10, 2020November 1, 2023by Olivia53 Comments

We all struggle from time to time with communication in relationships, romantic or not. Communication is a key element to any relationship you have! Without it, what do you have? It’s so easy to say that communication is key in any relationship but not a lot of people are good at it. Sometimes I don’t think many people realise they are bad at it. Which is why I’m here with some tips on how you can improve that communication within your relationships.

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Interior Design, lifestyle

How to Create a Calm Space in Your Home

August 9, 2020November 1, 2023by Olivia52 Comments

If you’re anything like me, my home needs to be calming. I need my living area to be my sanctuary and my peace. If not it has such an impact on my mental health. So I thought I’d share some tips on how you can create a peaceful and calm space in your home.

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lifestyle

Ten Blog Awards in One

August 8, 2020by Olivia79 Comments

Thank you thank you thank you thank you to all that have nominated me for a blog award! I got so many awards this week it was impossible to post them all individually so I decided to do a collective post of them all.

I really appreciate the fact that I got nominated for all of these awards. When I started blogging in 2015 i had really made no connections with people or even tried to. I got low interactions and low traffic because it didn’t even cross my mind i’d need to interact with other bloggers to grow. I’m so thankful and glad to have met so many lovely people. And I love that we get to share our blogging journeys together!

Just for info, it would be impossible to answer all questions in one post, so I’m going to say thank you to those that nominated me and leave links to their blogs instead. I think showing some blogger love back to you all is needed!

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lifestyle, Mental Health

My Top 5 Stress Management Tips

August 7, 2020November 1, 2023by Olivia84 Comments

It’s no secret that 2020 has been a very stress filled year, and people are needing stress management more than ever. This past year has caused us all so much stress. I call it Coronavirus stress. It got me thinking, can stress kill you? So naturally I googled it and apparently it can lead to some pretty shocking effects on the body. We often forget how powerful the mind really is on our bodies. I think Stress management should be one of our top priorities to maintain good mental health. There are tonnes of articles on stress management online but I thought I’d put together some of the tips I use myself to help reduce my coronavirus stress.

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