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How I Gained 4 Thousand Blog Followers In a Year

July 20, 2021July 20, 2021by Olivia54 Comments

When I first started my blog, I never knew that I would ever gain 4 thousand blog followers let alone do it in under a year. If you have been around since Olivia Lucie Blake started in July 2020, you’d have seen how hard I worked and how fast my blog really took off. I came back to blogging with no expectations. And truly, I believe thats how things work out. If you go into something with no expectations you can’t be let down if they are not met.

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Mental Health

Pandemic Self-Care Strategies For Mental Wellbeing

May 13, 2021May 13, 2021by Olivia16 Comments

2020 saw a lot of changes in everyone’s lives. When the Covid19 outbreak occurred, we were all in a state of shock and uncertainty. While the pandemic itself has eased we are still faced with the lasting effects and the uncertainty of when or if restrictions will be implemented again. Now more than ever we need to implement self-care strategies to ensure our mental wellbeing.

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Blogging Tips, lifestyle

How To Stay Productive – Productivity Tips for Bloggers

May 5, 2021January 5, 2022by Olivia30 Comments

Staying productive as a blogger can be a real challenge. Some days the ideas are flowing like a river, other days you’ll feel as if you’re stuck and have no idea what to do. It’s for these days that I’d love to provide you with some tips. Here are my productivity tips for bloggers, all of them I use myself!

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Blogging Tips

How To Be An Authentic Blogger

March 4, 2021March 4, 2021by Olivia62 Comments

Being an authentic blogger in a world full of fake online lives can be difficult. It’s not easy to feel like you can be yourself when we are constantly told that we should be a certain way to be liked. Authenticity can be really hard to come by, especially when it comes to relationships and on social media. Everyone loves to put on this persona online, and its one that I will not get behind. Being an authentic blogger is something I have grown to learn. When I first started back to blogging I found it hard to open up to my readers. I still keep alot of my life private, but choose to share the vulnerable parts of me in hopes that it will help others.

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Life

How to Cope With Online Negativity

February 4, 2021November 1, 2023by Olivia41 Comments

Online negativity is something we will all go through if we find ourselves on the internet for long enough. Naturally, with positive things there are always negatives. We can’t always expect things to be peachy all of the time. There are mean, nasty and negative people out there who want to cause you distress and make you unhappy and thats the reality of life.

Thankfully, I’ve only ever encountered a handful of mean people online. I know this isn’t the experience alot of people have and for that I am thankful.

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Blogging Tips

How Blogging Saved Me

January 28, 2021November 1, 2023by Olivia72 Comments

Blogging saved me, in so many ways. You can probably relate to what I’m about to write as I know alot of other bloggers feel the same. It gave me a sense of purpose and provided me with a life long hobby. It has connected me with new amazing people that I never would have met. It’s given me countless opportunities to spread love and good into this dark world. I am so thankful for that.

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Life

How Social Media is Slowly Destroying Us

January 25, 2021November 1, 2023by Olivia66 Comments

According to statistics, one in three marriages end in divorce due to affairs started on social media. 210 million people are estimated to suffer from internet and social media addictions, and 71% of people sleep with or next to their mobile phone [kinda weird if you think about it!]. Believe me too, these were not the craziest statistics I found when researching this topic.

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Social Media

Who Influences Your Life?

January 10, 2021January 12, 2021by Olivia38 Comments

We have many different influences in life, it could be faith/religion, close circle of friends or the media. Influence comes in many ways, shapes and forms and can be both positive and negative. There are many different things in life that have an influence on who you are and how you choose to behave and think. We also [sometimes without knowing it] have influence on others, our actions and words have influence on almost everyone we come into contact with. Originally I wanted to write this post about social media influencers, but thought lets go a step further and discuss influence as the big picture.

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Blogging Tips

Blogging Mistakes I’ve Made so You Don’t Have to

December 22, 2020January 12, 2021by Olivia192 Comments

When it comes to blogging I have made my fair share of blogging mistakes, but honestly I think we all have. Sometimes I don’t even know if I’d call them mistakes. Because I learnt something from each of them. Let’s rebrand mistakes as ‘lessons learnt’. It sounds alot better.

I’ve posted alot of content this year, and along the way have had many lessons learnt moments. And for todays blog I’ll be going through some of them. I want to do this so that you can learn from the blogging mistakes that I’ve made. And so you can make sure you don’t make the same mistakes I did. Its so easy to fall into bad habits, and it’s easy to make mistakes without even realising.

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Blogging Tips

7 Signs You’re Addicted to Blogging

December 19, 2020November 1, 2023by Olivia101 Comments

We all have things we are addicted to in life. But one thing us bloggers have in common is that we are all probably addicted blogging. Whether we realise it or not. Well, hate to say it folks, you probably are! Don’t worry though, this is a safe space for you to admit it. We’re all here for you! The first step to overcoming it is to admit it!

Blogging addiction is real and very present in alot of bloggers lives. Now there are worse things to be addicted to [obviously] but that doesn’t mean its a good addiction to have. If its interrupting your life and having more of a negative impact on your mood then its time I’d say to re-evaluate what you’re doing.

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