My darling kiddos, I’ve been saying this to you forever and nine times out of ten you completely ignore me, but here we go again: make your bed. Please, just go and make your bed right now. It seems like such a simple thing. The kind of thing that makes your brain go lah-lah-lah while …
Habits
I’ve learned that there are daily wellbeing habits that I simply must do if I’m going to stay mentally and physically balanced. Honestly, tweens and teens suck your emotional tank dry faster than they eat through a week’s worth of groceries. I’ve done a lot of work on myself over the past few years. I’m …
Recently I learned about a ‘daily vitamins strategy’ used as a coaching tool. It was mentioned in an episode of the Trained podcast (which, for reasons currently unknown to me, is my new obsession). Essentially, ‘daily vitamins’ are the specific, personal things that an athlete has to individually work on before each training session. One …
Taking good care of yourself when you’re a mum of busy kids can be really tough – it’s even tougher trying to instil good habits in our teens. Luckily, research has discovered 10 healthy habits that help people lose weight and keep it off. These practices aren’t complicated or difficult, but as Gina Cleo shows …
I’m naturally a very untidy person, but I like neat. I learned long ago that in order to get neat, you have to do tidy. In fact, you have to do tidy again and again and again, over and over, every single day until you die. It’s no wonder I find myself cleaning up after …
The temptation to do absolutely nothing on Sundays is strong, I know. So instead of ‘Sunday habits’ you may wish to call these Saturday habits. Or even Monday habits, if you’re prepared to get up nice and early on Mondays, which I am not. For me, they have always been Sunday habits. I have long …