Personal Development
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Improve Productivity, Reduce Distractions and Get Shit Done
So you’ve got all these amazing ideas and projects in your head, but every time you try to put pen to paper (or keys to keyboard) you have a complete lack of motivation? Well I’ve got the help you need to build better habits for productivty, reducing distractions and finally getting your shit together.
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Confessions of a Bad Friend
As I’ve grown, I’ve realised at times that I can be a bad friend. I left my friends to go to university, and I left my friends to go on placement, and I left my placement to go back to university and my contact with people at each stage dropped dramatically. Through all these I…
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How To Beat Procrastination
Procrastination is one of those things that just happens. No matter how hard you try, there’s always something you could be doing, but you’re putting it off, even it’s in favour of a different task. For example, I’m totally procrastinating right now by working on my blog. What I should be doing is more revision,…
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How to Beat Your Afternoon Slump
You know how it is as you reach about 2-3pm and start falling into that afternoon slump. You start desperately missing those naps you hated when you were a child. The dreaded afternoon slump always ends up disrupting your workflow, and can make you feel awful whilst being stuck at your desk. So here’s some…
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Falling Out Of Love With Blogging
You may have noticed that I’ve started to become a little inconsistent around here. Both before and after my month hiatus, my blog posts were being uploaded infrequently, Instagram and Youtube went out the window and I started to shrink back into my shell of self doubt and worry. I’m never one to put myself…
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So Little Time
src=”https://www.uptownoracle.com/755/2018/04/So-Little-Time.jpg” alt=”” We’ve all thought it I’m sure. ‘I don’t have time’ is such a common thought and phrase but is it because we truly don’t have time? Or is it because we don’t optimise for the time we do have? Log your time If you want to see how much ‘free time’…
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Sorry, Not Sorry
Apologising too much is often ingrained into our personalities, as much as any other common phrase is. Saying sorry is like a bad habit that you can’t quite seem to shake. I am guilty of this as I apologise a lot… but I’m not actually sorry about it. So why am I saying it? Most…
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Bitch
This year I have decided that I’m not going to hear the word Bitch in a negative way. There’s always been the problem that if a woman isn’t being agreeable, sensitive and quiet that they’re a bitch. We’re shown this in TV, film, books and all over the media. As soon as celebrities speak out about…
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Make Your Weekend Productive
Every weekend is a working weekend when you have a blog. I currently have a full time job, so I’m exhausted when I get home on weekdays. This means that I spend a lot of my weekend downtime working on blog posts, videos and photography. This was a real struggle at first because ‘weekends are…