Category: Lifestyle
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How to cope with the unknown when trying to conceive
I received an email a couple of weeks ago from Mandy about how to cope with the unknown. Mandy is not an Amanda, just Mandy. I know because I asked, my sister is an Amanda, I had to check. Anyway, Mandy (hi lady!) was asking how I dealt with the years of not knowing when…
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How to be a good wife, daughter, sister, person…
Bet you never thought you’d see a how to be a good wife in a post from me, yeah? Well hold off unsubscribing, I haven’t gone mad… Not much, anyway. Haha. The headline promises to tell you HOW to be a good wife, daughter, sister, person and I’ll do that. It’s a one line post…
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To be happy you have to be investing in yourself
It’s a phrase that has been given a bad wrap, but I will not be swayed, to be happy you HAVE to be investing in yourself. No question. And, it’s something that all too easily gets put aside, pushed to the bottom of the list and disregarded. By women especially. It’s not our fault, they…
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Ways you aren’t telling yourself how it really is
I’m going to hazard a guess and say that right now you are lying to yourself about at least one thing. You just aren’t telling yourself how it really is. Guaranteed there’s at least one thing. I know, because it starts with the small things. Things like shopping when you’re hungry even though you said…
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Suger’s Place: The Dining Room Update
This week I had the opportunity to share my recently finished dining area (ok, so these things are never finished but close enough) over at Nicole’s blog The Builder’s Wife. The new Todd Dining Table from Freedom sat front and centre being all awesome as it does. And I thought I need to let the…
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Working Harder vs. Working Smarter
Let’s talk working harder vs. working smarter and the way I had a tendency to work hard but not smart. Long hours, lots of running around like a headless chook and a massive failure to delegate. You see by sharing my experience as the headless chook poster girl for working hard, I’m hoping I’ll share…
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How to conduct a mid-year goals review
Inspired to do a mid-year goals review by a post I read on getting back on track on Best Kept Self (shared by Pierced Wonderings here) I started taking stock of life as it stands now versus where I had hoped to be. How was I travelling for the mid-point of 2015? Was I on track…
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5 rules for living well
Once on this blog I had a series called “Suger’s Rules” and the best of these was Suger’s Rules for Living*. It was a laugh and a short and sweet post about things I know to be true. Rules for living. It has certainly been a while since I’d shared anything like that, my rules…
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The 5 stages of achieving your goals
CONTENT WARNING: this post contains the phrase “holy shit” more times than was probably necessary. This post, a post about the five stages of achieving your goals started as a tongue in cheek idea before my brother took even one step in the Kokoda Challenge on the Gold Coast. It was going to be the…
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