In this post I am going to share the secrets of making your trip easy and light. It all starts at home, with packing. Having travelled to many places and having made a lot of mistakes, here are the travel tips based on my lessons learned so your trip can be better 🙂 My travelling…
Author: Annette
Chocolate banana pie with walnuts
This is basically the upscale version of banana bread – easy and quick to make and only requires basic ingridients. It tastes very nice and goes well as a desert for coffee or tea or even as a breakfast in the morning. Total time: 1h 10mins (10 minutes to make the batter and 1h for…
Building Better Relationships: Positive and Negative Attention
There are two types of attention we can give and receive – positive and negative. An example of a positive attention can be encouragement, empathy, active listening, giving advice or buying gifts. We show negative attention by shouting, criticizing, making fun of, judging and so forth. In other words, we project positivity through positive attention…
What does it mean to be really present?
I wrote a lot on how to be more present, but what does it really mean to be present? How do we know when we are actually present? When we are actually, 100 percent alert and intentional about everything we do? Due to a number of significant stressors, it has been several years since I…
Mothers Day for a Millenial Mom
To clarify: I am not the mom of all Millenials, I am a Millenial and a Mom. As the Mothers Day approaching (this Sunday for Canada and US), I realized I have a lot of feelings about it. As the father of George Constanza said in the Scenfield, “I have a lot of problems with…
20 Ways to get ‘an appetite’ for life
I was recently re-watching the Eat. Pray. Love movie and one phrase spoken by Julia Roberts character has caught my attention. Context: she was talking to her editor/best friend about her plans for travelling around the world after 2 failed relationships and her reasoning was that she lost her appetite for life and she feels…
Setting Relationship Standards
I think we hear about relationship standards only after something bad occurs first, like a conflict, previous bad relationship or an ex getting into prison. Meanwhile, having standards for your relationships is not a bad thing and it should not be based on some lesson learned. Ideally, we should all have standards for our relationships…
Getting to Know Yourself: 6 Ways to Find Your Authentic Self
I was reading some information about myself the other day on the app called the Pattern (highly recommend, it is like a mix of psychology and horoscopes but customized for you). One of the things the app said about me based on my horoscope analysis was the fact that I may be not who I…
Resting stop: You’ve done enough
I was scrolling through Instagram posts one day when one post caught my attention. It said: “relax, you have done enough today”. It was so out of sync with other posts and ideas that I surrounded myself with that it made me stop. I love everything about productivity, inspiration, and efficiency. Faster, better, stronger… Every…
How to become more present and feel happier
This is not a drill, I repeat, this is not a drill. It is possible that, doing this one thing you can both become more present and feel happier. The secret is… *drum roll*…when you are doing something, give 100 percent of your focus. Sure, this does not sound new at all. We all knew…
Rise and Lead: Personal and Professional Development 