This little town in Mexico reminds you of what really matters — We arrived just before sunset, as we’d planned. Hurrying through cobblestone streets, we reached a beautiful square. Children noisily played football, colourful figures on stilts dressed in traditional Mexican clothes hovered overed us and local people relaxed on benches under carefully coiffed trees. My husband and I had only been…

Make your side hustle shine online with these 5 simple steps — If you don’t know what SEO is, it’s time to find out so you can use it to attract a lot more visitors to your online business. SEO stands for Search Engine Optimisation. It’s a collection of tools you can use to help your website rank higher within search engines…

What if slow messaging is the most meaningful? What can you do when the people you love the most in the world live several thousand miles away? You can write to them. Not text them on your phone — you can write a proper letter, on paper. I know, it sounds like a lot of work. I know…

The happiest people I know constantly ask this — It’s funny how the things we avoid the most — like moving our bodies, eating whole foods and finally doing our taxes — can help us the most. We tend to think of work as a burden and vacations as a reward. Our chores and to-do lists are to be…

A simple question can reframe our purpose entirely — Productive. It’s a word that makes a lot of us feel heavy and uneasy. It makes us think about how we’re not making enough of ourselves or achieving any of our goals. It makes us think about the many unkept promises we’ve made to ourselves — to start that Etsy…

Without it, we would be kind of lost — For anyone who hates Mondays, and I know this is a lot of people, this may sound deluded, but hear me out. What if work sometimes brings us more benefits than we think? By ‘work’, I don’t mean the kind of jobs that are enormously stressful and cost people their…

Reframe the way you view even seemingly negative habits — This essay will make you feel better about consuming too much sugar, procrastinating and getting annoyed at people you love — or so I hope. How you feel about all these seemingly troublesome behaviours comes down to one thing. The stories you tell yourself will determine your experience more than…

It’s simpler than you think — As I tried on several items from the clothing store my parents own, I marvelled at how I’d failed to notice the pretty things they sell. It was almost summer. I’d been thinking my wardrobe could use an upgrade and hadn’t considered that my parents might be able to help…

Experience childlike wonder as often as you can — Sometimes we all need to escape. We need a break from our routine; a reminder that there is more to life than work; a glimpse of something out of the ordinary. You can find all of this at Incognito, a very special bar located in Richmond, London (and also in…