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Balancing A Social Life With The Working World

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You’ve got two elements to your life: your professional persona and your private and personal life. You need to maintain the both of them, to make sure you’ve living happy and fulfilled at all times… But that can be hard, can’t it? It can be difficult to find a balance between the working world and your ‘normal’ one. It can be hard to see your friends and families as often as you want, simply because a career can be all-consuming by its very nature.

But stepping back a little, to assess the situation and see what needs changing, is the first step to finding the kind of balance you desperately need in your life. And hopefully, this post can help you do just that. 

 

Give Yourself a Limit

If you’re someone who likes to slog away at work, having productive days and making yourself proud when you get home again, make sure that you’re not overdoing it. Make sure you’re not spending all of your energy at work, tiring yourself out for anything else that you want to do when you’re at home again. After all, you’ve got other responsibilities to be keeping up with, and you don’t want them to slide away completely.

So, why not leave work when your shift ends, and make it a rule to never stay later? Why not give yourself a half hour, at least, for doing something else when you get home, before you move onto to finishing that paperwork you brought with you. It’s much easier to find a balance when you can have just a little bit of discipline!

 

Simplify Your Time

If you want to have more of a social life, try to cut out the mundane middleman. For example, you need to get ready to go out with your friends, you need to travel to get there, you need to have the money in hand to pay for food and drink and the entrance, and you might even find someone very attractive to go home with tonight, so you need to get your protection in order. 

Well, to simplify this state of affairs, you need to think ahead. Put your makeup in your handbag, so you can primp on the go. Plan a night out that’s close to home, or even right at home. Pool funds together to make sure everyone has a good time. And why not look into IUD contraception, to make sure you’re always up to date on the protection side? 

 

Don’t Be Hard on Yourself!

Most of all, make sure you’re not blaming yourself for having a less than stellar work/life balance. It’s something we all struggle with, and you never know if someone who seems to have it all together actually does in reality! 

 

Make sure you’re taking it step by step, and making changes where you can. Sometimes you just need to think about things, to come up with some ideas, and make sure you get all of your loved ones involved as well. 

 

X,

Emily

 

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After Graduation Clear Out – Focus On The Future

After Graduation Clear Out - Focus On The Future

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It all happens so fast. You can probably remember the first day you picked up your student card or sat in your first lecture, and you most likely thought that you had ample time ahead of you. Now you’re graduating, or have already graduated. It’s happily and sadly the end of an era. Though there’s nothing for you to do but reflect, move on, and turn over to the next chapter of your life that awaits you, to make your transition from student to whatever your dream (or transition) career is, sometimes we need to organize and even get rid of things from our past that could stop us from moving forward in our future. 

School Work 

You may have oozed your heart and soul out drafting and rewriting countless essays for your sociology/psychology/medical project. With the cloud at your disposal, is it necessary to keep years worth of work in hardcopy? Especially when in some instances, you may not even look at it again. One thing is for sure, if you are moving town or heading off traveling, you can’t carry your physical work with you everywhere. You could leave it to clog up your parent’s garage, but what good will it do there? So why not make digital copies and take the rest to the shredder.

 

Student Stuff 

If you lived in a house share or on campus during your education, you’ve more than likely racked up a few things like furniture, ornaments, books, pictures, and so on. Now’s the time to sift through all of this stuff before you leave and figure out what you really need, if anything, to take with you. You could choose a few sentimental items, but that rusty cabinet that always jams, or your duvet that’s definitely seen better days, are things you could (and should) probably part with. It’s essential not to lug everything along with you, particularly items that hold any negative or guilty feelings.

 

If you’re all on board for living lighter, especially for those backpacking or wanting to start fresh in their new chapter following graduation, you could consider Cheap Bin in Hire to pile up your belongings in one place and have shipped away when your clear out is done and dusted.

 

Break-ups 

If you’re moving back home for a while to find your feet, this could mean moving away from your college or university boyfriend. If you’ve decided to part because of the distance or because the relationship was beginning to fade, it’s something that by all means, you should try to move on from. Who knows, you may meet again in the future and rekindle your romance, but for now, clearing out relationship pictures, gifts, and cards is essential… especially if you broke up on bad terms. ‘Onwards and upwards’ thinking is where it’s at, so that you can live your best life and aspire to a better, brighter future.

 

As with all your chapters in your life this far, the things you own don’t define you, and the relationships you experience are not always meant to be forever. However, it’s crucial every chapter or so you clear out the past, so that it doesn’t hold you back from making moves forward. 

Advice For Planning A Last-Minute Wedding

Advice For Planning A Last-Minute Wedding

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The days where engagements had to last a lifetime are well and truly gone. While many couples still start their wedding planning with years to spare, others choose to leave it until the last minute, giving themselves just a few short months or even weeks. Planning your big day in this way is definitely exciting, but is also stressful (to say the least). The key to success lies in organization and flexibility. With that in mind, here are six tips for planning the perfect last-minute wedding.

 

1. Write Out A Checklist

With so much to do and so little time to get it all done, no one would blame you for forgetting to book, buy, or organize one wedding essential or another. The trouble is that this is your wedding day and anything that you forget to do could cause big problems. Writing a wedding task checklist will help you to keep track of all that you need to do so that nothing is overlooked.

 

2. Narrow The Guest List

Before you can begin booking anything, you need to figure out your guest list. After all, the size of the venue, cake, and many other essentials will be determined by how many people attend your big day. Because you’re planning a last-minute wedding, you should try to keep the guest list short. This will make it much easier for you to find vendors and will cut costs at the same time.

 

3. Choose The Right Day

Most people choose to have their wedding on a Saturday, with Fridays and Thursdays also being very popular choices. For this reason, you’ll find it a lot harder to secure a venue and vendors for these days last minute. Choosing any other day of the week, therefore, would save you a lot of time and hassle. If you can be flexible with the time of the ceremony, that would be a big help too.

 

4. Start With The Essentials

Everyone looks forward to different things at their wedding. Whether it’s the dress or the cake, you must book your essentials first. This gives you a higher chance of getting what you want. If you’re not entirely sure what that is yet, then take a look at the latest wedding trends. Seeing what other people are doing at their weddings might give you some inspiration for yours.

 

5. Ask For A Hand

Planning a wedding is far from easy. It requires lots of thought and work, especially at the last minute, which is a lot of pressure for any one person or couple to take on. Thankfully, there are plenty of people around you who might be willing to lend a hand. You could also hire a wedding planner, or simply delegate certain jobs to your closest friends and family members.

 

Advice For Planning A Last-Minute Wedding

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6. Expect To Make Sacrifices

If you go into wedding preparations expecting to get exactly what you want, you’re almost certain to be disappointed. With years to plan your big day, you might be more likely  to make your vision come to life, but with only just a few months or weeks, there will be one or two things that just aren’t possible. By accepting this before you begin planning, you’ll enjoy your wedding a lot more.

 

Planning a wedding at the last minute definitely isn’t easy, but the advice above should be able to save you some unnecessary stress.

 

X,

Emily

Coping With Sacroiliac Joint Pain

Coping With Sacroiliac Joint Pain

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If you are experiencing sacroiliac joint pain, a professional physiotherapist can assist you. Of course, you should also look into the prospect of pain medication, as well. In today’s post, you’ll find more details to assist you on this exact topic.

Your sacroiliac joints are an essential linkage system between your pelvis and lower spine, which connects your pelvis and tailbones. If you are experiencing issues with your sacroiliac joints, it can be extremely painful, as it can lead to sciatic pain, buttock pain, hip pain, and lower back pain. Resources like Inspire can be ideal in terms of finding the exact assistance that you require.

 

The different types of sacroiliac pain

There are two main types of sacroiliac joint pain: the first is called ‘hypomobility’ and is essentially stiffness, while the second is ‘hybermobility’, which is caused by instability. The latter is more common, because your sacroiliac joints should be a rigid and fairly stiff link disallowing for a lot of movement. If you have too much uncontrolled motion, you can experience excruciating pain due to the fact that your sacroiliac joints can adopt a position that is stressed or abnormal. This can happen for a number of different reasons, ranging from extra mobility to trauma.

 

What should you do if you are experiencing this type of pain?

If you are experiencing any pain or discomfort around this area, you should book an appointment with a professional as soon as possible to ensure that the issue does not worsen, especially because this can be very uncomfortable and painful. When you have an appointment with one of the experienced therapists available today, you can expect them to begin the process with a diagnosis of the issue, which is extremely important, as it helps them to provide you with the fastest, most effective form of treatment. Ultimately, you will be able to get back to your normal self as quickly as possible.

Physiotherapy is the best route to go down if you’re experiencing sacroiliac joint pain, as you can also combine this with the use of medication, which can be more effective for your health, as well; you are not merely relieving pain, you are getting to the root of the problem to rectify the issue. Depending on your diagnosis, a variety of techniques will be used. This ranges from exercises to hand manipulation, to ensure a return to normal functionality and a reduction in pain. An expert will also advise you on the steps to follow from here onwards so you can manage the condition effectively, including postural exercises, strengthening exercises and more.

 

I hope that this guide has given you all of the information that you require when it comes to pain experienced in your sacroiliac joints. Let me know in the comments what works best for you!

X,

Emily

Calmness & The Cause: Learning How To Relax

Calmness & The Cause: Learning How To Relax

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As there’s an abundance of stress in the modern world, it’s far more difficult than ever before to embody a sense of relaxation. When you’re looking for your own specific way to wellness, you have consider if you are living a relaxed life, or if are you simply more likely to be predisposed to stress than the person next to you. Learning how to relax isn’t necessarily a difficult concept to grasp, but to begin on this journey, you must determine how stressed you are in the first place.

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Incredible Canadian Experiences Not to Miss

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When you think of my homeland of Canada, you probably think of lots of ‘typically Canadian’ things. From poutine to ice hockey, maybe you believe that you have a pretty good idea of what Canada is all about, and what you can do here. Even if you’ve been to Canada before, have you really had a true Canadian experience? It’s a massive country, so getting a feel for it isn’t something that you can do in one short trip — in fact, I haven’t truly developed a sense of my own country until I began travelling from province to province in the past couple of years. There’s a lot to see and do, and you don’t want to miss out on some of the most essential Canadian experiences available.

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Make Large Group Travel Work For You

Traveling abroad with a big group of friends can be so much fun. It gives you a chance to ignore the pressures of work for a few days, and to forget all of your worries back home. You can have a great time catching up with your best friends and seeing some of the most exciting destinations that the world has to offer.

Unfortunately though, some people find that traveling in a large group to be much too stressful. People can have varying ideas of what they want to do and where they want to stay, and some find that a lot of arguments can arise as a result… But it doesn’t always have to be like that. There are ways you can make your large group travel work for you. Here are some great tips that can help you do just that:

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Make Sure Everyone Looks Their Best At Your Wedding

Image Source Weddings are my favourite: a big party and the celebration of true love. Does it get any better than that? With my dad and step-mom’s wedding less than a year ago, I’m still reeling from that wedding planning excitement. Whatever else you might have planned for your wedding, you can be sure that you are also going to be concerned with how everyone looks — not least yourself, the bride and groom. Of course this is actually quite hard to get right, and it can take a lot of time and effort to ensure that all the people involved in the wedding are looking their best. There is not much that you can do about the guests of course, but when it comes to the wedding party itself, there is always something that can be done to improve how everyone looks. One huge influence on your outfit plans will be the venue. Are you getting married in a Church, so require traditional attire, or have you enlisted the help of adventure elopement photographers and wedding planners Adventure Instead, so need something a little more terrain and weather appropriate? Whatever the plans for your big day, below we are going to take a look at just some of the things you can do to ensure that all of your wedding party truly do look their best at all times… during what is likely to be the biggest day of your life. But first, if you are in the process of planning the wedding of your dreams, it is so important to find a photographer who can put you at ease and take beautiful photographs to commemorate your big day. Contact Olga Topchii if you’re looking for a photographer NYC – she took photos at one of my friend’s weddings and did such a fantastic job! So, what should everyone be wearing? Read More

The Dos And Don’ts Of Traveling Southeast Asia

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It’s one of the most popular destinations for young travellers and backpackers. The region is made up of so many countries that border one another, making it’s the perfect place to go country hopping (even if you are only there for one week, I’m sure you could fit in a couple of countries). Not only that, but many countries in this area are very cheap, and you will be able to get by on very little indeed.

So, are you tempted to go traveling in Southeast Asia? It is important to get your injections for India if you plan to travel there.

You certainly won’t regret it! However, before you jet off, it’s important that you know a few dos and don’ts. You might experience culture shock while you are there, as the countries are so different from the Western world. Following all of these tips though, should help you enjoy your time there and keep you safe, too.

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