Daisy Change

 This isn't going to be pretty, but it is going to be authentic.   Firstly, if you have followed me for any length of time, you likely noticed I took away the pretty theme and made my blog  look pretty  amateur , that's because I'm not in love with my blog right now. I needed to strip this blog right back and make it about the writing because that is what is most authentic to me at this point in my life.  See the online world has changed pretty dramatically over the last few years, there is a push to be more professional online  even if all you run is a little hobby blog. I know we were a business' but that's not the case anymore. I intentionally wanted to make the distinction. I now blog out of the goodness of my heart and because its fun, that's it.  I also want my content to be underrated right now because what I have to say in the coming posts definitely isn't for everyone, but if some amazing person finds a nugget in my writing  then th...

Moving on and moving forward,  they are the same thing, right? Well actually no. Once you have chosen to see life as seasonal and started chasing fulfilment rather than happiness, the next step toward success is moving on from moving on. Let me explain. Moving on gives the impression you’ve buried the past and now you're going to build something new on its grave and pretend it never happened. Moving forward is acknowledging the past, for what it is , learning what you can, and then deciding that it doesn’t define you and your still going to move forward with your dreams and in life because nothing can hold you back. You won’t give anything permission to do so. Good on you! You can move on from things and still not be over it, but hiding from your feelings is not going to help you . If you bury half-open wounds then poison will fester beneath your scars. You gotta make sure that you’re not running from your yourself. Trust me it’s exhausting and only leads to making laps around th...

There is so much pain holding the walls up, in a rut. There’s the pain of what could have been or should be.  There's the pain of confusion, not knowing how to get up, or for that matter which way is up.  There’s the pain of feeling like a burden to friends and family, the pain of guilt, the pain of apathy and so on.  In short being in a rut = pain.   Being in a rut is one thing, but feeling stuck in that rut is a whole other level of pain, confusion and generally unpleasant emotions. If you’re reading this and I just described you, then you likely don’t feel awake enough do too much reading today, so I will keep this short and get straight to the point. You may be in a rut but you don’t have to stay there. You may feel stuck, but that doesn’t mean you are.  The fact is rubbish times happen to everyone, we all go through stages where we wish things would move a little bit faster like life is not being fair and the world seems to be against us, this is a normal...

People that chase happiness will never be happy for very long because it's more about the chase than the object in question. Happiness is an emotion, it comes and goes because life is up and down.  Chasing happiness usually leads to unhealthy people with dead dreams and more debt then they know what to do with! I am not suggesting that the desire to be happy or even the pursuit of happiness is wrong . What I am against is, the idea that life is all about happiness, that we should be aiming for it in every area of our lives and if we don't somehow that makes us a failure and if we can't hold on to happiness, well then that is even worse! Happiness is an emotion, it is fleeting, I like to think of it like a butterfly, here one moment, gone the next.   Chasing happiness will never bring fulfilment, it will lead to frustration.  You would be much better of chasing fulfilment. It is possible to be  fulfilled but not happy.  Chasing fulfilment requires work...

Hey hey beautiful, welcome back! Today we are going to put together all of the concepts we have talked about so far and then we get to start off sharing our first bit of encouraging advice to help you get started with this simple temple living the joy way thing we were talking about. Let's get started! Okay, so quick reminder the 4 pillars we built our site on are joy, integrity, vibrancy, and encouragement. We love acronyms and these 4 together create the acronym J.I.V.E We mentioned in our introductory post that this is a nod to old fashioned family values, and all things vintage because we are all about that. Again if you're not that's cool, you can stick around if you want to, as long as we can all be respectful here, or else maybe this blog just isn't for you, in which case thanks for trying us out, and we wish you the very best for the future. Anyway, those of you still here,  let's get back to where we were. So yes, old fashioned family values. Here's the...

Hey awesome reader, thanks for coming back. Today we would like to introduce the pillars we built our foundations on. If you have read are introductions post then you will know we love acronyms around here, and our blogs' pillars are based on this. So to do this, we are now going to look at each word and what it means in the context we use it. Then we will look at a few other little things that tie up what we build our blog on. The Pillar of Joy Our first word is Joy, we did say that this could be an acronym of its own we will get to that in a moment. Joy to us is about chasing fulfillment not happiness. We need it to be our strength when things are not going so well, it is not just a feeling it is a lifestyle. We haven't made it a secret that Christian faith-based elements will be incorporated into this blog from time to time and the concept of joy for us is the faith-based pillar we build on.  Building on the concept of simple temple living we talked about the last post, joy...

This post is so rough it's written on my tablet.  I'm going to keep it short.  Blogging is not what it used to be.  It used to be a very casual but mildly still professional space but alas post pandemic the world has changed.  You need to run a blog as a business these days not like one. Even a hobby blog has to follow certain business etiquette to even get a chance at being read.  Fortunately for my readers, I've no problem with upping my game so that my blog is opporating at the professional standards it should be.  But that's not everyone. Not everyone has the time to learn all the skills to make their blog a success. I really wish people would stop saying that anyone can do this because truthfully we don't live in a equal opportunity world.  I have skills gaps to take my blog to the next level so I'm taking a break from blogging to solve this.  I'm also really not happy with the direction of this blog. Need to rethink and portentionaly rebrand...