Dodo Diary May 2015: Self-improvement challenge, Month #3
Well, I’m still trying. But the third month of my Dodo to Dynamite in a Year self-improvement challenge has been somewhat fraught, to say the very least....
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Quote: Incy Wincy Spider
As children, we learned this little rhyme: Incy Wincy Spider climbed up the water spout Down came...
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Hoarding or treasuring? 10 great excuses to have a clear-out today
Are you a collector – or a borderline hoarder?
When you look around your home, do you come up with 100 excuses why you should keep all your junk? Or can you say, hand on heart, that everything there is something you really need to own? And that everything you don’t actually need is something you love, that brings you pleasure every time you see it?
I thought not – nor can I!
Let’s be honest – we’ve all got far too much stuff. And a lot of it is a total waste of space, money and energy. So instead of excuses to keep everything, let’s find some excuses to clear out the clutter and make space to enjoy the possessions we genuinely treasure.
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Quote: Down to a sunless sea
Do you have a dream? Samuel Taylor Coleridge did. He woke from an opium dream with the poem Xanadu fully-formed in his mind. He sat down immediately and started to...
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Living in shades of grey: 20 ways to stop being so bloody boring
Do you have a colourful, exciting personality? Or are you a grey, boring person no one wants to talk to?
All around you, people are talking animatedly, but you can never think of anything to say. Or you’re talking, but people are edging away, looking at their watches. Or you start talking but realise no one’s paying any attention. So you trail off into silence, wondering where you went wrong.
Here are 20 ways to be the person everyone wants to talk to.
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