Apps
Here is a helping hand for your Christmas budgeting. This App will help keep you in check. You will be able to track gift ideas as you receive them by quickly entering them in the app. Set a gift budget for each person and mark the gift as purchased as you...
To Make
For gifts this season, get creative with your own handy work. Here some ideas. Don’t get carried away, too many ideas can bog you down, cost a lot, and you may run the risk of not finishing anything. Rather keep it simple, choose one idea, practice making...
Outdoor
Pack up your picnic basket head out into nature, soak up the sun and celebrate. Get the kids to bring along their games as well and have fun as you all join in the two legged races, skipping competitions, ball juggling and and and .. Now you are really...
Remember – care for your body
Drink lots of water. Take smaller portions. Take time to reflect on what the ‘silly season’ means to you. A good part of any celebration is eating great food. But you do not want to become a pudding yourself, here are a few tips to help: Have a really big...
From the shopping mall to your heart
Exit shopping malls, enter your heart - make gifts, wrap them beautifully, add a special message. That’s why they call it the ‘silly season’ - with the mad Christmas shopping rush, office parties and over-crowded parking areas. Yes, it’s full of buzz, but...
Celebrate together – go for a picnic
Laugh, play games, be silly, celebrate yourself, family, friends, even invite people you hardly know. Never-mind those traditional Christmas cards with picturesque images of fireplaces and snow - it’s summer here in the Southern hemisphere. Why not truly...
NO Brand is your friend
Smart people can do dumb things with money - rather ‘show up’ - don’t buy love. Over the following weeks television and social media will be bombarding you daily with ‘spend’ messages - all in the name of goodwill and celebration. This year why not rather...
Is this a lonely time for you?
Draw on your courage, reach out, connect with the many other lonely people who are in need of your kindness. Often in lonely times we need to offer to others what we most want ourselves – someone to connect with who can give us attention. How about finding...
Tech
This special ‘Notice and Ease Tool’ helps take the intensity out of stress responses. The simple steps of the ‘Notice and Ease Tool’ will guide you. It will teach you how to take the intensity out of negative emotions, ease them, and experience more good feelings such...
Get outdoors
Get outdoors - visit a farmers market this weekend - tasty food, space for the kids to run. Farmers markets usually have a fun–filled, almost festive atmosphere, so they are great places for family outings, and even to meet friends. Many kids do not know much about...
Video
Although a humorous video about stress, it does not pull any punches. Sadhguru has a lovely light-hearted touch, but the message is serious and very helpful. It is within our power to manage ourselves by stopping, reflecting, making new choices, and deciding on a life...
Stress gets to us all
We cannot control what comes at us - we can manage our response. The funny thing is that you may often feel that you are getting a rough deal from the world, which, of course may be true. Rather than fighting back at the world, being in control is expressed in how you...
