Love? Life? Joy!
So we are heading right to the middle of Spring and the exam/deadline season is about to start (if some have not started already!) So you have got your notes ready… and your summer bucket list of things to do… but have you prepared your MIND? Yes your mind. For a lot of you these exams/deadlines are a final hurdle,... Read the rest of this post...
Categories: Careers Patricia Obaro Odje Wise up!
This week, the face of the United Kingdom is going to change. Yes, that’s right – it’s election time. On Thursday, 7th May, we are going to be voting in the General Election. This is a big deal, people. Now, I’ll be the first to admit that this general election campaign has been both uninspiring and downright confusing. I, as... Read the rest of this post...
Categories: Fire me up baby! Wise up!
Sitting in a pretty teashop in Camden on a rainy Sunday morning sounds like a lot of people’s idea of a cosy way to spend part of your weekend. And on this particular occasion, it was made even more delightful with the company of Pavan Amara (or Pav for short), founder of the My Body Back Project. My Body Back... Read the rest of this post...
Categories: EXCLUSIVE: Interview From the Heart Mirror Mirror: Self Improvement
I have the best job in the world. So I’m told by everyone I meet and so I tell everyone I meet. I mean, I get paid to travel the world and write about it. My time is my own, I can write to my heart’s content, or not, whenever or wherever I choose. I have the flexibility to get on... Read the rest of this post...
Categories: Adventureland Careers Lauren Williams
It’s time to be honest, every now and then I compare myself to others. Sometimes it’s other writers who are more successful than me, and other times it’s people who I don’t even know, but it seems like they’re living extraordinary lives. One things for certain, at the end of the thought train, my feelings about myself hit rock bottom. Ever... Read the rest of this post...
Categories: From the Heart Mirror Mirror: Self Improvement
When I was in 6th Form, Miss Cook told her class that she didn’t have a telly. You can imagine the horrified gasps of fifteen Fresh Prince-obsessed girls echoing around the classroom. But this had given one of my schoolmates, Sarah, an idea – as a self-confessed telly addict, she would attempt to give up her favourite shows for two... Read the rest of this post...
Categories: Mirror Mirror: Self Improvement
Since it’s the New Year, I’m sure many of you have made resolutions and, for some, one of those might be to write your first novel. Last year, after getting rejected by numerous publishers, I decided to self publish my first book: Beyond The Luna. It did extremely well for a debut novel – hitting the best seller list on iTunes and... Read the rest of this post...
Categories: Wise up!
At the weekend, my sisters and I took my brother out clubbing. He’s just turned 18 and wasn’t sure what to expect. Being the youngest and only boy in our household, he’s been mollycoddled a lot by my mum. She kept nagging him to eat before we went out and told him not to drink anything. She seems to have... Read the rest of this post...
Categories: a little piece of joy Mirror Mirror: Self Improvement Poppy Gillian Wise up!
Birthdays are funny things, aren’t they? We spend the first 21 years of our lives looking forward to it, and then each year after that less and less so. On my fourteenth birthday I got a guinea pig. On my recent twenty-fourth birthday I spent the day discussing sexual health with teenagers in college (I shouted out the word ‘masturbation’... Read the rest of this post...
Categories: Mirror Mirror: Self Improvement Poppy Gillian Wise up!
It’s been a tough couple of weeks – I’m incredibly homesick (something my nomadic mindset found very hard to deal with!), the weather has been so vile and I work so many hours that my nature-loving, mountain-climbing self has been bound by four walls for what seems like eternity. There have been tears, lots of tears, and there has been a significant... Read the rest of this post...
Categories: From the Heart Lauren Williams