Life as a Dare

Making Every Moment Count

5 Ways to Make Your Work Environment Stress-Free

Do you find that your office just stresses you out sometimes?

I work from home, so my office is where I spend the majority of my time (when I’m not working from the couch…). And I’ve found that one of the easiest ways to make the work day less stressful is simply to create a more relaxing and calm environment.

Back when I lived with my parents, this was super easy to do. I put curtains all along my one wall, painted the room a beautiful periwinkle colour, and it was exactly how I wanted. In a rental unit, though, it’s another story.

I can’t nail anything up, I can’t paint the walls, I can’t make any permanent changes, or anything that would need to be covered up. Our apartment is adorable and I love it, but it’s painted a weird off-white, a cold off-white, and it just feels really stark.

So I’ve been working the last little bit on making it feel more homey. And I wanted to share my tips with you!  [Read more…]

6 Simple Switches to Improve Creativity

Just want to let you all know that this post on simple switches for creativity is sponsored by Boise paper. All opinions are my own. Thanks, Boise, for helping make it possible for me to do this job that I love so much!

As an author and a blogger, my challenge is always to find simple switches for creativity.

I don’t have a lot of time or the energy to completely uproot my life, go on a 3-month trek through the wilderness to “reset” everything, so I rely on quick fixes instead. It’s less stressful, more efficient, and often extremely effective.

No matter what you’re aiming for in life, creativity is going to help you get there. Finding new ways to study so that you can do better on exams. Thinking of a new way to approach that story so that your article stands out from everyone else’s. Coming up with new ways to convince kids to eat vegetables. Whatever you end up doing, creative thinking will be a real asset.

But we get so caught up in the automatic world that we’re in that we never really seem to think creatively anymore at all. We don’t read or write, we watch Netflix. Instead of going for walks, we play video-games. It can be really easy to get into a rut!  [Read more…]

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