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    Mindfulness

    10 Effective Strategies to Raise Your Motivation

    If you want to be successful in anything, you have to be motivated. It goes hand-in-hand, like peanut butter and jelly, Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, or Ranch on pizza… hey, don’t judge me. Anyway, no matter how important motivation is to becoming successful in literally anything, it can be really hard to come by at times. That is why I decided to share with you different ways that I raise my motivation! Don’t worry, I know what I am talking about. *insert finger guns or winking face* These are my top 10 most effective strategies to raise your motivation. Let’s go! 10 Effective Ways To Raise Your Motivation Music…

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    Mindfulness

    5 Ways to Make Your Life More Peaceful

    Peace is the result of retraining your mind to process life as it is, rather than as you think it should be. Wayne W. Dyer Why did I want to make a list of 5 ways to make your life more peaceful? Peace can be a hard thing to come by, especially in this time of social media and constant sharing of every part of our lives. How do we find a balance? How do we all work, take care of families, take care of our homes, have a social life, and still find time to take care of not only our physical needs but our mental and emotional needs…

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    Kitchen

    20 Different Ways to Use Parchment Paper

    In case you were wondering why someone would need 20 different ways to use parchment paper, let me tell you a little story… So I happened to show my parents one day that you could use parchment paper to line a baking sheet to cook bacon in the oven. The cooking bacon in the oven wasn’t the weird part for them. It was the parchment paper. My dad kept saying, “I don’t understand how you can put paper in the oven and it doesn’t burn up.” Then my mom chimed in with one of my favorite quotes now… “I just thought parchment paper was for old ladies baking cookies.” This…

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    Garden

    My Experience Planning a Vegetable Garden

    For as long as I can remember, I have always wanted to have a garden. A flower garden, fruits and veggies, it didn’t matter. I just wanted to grow something. And over the years, I grew a few things here and there, but I never really had a “garden”. Vegetable Garden Well my dearest readers, the time has come! I am starting a garden! I can’t even explain how excited I am. Although some people probably think I may be crazy because I’m just giving myself more work. Oh well. Let’s do it! Lets plan a vegetable garden! So I will be writing different posts about this vegetable garden experiment…