The hardest and best lesson I’ve learned in my life is that time is consistent. There are days when you’re doing something that drags. For someone like me who cannot and will never be able to tolerate boredom, it’s hell. Earlier in life it feels like those days will never end. Over time you learn […]
Author: Vanessa Smith
Randoms 23
If you don’t still play with the colander when you do the dishes, I’m not sure we can be friends. Randoms 23 I’ve decided I’m a renovations expert. You can read why: “Hmmm. Knock out that wall and paint the room white”. BOOM. Reno AND design expert. (Anyone else find those shows […]
The Moisturiser I Found That Made My Week
This week has been HARD. I was physically in my day job office on Wednesday, and after I had physio I came down with a headache. It got worse rapidly. Thumping so violently. I walked past a glass-door fridge when I was in the kitchen getting water and the lights inside felt like they […]
Blogging And Being Weirdly Heartbroken
I really wish people didn’t stop blogging. I was updating some old blog posts and clicked on the links in my comments… only to find most of the sites were gone. Domains bought up (I assume by opportunists) and being sat on by random websites. And it makes me weirdly heartbroken. Blogging And Being […]
Don’t Make Decisions In Hard Times
Don’t Make Decisions In Hard Times You’ve probably heard that advice. It has always sounded like quite reasonable advice to me. But how on earth do you apply it in 2020? This is an impossible year to plan you’re way out of. I certainly hope to have my job until the end of […]
Don’t Ask Me To Dilute Myself
Don’t Ask Me To Dilute Myself Marketers: Doing lots of things will dilute your message!!! Me: Yes, but asking me to only do one thing dilutes me. Decide if you value your own style of happiness, or what a textbook deems correct.
Losing (And Finding) My “Inspiration”
Generally speaking, I enjoy working from home. I’ve had a long commute for about a decade, so gaining at least 12 hours per week back into my life is actually life changing. I didn’t feel like there were too many negatives to staying home for months. And overall, the positives win out. But there was […]
Randoms 22
When people do an AMA (ask me anything) my first reaction is to ask “IS the only way up” … from that song lyric. The thing is, I don’t even really know the song very well. But it’s always what I want to ask. I wish I knew why. But also it’d probably tell me […]
Imperfect Writer
I wanted to share a brief story of how I am a (very) imperfect writer. But also – perfection doesn’t exist. What I deem perfect isn’t what you might deem perfect. Imperfect Writer Having said that, there are generally some accepted standards that we apply to tasks. My Imperfection My […]
Using Structure To Get Started
If writing is something you do on top of a job and the rest of your life, then it’s probably fair to say that you have limited time for it. Which is ok, and very real. Not everyone can do what they want at every moment of their life. What it does mean is that […]