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5 quick breakfast ideas

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5 quick breakfast ideas

Expand your horizons and tuck into these 5 healthy snack options to keep those unhealthy food cravings under control all day long.

  • Nut Butter, Banana, and Chia Seed Toast. A healthy take on the old PBJ.
  • Berry and Yogurt Smoothie. Berries boost your immune system and yoghurt feeds your gut. This one is a winner’s combination.
  • Savory Oatmeal With an Egg. The perfect combination of carbs and protein.
  • Quinoa Fruit Salad. The healthiest grain known to mankind goes superbly with nature’s sweet treats.
  • Avocado Toast With Egg. The perennial millennial favourite is the go to breakfast for so many because it has everything you need: healthy fats, complex carbs and protein.

4 ways to create the illusion of space in your tiny home

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Whilst a small apartment can be frustrating and challenging, it can also be fun to be creative with the space you have.

Here are our 4 tips to create an illusion of space, when it’s severely lacking:

1. Limit your colour palette. Yes bright colours are eye catching, but too many in a small space just makes it look cluttered.

2. Make the most of natural light and keep window fittings to a minimum.

3. Maximise storage space with floor to ceiling shelves and cupboards.

4. Trick the eye with mirrors and create double the space with one pane of glass.

The only pre-sleep skin regime you need

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The only pre-sleep skin regime you need

Recent studies have shown that our skin’s metabolism slows down overnight, so it needs the best helping hand you can give it. Don’t view beauty products as a luxury, instead treat them as an essential to keeping your skin in top condition.

1. Double cleanse. Start with a light cleanser, oils work perfectly to cut through the waxy pigments in makeup. Then use a richer formula and work it into skin to remove every last trace of dirt. Rinse with water.

2. Exfoliate. If you don’t remove the layer of dead skins, how can you expect your expensive skincare products to do their job?

How to get along with your boss

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If you want to get ahead in the office, you need to get the key person on side.

Your boss.

The easiest ways to do this are:

Be reliable. Be on time, be productive and don’t blind side your boss.

  1. Be honest and upfront, trust is essential in every relationship.
  2. Understand your boss’ goals and priorities and strive to help her achieve them.
  3. Look at the bigger picture, not just your sliver of reality and focus on teamwork.
  4. Learn how they prefer to communicate and when the best times to approach them are.

Top tips to write a killer cover letter

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If 2019 is the year you finally land yourself that dream job, then you’ll need a killer cover letter to get your foot in the door.

Here’s our top tips:

  1. Make it personal. Just as your CV should be tailored to every job application, so should every cover letter.
  2. This is a letter after all, at the very least find out the name of the person you should address it to.
  3. Tell the company what you can do for them.

4. Show, don’t tell. Use numbers to demonstrate how much value you will add.

The power of hugging

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Tired of rejection and ‘can we just hug’? Don’t be disheartened. Connecting with another human through the simple act of a hug can have far reaching, longer and more satisfying consequences than any other forms of intimacy.

At a glance:

  • Hugging increases levels of the oxytocin – this hormone is beneficial for stress levels and heart health.
  • A 20 second hug reduces the harmful physical effects of stress.
  • A 10 second hug a day can fight infections, boost your immune system and ease depression.

The best bit? The giver of a hug receives just as much benefit as the receiver

Foods to boost your energy

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In the days, weeks and months (maybe even years) after the arrival of your bouncing bundle of joy, you can find yourself tired to the point of exhaustion.

So rather than reaching for the instant energy high of unhealthy sugary snacks, why not feast on some of these high energy, highly nutritional foods.

  1. Rich in potassium and vitamin B6.
  2. Fatty fish. Full of protein, fatty acids and B vitamins.
  3. Sweet potatoes. The complex carbs are digested at a slower rate, leaving you fuller for longer.
  4. Packed with protein and full of B vitamins.
  5. Dark chocolate. It’s antioxidants provide a world of good to tired bodies.

3 Questions to ask when viewing a property (to buy)

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Before you fall head over heels with the first property you see, you have to gather all the facts:

1. How long has the house been on the market? If it’s over 6 months, question why it’s not sold.

2. Is the property listed or in a conservation area? If yes, this will make doing improvements slightly more tricky, not impossible, just a little challenging.

3. How long have the owners lived there? Why are they moving? Will their reasons become your reasons?

The science of being happy

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We all strive to be happy, but what is happiness?

Happiness is not feeling good all the time, that state of mind is impossible to maintain: what goes up must come down (eventually).

Happiness is not something that can be bought.

Happiness is not a final destination that one should aim for.

Instead, science suggests that happiness is in fact the satisfaction we feel with everyday life, how good we feel on a daily basis.

And happiness, like weight, can fluctuate, but it can also be maintained if you want to take control of it.

Entertaining the kids on a budget

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Keeping small people amused doesn’t have to cost the earth:

1. Play make believe. Kids have the most vivid imaginations, so harness their creativity. Sail the open seas in your back garden or conquer kingdoms in an indoor pillow fort.

2. Go to the library. Encourage your kid to read and feed their imagination with the world of stories they can find there.

3. Make pavement art. Invest in some chalk and let the kids run wild outside, all it takes is a quick rain shower and the slate is wiped clean again.

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