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Body Neutrality – a new way?

I can´t even begin to tell you how many times I wrote and deleted this blog post. Or how long it took me to even write the first paragraph. The reason? This picture.     I wanted to write about my dance class, about Tribal Fusion (the limited knowledge I have of it at least), about happy things. But whenever I looked at the picture above, all I could see was my belly. And it isn´t just a bad angle. This is how my belly looks right now, and my kids are…

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Nostalgic makeup – Do you keep it?

This blog post uses affiliate links. Please read disclaimer. Holding on to makeup for nostalgic reasons – I never thought that would be something I´d do. In fact, I would have sworn that I was very strict about what I was keeping in my stash. But when I recently did the seasonal swap, it dawned on me that I was lying to myself. I didn´t really keep makeup I didn´t like, true that.     But I did keep makeup that didn´t work. Why? Because I bought it in the…

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Create before you consume

Podcasts – a few months ago, I barely ever listened to them, but fast forward to now and you will find me listening to them whenever I have a minute to spare. Nothing lifestyle related though: I have fallen for the entrepreneur version!     The ones with the Blogging and You Tube advice, the ones that make you want to sit down and work on your channels immediately, full of ideas and motivation. Of course not all episodes offer something valuable for my current situation, but for each of…

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Anti-aging – More than just a word?

A little over a year ago, Allure Magazine decided to ditch the term anti-aging.     In their September 2017 issue (featuring the gorgeous Helen Mirren on the cover) they stated: „This issue is the long-awaited, utterly necessary celebration of growing into your own skin — wrinkles and all. No one is suggesting giving up retinol. But changing the way we think about aging starts with changing the way we talk about aging. With that in mind, and starting with this issue, we are making a resolution to stop using…

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Why you don´t have to be a morning person to be successful

Just to get things straight: I AM a morning person. With a brief exception, a period of time when I had to be woken at 10 am to attend the family breakfast (I believe it is a crucial part of adolescense we all go through), I have always been an early riser.     I am most productive before noon, I prefer to work out in the mornings and if I get lost in procrastination before 10 am chances are that I am not going to get anything done for the whole…

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Why I think you should still play video games

„Still?“ is the question I get asked most when I mention it. „You still play video games?“ Yes. Yes I do.     I started at the tender age of 11, on my C 64 with 5,25„ floppy disks and classics like „Bubble Bobble“, briefly touched on the whole „Age of Empire“ series in LAN-parties with friends and then discovered the world of MMORPG, namely World of Warcraft. Which just released it´s latest addon, „Battle for Azeroth“, on August 14th. Now my raiding days are behind me, I just can´t keep…

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Working from home – Patience

I always figured I was of the impatient kind. And that nothing in the world could ever change that. As someone that was used to grasping new things quickly, I never really had the patience to sit down and try long and hard. That almost broke my neck in medical school, as some of the topics required me to just do things repeatedly until I had memorized them by heart – a concept that to this day doesn´t agree with me.     That is just the way it is,…

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Time flies – and how to slow it down again

I said in one of my last blog posts (this one) that despite what you heard, times does, indeed, NOT fly. Ah, I can almost hear the shocked gasp in front of the computer screen!     How dare I, right now, at one of the peak points of “Where is the year gone” posts, sit here and state the opposite? The other peak points are shortly after Christmas and on March 1st, just in case you hadn´t noticed before. It seems to be a rite of passage in becoming an…

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Creativity – Revisiting my New Years Goals 2018

Half of the year is gone by now, and while I don´t want to join the chorus of those that express their surprise about how time is flying (it isn´t, at least not always, but I will come to that another time), I do want to take the opportunity to reflect on how far I have come with what I wanted to achieve. And to address upcoming changes, which I, ironically, also did six months ago, in my first blog post after my Christmas break. I promise it is not…

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Life Update: Why I am taking a break – LLL Vlogs 52

When I uploaded this vlog to You Tube, I did of course add tags. I mean, even if this is just a rambly video of me looking pretty worn because it was the end of a long day and I desperately needed to wash my hair, even then I want it to rank in You Tube search. Actually, I have been reading a lot about SEO and ranking and videography lately, but I´ll get to that a little later.     So when I used the tag: „Taking a break“,…

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