By Michael Emery, Ambledown Financial Services Marketing Executive
As the year begins, everyone starts out with their best intentions and plans for the year ahead. Common New Year’s resolutions would include eating healthily, exercising more, perhaps quitting bad habits, and also starting the year with a healthy savings mindset.
Come February, when many people have almost forgotten…
Taking care of your skin is just as important as eating a well-balanced diet and getting enough sleep.
Treating yourself to a regular facial most certainly benefits your skin in so many ways, promoting noticeable improvements to skin tone, texture and appearance. They also help with improving circulation and collagen productions.
It’s important that we take care…
A study has shown that engaging in moderate or vigorous exercise two to four times more than the recommended guidelines, significantly reduces the risk of early death and cardiovascular disease.
The large-scale study published in the journal Circulation analysed medical records and reports of 100 000 individuals over 30 years and found that people who engaged in…
Holidays and time spent away from your job and even your home with its everyday list of chores can be good for your mental health. This was proven to be true by various studies that highlighted that taking a break from everyday life lowers stress levels, increases motivation and generally is just good for overall…
For many, the new year symbolises a fresh opportunity to set and chase professional and life goals. However, while this is great for self-development, it can sometimes mean that you forget to prioritise self-care while chasing those goals.
Self-care comes in so many different forms. For some, it might mean taking a day off work…
You’ve landed that new job – congratulations!
Emotions are running high and you’re anticipating new obligations, new accomplishments, new demands on your time, new relationships to forge and new stress to manage. That’s a lot of “new” to be dealing with at once, and with all that information and challenges, the first few weeks of a…
Upcycling discarded furniture and giving it a new life is now much more fashionable than purchasing a brand-new characterless flat-pack furniture set.
Repurposing or upcycling old furniture and second-hand finds promises to remain one of the hottest trends for 2023. More and more DIY, crafting, and renovation enthusiasts are discovering the fun of transforming junk-shop…
The end of the Summer season is only a month away, but the heat has been turned up and our beautiful gardens are starting to be seriously affected by it. Because we are getting into the hottest month, we at Granny Mouse Country House & Spa want to make sure that you give your garden…
By Devan Moonsamy
It is never easy to have a discussion with an underperforming staff member. The discussion around performance and productivity can be extremely uncomfortable. If not done correctly it can make an employee feel as if they are being shown the way out. In the harsh economic times we find ourselves in, it is…
By Kerry Rudman from Brain Harmonics
We all have our own ideas and practices on how to live a balanced life, with some being similar and others being completely different! What I've noticed in my practice is that almost all of my clients will achieve balance in certain areas of their life, but never in all.
People…