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Procrastination and fear of failure
We all know the struggle with procrastination. You are probably reading this because you want to know how to get rid of it? I will try to help you on it by first explaining what procrastination means and why we do it. Then, I will give you some tips on how to stop procrastination and start taking responsibility of your life and take action. But first, I need to tell you a secret. I procrastinated with finishing this post. For the first time, I felt that I cannot get a post done. Isn’t it ironic that it is exactly the post about procrastination that I ended up procrastinating? Now that…
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Limiting Beliefs
What is the story you believe in? How would you define your past, present and future? Have you ever questioned the way you see yourself and your life? I touched the topic of limiting beliefs in my previous post. Now I want to write more about it because I think becoming aware of limiting beliefs it is one of the most important learnings in life. During my mindfulness journey I have given a lot of thought around this topic and want to share it here with you. First, let me ask you a question. If someone asked you to tell about yourself, what would you say? In what manner would…
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Challenge Yourself – Traveling and Mindfulness
Are you ready to challenge yourself? Here, I give you some effective mindfulness based practices that you can start doing already today! All you need is an open mind and you’re good to go. This time I want to write about how to combine traveling and mindfulness. During this month I have been traveling for work, and I made a commitment with myself not to forget my daily meditation routine even though I was traveling. This was a real challenge as my mind was fully focused on work-related topics. But I gave it a go. So how I did it? Keep reading if you want to know. What is traveling…
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Discovering mindfulness – follow my journey
Hi all, Here it comes. The shift from travel posts to something very different. This is what I’ve wanted to write about for quite some time now, so I intentionally will shift to other topics for a while now. I have been now back in Finland for the whole summer after Portugal, with a lot of changes happening in my life, and I am now ready to share a part of it here. Before going to the actual topic of this post, I share some reasons why I suddenly decided to write about these things, what led me to it and also in general, what is going on. In my…
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Remote working abroad – pros and cons
Hi you! Here it finally comes, the last post related to my Algarve trip. This time I will write from the perspective of remote working abroad. After spending three months working from Portugal, I got to see both the positive and “negative” (I wouldn’t like to use the word negative, because those negatives for me are more like realities to keep in mind) about this kind of a working arrangement. For sure remote or hybrid working is the new normal for many people, but for me this was the first time going that far and staying in another country working. So let’s start! I’ll start with the negatives or let’s…
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Portugal – expectations vs. reality
Hi all! Finally it is time to review our Portugal trip and see, whether my expectations were met or not. Before our trip, I wrote this post about my expectations towards this trip. In case you missed the post, go ahead and read it now! I had visited Portugal once before, and I mainly formed my expectations based on that visit back in 2019. I wrote about the weather, activities and daily life, cost of living, food and finally about the culture, language and people. In this post I will go through all these categories and summarize, how the expectations were actually met. This is a nice review for me…
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What to see in the Algarve? – part 3
Hi all, Long time no post! Again, a lot has happened after my latest post. I posted the second part of my Algarve recommendations already 2 months ago, and I need to say that my initial plan of posting on a bi-weekly basis turned out to be really unrealistic and I just couldn’t do it in the middle of everything else that has been ongoing in my life. Due to the fact that I want to keep my blog as authentic and real as possible as well as wanting to keep this a fun, stress-free hobby for me, I haven’t forced myself for writing at all, which is now the…
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What to see in the Algarve? – part 2
Hi there! As promised, I am back with the second part of my Algarve recommendations. Today I’m going to take you to Loulé, Olhão, Vale do Lobo and Carvoeiro. Hope you enjoy! PS. As I am writing this, there is a thunderstorm outside. We were lucky and had an exceptional January and February, as it was not raining at all and the temperature hit 20-22 celcius degrees for many days, but now in March the weather has completely changed; it is raining a lot and temperatures stay under 20 degrees! Hopefully we can still enjoy some sunny days before heading back to Finland (which by the way is already in…
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What to see in the Algarve? – part 1
Hi there! Weeks have passed by, and I noticed I haven’t written any posts during February. My initial plan was to write on a weekly or even bi-weekly basis, but honestly I have had very busy times at work, staring the laptop screen around 9 hours a day, and as you might guess, I wanted to enjoy the rest of my hours of the day offline and outside, especially now when I am here in Portugal. This month has gone by very fast, much faster than January, but I still feel very grateful to be able to spend one more month in here before heading back to Finland. Before going…
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Algarve after three weeks – how does it actually feel like living here?
Hi there, Three weeks have gone by here in Portugal, but honestly speaking, it already feels that I have been here for way longer. As things have become more and more familiar, this place really feels like home. In this post, I am going to share my honest feelings on how things have gone so far, and what it actually feels like spending winter time in Algarve. First, let me start with some positive stuff. I couldn’t be happier that we chose this apartment among many choices, as there is still nothing to complain and all is working more than fine in our apartment! Quarteira as a location turned out…
