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Mental Decluttering

I believe Lorelai Gilmore - my resident go to guru for anything in life really - said it best when she said:  ‘My Brain is a wild jungle full of scary gibberish’   I can relate! I often end up with a foggy burned out brain because I’m trying to make it do or remember too much at once. Here are a few things I’ve been doing recently to ‘Mentally Declutter’ that I’ve found really helpful.  Colour Coordinated Apps I changed my phone background from a brightly coloured picture of Beaker from The Muppets (sorry Beaker, I love you) to a photo of a rainbow above a loch that I took on a recent trip. It’s much calmer and makes for a great backdrop. I’ve colour coordinated all of the apps on the phone so that all the same or similar colours are grouped together and everything sits on two screens rather than four or five. Colours that don’t match anything else are grouped together in folders. It sounds silly but it makes looking at my phone less distracting and I’m less likely to get...

Morning Brew Review

*This is not a sponsored post, I just really enjoyed the tea and wanted to write about it* I've always been a bit picky when it comes to hot drinks although I've recently discovered that I'm quite into quirky tea! I was doing a bit of shopping on my way to meet a friend on a freezing cold day - to give her a two month late birthday present, I digress - and wandered into T2 .  I'd been in before about year or so before, bought some fruity tea that didn't really float my boat and never really ventured back in, but on this freezing cold day I wandered in and the friendly staff member encouraged me to have a small cuppa while I browsed - I poured myself some Green Rose and began to look around, I knew there were a lot of flavours but I'd never realised just how many! I spotted the explorer flasks and after a chat with another friendly member of staff I decided to go for one - I've since bought a teamaker too and both are amazing. I bought a few flavours to go wi...