Think of it this way: does your body stop at the skin? No. That’s your physical body. Your mind goes so much further beyond.
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'In case of emergency, put your own mask first before helping others'. We're all too familiar with the over-scripted airline instruction, the ubiquitous mantra of distant travel.
Sometimes interpreted as a much deeper life lesson, you can easily understand how this advice can lend a better you, a you that can help more by just helping yourself first.
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If you don't have time, you make time. Yes, it is that easy. We mistakenly think that time is something you have to get. Like there is a place where you go buy it. But think of how often we say that if we had the time we would do this and that and look at you now, during pandemic and as we're getting out of it. Think about, it, when does this ever happen? That life goes on hold and you have time handed to you without making an effort to make it? Never!
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From small grooming rituals to the pleasure of enjoying water on our skin, to the five minutes of peace and quiet away from a busy household, bathrooms can give it to you all. This expected convenience of modern living offers easy body hygiene maintenance and, if done right, serenity and mood correction to last you throughout the day.
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When we all lived in the hut all things were, apparently, simpler. Rooms were multi-functional, less to clean, less to maintain. There was no need to show off since everyone had a hut and nobody was either on the streets, nor in a palace. Leaders that presumably had bigger huts were not questioned, nor envied since leadership succession was extremely structured and often hereditary.
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Get your detox before the winter with a bit of design therapy. With so little of the summer left, it is high time you do two things: try and enjoy your backyard more if you did not and, plan for its improvement for next year.
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We typically think of school age as learning and all that follows, as something else. That ‘something else’ is the honing of more or less repetitive tasks that make up our lives. And as we increasingly enjoy the pleasure of getting better at them, we tend to spend less and less time acquiring new activities, new hobbies, new usable knowledge….
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A staple activity of the Canadian lifestyle, the escape to the cottage sets the weekend entertainment tone of many Toronto families. 'Modest' and 'cozy' are the typical characteristics associated with the architecture, the interior, and the immediately surrounding landscape.
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Without a doubt, the biggest power humans hold is their minds. In a world where authenticity is what is most valued, a world and a value that mankind created for mankind, in order for that world to successfully exist, it is required that mankind remains atop of the machine, even if only slightly…
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Our homes are structures for both, individual and collective living
IF OUR HOMES WERE JUST ABOUT US, WE WOULD ALL BE LIVING IN A ONE-BEDROOM CONDO. THAT’S ALL ONE NEEDS: A NIGHTTIME SPACE, A DAYTIME SPACE, A PLACE TO PREPARE FOOD, AND A PLACE TO TAKE CARE OF HYGIENE. AND WE WOULD ALL LIVE BY OURSELVES.
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You know that scene in America’s Sweethearts when John Cusack complains about Catherine Zeta-Jones taking her new beau to “their restaurant”? As if by doing that, she’s poisoned all the dinners he had with her there in the past. Have you’ve experienced that? Did you ever wonder why that is?
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Health is a hot topic in any day and age, especially now. As a species, our primary instinct and goal is survival and health helps yield high survival rates. But what is health anyway and what does it do for me?
Here is what health is not: it is not the absence of disease.
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Last year is not a year that we will easily forget. It is however one year of our lives. What did you do? Did you turn it around and make the best of it or crumbled under its weight, pressure and fatality? First and second episodes of the A list will look at the major events of last year as they affected Adriana and how they shaped her lifestyle, personal and professional choices. A positive attitude and adaptability are key to living the best life you can even under the most dire circumstances.
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