LIFESTYLE DESIGN

If you’ve read the Start Here page, or About Me, you’ll know my partner and I have been talking about packing up our life in the city. We plan to move to a smaller city or town somewhere in the province, with more green space and less noise pollution. I’ve known for a while that […]

I moved to the city for university. I knew I’d be here for four years, but every time someone asked me if I liked Toronto I would answer, “I love it for this time in my life. But after graduation, I’ll move to the country. I need peace, quiet, and trees.” Then life here just…happened.

This year, like every other, I set goals instead of resolutions. I’m sharing them here for increase accountability, and so that I can look back in a year from now to share what I have or haven’t accomplished. If all goes well, I’ll make this an annual tradition! Buy a house – Go big or

We spend over 50% of our waking lives at work. Did you ever think of that? Do the math for yourself. How many hours do you spend at work each day, and how many more are you awake and not working? Go ahead and calculate it. I’ll wait. I’m typically at work between 8:15a-4:45p. That’s

I’ve never been someone who sets New Year resolutions. Resolutions generally mean committing to some behaviour that you plan to do differently for the entire year. And they’re wildly unsuccessful. I worked at a gym for several years through university and undoubtedly, the gym suddenly became very busy on January 1st with all of us