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The Four Pillars of Happiness – Focus on Your Foundation

October 6, 2016

This post explains how to find your happy place even in life’s darkest hours – the action you need to take to get back to your best self. … More The Four Pillars of Happiness – Focus on Your Foundation

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In 2017 I went to Japan to travel and visit a friend who was living in Tokyo. During this trip I took off on the bullet train and backpacked around Honshu island for a week, visiting Kyoto, Kobe, Nara, Himeji and Hiroshima. Although I met a few people that I would eat and drink with in the evenings, I spent most of my daytimes alone. I walked everywhere until my feet were sore, focused on absorbing the sights, sounds, smells and very aura of Japan. This is a country with vast riches to offer the visitor. Things at home had been stressful for a while so this week of solitude and totally self-involved travel was an elixir of calm. There is nothing so sweet as being master of your own movements and decisions from dawn 'til dusk (something to remember during this difficult period of self-isolation). Asia is my favourite continent but I haven't been back since 2017, so thanks to Japan for giving me such a special memory of the joy of solo travel 🇯🇵 #japan #kyoto #asia #travel #travelgram #asian #honshu #instatravel #backpacking #solotravel #memories #traveladdict #japanese

I'm going to use this indoor time to revisit a few stories from my past travelling life. For those that don't know, aged 25 I flew to Southeast Asia and over the next four years travelled extensively in Asia, lived in Australia for a year and in New Zealand for a year. I can remember exactly what I was doing when I took this photo. I'm 28 years old, I've just spent a month travelling alone in India, three weeks on the islands of Sumatra and Java and now I am on Gili Trawangan, a paradise island near Bali (which I will leave tomorrow for it's quieter neighbour as I'm not keen on the 'party' scene). I've just stayed up all night with my Northern Irish friend Damian. After having imbibed some special smoothies we decided the party we were at was too much, so pulled up two chairs over the road and sat like a couple of old grannies all night watching people dance, and dance, and dance. It felt like they had been dancing for forever. The sun was coming up and I was desperate for a sunrise swim so jumped naked into the sea and watched the most beautiful colours slowly creeping up over the horizon. Damian was scared to swim, meaning I was alone in the glassy cool water. This was a moment where I saw the beauty of the earth like a child seeing it for the first time (could be a side effect of the smoothie...) and also felt like the only person in the world getting to see this incredible sunrise. I have rarely felt so connected to this planet, or as free 🌏 #travel #travelgram #traveltale #indonesia #bali #gilitrawangan #asia #backpacking #solotravel #sunrise #ocean #connection

Everything feels confusing right now. I can't see my mother, father or grandad for however long is needed as they are all at risk. I am self employed and probably unemployed as of next week for the foreseeable future. There is no one I know that isn't negatively affected by the lockdown in some way... Yet we surely all agree this is necessary and are doing what we can to support our loved ones and local community ❤ ♡ Four days ago this gorgeous hound came into our life and he has already given us so much joy and a reason to walk outside every day (avoiding people as much as possible) 🐕 ♡ We may be social distancing, but luckily I still get to sit next to a sexy bloke on the sofa every night 😍 ♡ Our spare room is now a makeshift gym and yoga studio; we are privileged to have the space and equipment to do this and stay healthy 🧘‍♀️🏋️‍♂️ ♡ Our local pub has transformed into an off licence and we will do our best to support it over the next couple of months 🍻 ♡ We are mobile and low risk so are able to support our families with picking up anything they need 🍞🥛 Hopefully in the UK we will never take our freedom, our families and our lifestyle for granted ever again. The world will be so full of gratitude when this is over 🌏🥰

I think this good boy is totally up for self-isolating on the sofa... Meet Jerry, a two-year-old ex-racing greyhound who is the newest member of the household. He arrived at lunchtime today and is already totally at home. He loves people and wants cuddles pretty much all the time. He hates the rain and he has a mischievous streak - he keeps hiding my slippers and trying to eat our sheepskin rug. He's literally the best thing ever and I can't wait to get to know him over the next few weeks where I joyfully won't have to leave his side 🐕 #dogsofinstagram #greyhound #rescue #greyhoundtrust #adoptdontshop #goodboy #bff #lazyboy #houndoflove #doglife

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