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  • LIVE ON THE BLOG NOW. ☕️ . 👉🏻 3 things I wish I knew entering my first job. 👈🏻 . This is a letter to my younger sister, as much as it is to my younger self, and to all those entering the working industry. ✍🏻 It turns out there's a difference between earning respect and being respected; an internship and a job; being accepted and being embraced. Consider this a chance to learn from my lessons. 👌🏼 Link in my bio now! . . Wearing @frenchfreddie, a gorgeous NZ-based label that brings to my work attire a much-needed sense of distinction and timely elegance. 🌸
  • M O T I V A T I O N 🌿🏃‍♀️ . . Where the hell does one find it? Myself, I source motivation from a range of avenues: I find it in the people around me and their successes. I find it in my own successes too. 🕊 To me, success is not satisfying nor rewarding for it means I’ve won. Not because it means I’ve surpassed my neighbour — after all, no two people are ever in the same place or position. The idea that we’re competing alongside one another is in itself null. Success is satisfying to me because it means I’m motivated. 🙏🏻 I’m ready to run confidently up the next mountain. To defend myself fearlessly when faced with the next wind. 👌🏼 If you ask me, it is okay to be driven by your own success. So long as you are driven by your own failures too. I keep pushing myself to get back into my long-distance running and I tell you, it ain’t coming all that easy. What is it that keeps me going? I’m driven by my own success. The idea that at some place and in some time not so long ago, a half marathon came easy to me. I am reminded that my feet haven’t always felt so heavy; that my ankles have in time felt far stronger. 🙏🏻 I know I’m capable for I’ve done it before. But I also know I’m capable for every time I manage a mere 3km, I wake up again the next day and I try again. I listen to podcasts like Running for Real and Run to the Top, because the more I know, the closer I am. I am motivated by my own journey, my own efforts and my own perseverance. Let’s give back to ourselves this Wednesday. Instead of focusing on how others motivate us, I want to know: how do you motivate yourself? Do you remind yourself how far you’ve come? Of where you could be? Or how proud you’ll be when you make it?! 👇🏻👇🏻
  • “I think I might do a little ‘make-your-own’”, I say, as if I don’t know exactly the three sides I’m about to order each and every time. ☺️ When it comes to what I like, it’s fair to say I’m pretty habitual. 🙏🏻 When it comes to the way I live, however, I’m constantly changing it up. Whether these changes are small or significant, I thrive off making positive change in my life. With change, however, can come sacrifice. And that’s what I’ve struggled with a bit lately. When you move in a different direction than the people who once surrounded you, you can easily lose touch with these relationships. With what old friends are doing and with where they’re at. Much as you can try to avoid the inevitable, distance drives distance. And not everyone will recognise their own hands on the wheel. 🌸 It’s been an up-and-down learning curve: to accept that whenever we make one decision, we’re denying ourselves of all that its counterpart may have offered. 🙌🏻 That’s life though. It’s not regret. From opportunity, there will always be sacrifice. When we jump, we will always leave people behind us at the platform. For our own reasons, we might find ourselves jumping sooner or later than the rest. And that’s okay. It is true when they say that we’re all on our own journey here. 🌻 And what comforts me when I have doubt, is the thought that this path will lead me — like yours will you — to what defines real happiness and satisfaction for him/her. This definition will not be not inspired by words of anyone else, but by those you have said. By the actions you have taken. 🌿 From me to you, it’s okay to feel a little bit guttered; to experience a sense of longing every now and then, for what constitutes another path.. when we choose to drive the length of its neighbour. 🕊 We’re human: we debate with ourselves the riddle of what if everyday. But today, I want us to ask ourselves something else instead. Who but? Who but you to travel the path you’re on? 🍃 Who but you?
  • D A T E 🍸 N I G H T. I like to think of myself as a pretty non-demanding girlfriend but I’ve come to the conclusion I may be slightly deluded. ☺️ I have pretty high standards, particularly when it comes to date night. If @a_jaxcreative’ eyes flicker slightly in another direction; that is, if he shows even the slightest bit distraction from the VERY interesting [potentially groundbreaking] words I’m saying, that’s it. 🙅🏽‍♀️ You either treat my words like I am Martin Luther King Jr’s junior, or they shan’t be spoken at all. 🤣 Is anyone else the same with their partner?! . . Okay, so maybe I’m a bit harsh — but I love and truly value this quality time that arises for us only ever so often. 🙌🏻 Just recently, we took date night to Camberwell; to the sweetest little destination that is @enterneighbour. 🍴 It almost felt like home, and yet, was combined with all the best elements of being far, far away. We were exempt from time and from worries. Here life was perfectly slow. 🍃 We spoke for several hours over flavoursome vegan tapas and refined cocktails — to paint a picture, a most refreshing mojito and one of the best espresso martinis I’ve had [for someone who loves coffee, I often find these hard to drink. This was an absolute exception 👌🏼]. Putting time back into each other and into your relationship matters, or so we’re continually learning. 🌸 There’s no doubt we’ll be doing it here again [perhaps over brunch next time!]. Happy Sunday eve everyone! I can’t wait for another exciting, productive week to come!
  • Just over here predicting how my weekend will look. 😌🙏🏻 Could it even be labelled the weekend if brunch weren’t involved? I’d argue otherwise. 👌🏼 First thing’s first, I’m off to earn my feed; also, to discover myself and her inner soul at the @wanderlustfest! 🌻 It’s all about finding your flow through activities like running, yoga and meditation! 🌸 It sounds so up my ally aaaand to make it all the better, it’s a most splendid morning here in Melbourne! What better way to lap it up than to head out to St Kilda Beach for a day of mindfulness spent beneath blue sky and warm sun! 🤸🏻‍♀️🌿🏃‍♀️ Doing what I love and loving what I do this Saturday. Honestly, it makes such a difference when you dedicate time to the things that make you feel good. So far as I can tell, this life is short. No one knows what it means, or why, if it’s even meaningful! 🌸☺️ Open yourself to enjoying it in as many ways as you can.. and it really doesn’t matter either way! Happy Saturday everyone!
  • THE ✌🏻✌🏻DAY WORKING WEEK What do you think?! 🌻 This morning I read an ABC article about the 4-day-working-week initiative and the way it’s touched various New Zealand businesses. Apparently, it’s lowered their overall stress levels and helped people to attain the [mostly unattainable] work-life balance of which we all aspire. 🌱 The concept of a 4-day week has since begun to play over the minds of 9-to-5ers here in Australia. What’s more shocking [and exciting], however, is the fact that it’s actually being considered by those with the right to call it. 🤗 It’s almost unimaginable to think there could come an end to the 5-day grind. 😅 Even, to the infamous “Friday Feels”. . . Whilst it wouldn’t affect me too much [I freelance remotely on Fridays so it’d likely still count as a “working day” for me], I can tell you I’d probably feel far less guilty about doing the old clock-on, clock-off. 🙈 I’d be starting every weekend early with a perfectly-satisfying brunch at @serotonindealer 😋 — that’s what I’d be doing! . . I want to know: how do you reckon it’d affect you?! Perhaps you’d go away camping and adventuring more often! Or would you pursue a side hustle on the extra day?! Who agrees this might be the next step to improving society’s overall wellbeing? 👇🏻👇🏻 P.S. you might be thinking: doesn’t this conflict with your attitude about productivity? Well, well, let me drop some eye-opening stats for you. Research shows people are productive for 3 HOURS of their 8-9 hour days. 😂🙈 Yes, 3. Like on that note, let’s can full days altogether and just come in from 8-11. I totally think that when you break up your time, you are more productive. Hence why I’m pro freelance and directing my own days. 👌🏼 Bet you anything that the prize of a 3-day weekend and the chance to genuinely shut off makes us work harder AND smarter! Guys, if you can’t tell, I’m all in! 🤣 💪🏻
  • The last few evenings, A.J. and I have been unpacking these weeks to come in conversation. Until we both head back to New Zealand for Christmas, there remains but few moments for pause in our schedules. 🌿 That’s just life around mid-November and whilst I wouldn’t have it any other way, I am awaiting with fondness the time when we’ll return to Melbourne. 🕊 We’re planning hikes and adventures and day-long roams and wanders, just the way we did when we first arrived in this big city. ✨ I can’t wait to refresh my perspective again, to make an inevitable return to nature. I look forward to finding clarity and laughter in the sky, comfort and hope in the sea and the sand. 🌻 This is the way I ultimately re-ground and remind myself what truly matters. That crisp air. Those slow waves. 🌸 It is nice to know they’re not going anywhere. That while my footsteps are taking me many a bigger places, the beach awaits my return like it does whisked-away hats of little ones; their sand-castle-tall imaginations. Ah, to the Summer that awaits. I await you too. 🙏🏻
  • Y’all know I’ve been absolutely loving my @hellofreshau deliveries. 🤪 I’m delving into Spring [today’s erratic weather aside] with healthy, fresh meals, like tofu and chilli pumpkin salad on Monday.. followed by yesterday’s dish of choice; also THE best meal I’ve ever had with #hellofreshau: Mexican chickpea and roasted cauliflower tacos! 🙏🏻 To. Die. For. My girl @themelbournelook happened to choose the exact same meal for her dinner last night and even added her own vegan aioli, the star! 🤣🤗 . From a person who was never fussed about dinner, the fact that it now makes me excited is kind of revolutionary. 😎 Can’t wait to time dinner prep with sunset on the balcony, when it’s regularly warm beyond 8pm! 🥗 So many of my friends are signing onto and genuinely loving this service, so if you’re considering it, I’d totally make use of my 40% off code [“KENZI40”]! 🌸 I won’t say it’s the trick to making cooking fun again because before now, it never was fun. It was stressful and messy and an opportunity for my true lack of common sense to shine. Nawt goals. So I’ll say this instead: make cooking fun FOR THE FIRST TIME with @hellofreshau. 🤣 P.S. this is also one of my secrets for getting to bed by 8.30-9.30, which is a recent goal of mine! 🙏🏻 Need I say anything more, but.. #smashit?
  • C O M I N G 🕊 S O O N. I’m currently in an oversized rain jacket making my way to the office. I’ve cocooned my face in its hoodie and whilst I’m merely heading towards Melbourne CBD, I may as well be back on Great Ocean Road, dodging the rain in our trusty van, Adele. 🍃 Let it be said that I look [and feel] far less cool than I did here in my favourite shirt as of late; the Vertigo Shirt by @frenchfreddie. 🌸 Oh to be as effortlessly collected and understatedly cool as the Vertigo. There is but little chance of that happening on this very grey day in Melbourne, but by all means, we can — and I shall — dream of such days to come. Full look, and a scramble of new words coming soon to Currently Loving. 🙏🏻 P.S. thank you to everyone who voted in the poll regarding CL content yesterday. It was super insightful and nice to know where you’re at with things! 🌻 Much Love and thank you for your support always. xxx

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  • LIVE ON THE BLOG NOW. ☕️ . 👉🏻 3 things I wish I knew entering my first job. 👈🏻 . This is a letter to my younger sister, as much as it is to my younger self, and to all those entering the working industry. ✍🏻 It turns out there's a difference between earning respect and being respected; an internship and a job; being accepted and being embraced. Consider this a chance to learn from my lessons. 👌🏼 Link in my bio now! . . Wearing @frenchfreddie, a gorgeous NZ-based label that brings to my work attire a much-needed sense of distinction and timely elegance. 🌸
  • M O T I V A T I O N 🌿🏃‍♀️ . . Where the hell does one find it? Myself, I source motivation from a range of avenues: I find it in the people around me and their successes. I find it in my own successes too. 🕊 To me, success is not satisfying nor rewarding for it means I’ve won. Not because it means I’ve surpassed my neighbour — after all, no two people are ever in the same place or position. The idea that we’re competing alongside one another is in itself null. Success is satisfying to me because it means I’m motivated. 🙏🏻 I’m ready to run confidently up the next mountain. To defend myself fearlessly when faced with the next wind. 👌🏼 If you ask me, it is okay to be driven by your own success. So long as you are driven by your own failures too. I keep pushing myself to get back into my long-distance running and I tell you, it ain’t coming all that easy. What is it that keeps me going? I’m driven by my own success. The idea that at some place and in some time not so long ago, a half marathon came easy to me. I am reminded that my feet haven’t always felt so heavy; that my ankles have in time felt far stronger. 🙏🏻 I know I’m capable for I’ve done it before. But I also know I’m capable for every time I manage a mere 3km, I wake up again the next day and I try again. I listen to podcasts like Running for Real and Run to the Top, because the more I know, the closer I am. I am motivated by my own journey, my own efforts and my own perseverance. Let’s give back to ourselves this Wednesday. Instead of focusing on how others motivate us, I want to know: how do you motivate yourself? Do you remind yourself how far you’ve come? Of where you could be? Or how proud you’ll be when you make it?! 👇🏻👇🏻
  • “I think I might do a little ‘make-your-own’”, I say, as if I don’t know exactly the three sides I’m about to order each and every time. ☺️ When it comes to what I like, it’s fair to say I’m pretty habitual. 🙏🏻 When it comes to the way I live, however, I’m constantly changing it up. Whether these changes are small or significant, I thrive off making positive change in my life. With change, however, can come sacrifice. And that’s what I’ve struggled with a bit lately. When you move in a different direction than the people who once surrounded you, you can easily lose touch with these relationships. With what old friends are doing and with where they’re at. Much as you can try to avoid the inevitable, distance drives distance. And not everyone will recognise their own hands on the wheel. 🌸 It’s been an up-and-down learning curve: to accept that whenever we make one decision, we’re denying ourselves of all that its counterpart may have offered. 🙌🏻 That’s life though. It’s not regret. From opportunity, there will always be sacrifice. When we jump, we will always leave people behind us at the platform. For our own reasons, we might find ourselves jumping sooner or later than the rest. And that’s okay. It is true when they say that we’re all on our own journey here. 🌻 And what comforts me when I have doubt, is the thought that this path will lead me — like yours will you — to what defines real happiness and satisfaction for him/her. This definition will not be not inspired by words of anyone else, but by those you have said. By the actions you have taken. 🌿 From me to you, it’s okay to feel a little bit guttered; to experience a sense of longing every now and then, for what constitutes another path.. when we choose to drive the length of its neighbour. 🕊 We’re human: we debate with ourselves the riddle of what if everyday. But today, I want us to ask ourselves something else instead. Who but? Who but you to travel the path you’re on? 🍃 Who but you?
  • D A T E 🍸 N I G H T. I like to think of myself as a pretty non-demanding girlfriend but I’ve come to the conclusion I may be slightly deluded. ☺️ I have pretty high standards, particularly when it comes to date night. If @a_jaxcreative’ eyes flicker slightly in another direction; that is, if he shows even the slightest bit distraction from the VERY interesting [potentially groundbreaking] words I’m saying, that’s it. 🙅🏽‍♀️ You either treat my words like I am Martin Luther King Jr’s junior, or they shan’t be spoken at all. 🤣 Is anyone else the same with their partner?! . . Okay, so maybe I’m a bit harsh — but I love and truly value this quality time that arises for us only ever so often. 🙌🏻 Just recently, we took date night to Camberwell; to the sweetest little destination that is @enterneighbour. 🍴 It almost felt like home, and yet, was combined with all the best elements of being far, far away. We were exempt from time and from worries. Here life was perfectly slow. 🍃 We spoke for several hours over flavoursome vegan tapas and refined cocktails — to paint a picture, a most refreshing mojito and one of the best espresso martinis I’ve had [for someone who loves coffee, I often find these hard to drink. This was an absolute exception 👌🏼]. Putting time back into each other and into your relationship matters, or so we’re continually learning. 🌸 There’s no doubt we’ll be doing it here again [perhaps over brunch next time!]. Happy Sunday eve everyone! I can’t wait for another exciting, productive week to come!
  • Just over here predicting how my weekend will look. 😌🙏🏻 Could it even be labelled the weekend if brunch weren’t involved? I’d argue otherwise. 👌🏼 First thing’s first, I’m off to earn my feed; also, to discover myself and her inner soul at the @wanderlustfest! 🌻 It’s all about finding your flow through activities like running, yoga and meditation! 🌸 It sounds so up my ally aaaand to make it all the better, it’s a most splendid morning here in Melbourne! What better way to lap it up than to head out to St Kilda Beach for a day of mindfulness spent beneath blue sky and warm sun! 🤸🏻‍♀️🌿🏃‍♀️ Doing what I love and loving what I do this Saturday. Honestly, it makes such a difference when you dedicate time to the things that make you feel good. So far as I can tell, this life is short. No one knows what it means, or why, if it’s even meaningful! 🌸☺️ Open yourself to enjoying it in as many ways as you can.. and it really doesn’t matter either way! Happy Saturday everyone!
  • THE ✌🏻✌🏻DAY WORKING WEEK What do you think?! 🌻 This morning I read an ABC article about the 4-day-working-week initiative and the way it’s touched various New Zealand businesses. Apparently, it’s lowered their overall stress levels and helped people to attain the [mostly unattainable] work-life balance of which we all aspire. 🌱 The concept of a 4-day week has since begun to play over the minds of 9-to-5ers here in Australia. What’s more shocking [and exciting], however, is the fact that it’s actually being considered by those with the right to call it. 🤗 It’s almost unimaginable to think there could come an end to the 5-day grind. 😅 Even, to the infamous “Friday Feels”. . . Whilst it wouldn’t affect me too much [I freelance remotely on Fridays so it’d likely still count as a “working day” for me], I can tell you I’d probably feel far less guilty about doing the old clock-on, clock-off. 🙈 I’d be starting every weekend early with a perfectly-satisfying brunch at @serotonindealer 😋 — that’s what I’d be doing! . . I want to know: how do you reckon it’d affect you?! Perhaps you’d go away camping and adventuring more often! Or would you pursue a side hustle on the extra day?! Who agrees this might be the next step to improving society’s overall wellbeing? 👇🏻👇🏻 P.S. you might be thinking: doesn’t this conflict with your attitude about productivity? Well, well, let me drop some eye-opening stats for you. Research shows people are productive for 3 HOURS of their 8-9 hour days. 😂🙈 Yes, 3. Like on that note, let’s can full days altogether and just come in from 8-11. I totally think that when you break up your time, you are more productive. Hence why I’m pro freelance and directing my own days. 👌🏼 Bet you anything that the prize of a 3-day weekend and the chance to genuinely shut off makes us work harder AND smarter! Guys, if you can’t tell, I’m all in! 🤣 💪🏻
  • The last few evenings, A.J. and I have been unpacking these weeks to come in conversation. Until we both head back to New Zealand for Christmas, there remains but few moments for pause in our schedules. 🌿 That’s just life around mid-November and whilst I wouldn’t have it any other way, I am awaiting with fondness the time when we’ll return to Melbourne. 🕊 We’re planning hikes and adventures and day-long roams and wanders, just the way we did when we first arrived in this big city. ✨ I can’t wait to refresh my perspective again, to make an inevitable return to nature. I look forward to finding clarity and laughter in the sky, comfort and hope in the sea and the sand. 🌻 This is the way I ultimately re-ground and remind myself what truly matters. That crisp air. Those slow waves. 🌸 It is nice to know they’re not going anywhere. That while my footsteps are taking me many a bigger places, the beach awaits my return like it does whisked-away hats of little ones; their sand-castle-tall imaginations. Ah, to the Summer that awaits. I await you too. 🙏🏻
  • Y’all know I’ve been absolutely loving my @hellofreshau deliveries. 🤪 I’m delving into Spring [today’s erratic weather aside] with healthy, fresh meals, like tofu and chilli pumpkin salad on Monday.. followed by yesterday’s dish of choice; also THE best meal I’ve ever had with #hellofreshau: Mexican chickpea and roasted cauliflower tacos! 🙏🏻 To. Die. For. My girl @themelbournelook happened to choose the exact same meal for her dinner last night and even added her own vegan aioli, the star! 🤣🤗 . From a person who was never fussed about dinner, the fact that it now makes me excited is kind of revolutionary. 😎 Can’t wait to time dinner prep with sunset on the balcony, when it’s regularly warm beyond 8pm! 🥗 So many of my friends are signing onto and genuinely loving this service, so if you’re considering it, I’d totally make use of my 40% off code [“KENZI40”]! 🌸 I won’t say it’s the trick to making cooking fun again because before now, it never was fun. It was stressful and messy and an opportunity for my true lack of common sense to shine. Nawt goals. So I’ll say this instead: make cooking fun FOR THE FIRST TIME with @hellofreshau. 🤣 P.S. this is also one of my secrets for getting to bed by 8.30-9.30, which is a recent goal of mine! 🙏🏻 Need I say anything more, but.. #smashit?
  • C O M I N G 🕊 S O O N. I’m currently in an oversized rain jacket making my way to the office. I’ve cocooned my face in its hoodie and whilst I’m merely heading towards Melbourne CBD, I may as well be back on Great Ocean Road, dodging the rain in our trusty van, Adele. 🍃 Let it be said that I look [and feel] far less cool than I did here in my favourite shirt as of late; the Vertigo Shirt by @frenchfreddie. 🌸 Oh to be as effortlessly collected and understatedly cool as the Vertigo. There is but little chance of that happening on this very grey day in Melbourne, but by all means, we can — and I shall — dream of such days to come. Full look, and a scramble of new words coming soon to Currently Loving. 🙏🏻 P.S. thank you to everyone who voted in the poll regarding CL content yesterday. It was super insightful and nice to know where you’re at with things! 🌻 Much Love and thank you for your support always. xxx

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  • LIVE ON THE BLOG NOW. ☕️ . 👉🏻 3 things I wish I knew entering my first job. 👈🏻 . This is a letter to my younger sister, as much as it is to my younger self, and to all those entering the working industry. ✍🏻 It turns out there's a difference between earning respect and being respected; an internship and a job; being accepted and being embraced. Consider this a chance to learn from my lessons. 👌🏼 Link in my bio now! . . Wearing @frenchfreddie, a gorgeous NZ-based label that brings to my work attire a much-needed sense of distinction and timely elegance. 🌸
  • M O T I V A T I O N 🌿🏃‍♀️ . . Where the hell does one find it? Myself, I source motivation from a range of avenues: I find it in the people around me and their successes. I find it in my own successes too. 🕊 To me, success is not satisfying nor rewarding for it means I’ve won. Not because it means I’ve surpassed my neighbour — after all, no two people are ever in the same place or position. The idea that we’re competing alongside one another is in itself null. Success is satisfying to me because it means I’m motivated. 🙏🏻 I’m ready to run confidently up the next mountain. To defend myself fearlessly when faced with the next wind. 👌🏼 If you ask me, it is okay to be driven by your own success. So long as you are driven by your own failures too. I keep pushing myself to get back into my long-distance running and I tell you, it ain’t coming all that easy. What is it that keeps me going? I’m driven by my own success. The idea that at some place and in some time not so long ago, a half marathon came easy to me. I am reminded that my feet haven’t always felt so heavy; that my ankles have in time felt far stronger. 🙏🏻 I know I’m capable for I’ve done it before. But I also know I’m capable for every time I manage a mere 3km, I wake up again the next day and I try again. I listen to podcasts like Running for Real and Run to the Top, because the more I know, the closer I am. I am motivated by my own journey, my own efforts and my own perseverance. Let’s give back to ourselves this Wednesday. Instead of focusing on how others motivate us, I want to know: how do you motivate yourself? Do you remind yourself how far you’ve come? Of where you could be? Or how proud you’ll be when you make it?! 👇🏻👇🏻
  • “I think I might do a little ‘make-your-own’”, I say, as if I don’t know exactly the three sides I’m about to order each and every time. ☺️ When it comes to what I like, it’s fair to say I’m pretty habitual. 🙏🏻 When it comes to the way I live, however, I’m constantly changing it up. Whether these changes are small or significant, I thrive off making positive change in my life. With change, however, can come sacrifice. And that’s what I’ve struggled with a bit lately. When you move in a different direction than the people who once surrounded you, you can easily lose touch with these relationships. With what old friends are doing and with where they’re at. Much as you can try to avoid the inevitable, distance drives distance. And not everyone will recognise their own hands on the wheel. 🌸 It’s been an up-and-down learning curve: to accept that whenever we make one decision, we’re denying ourselves of all that its counterpart may have offered. 🙌🏻 That’s life though. It’s not regret. From opportunity, there will always be sacrifice. When we jump, we will always leave people behind us at the platform. For our own reasons, we might find ourselves jumping sooner or later than the rest. And that’s okay. It is true when they say that we’re all on our own journey here. 🌻 And what comforts me when I have doubt, is the thought that this path will lead me — like yours will you — to what defines real happiness and satisfaction for him/her. This definition will not be not inspired by words of anyone else, but by those you have said. By the actions you have taken. 🌿 From me to you, it’s okay to feel a little bit guttered; to experience a sense of longing every now and then, for what constitutes another path.. when we choose to drive the length of its neighbour. 🕊 We’re human: we debate with ourselves the riddle of what if everyday. But today, I want us to ask ourselves something else instead. Who but? Who but you to travel the path you’re on? 🍃 Who but you?
  • D A T E 🍸 N I G H T. I like to think of myself as a pretty non-demanding girlfriend but I’ve come to the conclusion I may be slightly deluded. ☺️ I have pretty high standards, particularly when it comes to date night. If @a_jaxcreative’ eyes flicker slightly in another direction; that is, if he shows even the slightest bit distraction from the VERY interesting [potentially groundbreaking] words I’m saying, that’s it. 🙅🏽‍♀️ You either treat my words like I am Martin Luther King Jr’s junior, or they shan’t be spoken at all. 🤣 Is anyone else the same with their partner?! . . Okay, so maybe I’m a bit harsh — but I love and truly value this quality time that arises for us only ever so often. 🙌🏻 Just recently, we took date night to Camberwell; to the sweetest little destination that is @enterneighbour. 🍴 It almost felt like home, and yet, was combined with all the best elements of being far, far away. We were exempt from time and from worries. Here life was perfectly slow. 🍃 We spoke for several hours over flavoursome vegan tapas and refined cocktails — to paint a picture, a most refreshing mojito and one of the best espresso martinis I’ve had [for someone who loves coffee, I often find these hard to drink. This was an absolute exception 👌🏼]. Putting time back into each other and into your relationship matters, or so we’re continually learning. 🌸 There’s no doubt we’ll be doing it here again [perhaps over brunch next time!]. Happy Sunday eve everyone! I can’t wait for another exciting, productive week to come!
  • Just over here predicting how my weekend will look. 😌🙏🏻 Could it even be labelled the weekend if brunch weren’t involved? I’d argue otherwise. 👌🏼 First thing’s first, I’m off to earn my feed; also, to discover myself and her inner soul at the @wanderlustfest! 🌻 It’s all about finding your flow through activities like running, yoga and meditation! 🌸 It sounds so up my ally aaaand to make it all the better, it’s a most splendid morning here in Melbourne! What better way to lap it up than to head out to St Kilda Beach for a day of mindfulness spent beneath blue sky and warm sun! 🤸🏻‍♀️🌿🏃‍♀️ Doing what I love and loving what I do this Saturday. Honestly, it makes such a difference when you dedicate time to the things that make you feel good. So far as I can tell, this life is short. No one knows what it means, or why, if it’s even meaningful! 🌸☺️ Open yourself to enjoying it in as many ways as you can.. and it really doesn’t matter either way! Happy Saturday everyone!
  • THE ✌🏻✌🏻DAY WORKING WEEK What do you think?! 🌻 This morning I read an ABC article about the 4-day-working-week initiative and the way it’s touched various New Zealand businesses. Apparently, it’s lowered their overall stress levels and helped people to attain the [mostly unattainable] work-life balance of which we all aspire. 🌱 The concept of a 4-day week has since begun to play over the minds of 9-to-5ers here in Australia. What’s more shocking [and exciting], however, is the fact that it’s actually being considered by those with the right to call it. 🤗 It’s almost unimaginable to think there could come an end to the 5-day grind. 😅 Even, to the infamous “Friday Feels”. . . Whilst it wouldn’t affect me too much [I freelance remotely on Fridays so it’d likely still count as a “working day” for me], I can tell you I’d probably feel far less guilty about doing the old clock-on, clock-off. 🙈 I’d be starting every weekend early with a perfectly-satisfying brunch at @serotonindealer 😋 — that’s what I’d be doing! . . I want to know: how do you reckon it’d affect you?! Perhaps you’d go away camping and adventuring more often! Or would you pursue a side hustle on the extra day?! Who agrees this might be the next step to improving society’s overall wellbeing? 👇🏻👇🏻 P.S. you might be thinking: doesn’t this conflict with your attitude about productivity? Well, well, let me drop some eye-opening stats for you. Research shows people are productive for 3 HOURS of their 8-9 hour days. 😂🙈 Yes, 3. Like on that note, let’s can full days altogether and just come in from 8-11. I totally think that when you break up your time, you are more productive. Hence why I’m pro freelance and directing my own days. 👌🏼 Bet you anything that the prize of a 3-day weekend and the chance to genuinely shut off makes us work harder AND smarter! Guys, if you can’t tell, I’m all in! 🤣 💪🏻
  • The last few evenings, A.J. and I have been unpacking these weeks to come in conversation. Until we both head back to New Zealand for Christmas, there remains but few moments for pause in our schedules. 🌿 That’s just life around mid-November and whilst I wouldn’t have it any other way, I am awaiting with fondness the time when we’ll return to Melbourne. 🕊 We’re planning hikes and adventures and day-long roams and wanders, just the way we did when we first arrived in this big city. ✨ I can’t wait to refresh my perspective again, to make an inevitable return to nature. I look forward to finding clarity and laughter in the sky, comfort and hope in the sea and the sand. 🌻 This is the way I ultimately re-ground and remind myself what truly matters. That crisp air. Those slow waves. 🌸 It is nice to know they’re not going anywhere. That while my footsteps are taking me many a bigger places, the beach awaits my return like it does whisked-away hats of little ones; their sand-castle-tall imaginations. Ah, to the Summer that awaits. I await you too. 🙏🏻

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