The Good List: The Christmas Movies You Absolutely Must Watch This Festive Season

The Good List: The Christmas Movies You Absolutely Must Watch This Festive Season

‘Tis the season to nestle in bed, fairy lights glistening and a mulled wine warming your soul and your fingers (at least, it is in the Northern Hemisphere).  Continue reading “The Good List: The Christmas Movies You Absolutely Must Watch This Festive Season”

How Eat, Pray, Love Led Me To Understand What Happiness Is

How Eat, Pray, Love Led Me To Understand What Happiness Is

I was recently watching Eat, Pray, Love; you know, having one of those existential life crisis moments that can only be solved by watching Julia Roberts galavant around the world sharing life wisdom and eating pizza. Continue reading “How Eat, Pray, Love Led Me To Understand What Happiness Is”

This is How I Make The Most Out Of Each Day – And Feel Less Stressed

This is How I Make The Most Out Of Each Day – And Feel Less Stressed

Here at The Good List we are pretty keen to share (and learn) ways to live a less stressful life (if you hadn’t already noticed…) We are, after all, an incredibly busy society; we go from one task to the next without a moment’s pause and all the while we are constantly connected thanks to social media, and there’s pressure for our responses to be constant and quick. Continue reading “This is How I Make The Most Out Of Each Day – And Feel Less Stressed”

How To Deal With Rejection While Job Hunting

How To Deal With Rejection While Job Hunting

Dear Desperate Person Seeking A Job,

Thank you for coming in and selling yourself and showing us what an amazing employee you would be…We are sorry we’ve taken so long to get back to you and that you’ve been desperately jumping at every email you receive.
Unfortunately, we won’t be taking your application to the next round.

Continue reading “How To Deal With Rejection While Job Hunting”

Dear Anxiety, You Will Never Win

Dear Anxiety, You Will Never Win

You know when you have a thousand tabs open on your computer and then out of the blue, one of them starts playing music? You frantically flick through the tabs, searching for the culprit. Because, of course, you are in a quiet library and your mute button isn’t working. Your hands start to get sweaty, they might even twitch a bit, clumsily trying to find the tab where the music is coming from. Well, that feeling, the ‘noise’ coming from somewhere (with no logical ‘quick-fix’ way to turn it off*) and the frenzied panic of trying to stop it… that my friend is what anxiety feels like to some of us. Continue reading “Dear Anxiety, You Will Never Win”