Hi, and welcome to my new blog, essentiallyarrietty, where I’m going to be writing about everything essential to living your best life. What do I mean by your best life? Well, for me, your best life is fulfilling, purposeful, and involves growth, progress, and creativity. It’s not necessarily about being deliriously happy every moment of every day (although that would be great) but about feeling a sense of personal pride and the confidence that comes from knowing you’re doing your best with what you have from where you are.
Living your best life means taking the time, hopefully every day, to pause and think and listen within to what your soul is trying to tell you about what it really wants – about what you really want. And then having the determination, and often courage, to take the steps you need to take to move towards those goals.
Why essentially arrietty? Because, for me, living your best life also means identifying what’s truly essential to you, and getting rid of the rest, living a life that is uncluttered, simple, and mindful. And also because this blog will be a chronicle of my own journey to live a better life, my struggles, successes and (probably all too often) failures, and a record of the stuff that makes me tick, in the hope that some of it will speak to and inspire you to look within your own heart and seek to make the most of this one precious life. I’ll be writing about all things self-development, from minimalism and great habits, to personal finance and fitness tips, from mindfulness and the power of positive thinking, to spirituality and miracles.