Coping With Homesickness When You Work Overseas

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If you are away from home for a prolonged length of time it’s inevitable that homesickness can hit. Here are my tips on avoiding it…

Think of the negative side of being at home.

The grass is always greener on the other side. No matter how much you hated home while you were there, with a little time away you soon forget the bad side and look at it with rose tinted glasses. You need to be realistic; all those reasons you wanted to leave in the first places still exist! So remind yourself why you wanted to leave in the first place.

Step away from social media.

It’s tough when you see pictures of friends or family out at parties or nights out or weekends away, and you weren’t invited because, obviously, you’re thousands of miles apart. Remind yourself that social media is just a snapshot of home life…

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Staycation Tips

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The Corporate Mum Petra

We rarely go away during the holidays in December / January as Pete works between Christmas and New Year (the joys of owning your own hospitality business), but I always have a week or so time off work and I choose to spend it on catching up on stuff around the house and hanging out with the kids.

This time is somewhat of a challenge for me though, keeping the kids occupied day and night by myself, and getting them motivated to do and play something other than iPhones, iPads, Netflix or PlayStation – so I try and keep them busy and get them out of the house for some part of the day.

I also like to keep things very simple, after a thumper year of work (literally crawled to the finish line) apart from socialising at Christmas or New Year’s Eve with family and friends, I don’t travel…

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I’ve been a bit lost.

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What Would Josie Do

It’s the 17th January. That marks 4 months of travelling and the last 3 weeks in Australia and oh my, I’ve been lording it. No more backpacks, cold showers and hostels. I have the most generous family looking after me; belly laughing evenings of delicious food, scrumptious cocktails and wine. I’ve seen some of my closest and long lost friends, my awesome little bro and getting to see their beautiful new worlds.

Everything has genuinely been relaxed, refreshed and happy. But. There’s a little monster on my shoulder and he is telling me that he is a bit lost.

Slipping back into these home comforts with a lighter frame of mind and smile beaming… I unexpectedly and slowly grew kind of anxious. I started to worry about running out of money, about not moving forward with life in relationships or careers, I started to grew really anxious about people…

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How to be a happy cheapskate..

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ummu alif ikhwan

Since I am a little kid, my parents teach us to be wise in spending…put yourself in a economic freedom and you can create a life that you like to..To be free in debt is not as easy as you think..especially when you have mouth to feed and you are a breadwinner in your family.. I considered myself as a blessed single mommy since my late husband have provided enough saving for their kids although he was not here in this real life..He was a well-planned father that always think what best to his kids..and I am responsible to make sure what my love wish become true especially for his beloved sons..i want to list down what are things that I did to make sure i am not so burden with unnecessary debt ..

1) Identify your income, expense, saving and donation.

a. Sometimes we did not realize how much we have…

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