Have you read Steven Pressfield’s The War of Art? This best-selling author is another example of an ‘overnight sensation’ who was decades of inner-demon battles in the making. From his personal experience with self-defeating behaviours and blocks that are well-known to most creatives, he crafted a guidebook that is filled with ‘a-ha!’ moments and centred around [...]
Do you have a Highly Sensitive Person in your life? Maybe it’s you? In today’s post, we’ll give you a list of essential oils that are highly restorative for the highly sensitive souls of the world. For those who don’t have this kind of nature, it’s hard to imagine what it’s like to go through life [...]
Want to spruce up your life? Start diffusing spruce essential oil! This expression – ‘to spruce up’ meaning ‘to make trim or neat’ – doesn’t come from the essential oil but it well could. It actually harks back to the 1500s when spruce leather was popular for making smart-looking jerkins. Personally I think we should bring [...]
We live in a mobile world. From portable devices to portable jobs and online shopping, most of us expect ease and simplicity and the ability to do lots of things while on the go. I’ve tried to dig my heels in and stem the tide – slow food, minimal social media, growing my own fruit and [...]
When you’re personally involved with growing, producing or selling natural substances, you come to truly appreciate how vulnerable they are – in some cases, how miraculous it is that they've even survived this far. From fruits to vegetables, grapevines to coffee plantations, plants, shrubs and trees to the essential oils that are extracted from them, you [...]
Where there’s manure, there’s a pony! Is this bright optimist you? Or are you already heading off for a shovel, cussing and wondering why you wanted a horse in the first place? Even if you’re of the ‘glass half full’ nature, what if you’re closely involved with a negative neddy or nelly and their constant ‘glass [...]
"One for sorrow, two for joy ..." Does this old nursery rhyme automatically tumble out of your mouth when you see magpies? It does mine! But if you see just one maggie in your travels today, don’t worry: you can use your essential oils to find your joy. Inhalation of these beautiful gifts of nature – [...]
If you want to see life through rose-coloured glasses, open a bottle of Young Living Rose essential oil. “A rose by any other name would smell as sweet,” said William Shakespeare. True for the flower, but when it comes to the essential oil of rose, let’s make sure it bears the name Rosa damascena and has [...]
Are you making the most of your oils for business as well as pleasure? Put your Young Living Essential Oils on staff: they are low maintenance, take no sick days and holidays, and always smell divine! When we use the oils, it’s a very personal experience that’s unique to us. Yes, each oil has certain characteristics [...]
How’s that saying go? The only things in life that are certain are death and taxes? Well, for those artful dodgers who excel at creative accounting, I guess there’s just one certain thing in life. For the rest of us: two. One of my friends has just decided to move in with his girlfriend of seven [...]
