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Posts by Danielle

How to stay safe while travelling

These days, it can be easy to watch and read the news and decide that travelling is far too dangerous and you’re better off staying at home where you can avoid the risks associated with travelling overseas. But this means you’ll miss out on the many rewarding experiences waiting for you on the road. Instead, I’ve got some tips to help you achieve #MySenseOfSafe: Be Street Savvy Unfortunately, while wandering

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Planning a road trip? Read this advice

Whether you’ll be travelling with the kids over the holidays, or you’re planning a nice long road trip for next year, we’ve got some top tips to ensure it’s a success. Ready? Let’s get started. Make a plan Most of the time, you’ll have a time limit for your road trip. For this reason, it’s a good idea to plan which city you’ll be sleeping in each night before you

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Saving Money on Going Back to School

If you’re considering going back to school, perhaps because you never completed your bachelor’s degree in engineering or because you want to retrain as a psychologist, your biggest worry is likely to be the cost of doing so. Education in this country doesn’t exactly come cheap – that’s for sure – but there are lots of things you can do to cut the cost at least a little (sometimes a

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Be Brave: Aim To Grow Your Business This Year

If you think you’ve reached the upper limit of your business’ profit potential then it’s time for you to think again. There’s never a limit to the amount of profit you can make. Have you reached every potential customer in the target market? You most likely haven’t. And even if you did manage that, by some miracle, there’s no limit to the growth of a business. You can always expand

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3 Ways to Protect Yourself Financially

We like to think that we are financially sound and once you are earning a regular wage, it is easy to make the assumption that you are now set for life. Unfortunately life doesn’t work that way and you need to be prepared to take any curve ball thrown at you. Sickness, accidents and all sorts of other family problems like redundancy can have a massive impact on your financial

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Buying Your Dream Home? Here’s What Your Realtor Doesn’t Want You To Know

There they are – arms open wide and a big smile on their faces. They’re so excited to see you. You’d be forgiven for mistaking them for your best friend. But they’re not – in fact, sometimes it’s hard to remember that real estate agents are more focused on their seller clients and commissions than on finding you your dream home. Only you can really represent your own best interests

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In The Groove: Finding Your Formula

Becoming an adult isn’t the slow progression a lot of people expect it to be when they’re young. You spend what feels like a lifetime getting through your teenage years, only to be thrown into being grown up at the other end. Unfortunately, this leaves a lot of people struggling without a clear path in their life. Being forced into normal jobs and away from your passions, it can become

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How may technology affect the 21st century delivery system?

There are currently a range of new driving technologies which are impacting our lives in different areas, and now with recent news from Arrival they have announced their partnership with delivery giants, Royal Mail, to trial a fleet of nine British built electric delivery vehicles for one year. Royal Mail have already taken steps towards introducing all-electric vans to their fleet in July 2017, by purchasing 100 electric vans from

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Location, Location, Location – Finding The Best For Your Business

Pixabay.com   If you have a new business idea that requires a bricks-and-mortar store or an office, then you will no doubt have given some thought to potential locations. But even if you have already thought about a few possibilities, it’s really important that you consider them a  little while longer so that you have chance to fully digest your options. After all, the location you choose could make or

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Can You Really Make a Living Doing What You Love?

Life’s too short to be working dead-end jobs that you don’t like, but can you really be picky about your career? Let’s face it, we usually take what we’re given even if we have studied at university and obtained our degrees. Finding a job can be fairly simple if you know where to look, but our jobs don’t always relate to our degrees. If you’re lucky, you could make a

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