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How I’m Finding a Backtrack to Happiness

Finding a backtrack to happiness:

I used to write a lot. When I was a child I didn’t have very many hobbies or extracurricular activities, but I always enjoyed keeping a journal. It was written in sporadically, but none the less I would share all of the mundane things that I had completed throughout the course of a day in my writings. Sometimes I would write beyond my daily activities and share some of my thoughts; feelings. That happened more frequently as I got older.

When I got pregnant at 17 priorities in my life obviously shifted drastically. Everything that I did for happiness became less of a priority.

It wasn’t until 2012 when smartphones were rising and the internet became more and more saturated, that I had an epiphany – these websites were all created by someone. That someone could be anyone, so, why couldn’t it be me?

September 23, 2020 0 comment

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How Do You Know if You Are in The Right Career?

written by Melissa Kaylene

If you were to ask me how I got started blogging I’d probably give you the simple answer. It was back in the beginning of 2012 and Pinterest was just starting to take off. I signed up and immediately fell in love. I began searching and collecting all of these great ideas and beautiful inspiring imagery, and what I noticed was that the websites that these recipes and ideas were located weren’t just websites. They were blogs – written by people like myself.

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I honestly hadn’t even paid any attention to the word blog or knew that they could be so useful to anyone. I quickly became obsessed and well, here we are today.

That’s the story I share with most people. But that’s not really why I got started blogging, and I’m not sure I even realized it until long after I had begun.

March 1, 2018 0 comment

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5 Steps To Make Each Day More Memorable

written by Melissa Kaylene

Disclosure: This shop has been compensated by Collective Bias, Inc. and its advertiser. All opinions are mine alone. #TeaProudly #CollectiveBias

Life is made up of a collection of our memories. I know that sounds really philosophical, but it’s true. Think about it. Whether you collect items that remind you of a specific date, have photo albums filled with family photos, or keep a journal of your day-to-day activities, memories are what make your life special.

I am one of those people who take photos of special moments or events to remember them by. When I look at a picture I suddenly find myself back in that memory for a brief period of time. Many of the photos I have are from big celebrations like birthdays or holidays, but some of my favorite photos are from times when I caught a glimpse of my day-to-day ordinary life – a normal day that made a special memory.

March 27, 2017 2 comments

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How to Stop Comparing Yourself To Others

written by Melissa Kaylene

This shop has been compensated by Collective Bias, Inc. and its advertiser. All opinions are mine alone. #NourishWhatsNext #CollectiveBias

I think we’ve all been guilty of this from time to time. It seems like it’s just part of our nature to want to keep improving ourselves; to keep trying harder. Along the way though, we often find ourselves comparing our success to others. I know I do. Most often it’s about silly materialistic things that we associate with achievement: the nice cars, big houses, and other luxuries like having a housekeeper or lawn service. If you do have some of these things – that’s wonderful! But you too may be looking ahead to what the next class above you has.

The point is, success doesn’t always equal stuff. Your situation is completely different to everyone else’s out there. Maybe your success is working somewhere that allows you to have flexibility instead of extra compensation. Perhaps the grass isn’t always greener on the other side. You should always try to better yourself, but figure out what your own success will look like without peeking over the fence at someone else’s.

It’s not easy.

September 20, 2016 1 comment

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Ways to Embrace Change

written by Melissa Kaylene

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This year I’ve been faced with many changes – too many for my personal liking. Some changes are always necessary, and in small quantities I can adapt and handle them just fine, but when they come flying at me in all directions in lightning fast speed – well, I get overwhelmed.

Have you ever had a year, or even a month like that? I’ll be honest that there has been a few times over the past couple of months that I have just wanted to pitch a fort under my covers and pretend that I’m 5 years old again.

Sometimes change just plain sucks.

August 30, 2016 1 comment

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How To Shift Your Mental Focus

written by Melissa Kaylene

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Let’s face it. Most of us are pretty self centered – I know that I myself am included and guilty of this. Often times we get so caught up in the hustle and bustle of everyday life that we tend to be overly self focused in the daily stress of our own little world’s – and that’s not always a good thing. We start getting burnt out on everyday life and don’t enjoy things as much as we truly should.

When you are focused on your immediate surrounding all of the time – worrying about what kid need to go to what practice or worrying that your next paycheck won’t be as much as you’d like – it can bring you down. I’ve found over the years that the fight or flight emotional state that we get caught up in is very unhealthy and causes not only things like depression, but can also make us physically ill as well.

Being focused just on yourself can downright become depressing and turn into an official pity party that you didn’t even realize existed.

So what’ the solution to all of these negative behaviors that we all fall into?

April 13, 2016 0 comment

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13 Memories to Make This January

written by Melissa Kaylene

Memories can and should be made everyday. Making memories and celebrating life doesn’t always mean having to go somewhere elaborate or by spending lots of money. Memories are made by spending quality time with people you love. This year I want to inspire you to do something special, something you perhaps wouldn’t have thought of doing each month. Every month I’ll share several ideas of ways that you can make memories, and I’d love to hear your ideas as well. Just comment below or send me a Tweet with your ideas!

January 11, 2016 3 comments

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16 Things to Remember in the New Year

written by Melissa Kaylene

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Welcome to the New Year! I hope you had a wonderful celebration to ring in the New Year with people who you love. We stayed home as we usually do, ringing in the year with the kids. Our family kept the ‘party’ pretty low-key, watching the festivities on TV while playing board games and sipping on bubbly. We had snack foods and root beer floats to top off the evening, and at the stroke of 12 we broke out the silly string and poppers and created a huge mess in the living room and kitchen!

I’ve been cherishing these last few days before the routine happens again. Yesterday I went and had a pedicure and lunch with a friend and caught up for a few hours and today we all hung out at the house and took down the Christmas decorations and packed them away for the next 11 months. We are officially down to our last day of our vacation and I’m already looking forward to our next long weekend.

These past two weeks have shown me how nice it is to slow down and just be. Be happy; be content.

January 3, 2016 5 comments

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The Heroes Around Us

written by Melissa Kaylene

I generally keep the daily news topics far away from this little space I’ve created on the Internet. So often they are filled with tragedy; sad things that I choose not to dwell on because focusing on them only brings me down and quite frankly scares the living daylights out of me because I begin thinking of all of the “what ifs” and “what could happen” scenarios and when you have children, it’s the worst feeling in the world that instantaneously makes you nauseous and want to cry.

But with that being said, this time I can’t get Roseburg out of my mind. I grew up in Grants Pass which is a little over an hour’s drive from Roseburg. I’ve been in Roseburg many times, have friends that live close and grew up there, and my Dad currently lives 30 minutes from there now. I refuse to write or dwell on the perpetrator or gun topic issues, because right now is not the time for people to argue and debate such things. I will however, grasp on to any tiny amount of positivity that I can in this grave event that has left many people brokenhearted.

October 2, 2015 4 comments

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An Ode to Fathers

written by Melissa Kaylene

This shop has been compensated by Collective Bias, Inc. and its advertiser. All opinions are mine alone. #NauticaforDad #CollectiveBias

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I think that fathers should be celebrated more than once a year. So often we hear about and only focus on the fathers who could (and perhaps should) do more for their children – but what about all of those men that go above and beyond and try their hardest to care for their families? Eleven months out of the year we keep pretty quiet on the subject.

All over social media I see jokes about mothers who need a break, or some coffee, or a glass of wine, but there are dads out there who have the exact same responsibilities, and they deserve a break too.

To all of the dads who work all day and come home only to turn around and coach their children’s sports teams – thank you.

To all of the dads who spend countless hours rocking colicky babies to sleep at 3 am; knowing that their alarm clock will go off at 4:30 – thank you.

To all of the dads who stay home and take care of the house so their partners can have the career that they want to have – thank you.

And to all of the dads who didn’t have to be a dad, yet stepped in to become a parent when a child needed one – thank you.

My husband has done many of those things for us; being a dad for Anika when she and I were alone; staying up countless nights so that I could get a couple hours of sleep; and rearranging his work load and schedule to help with the kids so I could pursue my career and have breaks.

I wanted to get him something nice for Father’s Day this year, because I don’t think that the kids should be the only ones to get their Dad something, spouses should as well. Something that he could use and would never buy for himself – so when we were at Macy’s last weekend I snuck over into the fragrance department and purchased the Nautica Life gift set for him. For only a couple dollars more than what you would normally pay for just the men’s fragrance. This deluxe gift set is only $65.00, a $128.00 value. This gift set includes: 3.4 oz Eau de Toilette, 2.5 oz Aftershave Balm, 2.5 oz Shower Gel, and 1 oz Eau de Toilette, all wrapped up in a in a nice box – so nice looking that I’m not even going to bother wrapping it!

The Nautica life men’s fragrance smells fantastic and I’ve never bought Wayne cologne before, so I know he will be surprised and appreciate the quality of this fragrance and the thought behind it.

I hope you have something special planned for the Father in your life this weekend – and will make more memories with them not only on Father’s Day, but throughout the year.

I’m also happy to be part of a fabulous giveaway that includes a cruise vacation package for one Grand Prize winner and five second place winners that will win a Nautica Men’s Fragrance gift package! (Winners must be 18+)

~Melissa

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June 18, 2015 2 comments

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