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The Savvy Scot

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Downsizing your home: rules for going small

By Pauline

Downsizing your home

Β  With the tiny home movement in full swing, many people are downsizing their homes to something much smaller. City dwellers are trading living space for location and convenience. With home taxes, insurance, utility and upkeep costs rising every day, you may end up asking yourself if you really need all the space you now… Read more

Filed Under: Change Tagged With: downsizing, Downsizing your home, home, House, small

Happy New Year! What are your resolutions?

By Pauline

Resolutions

Hey, it’s almost new year πŸ™‚ I’ll get ahead and jump straight to 2014, what are your resolutions?   Mine are Health: Run 3 times a week, swim every day. I already run 3 times a week with decent consistency, except when it rains a lot. The daily swim is easy after a run because… Read more

Filed Under: Change Tagged With: Happy New Year, New Year, resolutions

Totally Unrealistic Resolutions

By savvyscot

  A big happy new year to everyone. I had planned to write this post a few days ago so that I wouldn’t need to write hungover, but unfortunately that did not happen. I refuse to admit that this was down to bad planning, rather I decided my time would be better spent with family!… Read more

Filed Under: Change, Personal Finance Tagged With: 2013 finances, 2013 fresh start, finance planning 2013, Financial Planning, fresh start for 2013, make a change to finances, slow and steady wins the race, spotlight

Change Your Life – Step 9 Find Yourself

By savvyscot

Step 9 Find Yourself

As we approach the end of this 10 part series, hopefully you have picked up at least a couple of pointers and made a change or two. Small steps make a big change.. ever heard of the butterfly effect? Like the saying goes β€˜A small mistake you commit can create blunders later’ – small improvements… Read more

Filed Under: Change, Reflection, Self Development Tagged With: Change Your Life, find out who you are, find out who you are inside, find your soul, find yourself, Finding yourself, gandhi quote, how to find yourself. steps to find yourself, soul searching, spotlight

Change Your Life – Step 7 Improve Your Social Life

By savvyscot

Step 7 Improve Your Social Life

Need to play catchup? Part 1 – Exercise Part 2 – Eating Healthily Part 3 – Get Knowledge Part 4 – Your Appearance Part 5 – Learn New Skills Part 6 – Fix Your Wardrobe So you have followed steps 1 through 6 and you are well on your way to making a significant change… Read more

Filed Under: Change, Personal Finance, Reflection, Self Development Tagged With: change life, change social life, how to change my life, how to make friends, ideas to make friends, importance of being social, improve on social skills, improve social skills, make a change to my life, make friends, reasons to have friends, social change, social life

Change Your Life – Step 6 Fix Your Wardrobe

By savvyscot

Fix Your Wardrobe

Past posts from the Change Your Life Series are as follows: Part 1 – Exercise Part 2 – Eating Healthily Part 3 – Get Knowledge Part 4 – Your Appearance Part 5 – Learn New Skills Be Smart and Get Smart A lot of people have a problem when it comes to their wardrobe. It… Read more

Filed Under: Change, Self Development Tagged With: change life, change your dress, Change Your Life, Dress to impress, how to impress with wardrobe, importance of fashion, why to dress well

The Benefits and Risks of Contracting

By savvyscot

Contracting

Hello Everyone! Today I bring you a guest post on the Pros and Risks of Contracting. A very relevant topic for my fellow freelancers out there and some great tips. I have added my thoughts throughout and have a question for you at the end! If you are thinking about changing from permanent employment to… Read more

Filed Under: Change, Guest Posts Tagged With: Benefits of contracting, Contracting, Digital Nomad, Pros of contracting, reasons to contract, Why contract?

Change Your Life – Step 5 Learn New Skills

By savvyscot

Step 5 Learn New Skills

If you are new to the Change Your Life series then you can catch up with the following articles from the series: Part 1 – Exercise Part 2 – Eating Healthily Part 3 – Get Knowledge Part 4 – Your Appearance This week’s addition to the change your life series involves learning new skills. This… Read more

Filed Under: Adrenaline Junkie, Change, Self Development Tagged With: Change appearance, Change Your Life, Get Smart, how to improve appearance, how to improve my appearance, improve hygiene, learn new skills, learn skills, power of knowledge, should i change my appearance, teach skills, teach yourself skills

5 Things Hurricane Sandy Can Teach Us

By savvyscot

5 Things Hurricane Sandy Can Teach Us

As I am sure the whole world knows, 50 million people on east coast of North America are embracing themselves for the arrival of Hurricane Sandy. Public transport is grounded and over 7000 flights have been postponed. The storm has already taken 60 lives, has disrupted the presidential campaign and shut down Wall Street for… Read more

Filed Under: Change, Reflection, Self Development Tagged With: Dangerous Hurricane, Hurricane Sandy, Hurricane Sandy kills, Learn about Hurricane Sandy, Learn from Hurricane Sandy, What we can learn from Hurricane Sandy

Change Your Life Series – Step 3 Knowledge

By savvyscot

Change Your Life Series

For those of you who are new to the β€˜Change Your Life Series’ then fear not – there is still time to make a huge difference. Here’s what you have missed out on: Part 1 – Exercise Part 2 – Eating Healthily Part 3 – Get Smart & Learn You will be pleased to hear… Read more

Filed Under: Change, Entertainment, Self Development, Transitions Tagged With: Change Your Life, change your life and get education, Education, Get Smart, knowledge quote, knowlege, learn, power of knowledge

Change Your Life Series – Step 2 Eat Healthily

By savvyscot

Eat Healthily

  Have you joined the cool kids as a subscriber of SavvyScot.com yet? ——–> Last week we started the Change Your Life Series; a series of ten blog posts that (if followed) will change your life – guaranteed! The first post was centered around Exercise. For the last seven days you have been slowly increasing… Read more

Filed Under: Change, Entertainment, Fitness, Gym, Self Development, Sport Tagged With: Change Your Life, change your life with eating, eat healthily, eat in moderation, how to change your life, importance of a clean diet, importance of eating healthily, make a change today, out of sight out of mind, reasons to be healthy, Steps to change your life, transform your life, ways to change your life, why should i eat cleanly?, why should i eat healthily

Change Your Life Series – Step 1 Exercise

By savvyscot

Step 1 Exercise

Back in February when I founded SavvyScot.com I wanted to help people make a change in their lives.Β  That change could be a financial change, or it could be something else. While I don’t claim to know everything about money (in fact most of my knowledge comes from my interest in personal finance and what… Read more

Filed Under: Change, Self Development Tagged With: benefits of exercise, Change Your Life, change your life with exercise, how to change your life, how to exercise, importance of exercise, make a change today, Steps to change your life, transform your life, ways to change your life

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