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		<title>Welcome to Zen Again</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2016 15:17:13 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been thinking about starting this blog for a long time. A lot of the principles &#38; steps I will talk about have been in motion for a few years now but I&#8217;m far from finished. The purpose &#8230; <div class="more-link-wrapper"><a href="https://www.zenagain.co.uk/welcome-to-zen-again/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> "Welcome to Zen Again"</span></a></div>]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;ve been thinking about starting this blog for a long time. A lot of the principles &amp; steps I will talk about have been in motion for a few years now but I&#8217;m far from finished. The purpose of this blog is to share with you ideas, plans, tips &amp; tricks to de-stress, de-clutter &amp; simplify every aspect of modern life.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve lived a few lifetimes it feels in my 32 years on this planet, and I can already look back and glean great wisdom from those lifetimes. I&#8217;ve made huge mistakes, but I&#8217;ve always managed to learn from them. I&#8217;ve lived in massive houses with flash cars &amp; I&#8217;ve never felt so low. Living a lavish lifestyle almost cost me everything, both financially &amp; emotionally, but thankfully these mistakes were used as lessons and not roadblocks. And I&#8217;ve achieved massive things, like self funding my way through 2 degrees &amp; now having a Masters.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m now half way through my journey. A lot of the debts I ran up both as a student &amp; as a small business owner are well under control and on the way to being cleared. There is still plenty to do and I&#8217;m far from being a relaxed and content human being.</p>
<p>Three months ago My wife &amp; I moved to the coast in Cornwall. It seemed like a very good move to make, we where both really stressed out after staying with family for a while and paying down a lot of debt. The culture down here is so different to my native Manchester. It&#8217;s a slower &amp; less competitive way of life. A place where happiness seems to be put before salary. The perfect place for a life reboot. The slower pace of life must be working already as I&#8217;ve just set-up this blog, after a long walk around the coastal path &amp; I&#8217;m sat writing to you with a warm cup of Earl Grey tea and the sun beaming through the window. Life is definitely improving, but don&#8217;t think this is some sort of country idyll, I still have a lot of things to overcome &amp; a long way to go. I do hope you will join me on that journey.</p>
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