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I’ve been thinking a lot lately about family. Over the last few years, I’ve had a lot of issues with people who are supposed to be my family which I won’t go too much into because they are very personal and I’m not sure how comfortable I am putting that sort of information out there on the internet. However, these problems have made me really think about what the word family means to me. I thought about how I’ve had much more support and guidance from friends of mine over the years than I have got from people I am related to in blood. Whilst going over this in my head, I began to realise that actually, family is more than blood. Family is about supporting you through your best times and your worst and still sticking with you. It’s about helping you when things are bad and experiencing the better times with you. It’s about being happy and laughing with you as well as offering you a shoulder to cry on or a listening ear if you ever need it. So, that means that to me, my friends ...

Just a short post to say thank you to everyone who has ever read any of my posts and taken me to the milestone of 200 pageviews which I reached today. I know it might not seem like much in comparison to so many of the other blogs out there, but to me it means the world. To have people reading what I have to say and to watch my pageviews rise over the last couple of months is one of the most positive things that has ever happened to me. So, from my heart, I want to say thank you to you all and please do keep reading so that my views can keep rising and my blog can keep growing. TRENT 

Today I wanted to talk about the effect that quitting caffeine has had on me. Like so many people, I have had caffeinated drinks in my diet all throughout my life and never realised the damage it was doing to both my mental and physical health. For me, the two main sources of it were tea (I’m British, of course I love tea) and Coke/Pepsi. Back in November of last year, I came to realise just how much of it I was drinking and the disastrous effects it was having on me. These included powerful mood swings and an inability to sleep properly, as well as worsening my depression. It was at this point that I took the decision to stop drinking it altogether and to see how it would improve my life. I have to say that it was by no means easy to ditch it. This was partly down to the fact that I used the cold turkey method (meaning that I cut it out in one go rather than trying to wean myself off of it gradually). It took a while before the detox began to work but once it did, it ...

6 months into My 2015, I think it’s time I explain a bit more about it and answer some of the questions I get asked about it. Where did you get the idea from? At the end of last year, I watched a video by Jake Edwards called Jar of 2014. Throughout the year, he’d written down all of the positive things that had happened to him and placed them in a jar. For the video he opened the jar and read through them to review his year and see all of the positive things that had happened. After the year I had last year, this video and this idea was exactly what I needed and I wouldn't hesitate to say that it changed my life for the better. I decided that this was something I would do for 2015 to make my life feel more positive and it has helped so much. Thank you Jake Edwards for inspiring me to do this. What do the colours represent? They actually don’t represent anything in particular, but it looks nicer. The order in which I use each colour is red, orange, yellow,...