Julia Selfridge on Living With Depression
Pretending to be normal was a way of life now. A loving wife and mother. I had a great job. I planned fantastic birthday parties for my children. Christmas get together’s were extravagant. I smiled and laughed as everyone expected. As a mother, I truly went out of my...
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The Fulfillment of Giving Back to the Backpacking Community Through Airport Volunteering
Photo credit: thanhniennews.com ** This is a guest post. Airports are permanent parts of a traveller’s life and depending on the person, an airport may be their best friend or worst nightmare. Nevertheless, these aviation hubs are among the main pillars that support...
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How Scott Traded Money and Career Success For a Life of Living Intentionally
**This is a guest post by Scott Elmgren. Scott is a career choice coach, writer, and entrepreneur hell bent on changing how we look at choosing best-fit work. After finding himself in career misalignment, he set out on a journey to get back on track and helps others...
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How to Land Your First Freelance Writing Gig, As a Beginner (Part 2)
This is part 2. For part 1 - Five Questions You Need To Ask Yourself - click here. I began blogging with no intention of getting paid to write. Just under a year later, a shift occurred. A few months ago, I realised I needed to start taking bigger steps toward...
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How to Land Your First Freelance Writing Gig, As a Beginner (Part 1)
I recently landed my first freelance writing gig. I decided to share how I did it to help other aspiring writers. The fact that I'm only a few steps ahead of those starting out, and many steps behind others, makes it more relatable. It makes it more tangible. It makes...
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“Focus on The Things That You Have Power Over” – Travel Profile, Manie Steyn
Travel Profile: Manie Steyn Author Bio I am from South Africa. I have been travelling since the age of 21 and in the last five years have been to 30 countries. I enjoy the freedom that travelling brings as well as the interesting people that you meet. I am currently...
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Why You Should Take The First Step (Even if You Don’t Know What it is)
At school, people used to be pleasantly surprised when I got high grades, even throughout University. Part of that stemmed from how I portrayed myself. I was cool, calm and casual about it all. This made me modest. Modest to the point where I wasn't very vocal about...
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How to Deal With Feeling like a Phony
I am contemplating a massive site overhaul. It is based on the fact that I do not feel clear about my offering. This means my core message, what value I want to provide. It feels messy and confused, a bit like my life right now. What I really want to do is help and...
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Why You Shouldn’t Be Scared of Putting Yourself Out There
It was just under a year ago that I launched this site. I remember the feeling building up to the launch, where I would be sharing my little creation with the world – well with my direct Facebook friends initially. I was scared... Not just scared, but fucking scared....
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What I Learnt Through Writing & Launching an eBook
After much thinking, talking about it and procrastination, I have finally launched my first eBook: Backpacking 101: Be Inspired. Overcome Fear. Get The Most Out of Your travels. Be sure to grab your free copy and give me feedback. It is my first attempt at an eBook...
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Startup Grind:Just Sell That Damn Cake
"Just Sell that Damn Cake". This was one of the key take outs (for me) from the Startup Grind event that I attended on the 7th of March 2016 in Cape Town. But more on that later as I assume many of you may be thinking. What on earth is Startup Grind? Startup Grind is...
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Understanding Yourself: A Starting Point to Landing that Dream Job
A friend recently sent me a link to a possible job opportunity at a start-up company. In applying for the job, I realised that I had a lot more to offer to the company, so I availed myself for any other possible positions within the company. The response I got was...
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A Shifting Perspective: Doing Things For The Sake Of Doing Them
It's been an extremely long time since I wrote anything. Exactly three months, If I go back to my last post on the 19th of November. Anyone who is in the blogging world knows that in order to maintain a successful blog, consistency is key and I have of course have...
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Don’t Fight So Hard: Let Things Flow
I recently started working at a wine farm. I find it taking up a lot of my time and I am on my feet all day, serving and selling wines. When I get home, all I want to do is unwind and relax.The last thing on my mind is writing. The fact that I feel this way annoys me...
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My Rash Decision and What I Learned
I want to let you in on a little secret. Earlier this year upon returning home to South Africa and following a month of travelling I made a rather rash decision. At the time I felt extremely anxious, not really sure what I wanted to do with life (to be honest not much...
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Backpacking 101: How to Get the Most Out of Your Travels
If the title wasn’t already a giveaway, I’ll just warn you now. If you are someone that enjoys travelling with all your luxuries, packing enough clothes to last you a year, staying in an expensive hotel sipping cocktails, sticking to a tight schedule that is all...
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My Challenge to Become A Freelance Writer
One of the reasons for launching this blog was to achieve location independence in being able to work and make money doing what I love regardless of location. I want to achieve a level of freedom to come and go as I please. I don't want this freedom to be limited...
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Beauty Is on Our Doorstep
Isn't it funny that when we talk about travel we think about traveling to distant countries and exploring the world a little more? Well, that's my experience anyways. When I decided to travel for the first time, this is exactly what I did. I guess this was amplified...
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How To Fund Your Travel Lifestyle (And Land that Job)
It really is no secret that I am deeply passionate about travel. Meeting new people. The sights.The experiences. The sense of adventure. These are just some of the things that draw me to the lifestyle of travel. Since returning home from traveling for just over a...
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Stay True to Yourself and Live a Life of No Regrets
I Remember The Day Clearly. So clearly in fact that I even remember what I was wearing. Well partly anyways. I was home for the weekend. This was a rare occasion as I spent the majority of my time at my residence at University with my friends (even though I was a mere...
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getButterflied Manifesto
I've spent a fair bit of time working on a manifesto. For those who do not know what a manifesto is, here is a definition: A manifesto is a declaration of an organisation or persons' beliefs, opinions, motives, and intentions. An organisation will write this document...
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Change That Which You Are Unhappy About
If you are an avid reader you probably would have noticed several changes to the site design of getButterflied over the past week. From the landing page (or Home) page (with an image that forms part of the header), to the colour scheme (which is now black), to various...
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Renaissance Business: How To Combine Your Many Interests Into One Digital Business
There are many resources out there that will help you setup a blog. Most of these resources, however, focus on the technical details related to launching a blog, such as hosting, choosing a theme, setting up a newsletter and so on. Whilst these are important, they...
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Why You Should Consider Blogging
I have spent a few months blogging now. And today I wanted to open up your mind to the beauty of blogging. Hopefully, it will give you some inspiration to consider starting your own blog. In the end though it's really up to you 🙂 This post will be followed by a post...
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Minimalism: Why Less Really is More
In a previous post, we explored minimalism and the common misconceptions associated with Minimalism. Just to recap, Minimalism is about re-assessing your priorities so that you can get rid of things, ideas, activities and obligations that are not important and add no...
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Minimalism: Dealing With Misconceptions
People on the whole have a misconception as to what Minimalism is. Minimalism is not about giving away stuff that you no longer want or need – although indeed this can be one aspect of it. It is not about living in a really, really small house, although if this is...
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Why You Need to Start Falling and Stumbling About
It's easy to delay starting a project by telling yourself and asking yourself questions like: I don't have the technical know how or business acumen. Where will I get funding from? Will this work? What if it fails? I have so much on the go already, how am I going to...
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What is So Beautiful About New Experiences?
New experiences can take a wide variety of forms. They could involve your first love. It could be that you are embarking on your first solo backpacking adventure? Maybe it's the first time you initiate a conversation with a stranger? They could take the form of...
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What I have Learnt Over The Past Few Months
Today we reflect on the past few months.Today I share a personal note. I want to take the opportunity to recap (amongst other things) what I have learnt and summarise some of the biggest take outs for me. I also wanted to let the readers know about some of my plans...
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How Powerful & Capable Do You Think You Are?
How Powerful and capable Do You Think You Are? Well, If the past 18 months have taught me anything it's the following: We as human beings are more powerful and capable than we think. We can achieve anything we put our minds to. ROLL BACK to some time in 2012 where I...
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So You Wish You Could Travel?
I can't tell you how many times I have received the following comments from friends and strangers alike: "You're so lucky, I wish I could travel". Let me just repeat that again: "You're so lucky. I wish I could travel". NOW, I'm not sure if they genuinely mean this...
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What On Earth Is a Multipotentialite? (A Kick Ass Ted Talk, An Overview & Some Cool Resources)
Editor's Note: Throughout this blog/website I throw the word Multipotentialite around. Today I thought it was only fitting to provide an overview of what a Multipotentialite is. I have also included some awesome resources and a truly inspirational TED Talk. Enjoy:) Do...
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Strategies to Keep Your Dreams Alive (when quitting feels like the easy option)
I started this journey (for those who are new here, when I say journey, I mean working on setting up this blog and pursuing a life around my passions and dreams) just over two months ago. If I am honest my journey really started, without me knowing it, when I started...
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How well do you know yourself?
I recently started learning a lot more about myself and throughout this process, I realised how little I actually knew about myself before that. Yes, I had a vague understanding and developed insights based on discoveries along the way, but I was getting to know...
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Is Fear Holding you Back from Achieving Your Dreams?
As I write this blog post I am pursuing my dream of starting my own online business (this blog) revolving around what I am currently passionate about, namely personal development and philanthropy (among other things). I spent a lot of time working on discovering what...
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How to Combat Anxiety (And Deal With Those Custard Traps)
Anxiety is often characterised by inner turmoil and associated feelings often include restlessness, agitation, worry uneasiness. It often involves uneasiness about a future event. I'm sure many of you have experienced this in your life. I sure have, I remember as a...
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Why is Getting to Know Yourself So Important?
So why is getting to know yourself (self knowledge) so important? Well instead of answering that question immediately, I'd like to start with another question: What do you want to do with your life? I'll then tell you a little story and it will all make sense in the...
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What is the Secret to Positive Change?
Over the past few months this great desire to do something greater than myself, to leave a legacy behind has been dominating my thoughts, specifically this blog. Not a day went by and goes by when I don't think about it. At the same time I was spending my time...
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10 Ways Travelling Can Transform You
Having spent over a year travelling, I thought I would share a post on how travelling transforms you as a person. Hopefully, this serves as an inspiration to get you travelling more and it needn't be to far away countries. Beauty is on our doorstep. Travelling...
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Backpacking Solo: How to Overcome Uncertainty & General Tips
There is often a huge amount of uncertainty before you do something new, especially when it is something new that totally throws your current life out the window. Here I am talking about your first solo backpacking adventure. Talking from experience, having embarked...
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