At the start of my journey and even occasionally throughout, I would sometimes find myself on social media comparing myself to others. ‘Look at that car’, ‘look at his holiday’, ‘look at her figure’... As soon as I get five minutes spare I find myself scrolling through a filtered feed of things I would rather be doing...

After coming across this article this morning it appears not everyone was struggling. It struck a chord with me, because in a time of such uncertainty and despair, a young woman at the age of 19 dares to take a leap of faith out of her comfort zone and start her own business during the lockdown.

July 21 2021, it’s 27 degrees by 10 am and there isn't a cloud in the sky, the evenings are getting lighter and my legs are getting darker. British summer, as temperamental as it may be, has finally arrived and despite the fact that the first month was consumed by Boris’s restrictions, this is the most progressive summer I have ever had.

Entering my final year of university, I could never have foreseen how it was going to end.

Are you still keeping to your New Year’s resolution? Maybe you are, if so fantastic, but for most of us, probably not. I came across a statistic that really took me by surprise, the majority of us would have given up on our New Years’ goals months ago. According to research by the University of Scranton, 92% of goals that are set during the New Year are never actually achieved. (Inc. Magazine, 2016)