How to Live Your Best Life (in Six Simple Steps)

Sitting on the couch, scrolling through Facebook I carefully examined everyone’s posts and pictures. It was Christmas Day.

Too cold to get dressed, I sat in my mis-matched pyjamas, overeating mint chocolate sweets, feeling guilty as each one went down. Another broken diet, another boring Christmas.

By this point, I had been chronically unemployed since leaving collage three years before. The only job I had at this time was temp-work in a meat packing factory which I absolutely detested.