One Step At A Time // Project 366 // Day 2

The major downfall of most New Year Resolutions is trying to do them all at once and perfectly. Listing 10 things and expecting yourself to be able to keep it up means that very quickly you can't maintain, you begin to drop things and eventually stop trying because you feel like your failing.

Instead take it one step at a time.

Resolution to get healthier: maybe you go to the gym once this week and start building it up, maybe you make your lunches to keep you away from temptation when your trying to buy one quickly on a break. Maybe all you do this week is go a walk, but next week set a new goal, then another and then another. Little steps all add up.

Resolution to save money: look at your budget, see where you spending your money this is the first step you need to do. Money advice posts where they tell you to cut your daily £4 coffee are no help when you don't have a daily £4 coffee. Look at small places to cut so you can begin to save. Then repeat.

Whatever it is break it down in to steps, and then that's all you have to do take it one step at a time, your allowed to stumble you may even take a few steps back. But stay on the path.

xoxo

Going Blindly // Project 366 // Day 1

I love the new year, I don't care for cynicism, in the same way I love a Monday Its a brilliant time to start all over again. Though you can choose to do that anytime you please. Never doubt each new day is an equally brilliant chance to completely reinvent yourself.

Though not only the start of a year, the start of a brand new decade. 10 years ago I was 14,  we'd had a bad bit of snow. I hadn't yet sat exams in high school, started working, ventured of to college, discovered my love of filming. I had ambition to travel but had never wandered that far or often.

A decade is a lot of time, yet no time at all. In another 10 years I will be mid-way through my thirties with is a scary thought. I have dreams and ambitions for what my life will look like and the knowledge that I will need to graft to see them become a reality.

Life doesn't really have a right time to start, you just have to go blindly hope that the universe sets you on the right course!

xoxo

this time... // project 365 // Day 82

At the forefront of my mind for the past couple of hours I have been screaming at myself to put up todays post, but I couldn't find a picture. I have a few topics buzzing about my head but no motivation to really think them out.

So here's a photo from December, the last of 2018's Time of the Months are up on my youtube channel and soon enough I'm going to be posting regular content again.

I want to be more creative I want to spend more time making things.

So in the mean time have a gander at that. December was full I went to the Lea Michele and Darren Criss concert, and then there was a lot of Christmas festivities and of course new years.

xoxo

Resolutions // 365 Project // Day 9

I stood at the bus stop waiting to go to work. Not nearly as refreshed as I had hoped.  When I watched a man struggle to cycle up the hill, but with determination he went for it anyway. 

It got my thinking about resolutions, maybe this was his. Chilly afternoon cycle maybe he was all in. 

Then I thought about my many snoozes on the alarm clock and cancelled spin class. After a bad nights sleep I had decided to put a halt to going back to the gym... till tomorrow, in hopes of sleeping a little bit longer and feeling a bit better. 

But I still feel just meh, maybe getting up and going would have made me feel better. 

My main resolution this year is to work on me, and get myself into a better place, physically, financially, mentally. And any other -ally ways that will work to benefit me. The months nearly in double digits and I’m not beating myself over not starting properly yet. 

There are many days still to come and I’m not about to feel defeated a week and a half into the new year. 

I hope what ever you want from this year, you are working towards to achieve. Small steps or big steps there all steps. 

xoxo

It's A New Year! // 365 project // Day 1

When thinking about resolutions or challenges for myself this year, one of the things I wanted to push myself to do more of was to take more pictures and post them... I already take a lot of photos I started last year attempting to do this but didn't do a lot of posting.

So I then decided that in 2019 I was going to do a 365 project, and then when deciding on what platform to share them on I decided where's better than my poor neglected blog. I had thought about Insta/Insta stories but I have settled on here as I don't want the pressure of trying to keep a semblance of a theme on my Instagram and I want to have the ability of commentary hence no insta stories.

I was trying to find a new years pic I had taken to start this challenge properly instead here's one from the 28th of December this is where I welcomed in 2018 at the Ashton Lane Street Party, we saw out 2018 and said hi to the new year at a party in my house. The hangover has been brutal.

2018 was a weird one, it felt like it was going right until it didn't and when it all came crashing down it did so in spectacular fashion. Here's to a better 2019! and hopefully keeping up with this project.

xoxo

2015: A Year in Review

2015 was a weird one. I entered the year feeling rather stressed that I wasn't doing enough at college and then everything came at once and the world became insanely busy. But full of really fun filming projects and at times I didn’t feel like I would pass my course as things kept piling on top of each other and it felt like a mountain I couldn’t wade through and the procrastination was very real. But in the first week of June everything was handed in and not long later I was finally awarded my HND in Television Production.  

I also got to experience my first trip away into what will hopefully happen a lot more in the future.  Having a few days in London and then going off to Paris, Milan and Rome was a wonderful escape and a great way to quench some wanderlust. But also made me realise how intense my desire to see the world really is. Hopefully this will become a reality. 

In between that all I have created some great memories with friends and family. Read great books. Seen amazing movies. Experienced my first Spin Class. Worked my butt off. Treated my mum to a holiday to celebrate her 50th. Seen my Uncle get married. Met Kate Voegele and Tyler Hilton. Worked on a real set. Got my second tattoo.  Life has been good.

Hopefully 2016 comes with as amazing experiences and many more great moments. 

New Year Hangover Cures

As the New Year comes in with a bang 

Here are some Hangover Cures to stock up on before you need them.

I honestly can't even think about food after a night of drinking unless I'm still already drunk and we've stumbled upon somwhere that does chips. Come morning and I actually have to function as a human being it takes me a while before I can really stomach anything and this has come from a lot of trial and error.  A major error being my mum thinking a full english breakfast would be a good idea after my first proper drinking session and I was violently sick whither it was the food or the drink we'll never know...

Innocent Antioxident Smoothie.
I genuinely didn't know how I felt about this the first time I drank it but now I reach for it when ever I'm in need of a pick me up. It honestly just makes me feel miles better, whither I've been out all night having a drink or just been up all night binge watching a show.  Defiantly one to put in your fridge.

Irn Bru
I'm a sugar free kinda gal, but the regular stuff would work too. Sometimes you just need something fizzy and Irn Bru is a honest to god hangover cure. I always grab a bottle of this especially if I have to work or socialise after a night out as it keeps me awake as well as keeping me sane.

Water 
I make sure I have a bottle of water ready to take up to bed with me when I come in and force myself to drink it eveytime I wake up, which is a lot as I have really bad sleeps if I've been drinking. This really helps me wake up a little bit fresher as the few times I have forgotten this have not been very pleasant as well.

So remember to drink responsibly and have a fantastic New Year.  

Welcome to the New Year

Here we are day one of three hundred and sixty five, and the cliche new year - new me, still rings true with many people. Each new year holds promise of new opportunities, new memories, new chances yet to be taken, the ability to start a fresh. To let go of all the bad, hold onto the good and move forward. 

So when you see the cliche posts that are reiterated each year, people vowing to change, whither the goals be small or large, who are we to sit and scoff that they won’t do it. There decisions in no way impact your life, other than having to see a post about it on some form of social media site. And if bothers you that badly, unfollow, unfriend, you can do it at the click of a button it is that easy.  and anyway this might be the year they do. 

And if it is you who has vowed that this year that you will change you, whither that be physically, mentally or emotionally do not be disheartened by the plethora of posts that make fun of the idea of changing simply because its a new year. who cares if you say it every year, this could be your year, and if not theres always next year, or the year after that. 

Do not spend your life controlled by what others may think, if you are going to do anything this year, it should be to take control of your own happiness do not have it dictated by anyone else. Take chances, cease the moment, take a million pictures, with and without filter, write about it, dilute it to a 140 characters. Share your world with the world. 

We are more connected than we ever were, so use it to your advantage. Do not let the world leave you cynical, share your moments happy or sad. Vent out your frustrations, scream out your excitement. Let this new chapter begin. 

Welcome to the New Year, let it be everything you want it to be.