Intentional Living . Self Awareness
Writing the Wrongs of the Year- Lessons for 2018
On December 30, 2017 by adminMaybe it’s the university English language major in me but I couldn’t help but review the lessons of the year in the best way I know how, just as I would a good book.
In my first year of university my lecturer explained that the first step is to draw out the key points, the devices leading to the main themes. The stand outs, the signs, the enlightenments and the sparks. Using devices like characterisation, metaphors, similes, repetition and alliteration (when the same letter or sound is used to begin closely connected words).
Leading into 2018, how have the characters in your life developed? Who brought drama and pessimism. Who gravitated into your life and equally who gravitated out of it. The people who remain in your story, are meant to be there. Which characters remained consistent? Just as every year will continue to do, a series of events demonstrated the consistent people in my life. The people who message on a Wednesday night asking how my week’s been and the ones who message me to get home safe. You are a reflection of the people you surround yourself with so determine whether those around you helped you grow or who contributed to your fall. Note the importance this places on your character’s development on your journey.
Health . Mental Wellbeing . Self Awareness . Social Change
Food For Thought: Fuelling the Mind
On November 29, 2017 by adminAs some of you may know I am nearing the end of a fitness challenge (being held accountable just got very real!). When I began I believed that how I felt about my physical appearance would be my focus but the results so far have highlighted a lesson in myself that’s so much more important.
Social Change
THE CONSTRUCTION OF B-E-A-UTIFUL IN SOCIETY
On September 17, 2017 by adminWith the flood of social media the divide between expectation and reality has never been so prevalently reinforced into our everyday lives, consuming us from the minute we wake up and look at our phones. To add to that we live in a world where our level of perceived beauty is directly correlated to our sense of self worth and yet when we define beauty we focus on aesthetic appearances and a significant part of who we are goes unrepresented.
Self Awareness
CARD FOR HUMANITY – Embracing Your Inner ‘Weird’
On September 13, 2017 by admin
“You are easily the weirdest person I’ve ever met, it took us a year of being together to find out you sleep with a toy purple dinosaur”…
What my partner said sparked a lesson in me about how I embraced my inner-depth and how you can too.
Intentional Living . Mental Wellbeing
THE ONE FOR IMPROVING HAPPINESS
On September 6, 2017 by admin
These are the steps I take in order to get out my twenty-something, doing nothing, going nowhere ruts.
Intentional Living . Self Awareness
5 THINGS TO REMEMBER WHEN STUCK IN A RUT
On August 30, 2017 by adminLet’s face it, in life we are constantly stuck in situations. Stuck in a dead-end job not knowing what other path to take. Stuck studying a subject you don’t even like. Stuck living at home with your parents wanting to move out. Stuck single wanting a relationship. Stuck in a relationship with no growth or not knowing whether you’re in the right relationship. Sound familiar to anyone? I’m absolutely not an expert in all these topics, but these are the things I make myself remember to become okay with feeling stuck. Because I do feel like an expert in that field!
1. You are working towards doing something whether you know it or not. Give yourself some credit because despite how it may look the rest of us are feeling the same in one way or another! This is not an excuse if you know you could be doing more to get to where you want to be. It is reassurance that despite what you think, you are progressing. Even if you believe you feel stuck the mere life experience doing what you’re doing, the conversations, the memories, the time and especially the mistakes are going to contribute to finding your way. Helping gain clarity deciding what you want and just as importantly what you don’t want.
Intentional Living . Social Change
WHAT DO YOU WANT TO BE WHEN YOU ‘GROW UP’?
On August 22, 2017 by adminREMEMBER how excited you’d get as a child when you were asked this? The language we used as if it was undoubtedly going to happen. More often than not we would say multiple things of completely different fields and it didn’t even matter the plausibility of them all actually happening. I don’t know about you but at one stage I was going to become a crime scene investigator, ballerina, and professional singer whilst owning a dog rescue shelter.
The older we got the more our answers would change. Month to month, year to year. And this to us was fine! Because we were so young and we had so much time to figure it out when we reached that place that everyone referred to as ‘older’. We had no shame that it was constantly changing or unknown. Back then when asked the words that resonated with us were ‘want’ and ‘be’. So at what point in our lives does the excitement of not knowing turn to fear and the emphasis changes to the word ‘older’. Why is it that when we’re asked at the mere age of sixteen when doing senior subject selection does our excitement change to angst of not knowing?
Intentional Living . Self Awareness . Social Change
REDEFINING SUCCESS
On August 15, 2017 by adminPEOPLE tend to give us advice based not only from their mistakes and experiences but from their definition of what it means to be successful. Often due to the limited opportunities they had themselves (particularly those from a different generation) they have weighted a secure job with financial gain the sole element in becoming successful.
Self Awareness . Travel
REFLECTIONS OF WINDOWS TRAVELLED
On August 8, 2017 by adminThere’s something I love about looking through windows while travelling.It doesn’t matter if it’s a train, bus, plane, tram, hostel, taxi or even boat. It’s not the excitement of the reflections of those strangers in the same place. Curious as to see where they’re going, where they’ve been or what they know.