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Category: Positive thinking
- If your going to do it then do it well
  
  Posted at 3:15 am by Holly, on April 19, 2018
  This quote speaks volumes to me and I hope it does you.
  
  You’ve all heard –
  - Don’t run before you learn how to walk.
  - Take one step at a time.
  - If you do something do it well
  Well they are all trying to get the same message across. That each thing you want to achieve is a goal and you just need to focus on it but don’t hurry it. You want to get there with a sense of I did it and it was worth every step along the way to reach the goal…
  
  You never just tick off your achievements without putting in effort so please just take it steady whatever you are aiming for in life and make sure you wear a smile and have a spring in your step while doing it.
  
  Happy Thursday, thanks for stopping by
  
  Til next time
  Posted in lifestyle, Quotes, Positive thinking, Personal, Confidence, Weight loss | 0 Comments | Tagged advice, goals, happiness, lifestyle, motivation, Personal
- More than a number
  
  Posted at 5:02 pm by Holly, on April 3, 2018
  
  There’s no getting away from it…
  
  It’s a part of life that we are all measured by numbers.
  
  Like when you don’t feel very well and the doctor says this…
  
  Don’t you just want to punch him in the face? I’m in a lot of pain otherwise I wouldn’t be here for relief.
  
  Then you have people asking you how much you weigh.
  
  If you are happy with the way you are you don’t need to be defined by a number staring back at you on the scales. It can get you down.
  
  The same goes for the size of your clothes in a shop. It shouldn’t make you feel uncomfortable when looking for something to wear, but when they stick numbers on it you can’t help but worry.
  
  Own the outfit and cut out the label it’s only going to make you feel bad about yourself if you’ve had to go up a size in one shop (It’s how they are made not you). Wear it with confidence.
  
  Then it’s marks out of 10 when rating something.
  
  Why can’t it be bad,good,very good and excellent. Just a thought.
  
  I guess this has been a random blog post but it’s so true. You shouldn’t have to worry about what numbers you are just enjoy your life.
  
  Thanks for stopping by
  
  Til next time…
  
  Posted in lifestyle, Personal, Positive thinking, words of wisdom | 2 Comments | Tagged Confidence, lifestyle, Personal, Positivity, reflection, words of wisdom
- Dream it, Wish it, Do it
  
  Posted at 4:09 pm by Holly, on March 29, 2018
  
  I bet there are things in life that you think if only… like a dream/wish you had and you wish it would come true.
  
  Do you ever just have it as a thought and do nothing with it or do you yearn over it and put every effort into making it a reality?
  
  My advice is this:
  
  You were given this life so go live it, whatever your heart desires, whatever you dream of is NEVER out of reach. If you can’t stop thinking about it then its meant to be in your life so go for it. Grab it with both hands and if you fall upon the way get back up and carry on chasing that dream and make it happen.
  
  There was once a little girl, who would sit in the hairdressers while her mum had her hair done with a pad in hand – writing her little heart out. Back then she wished she could write a book one day, one that someone would actually buy.
  
  That little girl was me.
  
  I did achieve my dream – I published a book last year and to tick off one of my accomplishments feels magical.
  
  So don’t give up on your dreams, and when you make a wish blowing out the candles on your Birthday cake don’t just leave it be, if it doesn’t happen when you want it to then you know what you got to do.
  
  Click here if you’d wish to read my book… it would mean a lot to me.
  
  Right, I’m off for my chippy tea.
  
  Laters my dreamers
  
  Posted in lifestyle, Personal, Positive thinking, Positivity, words of wisdom | 3 Comments | Tagged advice, inspiration, life, lifestyle, Personal, Positivity, writing
- Positivity for all the bloggers out there
  
  Posted at 12:13 am by Holly, on March 8, 2018
  
  Here’s a short video from me to you at just gone midnight.
  
  Lots of love and here’s to a Happy Thursday ❤️
  
  Posted in blog, Personal, Positive thinking, Positivity, words of wisdom, writing | 0 Comments | Tagged advice, blogging, inspiration, lifestyle, Personal, Positive thinking, Positivity
- Disabled Not Dumb
  
  Posted at 2:43 pm by Holly, on February 24, 2018
  I believe we are all given problems in life so we can prove we are strong enough to get through them to enjoy the happier times.
  
  The majority of the time I’m laughing the day away with a positive mind. I have been handed a pretty crap hand over the last few years and of course there are days when I don’t feel as strong and its just me, my hot water bottle and bed. Of late there are people that make the situation I’m in – In a wheelchair rather annoying and sad.
  
  Here are some of the things that people say:
  - Asking my Mum “Is she ok?” – I’m sat right here they can ask me
  - “You don’t want to be in there all your life” – damn right I don’t
  - “Can’t you just do more exercise?” – if only it was that easy
  - “I’m so sorry you poor thing” – no pity needed, it doesn’t help
  Also when going on the bus some of the bus drivers aren’t helpful in the slightest and just expect you to do wheelies on and off the bus, the ramp was put in for a reason. There’s been a handful of times I’ve cried cos I have felt useless because I just can’t get on and off the bus like everyone else.
  
  I guess there is always going to be ignorant assholes and I’ve just got to grin and bear it.
  
  I am not my disability and I hope that others can see that too instead of treating me like that’s all that I am. The majority of people are lovely its the minority that ruins it.
  
  Thanks for reading and I’ll see you in a happier post next time.
  Posted in Chronic illness, Equality, Health, lifestyle, Personal, Positive thinking | 0 Comments | Tagged Chronic illness, disability, Health, inspiration, life, lifestyle, Personal
- Don’t be so cruel
  
  Posted at 7:00 pm by Holly, on February 22, 2018
  
  A message to all people who think its ok to knock someone down just because they are different.
  
  Read the whole thing including the quotes too
  
  You should never be frowned upon for the colour of your skin, the shape of your body or the colour of your hair.
  
  This is a beauty spot and a cute little heart
  
  But people turn their noses up or turn their backs when they see less than ‘their idea of perfection such as a birthmark or freckles on the face.
  
  and should people be hated on for who they choose to love?
  
  Of course not…
  
  People all over the world decide they are going to be cruel to somebody behind their computer screens
  
  When in fact it’s exactly the same as saying it to somebody face to face..
  
  It still hurts the same.
  
  No, you should never hate yourself and no one should ever make you feel like that.
  
  Do not troll in person, and don’t troll online, this is the only troll you should ever see.
  
  Please feel free to share this post to make people aware.
  
  Much loves and thank you for reading xx
  
  Posted in Confidence, Equality, lifestyle, love, mental health, Personal, Positive thinking | 11 Comments | Tagged advice, inspiration, lifestyle, Personal, Positivity, Quotes, words of wisdom
- Five Planner Essentials
  
  Posted at 7:11 pm by Holly, on February 20, 2018
  
  Today I thought I would talk you through these helpful things that help me plan a bit better than just plain old pen and paper.
  
  I want you to know this, you can use these 5 essentials for anything in life not just blogging.
  
  AN A3 WHITEBOARD
  
  I bought this in Whsmiths sometime last year for £6.99 I think I am pretty sure they still will be in there now. I have used a piece of pink card cut up into how many topics I want to cover wrote on with a sharpie to stand out and stuck on with magnetic tape which you can buy from Amazon for under a fiver. I find that when I am planning blog posts I can bring down the relevant one and do a spidergram with all my ideas. I really do find it really handy. I then either take a pic on the phone of my ideas and add to OneNote or write it in a book.
  
  A DIY TO DO LIST
  
  I made this to help me stay on track with what I had to do whether it was blog related or not it, and its super helpful. Write your thing to do on the tape and stick it up there on the board, when its done take it down..simple. I bought the mini clipboard from good old Wilkos The sticky blackboard paper and coloured tape from Amazon. These are two places I love to get my stationary from as its so cheap.
  
  A SELECTION OF NOTELETS AND WEEKLY PLANNER SHEETS
  
  When out shopping and I come across notelets or weekly planners you can guarantee I’ve grabbed one or the other off the shelf and shoved it in my basket. They are great if you have an idea but don’t want to use up a whole sheet of paper or don’t have your technology to hand. The prettier they are sometimes you don’t want to use them. I got the first one in the sale in Primark for £3 possibly less, and the last two in HomeSense.I wish these had online stores, I would be penniless and many of you too.
  
  A NOTEBOOK FOR LITERALLY ANYTHING
  
  I bought this years ago but I can’t remember where, and I didn’t write in it as I thought I want it to be organised and just about one thing when in fact the list on the front said it all write all sorts in there. So that’s what I have started to do. If you want to keep it in some sort of order then adapt it to your needs with an index, washi tape for marked pages, however, you wish.
  
  AN INSPIRATION PINBOARD
  
  Go pick up a large pinboard from your local supermarket or stationery store, open up Pinterest and look for some inspiration that’s going to keep you going when you are writing. These are a few I printed out a few months ago and I do need to add a few more. You could make it into a vision board, put all your notes on it, photographs of people that make you smile or your cat or dog…you really can use it for anything.
  
  There you have it I thought I would stick to 5 as I could have gone on and on. I’d love to hear what things you use to plan/organise yourselves.
  
  Have a fab day and thanks for reading
  
  Til next time…
  
  Posted in lifestyle, Personal, Positive thinking, Quotes, writing | 5 Comments | Tagged inspiration, lifestyle, motivation, Personal, Quotes
- JANUARY NEWSLETTER
  
  Posted at 3:11 pm by Holly, on January 26, 2018
  
  You hate those pop-up newsletter things right?
  
  I am back to writing my monthly newsletters and am going to send out this months on the 31st of January
  
  so I thought I would write on here to see if anyone would like to receive it this months and every month thereafter?
  
  SIGN UP TO MY NEWSLETTER HERE
  
  It would be lovely to have some more subscribers to join my little group I email so far.
  
  Much loves and I’ll see you in my next post
  
  Posted in blog, favourites, lifestyle, Personal, Positive thinking, words of wisdom, writing | 2 Comments | Tagged advice, blogging, favourites, inspiration, life, lifestyle, monthly, Personal
- Whats on my mind?
  
  Posted at 8:53 pm by Holly, on January 16, 2018
  
  All that has been written here today is just off the top of my head, no filter just whatever is on my mind.
  
  It’s now close to 3 weeks into the new year and it hasn’t been the new year I was totally envisioning, but nevertheless its been pretty positive one most of the time.
  
  I started doing weight watchers New Years Day and it wasn’t that I thought I was fat, cos I’m not. I have just got some unwanted inches from being sat/led down a lot. Not being able to sleep in my bedroom upstairs because of the paralysis in my legs and having my bed in the lounge next to the kitchen was asking for a bit of weight gain. I would comfort eat because I felt sad of how life had changed for me in a blink of an eye. Anyway, i am losing weight which is good. Slow but steady and that’s how I prefer rather than all at once.
  
  I’ll keep you updated as my journey with that goes on.
  
  Having a few chronic illnesses I guess they are going to rear their ugly head at some point, and it seemed like January was the month that my anxiety picked. I have been worrying about the future and what life will be like with a disability and will I ever be back to normal. The thing I need to get in my head is what will be will be and just to be positive, not to focus on the things that get me down and I can’t control.
  
  I have also had a bit of writers block of late, so if you were wondering where my blog posts were – its because I hit a wall. I know what I want to write about but putting the words down has been hard. However, i think my mojo is back and I am ready to give blogging my all. I’m going to write from the heart and not whats on trend as I know there are so many people who just follow suit. I always look at writing as being an outlet and also to give people my honest opinion/advice and on occasions make them laugh.
  
  Just so you know, from now on it will be whatever I think about writing on that day and I hope you will still enjoy reading it. Some occasions it may be scheduled but on a whole I want to bring it to you from the brain to laptop to you FRESH.
  
  Keep an eye out for videos and audio messages too as I love adding personal touches to every post.
  
  Love you all and appreciate you reading.
  
  Til next time…
  
  Posted in Chronic illness, Personal, Positive thinking, Weight loss, writing | 7 Comments | Tagged advice, inspiration, lifestyle, Personal, Positivity, Weight loss
- Happy The Journal – My First Impression
  
  Posted at 2:00 pm by Holly, on January 8, 2018
  
  I am so over the moon with this fabulous journal I had for Christmas from my brother…
  
  The bro did good. More like his girlfriend did.
  
  So if you haven’t seen or heard of it before it is one of Fearne Cottons creations that she has put together of positive thinking in a journal type way. It is really quite clever and different. I haven’t seen one like it before.
  
  I thought I would give you a first impression of what I think of it and a peek inside of it too.
  
  This is my first page…It gives you a whole page to write down your wishes for the year ahead but instead of putting ‘I want’, you write it as if it has actually has happened so in mine you can see my positive points. I came up with 10. It took me about half an hour to wrack my brains to come up with some good ones.
  
  Throughout the journal you will see these quotes which are not only positive but powerful too. I always get that instant boost when I read a good quote.
  
  Heres an idea if you don’t always have your book to hand you could copy the quotes down into the notes section on your phone and when you need that bit of positivity you have it right there.
  
  Skipping to February – Each month has a theme and you probably can guess from the prompts above that Feb is Love. Even if you aren’t in a relationship they are still relatable as most of this book is pointed towards self-love and improving your life.
  
  At the end of each day you will have a face with no mouth… here you can put how your mood was on that day and then when you flip back through its a reminder of how you felt on that day.
  
  As you can see the pages are a bright array of pastel colours but unfortunately its a cold and miserable day with little sunlight so I just had to adjust mine to look semi-decent.
  
  You can buy this Journal in pretty much every bookstore there is worldwide. It’s also kind to your purse too just over a tenner and has so many pages of content its well worth spending your pennies on.
  
  If you like writing/journaling and a bit of self-development then this is going to be just the book for you.
  
  Thanks for stopping by
  
  Until next time…
  
  Posted in mental health, Personal, Positive thinking, Positivity, Quotes, review, writing | 4 Comments | Tagged books, journaling, mental health, Personal, Positivity, Quotes
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