Mid week mantra...

This post is coming as a bit of mid week mantra. I'm feeling like I need it, cos' quite frankly, up to now, my week has been shit. Not groundbreakingly or life threatening in anyway, just in general a bit pants. And it's pretty safe to say (I should get Craig to write this part for authenticity) I've been iv been a bit moody.

So when he brought me my morning brew and told me not to leave my bed until I'd drank it I started to think about what was making me feel like this and what I was gonna do to pull myself out of it. 

This is what I came up with...

So right now I'm trying to milk every minute as productively as I can to get my uni work off to the best start before I go back in September. Paired up with doing most of it from home, spending long days with none other than L and D to keep me company, the daily routine and future business plans, iced with girl issues ( don't make me say it aloud) and a seriously f*cked up wireless printer, and as you may be sensing , it's a recipe for major frustration, creative decline and obscene chocolate cookie intake. (And stupidly long sentences!)

Iv realised that creative juices definitely don't flow being home alone all day and trying hard to be productive can sometimes be the most productivity inhibiting thing you can do.

Today I'm letting it go.

Channeling the mantra that only I can control how I feel, only I can stop myself procrastinating and my work will only come and be good if I'm happy and I'm enjoying it. So today is all about that. 

Walking, cooking, drinking coffee and spending time out of my house. I'm doing stuff that I can start, complete and enjoy all in the same day. That way no pressure or guilt comes from not getting stuff done and tomorrow I will be happy and motivated to get creative again...that's the idea anyway! 

Peace out! 

Xoxo

A positive mantra...

So here’s a thought, its Sunday morning, I'm up at the crack of dawn finding myself a little 'me time' (I've even managed to shut the dogs out - mainly because I spent at least half an hour hovering our wool sofa yesterday and don't plan on putting myself through that again any time soon!), sat here thinking why do we tend to over think things? I'm talking about everything, not just design but life in general. 

(Stay with me on this, it's a bit of a waffle-y post, but it's made me feel better just writing it!)

I had this conversation with two good friends yesterday, one of which was describing a scenario that put her smack bang in the middle of lacking spontaneity and preconceiving the day ahead, which she highlighted how in turn it effected her gorgeous weekend trip away (albeit not majorly, this party girl doesn't let much stand in her way of a good time!).

So this got me thinking, why do we overcomplicate EVERYTHING? As humans is it just in our nature to come up with an excuse not to do something, or to put something off til' a later date? If we want something so badly why not just go out and get it? Or do it? Or use it? Or WHATEVER.

What stands in our way? The answer, I reckon, is us. It's mainly ourselves and our self conscious creating barriers that don't even necessarily exist. Yeah thinks like money and resources obviously come in to it, but how does it go; 'where there's a will there's a way?!'
Honestly I think as reactive people sometimes we are scared of SUCCESS, just as much as FAILURE. 

After all success takes time, hard work, dedication. It means living up to the bill, and once you're there, maintaining that position. 

So any way, besides just getting this off my chest, I think what I'm trying to say is...

LETS STOP PUTTING THINGS IN THE WAY.
Surely life would be much richer, happier, more enjoyable and rewarding if we just GO OUT AND GET IT and stop worrying about things that COULD be a problem.

I can hear you saying, 'What on earth does this have to do with this girls design blog', which despite feeling that becoming an art student has given me the free pass to drink red wine and become all deep and artsy, I'm thinking this totally links to EVERYTHING going on in my life right now, and so there is some smidgen of possibility that it does to your life too?

So today I’m channelling a new mantra…

If you want that lovely looking cake on the counter go get it, stop worrying about how it will affect your plans for tea time, and ENJOY IT. 

Happy Sunday guys

xoxo.

P.S Ill post up a lighter, more design-y, picture-y post later today - just to compensate for this one!