10 tips to becoming more successful this school/work year

Welcome to September Friends! This means, long sleeves flannel, and hot drinks! It also means back to the grind, a routine and for some, back to school.

While preparing myself for another year of working hard, studying harder, and of course, planning my future trips, I found myself starting to lose balance of everything. Its better to realign yourself at the start rather than once you've started an uneven routine.

So how can you stay organized when theres lots going on?

- Buy a planner. Yes, ditch your technology and use that pen and paper. It'll allow you to process your thoughts as you are writing them. In doing so, you are less likely to forget important tasks you need to complete.

- Create a plan. Pull out that beautiful planner you have on your desk and plan. Map out your days, weeks and months. When you plan your life, you can accomplish everything needed.
   - Plan your day, what you need to bring for the day. Prepare for possible setbacks. You know, the ones we all love, phones dying half way through the day, trains making you late for work, spare jacket or umbrella incase it rains. Make your life predictable ( to a point). The more in tune you are with your life, the less stressed you will become.

- Make your bed. Yes. I will be your mother for a split second. You will feel much better when you come home after a long day to a bed that is made. Just thinking about my bed being made makes me excited for bed and forget any problems from the day... because I'm happier.

- Positive outlook on your accomplishments. Face it. This one at times may seem far fetched. Its not. Its really easy. It ties with my first point. Plan. When you have a plan, you are able to see your accomplishments, where you need to be, and where you are heading. That being said, when you find yourself falling behind, look at your accomplishments and use those to bring you forward to be where you need to be

- Schedule some time for yourself. You do you boo boo, you do you. This is the most important step and I've saved it for last.
   You need YOU time. Nothing will get completed, or done well if you don't set time for yourself. You will continue to feel like you are backing yourself into a corner and unable to return to normalcy.

- Drink water + eat healthy. This is a no brainer. When you eat healthy, your body thanks you. Its able to function longer without draining your energy by noon. This doesn't mean you can't have a cheat day. Just make sure its on meal, one day out of the week.

- Multitask. Take your laptop, and play a movie while your doing your laundry or listen to music.  Make your chores enjoyable.

- Prepare your meals two days in advance, you won't feel so stressed out the night before a big day.

- Set goals. Be realistic with yourself. Don't take on more than you can handle. We all have a threshold and a breaking point. Lets not get to that point.

- Have fun! As small as this seems, this is most important with anything you do. No matter what life throws at you, have fun doing it. If you are not enjoying it. Rethink what your reason for starting is. If there is nothing keeping you with this path find something similar but in a different direction. If you want something completely different, that okay too.

Just don't give up:)


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Its Been a While..

Hello all my lovely readers!

First, let me apologize. It has been quite sometime since my last post. Things have gotten a bit out of hand on my end, sorry for that. My promise isn't that I won't take a long time to post, but it is a promise to always keep you informed.

So where have I been?

School, work, excitement and life, really. I wish I could say I've traveled the globe, met a wonderful prince who swept me off my feet and we are about to jet set to a deserted island far far away. Truth is, life has become hectic.

For those of you who don't know, I have started a new adventure. Its outside my comfort zone, encourages new challenges and most of all... the most fun I've had letting my creative juices flow. What is it?

YOUTUBE! 

Yes, thats right. I've started my very first youtube channel that I'm beyond excited for! I'm quite possibly the most quirky, shy and spontaneous person out there, so needless to say, my channel is the same.

Whats it about?

All things! I intend to design a channel that is completely outside the norm! Most people [most] have their overall favourite channels they constantly check out, or subscribe to. I'm the same way.  I consider myself a lover of all things. I can change the breaks on your car, catch a sturgeon and cook you a delicious vegetarian meal while telling you my favourite unique sites to shop. So why make my youtube channel anything less than that?

I love inspiring others, whatever that passion may be. I want to be your coach to guide you through it!

I'm incredibly excited for this new journey. I owe my inspiration to my many instagram followers. [I've hit 10k - THANK YOU].

I've also been approached by a few companies to promote their products! Once I've tried them and if they pass my test - I'll do some giveaways!!

Words cannot begin to describe the crazy year it has been. I want to thank all of you, my readers, my subscribers and my followers for coming along on my journey.


Things are only going to get better, become more fun, and exciting. - But I am exhausted.


- Stay tuned for new things-

-KM

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Life Lessons of 2015

Hello Everyone!

Whew what a year 2015 was! I apologize for taking a break on blogging, I had a very crazy year. Lots of trips, working, and meetings. On top of that I had the unfortunate loss of my best friend, which ended up setting everything back for me, and forcing me to take some time off and to focus on myself, getting through a difficult time and looking to spend more time with the ones I love, which meant, staying away from social media of all kinds.

However, I'M BACK! With new, fun content, and whats most exciting? I've taken on a new project....
VLOGGING! My goal is to create relatively short videos on fashion, reviews, beauty, travels and anything else you may find interesting. I want to design a site based around viewers and what they want to see rather than what I think you would like to see. I'm a bit nervous to step away from the keyboard and stand, or sit in front of the camera. But life is all about challenging yourself, and exposing yourself to new experiences. If you are interested in seeing my first few posts head on over and give it a go!

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCf3dpIfvmFrF1W8N8Paeh2w/videos

Enough about me, lets get to my Life Lessons of 2015!

Have confidence and love yourself. These two go hand in hand and will help you with with anything you do. Have confidence, when meeting new people, working on new or even old projects, talking to someone your passionate about. Have confidence and love yourself when people see that, they become inspired and they will feed of of that. If you can find that one particular thing you are good at or most proud of, shine. You'll have more love for yourself and it will become the stepping stone for building confidence in other areas.


Don't listen to what other people say - I am a huge hypocrite when it comes to this. I tend to listen to what others say about me, and it has a tendency to wear on me. However, if there is one thing I have learned this past year, it is the less you listen, the less you care and the more focus you have on you and what matters most to you. There will always be someone who has something to say, or someone who has an opinion on everything. Don't let it consume you. What I have learned recently, if they are going to talk about you, they are going to talk about everyone. Chances are they are so unhappy in their own life that they feel the only way to succeed or feel good about themselves is to criticize others, and thats not right nor is it fair. Just carry on with your life, don't let it bother you and you will be the one to come out on top. Which brings me to my next point

Focus on You. Theres nothing more important than focusing on you, and your needs what you want out of life. Life is more enjoyable when you have set aside some time for yourself.

• pick up a hobby, join a club, go hiking. Do something that inspires you. Inspire others. 

Accomplish something - Anything! Theres so much to do and such a small frame of time to do it. Don’t let anything hold you back from what makes you truly happy. We all have that ability within us that we want to accomplish. Just do it. and again don’t let what other people think distract you from getting to that goal. By accomplishing something you create an overall, happier, more positive outlook on life, and essentially, a more happier you.

Most importantly,
Focus on what you have and not on what you don’t have - I am the biggest hypocrite with this. I tell everyone around me to focus on what they have and not what they don’t have and yet I don’t live by this. In September, I lost my best friend and I focused so much on the fact that he is no longer here and didn’t think about the moments we had shared. It wasn’t until later with the help of those around me, I had come to the realization that I have moments, memories, and experiences that will always be with me, and I have the ability to share those with other people and include them on the fun experiences.

This can also be said for material items. We spend so much of our time trying to find the perfect house, car or item that we don't ask ourself if its what we need. If we spent more time looking at the things we need and less at the things we want you'll realize what you want is right in front of you. Of course we will always want more, its the nature of things. Instead of always looking for the want in life, look for the need so you can achieve the wants more easily and it becomes more of a reward than an everyday goal. You’ll get a lot further in life and find more success when you focus on what you have and not what you don’t have.


Finally, this could even be said as a sixth point, enjoy every moment of your life. That includes both the good and the bad, in the end its all a stepping stone to the next stage of your life. Learn from what happens. The bad is just preparing you for something great and prepares you for tough times.

Happy 2016 Everyone, Do something great! 

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