January goodness

Its almost the end of january! It feels like the days have flown by so quickly but I am so proud to say so much has been achieved within this month, more than I actually expected.

Starting off with the decorating of my home, now decorating is a LONG and TIRING task! Just to get all your belongings out of one room can take a full day or 2 especially if you have as much stuff as I do, now a few rooms had to be emptied in 2 days and that felt left my body feeling extremely stressed and tired. I was so glad when the rooms were cleared out for the decoraters to start their work. Well after 2 weeks of decorating and me having to sleep on my sisters floor I am soooooo glad to be home back in my bed! in a lovely new looking room! haha. I appreciate my sister letting me stay at her home especially as she has so much going on in her own life. But I am happy to be back home, Ive really missed my bed and being able to do what I usually do in my own home. The wait was definately worth it my room looks a lot better now. I had my room painted white and electric blue, then I added in white wardrobes to match my white summer bed. I love the way my room looks now and it looks so much bigger. Now the extremely hard task was deciding what to keep and put back in to my room and what to give to charity. I managed to let go of a lot of clothes, childhood stuffed toys and the most upsetting a lot of my books. I am a book worm! reading really relaxes me and I get lost in the book. So letting them go was tough but I have read them many times so its only right that someone else can enjoy them. My room is finally clutter free! January project has been achieved!

My next achievement really made my day as It is something I have always wanted but never ever happened. I have always wanted to be in a hair or beauty magazine but in the past I never met the right people to make this happpen or I would go to a casting full of so many females which usually ended in me not being selected as I did not have the right look. Last year and the year before I did manage to work with a few hairdressers and recieved some beautiful images but the images were not selected to be put in to magazines. But I am happy that finally 1 of my images is in the february/march 2011 issue of black hair & beauty magazine! yaaay me :)

My next achievement is I have really been working on my organisational skills, I have been putting daily tasks in my diary that I need to achieve. I have been very strict on myself and made sure I done the tasks even if they were boring or took forever to do. When completing a task I felt really proud of myself and praised myself which for some reason made me keep pushing myself to do the next task. I managed to organise all my dvds in to a huge case and list each dvd which took me 4 long hours but everything is in order and looks neat. So go me!

Now I am preparing for my february project which is based on health and beauty. I am going to learn to cook healthier meals from different countries and use natural beauty products. So pampering my self very reguarly and seeing what products work best on my skin. I will be taking care of my body inside and out, once I have found a regime that works for me I will use this regime for the rest of the year so I will start researching from now!

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Welcome 2011

Emerging...........2010 has finally gone and welcome 2011!

Were still in the beginning of january and already good things are beginning to happen in my life and so I am smiling from ear to ear. I dont really celebrate the new years how many do, I stay away from the parties, drinking and dancing. I tend to have the day to myself to reflect on the last year. Well what can I say but in the space of a year I have grown so much and I am very proud of my accomplishments within my own self development. I have learnt so much about myself as a person and have managed to see what next steps I can take in the new year to progress with my development. Looking back at last years vision board I did manage to achieve most of my goals, the ones I did not achieve was simply because they were not realistic.

So this new years I decided to work on a new vision board which is very realistic and I believe to be achievable within the year. I also purchased a new journal to write out my daily thoughts, opinions and realisations within my life so that I have something to always look back on and see my progression. I then wrote out a list of goals and to my amazement I have achieved 2 of those goals already!

This year I have chosen to learn how to be more responsible and independant. I have always had the support of my family which is great but at the same time it hasnt really helped me be mainly responsible for certain tasks or do things on my own. Ive always had someones opinion or advice or somehow ended up doing what others wanted me to do. So I feel now is the time to learn a bit more about being an adult and learning how to manage new life skills on my own. I want to be in the kitchen more learning how to cook new foods, I want to learn how to manage money properly and be able to look after myself and others. I want to be able to make my own decisions on certain things. So this is what I am working on for this year.

Every month I shall dedicate myself to a life project and so Januarys project is redecorating and revamping. This week I have had the decoraters over and they are painting the house and so the house looks like a walk in storage! but once the place is all painted I can start sorting my things properly. I think its about time the house was decluttered and revamped, my room especially! I have let go of my wardrobes, dressing mirror, some clothing and I am changing the whole look of my room which works with my personality. The money that has been dished out for this project is A LOT but I believe the end result makes it worth it and so Im looking forward to the outcome.

My house is not the only thing that needs revamping I DO!, I have decided to change my look as I find I am growing more in to the woman I have always wanted to be and the way I once dressed or had my hair is not really my style anymore. So I am planning on adjusting things in my wardrobe making a few small changes here and there, changing my hair style, changing my style of make up although I dont really wear make up unless I am going out somewhere special. So for me personally this month will be a very interesting and exciting!

I also celebrated my birthday which was very different to what I normally do and the way I celebrated it this year I really enjoyed. I kept it very simple but sweet, I stayed at home with the family having a good chit chat and ordered thai food. The food was lovely and the time spent with my family was really enjoyable. 1 thing I am not really keen on is organising events and so I decided to just do something vesry basic with the family but that something basic ended up being one of the best birthdays I have ever had. The messages and well wishes I recieved from family, friends and aquaintances by phone, social network sites and emails were really appreciated and I feel blessed that people took some time out of their day to think about me. I am so grateful for all the love I recieved and I am going to continue to enjoy this month.

My 2011 affirmation: “I believe and have faith in myself and my God. Everything is going extremely well in my life and my world.” “I can and will achieve my every goal I have set within my life!”

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