F.R.I.E.N.D.S Do we Really Need Them .... Hell Yes!!

Last week was a very trying week and my friends simply were my saviour.

Sometimes in life you need to be told about yourself, not in a nasty way but simply because you’re being too hard on yourself and sometime you need someone to talk to help you make sense of the things in your life that you just can’t figure out alone.

You should know something about me that I have only really discovered in the past year… I am an utter control freak and being the control freak that I am is currently ruining my life! Ok that was a little dramatic… It’s not ruining my life it’s just making my life harder than what it needs to be.

You see my problem is this, I know the beauty of living in the moment because I spent the better part of 2013 doing just that, but I also have this thing that I do which is called being overly ambitious. This is not a bad thing, but this usually leads to me setting my sights on something that I want to be or do, working my arse off to get it and then once I have it, not exploring it and then setting my sights on the next big thing. In short this means that I live a lot in the future which equals major anxiety. This is something that I am working on and at times I’m better at it than others. However for the past few weeks I have been failing miserably and this is where the help and support of good friends come in.

Over the Christmas my good amiga came home from uni and we had a blast! So much of a blast I didn’t realise how much I’d missed having a friend around who gets me in every way possible and best of all, is as honest as f*@#! Some people hate that, but I love it! It sets the real apart from the fake and there is nothing better that having friends that call it like they see it and believe me, that is exactly what she did.

To put it simply, my dear friend verbally shook some sense into me and helped me to remember that there is nothing wrong with having ambition and goals in life, but sometimes I just need to give myself a flipping break and acknowledge all of the great things I have already achieved and be proud of them. She also reminded me to live in the moment and to stop spending so much time worrying and trying to control the things in life that ultimately, I have no control over.

All in all, having great friends in life is a must! And I mean real friends, one’s like my good mate that I’ve just spent the last 400 odd words talking about. Friends that never judge you, friend that will still be your friend regardless of the choices you make so long as you remain true to yourself whilst making them, friends that will not only just listen to your problems, but friends who are down to help you find solutions to your problems even if means telling you to get your head out of your arse, but above all, friends that you can be your complete and utter self with and have a good old fashioned laugh about everything and nothing all at the same time!

 

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Value you friends lovebugs… good ones are hard to find.

 

Love Sara (A little Lady with a Kick Ass friend called Arti!). xxx

Monday Motivation

For most of us today is the first day back at work after a the Christmas break and after two weeks of stuffing our faces, drinking (all kinds of flavoured whiskey) and being merry we probably just feel like we need an extra week to recover.. oui ou non?

In recent years I’ve worked hard on breaking the habit of using the new year as an excuse to start something new or make significant changes in my life, and while I still stand by this there is something to be said for reflecting at the end of a year and deciding what I want out of the new year which typically results in me and so many others hitting the ground running and forgetting exactly what we had set out to do by February!

But last year I decided that maybe if I kept my resolutions really simple it would work, so I made a small mental list of all the things I wanted to achieve in 2013 which consisted of finding a job that I was passionate about and could grow in (Check), to enjoy my hometown (check), to find the positive in every negative (check), to have fun (check) and the item on the list that overrode them all was to do whatever feels good for as long as it feels good and when it doesn’t, just stop (check).

So with the New Year already underway and continuing with some of the items from my 2013 list that worked a treat I’ve added a few more for 2014 that are kind of similar to what I found below

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It’s always great to set goals and resolutions but the main thing to remember is that you don’t have to wait for a new year to begin to make changes. Start small with a thought and let your thoughts become your actions… remember Rome wasn’t built in a day.

Happy New Year love bugs and have a great week.

Love Sara. xxxx

Happy New Year!

The New Year is here and I for one am looking forward to all that it may bring!

2013 was one of the best years of my life this far, everything I said that I was going to achieve I did and all be for September 2013. I travelled and had the time of my life! I enjoyed my hometown in a way that I hadn’t before, I got the job I wanted and I began my spiritual journey which continues to amaze me daily.  Not all of 2013 was peachy though, I had to confront some of the most important relationships in my life which meant a lot of tears, harsh words and real truths that needed to be told.

If there is anything that 2013 has taught me it’s to just be happy, be honest with yourself and others and above all be positive because negativity will get you nowhere fast. 

In the last 3 months of 2013 things started to change that have been stirring some unfamiliar and unwelcomed feelings, but I have come to accept that change is good and change is needed, it may throw me, have me in tears, cause mass anxiety, extreme happiness or sadness, but above all change will give me nothing short of life lessons, new experiences, growth and understanding.

I have a feeling that 2014 will be a year full of change and new challenges. This is daunting as I’ve acknowledged that I am about to step into an unfamiliar territory in so many more ways than one but I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t looking forward to it all!

For me 2014 will be the start of something new, something great and something fun. I will push myself beyond my comfort zone and live life a little more on the edge!

 

Happy New Year Love bugs! Thank you for supporting For The Love of Moi in 2013 and I hope that this new year brings you nothing short of love, happiness and success.

Love Sara (A little lady ready for change) xxxx