February Reflections 2017

I find that, in the second month of the year, all resolutions have, uh, 'gone to hell,' but people tend to still be hopeful of a great year - the time it takes for the Earth to orbit the sun. I ended up doing quite a lot, in what also happens to be the shortest month of the year... (I am hoping that these facts are known to everyone...)

In anticipation of uni starting, (in early March) I felt that this February was all about 'starting the year off right' and getting inspired!

Here are some of the things I got up to in Feb 2017!

Lululemon and Collective Hub's - Practice to Purpose

On this sunny day, I had breakfast in Melbourne at the smart artz gallery event hosted by my favourite magazine collective hub and the active wear brand, lululemon. The event: From Practice to Purpose showcased innovative speakers with the initiative to focus on vision and goals. My friend, Michelle and I drove to the city early and were served smoothies, smoothie bowls and fruit, salad, coffee and more delicious foods, while listening to the speakers and getting some great motivation to jump into goal setting with a worksheet and an A4 quote - "Ideas alone won't create a life you love, putting them into action will!"

Birthdays!

I celebrated my mum and my beautiful friends birthdays - shout out to mum, Sarah and Andrew!

Devil Cat

The family cat - Mickey, got into a lot of mischief - half killing some birds, lizards and anything he could catch. I had a great time putting animals out of their misery and then keeping this fur ball locked up...

The McClymonts!

I saw The McClymonts live! An amazing country band (that I have worshipped for many years) went on their 'Endless tour' and I was close to the stage, just in euphoria, listening to these energetic girls!

The opener, Demi Louise was just as brilliant and I bought her CD too, one song of which - I relate to a lot Taxi Driver, Here I am with her in the bottom left photo and my mum and I with The McClymonts at the top!

Autographs and smiles all around!

The local show.

It's tradition for my dad and I to go to our local Agricultural show (which is now more of a general carnival) and I went again this year. I spent half the day with my dad and the other half with my friend and her friend, Michelle and Donna. The thing I love about this tradition is the little things, the community atmosphere and the fun! I always go in the morning when the livestock are being showed and graded, because that is just so fascinating to me - especially the cattle! Later in the day I watched all of the local talent perform on the small stage, including my super talented friend - Sunny, with whom I then watched the closing fireworks with! It really was a magical day - with me really focusing on the good stuff!

And that pretty much sums up that amazing month!

KK

January reflections 2017

Well as I believe most people did, I planned on starting my 2017 off with a bang. I did vlogmas in December 2016 and among those videos, I completed workbooks by Susannah Conway on finding my word for 2017 and unravelling 2016.

It is now late February and I am very much behind on updating you on January 2017, but better late than never...

As you will know if you read my last post, my word of the year is FOCUS and so, I had a few things on the top of my goals/resolutions list, that I wanted to Focus on.

I have made a vow to live my year (and every moment of it) with passion, to focus wholeheartedly on the moments and achieve my best!

I really wanted to achieve big at uni (which hasn't started yet, on the 24th Feb...) Focus on the little moments and the big one that I (clearly) haven't done a lot of - focus on my writing...

As this is my second post of the year, I would say that my writing is a little behind. Although I have tried to sit down and focus on my writing, (blogs and other personal projects) I just haven't been able to get in the right frame of mind.

I must admit that I was having a very tough time in mid-January and I wasn't in the mood to do much at all. What I did do though, was take a trip to Lakes Entrance with my parents and dogs - it turned out to be a trip I really needed! Ice-cream, seafood, beaches and love = priceless!

 

 I also took a day trip with my parents to my local waterfalls in early Jan. (First picture)

Trips away from the norm, really help sometimes...

Overall, January was a fairly good month. I kept my focus on the 'moments' for a great deal of it. Although I didn't get a lot of writing done. I did do a little personal writing and a little is better than none at all!

Stay tuned!

KK