2016 is here. . .

Yeah well it's January and like most people, last year didn't pan out as I thought. I'm having trouble getting my ish together and basically FAILLED. I started this year thinking of all the achievements I wanted to reach:

Goals met = 0

I think I just lost my way with what I wanted to achieve and forgot my blog's purpose. I think it's like most resolutions. You start great, you see others doing better and you stop because what's the point.

The point is that every person and situation is different and that you shouldn't stop because of one misstep or failure. If it is living a healthier lifestyle. Don't stop your good eating habits because you had a wild food weekend. Or you were sick so you stop exercising. Someone (especially an internet someone) disagreed with a story you posted or your art you shared. It's time we stopped that shit.

With my blog I also forgot about me. I was trying to protect myself but that meant taking personality out of the blog. Yes its a brand thing but I got bored reading the same generic blogs. Like little robots chasing the same thing. You need to remember your goal is for you. If it's not you are not doing it for the right reason. I hope 2016 is truly the year of self care because you can only look to yourself to help others.

Get tools to help you achieve your goals:

I want a cat so I downloaded Neko Atsume

And sticking to my brand of free to cheap is my Arthur Ashe Quote:

Use Pinterest, Instagram or phone Apps to assist you. Want to draw better? Read more? Lose weight? Write more? Save money? Travel more? Learn to cook? It's all waiting for you to better yourself.

So Michellé what is your deal with all this?

Good question. (I imagined you asking me this in a very <Dose of Buckley> condescending way). Recently I paged through magazines, so weird I know. This one specific one was always an every woman magazine. After seeing a beauty layout with a R5995 La Mer product on there I realised why my mom stopped buying it.

Closest I ever got to a La Mer product

Another is the ultimate stereotype of women's magazine. These models whose job it is to try and sell me this over priced bikini and also here are normal sized women they call plus size. All of the shit cost money and I personally don't know a single woman you would entertain the stuff they are trying to smear off that they got free from companies. (Maybe one, but she doesn't read magazines)

I live in a different world to some magazines. You may say but I am not their target market. Well show me a magazine that is. Even these teenage magazines and other media spend the rich parents' money.

I want you to read my blog and see things you can afford, to buy or creatively to do. I don't have time for R6000 cream when in the end of the day you can't pay the rent. Ef that shit.

This is either thinking of how you don't need to eat for the rest of the month or contemplating every decision you've ever made. At least you have the cream from the magazine that Chrissy Teigen uses.

This is the light of a very real serious situation. Some folks (including me) feel like you need all this money to do all these great things because main stream media told you so. You forget all the great things you can do.

Let's do great things.

 

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Now you're like: Great campaign speech. How you gon' back that up?

Well reader, every month I'm managing my posts in a magazine article way. I'm going to circulate on topics like cooking, beauty and DIY. Tuesday known as Chooseday are usually stuff in the news/ pop culture/ social issues. Thursday's are going to be my big post. I'll probably post in the evening. Also stay tuned to my Insta, Twitter and FB for BTS and other cool stuff. #MaskMonday I'll review a face mask, store bought or home-made. #ReviewWednesday will be something cool and unusual that I will review. It's a rough schedule BUT I will do my best to keep that up.

Okay I'm really going to stop typing now.