SMILE, IT'S SUNDAY: Staying Strong: 365 Days A Year

So it’s been over a week now since my first post and I really just wanted time to think about what exactly I want to post on this blog. Now that I have a few ideas I want to try and get posts up regularly, hopefully on set days of the week. I’ve decided to dedicate Sunday’s posts to lifestyle and all things positivity and motivational. I’ve chosen to call it ‘Smile, It’s Sunday’ to hopefully help change the idea of Sundays being horrible and sucky because of it meaning a new week of school or work ahead of us. I hope by posting things I find motivational, and things I use to make me feel like a happier person, I can also help others as well – to make them feel good and ready to start a new week, happy.

Last Sunday I wrote a post about Hannah Snowdon, a person I find really influential and aspire to. In that post I also said you can find a lot of motivational quotes/pictures/posts online, however I completely forgot to mention a book I bought this year that is also incredibly inspiring and I think would be helpful for many people. This book is written by singer-songwriter/actress Demi Lovato and is titled ‘Staying Strong: 365 Days A Year.’ Now for anyone who is immediately put off, don’t worry, this is not an autobiography! I thought it was when I first picked it up but it’s actually a diary style book with each day of the year having it’s own motivational quote and little idea that you can try to help improve your mindset on a daily basis.

Although I’m not the biggest fan of Demi (just due to the fact I’m not into that style of music) I LOVE this book. In fact, it’s still sitting on my desk in easy reach for me to read if I’m ever feeling at all insignificant... You know those kind of days? The book touches on some of the issues Demi has had to, and in some cases still has to, deal with; an eating disorder, bipolar disorder, severe depression and self-harm (maybe more.) But, like I said, this is not an autobiography and I feel anyone who ever has those days like I do where the stress and pressure is just a bit too much, or you just feel a bit bleugh, this book could help perk up your mood and make you believe that anything you want to achieve or change in your life is possible.

You can find this book online easily on websites such as Amazon (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Staying-Strong-Demi-Lovato/dp/1472218078) and at retailing at under £15 I think this book is well worth the money. 

There are other books still on my ‘To Be Read’ list that are along a similar idea – all about how to be a more positive person – so there may be more posts like this in the future (that’s if I think those books are helpful and worth reading!)

If you have any questions please leave them in the comments! Oh and also, being new to the whole blogger world I would love to talk to people about their blog and about who their favourite bloggers are so I can check them out - so please comment and we can maybe get on touch through email or something :-)

Thank you for reading and a beauty post should be up soon (as soon as I receive the package in the post...) ♡