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...) ♡

SMILE, IT'S SUNDAY: You Are Influential

As I have only just created this blog I was very eager to get a post up, however, at the same time I didn’t want to post for the sake of it. So I thought about what I really wanted this blog to be about and decided I didn’t want to just ramble on about products post after post. I thought about the blogs and the people who I look up to and decided to make this post about the people who I find influential and share great positivity.

The first person who immediately popped into my head is Hannah Snowdon. Hannah is known for her amazing artwork and tattoo creations (it’s a dream, if I were ever to have a tattoo, to have my first tattoo done by her.) For me, I also love her style and most importantly admire the way she promotes such positivity in her social media.

On her Instagram (@hannahpixiesnow), along with posting her artwork and sharing her life, she also posts very inspiring quotes and shares her views on subjects I feel are so relevant nowadays. These posts speak about being a better person from the inside out and how we can help share positivity with others as well. She is also part of a blog - http://living-light-blog.tumblr.com/ - which posts about their beliefs in veganism and to provide information for people interested in changing their own lifestyle. Whether you believe in eating meat/produce from animals or not (I don’t actually know a great deal about veganism), this blog is so refreshing and I feel like, in the only words I can think of, I can change the world after coming off it. 

I feel nowadays we live in a society where we put ourselves down constantly and the pressures of fitting in are unbelievable. Therefore, it’s rare to find people like Hannah who spread such positive energy. That’s why I feel I need to share social media accounts like Hannah’s to show how influential we can all be and how easy it is to spread positivity, because I know whenever I’m feeling down I look to these accounts to make myself feel better again.

Another person online who I feel spreads positivity is Sammi Maria, better known as BeautyCrush on youtube. As well as posting her beauty and fashion videos she also occasionally posts videos about being confident in yourself, which I find really useful and makes me feel a lot more inspired after watching.

I've just realised this post is becoming very wordy so if you're looking for any other healthy/happy promoting social media accounts I would recommend searching in the tags on Tumblr/Instagram or wherever for things like 'happy', 'healthy', 'lifestyle' and you will hopefully find motivational quotes and photos there. 

I hope you found this post useful and if you have any other useful websites/social media accounts please leave them in the comments below ♡