Twilighting
I will be the first to admit that I don't 'get' the fascination with Twilight and all that goes with it. The whole phenomena is quite a worry really, especially Twimums... seriously? Ladies, if your 16 year old daughter is into something then you stay well clear of it. Scary! For your daughter... and the rest of us! Just saying!
I would rather this: Rowan Atkinson with Robert Pattinson in a vampire/ werewolf themed version of Black Adder.. yes!
Buuut... if you are someone inclined to be into Twilight and the whole vampirish werewolves thing. We have a copy of "The Twilight Saga: The official illustrated guide" and newest book in the Sookie Stackhouse series, Charlaine Harris's "Dead Reckoning".
Now all you have to do to win this is try to convince me why should I get into Twilight in the comments below and Like us on Facebook and/ or if you are on Twitter tweet this "I'm trying to convince Kellie to get into Twilight so I can win some bloody books http://www.mummyofstyleandsubstance.com.au/2012/01/twilighting.html"
I would rather this: Rowan Atkinson with Robert Pattinson in a vampire/ werewolf themed version of Black Adder.. yes!
It would look something like this:
In the meantime, I will be praying with Snow White:
Buuut... if you are someone inclined to be into Twilight and the whole vampirish werewolves thing. We have a copy of "The Twilight Saga: The official illustrated guide" and newest book in the Sookie Stackhouse series, Charlaine Harris's "Dead Reckoning".
Now all you have to do to win this is try to convince me why should I get into Twilight in the comments below and Like us on Facebook and/ or if you are on Twitter tweet this "I'm trying to convince Kellie to get into Twilight so I can win some bloody books http://www.mummyofstyleandsubstance.com.au/2012/01/twilighting.html"
Good Luck! Competition closes 10pm on the 29th Jan.
Happy & healthy? Then who cares!
As I was cleaning up after dinner last night (as one does), I had ACA on the tv in the background, when the story on Julie Goodwin tweaked my interest View story here.
As you probably have heard by now, Julie posed on the cover of a well known Australian weekly magazine in her swimsuit. Great, we all say... power to her for having the self confidence to do so.
However, Julie has come under scrutiny from columnist, Ros Reines of the Sydney Telegraph... again! Going by ACA's interview with Ros, she isn't exactly a Paris, Milan, New York model herself and it looks to me like she has had a face lift and botox (seriously, her face doesn't move the whole time she was on screen and her mouth looks like it is forced to move when she speaks!). So what right does it give her to mouth off and bad mouth other women? Ros also took a swing at Deborah Hutton regarding her 'photoshopped' Women's Weekly cover.
Does it make her feel better about herself and her own self worth or is it just to create publicity for her column? There must be a million other things Ros could write about.. healthy eating and the effect on our bodies and minds, perhaps? Surely, there are other more news worthy topics going on in the world she could have an opinion on than criticising others?
To me, Julie looked like the average 41 year old with her height and body shape. Julie isn't fat, her weight is mainly distributed around her middle, like a lot of middle aged ladies of her height and shape. I love how Julie describes herself as a 'teapot'; short and stout.
When are females going to accept that we are all different? We all aren't like models and celebrities who starve themselves and work out for hours a day to stay stick thin and who are usually tall to go with it. The typical diet of a celebrity is scrambled egg whites for breakfast, grilled or steamed fish or chicken and salad or steamed vegetables for lunch and dinner. That cannot be healthy. Gwenyth Paltrow has had to change her diet because living on a diet like this for years had given her Osteoporosis.
Living like the celebrity/model is just as unhealthy as someone who is overweight or obese, yet we criticise the healthy 'curvy' female (who eats sensibly and exercises daily) and accept the unhealthy acts of the 'perfect or ideal' female, as it is seen as the 'ideal or society norm' to be that way. Anyone else see something wrong with this picture? It is no wonder women have such low self worth and strive to be unhealthily thin. We all come in different shapes, sizes and heights. Wouldn't the world be boring if we were all the same?
As you probably have heard by now, Julie posed on the cover of a well known Australian weekly magazine in her swimsuit. Great, we all say... power to her for having the self confidence to do so.
However, Julie has come under scrutiny from columnist, Ros Reines of the Sydney Telegraph... again! Going by ACA's interview with Ros, she isn't exactly a Paris, Milan, New York model herself and it looks to me like she has had a face lift and botox (seriously, her face doesn't move the whole time she was on screen and her mouth looks like it is forced to move when she speaks!). So what right does it give her to mouth off and bad mouth other women? Ros also took a swing at Deborah Hutton regarding her 'photoshopped' Women's Weekly cover.
Does it make her feel better about herself and her own self worth or is it just to create publicity for her column? There must be a million other things Ros could write about.. healthy eating and the effect on our bodies and minds, perhaps? Surely, there are other more news worthy topics going on in the world she could have an opinion on than criticising others?
When are females going to accept that we are all different? We all aren't like models and celebrities who starve themselves and work out for hours a day to stay stick thin and who are usually tall to go with it. The typical diet of a celebrity is scrambled egg whites for breakfast, grilled or steamed fish or chicken and salad or steamed vegetables for lunch and dinner. That cannot be healthy. Gwenyth Paltrow has had to change her diet because living on a diet like this for years had given her Osteoporosis.
Living like the celebrity/model is just as unhealthy as someone who is overweight or obese, yet we criticise the healthy 'curvy' female (who eats sensibly and exercises daily) and accept the unhealthy acts of the 'perfect or ideal' female, as it is seen as the 'ideal or society norm' to be that way. Anyone else see something wrong with this picture? It is no wonder women have such low self worth and strive to be unhealthily thin. We all come in different shapes, sizes and heights. Wouldn't the world be boring if we were all the same?
THIS is how we should all think about our bodies:
What are your thoughts?
Mermaid or a whale?
I was perusing Facebook, as one does, and came across this fantastic post and had to share (which I have added below).
I must say that I am definitely a whale and quite proud of it. Which are you... a mermaid or a whale?
A while back, at the entrance of a gym, there was a picture of a very thin and beautiful woman. The caption was "This summer, do you want to be a mermaid or a whale?"
The story goes, a woman (of clothing size unknown) answered the following way:
"Dear people, whales are always surrounded by friends (dolphins, seals, curious humans), they are sexually active and raise their children with great tenderness.
They entertain like crazy with dolphins and eat lots of prawns. They swim all day and travel to fantastic places like Patagonia, the Barents Sea or the coral reefs of Polynesia.
They sing incredibly well and sometimes even are on cds. They are impressive and dearly loved animals, which everyone defend and admires.
Mermaids do not exist.
But if they existed, they would line up to see a psychologist because of a problem of split personality: woman or fish?
They would have no sex life and could not bear children.
Yes, they would be lovely, but lonely and sad.
And, who wants a girl that smells like fish by his side?
Without a doubt, I'd rather be a whale.
At a time when the media tells us that only thin is beautiful, I prefer to eat ice cream with my kids, to have dinner with my husband, to eat and drink and have fun with my friends.
We women, we gain weight because we accumulate so much wisdom and knowledge that there isn't enough space in our heads, and it spreads all over our bodies.
We are not fat, we are greatly cultivated.
Every time I see my curves in the mirror, I tell myself: "How amazing am I ?! "
The story goes, a woman (of clothing size unknown) answered the following way:
"Dear people, whales are always surrounded by friends (dolphins, seals, curious humans), they are sexually active and raise their children with great tenderness.
They entertain like crazy with dolphins and eat lots of prawns. They swim all day and travel to fantastic places like Patagonia, the Barents Sea or the coral reefs of Polynesia.
They sing incredibly well and sometimes even are on cds. They are impressive and dearly loved animals, which everyone defend and admires.
Mermaids do not exist.
But if they existed, they would line up to see a psychologist because of a problem of split personality: woman or fish?
They would have no sex life and could not bear children.
Yes, they would be lovely, but lonely and sad.
And, who wants a girl that smells like fish by his side?
Without a doubt, I'd rather be a whale.
At a time when the media tells us that only thin is beautiful, I prefer to eat ice cream with my kids, to have dinner with my husband, to eat and drink and have fun with my friends.
We women, we gain weight because we accumulate so much wisdom and knowledge that there isn't enough space in our heads, and it spreads all over our bodies.
We are not fat, we are greatly cultivated.
Every time I see my curves in the mirror, I tell myself: "How amazing am I ?! "
Positive thinking + the law of attraction
If you whinge and complain about your life and are in a constant negative state of mind, then you are going to attract negative things and events into your life, which then turns into a negative vicious cycle. Negative actions and thoughts then turn into negative events, which attract MORE negative events and the circle repeats itself. YOU are the one who needs to turn the negative cycle around and turn YOUR life into a more positive existence. You are the only one who has the power to change YOUR life and how you live it.
I was just reading an article by Carmen Honacker regarding the law of abundance and attraction, the article gives a better definition of how you can make that change for yourself.
"I think the whole confusion starts with the fact that people tend to believe so many things. And what they believe is usually based on surroundings, teachings, social standards and upbringing. Neither one of these beliefs may actually be based in reality, but that doesn’t make them less real for those who are caught up in them.
Sometimes, people have gotten angry and defensive when I tell them that the power to manifest what they want lies solely within them. They’d insist I was withholding the steps on how to do it. I would get to hear, “yeah, I get that it is up to me, but how do I do it? Why can’t you tell me the secret to happiness?” Nope, this is not made up. I literally got almost these exact words thrown at me on more than one occasion and each time I would repeat myself “it is all up to you.”
In theory this sounds very easy, and I think that’s why people get so frustrated when it’s pointed out to them. There’s comfort in not being able to control one’s destiny, which also offers endless excuses to not be able to control one’s own impulses, responses, words, whims, emotions and thoughts. Apparently, we are all just pinballs, knocked around by life and some unseen force no one quite understands and definitely can’t control or exercise power over.
So the question is, how does one change one’s thoughts? It starts with the determination to do so! One really has to want to change, which usually means they’d have to be at the point where they’re willing to do pretty much anything to make it happen. They must have hit that proverbial “rock bottom” and be tired of their own inauthenticities, stories and their own BS.
Who we think we are, how we view ourselves, and what we believe we can/cannot do not only manifests in our lives but also is that which others see about us. This is why confidence is so important, and this is why those with low self-esteem work almost as a repellant towards happy and successful people. This is why not only the most beautiful or even most talented person will get the job, deal or awesome partner but the one who believes in themselves the most. Some may whine and say that this isn’t fair. Alas, I never said that living one’s dream is easy. And as I have said a million times before, most things worth getting in life are not easily attained and often consist of an uphill battle; at least for a while.
Success and happiness won’t knock on our door while we sit on our butt, whining about the stuff we don’t have and all the things that went wrong in our past. Our weight won’t magically shrink while we sit on the couch and eat another burger with fries. We won’t get that six-figure salary, while doing nothing to improve our knowledge and delivering the bare minimum, expecting a miracle or hand-out.
It’s human to get beaten down, disappointed, depressed, discouraged, sad and angry or maybe act unkind at times. But what defines a master of his/her own destiny is the fact that this is not their main mode and they don’t remain that way; alas, they are not stuck but free to create what they truly want to manifest. They don’t keep making excuses for why they can’t do what they need to do, they don’t complain about how hard it is and how bad they have it; they simply do. And when they suffer or hit a slump, they do so with grace, kindness and dignity. You can always tell true character by how a person handles pain.
I aspire to be that person. I want to be that person so much that I have undergone not only severe changes in the past years but, most importantly, have worked my butt off. I have been privileged enough to have had (and still do have) friends, managers, co-workers, or other inspirational people in my life that encourage me to live the life I wish to create.
I’m still working on it and I still get it wrong at times; after all, it’s so easy to fall back into my old and learned behavioral patterns. So, “being happy” truly is an everyday choice and sometimes, still an uphill battle.
I guess one could say that true happiness and success is achieved when one finds peace and love for oneself without being a doormat or without taking abuse. In the end, it all boils down to balance within you. Balance is the key to it all."
What do you think? Do you believe how YOU perceive yourself and what you do attracts others and positive things into your life? Tell me about how changing your attitude to your life has changed your life.
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