How to celebrate your birthday with no Money

I celebrated my thirty first birthday YESTERDAY. It has been one amazing day. Spending a few hours at work with amazing friends and then the afternoon with family. 

When you become older, you tend to not want to celebrate your birthday. However my motto, no matter how old you are, you need to celebrate your born day. It is your special day. If you dont have money, then try do things that require very little money or do not require any money at all. 

Here are some tips on what you can do on your birthday. 

1. Take the day off

If you are a full day working individual, take the day off. Take the day to soak in the bath, do your nails or anything that you heart desires. Take time off to just relax. It's your special day. Make time for you. Take time to meditate on the things your heart desires. 

2. Watch a movie under the stars  

Take a blanket and pack a picnic basket . If you dont have a projector, why not run a lead outside and put the television outside. Then you can have a movie nights under the stars with your loved ones. 

3. Invite friends for a bring and braai.  

We all know that inviting friends over can be challenging and extremely expensive. Why fit the bill yourself? Invite people over and tell them to bring their own me to braai and their own alcohol. This will reduce the price of your party and you will only be responsible for the snacks and your own goodies to eat. 

4  Scavengers hunt. 

Invite a few people over for a game of scavenger hunt. Print out clues and do a hunt in your area. Winner gets a small prize. You can also play as couples. there is allot of ideas these days to spice up a scavenger hunt.

6. Go hiking 

Go to a local nature reserve and take a hike with family or friends.  

7. Research free activities in your area.

You will be surprised how much you can do without cash. You can pack a picnic basket and go to the dam. Or visit a museum (if it is free).

8. Play a sport with the whole family 

When I was younger, my family use to join together and played a good game of cricket. Its was so much fun. Everyone joined in. Kids, parents and even my gran use to join in from time to time. This was a great way of spending time and getting in some excercises. The kids use to love it the most. 

You dont have to have a full day at all. You make the best of it. It is how you want to spend it and how you want to live your life. Take matters in your own hands and make life a little simpler for yourself  it doesn't always have to be so complicated. 

Live love and LOL

How to make your day a little easier

How would you start taking control of your own life? 

Well, here is a few tips on how you can. Change your mind set and it could change your life.

1. Stay positive 

This is so hard. Shit will go down in your life you cannot deal with. You freak out because you cannot pay the Bill's, or you stuck in traffic and you going to miss the meeting, or life is just not going your way. I must say this is the tough one, but staying calm and positive might just change the outcome of the situation. If you calm and positive, you see the bigger picture. What does it help you send your blood pressure up if you cannot control the situation. Life will give you ups and downs. This is a fact. But the way you think how your reaction towards situations are, might just change your life. 

2. Gratitude. 

This is one of my favorite. Life might be tough right now, but sit back and see what God has done for you in the last year. You maybe got the car you always wanted. You have a roof over your head. You have air in your lungs. You have food to eat. You have water to drink. You have clean health. Whatever it is, you always but always have something to be grateful for. Important key is that you need to say Thank you. Thank you for what God has provided to you. The more you are thankful, the more you will receive. 

3. Make up your mind 

Decide what you want. What I mean about this is. You need to decide if you really want that new car. Do you really want to study one day? You can say you want to but you don't take any steps. Yes you dont have the money to do so, but what action are you willing to take to be one step closer to your goal. If you really, really want it, and you work towards whatever your heart desires, the  you can do it, but you need to make your mind up to exactly what you want. You got to really really want it. Pray about it. Remember, if one door closes a better one will open. 

4. Give yourself time

When going through a bad patch, we tend to run off and expect us to heal is the process. Let me ask you this; if you going on a bike trail and you fall off and break your leg (yes this might sound scary, but I promise I do have a point). So have have broken your leg. Do you get back on the bike and damage you leg further by riding along? Or do you give yourself time to rest and heal? Once you have healed you get back on the bike. This is what we need to do with our hardships in life. We need to give ourselves time to stop and heal for a second before heading forward again. If we dont do this from time to time, you may just cause much more damage than what you already have. 

5. Be Humble

Give a smile to others, this might just make their day. Do a good gesture to others. Help a old lady/man across the road. Help others financially if you can. Making others smile, would brighten up your own day. And being nice to others are free. Making yourself and others feel better wont cost you a dime.

Stay positive always

LIVE, LOVE AND LOL

Wow, it has been five years since have been to the bloggers page. 

It's good to sometimes come back and try share you knowledge with others. 

Here is to the next 5 years for power and knowledge.

I would like to share my lifes experience and a few things I have learned over the course of a few years. 

The ups and downs about manifesting and how life punched me around the last couple of years. It has been challenging but great. I have learned so much about people and found you DO create your own destiny. It is up to you how you create life. The mind is an extremely powerful part of your life.

The new motto I have is LIVE LOVE AND LAUGH OUT LOUD.

Other people dont really care  how things are going with you all the time. You need to fight your own battles, and what more do you need by having a positive outlook in life? The way you handle situations determines the outcome. You can be calm, you can handle the pressure, but only if you put you mind to it. 

Everyone is different, no one is the same, and no one is going to agree on your opinions, but that is ok. Life will be way to boring if we all were the same. 

Let's take this year of 2020 and make it one for the books. Let us grow and walk away from negativity. Let us be patient in the things we want. Let us be mature in all situations, let us help others where we can, let us be prosperous and stick to our new years resolutions. 

Let us pray for all the things we cannot control and leave it in Gods hands. 

Here is to a amazing 2020

Butterfly in everyone

Butterflies.......

The most beautiful insect you will ever come across (my opinion)
It colorful  and in no harms way
What is not to like about them?

But what do they have to go through before they become this stunning little creature?

At first they this ugly caterpillar that needs to feed and grow before they become this beautiful insect.

Much like us humans I guess.  We are born not knowing what to expect in life - ugly on the inside.
Its what we are taught and what we learn and what we need to go through to become this beautiful being much like the butterfly. We cannot always just sit around wondering if we will become beautiful its our actions, words and ways that makes us who we are.

Do you want to sit around and be a caterpillar all your life or do you want to bloom into a butterfly

Its time we set aside all our differences in life and bloom. Stand up for what you want to be, for what your dreams and goals are in life. Without them you will always be an insect everyone can just tramp on.

Success comes from within.

Interesting read see link below

http://www.defenders.org/butterflies/basic-facts

Pain, Heart ache, Success

Its hard some times to just hang in there.

Frustrating how people can always just tell you it will be ok, when its not. When your whole life changes so drastically that you can't stay on your feet.

Life itself is hard, but harder with all the change.

But at the end it is what you make of your life changes, how you deal with things....

Inspiration, not only comes from the people close to you but from the people that actually cares.

Life is a climb. Its how you deal with it that makes a difference.

To be successful, you need the mind set....Yes Olivia, easier said then done right?

Yes I know, and I still struggle daily to get there. But we cannot give up.
Need to be strong for our loved ones.

God is the only one that can help in any situation.
He will make you strong