Ayanda Being

Hello Aweso mers! I hope you've been good and taking care of yourselves. I don't have much to say today except thank you. Thank you so much for giving me your time a few times a month to read my blog posts. I love blogging so much, I enjoy it and I always look forward to it and it makes me so happy when you guys share with me your feedback. I've been wanting to blog since 2015, which is the year this blog was created but I only really started blogging properly this year and I love this community so much. It's not a lot but it's genuine and it really means a lot to me. I have so many things planned for this blog and I am excited. I am really grateful for your consistent support, your words of encouragement, you sharing my posts and leaving comments, I really really appreciate it. Ngiyabonga 🙏🏽 I'm looking forward to doing better next year and really growing this platform and having conversations that impacts our lives in meaningful ways that we can grow fr...

Hi Awesomers Before I leave I just wanted to share something with you that I also want to practice. I have noticed with myself and a few people around me that we know what we want, sometimes we even know how to go about getting the things we want but something (I don't know what to call it) just happens and you end up not doing those things. Time does not wait for us and it's up to us to make use of the time we have. Your ideas will stay as ideas if you don't act upon them. What I wanted to say is: I challenge you and myself to go after what we want, commit to it and go through with it. Whether you fail or not doesn't matter, what matters is you got up and did something. I refuse to be a person who has ideas and plans but somewhat get cold feet when it's time for action. If you are also like that in any area of your life, I challenge you to start doing, even if it's one task. Sometimes we don't think we're good enough to pursue what we really want and th...

Hi Awesomers! I hope you are all well and everything in your lives is going well too. I know most people around this time complain about year end fatigue, if you are suffering from it I hope you get your much needed rest. Today I just wanted to share with you the power of will and how I believe that if you really want to do something, you will do it and you won't make up any excuses. I do understand that there are people who suffer from mental illness and sometimes it becomes hard for them to complete tasks which may seem easy to us. If you do suffer from mental illness please get in touch with a professional and try to seek help. In July I started with intentional exercising, I say intentional because I had been exercising before and instead of achieving my goals, the results were fluctuating. I made a decision when the second half of the year started that I will achieve my goals and I did. In 26 days I lost 5kg because I made a decision and stuck to it. I did not make any ...

Hi Awesomers! I hope you have been well and taking care of yourself. If you haven't noticed, I upload every fortnight, this is just to help you know when to expect a blog post from me. Today's blog post is a bit different and is inspired by a caption I wrote on Instagram a few months ago:   @ayandabeing  and I am honestly proud that even though it's not much, I did live a little. I am sharing these places because I had suggested one of the places to someone and they enjoyed it and I am now suggesting them to you so that if you are  interested you can visit them.  1) Anniversary at Indaba Hotel and Mowana Spa After spending so much time cracking my head, Googling and asking on Twitter what I can  do on this special day, I found Mowana Spa on  Healthspas . I love how efficient that site is. Shout-out to whoever had the idea. I really liked that it grouped everything so well and luckily for me and you 😉, they almost always have packages that can...

Hello Awesomers! I hope you are all well or at least getting better. I have noticed sometimes I/we are too hard on ourselves and we forget to see the little good we achieve from time to time. So I decided to write this blog post as a reminder to myself and you that we don't have to be hard on ourselves. We deserve a break from ourselves. Simple things like washing dishes before 15H30 or waking up at 04H30 in the morning are achievements. If you said you were going to do something and you manage to do it, that's an achievement. Small wins eventually contribute greatly in your life. You can choose to look at them as good habits but I choose to look at them as wins because sometimes doing anything is really a lot of work. Sometimes something as simple as waking up can be a mission and being able to do that (no matter how hard it was to drag yourself) without a hassle is an achievement. "Habits are not a finish line to be crossed, they are a lifestyle to be lived...

Hello Awesomers! 😀 I did say that I will upload everything I like, have an opinion on and everything in between right? Just one little spoiler ahead 🙃🙃 I went to watch Uncovered which is a South African film directed by Zuko Nodada. It stars Nqobile Khumalo, Thandeka Nodada, Robert Hobbs, Sthandiwe Kgoroge and Dumisani Mbebe amongst others. I don't want to lie, I really loved the story/concept, in the film industry no matter how amazing your concept is, execution is key and this movie didn't do a stellar job in that part. I had problems with the film's technicalities, acting and some sloppiness here and there. I love dope concepts, even though this is not 100% original, I am impressed with the fact that they went ahead and did it. The dialogue wasn't amazing and the lead actress.... Hmm let's just say they could have found someone else. Thandeka Nodada is a good actress and I can't believe I haven't seen her before. She was only on the scre...

Hello Awesomers!  I hope you have all been well, smashing your goals, growing, unlearning and taking care of yourselves. I just thought I have been away for so long, working on my life, growing and I have reached a point where I am ready to share my thoughts and everything in between with the world. I am doing well. I am better. I am ready and I am putting in the work.  Speaking of work, me and a group of friends actually made a film in 48 hours, the screening will be on the 25th of August, at Ster-Kinekor Mall of Africa at 14h00 and I would really like to see you there.  It's August and I am honestly really happy that things have been the way they have been. I may have not achieved some things yet but the time I took to focus on me has been wonderful. I started exercising intentionally (Shout out to Fisiwe Zondi for wanting an accountability partner), eating right, journaling and reading and I have to say it has been so amazing. I just want to say to you: ...