Ayanda Being

I am such  a fan of "new something", I get so excited to start a new day, a new week or whatever. What I have been doing consistently this year is planning my month and making sure that I do my best. I was doing it last year but I had no direction and I was not consistent. The first day of a new month is a good opportunity to check in with yourself and figure out what areas of your life need improvement. In this post I am going to share five prompts that you can use to plan your month and check in with yourself. 1. How was last month? If you had any goals for last month, this is where you would check whether you achieved them or not. Things you are proud of, things you are not happy about, just pour your feelings out and be honest with yourself. 2. How do you feel about each area of your life (work, relationships, health, side hustles, love, parenting etc)? This is very important because it gives you an opportunity so see where you have been lacking, where you are...

Hi Awesomers, I hope you are well and have been taking care of yourselves. From the title, you can already tell that this is more of a think piece which I would like to hear your opinion on. I have noticed that I have a problem with how some people choose to practice their positivity - this may sound a bit negative but read me out 😂. I believe the point of being positive is to see a better world for yourself and those around you. It is to spread love, share love and focus on the good more than the bad. People tend to totally ignore the bad or brush it off . I have a problem with totally ignoring situations; or the state of the world in which we live in, and pretending like things are not burning or that it has no effect on us at all. I find that in a way, it takes the responsibility away and that, for me, is toxic. It is dangerous to not aknowledge the impact negative situations have in our lives. Actually, I think healing is what brings forth the positivity and my problem lie...

Hi Guys 😀 Y esterday I had the privilege to watch Seriously Single before it hits South African cinemas on the 1st of May. The movie is South African (if you didn't know), written by Lwazi Mvusi and directed by Katleho Ramaphakela and Rethabile Ramaphakela. It stars Fulu Mugovhani (Dineo), Tumi Morake (Noni), Yonda Thomas (Max) and Bohang Moeko (Lunga)  Without giving away too much the movie  centres around Dineo, who can't seem to be "single". She dates to fall in love. She falls in love to get married. But she never gets married. She always ends up dumped, through all of that it's also about two friends trying to find their version of love: romantic love, love as friends and self-love. Before I mention the good, I'm quickly going to mention that this movie didn't need to be this long. The redundancy of certain points was unnecessary and it became predictable. That took away from the film.  Moving on to the good, this movie was fun to wat...

Happy New Year Awesomers! What a break it's been! I am excited to be writing this post and I hope you have all been well, having fun and taking care of yourselves. I rested and I enjoyed my time away. I was still keeping fit, reading, journaling and as always constantly learning and trying to be better. 2020 is here and we all feel like it's going to be a great year and that is exciting. While I was away I challenged myself to something that I want to share with you and urge you to try. We always complain about how often we don't have time to do certain things but if we can learn to manage our time better we can achieve a lot. Time is life and every second that passes can never be gotten back, it's in the past. I wish that we all use our time wisely and focus on things that matter to us and make our lives more enjoyable, meaningful and less stressful. So...what is it? I call it #NoSnooze2020 and it's a very simple thing. When your alarm rings in the morni...

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 ...