Happy New Year my loves, doesn’t 2019 genuinely feel newish?! Gratitude I really want to start this post solely by expressing my gratitude to those of you who actually read these things, watch my vlogs and keep up to date with me on socials. Without you guys I would not be able to justify my time doing these things so thank youuuuuuu from the bottom of my little heart. As you may guess from the above, one of my only resolutions is to show more gratitude and generally just be gentler on myself. Less negative thoughts, less doubts, less time spent on undeserving things/people, you know, the usual. Now these are things that I do already practice but would like to really master. Of course, I’m not perfect. I posses attributes that I don’t exactly love about myself but I’m learning to work on them in a more constructive, positive way. In…
Happy New Year my lovelies! This is a obviously a very late post but I have really just wanted time to myself. I’m sure you can all relate. Now I have definitely slacked on the blog front, I wont even pretend. Its like as soon as December hit I found myself too busy, too tired, just too full of excuses to sit and write a post. However I am back and hopefully better! The days following the new year are always strange ones, exhausted from the Christmas period but buzzing with the thought of a whole new year ahead, I find it best to spend those days thinking, reflecting and planning. New year, same me? I mean I’m pretty happy with the current me but isn’t there always room for improvement? maybe an upgraded me with different goals and more money! IJN To help stay organised and on top of my goals I use a diary, religiously. The iPhone calendar/notes just doesn’t cut it for…
How many times have you let fear dictate your life? Can you believe it took me nearly three months to release Tiannamarissa.com to the world. I honestly look back now like what the f*ck was I waiting for? Okay so I did continuously make minor adaptations. It also did take me a little while to customise it to the image I had in my head. This is my baby of course I wanted it to be perfect! Realistically though, that only took a few weeks, so what was I really doing for months? Stalling, that’s what. I continuously thought insecure, negative, self-destructive thoughts such as “who do I think I am, no one’s going to read this, why are you wasting your time” the list goes on. I mean since when did I even care what people thought? The Cardi in me however was like, girl you betttaaaaa. So I did! I swear when clicking the ‘make…
#SheMeansBusiness – A celebration of female enterprise I’m still feeling the energy from Thursday night, so I felt like I had to write about it. The #SheMeansBusiness event courtesy of Facebook and Enterprise Nation couldn’t have come at a better time for me. I mean I’m sure we all get those days, weeks, even months of being drained of energy and inspiration/motivation is nowhere to be found. That’s exactly where I was at! Though being a summer baby I blame the current weather. The evening was based in the beautiful Bristol Harbour Hotel and kicked off with drinks and canapés. (The cosmopolitan was the strongest I have ever tasted btw but I aint mad) We also had a chance to network and take cool pictures, which we jumped at. At 7pm we were welcomed to take a seat (gifted with the fab journals below) and talks began with Helen Smyth, head of Facebook’s community engagement. Who by the way needs to…
A virtual book club?! For as long as I can remember and probably due to some old school American film, I have wanted to join a book club. The whole idea of meeting up in a cosy coffee shop or library and discussing the months book with like-minded people has always been dreamy to me but I just couldn’t (or was too lazy) to find a group that read the type of things I am in too. Then the other day whilst ordering new books it hit me, a virtual book club. Id never heard of a virtual book club before but after some brief research I found they are doable. So here I am, starting my own. Who knows if it’ll work or be of any success but I read regardless so why not hey! I’m currently going through a growing/finding myself stage of life and for the last few years I have been heavily into self-development, self-love…
I’m sure the words ‘Sunday Funday’ hold a different meaning to us all and for me it’s certainly changed as I’ve grown up. Though it still revolves heavily around food.. Sunday used to mean recovering from an awful hangover by doing nothing but watching Harry Potter and moving from my bed only to pee and eat. Now however, Sundays are strangely usually my most productive days! Admittedly yesterday for me was pretty chilled. I spent Saturday cleaning, shopping, getting my nails done and answering emails so come Sunday I was able to chill. Now even though I literally had nothing else to do, I really couldn’t be bothered to cook. I luckily got a last-minute table at Caribbean Croft and let them sort my food needs. The weather was surprisingly nice too so a walk through the park and woods was perfect after all that food. Even though we got a little lost and I dragged my boyfriend through a muddy trail in his white trainers lol. Quality time and…
