Pursue your dreams and enjoy the unfamiliar
Happy September 1st! I decided to write a blog post every day this September as a 14 day Book Launch for my book! My book release date is coming fast on September 14!
Since I’m primarily a travel blogger I will still have travel blogs (and vlogs 😉 throughout these 14 days. But a lot of it will revolve around my book because HELLO, I AM SO EXCITED TO FINALLY PUBLISH MY FIRST BOOK!
Today I wanted it to be a quick and easy blog post that will reveal MY BOOK COVER!
Happy Summer! I know so cliche of me to be making a 2018 summer reading edition of my resolution reading roundup. But guess what you’re going to love all my recommendations because I definitely love all my recs. Hah
But in all seriousness. It is officially summer time and what better time than to go to the beach and pick up some great books to lay out in the sun with. And hey, even if you don’t have a beach nearby and you live in a place where it’s hotter than the rest of the world (me), these books are great to sit in your favorite chair in your AC filled house next to your cat (also me).
If you didn’t already know, I wrote two books. And I wrote them in less than two months.
Yep two 40,000 word novels written in less than two months. To some that may not be a lot and to others that may be a ton of writing. But to me, it just proved that when you’re motivated enough to finish something you’ll finish it. Or when you have a written goal, you get it done.
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Happy first Resolution Reading Roundup of 2018! I know I mean to do this monthly, but that didn’t happen, so here is my QUARTER YEAR 2018 EDITION!
Yay!
First and foremost, HAPPY NEW YEAR! I hope you had a great 2017 and are ready to kick start your 2018 into full gear! I know I’m ready to make ish happen and start my 2018 New Year’s Resolutions!
And with every new year comes mine and probably millions of other people’s yearly traditions of New Year’s Resolutions.
That’s right, I’m ready to start the year off great and start focusing on my goals in all aspects of my life. And my first way of doing so is to make New Year’s Resolutions at the start of every new year. While a lot of the times my goals don’t really change too much from year to year, I still enjoy having a New Year’s Resolution for the start of every year and throughout the year I also focus on smaller goals to overall reach these resolutions.
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Every year I make a resolution to read more and more books all the time. It all started when I first picked up that Mary-Kate and Ashley Passport to Paris mini-book that came with my MK Snowboarding barbie doll, I was honestly hooked. Funny (and cooler) thing was that when I finished the mini-book I just so happened to be in an airport. I guess my two passions collided in that one moment, it’s pretty wonderful if I must say so myself.
Unfortunately as I got older and life, friends, boys, parties, whatever got in the way, I stopped reading for the pleasure of reading and started to not even pick up books that I enjoyed reading. Granted when high school and college came along I had to read textbooks instead of novels. So truly I did not want to read those.
Since I haven’t opened up a textbook in years (that partially including my college years), I figured it was time to get my butt back into gear and start reading for fun again. For the fun of getting lost in a new world and falling in love with characters. And crying when one of them dies or gets heartbroken. I love how books can throw me into a new adventure whenever I pick one up.
Blogging is hard. Hell, life is hard. And sometimes when things get difficult, you can be put into a sort of crazy weird funk that seems never ending.
Recently, I’ve been in a bit of a funk. I’m sure any creator in the world has had these days where you just don’t know what to write, edit, shoot, or even just do with your life. While I have been working non-stop at my current full time job, my blog and YouTube channel have just been sitting idly by almost collecting dust.
I think about my blog and brand every single day, yet I can’t seem to get anything done. And my ‘funk’ seems to keep going day after day after day. And it, for the lack of a better word, sucks.
But I’ve slowly started to come out my funk, day by day by doing certain things to help ease my mind, body and soul (sounds cheesy, I know). And so today I want to share with you my little secrets of what helps me to slowly, but surely, get out of these ‘creative funks’ I tend to easily get myself into. While, they really aren’t secrets to the all-knowing future, I like to think these 5 tips will hopefully spark that sparkler of creativity in your mind as it is slowly doing for me now.