Thoughts from the hippie

Thoughts from the hippie

Sorry for the lack of posts, here's a picture... hopefully write sometime soon.

Thoughts from the hippie

Thoughts from the hippie

Ahhh so what to say about my past week of regaining motivation and focus.... I think I’m pretty happy with how this week has gone even though I didn’t get everything I wanted to get done finished. I did finish most of my notes for uni, but I didn’t start on my major assignment, I did practice Spanish but not nearly enough that I should have, I went rock climbing, running, went to the markets for my veges and walked probably around 90% of the times that I could when I needed to to the city/middle of west end instead of catching the bus.

I find it strange how different running has made me feel compared to working out in the gym. When I was living in Lutwyche I still worked out but it was just in the gym, now living in West End I no longer go to the gym but I run at least four times a week for around an hour. I think it has something to do with just being outside and the fact that I do just love running, but I think running outside has made me less stressed and much more easy going than what I was before. I think at the gym I felt like I was working out to do something superficial for myself (as well as just being healthy in general) but running makes me feel like I do this because I love it, and it just makes me feel more wholesome and healthy than I did before when I was living in Lutwyche.

Buying my veges from the markets has definitely changed me, I’ve eaten more types of veges than I would have normally this week, it’s so much more cheaper buying my food this way and it just feels nice to know where your food has come from, and everyone is always so nice at the markets as well. 

I also finished reading “Start Something that Matters” by the creator of TOMS shoes, Blake Mycoskie. I strongly recommend everyone to read this book, it’s an easy read and incredibly inspiring and uplifting.

I am hoping that next week I do get as much uni done as I can, I just need to suck it up, deal with it and get stuff done. Although I’m happy where things are now, I know if I leave some things for another couple of weeks I’ll start to go out of my mind with stress. So all in all I think I have successfully regained my motivation and focus, I think I just need to try harder next week, no worries.

Thoughts from the hippie

This week off uni couldn’t of come any sooner! It was getting to that point in the semester where it was oh so tempting to just skip my lectures and just start to get slack with pretty much everything. So I’m using this week to regain my motivation and focus with pretty much everything. I want to make sure this week I’m not wasting my time, that I’m not just watching TV or spending a couple of hours on the computer not even doing anything important, just wasting time. Today my goals are to finish my notes from the past week for two of my subjects, do Spanish practice before my lesson today, fit in some guitar and if I have time before I go to work to put my congo drums on sale on gumtree.com. Tomorrow I want to practice Spanish, guitar, get a lot of my major assignment done/started from one of my subjects and go to the markets to pick up my veges rather than going to coles.

This week I also want to start making a couple of small positive changes, like buying my veges from the markets and whenever I need to go into the city or to the middle of west end during the day, to walk instead of taking the bus. It’s only a 40minuteish walk to the city and only about a 15-20minutes walk to the middle of west end, so I really shouldn’t be so lazy also this should hopefully save me a bit of money on my gocard. I also want to be really conscious of what I eat this week. I’ve been letting on go of my eating for the past week and I just really want to get back to how I was eating before last week.

So this week is all about regaining motivation and focus, I’ll blog about how I go when the week is out. 

Thoughts from the hippie

If you've been living under a rock lately the people in the Horn of Africa (which is Somalia/Ethiopia/Kenya region) are going through massive food shortages with the worst drought they've had in 60 years. More than 370,000 refugees are already crammed into three camps at Dadaab, built for a combined capacity of 90,000!

As part of World Food Day, I'm raising money to help support Oxfam's response and Gather to Grow event to the food crisis happening in East Africa.

You can find more about what Oxfam is doing here: https://www.oxfam.org.au/explore/conflict-and-natural-disasters/current-emergencies/africa-food-crisis

You can also donate here: https://www.oxfam.org.au/donate/current-appeals/gather-to-grow

This is a really important cause to support, so even if you only donate $5 you'd still make me really really happy! 

Here are some amazing photos from the BBC website: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-14119487 

 

Thoughts from the hippie