How to Change Your Life

If you want to change your life, willpower isn’t enough. Wanting it really badly isn’t enough. Brute force and sweeping declarations of how you’re positive that “this time will be different” aren’t enough. Determination alone won’t get you from where you are to where you want to be.

It took me a few years of unused gym memberships, unopened workout DVDs, and half-completed “body bootcamp” challenges to finally develop a regular exercise routine. And now that I’ve been running consistently for 21 months, people often ask how I did it. How I changed my life so dramatically. What the “secret” is. Where my motivation comes from.

And those are all such familiar questions, aren’t they? I mean, think about the last person you know who made a big change – the blogger who quit her job to travel the world, the friend who lost a huge amount of weight, the family member who got out of debt , These are all significant life changes that, all of the sudden, just seemed to happen.

Your dad use to smoke and now he no longer does.  I used to drink almost every night and eat a diet loaded with sugar and now I don’t. You look at your dad and you look at yourself and you’re all, “How did they do that so easily? I couldn’t do that. What’s wrong with me?

Well, let’s clear up a couple of things. First of all, nothing is wrong with you. Second making those changes wasn’t easy. And, most importantly, there’s no “poof!” moment. And yet, when we’re looking in from the outside of someone else’s big life change it’s easy to see what we want to see.

We lay things out in a two parts “now and then” timeline. Part one: I ate and drank an insane amount of sugar and completely avoided exercise. Part two: Now I don’t. For someone on the outside, that’s what it might look like. That I just woke up one day and was all, “Meh, you know what? I think I’m done with this shit. Poof!” But nothing could be farther from the truth.

Change is up to you at the end of the day it’s all about your mind-set and what you allow yourself to do and what you allow in to take control over your life. You your own person make a positive change in your life so in years to come you can look back and say well look at me now, I have progressed so much, that is when you discover your happy place.

 

How an internship opportunity changes your view on what you learnt at University.

I would recommend anyone to do an internship for a year of six months, especially if you are in your final years of studies. You will notice how different the working world is compare to studying, once you have conducted an internship. From a student learning theory for three years and finally been able to apply that knowledge in a practical way is the best feeling every. You begin to see the bigger picture once you physically apply what you have learnt.

Three years of theory was a complete bore to me, all I wanted to do was plan an event or campaign in real life and finally my internship year at Media24; was a dream comes true. I was given the position of been the Corporate Social Investment Assistant to the CSI group coordinator of Media24, Adrie Jurgensen.

My very first campaign was the dress red campaign in association with the Heart & Stroke Foundation in aid of Valentine’s Day. My duty was to think outside of the box and find a fun way to allow staff members to give towards a worthy cause. I could not believe that this was my first task wow, and I thought to myself, what now? How do I make this happen?

I eventually came up with a project plan; I guess all those portfolios we had to do for Susan Cerff was a bonus. My goal was try and sell as many dress red stickers as possible to staff members at work I even went as far as developing an advertising campaign whereby staff members had to dress up in red outfits on Valentine’s Day. I phoned various sponsors for prizes and received many freebies; I like the idea of networking with various organisations. This opportunity was awesome for my contact book.

The real working world is completely different, environment once you have experienced it. I have managed to gain many different skills throughout my internship and current position here at Corporate Communications and my prior work experience. I have come to know many different people especially in receiving sponsorships for our Corporate Social Investments projects and I maintained good relationships with all our sponsors and service providers.

I mean from learning all that theory to finally getting your hands dirty and working together with big organisations in order to fulfil your organisations tasks is a completely different world on its own.

 

 

 




 

Are company`s wasting their time with social media profiles?

In today Modern world just about everyone has to keep up with social media to survive, whether you are and individual or a business.  I find whenever you log onto a company’s profile page it will have the Facebook, Twitter, and Linkedin icons. Many companies bombard you with the new famous words like our page and poof we all like it and do not necessarily end up buying a thing from them. 

Nowadays many smaller companies especially NPO`s and NGO`s are replying on social media platforms  to advertise their organisation and reach out to possible sponsors, it actually costs them more money to advertise their profiles and they realise much later that their company is actually failing to succeed it goals. As a company you pay for your profile to advertise your services rendered to the public whether it’s selling, clothing of a plumbing service that you advertising you may a large sum of money to get your profile out there and the not many people end up liking your page or even buying an item from you. This is completely a great loss for your organisation, money wasted just like that poof gone!

Don’t get me wrong I am not saying that social media platforms are a complete waste of time for your organisation in many instances it is a good thing for every organisation to have a profile as you never know who may show an interest in your organisation along the way. They can definitely help your business grow. It is of importance for any organisation that has a social media profile to choose the correct platform to advertise your business.

This is where companies go wrong, they not sure what platforms to choose and spend large sums of money thinking that they will get the buy in of viewers to like their page and use their services. Social Media can end up ruining your company as well so be careful when you ready to splurge on big exciting advert ideas for your social media platforms, this is a huge risk for your company especially if you have not increased the buy in of your services by those who like your page.

Life changing memories

One of my life changing memories are my engagement story, on the 22 January 2012, I got engaged to an amazing man Ross Williams. My proposal was really unexpected, if you know me really well, you would have notice that I like surprises. On this beautiful Sunday afternoon my fiancé decided to take me to Eden on the Bay Moyo for lunch. We chatted over a lovely lunch for me this was just a normal day at my favourite restaurant. After lunch we headed down to the beach, it was pretty crowded as it was a real hot summers day, Ross mentioned that he had to go to the car an collect something , he said I had to wait on the beach he won’t be too long. When he returned, he had a little picnic cooler bag and a blanket, he then said “Angel let’s take a walk down to the beach”.

My words to him were “wow, you never really do things like this” I was completely stunned. We eventually took a walk on the beach looking for a spot to sit, we a laid down on the blanket, listening to music and chatting away.

Eventually Ross said “Angel let’s play a game”, I was like okay but couldn’t understand why he wanted to play a game; he said “if you get this game right you get a prize” all I did was laugh.

Anyhow after that I suddenly saw black rocks lying in the sand, really wasn’t sure where they came from all of a sudden, he the said “Angel you must turn over theses rocks one by one and read what it says”. I was so dumb struck I barely remember the rocks even been on the beach at that moment when we arrived, I even mentioned what could possibly be behind these rocks and laughed.

I then turned over three rocks, lucky for me the first two I turned over said marry me at this very moment I was in awe, complete shocked BBM Face, I eventually jumped up and didn’t turn over all the rocks, he shouted at me and said babes complete the game before you get all excited. 

So I then turned over all the black rocks which has silver glitter writing on them written, “I love you, will you marry me”. I immediately shouted our yes, yes repeatedly and hugged my fiancée at the same time he was on one knee proposing and I was struggling to get up onto my feet, as I was shacking from shock.  All he wanted was for me to calm down and say yes LOL, as people around us started wondering what’s happening. I truly couldn’t believe that he had proposed what a complete shock it was to me,was extremely happy; it’s a feeling every girl has to experience for herself.

That’s not all the first thing I did was change my BBM status to engaged to Ross Williams we had lots of shocked faces and well wishes. After we went to our friends showing off my beautiful ring little did I know that another surprise was awaiting me at his house. His family decided to give me a small welcome into the family party hehehehehehe, two surprises in one day I felt like the luckiest girl in the world.

Every time I think of this special day my whole face lights up and my heart smiles, I can only but imagine the even greater feeling that awaits us on the 22 February 2014 when we finally say I DO.

This is one life changing memory I will carry in my heart and Cherish in my heart forever; I can’t wait to share this story with my children someday.