full time job

What I Learnt in 2016

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I uploaded a video on Youtube of what I learnt in 2016!

The amount I grew in 2016 is crazy - it’s possibly the most I’ve grown in any one year! Here’s a recap of what I talked about in the video:

  • Started working full time for the first time in my life.

  • Learnt how to be disciplined and how to build a schedule that works for me, and how to stick to that schedule. It actually took me a while to realise that if I didn’t draw or gym in my very limited free time during the week (mornings and evenings), then it wouldn’t happen at all, and weeks and months would pass with zero improvement!

  • Finally found a diet that works for me! With limiting carbs and sweets and unhealthy foods without feeling deprived of them or feeling the need to eat them all the time and have horrible cravings!!
    I did a 12 week program with my best friend and incredibly smart Personal Trainer, Emily, and the biggest things I learnt from that is:

    • The importance in fat in a diet when limiting carbs.

    • The effect eating carbs in the morning has on your energy and cravings (you crave carbs much more throughout the day, and you also have greater peaks and troughs in your blood sugar).

    • How good having a high protein and fat breakfast can have on your blood sugar and cravings.

    • How it feels to not be tired all the time because of crazy blood sugar.

    • How to push myself.

  • I learnt a tonne about the gut, inflammation, blood sugar, and the effect the pill can have on your body. I found out that my gut was very unhappy (constantly bloated), and I altered my diet by eliminating gluten and dairy, with great results. I then found out the pill was still affecting my gut horribly, and my gut improved substantially after coming off of it (I can now eat gluten and dairy with fewer issues than before). I also learnt of the many silent symptoms that I didn’t even realise I was experiencing because of the pill - constipation (from affecting liver function and the gut), weight gain and fluid retention or similar (I’m assuming from the effect on my gut), making my breasts denser, weak nails (also from unhappy gut).

  • I learnt about leaky gut - where cells can leak from your intestines into your blood stream, meaning that any inflammation that you may experience in your gut from eating hard-to-digest foods (especially gluten) can result in the inflammation leaking into your bloodstream and being transported to other areas of your body! Good motivation to eat well!

  • I learnt to take chances, and not worry about having to be perfect all the time, and to just focus on and enjoy the process and journey!!! Of learning new skills, and improving on old ones.

So Happy New Year to everyone, and I hope you have a good year and work hard!!! Plan your future and reach those goals! :D

A short summary of the major things I learnt in 2016! Content: 1. Started a Full Time Job (0:23) 2. Learnt Discipline (0:49) 3. Diet & Health (1:30) 4. Gut Health, Inflammation and The Pill (4:04) 5.

What A Year! Excited for the Future

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Well, I’m just about finished with my first year of my first full time job! It’s crazy how long it took to really sort myself out, like my personal schedule - with exercise, and fitting in my own time for creativity... kicking myself in the buns to get disciplined with it all, as to be able to fit all of that stuff in - while working full time - requires a lot of scheduling, staying organised, and being disciplined!

Sydney Harbour, with the Opera House in sight, from the International Passenger Terminal in Circular Quay, from where we had our work Christmas party :)

I’m so excited for 2017 - to take all the things I've learnt this year, and the growth I've experienced, and to kick off next year running! I've spent the last few months of 2016 figuring out what kind of scheduling will work for me - whilst still working full time - to feel satisfied that I'm doing all that I can to achieve the most I can! Time for that HUSTLE and GRIND!

Food at the work Christmas party! Not that I ate any though, it was too difficult, and there were too many people...

I’m going to focus on working on my own creative projects daily, including (but not limited to) drawing, painting, photography, filming, writing, and documenting parts of my life and my work throughout all of that :) I'll only really have 30-60 minutes a day to do that, but that's fine by me! It's still better than 0 minutes a day, and I'm so excited for the growth I'll experience just from being consistent! After all, that's what it takes to grow: consistency! :D

So keep your eyes peeled for the content I'll be posting throughout all social media platforms that I'm on, they're linked at the top of my website.

I hope you all had a great 2016 too, and if not, then all the more reason to work twice as hard at making 2017 that much greater! Stay positive my friends, as if you do that then you'll be able to accomplish anything you set your mind to! 

I'll end this with a silly photos of me and my outfit at the work Christmas party! Happy Christmas and Happy New Year, everybaaaaday! ^_^