Living the life we desire may not be a far reach from our fingertips. Sometimes it just requires small changes to enable us to live our life to the full capacity. Some things of course may be out of our reach, but the things that are, we can use to our advantage and help us through this ever changing life. We all go through things, no matter how difficult it to see from the outside. It helps to find ways to mentally to prepare yourself for when those things happen. These are a few things I find our helpful to getting the most of our life and trying to live a more meaningful lifestyle.

Changing your mindset-  Changing my perception was the number one thing that I had to change in order to live a happier lifestyle. When things went wrong it would literally knock my confidence to the ground, but because life will always surprise you and it's helpful to try and not allow it overcome you. Using positive thinking and reinforcement, you can override the negative thoughts with more positive ones. You can think you know what, i'm not gonna let this get to me and positively reinforce yourself that you can overcome the situation.

As we've transitioned from the 90's to 2000+ our generation has experienced some of the most insane things.  Of course, although the 90's era was a classic time of super mario and spice girls, there are a lot of things that I believe have actually changed for the better and make a dramatic difference in our lives. I am glad to be a part of this change in modernisation, even though some new inventions have been quite amusing like this dog muzzle in the shape of a ducks beak.

Photography: Oppo

Technology - Catching blocks of food while controlling your pixelated snake may have been the highlight of 'old skool' phones, but let's appreciate how far technology has come, to the point you can even get apps that monitor your sleep. You never know what new creations they have up their sleeve. I'd always wanted to live far enough in the future where you hold the phone in the palm of your hand and a little hologram person talks to you. If this could somehow be made..

Photographs - I remember going to the camera store with my mum after waiting a week for the photographs to be developed. There was the excitement of not knowing what they would come out like, not remembering what had been taken. Although that was a downfall sometimes because to my horror my thumb made an appearance in some of the best ones. At least we don't have to wind the camera back and we won't annoyingly run out of film thinking "ah, i've only got 5 photo's left, I have to make it count"

Hairstyles - Thank goodness you can go into boots or any other beauty store and generally find a product for any problem, any colour, any condition. The research that has gone into these products have improved to the point we can straighten our hair with a brush or curl our hair with a straightener. Even though the big hairstyle phase was slowly getting flatter by the 90's, do you remember those coloured, not even clip in, but spring in hair extensions. I'm surprised they didn't spring off our heads! Don't forget our added cute accessories, the more in your hair the better as well.

Super Mario -  I can't say that I don't miss playing old school super mario, I loved the classic theme tune and when the mushroom would turn you into a giant mario. Although I guess now you don't need to worry about where the disk has gone, you can play games on your on your own portable console, your phone. Unless you had a nintendo DS then it would join you on your travels. You couldn't take your nintendo or ps1 on a train, or you couldn't play quick candy crushing type of games, so we've come quite far.

Movies - How annoying was it when you'd put in a tape and you hadn't rewound it so you'd have to spend ages rewinding it. While seeing the movie being played back in the process so you've pretty much seen it now anyway. Then they squished and flattened them down, just like they did with the chunky tv's, so we could use little disks. We could choose what scene we want to start on and if we were lucky the deleted scenes special DVD edition. What! Once we thought we couldn't get any better, Netflix came along where you don't need to worry if you accidentally stepped on your disk, oops!

Surfing the web - Finally, the one that has changed the world in ways we couldn't imagine is the wide world of web. We wouldn't have blogs, twitter and the sneezing panda on youtube. I wouldn't even know what I'd do if I was lost and couldn't check where I was and keep an account of where I'm going. Sure you could try asking someone, but I always have to do the dreaded thing of asking someone, i'm still lost and then have to ask someone else. Now, I can just open up my google maps and let it do it's thing, when it sometimes works.

These are just a few things that have changed since the 90's, what do you think has changed?

Angie xo

1. If your phone is pretty much the first thing you check in the morning and the last thing that gazes your eyes then I don't think you're alone with that, at all. How can we not? We can read things before we sleep, kind of like relaxing with a book, only with more radiation. Oh gosh, when you put it like that..

2. When you rely on your phone as map to take you the route you need to walk but it takes you the completely opposite direction. Thanks google maps! Strangely though it seems to work fine in the car when we end up on the wrong pathway, it just doesn't help you when you're alone and lost in the suburbs of London.

3. The panicked "where's my phone?" feeling you get when that's it, it's definitely gone, I must have left it on the train and the newspaper man must have found it. Oh.. don't worry found it guys.

4. Losing your phone and someone glistens with the idea of calling it, but it's either on silent, too quiet to hear or in a completely different location. I once tracked my phone on find my iPhone, but it showed me a completely different location so I was convinced someone was already in the Cash 4 Phonez kind of shop. Luckily I found it, unsold!



5. Using it for music to accompany the shower. Even though I'm still waiting for my update, I probably shouldn't really do this. 

6. Scrolling through your phone on bloglovin' or twitter and your thumb just can't take it. Too.. much.. scrolling! 

7. That 'not enough storage' sign that pops up more often than it should. I had to depart with some of my apps that i'll probably never use again anyway and still no space?! What's happening?

8. Your battery needing some fuel when you really need it the most. Especially when you're in costa, with plug sockets and you have all the other necessary equipment, apart from the main essential item. 

9. Zooming up the stairs to charge it when it's got 1% left and feeling awesome for making it on time. Me: 1  Phone: 0

10. Dropping your phone and of course, landing just like the buttered side of bread, face down! You do that "please be fine, please be fine" chant in the hope that your communication device is okay. I can say sometimes this has worked for me, but I have also been subject to the slide-out-of-pocket-without-buying-a-case-smash. Definitely lived an learned from this, after a few times!

Thank you for stopping by, these are a few things that we may experience with our phones, I may also make a part two to this. Do you have anything else you could add?

Feeling calm in nature: If you don't know who Bear Grylls is, he is slightly crazy regarding the extreme things that he climbs, but he also does more people-friendly type of walks though various breath taking scenery. He took Obama along such a breath taking walk, and it was actually quite interesting to see the president climbing through Alaska. Taking a stroll with an astonishing view in the background, like a waterfall or a mountain, while soaking in the natural wonders of life would be such a lovely thing to be a part of. I think this one is easier to accomplish than scary sky diving, because, well, you're on the ground!



Sky diving:  Before you jump out of your seats or you might even think it's a totally amazing idea, it's something I would probably feel brilliant to have accomplished. Although, for the moment I really can't see myself actually taking part in such an extreme activity! I don't mind going a little bit out of my comfort zone, but that's just a little too far for me! I'd probably have more of a chance of zooming through air perhaps strapped to a professional, but even then it still makes my stomach curl, but I still kind of want to see what it would be like flying through the air. Don't you think it's just a little scary though?

Explore little towns: I want to say Bonjour in a really bad accent when getting warm croissants for breakfast, before exploring the cute little city and what it has to offer. Or even take an inspirational stroll down small Italian cobble streets, with little wish fountains to add our coins in. Then drive away in one of those famous Italian vespas. I think I may have watched too many Mary-Kate and Ashley movies when I was younger, but this would be absolutely lovely to do. Especially finishing the journey off with Antonio, the singing man accompanying us on our little boat on the canal, munching some famous italian pasta and pizza, perfecto!





Making memories: When I was younger and we would be in the travel agents booking a holiday, y'know, before everything was done online. I would flick through the brochures of any country that caught my eye or were at ams length. I would see these amazing resorts with your own Villa with crystal clear oceans, crabs and people with really white teeth, smiling. I'd think where is this place? Those holiday experiences regardless, if they look like the brochures or not, provide one of the best experiences for us. Memories that can't be replaced, admiring the photo's of sand, sea and the sweet smell of summer, creating some of the best memories with the people we share it with.

What are some of the things you would like to do?


Angie xo