Putting in The Work

Hey guys! I hope that you're all fine and well and dandy and all those wonderful things!

Right now, I'm in the second week of my A Levels and I feel like because I'm aiming for the highest grades, I'm not yet putting enough effort and putting extra effort into my work and that is quite disturbing because feeling like you might already be putting yourself at a disadvantage before you've even started isn't probably the nicest feeling ever.

However, I do feel like I can get better and that's what's important because let's face it, I'm not even a month into my studies - there's still plenty of time for me to find out what I can do to become a whizzo and then I feel like, though I may end up with even less time than I've already got, I may end up feeling a lot better having done extra work and really becoming familiar with the subjects and the topics that I need to understand.

Moral of this little worry on paper being, if you want to change something about yourself, try and do it sooner rather than later because the later you leave it, the more stress you can end up putting on yourself and the more unhappy you can end up becoming. Now, wish me good luck for organising my time and actually becoming a more happy and content human being! I wish you all the same too!

I hope that you guys enjoyed this post! If you did or didn't, please feel free to leave your thoughts in the comments below and I hope to speak to you soon!

Getting Up When You've Fallen Down

The title of this post pretty much sums up what I wanted to talk about today aha, today should be a shorter post.

I don't know how many of you guys watch YouTubers at all or are even fans of the people I watch too but one of the people I always watch without fail everyday is FunForLouis because he travels so much that he's completely and utterly inspiring. A few weeks ago, him and a few of his friends Ben Brown, Steve Booker and a few others filmed around London for Ben's new Visual Vibes video which was absolutely awesome and you can check out here. After they had finished filming, Louis and Steve decided that they wanted to skate down Primrose Hill where they filmed the last shot. What ended up happening was, they ended up going at crazy speeds on their penny boards, around 40mph and Louis couldn't keep control and ended up scraping off a lot of skin. For you guys that are squeamish, I won't include a picture of his injuries but it did end up with him in A&E at 2am.

What I admire is the fact that even after that absolutely terrible accident, Louis forced himself to regain his confidence going downhill on his penny and that's something I want to implement in my life too. I got a penny imitation last summer and the first time I properly rode my board was on the path in my front garden. I was making a good amount of progress for about half an hour until somehow, I found myself on the floor and my left ankle was hurting so badly. For the next week or so my ankle puffed up around double its normal size, went bright green and was just so scary. It didn't feel too bad after a few days of having it up with an ice pack but just looking at it made it feel more painful than it actually was.

Point being, both me and Louis have had our worst accidents on our boards and I want to take a leaf out of his book and keep trying because atm, I'm struggling to even get the basics.

I hope that you guys enjoyed this post! As always, empty your thoughts in the comments below and I'll speak to you soon!

The Past, The Present, The Future, The Now.

Hey guys!

I've just watched Will Darbyshire's new video which is entitled 'The Now'. Before I go on about his video, I would love to just give him a shout out to you wonderful people reading this post. His videos are always insightful and he just talks about a topic that has struck him and inspired him and I honestly think that the honesty and passion and drive with which he talks makes his videos completely and utterly awesome. On the upside too, they're never all that long, roughly around 3 minutes long so do check out his channel here :)

So his video (which is linked above) was talking about how important it is to live in 'The Now' and it's something I personally feel is important for us all to actively do. As I mentioned in a post previously, this coming September is probably the most daunting thing that I'm facing at the moment in my life. And yet, for me, before September lies two months in which I can have the time of my life. What I want to challenge myself and anyone else who's reading and has got the whole summer ahead of them, is to try and do something new or try and push yourself and make the most of everyday that comes at you.

For me, yesterday I went skateboarding with my best mate Chloë and then got on and did work and that for me was awesome because the more and more time I get to spend with her, the more I appreciate how absolutely blessed I am to have her in my life and the more time I want to spend with her this summer because a) being able to try (and unfortunately fail) at skateboarding with your bestie is probably the best way to do it and b) I've had so few awesome memories with her the past summers that I wish I could do more with her this summer.

Also, it feels like from now onwards, there's going to be more and more that's going to separate me from my friends, whether that just be the fact we go on to do different things in the future or even just from the onset in September when we start doing different subjects. Point being, I don't want to be afraid to create memories with people who make me happy and that is something I want to change from here on out :)

So what do you guys want to get from the present? What kind of new things do you want to experience? Is it something from the comfort of your own bedroom (don't get me wrong, a lot of my summer will be spent there too) or will you try something even more challenging? :o

I'll speak to you guys soon and thank you so much for reading!