Keep fit and active/Doing something out of the norm

I went for a lovely walk today walking from Morden to Colliers Wood and in a place I have never walked, which I believe to be part of the Waddle River from Wimbledon to Colliers Wood and felt so good to be able to explore again, and good to see the sun out too.

I even did an indoor workout that I have used before and it is a 20 minute walk routine that you can do at home which is eqivalent to One mile and glad to have done that. I am not saying like "I'm so great I can walk and wow look at me" , but even when I at first weren't gonna exercise because of excuses I still did it, and so can you. 

Pick what exercise suits you and just make sure you have the right clothes on that are comfortable, as must for walking. 

I did some shopping too today and bought another pair from TU Sainsbury's, exercise bottoms and only £16 and love them, I filmed a shop with me so gonna upload this this week and whilst writing been watching some Youtube. I applied for a job working in a school during half term and so finger crossed that happens. 

I like to do different types of work and I am feel I am in a good position to do that, and I'd say this to everyone. FOLLOW YOUR HEARTS AND DREAMS!

Today it is the start of my Self Confidence blog challenge and please see the link for today's post. https://buildingselfconfidencetud.blogspot.com/2022/01/my-first-blog-challenge-for-2022.html

It has taken a lot of me to build my confidence and have had body confidence since a kid and is a working progress, and it can take a while to get my confidence to increase and it how I feel when I wake up in the morning. This morning I managed to get up before my alarm went came on and go the time wrong but did help me to slowly get dressed without needing to rush around. 

I have spoken about this in many of my blogs about how people think because you wake up early that naturally you must be a morning person. Can I just say, NOT TRUE! I can be a mrs grumpy and so never be fooled if I can lie in I will. 

My life has changed so much that I often find I can't keep up and doing that walk today made me feel so better about myself and never walked that way before, but was so worth it, and great do on days when you don't feel your best. 

We all get down days and it is all about doing different things and I had time to kill and was such a nice day. I was planning to do a long walk again and so was perfect and will walk that way again. 

This helped me with my steps and did over 10,000 day and so gonna post on my Instagram, if you'd like to check this out:https://www.instagram.com/typicallondongal/

I have just posted it, I really wished I had captured today but will do this next time. It surprising how as you keep walking how you come across new and different places. 

Life is about trying new things, and gave me such a boost in energy. 

Tomorrow I am planning another walk, and may take a trip up London but see how I feel. 

Exercise has never come easy so I thought but as a kid always had hobbies, and went to dancing school and is good for keeping fit and I know now this sounds like Cliche, but it is, and my dad was a walker so gonna keep it up. 

It is good to rest, and so I now changed my workout schedule and exercise on Sundays, Mondays and Tuesdays. I do write two fitness blogs: https://getfitgetactivewithme.blogspot.com/

https://sportsandfitnesspassion.wordpress.com 

Youtube is a good place to go for working out and I did used to buy a fitness magazine but not able to find it, but they have many exercises you can do. 

I like to workout my whole body, and what I have been doing to help get myself to exercise is done 6 different exercises, but today I wanted to do a workout from Youtube and that is the key do what you want the increases the heartrate and different types to keep the momentum to do some at home exercising if you don't want to join a gym.

So it is almost time for my to get to bed got another early start so see you then. 

Many thanks for reading, 

Carrie X 

Managing my life

So this is has been a game changer for me writing on my 750words.com as it is really great to be writing each day and post it as a blog on my google blogspot https://mydailythougthsandfeelings.blogspot.com/

My son has gone home to his dads and it was a good weekend, but next week want to have a change of routine and take him up to London and just as a mend my title of the blog I share this content my laptop crashed, ALWAY THE WAY!

It is good to do something out of the norm, I just hope the protests have stopped as don't want to take Henry, my son up there and surrounded by it, not that as said in a previous post, no offence to them, I just being protective which I do see is must in taking care of my son. 

It is end of the month again and can't get hold of the fact we soon will be in spring and I want the time to just slow down a bit, but I know this will never happen. 

Tomorrow I will be started my first challenge of the year and that is I am going to be posting on my Self Confidence blog I write for 7 days: https://buildingselfconfidencetud.blogspot.com/

I feel really ready for it too and love doing such challenges. In my mind challenging is a way to keep tabs on my work and to help grow myself and my content delivering blogs this week. 

So if you'd like to check this blog out and share it then please do. 

On Mondays I get up super early so already packed my bag for tomorrow and what I have on today I will wear tomorrow. I plan to do a shop with me tomorrow in Sainsbury's in Colliers wood and see what goodies they have as not been there for a bit since my last visit. Their TU range has been bloody good and love shopping there for clothes and food. 

The store I want to save to buy from is Oliver Bonas I am loving their clothes range, a lot pricer but I go a scarf from them and was originally £35 and I bought it for £20, so gonna keep checking to see if they have anymore sales. 

Since last year my store has been H&M and gonna check their clothes again as I wanted to buy two more jumpers from them, but want to check out Sainsbury's first but I feel they have been the number one store for me last year and so I always now have to check their stores out, whenever I see one. 

I am struggling now it is the evening when I am trying to finish my 750 words to be copied into a blogpost, and when it comes to writing you should take a break, but then I watched a video by Will Smith about having "One more go" and so I taken that concept and have "One Last Try" and so that is why I am determind to have this finished. 

If you like to write a blog I would say start with a free platform first to begin with and then as it grows build it up and you can start to earn money by Absense but make sure you check their policies in doing so and was how I started and now write a lot of blogs on Wordpress and on google blogspot.

I do write a blog on Bloglovin and so if you'd like to check this out you can: https://www.bloglovin.com/@carrieholmes40/posts

Bloglovin in a great place to blog and you can set it up to go automatically to Twitter and Facebook. You can also become affiliate for your blog so check this out. It is a brilliant platform.

I have paid to blog in the passed, example I used Visitaprint platform and it did work of me and the cost wasn't that expensive, but when I then went onto to using Wordpress.com I cancelled my Visitprint to blog and they were really good in cancelling my account to use have a website they had, but would still recommend as their items they have a great to order from if you are building a blog depending on what it is about.

Mondays I since last week started to do a fashion diary and this is on my site: https://carriesversitilefashion.wordpress.com 

I do love fashion and always planning my wardrobe and the one thing that I need is a couple of new bras and is important when putting outfits together so gonna pop to M&S to purchase as M&S is a go to store for underwear like bras. It often to a look of searching to find my size. I also like their trousers, Bootcutt style. 

I need socks gonna see how much they are in Sainsbury's. I am always loosing my socks and so need to buy a new pack and will show the items I have bought when I am out tomorrow. It is good to plan the Sunday for the week ahead and the beginning of the week too, as it sets it out and not rushing around. I can't go a week without planning, do what is important to. I like using digital, but will always use paper too, just in case I my laptop crashes, as you never know.   

So how do you manage your life I'd love to hear. 

Many thanks for reading,

Carrie X 

 

Dreams and goals/Dedicated to a Comedy Great, Bobby Ball

So today it has been a one where I thought I would not be able to get more sleep but I did but because I was awake I found I couldn't sleep so then I watched some videos on Youtube in bed.

I watched a Variety Show they did in honour of Bobby Ball who with Tommy Cannon were one of my heroes and never got my dream to meet him, but glad that I still had wonderful memories. 

It is good to have memories in your life ones that you can smile at, aswell as looking back at the bad times you had. I try not to dwell on the passed but I like looking back as I have met a lot of people in my life, young and old and remembering Bobby Ball he never stopped and even though he and Tommy had a bad time they made it up and became the most famous double act from the North along with the other comedy duos, Laurel and Hardy, Abbot and Castello and Morecambe and Wise. So he with Tommy will always be remembered and I love their shows and did get to see them live at a Pantomime at the London Palladium, Babes in the wood. 

I also got given photos of them performing at a holiday camp I worked in, Butlins Bognor Regis and was really grateful and so it has made me see that you have to create life you love otherwise it becomes a waste, and that's not for me. 

It is the evening by the time now, I finish this blog and have been watching a show of different musicals and has been my childhood dream to be in one someday but as a kid who did Ballet, Tap, Ballroom and Latin I was doing shows and I really miss that, so is my dream over? Who knows but would like to have the chance again.

Should people give up their dreams? Not a chance would say is "Never give up on life and make it one that you know you have a reason to get of bed for and one where we can embrace and instead of getting through the days with nothing to do or no where to go. 

Dreams are to be fulfilled and for me my next goals is to work outside again and have many channels I want to follow. I want to continue with my books which I love writing and would like to have a bestseller and know I need to keep creating my books and market them better to help me to have that dream. 

Never fear setting goals as fear is always gonna be there but lowers as you keep making a step forward for your goals to be achieved.

If you'd like to check out my books then you can on Amazon.com under the names, Carrie Challoner, Carrie Lee Holmes or Carrie Holmes. 

It baffles me when I hear people saying "Well I wanted to be an athlete but never had he chance" and I am like no but people do achieve that dream and so it is possible otherwise we'd have no Olympics, Gymnasts, Ice Hockey, etc and so dreams should never be just that but something to help you thrive. 

Life is what you make it and so I will always set goals for myself and do all I can to achieve them. 

I set goals for my son and myself being a parent. I want my son to have a future that he loves and being a mum I have learned from him. 

I see that my son likes to do many things through the day and it can be hard to catch up, but I like the fact that he finds his own loves in his life. I want him to make good choices, but know that he may make some choices not so good, but I know with my guidance and other people in his life, that he will have a life he loves to now and when he gets older. 

When it comes to dreams and goals are they the same thing? I say No. Its a process. At first it is a thought in your mind and then we dream about that thought and the visualization of where it may lead can often not be set but we picture ourselves doing it, whatever the dream may be, but the human body feels it before they climb each step to them to write it down and then for me I like to write each step to map the road I want to take to achieve the goal that I had dreamed about. 

If you'd like to read more of my content then you can. I do post a lot of my blogs on Pinterest so check this out:

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Many thanks for reading, 

Carrie X 

 

Putting Things Off

It is Friday and yes I feel a bit more awake today, as I am sitting eating my breakfast and starting my 750 words for my daily blog on google blogspot: https://newsletterthoughtsandadvicefortheweek.blogspot.com/

You are reading here on this blog and going to be writing daily on my thoughts and I just finished a blog I had been writing since two days ago about Feeling Sceptical About Life on my blog site:

https://everyonecanbuildacastle.com 

The weekend starts today and I used to love Friday's as a kid because of Weekend Television and there would be so many shows like the Cannon and Ball show, The Two Ronnies and Surprise Surprise, and no I am not sponsored in anyway by Weekend Television as it no longer exists unfortunately. 

I do have some programmes to catch up on, for example the last weeks Call the Midwife and The  Apprentice, which I was a bit weary of this year as the men in it look like they were once footballers and wanted to become business men, not saying that there is something wrong with it, and the women look like they come from Baywatch, I mean who didn't like Hoffman, David Hasselhoff and Pamela Anderson was the it girl, and seem a bit robotic. 

As for Call the Midwife, it is such a lovely programme and I have been a bit late in getting into it but wanted to watch it, when I read the book, and love watching in the week whilst I wait for my son to come home from school, and so I will be watching one of those later depending on time. 

So in between writing my 750 words for today I have managed do another item on my list as I want to do a bit of outside work as a Playworker at a local school and really want to have the chance of doing that. It is good to do different things and be subconsciously wanting to do such work and amazing how life can turn out like you want with so many hurdles in between.

I am going to film a video or two today and they will be a Truth About Parenting and one for my other channels and if you like to visit my channels then, go typicallondongal, mystylewayofliving and carriesyoutubechannel.

As I listen to Bruch Springsteen I am going through items I have set for today and as I do helps me take my time. I am someone who goes into a mad rush, and some say they can't work when listening to TV or Music but that is them, this is how I work and it makes me have something to look forwarding doing and ticking things on my lists. Do you do the same?

Life for me is for me personal choice and what direction you want to go and if you slip off sometimes then instead of beating yourself up about it, take what you can learn from it and carry on, and slipping off the road you are travelling sometimes helps us to stay on track and finding a new route is fine, if it achieves something for you each day.

I have written down to tidy my bedroom and vacuum but don't feel in the right frame of mind to do that, but even though it is a task I put at the bottom of my list it will get done. I do procrastinate  when it comes to cleaning and so to help I break it up rather than doing it all one go, thankfully I have gotten my son's bed ready for when he stays with me on Fridays to Sundays and so can tick this off, but its tidying it wears me out even before I start, so gonna clean the windowsill and then have a potter.

Do you like cleaning? and gonna watch my youtube now to get some energy to tidy and get my bedroom in a more presentable state, and I know once it is done I will feel good about it, and yes gonna use wipes sorry universe, I like wipes it just simplifies a job for me, yet instead I found a microfibre cloth so didn't need to. Yes since writing this part I go it down. 

So I tidied and so just got to vacuum and then that is done. I do tend to do this on a Friday is tidy for the weekend and once it has been done I then can relax otherwise it just hangs over my head. 

So after writing of that I did just vacuumed too, so you see that I knew I was gonna make an excuse why I should wait controlled me in doing it now and so it is amazing how things can workout and now can get on with other tasks. 

See you tomorrow.

I also write books and so if you'd like to check them out you can, on Amazon.com, under the names Carrie Challoner, Carrie Lee Holmes and Carrie Holmes. 

Many thanks for reading, 

Carrie X 

   

Days I feel super fatigued

 It has been 3 days that I have written using 750word.com for my google blogspot platform, https://thoughtsoftheday.blogspot.com

I am enjoying it and really good discipline for me as a writer. I would recommend it and is a good way to start the day.

However right now I feel I could go back to bed and trying to brush the fatigue away, but that is because I do get up at different times because of doing the school run and I love my boy, but I do feel wiped out sometimes and takes time for the tiredness to wear off.

I am on medication that helps me sleep but like many medications it can take time to come a live and feeling fully energized.

I also think staying in one place all of the time doesn't help, but I am due to pop out soon. If you feel tired its your body telling you that you've got burn out so need a break and so last night I had a night off and has made all the difference as I did have a good sleep but took it easy this morning too. 

Now as I continue to draft this blog for today, that with a couple of coffees made the difference and I have tried decaf but for me is not the same. 

I feel I need to take a step back from some of the bits I do like doing videos for Youtube and concentrate on the other things I need to get done, but as I write this the voice in my head says, "Why not film a Truth About Parenting videos" that I film. Yet feel I do need to take a different approach.

The mind for me can be the steering wheel that can push you forward when you want to take a step back from something. 

I do have days where I do struggle and not gonna hide that because it has been like that for a long time and got into the mindset that I am always going to have those days, but when creating good habits I know I can get through those days and the make the next day better.

I am now ready for the day since typing this blog and do feel better for it. I did have my flu jab yesterday and think this could be playing a part of why I am feeling like I am. I am not unhappy its the tiredness I am feeling and feel perhaps I should take a week off from making videos and writing blogs and then focus on getting my new book finished and spend some days going to different places. 

I have an appointment today and so getting ready for that and then it is waiting in my son's other home for when he returns from school, and so will have a chance to watch some TV whilst I wait. 

I am going to go through my diary and gonna plan a week or so off and then get back to it for Spring. I do want to do something for Valentines day and create some baskets for my son and nieces. I used to be a Valentines day hater being on my own for a long time, but not be hater and to make the day my own. This year gonna create Henry my son a basket to celebrate it and want him to know about the special dates in the year.

I do want to do something for Pancake day, not sure if my son will ever be interested in this day but I do like to celebrate and acknowledge the day and so gonna treat my family I live with, with some Pancakes and Ice Cream. I know and I have high cholesterol but they can be healthy, just don't add any sugar but will be using my bottle of Maple Syrup with some lovely fruits. 

I am looking to hopefully doing some work outdoors and may have some work for half term, but with COVID I know a lot can end up being cancelled. It is a shame but I suppose unlike Boris some of us are following the guidelines. Honestly what an idiot Boris is. 

I am a lady of lists and not realising I have completed more tasks, example my budget I like to create each year and separating the things I often buy, how much I want to spend, and writing my 750 words and did some walking for the day to my son's home. 

For me is it all about saving myself time and prioritising. I never see myself as being organized but looking at the tasks I complete that I am actually am, but just a word I often try to avoid.  

If you'd like to read more of my blogs then you can do so, check out my Pinterest where I share a lot of content and if you'd like to visit my Youtube channels and I also write books, on Amazon.com, and are written via my 3 names, Carrie Challoner, Carrie Lee Holmes and Carrie Holmes. 

https://www.pinterest.co.uk/thetypicalLondongal/

My channels are under these titles:

• typicallondongal
• mystylewayofliving
• carrieseducationalyoutubechannel

Many thanks for reading, 

Carrie X 

Changing habits to improve health

So today I went for my doctors appointment because my Cholesterol being a little high and gonna to get it down via diet and the nurses handed me a leaflet that has all the foods I can eat and others I can't, written under different colours.

A lot of people on TV and Youtube have promoted Coconut oils, saying that they are good for you yet looking at the leaflet handed to me, was in the red. So this means, stay clear of and it goes to show how, when it comes to foods and food substances, are not good for you as it would have you believe. 

I do eat healthy foods like my vegetables and love them and this is from a girl that hated a lot of food as a kid and so your taste buds do change, but I had to confess to the nurse I do eat a lot of chocolate and tried nuts and seeds instead and so gonna stick this leaflet of the things I can have on the wall in my bedroom and to stay on track. 

I talked in my last blog about pressure and this is the same with food and diet, but I know I have the right mindset with myself, to get a hold of it, and be disciplined enough to make sure I eat better, and not go for the easy foods all of the time, like my downfall is Angel Cakes and biscuits.

The one thing I know will help it is for me to stick to doing my home workouts and do more walking and take myself on days out during the school term as I could be working during half term so I want to make the most of my time. 

I love going up to London but seeing there have been protests kept myself away as I like to be able to come and go as I please without being mixed up within all that. 

Not saying I don't respect the protests, we all have beliefs and so if you want to be heard this for people is the only way and as much we deny it, they do help the world revolve. 

Having high cholesterol it means to that I will have to change my mind habits and I talk a lot about habits in my blog site: everyonecanbuildacastle. I now instead of having a coffee as I not long had a hot chocolate whilst travelling back doing the school run, have a glass of water instead and know I can take my time in doing so.

I have checked that I can still have my two coffees in the day, but no more than that, but not have them one after the other, and because I treated myself to a hot chocolate as I don't all of the time because of the sugar, know that it today will be one coffee for me for the day. 

I have also been trying to get my energy levels on a good balance and trying to do this by taking supplements. l take iron, vitamin D, Garlic, Iron and multivitamin. 

Since taking these I have Good news, in that, they are working and so not gonna rely on caffeine  all of the time. 

Dieting is a word I have battled with for a long time and so want to bring it to a good level and in turn a good balance. I want to be running again and going for long distant walks and miss not doing so. I know in order to do that, I need to manage my health and wellness a lot better. 

This can also be under self care as I do neglect myself in terms of getting my hair professionally done, not painting my nails, dehairing the hair from my body and have reading time. 

Being a mum it is important to set a good example and would love to go on a walk or run with my son with him on his bike or walking with me too. He doesn't always want to do this but making it fun I know that I can win him over, and again love taking him up to London to visit different places. My son will protest a lot when it comes to going for a walk but when he sees he can run riot doesn't want to go back indoors. 

The places I love to walk is in London along the river and the national parks and surrey too like Kingston, Richmond and Hammersmith to Putney. 

when it comes to changing habits I like to do this gradually and this year I am keeping away from Crisps as I have found I don't need them, yet I used to it about 4 packs a day, I now read again before listening to music and then going to sleep. I know some may find playing music at bed time to be frowned upon, but everyone is different and I do respect that what is good for one person doesn't mean its gonna workout for the next, but sometimes you do have people that can relate and share the load of changing something in your life. 

I got the idea of writing these blogs by writing on 750words.com and so will posting a blog everyday and I would love for you to like this blog and share and this will keep me on track on what to talk about and with other ideas of content. 

Please check my three youtube channels:

• typicallondongal
• mystylewayofliving
• carrieseducationalyoutubechannel 

I do write other blogs so check out my Pinterest site where you can find more content for me:

https://www.pinterest.co.uk/thetypicalLondongal/_

Many thanks for reading, 

Carrie X 

Supportive of other women and men/Lets feel good about ourselves

I am back at it today early and feel energized today. I feel that some goods things will be happening this year in terms of working and feel that I have the correct mindset and so things can only happen when you view things differently and be more positive about life. 

At the minute  I am watching a fashion channel on Youtube that I discovered yesterday. It is good and as I have kept watching I have been working on my own style and is inspiring.

I do feel that some take Youtube audiences for granted and I was not sure if I felt keen in watching people criticize peoples image, as it is what suits you and feel that does not help if you feel pressured. What to I like the catering to different shapes of women and I have often felt square shaped, but it means having some fun with your clothes and experimenting. 

As we reach February there will be another newsletter and a challenge and I want to talk about fashion pressures and how they can work in reverse and not help at all. 

I have followed the advice though, its just I have had confidence issues as a kid and now I have reached a transition in my life, where I like what I wear and feel that it now makes me look at myself in a new light and not in the old way, NOT GOOD!

For me it is what mood I am in, quite often, and how much time I have to get ready, but I like the clothes and fashion I have. Am I over analysing, probably I just feel this hint of pressure and feel negative again, when it comes to looking at myself and feeling I can't even get dressed without being wrong. I like women to look real and not all done up all of the time. 

Fashion does help me to feel good and happy in my own skin, but feel often I need to hide when I look in the mirror I know the lack of confidence is me and that I should use the videos about fashion to inspire and not knock me down.

Is it worth it in finding the colours that match you? I say yes because I do have certain colours that I always go for, like light pinks, greys some blue and and white. I do dress in black sometimes but not all of the time, and feel colour is my niche and want to be wearing more. 

There was a moment where I was wanting to be a personal shopper as I do like buying clothes but because I for a long time lacked confidence I would need to work on myself first. 

I don't want to be looking at myself all the time and feeling down by it. I want to look in the mirror and say  "You aren't that bad and do look good". That for me is a massive step and one that has taken time but now I don't avoid mirrors or cameras and feel "I am like the way I am" its what God had made so why knock it. 

When it comes to women I hate it where there is cattiness and sniping at each other. We should support one another and help other women thrive and that is what I want to do. I want people to embrace themselves, and look at themselves and feel good in doing so. 

When I worked in a contact centre and for a holiday camp there would be a lot of women against other women including some people looking at me to put down, but I kept myself away from it and glad I did. 

I remember when the Spice Girls was introduced into the world and they created girl power and a lot of mums then moaned as they were being seen as a bad influence but they showed that just because they are women doesn't mean they are no good and changed it a lot for women and should not be seen as the second gender in the world. 

When Karen Brady came into light, there was a lot of criticism and I did feel a pang of jealousy as she was the first women to be a Manager in football and that was something I wanted but actually it was admiration and sent a positive message in that, just because football was even back then, as "A Man's Game" made it that girls can be involved in football too, but I remember a magazine putting her against another woman who was a manager at Blackpool football club. 

Women can be as sexist towards men and women, as you always get those women who likes men but not other women and that's when cattiness comes in and that you don't fit with her circle, but I would keep away anyway as I find it can be contagious being against other women when no we need to help and protect one another. When I was a football coach it was one of the mums that was very sexist saying I should have a man to help me as I didn't have a big enough voice and I remember like "What?" and it was a mum who would really be critical of her son and see that noone talks about other women being sexist and that it is just men, when I beg to differ.

I would like to see what your opinion is and have you witnessed cattiness and sexism by another woman, you can leave a comment below. 

Please check out my Pinterest of more content I write and I do write other blogs. 

Check these links out:

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https://everyonecanbuildacastle.com

https://organize4thebetter.blogspot.com

https://stylishmamma.blogspot.com

I have also written books, and so check these out by visiting amazon.com and will be under the names, Carrie Challoner, Carrie Holmes and Carrie Lee Holmes. 

Many thanks for reading, 

Carrie X 

Good Luck and Fate

Today I was ready within 20 minutes and felt good but just now walking I trod into some dog pooh, what a way to start the day. Last week I was poohed on by a bird, and wonder if I am going to get some luck coming my way. 

Whenever luck comes my way I will be waiting and like when in the book the tiger who came to tea, when the tiger knocked on the door, it can't be the lottery as I never buy a ticket, it can't be a scratchcard because I never buy one to win, I did try the Postcode lottery but nope nothing, but luck isn't all about becoming a millionaire, in fact for me it is like this morning thankfully there was a cab that could take me to my son's home to take care of him before his transport arrives and when being poohed on I remembered I had wipes in my bag, and I know they aren't environment friendly but you have to do what is there to grab, and learned since becoming a parent 9 years ago so, for me that is luck. 

I also believe in fate, and I wonder is fate the same as luck?

Well lets think about it, how did you meet the love of your life and where?

Have you rescued and animal and kept it to help bring it back to life and been in a bad way yourself and the animal you rescued?

I love to read about those that came from nothing to something and it happened because they saw it as being in the right place and the right time, and so, 

Is that fate? Is that luck?

I say fate and luck are the same thing, and I also believe premunitions and that you can see the future of your life in dreams, because of my own experiences. 

I remember having day dreams of travelling different places by bus and then did exactly that. 

I believe that you can go back into time through dreams too because I remember dreaming about World War 2 and I was running over Westminster Bridge and into a small side door into the houses of parliament, and around the time my nan has passed away on my mums side, I was meeting a friend and  walking over Westminster Bridge as I was working for the London TV studios then and was the year 2000 and as I walked there I saw that side door of the houses of parliament and I couldn't believe it and was that pure luck? No, I feel that is different as I think I was relieving someone else's story of back when it was World War 2.

I do believe in good deeds giving you good luck and then comes fate because you've put someone else forward, because I buy the big issue and once when I did, I got some money from claiming PPI and I am not saying do good deeds and then you'll get rich, not at all but doing acts of kindness and putting others first before yourself opens the door to you, rather than allowing a door to slam in front of someone's face. 

Acts of kindness can be:

1. Helping someone with their shopping 

2. Befriending someone, there are opportunities where you can befriend an elderly person for example and help them go shopping too, or going out to different places 

3. Have a coffee day and invite people round with following the guidelines of COVID, and yes Boris this does not include you obviously, and raise money for Charity 

4. Have a dress down day to help raise money for a good cause 

5. Send a letter to a friend you've not seen for a while to keep in contact rather than on social media 

It is just sharing the world and giving back to the community. When I was in a Mental Health hospital I made a friend called Angela and was a lovely old lady and I would sit and have breakfast with her or lunch and we would be eating and having a laugh, and I didn't keep in contact sadly but being in a Mental Health Hospital help me to see that it's just people who have had a hard time and I hope and pray she is doing well and pray that I do see her again someday but not in a Mental Health hospital as at the same time they were good units, noone really wants to be in there but they do allow you time to just get away when you feel your Mental Health needs help, and help get your life back on track.

So is life about luck and fate? 

In parts I feel it is, but then how do you explain bad luck? For me it is experiences that makes me see that life is about not restricting yourself and get opportunities that help give you good luck and in turn helps you with bad luck too. 

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Many thanks for reading, 

Carrie X