Getting out and about in your active wear.

Last Sunday I was active in my activewear. Just for the record, I usually am active when wearing my gym clothes. This time I took activewear to where it is most at home, the great outdoors, or more specifically, Royal Sydney National Park. The RSNP is an hour (with no traffic) drive south of Sydney. You can actually see the headland when you're coming in to land at Sydney Airport! We set out on our 7km walk from a nondescript car park. The thing about this walk, and the car park, is that there aren't many signs confirming exactly where you are. Luckily, we had Google Maps! We walked, and walked and walked through similar looking track and bush for what felt like forever. Until we came out to some cliffs that look over the ocean and revealed a secret beach. From there, we were about 900m from the Wedding Cake Rock - a geometric cliff-side that is made from naturally occurring white sandstone - bound to fall in to the ocean at any time. There is a fence warning you not to go on the rock because it is so unstable. I fear these words and these images will come back to haunt me when the rock finally does depart in to the sea. I was a nervous wreck for most of the time whilst standing both on the rock and off it, watching brave tourists get adventurous photos. Facing my fears of following the rock off the side of the cliff and in to the ocean I crawled on my hands and knees to the magic Insta-photo-opportunity spot. With my hands in the air, a smile on my face I confronted my fears of heights and cliff edges, and now have a photo to prove it. After we left the rock, and the adrenaline subsided, I felt a little proud of overcoming a fear and was able to relate it to different areas of my life. Fear can be a fickle beast, but when you meet it head on and work your way through it, it's not so bad. In someways I think we feel fear to remind ourselves of how much we are capable of once we get to the other side of it. I'll be the first to admit that getting out of my comfort zone isn't one of my natural talents, but when I do, boy, do I feel so much better for it!

When was the last time you were in nature and out of your comfort zone?

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High-Waisted Straight Jeans, Cropped At The Ankle.

Images: Pinterest

The perfect pair of high-waisted straight jeans, cut with precision at the ankle, are almost mythical. Where, oh, where do I find such a perfect pair as the ones above? I need them to wear on Saturdays to the local bakery to pick up my croissants and coffee! Or to dress up with a smoking blazer and heeled boots for a night out on the town. I won't stop looking until I find such denim perfection.

Young Love in Europe.

Images: vogue.com

When I first saw these pictures I felt this intense nostalgia for love in its infancy stages. For when you're still in the early stages of dating and every time you see that person you get butterflies in your stomach and can't believe that you get to spend so much time with them and they actually like spending time with you. They make you feel giddy and excited. Hopefully they also make you laugh. And it doesn't matter what it is you're doing, it's that you're doing it together that makes it amazing. After time the butterflies go away but then comes the best part, love. You become connected, you understand one another, you lift each other up and together you can take on the world. Just like this sharp suited tattooed bad boy and his flirty, fifties style femme fatale.

25: Things I Have Learnt And Need To Remember After Turning 25.

Image: The Cinderella Project

25 - Half way to 50, only 5 more years until 30 and so many things still to get done between now and then! I recently read a quote that said "A goal is a dream with a deadline" and it really stayed with me. If you give someone a deadline, watch them go and make everything they want to do happen. That's where I am right now, in a little corner of wanting to make everything happen. To do all of the things I want to do, to be conscious of not wasting time and to make the most of every opportunity I am afforded in this lifetime. So on this first day of venturing in to mid-20-something here is a note-to-self of 25 things I have learnt and need to remember after turning 25:

1. Family is everything.

2. Water your friendships and they will always grow.

3. Live in the now. Appreciate the moment while it's happening because it will soon be gone and you want the memory to be as lively as possible.

4. Sometimes you need to take chances. Be brave.

5. When in doubt, don't flounder, just make a decision and stick with it. 

6. Caring less about what people think will make you a lot happier.

7. Get to know the things that make you happy and do them often.

8. Do your best to exercise often and eat well.You always feel so much better for it.

9. Don't be so hard on yourself.

10. Hard work pays of, every single time.

11. Sometimes the bad days will last longer than just one day. This doesn't mean you'll never have another good day again. Refer to 7, 8 and 9 to get yourself feeling better.

12. Say YES! You'll never know where it can take you. But knowing when to say NO is also important.

13. Fiercely protect your independence and spirit.

14. Be good with your money. Know when to splurge and when to save.

15. When you're wrong, apologise quickly and profusely.

16. Learn from every mistake.

17. Never compromise your life goals for someone else's.

18. Be kind. Always.

19. Follow your intuition. It won't lead you astray.

20. Smile. Even when you don't feel like it.

21. Keep an open mind.

22. Keep perspective and complain less.

23. Check in with yourself regularly and be conscious. Ask yourself how you're feeling? Is this where you want to be? Are you still wanting to go where you're heading? What is the problem and what is the solution? And then take ACTION!

24. Share your thoughts, feelings and ideas without shame. 

25. Do more. The time is now, it's always going to be now. 

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