Deciding to be happy.

  

  Mindset is everything, it changes how we perceive people, places, and experiences. Have you ever watched a movie and with another person and made up an opinion on a character and the person that you were watching it with had an entirely different opinion on the character? On the last season of The Bachelor, my opinion differed greatly between my mother's on the winner, Whitney. I saw her as a desperate girl who would gaze into the bachelors eyes and use mind control saying, "CHRIS I WANT TO HAVE YOUR BABIES (which she did actually say/referred to a number of times on the show)." My mother on the other hand saw her as sweet and just totally in love (even though its The Bachelor and he's dating 14 other women and they've only had like two dates of just the two of them, its grool...I guess...). Anyway I began to question if my poor view of Whitney is because it's winter, and I generally have a more negative mindset in winter. Generally I have more negative experiences in winter. I blame it on the fact that I hate living like a vampire, but the reality is I have more negative experiences in winter because I decide to have a negative mindset in the winter. I could totally change that if I wanted to.

In fact this morning I was feeling completely down, and this lady walked in whom talking to yesterday was upset because her coworker told her she looked bad--when she came through the door I became very animated and over the top telling her she looked great--she laughed and said that I should do that to everyone that came though there today. And you know what? I did. I became over the the top enthusiastic to the next three people that walked though the door and it made everyone laugh. All the sudden I felt incredibly positive, happy, and up beat. I don't why I've never thought of acting goofy when I'm feeling down-it never occured to me that being happy is a decision that you can make. And if it really is this easy to be happy then I'm going to decide to be happy every day. It sounds cliche but life really is about how you make it and the decisions that you make--and it's short so make it count. :)

This is song is also giving me happy vibes today :) :)

Gigi Hadid

        For a while I stopped writing about supermodels and the women/men that inspire me fashion-wise because I had a stick up my ass and thought that it was shallow. I thought I had a lot more to say than simply write about fashion--I thought the models had more to say than simply being a human hanger. But you know what? fashion is fun! It gives us a chance to show people what we are like before we open our mouths (and it has been proven that people judge us within the first minute that they meet us). Self expression is one of the most beautiful things we can do and it takes a creative mind to pull it together--so  in that sense celebrating fashion is celebrating someones mind and creativity.

So with that out of the way, I want to write about one of my favorite super model "it" girls of the moment. Her name is Gigi Hadid, and she is from the lucky sperm club. Let me digress, her mother (Yolanda Foster-ever heard of her?) is a Beverly Hills Housewife as well as a model, her father is a successful real estate developer, and her step-father is a well to do music producer. Her modeling career started at the ripe age of 2 as a Guess girl--you know, casual--

Last year she debuted as an SI rookie, and for the past few fashion weeks she has been burning up the runway and taking selfies with Rihanna and Taylor Swift...again, casual.

The reasons why I like her (as well as a bunch of people apparently) is because she is not sickly skinny. She actually has curves and gives off a healthy and cool beachy vibe...this is refreshing, because it is an echo to the traditional supermodels like Christy Brinkley and Tyra Banks, who didn't look like sick aliens either... and because of her style, she comes across as down to earth and fun.

Another insteresting tidbit: Hadid is half palestinian and half danish--and is the on again/off again gf of singer Cody Simpson

btw...her sister Bella is also a fashion model about to blow up.

Let your passion kill you

"Find what you love and let it kill you." -Charles Bukowski

I saw this quote on Pinterest the other day and it struck me. For me it's not the the the type of inspiration that just hits you and you forget about three days later--No, this quote struck me and lit my soul on fire. Nothing to me is more satisfying as being fully consumed and being completely driven by your passion without the fear of failing.

I mean, think of ALL that you can do if you were not afraid to fail...and what if failure is a good thing? What if it is the beginning of teaching you how to be a master of your passion? And moreover think of how happy everyone would be if they were told that they could not only do their passion but champion it.

This quote is so much more than conquering the fear of failure. It goes deeper than that-it's about becoming immersed, letting it guide you, letting it kill ALL of your self doubt and setting your own goals so that YOU become your own measure of your success.


So get out and do what you love- whether that be art, or cooking, or fitness etc -if it's underwater hamburger flipping--do it, because you are worth that happiness and self fulfillment.