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Wednesday, 29 January 2020
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Thursday, 23 January 2020
Thinking Time for Change Reward chart idea
Please follow the link listed below. IT SHOWS AN IDEAR FOR HOW YOUR COULD MAKE A REWARD CHART FRO YOUR CHILDREN.
THIS IS SOMETHING THAT YOU CAN DO WITH CHILDREN UP UNTIL ABOUT THE AGE OF 15 I WOULD SAID BEFORE POKET MONEY SEAMS TO BE WHAT TEENAGERS ARE INTRESTE IN.
SO PLEASE VIEW THIS LINK AND SEE IF IT CAN HELP YOU REWARD YOUR LITTLE ONES IN A POSITAVE WAY.
YOU COILD MAYBE GET YOU LITTLE ONES TO HELP YOU MAKE THE REWARD CHART AND PLAN THE TRIP TOO.
https://youtu.be/Ngy3FifSpIw
THIS IS SOMETHING THAT YOU CAN DO WITH CHILDREN UP UNTIL ABOUT THE AGE OF 15 I WOULD SAID BEFORE POKET MONEY SEAMS TO BE WHAT TEENAGERS ARE INTRESTE IN.
SO PLEASE VIEW THIS LINK AND SEE IF IT CAN HELP YOU REWARD YOUR LITTLE ONES IN A POSITAVE WAY.
YOU COILD MAYBE GET YOU LITTLE ONES TO HELP YOU MAKE THE REWARD CHART AND PLAN THE TRIP TOO.
https://youtu.be/Ngy3FifSpIw
Wednesday, 22 January 2020
Thinking Time for Change January 18th 2020 planning on tidying the garden part one
THIS IS ONE OF MY YOUTUBE LINKS TO MY GARDEN AND GARDENING THAT I HAVE DONE OVER PAST YEARS.
I LOVE BEING OUT SIDE AND WORKING THE LAND, THIS IS SOMETHING THAT I AM HOPING TO PASS ONTO MY CHILDREN.
MORE LINKS CAN BE FOUND ON MY YOUTUBE PAGE.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrNnpHjtBtQdF63oVEWhkAQ?view_as=subscriber
ALSO I HAVE A FEW FACEBOOK GROUPS THAT YOU MAY BE INTRESTED IN JOINING THE LINKS ARE LISTED BELOW.
FITNESS JUST FOR ME
https://www.facebook.com/groups/865573233556016/?ref=group_browse
IT IS NOT A FAD IT IS A LIFE STYLE CHANGE
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2503657229709719/?ref=group_browse
TRADITIONAL "BRITISH" FOOD
https://www.facebook.com/groups/455396381196995/?ref=group_browse
SWOP AND GROW
https://www.facebook.com/groups/389564925127129/?ref=group_browse
Monday, 20 January 2020
Thinking Time for Change Learning Computer Aided Design is a MUST for me in 2020. KABFA/DESIGNS.
Learning
Computer Added Design is a MUST for me in 2020. KABFA/DESIGNS.
https://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/CAD-computer-aided- design
Computer-aided design (CAD) is a computer technology that designs a product and documents the design's process. CAD may facilitate the manufacturing process by transferring detailed diagrams of a product’s materials, processes, tolerances and dimensions with specific conventions for the product in question.
Computer-aided design (CAD) is a computer technology that designs a product and documents the design's process. CAD may facilitate the manufacturing process by transferring detailed diagrams of a product’s materials, processes, tolerances and dimensions with specific conventions for the product in question.
This
now that it is 2020I am really trying to just “Bite the Bullet” and set up my own business.
So
yesterday I went to the Printwear and Promotion Show at the NEC.
The
moment that I arrived there it felt like home.
For
year their have been a number of things that I have wanted to achieve
and do with my life the main one to be self employed or freelances.
For
this I even did business studies at school and set about want to become a works renowned travel journalist, who got to wrote about exotic destinations, undiscovered place, meet famous people and try
something new year day of the week.
But
then reality hot me and my dyslexia was to server so that I would be
unable to achieve that dream.
The
same with Marine and Freshwater Biology I just was never able to make
the grade, pass the basic Key Skill Test requirements,
I was way 3
mark off a Pass, Merit or a Distinction.
At
times I even knew more about endangered animals than the staff,
writing about an animal they had even heard of and writing in big
letters.
FAIL
THE ORINOCO CROCODILE IS NOT AN ENDANGERED SPECIES.
”SPIDERS
ARE INSECTS FAILED.”
This
really hurt and instead of appealing I just quit.
Quitting
for my became a habit for so long, I was a afraid.
Afraid
to feel anything other than fear, the “Dreamer in Me” died.
For
year now I have been lost, looking for that one thing that could possible save me and bring me home.
I
still write but only for myself, I no long live my life but just
exist.
For
years I was advised to learn CAD Computer Added Design
which was form
thing that I learned a little of at school, but been
then I was told
that my business idea to design clothing for the
disabled especially
bags was waste of time.
Yet
I have always loved my business names that I invented for my dream
jobs.
KABFA/Designs
being the main one.
So
I am going to go back to KABFA.I
am going to start again.
So
that everyone by 2030 knows who KABFA are and what I do.
Sunday, 19 January 2020
Tuesday, 14 January 2020
Thursday, 2 January 2020
Thinking Time for Change Back to the Drawing Borad 2020
Back
to the drawing broad. 2020.
Now that we have reached 2020 I need to look at where I am aiming to
be in the next few months. When you are at school you are asked
where do you see yourself in the next 5 years which is a long way a
way when you are 15.
But add 20year to that and you find that you are still living hand to
mouth and relying on the bank of mum and dad if you are lucky to
still have parents then you really need to look at where you need to
be and how you are going to get there.
Unfortunately we still live in a society where women are second rate
when it comes to job opportunities and equal pay. With men it is the
pressure to succeed and are not given the same equal opportunities
when it comes to things like being rehoused if they become homeless.
So where do I go from here?
First things first I need to find how much do I need per month to
live on and what financial aid I am be able to claim.
Then I need to look at when I can work around my children so that I
can work the same amount of hours per week.
Managing my work load will also help me to so that I can plan and
mange my time more effectively.
So by the time my youngest is 2 years old I can hopefully start
working full time again.
Thinking Time for Change Not on the high street 2020
Not
on the high street
one thing that I
loved to do with my mum when I was little girl was go shopping.
I miss that.
I miss window
shopping too where all if the shop widows would be dressed up with
the latest product that the shops have to offer.
Now when you hit the
hight street all you see are sale/discount stickers on the windows,
closing down adverts or charity shops.
Sadly the high
street is not the one that I remember from my childhood dream but now
one that I today rarely visit and dread to take my children.
In part I am guilty
of this due to taking to my online shopping choices then to brave the
elements and stand in lines. to pay or self checkout If the internet
had away of enabling you to smell bread when you buy it then no one
would every leave home.
Yet I miss it and
would have loved to have had a high street shop because without using
all of your 5 senses you are only really using your eyes to buy
anything.
Yes it is true that
we shop with our eyes, but when it come to buying any thing it pays
to able able to use all five senses when doing so.
When buying on line
you so not always get the right product or services and at times end
up keeping the item because or the hassle of sending it back or
complaining, but if you have brought it direct. You may not have
brought it at all.
When I go shopping
of clothes I love to try them on, to touch the fabric and make sure
that the sticking is good quality and the print too.
Yet I still do a lot
of my shopping on line now especially when I know what I am buying
and it is the same items every week.
Yet when it comes to
wanting to buy something different and gifts for friends, family and
love one I like to look for something new and outside the box.
So I like places
that offer this on the high street and on line.
I love charity shops
you never now what you might find and I like online stores like “Studio”https://www.studio.co.uk/
Or when it comes to
taking photos and personalising them of loved ones the list of online
photo business is endless
It is the same when
I look for jewellery I would love to have an item custom made and
personalized. Some thing like this is more of a skill and a
specialized trade one that we are losing. This is mainly due to
items being mass-produced.
Thinking Time for Change Confessions of a Shopaholic 2020
Confessions
of a Shopaholic 2020
in
2009 the film “Confessions of a shopaholic”
came out which is a film adaptation of the Shopaholic Book Series by
Sophie Kinsella https://www.bookseriesinorder.com/shopaholic/
But how many people
watched the film or read the book and took a leaf from the story line
and STOPPED using store cards, taking out loans, buying on HP instead
of living with in your financial means?
So maybe this year
is the year that you look at doing so.
Many people at this
time of year always buy or get brought the same things that can help
you to live more frugally and to achieve that one thing that you
would like to buy or pay for in the near future.
Some people would
have been given a diary, (if not you could get one in the January
sales or have an online one.) you have probably even been given a
self help book too.
So why not spend a
few minuets thinking about.
What is it really
want?
What is it that you
really need?
What is it that you
really desire?
On my blog you can
down load a budget c=sheet to help you plan your first or several
months budget to help reach that goal.
Set a time frame and
pin it on the wall or fridge somewhere that you can see it every day
to motivate you.
If it is something
like a holiday then think about like rewards that you can buy to
motivate yourself too like a new swimming outfit.
If it is to buy a
new outfit, car or save for a house then again put up a picture.
Every month take a
few minuets to check where you are with your goal and where you are
going to keep your money too.
Are you going to
keep it in a tin in the house or open a new saving account with your
bank? The best way to not spend the money that you are looking at
saving I find is to out it some where else and keep it separate your
every day, weekly and monthly spending.
So cut up those
store cards, try to lower your over draft or get an account without
one. Try to set up any payment plans to settle any old or out
standing debts.
(use epically
certified sites to support you like debt line, CAB or GovUK website.)
Start small and
dream big.
02/01/2020
Thinking Time for Change SMALL BUSSINESS FUNDING
2nd January
2020 “Strike while the Iron is HOT”! Possible funding available
for small business in the UK.
Last year I try to
support a small local business to apply for funding but they has
little or no success. So we will go back to the drawing board and
try again.
When applying for
funding it is a rally pain in the back side. Te Government advertise
these things but get like trying to claim for anything you have to
make sue that you “dot the i’s and cross the T's.”
You have to make sue
that you business plan it water tight and clean, clear and easy to
follow that a 5 year old could run your business.
When I was at school
I had to do an activity called “How to make a cup of tea?” “How
to make toast?” “hoe to boil and egg.”
You business plan
needs to be like this.
So I have posted the
link below and wish you luck and a happy new year for 2020.
(PLEASE NOTE THAT
THEY MAY NOT ALL BE STILL AVAILABLE SO PLEASE CHECK THEM AND FIND OUT
HOW TO APPLY AND IF YOU CAN DO SO.) 02/01/2020.
Wednesday, 1 January 2020
Thinking Time for Change Make Do and Mend 2020
Make
Do and Mend in 2020.
Now
that we are in 2020 I think that it is time to STOP and THINK and
learn to “Make do and Mend.”
For
years even in my own childhood we seam to have become a culture and
society of
“Use
once and throw away.”
“If
it breaks buy a new one.”
“It
is cheep to buy a new one than to fix the old.”
“I
have not got time.”
These
are thing that I have heard my children say time and time again and
they have not even reached their teens. Already my children are
being influenced by the media and how easy it seams to replay things,
things that can not be replayed so easy are the things that we need.
When
we think about the things that we need we think of things like.
Food.
Warmth.
Shelter.
Money.
Employment.
Entertainment.
Not
always in that order.
We
do not seam to think about things like.
Oxygen
Water
Food
Clothing
Global
Warming
The
Ozone Layer
Fossil
Fuels
Animal/Plant
Welfare
Human
Rights
Education
Health
and Well-being
The
Economy
Which
are also important things to think about too.
Now
that we have reached 2020. it seams that we are now come full circle
when we start thinking about our lifestyle and how we live our lives
and teat the world that we live in.
A
lot of this is to do with the media and how the media influences us
on a daily bases.
Yet
the one thing that I think people tend to for get is the number 1.
When
I say the number 1 I mean you, you and who you choose to live your
life and how your life lives you.
Every
one hows the saying do you “live to work?” to “Work to live?”
This
is only something that you know and about how you chose or try to
live your life.
It
is easy to think about other things in life when your own personal
life is how you chose to live it. Whoever went it comes to living
some times it feels like that is all that you are trying to do.
Live.
So
what can you do?
I
always think about Alice in Wonderland when she says. “I always
try to achieve 6 impossible things before breakfast.”
By
Lewis Carroll.
Now
the things that Alice try to achieve are strange and rally make no
sense at already like “Why is a Raven like a writing desk?”
Now
if you look at the 6 impossible things more closely could you apply
any of them to your every day life?
1.
There's a
potion
that can make you shrink.
2. And a cake that can make you grow.
3. Animals can talk.
4. Cats can disappear.
5. There is a place called Wonderland.
6. I can slay the Jabberwocky.
2. And a cake that can make you grow.
3. Animals can talk.
4. Cats can disappear.
5. There is a place called Wonderland.
6. I can slay the Jabberwocky.
Now
I would not want any one to think or 6 impossible things that that
could do before breakfast but 1. 1 thing that you may be able to do
every day.
Now
everyone makes New Years Resolutions, BUT who sticks to the?
Some
of use also focus on Lent and chose those 40 days and 40 nights to
try and make a difference to our lives or give up something.
At
lost of people seam to go though what I would like to call FADS or
are they really “Life Style Changes.” Do they really make a
difference to our own personal lives or other peoples?
One
thing that a lot of people have been fortuning on is the “War in
plastic” in 2019, by not using single use plastic items.
Will
you continue to do this in 2020 and what else will you try?
The
other thing is that people have become more paperless and are more
dependent on receiving things using IT which means more online date
is required and internet speed with 5G planed for 2020 in most
places.
Question
are we not just trying to reinvent the wheel and in time will we go
back to pen and ink when the world can no only support IT or provided
us with what we need to life our ever increasing “Buy now worry
later.” Life styles?
When
we buy any new technology what effect dose a new mobile phone, Laptop
or IPAD…. Have no our health and the world health?
One
major worry is the worry to our health with regards to poor eyesight
due to blue screens and causing
cancer and other long life health problems?
So
what is this currently add to my blog all about?
What
do I mean buy “Make do and mend.”
What
I mean is that maybe it is time to STOP and think! Before we go out
and start buying the latest FAD until really need something. Also
that it might be time to learn a new skill or should I say an old
one.
With
so many skills being lost include the ability to read and write due
to IT and the ability to buy almost any thing. Then maybe it is time
to learn something new that could help you in the future and become
independent.
I
am not talking about things like learning a new language, which is a
possibly I am talking about the basics like.
Life
skill.
Learning
to budget
Basic
reading and writing.
Basic
Cooking Skills
Learning
to sew
Learning
to Knit or Croquet
The
art of conversation and basic manors
I
feel that at time that some of the basic things in makes use human
are lost like being able to communicate with each other without
technology to do so even with our own children.
Now
that it is 2020 a lot of educational establishments will be sending
out information about up and come course that they will be running
some of these may be free to attend so it might be worth looking at
what is on offer and possible attending if you have the spare time to
do so.
Another
way is to use the public library and read and book to learn something
new.
You
could also obtain sometime online and possible use how to advice or
you tube to help you and learning too.
“Make
Do and Mend” in 2020.
Apart
from my blogs I also have a few Facebook pages and groups that I
manage that I try to post to with local training and information.
I
have include the links below that may interest you.
So
why not today think of one Possible thing that you could do in 2020
to “Make Do and Mend” in you life of 2020.
I HAVE ALSO INCLUED SOME LINKS TO SOME FACEBOOK PAGE(S)/GROUP(S) THAT I RUN THAT YOU MIGHT FIND OF INTEREST.
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