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You know that feeling when you think there's just something in your life that is not complete, like you are missing out on something? Well I guess everyone has this every now and then, so what can you do about it?

I've asked myself this question a lot of times, probably a bit too often and still haven't found an answer that sums it all up in one, but I think I may have finally found my answer.

It's important that you remind yourself every so often that sometimes you don't have to plan a million steps forward, more that you should take a few steps backwards to see everything with a clearer view so you can enjoy the time that you have right now. And I guess that is exactly what I never do. I always plan ahead, just so I can feel save, I don't want to be one of those persons that always ever say they want to achieve this and that and just talk big but never ACTUALLY do something and then when they are already past their 60's they notice that it's too late to do something and that they never really got what they wanted. I want to be a person of individual, and achieve everything that I have planned in my head and want, it's so important to me that I forget to live the time I am in right now.

A few things I let drift away just because of me being so eager to live the life that I want in my future. Now that is nothing bad at all, but when you start to loose sight of everything and everyone then you know that you have gone a bit too far.

But what does that mean, and how does that answer my question? Well to be honest I still am a bit unsure myself, but I think for me it's important to have a little "clear-out" in my head, that sounds rather wrong and disgusting, doesn't it? But the whole point is to feel relieved after you have reminded yourself that you have a life NOW not just in the future, whatever it is that you want to achieve in your future, it's okay to plan it but never forget that you have to live your life in that very moment as well, because that is exactly what makes you feel like you're missing out on something.

You might remember me writing about changing and a list of what I wanted to do to mix up my life and what I wanted to achieve a few weeks back. And I noticed dramatically how much I tried to persuade myself to do all of those things and that I had to achieve everything in a matter of seconds (preferably not literally). But that's just not how life rolls, it really isn't. And that is another thing you should always keep in the back of your head.

So all of those things just listed, I think are my answer to that very question. It still isn't a complete answer, I am aware of that, but I guess it's a little step forward (so contradictory) to achieving your desired life now and in the future.

Well I guess that's it for today's rather personal and in depth blog post, I hope you like those kinds of posts as well, as I just love to write about things like that as well. If you have got anything that is on your kind or you can relate to what I just wrote than please don't hesitate to leave me all of that in the comments down below.

Mary going offline xx

Starting All Over Again | thegoodway

Heeeeeellloo everyone,

and welcome back to my blog! Hope all of you had an amazing week, as far as amazing goes for school or work anyway, haha. Mine has been decent and okay, just didn’t find my desired time to write more blog posts. But let me stop rambling now (as I always am) and let’s get into today’s post!

Well I was thinking about what kind of new things I could try out to write about or in which ones you and myself could be interested in reading/writing. So I asked my mum and, as mothers are, she suggested to write book recommendations. Didn’t really get what she wanted from me, because I was thinking that I couldn’t really write a whole summary about a book, but then I thought about a different way of doing it and now I think I came up with my personal twist on book recommendations, so if you didn’t already guess that’s what I am going to do today (haha, I know I am so funny!).

I’m not going to write book recommendations on a regular basis now but I will try to let them pop up on this blog as often as I can and want.

So for today’s book I have “Deliciously Ella” written by the amazing Ella Woodward. She is a genius in herself, if you don’t know her then you should know that she is a blogger of her famous blog called “Deliciously Ella”, and has finally brought out her book this year. The book is amazingly well written and so easy to understand so if you are interested in healthy eating then you might want to give this one a go. I really can’t recommend this book enough as I just love it with a passion, at least every week, if not every day, was filled with one of her recipes ever since I got it. I love every single one that I have tried so far but I thought it would be quiet nice to let you know which ones are up there with my ten favourites!

Firstly, we have got the “Hazelnut Chocolate Spread”, which is kind of “Nutella” just without the sugar and all the other ingredients which aren’t necessarily needed. SOOO DAMN FREAKIN’ GOOD! Honestly if you got some craving for Nutella switch to this one, it’s just as good (in my eyes even BETTER) as Nutella but a thousand times better for you and your body. Of course you can taste that it’s healthy but I think that’s good as this way you just keep reminding yourself that you are eating something good for you.

And another sweetie (if you’ve got a sweet tooth like I have then all of these things will be great for you!) it’s the “Raw Chocolate Brownies”. In all honesty, if you’re a woman than you will already know about the chocolate craving when it’s “this time of the month” but what you maybe didn’t know is that with these brownies all your cravings will be solved and satisfied after just having one, yes you read right just ONE! I made a batch for myself when it was time and I loved it, because I just didn’t have to feel bad for eating something chocolatey at all!

A few more of my favourite recipes would be the “Warm Winter Salad”, “Berry Scones”, “Courgette Noodles with Avocado Pesto” and the “Berry and Apple Crumble”. Sadly I don’t have photos of these ones because I wasn’t able to cook it all just for the sake of this blog post, but I will try to link the recipes down below and my twitter as I am always tweeting about my food!

Ella's blog:

Deliciously Ella Blog

Disclaimer: This isn't a sponsored blog post, all opinions are my own. I don't own any of these recipes or ideas, photos have been taken by myself.

So that’s going to be it for today guys, I hope you enjoyed this new idea and do let me know your opinion in the comments down below, I also would love to read some of your book recommendations so make sure to leave those down below as well.

Mary going offline xx