What are you doing to celebrate Valentines Day?

Hi everyone

It’s been another hectic week.

Yesterday, I finally finished negotiations wih my illustrator about the Assigment of Copyright. I plan to do the final re-work and re-edit of my book, Break through the barriers of redundancy, during these next couple of weeks.

How do you plan to celebrate Valentines Day?

Being quirky, I enjoy doing things differently.

I am so excited to be celebrating being single on Valentines Day, by taking myself out to Bristol for the day. I went to London last year.

In Bristol, I am planning to go to the aquarium, go for one or two thai meals and watch one or two movies. The films for that week won’t be announced until the 11th.

I am a different person to what I used to be. I decided a couple of years ago, that no longer would I ever mope around on Valentines Day being sad because I was on my own. In fact I changed the situation around completely.

I believe any reason to celebrate is great. Because life is so precious, it should always be celebrated at each and every opportunity. I don’t agree that being too old to do something, is a reason not to do it. You only live once, why not live it to the max?

I am the happiest I have ever been in my life, because I am single, and leading the life I was meant to be leading. Every year I now look foward to Valentines Day on my own, because I can do whatever I want and make myself feel great and happy all day long, without having to please anyone else. It is bliss.

To all of you who are single, I say embrace it and celebrate it at every opportunity. Plan to do something for yourself on Valentines Day, make yourself happy. You are blessed to be in life and life is blessed to have you. Let me know what you plan to do.

To those of you who are in a relationship, you are never too old to celebrate being thankful to be in life and to have found each other. If you want to do something for Valentines Day and your other half doesn’t, you don’t need permission to go and take yourself out, or to do whatever you like to make you feel good, just do it.

Whatever you decide to do on Valentines Day, enjoy it and have a happy one.

Write as soon as I am able to.
Sandra

Do you love the one you are with?

Hi Everyone

As you know, I like to be a bit quirky. In view of that fact, I am going to London for valentine’s to celebrate being single. I will be there from Wed 13th of February for two nights and I intend to have a blast. My motto is, if you can’t be with the one you love, or you don’t love anyone, then love the one you are with and if you are single, then that means loving yourself. You don’t need anyone else to make you happy, you can do that for yourself by:

1. Affirming how wonderful you are – Write down a minimum of 20 positives about yourself. Try to read this out aloud on a regular basis. Reading five a day is good.
2. Celebrating 5 successes every day. Write down anything from washing up to having an article published.
3. Buying yourself presents – A writer’s journal. A book. Clothes. Perfume/aftershave. CDs. DVDs. Jewellery or whatever you want.
4. Taking yourself out – For a meal. To the theatre. To the cinema.
5. Going on holiday – To wherever you want, whenever you want. You could go to that writer’s retreat you have always wanted to visit.
6. If you are feeling sad then comfort yourself. Give yourself a hug and say out aloud –  “Things will get better and you are coping very well.” Self-talk is a good thing.
7. If anyone gives you a strange look because you are sitting on your own, simply by strong and happy that you are single and give them a smile. If you are confident that being single is right for you then why should anyone else question that.
8. Write a book about the adventures of being a singleton – Watch this space, as there is a possibility that there may be a similar book from me in the future.
9. Find what you were born to do and let no one stand in your way of achieving it. Being single is great because there is no one to hold you back and no one to think about but yourself.
10. Educate yourself. Learning gives us knowledge and increases our sense of worth making us feel good. If you want to do a course, then go for it.
11. Whatever makes you feel fantastic, do it and keep doing it.
12. Praise yourself at every opportunity and if something goes wrong, then treat it as a learning curve to make you stronger. You will love yourself more for it.

In case you wonder what I am doing in London. I am going to see The Bodyguard Musical on Wed, to The Sea Life Aquarium and Mama Mia Musical on Thursday 14th February and to Paradise Wildlife Park on the Friday. I am doing all of these by myself. You can have just as much fun by yourself – Sometimes more because you can do what you love and what makes you love your life without the need for any compromises.

Write soon

Sandra