New year is always a great moment to re-create yourself, to pursue your goals, to learn new things and plenty more! ๐ค
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I have plenty goals, plenty ideas and plenty resolutions for this year.
What about you? Do you want to change something in yourself this year? Do you want to learn something new? ๐
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My resolutions/plans for 2022:
๐ธ๏ธ get back to regular working outs and lose weight ๐
๐ธ๏ธ write my 2nd novel ๐
๐ธ๏ธ read more ๐
๐ธ๏ธ keep working on my Spanish ๐ช๐ธ
๐ธ๏ธ develop my Photoship skills ๐
๐ธ๏ธ visit some new country ๐
๐ธ๏ธ finally visit my lovely London โค
๐ธ๏ธ do more puzzles/crosswords
๐ธ๏ธ do some course, e.g. in pastry ๐ง
๐ธ๏ธ keep building my Smiley Society ๐๐ค
What about you?
What are your plans for 2022? ๐
Category: About me
I’m…30!
I turned 30 last week. ๐
And it actually got me thinking about the origin of all of us celebrating birthday. Like what is a birthday exactly? It’s an anniversary of us being born ๐ฅณ a celebration of the day we came to this world ๐คฉ quite beautiful! But for me, we should celebrate our life, our presence in this world everyday! ๐ค
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How? Just living a positive life! By appretiating what we have ๐ค, by noticing the good and positive things in our surroundings everyday ๐ฅฐ, by being kind and positive towards others ๐.
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Do you agree? โบ
Also! I’m having my own Smiley Advent Calendar on my Instagram with a special post each day either a:
– tutorial for a homemade Christmas decoration ๐
– tutorial for a homemade gift ๐
– recipe for a Christmas snack with a recommendation of a great Christmas movie ๐ฅง๐ฌ
– self-love tutorial for a homemade cosmetic/home SPA
Come join me there!
POSITIVE NEWS
Serbian footballers donate cash bonus after defeating Portugal for the treatment of sick children
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Heartwarming Photo Captures Manโs Gesture of Gratitude Towards the Nurses Who Saved His Wifeโs Life
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Google’s low-cost device that makes drinking water from air is now open source
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This company replants your Christmas tree โ then rents it back to you every year
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It’s my birthday this week! I’m turning 30 on Thursday!
Come back next Monday for more!
A ticking bomb above my head
Thereโs a ticking bomb above my head ๐คฏ.
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Iโm turning 30 soon. Quite a milestone ๐
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I had plenty goals that I wanted to achieve by being 30 ๐ค. Even this year, I wanted to accomplish couple more things by that big day. And I failed ๐ฌ.
But did I? ๐
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Same as in my previous post about noticing positives in everything โ itโs about noticing what you HAVE accomplished, not about what you didnโt manage to do ๐.
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And I personally think that Iโve accomplished a lot ๐. I published a book ๐ and even had famous Polish director talking about it, I write/publish those posts here for over 13ย 000 people and it melts my heart when I get a DM from one of you from time to time saying that you love what Iโm doing or that I actually really have helped you (LOVE IT โค), I got married to an amazing human being ๐ฅฐ, my partner in crime and my best friend, I have an amazing home ๐ก, amazing family, amazing friends ๐ฏ, Iโve been able to travel to so many places ๐๐,ย see so many bands live ๐ถโฆ itโs been such an amazing life so far, trully! โค
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And I have so many more ideas for next years, for future projects!
So in the endโฆ Iโm so excited to hit 30s and carry on with this happy, positive life! ๐
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And how about you? Are you happy about your life? Are you focusing on positives? ๐
Time to re-introduce myself
Are you happy? Are you a positive person? I’m here to make you happy!
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Hello ๐
As some of you don’t know me, it’s time to reintroduce myself!
My name is Pola, I’m from Poland and I’m here to boost your positivity, to make you love yourself even more and to basically make you happy! ๐ค
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I’ve always been a positive girl, always appreciating what I got and 3 years ago I decided to share it with others and started this account ๐
I’ve also always been hard-working on following my dreams and I always try to encourage people to work on their dreams. Nothing comes magically from the sky yet we can do almost anything with a will to work, determination and hard work ๐ช
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This is why I often talk to you here about motivation, about hard work to make you follow your dreams!
But on the others hand I highly encourage and often talk about the need to rest, to practice self-care etc.
It’s all about that healthy balance!
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If you don’t know it yet, I post:
๐ธ๏ธ Positive News on Mondays’ mornings (to help you start your week well, to see that the world isn’t as bad and as scary as media show us) – on Instagram stories
๐ธ๏ธ Motivational Mondays on Mondays’ afternoons (to help you boost your motivation and willpower to follow your dreams)
๐ธ๏ธ Self-Love posts on Thursday (to make you take care of yourself! In that series I post recipes for homemade cosmetics, excercises to calm yourself down etc)
๐ธ๏ธ Positive Movies Recommendation on Sundays (to make your weekend chill nice and positive!) – on Instagram only
๐ธ๏ธ + healthy recipes from time to time, DIY tutorials, some group challenges for all of us (e.g. recently we did 21 Day Healthy Habits Challenge), recommendations of cool apps for learning or self-growth, some home tricks and plenty more on Ig Stories!
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Come join our @smileysociety !
And tag a friend who might like it! ๐
What are your dreams?
We’ve talked about goals in previous post (Motivational Monday, step 3).
Now let’s talk about dreams ๐คฉ
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What’s the difference? ๐คซfor me goals are about career, about work life, about something that we work on (or should be working on) everyday.
And dreams are something else. Something magical, about your personal life, your family, your free time. ๐๐ซ
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I told you yesterday that we’re going to Mexico in the end of October.
Why? It has been my dream to go to Mexico for their Dia de los Muertos since I was a teenager ๐คฉ
And now it’s finally gonna happen!!
This is what gave me wings lately, the reason I’ve been so happy and full of energy ๐
And the trip is happening this year as a gift from myself to myself (and from my husband and parents a bit too ๐ฅฐ) for my 30th bday! Dia de los Muertos that is celebrated on Nov 2nd is exactly 1 month till my big day! ๐
I literally cried happy tears when we bought the tickets ๐ฅฒ.
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Now tell me, what are your dreams?
Following dreams
Do you follow your dreams? ๐
Do you do anything you can to reach your goal? ๐
Do you wake up thinking how you can get closer to your goal and go to bed setting plans how to do it? ๐
This is how your mindset should look like ๐
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Have I ever told you the story of how I wanted to work in music industry – to be a tour manager to be exact – and so I dropped everything, I left my family, left my friends and moved to London by myself in 2013? ๐ It was supposed to be for life but it didn’t work out and I moved back to Poland over a year later.
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I worked my a** off there. Had 1 full-time job and 3 (!) internships – in a record label, with a band and in an event agency. I learned A LOT and have plenty amazing memories from that time ๐.
It didn’t work out but I TRIED.
It’s not always gonna work out how you wish it would but you find out if it has or hasn’t unless you try!
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And sometimes it will work out just like I promised myself I won’t stop until I publish a book I wrote (also in 2013 ๐
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Follow your dreams no matter what!
Plan the steps you need to take to get what you want, be creative with it and work out plan A, B and even C with different paths to reach it and then work hard on it! ๐
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September is a great month to start working on our dreams (according to research it is 2nd best month, after January, when people are most motivated) sooo…starting on September 6th we’ll start new series – Motivational Mondays with Smiley Society! ๐
Quarantine sum up
So tell me โ how youโve been lately? ๐ค
I gotta say that those last 3 months has been really productive to me and I am satisfied with what Iโve managed to do. Apart from doing 200-300% norm at work I managed to work a lot on my personal projects/dreams too ๐.
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Obviously Iโve spent looooads of time doing stuff for @smileysociety and for you here ๐ โ Iโve been posting regularly, working on special stories for you, created Positive Morning Posts ๐ with good news and Chill Evening Sessions ๐ to make you feel better during those times, Iโve made #SmileyTravelling Challenge for you on my ig so we wouldnโt miss travelling that much and plenty more.
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Even though working on my blogย ย here took me 60-70% of my free time I used the rest of it to get into shape ๐ชand to read ๐! Iโve never been working out so regularly as I have now โ been working out 3-4 times a week lately and I loved it ๐! I also challanged myself to read 1 book a month and so Iโve read 3 books since April โ it is a lot for me as I usually donโt read that much anymore ๐
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Apart from it all I started serious work on my 2nd novel, planning & plotting, creating characters and ideas for the plot and I am planning to start writing it in October โ
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Even though itโs been horrible at times, Iโve been scared, I missed my family, I missed my friends, I pushed myself to the limits as if the world was ending ๐
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And even though I am tired and I am dreaming of holidays at last ๐
I am satisfied with my work in 1st half of 2020 and I still believe this will be my year ๐
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So what Iโve been trying to say is that no matter how bad the situation is (and I donโt mean only Covid-19 and quarantine times but anything else too) always try to do your best ๐ช. We all react to bad situationsย ย differently obviously and ifย ย somebody was really scared during last months, felt anxious and didnโt do anything productive thatโs fine too! But when you look back now to those insecure times forget about all the bad stuff and focus on what you have done and what youโve managed to accomplish ๐ค
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Now itโs all gonna be better! ๐
2020 Plans
Planning. ๐
I hope that you are one of those people who plan or set some plans/resolutions for a new year because it is actually 1st step to change your list of โI want to haveโ into โI will haveโ! ๐
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Planning a whole new year isnโt easy so itโs best to divide it into categories (@drmattofficial set an example and we should all follow this man of success!ย ๐ย )
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So hereโs my plans for 2020, probably irrelevant to most of you but Iโd like to say them โout loudโ to give them more โpowerโ:
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1.ย Health: eat less meat, take regular suplements, be active, lose 7 more kg ๐ฅฆ
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2. Sport: get to best shape ever, improve my stamina ๐ช
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3.ย Skills: work on my Spanish, get back to playing piano, take course in photography, keep learning how to edit videos ๐ช๐ธ๐น
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4.ย Relationships: spend more time with friends, have a girly trip, call people more ๐คณ๐
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5.ย Family: be an even better wife, daughter, sister and aunt โค
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6.ย Experience: visit a new country, learn more about different cultures ๐๐
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7.ย Work/ my projects: build a plot of my 2nd novel and start writing it, go back to organizing more concerts for PRoxy, keep working on my blog โ๐ถ
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8.ย Education: get back to University, start doing Masters, read more scientific articles ๐ฉโ๐
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9.ย Finances: start earning from my projects, build a habit of saving up ๐ฐ
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10. Lifestyle: stress less, take up yoga, keep good work-life balance ๐
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And I am so excited to do it all!ย ๐
2019 sum up
2019 was a difficult and challenging year but still good in the end.
Lets forget all the sad and hard things about it, all the loss, all the health issues and focus only on the good things ๐ค: -I had my 1st ever professional photo shoot ๐ธ
-Finally after 7 years of work I published my 1st novel! ๐
-I had bunch of press and radio interviews & book signing meetings โ
-I met my mentor @chodakowskaewa ๐
-I had my 1st magazine cover ๐ฐ
-I got back to driving ๐
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-I had many amazing evenings with amazing friends ๐
-I had 2 book meetings at libraries where people actually discussed about my book ๐
-We had our 1st wedding anniversary in Italy! ๐๐๐
-I had a nice trip with my family, I think we started a new tradition! โค
-I’ve been to UK ๐ค
-I’ve been growing my blog @smileysociety ๐คฉ
-I’ve arranged a surprise trip to Poznaล for my hubby ๐
-I got back to beautiful Vienna after 15 years ๐
-I lost 5 kg ๐ช
-I visited beautiful Morocco ๐
-I’ve arranged a surprise trip to SPA for my Mom โค
-I finally started working on my 2nd novel โ
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Can’t wait for 2020!!! So many great stuff planned ๐
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And as it is end of the decade today too (for me) time for quick sum up of those last 10 years! ๐
– I graduated high school ๐ฉโ๐
-I did a bachelor degree in Economics ๐
-I lived in London for a year where I had 3 interships in music agency ๐ถ
-I started my own music agency ๐
-I’ve been to over 150 concerts ๐๐ธ๐ถ
-I’ve visited 13 countries ๐
-I had 6 tattoos done ๐คช
-I bought an apartment ๐ก
-I got married ๐
I just love my life! โค
So grateful for everything and everyone ๐
How to be HAPPY 