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Stop thinking about food all the time!

What you focus on gets bigger! Take your focus off food!  

So, if what you focus on gets bigger and your focus is on food, your appetite increases and can’t be satisfied.  

This is where meal planning is key. It can be so laborious but make the time to do this once or twice a week and it will get quicker and easier.  

Sit down, plan what you’re going to have for breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks. You can do this for you and/or for your whole family. If your trying to eat more fruit, veg and protein for example, you can plan this out. I only plan 2-3 days then put it on repeat.

Repetition is the mother of skill – Dani Johnson

If you’re interested in macronutrients you can plan this in an App like MyFitnessPal. Start on a new day, enter the new meal, then click the ‘Nutrition’ button at the bottom. 

Then go shop your list. Stick to it. Each day plan and prep for that day’s meal. If you’re spontaneous and adventurous like me this can be tough to stick to but be boring for a minute and stick to your list. 

This way you think about food once for the week; meal plan, shop then go on auto pilot. 
Fill your mind with other things like your goals and your purpose. Not food!  What you focus the about gets bigger. Keep your focus in the right place. When I would always think about food, I’d want more and more and not necessarily healthy options! The less I think about food the more functional purpose it has! In fact, when the thought of food would cross my mind it would be a spark of inspiration, a healthy option to improve what I’m already doing, then I refocuse on where I am and what I’m doing. 

Let food feed your belly a few times a day not feed your thoughts all day long! 

Fashion, Uncategorized

Doing a cross country road trip

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Don’t just get ready be ready!

It was a year into my business and I had amazing feedback on my designs. Great comments and loads of social media love but hardly any sales. It didn’t match up. I wasn’t sure whether to continue the business or to do something else. I pondered, prayed and continued.

Within a few days sales suddenly picked up with all my new clients telling me they saw me a year ago, but only now decided to buy. What if I had shut up shop? They wouldn’t have found me.

Up to 8 months ago I was manufacturing and offering a lot of products. I kept feeling strongly that I needed to FOCUS.

I finally decided to take all my other product offerings away and FOCUS on my Clergy Collection. It’s unique and in demand.

I did a photo shoot, sent out press releases, looked for wholesalers. Knocked on
doors and seemingly not much was happening. Everything just carried on nicely and evenly for the next few months.

Suddenly, from one email request for a photo and press release (which I had from previous month’s work) my business has received unpresented media coverage. List of media below.

I encourage everyone:

– Focus on something that’s working and give it your quality time and energy

– Don’t be discouraged if your pushing doors and it seems like nothing’s happening, keep going, that next door you knock could be the opportunity of a lifetime

– Don’t complain, “be ready to press play” if you suddenly got everything you’ve been hoping and praying for would you be ready or would you be running around getting things together? When that company asked me for a picture and press release I had it, because it was prepared in advance. I didn’t know those very same pictures would end up around the WORLD!!

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Failure should be our teacher

My thoughts on this topic:

In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high. 

“Normal” is not something to aspire to, it is something to get away from. 

Whoever I am and whatever I am doing, some kind excellence is within my reach. 

When one door closes another opens. 

Expect that new door to reveal even greater wonders and glories and surprises. 

Feel yourself grow with every experience. 

Entrepreneur

House of ilona.com

Camelle started www.houseofilona.com in 2009 doing bespoke made-to-order garments. One of those request for a clergy dress rather than a shirt. Camelle did not know this would be the first dress of may. The feedback from that first dress was huge so Camelle decided to dig a little deeper to see if there was more of an appetite for feminine clergy wear and there was!

Years later Camelle has grown House of ilona into a global brand serving women in ministry with clergy dresses worldwide.

The ethos is:
Helping women look good on the outside is our business,
Helping women feel good on the inside is our heart!

www.houseofilona.com

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To be content

…for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content. Philippians 4:11

 

In today’s fast paced society; contentment has a negative connotation of just settling, not striving for anything or not pushing forwards. It’s even seen as lazy.

 

The definition of the word content is a state of peaceful happiness.

 

How would you prefer to live; chasing, running, go getting, busy, on the go all the time or… in a peaceful state of happiness? It’s actually your choice to pump the breaks, slow down, relax, enjoy life, take things in your stride, let go and let God. Or indeed you can keep running until you burnout, without a true sense of purpose.

 

Take steps towards contentment today, it really starts in your mind and spirit, then the fruit appears in your life.

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