Random content swerve, but I love cooking and haven’t been doing it lately; but I experimented tonight and managed a one pot Tuscan chicken dish.

So far so good!

*stumbles out of the ticketek presale covered in blood and missing multiple limbs* I go sleep token :)

something abt being in a room with all those people singing in unison “im not afraid to keep on living” and thousands more singing along across the world its. well. yeah i think i need a moment

Did anybody else have a strong fascination with a specific place that there's no way they should've known anything about as a toddler? For me it was Melbourne, Australia. For some fucking reason that my mom can not explain, I apparently talked about Melbourne, Australia a lot, which is very bizarre as a 3 year old in Ohio.

eshay mullets and queer mullets being the same fucking haircut is such a hazard because I'll spend too long in like Brunswick and feel like mullets are worn exclusively by communist hipsters and then I come back to the outer suburbs where I live and suddenly my self preservation senses are gone.

I don't even have anything to say. sleep I love you more than words can describe

i was just listening to someone new by hozier which reminded me of something that's been knocking around the back of my brain for the past few days. i think when i first listened to the song i interpreted it as solely romantic love that hozier was talking about and then never thought about it any further. but then i went to his london concert last week and heard it live for the first time and something in my brain shifted. i previously thought that i couldn't really relate to the song - or any romantic songs really - because i've never felt romantic feelings towards anyone and probably never will. my brain finally realised that when you fall in love with someone, it doesn't have to be romantic love, and that i've fallen in love with many people but it was platonic or some other type of love - not romantic. and that, yeah, i actually do fall in love with someone new everyday because people are so cool and i fall in love with their sense of style or their laugh or the way they sign their name or any number of other things. i may be super pessimistic and say that i hate the world and such, but i genuinely do think that people make it better and that we all have the capacity to make someone else's day better.

anyway fall in love with people, it makes life just that bit brighter

Q3 for Albono, what a day to be a Williams fan 😍😍

tried watching heartbreak high......it's a yeah nah from me. 1 episode was enough to remind me why I said I was done with high school teenager media after heartstopper. also as a teacher I just can't derive entertainment from watching my job badly dramatised lmao

The Whitlams - Melbourne (live on Recovery, 1998)

Experimenting and failing my way to success

Hello beautiful people who come back here to read what I write about every week!! Thank you so much for being here and reading my little or big musings, I appreciate you all. 

This week, I have been thinking a lot about all things “success” and what that means in this day and age. I have written before about understanding that putting unnecessary pressure on ourselves to succeed at any given thing by a specific time or age is unhealthy and often unrealistic when we look at when and how those structures were first established, and I think success or perceived success is no different. So as I continue this journey of self discovery called life, I remain committed to trying anything and everything along the way to test out what works for me and what doesn’t work for me.

As some of you may or may not know, I work for News Corp, one of the biggest and wide spread media companies in the world. At this stage I am just a small reporter covering a patch in south east Melbourne, if you would like to read my professional work on that front you can do that here. However, like many journalists, my long term plan is to move beyond this level of reporting and into another field entirely. 

Recently, News Corp offered up the opportunity to take part in a program they are calling the “Digital News Academy”. It’s the first program of its kind worldwide, and basically teaches journalists how to exist on social media without becoming redundant among social journalists.

I applied and was accepted into the first round of the program, which started last week. We are learning from key stakeholders in the journalism and social media industry about how to convert and translate our skills across all our platforms. As a young and new journalist this is something that really excites and motivates me. 

At this stage, you might be wondering how does this relate to the topic of success and trying different things? Well, the first lesson of our course was led by an expert story teller, who said that in order to be successful at anything, you have to be willing to try different things and to fail at them. 

This might seem like obvious advice for anyone, and honestly, it wasn’t the first time I had heard someone say something like this. It was however, the first time it resonated in a way that I could see. I could see this young guy, who had tried a whole heap of different things, failed and failed and failed again, but every time failed upwards - and this is what got him to the position he is in now. 

I have decided that throughout this journey with my company, I am going to take everything that I learn within the course, and apply it to my social media platforms. I have begun a Canva document to track the progress I am making and the actions I am taking throughout this time, because I know it will be useful for me to see where things are working and where things might have to be tweaked, or even just saved for later. 

I am considering releasing it as an E-Book at the end of the course, and therefore at the end of the period of my social media experiment, so that other people can see how I grew my social platforms and brand over a nine month period. 

I will literally be trying everything and anything during this process, without fear or hesitation, so if you want to follow along the journey I am on to success through failure, please follow my other platforms, which you can find here. 

I’ve said a few times that I will update this blog with my progress on certain fronts, and have not yet followed through. This project, however, is something I am financially and professionally committed to in a different way, so the updates will be regular, and hopefully, insightful for anyone trying to grow as a writer, a journalist, a content creator/influencer, or just using social media for fun. 

Leave me a comment if you would like me to do or try something specific with my socials and I’ll definitely give it a go and let you know how the process and growth success is! 

Love you all, I will speak to you in the next post :)

Gxx

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