Good advice

One of my favourite quotes comes from an interview with Sandra Sully in Frankie magazine. When asked for her advice, Sandra replied with the mantra: "If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always got". So simple and yet so damn true. Most times when we feel something is holding us back in life, it comes down to us not being ready to change something about ourselves.

I am always surprised by some girls' attitudes at the fashion college I attend. When they find out I work in magazines, I am usually bombarded with questions of how they can get into mags and what I did to get to my position. When I give my story, most of them seem too impatient, and disinterested in starting from the bottom. They want the jobs to come to them. One girl even baulked at my suggestion to do work experience one day a week at a magazine she loves because she wasn't prepared to work for free. Yet, she continued to complain about not getting any job offers through the college's careers department. They probably didn't even know who she was!

The best thing to do when you feel like you're stuck in a rut is to take a good look at what it is about your life that's making you feel that way. Is it really your job? Or are you just lacking challenges at the moment? Is it a certain relationship in your life that's causing you grief? Or is it your own issues that are causing you to lash out at others? As cheesy as it sounds, you are the keeper of your own destiny and the only person who can turn things around.

So remember the quote and make a change today. You never know where a small, seemingly insignificant change can lead you : )

Notes on Glossy Paper