Making the Most of your Life - Martha Paewai

30/09/2024

I always avoided asking questions at school because I didn’t want people to think I was dumb. 🤪

As a child, I held a belief that if you have to ask then you’re not very smart,

If you have to ask then you obviously don’t know,

If you have to ask then everyone will know what you don’t know,

If you have to ask then you didn’t get it,

If you ask then you risk being laughed at or mocked!

No, thank you! 👎🏽

I want to go back to my little self and tell her it’s ok to ask questions cos

When you ask questions you get answers,

When you ask questions you help someone else who didn’t have the courage to ask,

When you ask questions you’re teachable,

When you ask questions you grow faster,

When you ask questions you learn quicker,

When you ask questions you’re making an effort and God loves effort!

The BEST teachers LOVE students who ask questions!

Don’t let anyone stop you from asking questions! 🙅🏽‍♀️

Put your hand up! 🙋🏽‍♀️

The teacher wants to teach you.

“Ask and ye shall receive”

27/04/2024

🚪When you feel tiny compared to the massive door of challenges life throws at you, there are really only two choices - to act or be acted upon!

🤔 For me, to be ‘acted upon’ is to bunker down and do nothing; play the victim; blame everyone and everything else for what’s happening; take no responsibility for our actions, etc.

🤓 I see ‘to act’ as divided into 3 parts:
1) We might act out of fear; or based on the past - “It’s who I am”; or because everyone else is doing it, etc.
2) We act in faith and follow that voice in our head and/or heart with no idea why or what will happen but it ’feels’ like the right thing to do. Most people can relate to this.
3) We act in faith in Jesus Christ. It ties in with #2 but at a deeper level. When we come to know God and His Plan for us, we can act in faith because we know Him. We recognise His hand in the details and trust Him completely - He is omniscient and omnipotent. He knows us better than we know ourselves. He loves us and wants us to have joy!

🌱 Without challenges we wouldn’t grow. It’s part of the Plan.
We chose it,
so act…
in faith…
in Jesus Christ…

23/04/2024

Paradise = Sand, Sea, and Sports! 😍

10/04/2024

The weather’s getting colder as we head into winter and I’m beginning to crave slow cooker meals… like this one. 😋
What’s your go-to slow cooker meal?

So just like everyone else has, we did the slow cooker chicken carbonara tonight for dinner and omg, it was divine, everybody loved it, we have 8 liter slow cooker so added a bit more ingredients but some remained the same. Ingredients: 1.5kg chicken thighs diced 300g bacon diced 400g mushrooms slic...

06/04/2024

I trust Him! 🙏🏽🫶🏽

04/04/2024

I love learning! It's my jam! Especially learning how to be a better version of myself. I'd take the kids to the library and where we'd split up and go to our favourite sections. Inevitably, I'd be found in the 'Self-help' section. Something about personal development just made me feel good. Maybe knowing that there is a better way and I don't have to be 'stuck' in a fixed mindset but I can be free is so, what's the word, 'freeing'!

02/04/2024

Sounds like a contradiction and that's what makes it so intriguing.. I love proving contraries like this one. How do you calm down and speed up? Would love to hear your thoughts in the comments below...

27/03/2023

Whassup?!! 😊