Yes they are important if you wish to go on and do medicine,veterinary or any other course that holds big points. But for the average student, who just merely wants to do their best, which may even only be to pass everything. This time can be very daunting for them. They're not even worrying about if what they did was enough, they half know deep down that it wasn't enough to get them straight into college. What schools don't highlight nowadays is how many paths you can take to get to the same place. To become a primary school teacher you do not have to get 485+ points, you can actually do liberal arts and then complete your higher diploma in further education. Liberal Arts is only 335 points, for most students a much more achievable goal! Two very different paths but the same exact result!

 Also there is such a thing as  PLC course! A PLC is a post-leaving certificate course, which enables students to participate in a course that is related to the area of their college course and then hopefully after the year is up you can continue on into the first year of that college course regardless of the points you got in your leaving cert. I didn't know about these courses until recently I think in schools they should provide more information about them. In turn they may even alter the stigma attached to them, which might make more people actually want to go to college which is always a good thing, in my opinion! I fully believe in education, and staying in the education system as long as you can nothing beats learning new things and opening up the mind to all the greater theories out there!

I stuck it out, and here I am now I found a hobby I really enjoy that overlaps with my course. To think I probably wouldn't have developed my interest in blogging if I had gotten into primary teaching!
Okay so to any teenager who didn't get the choice they wanted yesterday-Don't worry or stress out about it! There must be a different path outlined for ye. Ye have to have faith that there is a reason why you didn't get the course you wanted. Do not be disheartened there is nothing you can do accept be positive and figure out the next step in your journey! I wish every single one of you the best of luck on your new beginnings be it in college, in a PLC course or maybe some of ye are taking a year out! Enjoy the start of this new chapter in yere lives! And remember...

Today I am launching the recipe section of my blog, called Rob's Recipes. It is going to be a segment filled with mostly snacks. All of which I am going to try keep super clean, so that they can be enjoyed day to day not just as a treat. Hopefully helping some of ye to get motivated to follow a more healthy lifestyle.

Being fussy with food makes eating healthily 100 times harder, because there are so many things that we don't like. It sounds silly but even a texture or smell of a certain food would put me off immediately! I hope if you are fussy like me you will get some inspo from these recipes!

So I am trying to find new dishes/snacks that are healthy and actually edible! My first recipe was inspired by another blogger, Niamh O Sullivan from Cinnamon Soul (Cinnamon-soul.com), she has some great recipes/posts on her blog, she is also a health and fitness blogger. I used more or less the same ingredients, what I liked most about this recipe is that the ingredients were healthy but also not overly expensive or hard to come by. I am also a huge fan of Roz Purcell's blog, Natural Born Feeder but some of the ingredients she uses are expensive and can only really be bought in a health food shop.
So my first recipe is PROTEIN CUPCAKES! I know typical for me to start off with more of a treat than a snack, but it can be hard on days you are craving chocolate and just don't want to give in. And its FRIDAY! Reach for one of these bad boys and your craving will disappear instantly!

PROTEIN CUPCAKES:

INGREDIENTS

• 30g of coconut flour
• 50g of ground almonds
• 100g of natural glenisk greek yoghurt
• 2tbsp of cocnut oil (melted)
• 30g of vanilla whey protein
• 1 1/2 tsp of baking powder
• 4 tbsp of honey
• a bag of chocolate chips 

I am sorry I haven't posted anything in awhile, honestly I have just totally lacked motivation. I have literally felt like just staying in bed all day everyday! Between babysitting and work, I have to write most of my blog posts either in the night or early in the morn, which I love doing don't get me wrong! But I just got a bit lazy the past couple of weeks, and bored of the content, so I have finally gotten myself out of this rut! And outlined a blog posts timeline for myself, that basically keeps me organised and completely interested 24/7. I love my blog and writing I don't want it to sound like I don't. But sometimes it can be hard to inspire and motivate yourself to write about the same things everyday, I didn't have much variety. After a lot of brainstorming, I thought why not do the food diary as well as a new section just for recipes. These recipes will be a mixture of snacks mainly, geared towards people who are fussy eaters like myself! I think I am going to call it Fussy Feeds. I already have my first post organised, which I will hopefully have live tomorrow. I wont tell ye yet what my first recipe is yet, but I think ye are going to like it. And to top it off it is mostly a clean eat (don't think you can consider choco chips as clean but we'll go with it!) so completely guilt free!

On other news, I am absolutely loving power lifting. I don't think I mentioned before that that is the type of boot-camp I am doing. It was something totally new and I was completely out of my comfort zone. But I am loving it! It only now we are starting to make the class harder (adding more weight to the bar) which makes it more interesting and exciting each week you are aiming to beat the weight from the week before or master it. For example this week with my squat working sets I increased the weight from 5kg to 7.5kg which doesn't seem like much but it made a difference after the 5 working sets I felt like I had it mastered, I am hoping to bump it up to 10kg next week.

I know life can get in the way of things that we want to accomplish but it is so important that you write those goals down set a time by which they have to be done by and get your sh*t done! I have been so lazy the past few weeks, I need to remind myself I am not going to achieve anything by letting life take over. Basically what Im saying is, yes we all have responsibilities jobs families but if you want something you got to put in that hustle! Even if it means working from 12pm at night till 2am or getting up at 7am to do an hour of work bepfre the day really begins. If you want something bad enough you wont make an excuse! I am done making excuses, I hope anyone who reads this post will find the inspiration to do the same!

Lets do this!
Fly high always,
Robyn X