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rise and shine sweet as potatoes it's
time I'm ready for anyone looking for a
fresh start let's do it together
something magical and grounding happens
when you visit a city you used to live
in you remember who you were when you
lived there the things you cared about
and all the big and small dreams you had
along the way although I was very much
looking forward to moving back home as a
fresh start
the Divine forces had other plans after
a long season of grieving resting and
reconnecting finding parts of myself and
losing other parts along the way all of
which I've covered in recent videos I'm
feeling ready and excited to start being
productive again and this time around
Everything
feels
different for the first time in a very
long time I want more for myself not
from a place of scarcity guilt or
comparison but rather from a place of
abundance curiosity and
wonder and in very Rowena fashion I took
a look at everything I wanted to work on
and decided a 30-day challenge is the
way forward I want to commit spending 15
minutes every day over the next 4 weeks
to focus on four aspects of my life I
like to work on so what better way to
kick off a brand new season of our lives
and get a head start on the new year
then with the clean space for infinite
inspiration and optimal mental Clarity
clean space clean mind right
progress so what we're going to
do the game plan is to not really have a
plan until I feel called to do so
because I don't need additional stresses
in my life for not sticking with the
plan but you know it's coming I'm an
infj after all I just kind of went for
it the first few days going where my
impulses took me on purpose so I can
sustainably ease myself into this
massive undertaking of putting our house
in order once and for all guys it's been
over 6 months since I moved back giving
myself Grace but it's also time after
taking out and organizing what was in
the old media console and swapping it in
with the new one this was day one sleek
and
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Beautiful on day two I felt called to
finally tackle the office which became
the equivalent of the chair or the
closet that most of us probably have but
instead it's just the whole room plus my
partner this is where he
works long long day ahead of
us
oops this is what I spent the evening
doing the reason why I feel like I love
cleaning so much is that ever since I
was little it was always a game for me
to figure out the best and most
efficient way to do anything and ever
everything the secret really is to
gamify daily task in life if you're into
that like I am or to figure out a way to
turn mundane things in life fun this is
my fully optimized very groundbreaking
three-step method for
Tiding everything is sorted into its
respective piles this is DIY these are
notebooks that I'm going to go through
so I should actually probably move it
and here we have Tech this is all going
to be organiz and go into
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here much
better with 3 days under our belt I felt
pretty encouraged waking up on the
fourth day before the day completely
slipped away from me with backtack calls
and it was suddenly time for dinner but
rather than throwing in the towel for
the day because I'm too tired or I
deserve rest I decided to spend 15
minutes just doing one thing I've been
meaning to do moving the board games
from the kitchen cabinets yes I know
it's the only place we had room into the
New Media Console doing something is
better than doing nothing don't
prematurely write the day month or year
off we can literally start fresh any
time of day any time of month any time
of year we can begin again whenever we
want wherever we are
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after buttering myself up the previous
days to tackle this ordeal totaling no
more than a few hours I was ready the
day has come I could feel it in my bones
how do I proceed spend more time than
I've been cleaning and decluttering
combined creating an epic database with
pragas bars in notion du I broke down my
space by rooms proceeded to write out
what needs to be done for every area
this helps me focus on one room at a
time and the satisfaction of the
progress bars I then Loosely schedule my
day to mentally prepare myself because
the day has come for my J to shine the
app that I'm using here is Sama this is
all I've been using to keep my life in
order for the past almost 3 years now
I'll leave a cheeky little fillet Link
in the description box for any
inquisitive Souls I'll also link a few
videos Below on how I use this for work
on a daily
basis now that we're armed with a fully
flushed out game plan it's time to start
organizing and cleaning here's an IG
versus reality moment even though this
is YouTube the shot would have looked
much cleaner ending with me closing the
washing machine but the reality is I
usually like to shake my sheets before
throwing it in the washer because I'm in
a vacuum anyway and this is just
something my mom did and now it's
something that I do and I don't really
try to question it the reason why I'm
bringing this up is because I've been
trying to get a bit more creative and
intentional with what I bring into this
world I was so excited when I was
watching back the previous sequence of
shots of me doing laundry in ways I've
never been before because I feel like I
fell out of love with making videos for
a long while everything that was once
fresh and new becomes overdone and it's
hard not to chase guaranteed success
when it's the easier thing to do this
inner conflict on top of moving home and
realizing I was going through many
things was paralyzing to say the least
but it also seemed like the perfect
opportunity for me to step back to stop
doing anything productive for
productivity sake and to reevaluate my
intentions I felt a need to reconnect
with my inner voice so I pause coaching
I stopped reading non-fiction and I
spent more time alone with my thoughts
but now that I'm stepping into a fresh
new beginning reintroducing old habits
back into my routine I decided to reread
a book I read back when I first started
my channel almost 8 years ago that's
crazy and this one quote quite literally
slapped me in the face when I heard it
the more you value achieve
the more you come to dread failure
instead of aiming for Unique
accomplishments the intense desire to
succeed leads us to strive for
guaranteed success once people pass an
intermediate level in the need to
achieve there's evidence that they
actually become less creative this quote
didn't mean anything to me back then
when I read it 8 years ago but it means
everything to me now that I've had more
lived
experience turns out perhaps my
dwindling creativity wasn't just from
the move perhaps I lost touch with this
desire to create and to be creative long
before cuz I was valuing the wrong
things as a quote said The more we value
achievement the more we dread failure
and this fear of failure or losing what
we've worked so hard to build pushes us
to play it safe doing what we know is
safe doing what we know is comfortable
doing what we know is easy but doing
what we know does not challenge us
creatively tap into our inner voice to
create something original is something
that's innate to all of us it is what
truly nourishes the soul and ways
guarantee success will never be able to
so along with checking off all the
to-dos I've also checked off my resolve
to Value creativity over safety comfort
and ease moving forward no matter what
we do for a living there are always be
ways we can challenge ourselves to be
more creative and these are all the ways
you can Define creative in jobs that
aren't traditionally quote unquote
creative I no longer want to appease the
algorithm and Chase guaranteed success
while it has been months in the making
this is the Fresh Start I've been
looking for arriving at a place where I
can create freely as I please without
fixating on the results What A visual
representation of letting go of all that
inner
Gunk okay back to cleaning of all the
rooms my focus since the move has been
getting and keeping the living room and
kitchen organized because it's where we
spend most of our time at this point
other than me playing around with new
cleaning gadgets that are more quarterly
deep cleans there's not much to tidy or
declutter because this space is all I've
been focusing on truly my pride and joy
getting new furniture well just that one
media console and almost fully
decorating we've also gotten into a
pretty good routine where we reset the
living room and kitchen every night we
also have pretty good chore division it
just so happens that everything my
partner likes doing I don't like doing
and everything I don't like doing he
likes doing for example he runs the
dishwasher and takes out the trash every
night while I wipe the counters and
clean out the fridge weekly and do
deeper cleans every once in a while this
is actually something we sat down to
talk about before moving in together and
I think it's it's made all the
difference we had to reiterate a few
times as well and to remind each other
of what the list is but we're getting
there I'm very proud proud of the system
we've created together and how we do a
little nightly reset of the living room
so the living room and the kitchen are
two spaces I'm very very proud of at
this time in the night I did not want to
take out a power drill so I was like
okay you know what I'll just leave this
to do with my partner as I move on to
the thing that I've been putting off
most which is my closet I do not dare
show you guys what it looked like like
before but I just might flash it on the
screen very quickly and here we go while
I do a little try on haul as I pack for
New York City this is the first time in
a very long time I challenged myself to
put together outfit and tapped into
adolescent row who spent hours in front
of her bedroom mirror trying on clothes
I'd say it was a success because my
co-workers ask me every day what are you
doing which is an inside joke where
whenever members of our team dress up it
means that going somewhere because we
never really just dress up for the
office anyway this all feeds into
starting fresh and starting a new season
in our life but now that the place is a
little more put together and I've in
turn gained more clarity what am I
looking forward to the most to Dreaming
to thinking about finances to working in
general to working to build this next
chapter with you all to working to build
this next chapter with my
partner ah
the reason why I feel like this time
around me wanting more from myself is
able to come from a place of abundance
curiosity and wonder rather than
scarcity feeling like I'm behind or just
comparing myself to other people is
really because I feel like I gave myself
time and I gave myself space something
that I historically don't really do
because I just need to do what's next
and focus on what's next and to move
forward because if you don't move
forward then what are you doing with
your life fried
banil I don't really see it that way
anymore it's the best we're going to get
today at least the Flor is
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clean so
tired day seven we're wrapping up what I
didn't get around to the day before
final sweep before taking off to the
airport and off we go to New York City
again while I was sitting on my desk
back in my New York City office drawing
a blank as to how I should go about
scripting this video I looked up and saw
this quote there's only one corner of
the universe you can be certain of
improving and that is your own
self how beautiful we all can improve
our corner of the universe and next week
we can improve on our finances together
I'm very very very much looking forward
to that I think that's what I'm most
excited about so I'll see you next week
be there or be square voice Hugs by the
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if you haven't caught up yet love you
miss you bye