- In this video, I wanna talk about 10 easy, actionable ways
that you can reset for a new month.
This is a video that you could literally pop
in the background and you could do this along with me
so at every step that I talk about pause and take action.
I'm talking about ways to reset your mind,
ways to reset your space, and ways to reset your goals
all of the above.
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And the first way to reset for a new month
is to get clarity on your next actions for your goals.
If you are a person who likes to set goals
at the start of the year, the start of the 1/4,
you probably wrote down some goals and then you wrote down
everything that you could possibly need to do
to get those goals to come to life.
And it's likely that when you did that
you felt feelings of total clarity
over time, any plans that you create
will start to feel fuzzy.
And if you're not regularly interacting with the plans
that you make, you're going to start to detach yourself
from them and stop taking action on them.
So to reduce fuzziness when it comes to your plans,
revisit them, interact with them, bring some life into them
otherwise they become stale, they become old
and they go unused.
Having this even just as a once a month task
I think is super helpful.
It always reinvigorates me to revisit and rehash my plans.
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The next way to reset your life is to clean out
one area of your life that doesn't get cleaned out enough.
So pick an area that you know doesn't get enough attention
it could be physical, it could be digital,
it might even be outside of your home
like your car or your desk at work and tidy it up.
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The one area that I chose to tidy up was my phone
an area that truly does not get enough attention.
Considering we're using it every single day
we don't tidy it enough.
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The next thing to do to raise that is to plan in
three fun things for the next month.
I've said it before and I'll say it again
if you're not a person who spontaneously plans in
and does fun things, goes out of their house,
goes on adventures then you need to be planning
those things in.
Because life is not about working
and then sitting on the couch and watching TikTok
and then watching a Netflix show on repeat.
That is not what life is supposed to look like
it should have a stronger focus
on creating moments of enjoyment, moments that are memorable
and those moments don't happen to you
those are moments that you need to make happen.
A few ideas of the things that you can plan
into your next month are planning in time outdoors
nature is healing I am convinced of it
we all need to be outdoors far more often than we are.
Plan in a long walk, plan in a beach day,
even if the beach is a little bit of a trip away
plan in a picnic in a park.
If you haven't been under a tree or you haven't been
near a body of water in a while plan it in.
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Thee next thing that you can do to reset for a new month
is to do something that will make your life easier ongoing.
Think about the system that you have in your life
where there might be some friction.
So if you have a meal planning system,
you have a cleaning system, a system for studying,
a system for planning.
What about those systems feels hard?
What feels difficult?
And how can you make those things easier for yourself?
Or if you don't have some systems in place
that you know would make your life easier
how can you work on those systems?
Ask yourself what would make the things that I wanna do
lower effort and lower energy tasks?
In my case, I'm looking at something in my business
to make easier and something that I've had on my mind
for a while but never actioned is taking my videos
and cutting them down and then posting them to Instagram.
This makes my life easier because it creates content
without me having to actually create more content.
Also, my videos are often packed with value
up until the end, but some people only watch the start.
So I get to take bits and pieces that are more
from the end of a video and pop them into my Instagram.
So I actually decided to create a whole system
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The next way to reset for a new month
is to deep clean something that is in dire need
of a deep clean.
Some ideas for you are deep cleaning your fridge,
deep cleaning your pantry, deep cleaning your car,
your couch, your cupboards, your bathroom cabinets.
Clean things in a way that you maybe normally wouldn't
vacuum areas that you wouldn't normally vacuum,
clean down things that you wouldn't normally touch
get out that toothbrush
to give yourself that extra reset feeling.
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Another way to reset for a new month
is to do a massive brain dump of all of the things
that are on your mind.
This is such a feel good task
and I also have the perfect video to guide you alongside it
is a video called "Watch This When You Feel Overwhelmed",
and it's literally an audio guide to a brain dump.
I've had a few questions about what to do
after your brain dump because the feeling of a brain dump
is wonderful getting it all off of your mind,
I think is essential.
But knowing that steps to take off after a brain dump
is also important because otherwise it just becomes
this big list of things that you're gonna be like,
"Oh well, I never wanna look at that again."
So in the next few clips, I'm going to show you
my process for brain dumping.
So the first thing that I do is I do a big brain dump
of everything that's on my mind, you'll find big things
and small things come up.
Not everything is significant,
it doesn't have to be.
The next thing that I like to do
at least on a good brain dumping day
is to go through and clarify everything.
Some of the things that you've written down
won't actually be tasks, they'll be projects.
So for example, I wrote down at finalize recording space
which means nothing that's not very actionable,
that's not very doable or tangible.
So that was actually a project once I categorized it
as a project, I was able to then create a task
based on that project.
So buy command strips so that I can attach
the soundproofing stuff to the wall.
Projects are things that involve multiple steps,
they're usually things that feel big in your head
and then tasks are things that are usually one step.
Sometimes they can be two steps as well,
but they feel doable.
You'd read them and you're like,
"Yeah, I know exactly what to do to get that done."
As you go through clarify the wording of some of your tasks,
you might have written things down in a rush
and they weren't very actionable
or they didn't really make sense and future you
probably wouldn't be able to process them.
So it's your job to make that wording more clear
so that if you see those to-dos written down,
you're like, "Yeah okay, I know what that's about
and I know what I need to do."
When you can add specifics.
So if you've written down call doctor,
go and find the doctor's number and put it there.
If you've written down buy object, go and find the website
or the brand so that you know exactly what to look up
when you come to that to do.
Once I clarify all of my to-dos,
I actually transfer them into notion.
It's so easy to just capture things and things through
but to organize stuff, I do things in notion.
So I transfer everything over to notion
and that's when I start contextualizing
as well as prioritizing.
So I contextualize by saying, "Yep, this is a work task,
this is a home task."
The beauty of contextualizing is that say you're out
on an errand, you can have a look at your errands list
in your to-dos and then you can pick up all the things
that you meant to pick up from the store
or visit the post office on your way back
and do all of those errands in a batch,
it lets you more efficiently use your time.
Then I prioritize.
So the way that I prioritize is actually
very specific to me and these are the categories
that I've come up with that have helped me
to make more sense of what's important
and what's not important.
Going through and prioritizing your tasks is really helpful
for energy management.
Because you know for example, if in the morning
you have your most energy, that's when you do
your non-urgent but very impactful tasks.
The tasks that require a bit more mental labor
and then when you hit the afternoon
or you're just having a low energy day,
you can visit those non-urgent admin tasks.
This system only really works
if you are revisiting this list on at least a weekly
if not daily basis.
Otherwise, it just becomes unused
but when you're interacting with it regularly,
it becomes a really helpful tool
to help you to manage your life.
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The next reset activity you can integrate to end your month
is to reflect on the last month.
There are three things that you need to be doing
in your life regularly to create growth.
Firstly, you need to be reflecting
secondly, you need to be planning and strategizing
and third you need to be taking action.
Some people are like a yes, take action
stop thinking so much, just do
which does apply sometimes.
A lot of people are all about the planning
and the organizing but you really need a mixture
of all of those things.
Without reflection you're going to be making the wrong plans
without planning you're gonna be making dumb actions
without actions it's all gonna be for naught.
Some reflection questions that you can integrate
into your monthly reset are, what were the things
that I was the most proud of in this month?
Try to expand your mind and think beyond just work wins,
productivity wins, you can be proud of yourself
for setting some boundaries,
you can be proud of yourself for saying no.
You can be proud of yourself for taking rest,
you can be proud of yourself for integrating
self care more into your life
there are so many things to be proud of
that are beyond taking off your to-dos.
The next question is what are your top highlights
for the month?
It's a really good idea to find what your highlights were
for the month so that you can take those
and plan them in for future.
If these are the things that are sticking out in your mind
as the funnest times, the most interesting times,
the things that you really enjoy doing
that you need to be creating more of those things
in the future.
Another thing that you can ask yourself is
what is working and what is not working?
What are the habits, the small changes,
the environmental tweaks that you've made
that are really working for you?
And then what are the things
that just are not working for you
that you need to do something about?
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The next way that you can reset for a fresh month
is to do one task that you have been avoiding.
If you want you can plan a whole day of tasks
that you've been avoiding, which is something
that I like to do in the form of life admin days,
that can be a once a month ritual.
But if that is a little too much, just plan on taking action
on one task that you have been avoiding
in your monthly reset.
This could be a really high impact task
that has a minimal starting step
like booking in a therapy session,
opening up a savings account.
Finally, messaging that person that you've been meaning
to go to coffee with for a while,
or it could just be doing a task that you know
is going to make your life a little less annoying
or a little more pleasant like power-hosing the driveway,
taking the weeds out of the garden.
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The next simple thing that you can integrate
into your monthly reset is actually something
that will give you ongoing return and that is
marking up your calendar so that you are pointing out
all the different times that you can reset in the future.
You are emphasizing the fresh start dates on your calendar,
you are able to create more fresh starts in your life
by giving dates weight.
Turn the last weekend of the month into reset weekend.
The last day of each 1/4 becomes a dream mapping day
where you take yourself on a date and you set your goals
for the next 1/4.
You can give dates in your calendar power by marking them up
as special refresh days.
You deserve and you need regular dates
where you refresh and reset that sit outside of New Year's.
Just because traditional calendars tell us
there is only one day of the year that we set new goals
and we create new sites for ourself
does not mean that is true.
Create your own New Year's Day multiple times
throughout the year by marking up your calendar.
I think it's a good idea to give these days actual names
for example, I've talked about rituals
that I've created before.
So we had philosophical Sunday, the weekly reset,
we've got the weekly marriage meeting,
they all have their own little names
that make them more significant
and I think give them more power.
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The next thing that you can do to reset your life
for a new month is to create one little change
in your environment to support your goals.
I'm not talking about tidying,
I'm not talking about deep cleaning.
I'm talking about shaping your environment
to make the healthy habits that you wanna do easier
and to make your goals easier to achieve.
For example, if you have a book that you want to read
this month, put that book by your bedside table.
If you want to start planning this month,
put your planner on your desk open right beside you.
You want to change your environment
so that it's easier to do the things that you want to do
these are tiny little tweaks
that make the world of difference.
If you liked this video, you will probably like
my recent video playlist which is linked on the screen
as well as down below it has videos on it my weekly reset
on ideas for a reset day,
how to reset your life for 2020 and 2021.
And of course you can use those tips any year
there are just a lot of reset vibes in this playlist.
So if you are in a reset kind of mood,
I'm gonna have that linked on the screen
as well as down below.
I appreciate you so freaking much and I will see you soon.