Hello wonderful humans! Welcome back to The Bliss Bean.
Can you guess my favorite day of the week is?
You're right, it's Sunday! okay this is a professional
Okay this is a professional YouTube channel not Dora the Explorer.
But yeah, I love Sundays, a lot of times
Sundays are not people's favorite day because it's when you realize that the
weekend is over and you have to go back to work, or school.
Right now a lot of us are actually staying home
so it's easy for our schedules to get all sorts of
out of whack, waking up at noon and then wondering what year it is, but sticking
with a routine through this time can really make things feel a little more
normal. For me it's been particularly difficult not being able to see friends
which is why a really important part of my Sunday routine is making time to
communicate with them in other ways. I want to thank Bunch for sponsoring this
video, I've been using it to stay in touch with friends and play games while
video chatting. A lot of our routines and how we live our lives has had to change
in this difficult time so today I wanted to share my Sunday routine that helps me
feel organized and centered at the end of each week, even when everything
outside feels completely unpredictable and stressful. So I usually wake up
anywhere between 6:30 and 8:30 these days, it doesn't matter if it's a weekday
or a weekend, I always set an alarm because otherwise I honestly could just
sleep forever. Throughout the week I try to get all my tasks done Monday to
Saturday so that I can avoid scheduling anything for Sunday. I also don't study
Korean on Sundays, I try not to schedule any events, Sundays are just untouchable
because I know that I need to have a relaxing Sunday in order to be at my
best for the upcoming week. So usually the first task that I take on
is weekly blog tasks. I respond to emails, check analytics, respond to comments,
repin some of my Pinterest pins to group boards, and check up on my content
calendar to plan some stuff for the upcoming week and beyond. I do this step
first because it's relatively easy and doesn't take too much brainpower which
is in short supply on a Sunday morning, and it just gives me momentum to do the
rest of the stuff. So weekly blog tasks take me about three to four Pomodoros
and if you're confused as to why I am measuring time in tomato units, then you
should check out this video. The next thing I tackle is weekly
planning. Truly, my life would fall apart without this step. So first I quickly
read through the week's journal entries and I highlight anything that I consider
important. I use post-its to summarize what went well and what didn't go well
that week. In my journal I'll create a brain dump as a catch-all space before I
organize and schedule everything. Based on what didn't go well that week, I'll
add a few tasks or reminders to try and improve on that the next week. Stars are
for reminders and dashes are for tasks. I transfer Google Calendar events into Teux Deux
by making headings, but literally I had like two events this week and both
of them were just Skype or Zoom calls. By the way am I the only person who had
never heard of Zoom before this started I thought everyone was Skyping or
Facetiming and then Zoom just zoomed out of nowhere. So then I take this little
index card and I'll go through the categories of my life and think about
what I might need to do or just want to get done for each category. So for
example for my blog category every week I'll write down "write and send
newsletter" that's something that I have to do every week. For the friends
category it was my friend's birthday this week and obviously we can't get
together or have a party or anything so on my to-do list
I wrote down to get some food delivered to her house as a little surprise. After
I have a huge brain dump written out, first, I feel a little overwhelmed, then I
take a few deep breaths, and then second, I go into TeuxDeux and I try to arrange
and schedule everything in a way that makes sense.
In this video I go over how I use Teux Deux to schedule out my tasks for the week if
you want a more detailed explanation of that, enjoy. The rest of my Sunday routine
I do in no particular order, so one of the other things that I do is I organize
all of my photos and video. Basically, I clear my camera roll, I upload things
to hard drives and to Google Photos. I tag everything in Google Photos and
label everything on my hard drive so I can quickly find things in the future. I
clear my desktop and downloads folders and I make sure that everything is
backed up, in other words nothing is stored in only one location. I learned
that lesson the hard way. Twice, actually, I didn't really learn the lesson the
first time. Weekly chores! I used to dust my room every week and
then I was doing it every other week and now I'm doing it once a month which
maybe is gross and unhygenic but dust just barely collects in my room
so even when I was doing it every other week I was barely picking up any dust
and it felt like a waste of time so judge me if you want but I dust my room
once a month. Every week however, I do pick up my room and put everything back
where it belongs, I sort the laundry change my bedsheets, vacuum, take out the
trash, and wash my makeup brushes. Lately I've been trying to read on Wednesdays,
Saturdays, and Sundays. I find it really nice on Sundays especially to just read
like a self-improvement or a productivity book, just immersing myself
in inspiring messages and motivation, just kind of creating a mental space
that really makes me feel ready for the next week I believe the libraries where
I live are closed right now, but wherever you live you can use your library card
to get ebooks on the Libby app. Insider tip! I've been practicing sitting in silence
for 20 minutes every day but again it's just especially nice on Sunday I like to
do it after my hour of reading so that information and knowledge can, like,
really sink in. These days it's just really rare to be doing nothing, even if you're
not doing anything productive, per se, you might be scrolling through social
media or just something else that occupies your mind, and so your mind
never really has the space to just exist and think and make connections based on
the mountains of information that it absorbs every day. If 20 minutes sounds
intimidating to you, you can start at 5 and work your way up. It is kind of
difficult sometimes but you also learn to love it because it's really nice to
just sit there and think about whatever you want. Finally, at the end of the day, I
try to incorporate something relaxing, so oftentimes I'll use the sauna with my
family and then we'll watch SNL together or a movie. My friends and I used to do
board game nights, so now our social distancing version of that is to video
chat and play games together using Bunch! Once you add your friends on the app you
can add them to a part-ay and when initiate a game. You can all play it
together, and you don't always have to be playing a game, before the game starts
and after it ends you can just use the video chat function to chat. The app
includes five games that you can play without downloading anything but there
are also some third-party games like Uno and Minecraft that are supported.
I guess play minecraft or you like live in a little digital world while video
chatting with your friends through the Internet is pretty good practice for the
computer simulations that we will all eventually live in someday. But yeah, my
friends and I, sometimes when we just video chat we kind of run out of things
to talk about and then we're all just sitting there like.... but with games it's just
more engaging and we laugh a lot, and it makes things feel a little bit more
normal. So if you want to download Bunch, the link to it is in the description, I'm
also going to be playing with some of you guys this evening, I have details
over on my Instagram story for how to add me as a friend and we'll get a
little party organized. So I think the purpose that my Sunday routine is
serving for me right now is 1. to get organized and kind of get back on track
and 2. to just make up for the socialization that I've been missing
during the week. During high school I was really overworking myself and barely
relaxing during the week so then my Sunday routine was primarily for
recharging and slowing down so that I wouldn't implode. It's important to
remember that the reason you're doing a new routine is not because everyone
on Instagram is doing it but because it serves you.
So as you implement a new routine, focus on how it's going to serve you and keep
checking in to see if it's still serving you, and if you maybe need to adjust it
in some way. I've created a worksheet to help you design your own Sunday routine
there are more than 35 ideas for elements of a perfect Sunday routine on
there. There's three categories that address your self, your productivity, and
your space. Once you have your routine set I think it really helps to have it
written down somewhere you can see and easily refer to it. I have the tasks of my
Sunday routine either scheduled as weekly tasks in TeuxDeux or set as weekly
habits in my habit tracking app. So yeah, I hope you enjoyed this video, Sunday is
just two days away so you can put all this new information and knowledge into
practice. If you enjoyed this video please give it a like and subscribe to
my channel. I hope everyone is staying safe and healthy and acting responsibly
and taking care of each other. Have a good weekend and I will see you next
week, bye!