Can run it's Morgan yeas and today when you guys are seeing this it is my 25th birthday
So for the fourth year in a row, I thought I would share 25 things
I learned at 25 also it is my golden birthday. I know the shirt is a little much
Since I'm 25 on the 25th that's called the golden birthday if you're unaware
I learned what that was in the past year so that could have gone on this list
If this first video you're seeing of mine
I would love if you would subscribe and also I would love if everyone would comment below how old you are and
One thing that you learned in the past year
Yeah, feel free to follow along over on Instagram if you want to see all of the birthday festivities going on
I'm gonna try to vlog that as well as that'll be up soon on my vlog channel
But let's go ahead and hop into it first thing. I learned this year is how much I love my own company
I feel like in the past year. I
many many times like increasingly have opted out of
Social situations that I don't know if it just wasn't something I was really feeling or if I would rather be alone. I
Prioritize my own company when everybody's going out I learned I would rather just be home alone watching Netflix
I enjoy my own company. Number two. I learned that I love traveling alone this year for the first time
actually
I went on two trips technically by myself where I didn't know anyone even though I was meeting up with like a big group
situation but of strangers
So I went on a brand trip to Paris
And then I did a Kentucky trip where I didn't know anyone to Italy in France, and it was a little nerve-wracking
It was definitely outside my comfort zone not knowing who I was gonna meet there not knowing if I would make friends so straight trips
Definitely stretched me a little bit
but I remember lost some people on both of them and
Saw a lot of pros to traveling by yourself and not having a mouse to rely on there
So I will probably be doing more of that in the coming year number three
I feel like in the past year. I rediscovered a lot of the fun in my main channel
I touched on this in my last video, which was the same interview one year part
You can check that if you want to I know we're kind of having to
Reflective videos in a row, but we'll be back to normal video soon
but as I mentioned in that video
I feel like I kind of switched up some editing things kind of tried to get a little more creative with some video topics like
I really loved that 30 days of boxing video
I had a lot of fun with all of those spinning in a week videos and just I don't know
Even all my cleaning videos were just some really fun to edit and I've enjoyed kind of spicing up the style on this channel number
Four I learned that buying an air fryer
well pretty much just that but also
discovering the best avocado sauce recipe ever
those two things combined would make my post meats habit completely disappear number five a lesson learned is that
You you can say no to being in people's weddings. You should really think about the money commitment the time commitment
Everything that's going to go into this process. You got a bachelorette weekend. You got a wedding. It's a lot
I'm in a lot of weddings and it's really fun
But I learned you can and should be a little select number six
I learned that three and a half weeks is probably too long to be gone for Crispus number seven something
I started implementing in the past year has to do with waiting to reward myself with something that I want
Mainly, I guess this comes into play with spending
I feel like in the past if there was something I want I would just kind of buy it not really thinking not waiting and
it kind of takes the fun out of all of those like
Purchases or like those things that are exciting to have so in the past year. I've really held off on that
I have like a list of things
I want to buy not even like huge things
but just like little things and I kind of just hold off on that and it's more fun to look forward to it and
Anticipate it and then like, you know, maybe something good happens
I not want to reward myself with one of those or like it's my birthday and I when I get myself a birthday present
It's a lot more fun and rewarding to kind of have that delayed gratification number eight a little more critical one of myself
I suppose as I have done some reflecting. I just kind of noticed mainly in the past couple of months how much I tend to
Disregard other people's opinions. It's not a good thing and very stubborn
I see things in a very black-and-white way, and I'm also the opposite of a people pleaser
So I feel no pressure to agree with anyone but even in situations about like making plans or things like that
I've noticed that I go into situations
Trying to get everyone else on my side rather than even listening to anyone elses side or like hearing the pros in that situation
Hello, why is it dark? I don't know
I've just observed myself that I'm not always that good of a listener and that's something that I need to work on and improve
Number nine I saw firsthand how I might just love things that I am avoiding because they're outside of my comfort zone
For example, this is a weird one not very feminist to make a trouble
We're gonna Oliver heard me talk about it I go there to work out
It's a boxing studio in LA and from when I started going there
I had only gone to like a handful of the male instructors kind of by accident
And that's just kind of who I kept going to but then there would be times
Where for my schedule it would make more sense to go to
another class with a different instructor that I haven't had before and it would be outside of my comfort zone so I wouldn't want to
Do it, but I don't know when I developed this thing where I was like afraid to go to the girl structures classes
I'd never done it and I don't know why I just insisted on not very weird until one day
They did a little switcheroo, and I stood up for a class of an instructor. I took all the time
He wasn't there and we had a sub and guess what was it was a girl and guess what? She's not my favorite instructor
I don't know why I felt that way about I had in my head that like oh if it's a girl's voice
It won't motivate me as much ain't not even true B, the girls workouts are harder
It's an obscure example, but those are not my favorite classes to go to and I hardly go to the guys classes. It's amazing
What could happen when you stop avoiding things outside of your comfort zone another thing?
Like I went to a hip-hop dance class what with Shelby and it was super fun
And that's something that was definitely outside of my comfort zone. I would not have normally gone to in the past
But that day I was just like whatever I'm not gonna overthink. I'm just gonna go in the coming year
I want to continue to do things that challenge me in that way number 10 in the past year
I got tired of my own excuses when it comes to a lot of things
I feel like we all have in our heads this
Idea of this like ideal person that we want to be and every year like we set these
resolutions and whatever and we like decide we're gonna change all these things and
At some point in the past like six months
I was just like what if I just do the things whether it's working out when we don't want to whether it's doing chores when?
We don't want to literally like I can be downstairs
Realize that in order to accomplish a task
Something I need is up here and I will sit there and avoid it or I would I don't know more but I would literally
just like avoid it and procrastinate on it because I was lazy I do that with tasks all
the time and this year, I just got tired of that like
Delay, the lazy mindset and I started doing all the things when I recognized that I needed to do them that comes to chores
I guess working out became really disciplined with that as well
Even though I enjoy that so I always want to be going but I just feel like across the board
I just got tired of my own excuses this year and
Instead of like having this idea of like what type of person I wanted to be in the future and like whatever rather than it
Being wishful thinking I just like one day decided to just do it and it's good
So I recommend that number 11 also pertaining to discipline. This is with finances
I have really seen the power of savings in the past year
2099 implemented a system where on the first 10th and 20th of every month
I know it's not exactly even now but basically about every 10 days
I put a set amount of money into a separate savings account that I ignore forget exists never look at it like number
Touch it and it's crazy how much I've saved in the past year and this year I've even increased
I'm doing every Friday and it was that same amount of money into an account
so I just feel like implementing a saving strategy like that has been really cool to see kind of how that
compounds over time number 12
I guess a takeaway that I have
Learned or observed this year is that it's never too late to start going after something you want to do something you want to learn?
A skill you haven't even started to develop like a goal you have
But that like seems like you're too late to get into for me
I would apply this more to like health things and especially with that and like just goal-setting
I've learned that there's no pressure and there's no rush give yourself ample time to do whatever it is you want to do I feel
like when you stop placing so much focus on every single tiny decision and you see things more big-picture just in terms of like
patterns and like okay if I'm doing this one thing like
most of the time then I'm gonna be on track to this goal versus zeroing in on like every single tiny action you can just
Chill out and just look at the big picture what you're doing most of the time and like the patterns in your life
they will tell you if you were on your way to reaching your goals or not and
That's why I need to worry about you. Don't gotta focus on everything
13 also having to do with goals is that you can't be so finish line driven
For this like one goal that you have that you can't make room for
other goals that come along or for just like living your life or just for you have to be flexible what I'm thinking of with
This is back in July or August or whatever. I started that 30 days of boxing challenge video
I had it timed out
I was in town for like 30 days and I was like this is when I'm gonna get this done and I was making good
progress at first and then came along the opportunity to be paid to travel to go on this awesome trip and guys, I
Initially was like, oh, I'm not gonna do it. I didn't even think about the possibility of going on it
I was set on turning it down because I was like I have to finish this video like I have to do this challenge like
Whatever. I need to finish this goal and thank goodness
I don't know when or why but that changed and I went on the trip and we all know that boxing video or that 30
Days ended up taking like three months, but hey, I feel like it made for a better
Video and story and a more sustainable experience. So I'm glad that I went but also that trip was so fun
I met incredible people that I still talk to often and none of those good things would have happened if I hadn't made room in
This goal that I already had to be able to kind of detour and do a little something else
that's something I always want to kind of keep in mind is like working hard putting in the work staying focused and being disciplined but
like be reasonable when it comes to like
Living your life, you know number 14 in the past year probably just in the past six months
I again I talked about this in my last video last week
but I
sort of discovered my love for health and fitness and working out and eating healthy and things like that not all the time, but I
Generally learned that I like that more than not doing that
I feel like I've also in the past year started paying attention to like
What foods make me feel certain ways like even healthy foods like like there's certain vegetables
No, just don't it make me feel types of ways. You know, I feel like I've become a lot more of an intuitive eater
It's actually paying attention to the signals that your body gives you cuz it does that you should probably pay attention number fifteen
I think this was on last year's list. I have just chilled out more
I feel like this year even more than in the past year
I've learned how to respond to things rather than react an odd example, but this morning in the kitchen
I was
taking out my carton of eggs and somehow the lid came off as I was taking it out and one light flipped out and
cracked all over the floor and an old me a few years ago would have gotten so angry would have had such a
Reaction to that and like been so annoyed and what it started off my day on the wrong foot
I don't know why I used to give so much power to like small
mishaps that happen that are guaranteed to happen often this morning and now frequently I
Literally just have no reaction to things like that happening. I'm just looking
Ok, I'll clean it up and there's not any kind of like emotional
Anger reaction. It carries into like interpersonal relationships as well
I feel like I've become a much better responder rather than angry reactor number 16 something that happened last year in
Business and if you will that I learned is that sometimes you have to prioritize
Professional matters over personal ones and there's kind of one big example of this that's coming to mind where I've been working with this one
Brand that I loved like I'm so close to the people who work there. Really? I mean, there's nothing about to say about that
however
a competitor came along that
was also great that I also loved and was able to present me it with a much better offer that company a
Couldn't provide expect my love for those people and my friendship and then I built over the years
I ultimately had to decide that like I know the value that I bring to these companies and I ultimately have to stand up for
That and that means going with this better deal and it's not being like a personal thing. It's just like businesses business
You know what? I mean number 17
this is a bit contradictory because I'm still caught in a cycle of like such a
Huge influx of like possessions being brought into my life every I do a fashion sponsorship or anything like that
But generally life is better when you have less stuff
I feel like every time I do one of those cleaning videos and just get rid of so many items
I feel so light like there's so much room everywhere
Like everything's so clean and it just feels so good even with like my technology when my hard drive isn't
Overflowing and my phone's not full of 60,000 photos and really just keeping things clean keeping them cleared out
It just feels better and I again, I'm at a place where I need to clean out
So many possessions number 18 and past year. I wouldn't say I'm some like Enneagram fanatic
however, the India gram has really helps me to make sense of
myself and my
Decision-making and just my relationships and things like that. I have an innie room eight. Feel free to research that
Feel free to take the quiz research your own. I think it can help you understand a lot of things about yourself
there are nine types and each one's kind of based on like a core motivation and a core fear the eight is
vulnerability and like weakness number nineteen building off that I have learned and tried to put into practice that imperfection or
Emotion or struggling with something or growth?
None of those things equal weakness. It's normal in life to be figuring things out to be growing to be learning
It's an ongoing process. It would be concerning if that weren't happening
and so I have tried to make a better effort of when I feel like I don't have
every answer or have everything together or whatever trying to bring people into that rather than waiting till
I've resolved it all in them back at this like put together state, whatever
I don't know if that makes any sense, but it's challenging the intagram eight
Vulnerability fear and I hate it
that's something we're working on number 20 don't mistake healing for being distracted number twenty-one in the past year just
With so many opportunities and things that have come my way. I have been continually reminded everything
I've been given and everything that comes my way is
Because of God and not because of my own work
the last thing I believe is that I put in all this hard work and like I earned this like
Lifestyle of being able to travel and being able to do social media and like whatever when there are so many people who put in
the same amount of work have the same amount of talent and
Don't get to be at a place where they're doing what I'm doing
So AI don't take that for granted be I've just seen and believed that like I am never the most qualified person ever the most
Connected but like my name is in rooms with people that I've never met never heard
I've never thought about and just like all these crazy opportunities this year
I've just fallen into my lap that were so far beyond anything. I could have asked or imagined
Yeah
It's just been cool to see
what God can do so many things bigger than anything we can imagine that's got it give that credit where credit is due because
again, if I
Didn't hurt any of this number 22. I learned that God knows more about your timing than you do
So just chill on out in the past year last summer. I went through kind of a business shift
That was a little surprising for me. I just at that point. I was really reacting talked about not responding
I was reacting I had such a freak out reaction
My mind jumped straight to like somehow I thought that I was gonna have to move home
I'd never be able to
Continue doing social media full-time blah blah blah and then I called my friend Katie, Austin
And the first thing she said was like no, this is fine
Like think of all the ways that was holding you back like this is great like whatever and anything god
I called her because she completely shifted my perspective and like made me chill out but shortly following this shift
I had multiple like huge deals like fall into my lap including like long-term ones and had those happen literally weeks prior
Basically a cut would have been taken of everything that I was doing for like that next year
So really what I thought was this big catastrophe like a month before was actually a wonderful amazing thing that like positioned me
To be in a better place to like be making more money and blah blah blah
XYZ lesson learned from that whole situation was like things that may seem
Stressful or that may not make sense or whatever
can actually be just
working out to you're good and you're gonna look back on them and be glad that they happen because it was all perfect timing so
Number 23. I have learned and seen that there's community everywhere. There are friends to be found in so many places
I feel like I have built
Just a bunch of random unexpected friendships in the past year
I mean, I feel like that's just been the story of my life
but like every trip I go on every where I'd spend my time in LA like I just some how many people in comfort of
people everywhere and just kind of a sub point on that one is I've just seen
Not in the past year even but it's the past few years like people like you for you and I feel like I've become friends
With some people night years ago
Like I would have been so
Intimidated about and I would have just wanted them to like me and I don't do that anymore with literally anyone I am just myself
And people like it
I don't know like you just got to be yourself and I just want to look back to old me and
Girl, just chill out. You know number 24. I feel like in the past year
I really become a best friend to myself in terms of how I think how I talk to myself just felt such positive like
Mental habits and it's cool to see like that growth I guess over time
It's just a great feeling to feel so content with who I am the type of friend
I am the things that were complex like I'm just proud of
Who I am as a person and it is great to get that validation from yourself and not Nina from anybody else and number 25
Lastly this has kind of been a more recent realization from back
I would say in the fall. When I the first time all year stopped traveling like pretty frequently
I want to say I smell missed three months in LA
Which I had never done ever in doing that and kind of like finally planting like roots here and developing a routine here
I've gotten so happy in LA that I like for the first time ever like I have trips coming up and I'm kind of sad
To leave that is never something. I fell over the past two years
I was always just like excited for the next adventure and whatever and I still am but I'm now in a place where I'm so
Content with my life here that I like don't even feel the need to be going all these other places all the time
Anyways, those are my 25 things I learned prior to turning 25 again
Leave me something below that you've learned in the past year of you guys
Thank you for another year of squirting me on the channel and I'm excited to see what the next year holds. So that's it
I'll see all the guys on my next video