one interesting fact about me is that I rarely get sick.
I've had the occasional
cold obviously but I can't remember a time where I had to stay home from school or miss
a soccer practice just because I was too sick to go.
unfortunately though it seems like all
good things come to an end, because earlier this week I woke up feeling like I got hit
by a truck. for the past four to five days I have been feeling so ill, fighting for my
life and let me tell you everything is a mess. and it's not just the bedroom but the kitchen
is empty, my journal has not been touched in days, the laundry is piling up and my mind
feels so disoriented. so if there's one thing I need to do to get back on track it's a reset.
and I thought why not do it together? I'm feeling better today, so let's get going and let's
try to get it all done this weekend. and I have a pimple :(
the first and most important thing I do when
I'm overwhelmed and looking to reset is to make a list of everything I have to get done
in order to feel comfortable again. even though this can sometimes feel a bit daunting, I find
it usually helps me feel like I got things under control. while also giving me a tangible
set of goals I can work towards in the next few days so here is what mine look like now:
I like to start with cleaning because I feel like once I've got
my living space clean it makes everything else seem a lot less difficult and a lot more
enjoyable. it's just not fun to go through a long to-do list of things when your place
practically looks like it was abandoned, and as much as no one likes to clean it's usually
not so bad once you get started. you just have to go one room at a time. I'm starting with
my living room because that's the biggest, then moving on to the kitchen and my bedroom,
vacuuming, dusting, surface cleaning, putting things away, everything needs to get done to
make my apartment feel like a home again
hi guys :D it's the next day I'm feeling a lot better
today and I'm ready to tackle... well we kind of did clean the kitchen but, tackle this part
of the kitchen now, and then also the bedroom, the office, and wash all of our clothes and
fold them, oh and also setup my bullet journal but I might leave that for tomorrow
okay the kitchen's done next stop is the bedroom which has gotten
slightly messy
I'm sure I'm not the only one who just refuses to do my laundry until I've used every last
piece of clothing I could want to wear, especially when I'm tired or sick or in this case both.
I mean just look at all the clothes I've got laying around, it's a bit ridiculous but really
doing the laundry isn't so bad either, it's pretty quick too, just take all your clothes
or something to whiten colors throw them in the laundry machine with a bit of detergent
then forget about it and go do something else. I promise you'll thank me the next morning :)
when you wake up and can finally wear your favorite outfit that's been sitting at the
bottom of the laundry basket for the last two weeks, it'll be worth it.
I can't lie guys it's a couple of days later and today I want to do some restocking of
the fridge, as well as do a little bit of a digital declutter.
wait these eggs are so much bigger! wait look at the size difference!
- I actually noticed that these eggs were small yeah, I noticed them too
- but I didnt know they were that small
now it's time to restock the things in my fridge so the two major restocks that I have
is, I love this egg holder because it's so easy to just put eggs in there and it rolls
out, I don't have to reach them back and struggle every single morning hehe
and then I also love putting juice into these little juice jars because I love the feeling
of juice boxes, because they're so small and perfectly portioned, and so convenient and
cute, but I don't feel like actually buying juice boxes, so I just pour juice in these
little juice jars <3
okay now I'm going to clean up a little bit of my digital space. clean this stuff up on
my desktop, and also on my external hard drive, it's looking pretty fine right now. this is
how I usually organize everything, uh these are animations that I use, short videos, my
intro and outro, sound effects music, and my YouTube videos and I just date all of them.
one thing I need to get used to is deleting everything from my SD card once I'm done transferring
it because it is so annoying when you're filming and then the video clip just stops because
my SD card ran out of space so I definitely need to get used to that. also I got my eyelashes
refilled
cleaning out our devices is something that I typically overlook when going through my
reset routine but if you think about it we use our devices for many hours probably every
single day so why not make sure that they're just as tidy and free of clutter as our living
spaces there are about a million things we could do to tidy up our phones and computers
but if you don't feel like doing all of them I've got a short list of tasks that should
go a long way. so firstly I'm going to clean up my desktop personally on a MacBook when
you take a screenshot the screenshot goes directly into the desktop which clutters it
all up so I'm going to delete the screenshots that I don't need and put the rest in my documents
and folders.
additionally I want to clean up my external hard drive for YouTube, so everything is nice
and organized where everything needs to be. next I'm cleaning up my Notion so I have this
template that I use for scripts, checklists for video film script done, if it's sponsored
or not sponsored if I'm not editing it and also the upload date so I know how consistent
that I'm being with my content. and I think I've been pretty good at posting at least
once a week, so I'm pretty proud of myself for that. I'm gonna go through my downloads
too because I feel like always screenshot or download something and then I never use
it again. so I need it throw those in the trash to clear some of my disk space. my notion keeps
me organized especially with content creation and keeping everything to do with YouTube
in one place. I should have also cleaned out my camera roll but let's be real I was not
ready to tackle the 50 thousand photos and videos that I have in there so I'm gonna leave
that to another day
now that I've created clean and healthy physical living space for myself I'm
going to turn my attention towards my mental space too and for me the best way to do that
is to sit down and do a little bit of journaling. I always feel like it's the best time to self
reflect take stock of my life and what I'm happy with what I like to change and what
I'm proud to have accomplished and lastly set goals and my intentions for the next month
so to do my monthly bullet journal setup I like to first begin by drawing a title page
on my bullet journal for the month, then to the left I have this month's goals, a quote
an incoming important date. on the second page I have my step tracker and my sleep tracker
just to see if I'm hitting my average step and sleep goals and I love the graph that
it creates at the end of the month, and on the right I have these mini calendars for
my daily habits that I cross off each day. next I'm making my weekly spread which is
super basic. each day I separate it into personal life and work to do's and then I have a weather
tracker at the bottom just for fun. this is by far the most important part of my reset
because it's what determines whether or not I actually benefit from the tidy clutter-free
aesthetic environment I've created is how I make sure that I actually take advantage
of this fresh start and make the most of the opportunity I've given myself and that's my
challenge to you guys this week. go give yourselves a fresh start, get your life together and go
make the most of it.