Good morning! Today is Saturday, January 9th, and welcome to a day in my life.
It's not even that early, but it's just a very cloudy, gloomy day. So the first thing I do
in the morning is fill up my water bottle, do oil pulling, which means swishing coconut oil,
put in my contacts so that I can actually SEEEE, and then do some morning stretches.
Next, I go to the bathroom to wash my face and start a cold shower, and it was at this moment
that I realized how ridiculous my hair looks in this ponytail, because normally I don't see myself
from the back, so this was a rude awakening... so was the cold shower. This lighting is fantastic,
so I woke up a bit later today than I had planned, so I went to my calendar to adjust
my time blocking. Time blocking recently has been so helpful to me, so basically at the start of
this week, I already kind of knew how i would spend each day I had this nice little plan laid
out for the entire week. But of course the point of time blocking is not to be rigid about it,
like it should be flexible, it's just nice to wake up most days and be like, yeah, I have a plan for
what i'm gonna do today, I don't have to think about what I should do today, but today my sleep
interfered with that... also me and my mom have been going to like this Zumba class, but there's
only 10 spots for it because of social distancing, and you have to sign up online at a specific time,
the registration opens up and it is almost as difficult as getting BTS tickets *flashbacks*, so
we were not able to get spots for today and hopefully soon I look a little bit more awake.
For breakfast, I made my go-to veggie scramble and I also made some matcha. I finally have an
actual matcha whisk rather than the tiny fork that I'd been using to stir my matcha previously,
so it just tastes much better quality now, and then in the mornings I also drink some
water with a tablespoon of apple cider vinegar, which is gross but supposedly
good for you. Just gotta check off my habits: did my morning routine, apple cider vinegar, and
one bottle of water, well, almost. So I've had my Apple Watch for four months now the main things
that I use this for are like activity and health tracking, time tracking, habit tracking, and then
some notifications. The overall effect of it on my life has definitely been positive, I use my phone
less, so I have a video where I explained all of the benefits in more detail, but in this video
we're just gonna have a productive chill little day in the life featuring the Apple Watch,
and I'll show you how I use it. I'm actually wearing nice leggings and a sweater today,
because I want to look like I'm actually making an effort for you. Normally i wear like sweatpants
and t-shirts, but that doesn't cut it for a video. So I have the 40 millimeter gold Apple Watch SE
GPS, and this Watch band that I'm wearing now is from Monowear. So this video is sponsored
by Monowear! I will tell you that I have not switched out this band since I got their package,
I love this one. It is comfortable, it's easy to put on, it looks fancy, definitely fancier than
the sports band that I initially got with my Apple Watch. This one is called the perforated leather
band in burnt orange, but they also sell a bunch of different bands in men's and women's styles, as
well as accessories like Airpods cases and travel organizers, and this Monochest. So once you have
a couple of bands in your collection you can store them all in the Monochest. You insert the charger
so that you can have your watch tucked away whenever you need to charge it and you can still
see the screen while it's charging. Currently they're having a 25% off sale off some of their
best selling styles and that goes on until the 24th and then there's gonna be a Valentine's Day
promotion that's gonna be buy one get the second 30% off. So if you wanna check them out, the link
is in the description, and my food is getting cold. So I'm gonna listen to a podcast while
I eat. I recently finally started back up with studying Korean, and I felt guilty about not doing
that for a couple of months, especially because a lot of people found me through searching for
videos about studying Korean, but honestly I was just not really doing well overall towards the end
of 2020 and I'm glad I took a break, not only from studying Korean, but from a couple of things. So
now I actually am excited about it again because I had my first class with a new tutor on iTalki, and
that really motivated me. So the next thing i'm going to do is it's a Saturday and on Saturdays
I do my weekly blog tasks. So normally that takes about an hour to an hour and a half so I'm gonna
try to get it done in an hour, and then after that I'm gonna work on editing next week's video.
When I sit I like to have my little ottoman, whatever this thing is, to put my feet on.
Next up I was editing the video that went up last week, so the tour of my vision board.
This is a pretty simple video to edit but it was actually really
fun because I got to look through my hard drive for old footage,
so I needed footage for example, from last year's trip to Europe and also from both
of the BTS concerts that I've gone to, so that was a little depressing to watch to be honest.
OK Google, what's the temperature? The current temperature in Madison is 32 degrees. My brain is
kind of fried from editing now so I'm gonna go on a walk, gotta take advantage of this good weather
while it lasts. I'm just gonna throw a coat on, I don't need to change. I dressed up today!!
This water bottle always ruins the shot, it's so ugly.
I'm gonna do a meditation now, I've been doing the 10% happier New Year's challenge,
I really like it. I actually have not read the 10 Percent Happier book, but i listened to his
podcast it's Dan Harris, and I just really like the way that he talks about meditation. He's very
like down to earth and kind of approaches things from a skeptical point of view, which is nice when
it comes to meditation because like when you're starting out it can... it can seem kind of weird
and so you want someone who also used to think that it was weird to explain to you why it doesn't
necessarily have to be weird. So it's day six, the theme of today is "laugh at your inner critic"
"...but something that I think often happens in meditation is that your mind's all over the place,
it's like as I've said before, it's like holding a live fish in your hand..."
So I used to write all of my newsletters the Monday that they go out like literally
I finished writing it and I send it out. During high school every Monday during my first hour
study hall I'd be furiously typing out my newsletter to try and send it out on time,
but I am trying to get ahead of schedule a little bit, so with my videos i'm trying to get
two weeks ahead of schedule so that I finish every video two weeks before it's supposed to be posted,
and then with my newsletters I really just want to be writing them a couple of days ahead of time,
I don't want to get too far in advance with those because I like to do an update on what's going on
in my life and with the Bliss Bean, and so it feels kind of weird to be writing them too far
in advance, and trying to like, write from the perspective of the future. But so it's Saturday
and this goes out in two days and so I think that's a really nice cushion of time where I'm not
trying to get it done that morning, but I think it'll be really nice to start the next week having
not only that week's newsletter done but also that week's YouTube video done. So I am very on top
of things. So just a little behind the scenes for how putting together a newsletter actually works,
so I have this newsletter template and then I make a new doc and I write a draft of my article, the
"try this now" thing for the day, and then five recommendations. Usually I already know what the
recommendations are going to be because I've been brainstorming that in my content calendar already,
but so once I edit the draft and everything's done in here I duplicate a past newsletter in
ConvertKit, format everything, paste it in, preview it. I can be pretty paranoid about
making sure that all of the links and everything are correct, so just look through this a bunch
of times and then schedule it. I just took a break and went on Twitter for a second,
and JUNGKOOK WHAT SKJDLKSFLKASJDKHSJFHLK what?? I thought this was an edit... I love
Twitter. Okay well now I'm gonna try to get
some more work done but I don't know how that'll be possible...
Okay so what I did now was I recently realized, after way too
long, that people who subscribe to worksheets on my website are not necessarily added to my
weekly newsletter list, so I'm not going to add them to my weekly newsletter without asking them,
but I will send them a very nicely worded email to basically be like, hey I noticed
that you've been using my free worksheets but you haven't subscribed to my weekly newsletter...
who does that?? No, it's actually a nice email. I thought this would take a long time but it
literally took me like 10 minutes to put together, and i think I'm going to send this out Monday
morning because I think that's when people are more responsive to emails, not on the weekend,
but yeah, hopefully this gets some of these people to subscribe to the weekly newsletter,
because currently there are 10,000 people whose emails I have but who I am not communicating
with on a weekly basis, and if you've ever, you know, managed a large email list, you have to
pay based on how many subscribers you have so I'm paying for these people, but not really, you know,
getting a chance to show them my content every week so we're going to try and fix that.
Whoa, look at the blue- oooohhh. I'm almost done with the video,
but my computer decided to start acting up so I'm gonna restart it and i'm going to restart
my brain. I've been doing a lot of Just Dance for exercise, so that's what I'm going to go do now,
probably just like half an hour, and then i'll see if I can get the video done after that.
Let's dance!
Do you like my shirt? Okay I'm calling my friends in half an hour so I have half an
hour to finish this video. I think i can do it. These are fogging up...
She's done!!!
"Welcome back to the Bliss Bean!"
"Wait.... I'm a little confused,
because now I click on the link and it says I don't have the extension."
Well, it is now 11. I really wanted to finish this video so I feel like
I'm gonna finish uploading the video, and then go to bed. That was really really nice though,
to have a super long conversation with my friends. It started with watching the movie,
and then it went into every topic, which is like the best kind of conversation to have.
The video was exported, so all I had to do was edit the accompanying photos,
design the thumbnail, the graphics, write the description, yada yada yada.
So I had to re-export the entire video because there was a tiny tiny section of it where
a little clip was out of place and I had not noticed, so because I had to
re-export it I had to re-upload it so it is still currently uploading, it has not processed yet,
so I can't really finish up doing the end screen, and the cards, and stuff like that.
But I did do the description, I did the thumbnail and the tags,
and I'm just gonna leave it at that for today. I should really be getting to bed. I'm trying to
get ahead of schedule this year so I am doing very well on that. This is not for YouTube,
if you're wondering what that is, it's a freelance project. You don't need to worry about it.
After all that was done, I finally started my bedtime routine. So the first thing I
do is a bunch of little admin tasks, like updating the journal on my phone,
updating mood tracking, checking my budget etc etc.
And then I go wash my face, I put some lotion on my hands, some cuticle oil on my fingernails,
I put on my Apple Watch and set my sleep tracking app, and then it was off to bed. Thank you so
much for watching this video. I really hope you enjoyed seeing this day in my life. Goodnight.