Hey guys! Welcome back to Lavendaire.
It is that time of month again.
Let's plan for October.
First of all, thank you so much for your feedback on the last video.
I hear you: you guys like the series and you want me to continue it.
So I think I'll continue it until up to December and then I'll see how I feel from there.
But I'm super excited because we have about
one month before the 2021 Artist of Life Workbook launches.
If you're on our email list, you'll get the early soft launch at the end of October.
But for everyone else, it will launch November 1st.
And I'll post a video on YouTube on November 1st,
and that will be the big social media announcement, but I'm super excited about it.
Everything is pretty much wrapped up.
I'm still working on the website, but you know what,
whatever gets done will get done.
I'm not really trying to push myself so hard in 2020.
It's just like, “Get it done. Done is better than perfect.”
So anyway, let's review our September and plan for October.
If you're new here, this is my monthly interactive planning series
to help us check in with ourselves and make sure we're staying accountable
towards the goals that we set for ourselves.
So let's start with reviewing September.
Describe September in one word.
List your highlights from September.
What is one thing that you're proud of?
What is one thing that you learned?
And how can you improve for next month?
Next, let’s plan for October.
So set your intention first: October will be ___.
List your top three goals for October.
What are your mini goals for October?
Make a weekly breakdown of your goals and mini goals.
And finally, put it in your calendar.
And for this month’s bonus question:
What does your self care look like right now? And what can you do to improve it?
Share your answers in the comments down below.
I'd love to see what you've been doing for self care at this point of the year,
and I just need some more self care ideas if you guys have any.
Now I'm going to share my answers for the September review.
So for me, it's September in one word is: “Togi”.
Togi is the name of my new puppy that I got at the end of August, basically, so beginning of September.
And the entire month has been spent being a dog mom, potty training,
crate training, just puppy training in general.
And it's taken up a lot of my time.
So I would say most of my highlights are revolved around Togi and puppy duties.
And I had a lot of puppy dates for him.
I think every single weekend in the month of September,
we saw a friend who had a dog or a puppy,
just because we wanted to socialize him.
And plus: it's really fun just to see some dogs interact.
I talked about this more in my video on Togi.
So if you haven't watched it, I'll link it here and down below.
But all in all, I'm still feeling like I'm trying to find balance in my life.
It's hard to make time for my work and myself.
And even though I have been able to get some things done,
I'm just not sure as productive as I was before.
But I think that's normal and to be expected.
I'm just trying to find the new flow in my life from here on out.
But I think it's getting easier and easier every week with Togi,
because he's learning really fast.
And yeah, I'm just getting used to this new life.
Another exciting thing we did this past month was
start recording for the next season of the Lavendaire Lifestyle podcast.
Season 6 will be coming back on October 25th, so make sure you check out our podcast.
It's on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, just wherever you find podcasts, really.
By the way, I realized this past month that I have interviewed
over 150 guests for the Lavendaire Lifestyle podcast.
And I can't believe that I talked to that many people.
It doesn't feel like that much, but it's been a few years,
I think four years since I've started the podcast.
I've just exposed myself to a lot of people, I've learned a lot.
And if you want to join in on that learning, listen to the podcast,
because that is the place where I'm always learning new things and sharing it with you guys.
YouTube is kind of where I share my life and what I'm learning.
And then the podcast is where I'm learning from other people, guests and experts in the industry.
So I just have a lot of fun with that.
One thing I'm proud of from this past month is that I was a good dog mom.
I'm proud of myself, you know?
I worked hard at the things like preparing up to the puppy
and even just having the puppy, having everything prepared,
the resources, the tools, the vet appointments, everything.
Wilson has been super busy at work,
so it's really been me holding down the fort at home basically with Togi,
and I'm proud of myself, that's all I can say.
One thing I learned this past month was to be more present,
to be more mindful and to get off social media.
I'm spending a lot less time on my phone and on social media,
not just because of Togi – obviously, he plays a big part of it –
but even before Togi, I was already spending less time on my phone
just this entire year, because it's just too much,
you know, when you're reading too much content, consuming so much media, it's way too much.
And I talked about this on Instagram, how I recommend the documentary “The Social Dilemma”.
I think we all need to be a lot more intentional about
how we spend our time on social media, with technology,
and just do your best to carve out more time offline for yourself.
You know, what would you do if you wouldn't let yourself be using technology for the last two hours of your day?
How would you spend your time if you weren't using your phone, TV, your computer?
What else would you do?
Be creative, you know?
And the next question, how can I improve for next month is,
I definitely want to make more time for myself, self care and health, and just creating again,
because these are things I've kind of not been able to have as much time for this past month.
So I want to build out that part of my life again.
It's all just part of the cycles and balance of life.
Moving on, here's my plan for October.
So October for me will be: Eventful.
I am gearing up for the workbook launch.
I have the photoshoot, just have to prep all the content
and just tie up all the loose ends of everything I've been working on for the past couple months.
And so my top three goals are 1) wrap up the website design that we've been working on for the past month,
and then 2) finish planning all the launch campaign, content stuff.
And then 3) it's my birthday in October.
Specifically, I'm turning 30, and so I really want to edit a special video,
just outlining the story of my twenties,
because my twenties were just such a pivotal decade of my life,
where I found myself, I healed my old wounds,
I found self confidence and self worth that created my dream life.
Everything happened in the past 10 years, and I just want to tell that story.
And so I want to make the time to do that because it's just something special I want to do for myself.
In terms of mini goals, all I put down is my birthday, enjoy my birthday, and yoga.
I always put yoga because it's always something I want to do and I want to do more of.
Sometimes I'm good at it, sometimes I drop off, but that's okay.
And for the bonus question, what is my self care look like right now? And what can I do to improve it?
Well, right now my self care just looks like finding pockets of time to journal.
Usually after I feed Togi breakfast, I can journal maybe one to two pages before I have to do something else.
And I want to improve my self care routine by adding back in more meditation.
I meditated today because I really felt like I needed it.
And that's something that I just need to do more consistently because it helps so much.
Anytime my schedule gets busier, I know that I have to make more time to meditate.
It's not that you get busier, so you meditate less.
It's “the busier you get, the more you have to meditate,” because the more you need it.
October is a pretty busy month for me,
so I know I have to meditate to keep myself calm and centered through all the crazy stuff going on around me.
If you haven't left a comment down below yet,
let me know what your self care routine looks like right now and what you want to do to improve it.
And don't forget to mark your calendars for November 1st,
the launch of the 2021 Artist of Life Workbook.
I'm super excited for you guys to see it, because it's a completely new design.
We have the new outer and inner design, a new mailer box.
And I'm just excited because I feel like we're getting prettier and prettier each year.
And that's it for today.
I love you so much.
Talk to you next time.
Bye!