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- What's up, socials.
Welcome back to my channel.
Today, I wanna talk about some things that I do
to make sure my head is right, every day.
I don't know if you're like me but sometimes
if my morning doesn't go right I get way too much
in my own head about how the rest of the day is gonna be
because I've failed in some capacity.
So, there are a few things that I do every single day
to keep my head right.
I'm gonna go over those seven things with you.
Its not seven, it's ten. Overachiever.
Number one, 1st and foremost I go
and make that big glass of lemon water.
I'm really not the best water-drinker.
I truly am not.
Unless it is called La Croix but
in the morning, I'm like, feeling very dehydrated and gross
and the best thing in the world is just
swallowing 16 ounces of lemon water.
It makes me feel so complete.
It is such a good way to start the day.
It's literally the 1st thing I think about, every morning.
I go and make that and then number 2,
is my skincare and quip.
Okay, so the quip is new.
Quip is not as spunk or,
but quip is changing my life.
If you don't know what the quip is,
then you are not on Instagram. (laughs)
I was targeted with an ad--
you know, I should do a video about ads that
targeted me very well, on Instagram.
The quip is, basically, an electronic toothbrush.
It's a vibrating toothbrush.
I've always thought that toothbrushes that
made sounds, or moved, were the weirdest thing ever.
But I was like, you know what,
I'm gonna give this one a try.
I look forward to brushing my teeth
way more than I ever have in my entire life.
Not that I didn't before, but I definitely
wasn't excited about it.
That is definitely a new, exciting thing I do
every single morning alongside my skincare.
Which is something I have just been adamant about,
since my early 20s.
I used to work in a law firm where all the ladies were like
your skin looks so amazing.
You better take care of it now,
because you're gonna lose it.
It scared the crap out of me.
That scare tactic is actually really working
because I take care of my skin two times a day,
and I live for it.
Cleansing, like, three different ways,
toners, serum, moisturizer, eye cream, all the things.
It is how I wake up, and how I go to sleep.
There's no way in the world, no way in the world,
I will miss that routine, adding the quip to it
has made it like a whole thing.
I just hit myself in the mouth.
Number three, is that I make my bed.
I know that that sounds like the most basic
ten-year-old child advice on the planet
but I feel so incomplete when my bed is not made.
I actually get ancy if Vinn is still in the bed.
I want to make it.
I just feel, like, especially when you live in a
1 bedroom apartment, and you're seeing all of your rooms
all of the time.
I just hate seeing something so wickedly out of place,
like a bed that can easily just be fixed up real quick.
It's the one thing that I absolutely love going into
every single night when it's time for bed is
a clean and made bed.
I mean, there's really nothing better than that.
That's the one thing I accomplish all day.
It feels fabulous.
This is also nice when you're traveling
because in hotels other people make the bed.
That's the only time I don't make the bed
is when I'm staying at a hotel.
Although I have made a hotel bed before.
Just out of habit.
That's weird.
Number four is something that I do
in the morning when I wake up.
I try to get up before everyone else,
no matter what time it is.
Especially, Lucy (laughs) because Lucy even though
she's older and she's a dog, if you didn't know.
But she's definitely sort of moseying a lot more.
She's not really making a ruckus a lot of the time.
She still has a lot of needs, when she does wake up.
So, I really like to have quiet time when I first get up.
I try to get up before people so I can just have a minute
to just do things like wash my face, make lemon water,
wipe the counter down, or something,
and not have to hear sounds.
It's really interesting to me, how I have progressed
as an adult and felt so possessive, and protective,
protective is probably the better word,
over what I listen to.
Anyway, so I just like having those moments where I can
actually control that kind of thing.
I can control it being quiet,
or maybe just some sort of white noise.
It's just a great way to get your thoughts
prepared for the day.
Really set the intention for what your day
is going to be like.
Number five, this is usually in the morning
but it might happen later in the day, as well.
I try to have some do not disturb phone time.
Meaning phone, do not disturb me.
This is not our time.
If I'm working on a project,
or if it's 1st thing in the morning and I'm just
sort of getting my life together.
I definitely don't need to hear my phone.
If I decide to get on it for some reason
because I need something,
then that's completely up to me.
It depends on what's happening in my day.
I don't wanna hear a notifications.
I already had to hear my alarm.
That's enough, I'm up,
and I definitely don't need this thing
screaming at me all day long.
If there's a period of time I need to focus on a project
that thing is on do not disturb.
In the morning, I will leave do not disturb on
"on accident" a lot.
Just because the 1st few hours of the day,
nobody needs to talk to me.
I specifically do not schedule,
most appointments never happen in the morning.
If there's a morning appointment,
it's a super priority,
because that morning time is for me.
I have just designated that to be so
so, I definitely love to have do not disturb on
because there is usually no reason
why somebody's gonna have an urgent reason
to reach out to me.
Those urgency's, those emergencies,
the people that can break through do not disturb,
they've been programmed into my phone but
there's usually not very many emergencies.
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Number six goes hand in hand a little bit with
making the bed but why stop there?
I will spend at least a couple of minutes every single day
cleaning one area of my house.
I just find that it's a lot easier for me--
I know I don't have a big house, I get it.
It's not huge but when you live with a dog.
I mean, everything starts to smell like a dog.
So, that starts to drive me crazy
when I leave the house and I walk in
and that sort of thing happens.
SO, if you don't keep up with the entire house
on a regular basis, it's really tough on those days
where everything is a wreck.
I try not to get to that point where
everything is a wreck.
So, at least once a day I will spend time
kind of, not super cleaning but well cleaning.
Not just tidying an area of my house
because a dirty counter drives me crazy.
A full dishwasher drives me crazy.
The bathroom, Lucy will just throw all my towels
all over the floor, and it's just like...
It's like I have a child.
Is this video secretly called
how I survived being a senior dog owner?
I think we've turned it into that, Lucy.
Number seven is something that I constantly
give myself crap for if I don't do it
but I'm really working into getting into
a better habit of it and that's just writing.
Whether it's writing what my, to-do list,
or goals are for the day,
or writing a blog post,
or just writing my thoughts out.
Just to get them out of my head,
if I'm been doing a lot of thinking if I was sleeping
or before bed or anything like that.
I try to spend some time writing because
it just feels like there's so much information
just piling up in my head, all the time.
So, if I don't do that I feel like I'm not really
offloading those ideas.
Especially when you're a small business owner
and you don't always work around the people
that you work with, it can be tougher to make time
and energy to talk through your ideas.
Sometimes you don't need to talk through them
or make a meeting for it.
You just need to get them out of your head
so you can actually start to see what they really could be
if they need to be something down the line,
like a phone call or a meeting or
a brainstorm session with more people.
So, writing is something, I really am
trying to get into a better habit of.
Especially because if I ever wanna write a book again
I would like that experience to be even easier for me.
It was really great when I found out what my groove was
for that for Vlog like a boss but
it may not be as easy for me to take a lot of time off
to write the book on the next one.
I just really wanna be able to get ideas out
a little more fluidly and I think practicing writing
really helps with that.
If you wanna see where I tend to be writing
it's either on Medium, or LinkedIn.
I will leave those links in the description.
Like the other day, I wrote about how I got my 1st client.
Which I've also done a video about here,
and I wrote about why Emoji's have been
a bigger part of my life for a period of time.
Which is just, I don't know, it was the only thing
on my mind, that morning, apparently. (laughs)
Number eight, working out.
I feel like a complete and utter blob
if I do not move my body, on a daily basis.
Sometimes, I don't and that makes me insane
but mostly every day I am able to at least
get up to the gym, upstairs.
It's only a few flights upstairs.
So, I have no excuse.
There's no weather issues with that.
There's always a way to move my body,
if I can make it happen.
So, I would say at least six out of seven days a week
I am working out, in some way.
Whether it's a lot more strenuous than other days
is up for discussion.
But I am always moving, and the other thing I've realized
is I have to get that done earlier in the day.
I've never had a problem sleeping.
In my entire life, I have never had a problem sleeping
but in the last few weeks,
anytime I try to squeak in a workout,
in the evenings or in the late afternoons,
literally I can not sleep that night.
The entire night I can not sleep and so
that is a trend, I am not gonna let continue.
Number nine, is to pet my dog.
We are both independent women,
and we don't always need each other.
But I also realize that we desperately need each other,
and sometimes we just forget to tell each other.
So, even though we are both going our day that we prefer it
I will definitely take some time to just
sit Lucy down, make her cuddle me.
Even though she is too cool for Mom now
and doesn't wanna do that.
Literally can't get a kiss out of my dog, it's ridiculous.
I'll just pet her.
Even though, you know, dog smells, and hair coming off
and she's got all these issues because she's an older dog
we both need that.
We're basically emotional support for each other.
I feel like that's a moment for me to be mindful
because Lucy is a reminder for me that
I have come a long way.
She has too, okay.
She's done a lot in her life but
I've had Lucy since I was eighteen years old
So, she is quite literally the little living responsibility
that I have had for my entire adult life.
So, I just try not to lose sight of that
because when you've had someone in your life
for such a long time, it can be kinda crazy
how much you forget has happened and so...
I am constantly reminding her of that.
Right, Luce?
Yeah. She agrees.
We're pretty much on the same page
at this point in the game.
And finally, the last thing that I do every day
to keep my head right is,
I believe the analogy is eat the frog.
I don't know why I just feel like
that's probably easier, in terms of summarizing it.
I, basically, do the big project that I have to do,
that's gonna be really hard to do,
as early in the day as humanly possible.
If I have to work on a presentation,
or a proposal, or you name it, pretty much anything,
something for Vlog Boss University,
or something for a client
I am much more likely to get it done
in those early hours of the day.
Which is also why I don't schedule appointments
throughout the morning, for the most part
because I reserve it for those big things
I have to get done,
that are going to be exponentially harder to do
later in the day, afternoons, phone calls.
Suddenly, everyone wants dinner.
The whole thing, it's so much easier
to go after that stuff in the morning.
If I don't, I definitely feel off
in equilibrium the rest of the day
because I'm thinking I was supposed to work on that
presentation and I know that my attentions span
at 3 pm is worthless.
So, way to go.
You should've done it this morning,
but instead you were online shopping with coffee so...
Who's fault is that?
Those are the 10 things that I do
every single day to keep my head right.
What do you do?
What's something that you feel like if
you didn't do it, every day,
would be an enormously missing agenda item
that would just make you feel a little off?
What is that thing?
Leave it in the comments below.
I would love to see what your answers are.
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That's all for today, socials.
Thank you so much for tuning in, and I appreciate it.
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and remember to get your head right
and do what you gotta do.
Because you're the only one who's gonna make it happen
so that you can go after the life you want.
Cheers.
Lucy, I really appreciate you holding on that snore.
I think we ended real strong.
Nice work.