first of all let's address the elephant in the room which is that I haven't uploaded a video in
about seven weeks I know you're probably very worried about me you're probably thinking did
she die did she get kidnapped at some sketchy hostel in Spain while traveling did she have
some sort of personal epiphany that made her reject her old life adopt a new religion and
become a yoga instructor on a tropical island no I'm fine basically I was too lazy to make
videos I'm sorry also the tail end of my trip was a little rough I started January with the
cold and then in Barcelona I got a stomach virus actually went to the hospital for that then I was
sick in Florida and then when I got home I got sick again like with a new cold maybe even the
flu I don't know what that was who knows but now I'm finally feeling so much better except for a
little bit of a sniffle still whenever I come home from any trip of any sort of significant
length or even if I'm just feeling like booked and I need to fix that then a proper life reset
is in order this is how I reset my life so before you actually do anything towards resetting your
life it's important to figure out what you're actually gonna do I believe it was Plato who said
that almost all of life's problems can be solved by making a list so step one make a big ol list
I actually do this every Sunday at the start of each week I make what is called a brain dump and a
brain dump just means that you brainstorm and you write down literally anything and everything that
is in your brain anything that you might have to do in the upcoming week so the way that I
apply this to life reset is as soon as I get home from a trip or something I write down any and all
of the things that I would like to accomplish in order to feel centered and organized again
step 2 schedule so once I have my list I take a look at basically what my time frame for the life
reset is usually if I'm coming home from a long trip I probably have at least a few days to get
my [ __ ] together but if you only have one day or a few hours do not worry just focus on taking your
list and rewriting it in the order of what you're going to tackle first step three don't overwhelm
yourself I think the best way to do that is to take your list of and throw some self-care items
into there so for example when I got home from a month and Europe last August I remember I was so
stressed out because right when I got home it was like crunch time for senior portrait season and I
had just had like the most blissful month with my family in Europe and it felt like everything
was hitting me all at once so even though I had a bunch of practical things that I needed to do
as part of my life reset I also included a couple of fun things because I knew that if
I went from like vacationing with my family in Lithuania to all of a sudden like planning
and scheduling photoshoots I would make myself go crazy so in the middle of being productive I also
made time to do a face mask and watch an episode of bring the soul step for actions so by now you
should just have a step by step plan to follow remember take breaks I really like the boudoir
technique because it has a simple twenty-five five twenty-five five intervals structure like you do
you you pick your own time intervals check things off and use the momentum of each thing that you
accomplish - how are you - the next to do now what is part of your life reset will depend on
what kind of trip are coming back from how long it was or what is going on in your life at the
moment but I do have some ideas for things that I pretty much always do when I'm doing a life reset
so here they are drink water even if you're just watching this video with some no intention to do
what I'm talking about drink water right now even though vacations are generally supposed
to be restorative it's very common to let little habits like this fall by the wayside so just blow
up a bottle of water and keep it with you for the rest of these steps okay yes I am
one of those Psychopaths that unpack so luggage right away but I just think everyone should be
doing that it feels so good to unpack usually I like to just dump everything onto the floor
and then go through and start putting things away making a bottle of laundry to be washed
which brings us to cleaning especially if you've been away for a while your space could probably
use a little refreshening you might want to open the windows change the sheets do the laundry dust
the surfaces in your space vacuum and then focus on yourself after traveling for two months I can
definitely attest to the fact that traveling can make you feel pretty disgusting so especially if
you've been backpacking and showering in hostel showers then taking a shower in your own bathroom
with your own favorite shampoo can feel pretty luxurious while you are on vacation you might have
used autoresponder and I definitely commend you for that but unfortunately you can't avoid those
emails and messages forever so something that I like to do when I have a lot to read through
and respond to is set a timer which makes me work faster because it almost feels like a little game
like how quickly can I get through reading all these emails hopefully during your trip you kept
track of your spending but you might need to do some work afterwards to make sure that everything
was accurate so I keep track of my spending in Google sheets I used the built-in monthly
budgeting template to track every little income or every little expense and usually I'm pretty good
about this but the key word is usually when I feel like I've gotten off track I basically sit down to
count up all my money and make sure that how much I think I have is how much I actually have so this
is like a template that I copy and paste each time that I do one of these little audits some
of the things I check for are checking how much money is bank accounts how much are having PayPal
how much is on my credit card how much is it then mo Poshmark how many gift cards I have how much I
have in other currencies so it's just a way to like consolidate everything and make sure that
I have an accurate record you probably have lots of new photos on your phone and your camera but
it's very risk if you just keep them there so as soon as possible you're going to want to back them
up to an external hard drive or an online service like a cool photos or something like that so a lot
of times I'm doing the life reset I actually try not to think too far ahead in the future because
I just want to focus on what's directly ahead and not stress myself out about the future too much
but sometimes if like your brain is cluttered with thinking about all the things that you're
gonna have to get done soon then it can help to just sit down and take everything out of your
head and put it onto paper so that then you can really focus on resetting your life knowing that
once you return to normal life you have a plan moving forward so that's everything I hope this
video turns out okay I hope I didn't forget how to make a videos thank you for sticking with me
during my break if you did stick with me hopefully thank you for watching and I'll see you next week
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