Hey, my loves! Welcome back to Lavendaire.
Today is our last Plan With Me video of the year. I'm not going to scare you.
I'm going to keep doing the series in 2021, so we'll continue on our monthly planning.
So if you're new here, this is a monthly planning series that we do
at the end of each month to reflect on our past month and plan the next month.
Today we are reflecting on how we did in November and planning December.
These questions are based off the Artist of Life Workbook that I created.
The 2021 version is out now on my shop.
You can see it up here on the card or down below in the description box.
Lastly, make sure you give this video a thumbs up if you want to see more of the series,
and make sure you're subscribed if you're not already.
All right, let's get to reflecting on November.
Describe your November in what one word.
What were your highlights from November?
What is one thing that you're proud of?
What is one thing that you learned?
Lastly, how can you improve for next month?
Moving on, let's plan for December.
So set your intention for the last month of the year:
December will be __.
Next, pick your top three most important goals you want to complete in December.
Now set some mini goals for December,
like some habits or activities that you want to do.
Now make a weekly breakdown of your goals and mini goals.
Lastly, schedule all of these actions in your calendar.
Here's the bonus question for this month:
What was my favorite feeling from the past month? And what happened to spark that feeling?
Answer in the comments below. I'd love to know what your favorite feeling was.
All right, so now it's time for me to share my answers for my monthly review.
My November in one word is “launched”, because clearly we launched the 2021 Artist of Life Workbook.
So it was a lot of work, a lot of time and effort leading up to this launch.
I do feel a little bit relieved about the fact that we have launched,
but the promo of the workbook just keeps going on through the end of this year.
And we did encounter some major setbacks and delays,
which I shared on Instagram and through email and everything.
But this year's launch was definitely not smooth,
but in the theme of 2020, it just makes sense that it would be very difficult.
But you know what? It's okay.
I'm not letting myself be super stressed about it.
I am just happy that it has launched.
Another exciting highlight is we've been doing weekly giveaways on the @shoplavendaire Instagram account.
Every Monday, if you go to our Instagram page,
you'll see a new giveaway posted and you have the entire week to enter that giveaway,
and we choose the winners every Friday.
So this is something that we're going to continue on,
I think, til the end of January 2021.
So I'm really excited because it's an opportunity for me to collab
with brands that I really like or brands of my friend's companies.
And it's just a fun thing to just be doing something that feels exciting every single week.
I also got to speak at a Zoom panel for USC this past month.
I did it with two of my friends that I've known since college.
And we spoke about our jobs because it was for USC’s influencer digital marketing club,
which is so strange because when I went to college, there was no club like that,
and I wish there was, you know?
But social media kind of grew bigger after I graduated.
But anyway, it was kind of like a full circle moment
to be able to go back to my college and talk about what I do,
my journey feeling lost in college and how I figured everything out,
how I built my career, basically – which leads me to my next highlight,
which was finally posting the Story of My 20s video.
If you guys haven't seen that video, definitely watch it up there and down below.
I put so much work into it.
It took so much time going through like 10 years of footage
from the past decade of my life and picking and choosing, you know, all the clips.
It was just a very meaningful moment or experience for me to edit that video,
to be able to tell my story and to also just see it in a 15-minute video,
just like zoomed out 10 years in 15 minutes.
That was a highlight of my month, definitely.
Another fun thing I did this past month was an astrology workshop.
It was called Astrology for Entrepreneurs in 2021.
It was hosted by my friend, Branché of The Honey Block,
and she invited the astrologer Ellen Bowles to come give us a workshop
for how to prepare for the major astrology dates for 2021.
So I'll link those two people down below
if you want to check them out and learn more.
What I'm proud of from this past month is coming out with videos that I am very, very proud of creating.
So the first video was the launch video for the Artist of Life Workbook.
It's like a five minute video, but it took me over six hours to write the copy for that five minutes,
because I just wanted it to be so good.
It was carefully crafted, and I'm just proud of how that came out.
And of course I'm very proud of how the Story of My Twenties video came out,
because again, like I said, I've put so much time and effort into it.
It must've been the video that took me the longest to edit ever.
It took me like a month to slowly edit through.
And not only just the editing process, but just the finding-the-footage process.
I had to pull out old hard drives that I haven't looked at in so long.
They were just sitting in my closet somewhere.
So bringing those out, finding the clips, putting it together,
telling my story, it was a big moment.
Next, what is one thing I learned from this past month?
I actually started language learning again.
So as I was finishing up a K-drama -- I finished Record of Youth --
I was like, “Oh my god, I watch so many Korean dramas.
I might as well just start learning Korean,”
And because I pick up so many phrases that they keep saying in these dramas,
I just start saying them for fun.
And so I just started looking up language learning apps.
And then I found one called Drops that I really like.
So I'm currently just learning the Korean alphabet
and just learning slowly, just for fun.
And since I'm doing that, I'm also practicing Chinese
through other language learning apps and you know what?
It felt really nice to do something just for fun, just because I want to.
And I realized that I just have fun learning new things.
Last question, how can I improve for next month?
So I definitely feel like October and November, I was very busy.
Everything was jam packed and I still feel like that right now,
but I definitely want December to feel more focused on self care and joy
because it's the holidays, even though we're still in quarantine.
I still want to go slower, give more time to myself,
enjoy being cozy in the winter and just self care things like that.
Now, moving on to planning my December.
So my December will be: joyful.
Like I said, I want to focus on joy because that is how I want to end this crazy year.
So my top three goals for December:
#1 is I actually want to make more TikToks and reels
because I had so much fun making them in the first three or four months of the year.
And then mid year I kind of fell into a slump.
I just – everything felt really heavy in like April through June.
And I just lost the motivation to be silly and that fun again.
But I think I want to – maybe not do the same things that I did before all this crazy 2020–
but find joy in creating short videos in a format that works for me,
for Lavendaire, and that I have fun doing.
Second goal is to work on the merch launch.
So the Artist of Life merch is currently in production.
I wish that I had finished it earlier, but I don't know.
Things are going to take the time that it's going to take.
So I'm just waiting for the samples so that I can take the photos
and then just work on putting that launch together this month.
And then my last goal is to simply enjoy the holidays
and find time to really reflect so that I can plan properly for the next year.
So instead of being so busy, I really need space and time
so that I can recap on the year, reflect, and do all that intention setting,
inviting in all the good vibes for 2021.
As for mini goals, I just wrote “self-care, slow down, and keep language learning,”
because I'm having fun at doing that right now.
To answer the bonus question, “What was my favorite feeling from this past month,
and what happened to spark that feeling?”
a couple feelings and moments come to mind,
but one of them that stood out was I had to make a drive
to drop off a sweater for the sample color I wanted for the merch launch.
And I had to drive because it was like – we're kind of trying to do things fast.
So I didn't want to take the time to send it.
So anyway, I drove for an hour back and forth.
Keep in mind that I don't drive often anymore.
Because of the pandemic, I'm at home every day.
And if I do drive somewhere, it's somewhere short to the grocery store or maybe a friend's house,
and I'm not doing it alone, I'm doing it with Wilson.
So it was actually the first time in a long time that I drove a longer distance alone by myself.
And so for that hour and a half, I really got to listen to music.
And I was like exploring new music on Spotify.
And I just found some good music that I was just like in the feels for,
you know, when you're just really feeling the music in a deeper way.
And I forgot that that's one of the things that I really used to like to do,
just listening to music in my car, discovering new music and feeling it,
because you know, when it's just you in the car,
it just feels like you're in your own world and you get to enjoy it fully.
So that is one of my favorite feelings from this past month.
All right, hope you enjoyed today's Plan With Me video.
I've heard enough of your comments to know that a lot of you
want me to continue doing this onto next year.
So let me know if there are any change-ups --
format change-ups, question change-ups -- that you want to see for 2021.
Otherwise I think I'm happy with sticking with what's in the workbook
and these questions are all in the new 2021 Artist of Life Workbook.
Again, you can find the link down below if you haven't checked it out yet.
Sending you all so much love and see you next time.
Bye!