Hello, welcome back to my channel!
This is another Self-Care Summer video and I officially have a ukulele that I
don't know how to play.
I opened it this morning and
I don't even think it's tuned.
I have no idea how to play it.
I want to learn though
So if any of you guys know how to play the ukulele or have any tips for me
I would love to hear them in the comments
and also if you guys play the ukulele send me videos of you guys playing them because
just hearing a ukulele makes me so happy
and that is why I recently purchased one. I think this one's really cool
It's got rainbow strings to kind of help you figure out which strings and how to play and all that stuff.
It came with like a lesson guide so I'm gonna be diving into learning this thing.
I think playing an instrument is really cool because it's just another act of self-care learning how to kind of unplug and just
Pay attention to learning an instrument is very neat
So I'm excited that I'm tackling this because this is something I've dreamed about for a long time
This isn't the best of the best of the ukuleles. There's definitely better ones
But I figured when I get better, I will allow myself to have a good ukulele
Now that I am done with my little ukulele rant welcome to my channel
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I am Carrie Rad
I make videos around travel, beauty style, self-care, adventure, empowerment- all things like that
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Self-Care Summer. I am so excited about self-care summer and I hope that you guys are enjoying it as well
It seems like you guys are super stoked and really enjoying it. So that makes me very very happy
Today's video is going to be
revolving around five habits or five simple practices that you can utilize in your life to
Live your best life and literally change your life
These are some practices that I have been doing myself that have really been life-changing for me
So without any further ado, let's get in to these tips
Also, I just remembered now that this video has a beautiful thumbs up on it. I have something else to mention
I opened my captions up to the community so that you guys can type in your own captions in your
language, I got a letter from a viewer
I also got some messages from other viewers saying
Hey
If there's any way that you can add captions in different languages in English and Spanish and Italian
In all of the languages of the world, I would really appreciate it. Sorry that I'm hitting you tree. I hope you're okay
I'm gonna like probably be hitting this plant and this tree every once in a while, but I think that's okay.. sorry tree
So if any of you guys that are interested in helping me out with captioning..
Especially this Self-Care Summer series in different languages. I would HIGHLY appreciate it. Now let's get into the five simple practices
That will change your life. Number one is a mindset primarily but there are also things that you can do to practice gratitude
Daily and gratitude is something that I know we hear about all of the time
You hear people say what are you thankful for, practice gratitude, all of the time there is a reason why people
Mention it so much
The number one thing in my life that keeps me happy and positive which is something that I get asked a lot
I can't even tell you guys how often I get messages and comments that say Carrie, how do you live a positive life?
how do you stay positive? how do you try to stay positive because obviously I'm not always positive, but I do tend to
Sit in a more positive place most of the time throughout my life and the only way that I do that is through gratitude
To know that I am so lucky to have the things that I have in my life. I'm lucky to have an apartment
I'm lucky to have a heart that beats
I'm lucky to be a human here being able to sit in front of you and talk to my viewers
I'm lucky to have family
I'm lucky to have friends. There's so
Many things in our lives on different levels that we can just sit back and realize and reflect on and go
Oh my gosh. I'm so lucky that I get to do this
I'm so lucky that I woke up and that I'm breathing and that I'm a healthy human and
We just have to remind ourselves but there are so many simple things in life to practice gratitude for daily, and there's tons of things
You can do to remind yourself what you are lucky for and what
You should be thankful for and simple things like journaling and writing down
I have a tendency to love writing down like pros and cons of certain circumstances and
Pros always make me realize how lucky I am
To be in this circumstance because so many times there are things that we go through that. We're like gosh this sucks
Like I hate that this is happening. But there's always a part of that that you're like, oh, wait a second
You can always find the good of every circumstance even when it's the worst circumstance
You can always just kind of be like, yeah, this is not that cool that this is happening
But how lucky am I to even be in this situation to where this would happen, kind of thing?
So it's all about the mindset. So my number one habit
My number one practice over everything is to practice gratitude daily
My second practice for you guys is to claim your day off
Make sure that nobody can do anything to take away your day off. For me,
It is Sunday. For some people
It might be a random day during the week like Tuesday
If you work in retail, you can probably even choose your day off depending on how nice your boss is.
You could be like I always want to have Tuesdays off and if you have to say this is why because I
need to utilize this day as like my day to have off and I think that that is totally
100% okay to have a day where you're just like I don't work this day
It's my day for me that day off is Sunday
I make sure that I have Sundays off always. I have not always been good about that. But I'd say over the last month
I have been doing everything I can
to
work harder during the week so that I can definitely
Unplug and be away from my phone be away from my computer. Go outside go to the pool
Go to the beach go on a hike spend time with Alex without having to work or talk about work and for me
That's Sunday, but for you guys that might be a day during the week when I worked in retail
I had a day off during the week that I could choose it would change all the time
or you can even go to your boss depending on how
nice
They are and just be like I always want to have Tuesday's off if that's okay and see how that works but claim that day
off make sure that you do everything you can to really disconnect that day and take care of yourself because you will always work so
much better
You will be a better person if you allow yourself to have this time
And if you have to spread it out between the week, I guess that's okay if that's all you can do
But I would do everything you can to really claim one full day of
unplug a week because for me it has truly been
life-changing because it just fully
Refreshes you and makes it so that you can really tackle the week so much more and it's something that you can look forward to
Every single week and it helps you work harder during the week when you know
You get to indulge in yourself and self-care and enjoying life one day a week
My next tip is to not be a slave to your phone and it has taking me a long time
To get here. For a long time
I would get a text message or an email and I felt like I needed to respond
As soon as possible because I didn't want to make this person
Wait, whether it be for work
Whether it be family whether it be for a friend, don't you just always feel kind of that anxiety like oh I need to respond
I need to text that person back and that's okay because that's just being a nice person, especially when it's friends or family
But just know that it can wait remember that cell phones were not always a thing
People couldn't contact you whenever they wanted at any time
For whatever reason and you've never felt like you had to respond right away. Cell phones are a new thing
I lived in a time where there were no cell phones and I know many of you have lived in a time where there were
no cell phones. So what did people do back then?
They just lived life and never felt like they were a slave to this little device
So just keep that in mind when you're going throughout your day, especially on your days off
But during the week when it comes to work
I do my best to respond when I can, do my best to respond to work things right away
Throughout the week during my work hours, of course because that's just professional and things need to get done
But I also know that at 7:00 p.m. 7:30 8:00 p.m
I'm gonna shut off and if somebody texts me at 9:30 at night about something I'm going to wait till tomorrow
Even when it's friends and family if it's something that can wait till the next day. I'm just not even gonna worry about it
I'm gonna put it aside and I will think about the way that I'm going to respond to the next day when I
Feel like getting back to my phone
so not being a slave to your phone is such a crucial thing and
this idea goes hand in hand with not being on your phone too much for social media because
obviously that is something that is so difficult for our generation and all generations really right now because
So many people are slaves to our cellphones, when it just has to do with scrolling for no reason all the time
For me, I am definitely guilty of being on my phone and checking Instagram
More than I should, when I'm busy I tend to forget and I really like that
I like being busy because by 7:00 p.m. I'll be like, oh my god. I haven't been on my phone in five hours
This is amazing. It's such a good feeling to just be away from your phone
My next tip is meditation and this has been huge for me
Extremely life-changing for me. Even if you take five minutes to just sit down. I like to do it in
Crisscross applesauce and put my hands on my knees
Whether I'm at the beach or I'm in my bedroom
I really like doing it outdoors because it feels good to just be outside and even feel the sunshine in the wind and hear the
sounds of outdoors. But even if you do it for five minutes five minutes is a long time in meditation
It feels like a long time
You set an alarm for five minutes and make sure that you set an alarm that has a really nice sound to it
The worst is like trying to get out of meditation with like,
BEEP BEEP BEEP
It's not fun
So put on something really nice five minutes of meditation will literally change
your day around because you just have such a clearer understanding of where your mind is at
It's weird because not all the time when I'm meditating. I can completely clear my thoughts. That is the truth
the goal is to completely clear your thoughts and sometimes I am capable of achieving this for even just this split moment, and it's the best feeling
in the entire world
There are times where I practice meditation where I am thinking throughout it and I didn't achieve that like blissful moment that I wanted but even
just taking that moment of clarity and that moment of
Barely thinking and that moment of just closing my eyes and seeing things that I want to see like positive things
I like to think about positive things and a lot of people can close their eyes and they see black and
They see nothing and I know that that is the case
But if you close your eyes and you imagine things that make you happy
Then you'll see things that make you feel really good and it's just a good moment that you're having this moment for yourself
so I definitely think trying to practice meditation and
Making it a habit and making it part of your ritual. Every single day is super
amazing, especially during really busy times. I have been so crazy busy this week and
practicing meditation, just for a moment, whether it's five minutes or so. I just
Go into myself and I'm like,
I'm okay. I can get through today. This is gonna be good. Here we go
And it really does help you throughout the day. It helps you focus. It's crazy.
It's super life-changing and it's something I highly recommend and I will be making videos on
how to meditate and exactly
How it's done and I will talk about meditation throughout the series several times because it is really something that I truly believe in.
Lastly do something every single day that makes you a better person
This is something that I mentioned on Instagram and I believe I mentioned it in another video as well and you'll hear me talk
About it several times because when I believe in something and I practice something and it becomes a habit of mine
I like to talk about it because it is something that I believe in and that I've found to actually work so
Doing something every single day that makes you a better person is interesting because there's something that we do every single day
usually that makes us a better person, if we have a daily workout or if we
Have something that we do all the time like whether we're cleaning or whatever
It might be, we do these things a lot of the time just on autopilot because it's what we've been taught to do
It's what we know how to do, we do these things because we know that it's good for us
but we don't normally do things all the time with the
Intention of I am doing this because I want to be a better person and putting that positive mindset and that positive energy
Into the tasks that you are doing changes the entire energy of that task or that activity
I like to start the day thinking about what tasks I'm going to do that day that's gonna make me a better person
So if I know I need to organize my
drawers, I will think okay. I'm going to finish that task today because I know by the end of that
I'm going to feel so good and me thinking about that task as something that is going to change my life is
Going to make that task
Way better. When you are cleaning your house and you're walking around in your life throwing your towel where it needs to be
or you're putting your yoga mat where it needs to be, you're making your bed and you're doing these things just because they're what
We're supposed to do and you're just kind of doing them
Annoyed like you don't really want to be doing them because we do it all the time that's gonna happen
But if we do something specifically because we are like, okay
I'm doing this task right now because I'm going to make my life better. I'm gonna become a better person when I finish this
I'm going to be a better person. I'll be on another level after I finish this, then that energy
Plays with that activity and it just turns into something that manifests into something more than just
this random task that you have to do if that makes any sense that might sound totally crazy and
If it does than
I guess let it be, we'll just let it be it's craziness, but
To me it makes total sense in my mind
It's the energy that you put into the task that makes it life changing. So
Yeah, those are my five habits to change your life. My homework for you guys for this video is going to be super simple..
It's to take a moment right now in the comments below and let me know four things that you are grateful for.
They don't have to be the top 4 things. They don't have to be long answers
If you want to give me long answers
I will read them and I will love them.
But if you just want to say four simple things that you are grateful for in your life
I would love to check that out and see what you guys are all grateful for.
That is it for this Self-Care Summer video!
I am loving seeing you guys post on Twitter and Instagram the things that you guys are doing for Self-Care Summer
Make sure that you guys
Use the hashtag so I can go in and see all the good stuff you guys are doing and I hope that you guys are well
I hope that you guys are loving this series and I'm having such a good time
communicating back and forth with you guys and reading all of your comments in this series
So I will see you guys very soon, in like a day! I love you guys to the moon and back
and yeah, see you soon!