So, I took a couple of days off. I took some time to reset and then this morning I logged back in,
I responded to all my clients and it's almost the start of October which is...
so wild. So what I'm actually going to do today is plan out for the month ahead and create some
structure and put some things in place to give me that sense of momentum because as annoying as
it is to keep talking about lockdown in my videos, that's just my reality right now. Like in Melbourne
I feel the energy is pretty heavy. People are tired. So today I just want to organise as much as I can.
I'm going to schedule everything out, I'm going to make some plans, we're going to set some goals.
Oh! and oh my gosh, I'm going to batch prepare this soup. I kind of like, threw it together last night
hoping that everything would fit well in terms of flavour and it did. So I'm gonna make it again
today, I'm gonna share the recipe with you. It's so delicious! Even though it's technically Spring now,
it's still a bit rainy... still a bit dreary here so it's a super mood. So if you're going into colder
weather maybe you'd like to try it as well. And, on my last couple of days off I did such a deep clean,
like everything. I'm not used to carrying my camera, this is super heavy. So I'm just gonna set a little
phone timer for 20 minutes see what I can get done in that time and do a little bit of a tidy up.
We're actually about to enter Q4 so I'm actually going to set some bigger goals than I normally
would because something that I like to do whether it's like creative wise, like YouTube stuff or
whether it's to do with my business, is I like to have like overarching goals for each quarter
and then I'll break them down into smaller tasks for the week. Having it in a calendar or like some
other thing that I can keep referring back to helps me feel more relaxed because then I don't
stress about what's happening. It's like a healthy reset for your mind and just your mental health
in general because I don't know about you but I feel like it's so bad to try and like hold on to
everything up here and I used to use notebooks to do this sort of stuff but I just found like when
I'm working with other people, collaborating with other people on projects, I would need them to be
able to access what we're working on at the same time. So I use Google calendar to organise myself
and then I use Asana to keep everyone together. I like Asana but sometimes I wish there was
something that was a little bit more user-friendly. It's really clunky and messy. Don't tell me to use
Notion, I hate Notion - just putting it out there. I think Notion is so ugly and I hate that it just
looks like notes in your phone. No, no thank you. I can only show you these five days of the week
though just because on my Sunday and my Monday I have video calls with my one-on-one clients. So for
the sake of privacy, I don't want their names like coming up on the screen and stuff. I'm sure you can
understand. So one of the big things that I worked on this year was my PCOS program. I actually wanted
to start putting that together last year but I feel like everyone's year last year was a little
bit of a write-off. Anyway, if you're interested in it I'll leave it linked in the description
box. I'm not going to ramble about it here too much because I feel like I've talked about it a lot in
other videos and posts and things. So I'm going to use my Asana to set some goals. I always have lists
of things that I want to work on and I'm going to go through and pick which one I feel will be best
for this quarter. Like I keep a running list and that's something I recommend that everyone does
because I feel like ideas can come to you at like really random times and my thought is one of the
worst things you can do is like get an idea and then immediately decide to work on it and pull
it together sort of haphazardly and not give it the attention that it deserves or quit the project
part way through. So I want to put together another little eBook for any of my one-on-one clients or
anyone who was previously a one-on-one client. I've also been putting together new training programs.
Some for home and some for the gym and it'll actually give you access to my app to load it onto
your profile. I feel like I'm just talking about so many products but I'm just giving you like a
rundown of what sort of things that I'm working on, but anyway, but I will be opening them up to
the public at some point but I really need gyms to open so I can film the exercise demonstration and
I'm also going to book a studio and film the demo videos for the home training programs. There's like
body weight only or there's at home with equipment. So there are a couple of the little things that I
want to work out. So basically what I want to do is have that like overarching look of the three
months and then I like to look at the month ahead and break that down because obviously every week
I have ongoing responsibilities as well. I like to have this all in place so I can just focus on
the 24 hours ahead. By planning this out and having like an overarching plan I know what direction I'm
going in, like not every week is the same for me. Some things that I do always have to do though is
the client work, my training, recording and audio transcription of the blog post that I put up on
Eat Run Lift because whenever I upload an information post I always like to make sure there's an audio
as well. Then I always have to take a little bit of time to plan out Youtube videos and I
have to block off a whole day in my schedule or like segments of multiple days to film a video.
At the end of each month I've been trying to do a little check-in just because I feel being in and
out of lockdowns for so long you really lose track of time. Like I feel like last year, the whole year
slipped away before I even realized it. [I] started doing these like end of the month check-ins which
is something that I never really did consistently before. Like I would try it for a month and then
you know forget about it the next month. I even set a little reminder in my phone, you know what's my
biggest victory from the last month because i want to be able to look back on something
positively. Why am I always hitting something with something else. So one of the things I
like to check is what was my biggest victory and for me it was like finishing the PCOS program. So
I'm actually going to write that down. Creating a standalone course for women who have PCOS is
something I wanted to do for the longest time. I also wanted to ask myself which habits slipped the
most because for me I want to stay active, that's something that I want to do even in lockdown when
it feels really hard, like we've got some weights and things like that that I can use. I noticed I'd
been trying to go out for these morning walks most days just because a lot of the time I sit at my
desk like there'll be some days where if I don't have a workout planned in, like let's say it's a
rest day and I'm working that day I'll literally get 600 steps in the whole day like it's nothing.
For me the habit which slipped the most was like getting out and being active. Like I was still
doing the weight training stuff but I wasn't going out for walks as often as I would like to so what
I decided to do instead was just swap it and just go, you know what I'm just gonna use the exercise
bike and that's fine and I can play Pokemon on my Nintendo Switch. The next question is one that I've
been stuck on for a little while and it's like what would I like to do differently this month.
Um, there's so many things that I would love to film for you guys and I was actually thinking of
making like a patreon style membership where I can just upload more of like whatever I want because
unfortunately the Youtube algorithm madness isn't supportive of that kind of behavior and when
I started my Youtube channel, if you've been here since the beginning, it'd be like sometimes there's
a makeup tutorial, sometimes there's a video about decluttering, sometimes there's a video about this,
a video about that and it's just like my content became like so widespread I'd still love to do
that, you know, but it would actually be so bad for my Youtube channel if I did that. So I was thinking
what I might want to do is have like a separate platform where there's no sponsored content,
no ads and I just make those like whatever I want kind of videos like one to two times a month plus
I was going to put some exclusive recipes on there as well. I found a way if i host it through my
Squarespace site I can actually put like a chat forum in there so we can have our own private
chat. Um, but yeah I was thinking about doing that. I can do updated makeup tutorials, I can put workout
videos on there, like I'm actually so excited about the idea of this, of just being able to
film and edit and post whatever I want. I mean to a degree. So this month I want to like think a bit
differently from the behind the scenes perspective of that kind of thing and go okay what sort of
things can I put in there and I already started a list of ideas of stuff that I want to make for
that. If you would like to know when I make that available, jump on my email list. I'll probably
let them know first or Instagram... one or the other. Um, I'll have them linked in the description box
and I'm gonna set three like personal goals just related to everyday life sort of stuff so uh the
first one is that I'm going to meditate for at least five minutes each day. I'm going to
read another book and I'm going to continue my no spend challenge. I'm up to day number *counts*
...I'm up to day number 20. The only things that I bought in the last 20 days have been
groceries and supplements and food for the pets. I was talking to one of my clients, Ashley, about
it and she's in Melbourne too in the lockdown too and I called it like a little dopamine detox. So I
was just finding myself buying a few unnecessary things so I was like let's just set a challenge
and I set myself 30 days but I'm actually feeling really good with it and I'm probably gonna push it
to 60 and we'll see how we go. I love setting just little challenges like that, I don't know why.
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[You] made it all the way to the end, I appreciate you so much. [It's] 7:17 at night, I'm gonna go wash my face and watch Game of Thrones. I started it from season one episode one again,
I don't know why I did that to myself but anyway I'll catch you soon. Bye!