Hey what's up, I'm Muchelle B
And you guys know that I'm all about simplifying my life
making things easier. In the past year or two, I have simplified
my space like a freaking professional, if I do say so myself.
Through following the Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up last year and doing my
own Simplify Your Life challenge, that at the start of this year.
And on reflection, all of that simplifying
has made a huge impact on every other area of my life. Even my YouTube channel.
Lately I've been working more towards simplifying my days,
giving myself more free time.
Trying to make my days less busy and hectic
and have more free time to do the things that I want to do.
So if that's something you're also working towards I've put together a bunch of concepts and ideas
that I'm going to talk about in this video
on how to keep your days a little bit more simplified.
So firstly, know what you enjoy. Know what you don't enjoy, and prioritise accordingly.
It sounds so simple, but this is something that I need to remind myself of regularly.
Figure out what you enjoy doing. For some prompts
revisit day 17 of my Simplify Your Life challenge.
Which is figuring out what lights you up.
I'll leave the link in the description below.
Then, when you get invited to do something that doesn't align with what you enjoy doing,
or you consider taking on something that doesn't light you up,
don't do it. Learn how to say
"I won't be able to make it" or
'I don't want to do that, but I will do this'
And your days will become a whole lot simpler.
Use your best time to do your best work.
I work best from 5:30 in the morning to 9 o'clock AM.
That is when I am most focused. That is when I'm most in flow.
That's when I'm most likely to do my video planning.
From 9 o'clock I can still do good stuff, but as soon as I hit about 12
my flow turns into more like a trickle.
Unless I am, like, super motivated, super inspired.
Something got me going and lit me on fire.
And I am okay with that. I have learnt to work with it.
Knowing when your best thinking time, and your best working time,
or your best creative time is in a day
helps you to totally prioritise your day
according to when your energy shifts.
You can simplify and prioritise.
Eliminate as many decisions from your day as you can.
One of the best things that de-cluttering my space did for me
is just eliminating the amount of decisions that I need to make in a day.
I barely have to think when I get dressed for work
because I have a few go-to outfits. All of my clothes kind of go with each other.
All of my pens are the same. Don't have to think when I'm grabbing for a pen.
I'm not joking. And I love it.
My mugs are all the shape that I like,
so I don't have to spend my decision making energy
in choosing what mug to pick for my coffee in the morning.
Which, yes, is something that I used to spend my decision making energy on.
Think through a normal day for you and write down
all of the teeny, tiny little decisions that you have to make,
and think about how you can cut down those decisions.
How can you eliminate the need to make that decision at all
or
make that decision a lot easier.
Next up is make simpler food.
This kind of rides on the coattails of making less decisions.
The minute that I let go of my guilt about not being a good cook,
my life got like 1,000 times simpler.
I feel like I actually let that guilt go a long time ago,
'cause I am definitely not, like, a cooking oriented person.
I don't enjoy it.
For like the past year, maybe two,
I've stopped, like, even considering putting a lot of effort into my food,
and I've really embraced simple eating.
Now I try to make food that only takes a very short time to make,
that all tastes reasonably good and is pretty nutritious.
One thing I do do, and I've done for, like, ever
is my breakfast is the same every single day.
So I never go to the kitchen (in the) morning and I'm like
'oh, what am I going to cook for breakfast?'
If you're interested, it was oats for like three years, and now it's muesli.
Theme your days. This might not be relevant to everyone,
but if you can theme your days and focus on one thing each day
it will make your life a lot simpler.
So, for me, I might have a day where I focus on planning videos.
I might have a day where I focus on filming,
and then a day where I focus on editing.
It doesn't always work out that way, depending on how my weekends go.
But I find that doing tasks in bulk is a lot easier than
switching up on a bunch of different tasks in one day.
You can really put all of your energy and all of your focus into the one thing.
Plan your days the night before. I won't harp on about this too much
because I've talked to it (about it) before.
But planning what you want to do the night before
is a really easy way to just streamline your next day
and it reduces that kind of friction that you have about
'oh, what am I going to do for the day?'
You eliminate your need to, like, make that decision when you wake up.
You wake up just knowing exactly what you have to do
and you get to it. Makes the day so much simpler.
And, do less.
Make sure what you're doing is actually beneficial to you.
Avoid busy work. Think about what you spend your time on in a day
and then think about how what you spent time on is benefiting you.
Whether what you get is results, happiness, peace. Growth, money, whatever.
Cut out the stuff that doesn't give you anything, or only gives you very little,
and do less.
So those are some of the ways I've been working to simplify my days. Simplify my life.
If you guys have anything that you've been doing lately to keep things simple,
please leave your comments in the comments section down below.
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I appreciate you guys so very much, and I will see you soon. <3