Hello everyone!
Welcome back to Lavendaire.
It is so good to see you.
And yes, I am back from my travels.
I dyed my hair for fall, went a little darker.
Today I just thought it'd be nice to do a quick little update video
on where I am in life and what's coming up.
So first I'm going to talk about #Roadto2020
which is my challenge/theme for the rest of the year,
that we're all going to be on together.
And then I'm going to do a flip through of the Artist of Life Workbook
so that you can see what it looks like inside.
And I'm going to answer any FAQ about the workbook.
And lastly, I'm going to talk about the new Lavendaire community
on this app called Vibely, where it facilitates Lavi Love meetups.
So let's first talk about #Roadto2020.
I wanted to share this challenge with you all,
and I'm going to post some videos about this in the next couple months.
But #Roadto2020 is just a challenge to ask yourself:
“What are the things I want to accomplish before the end of the year?”
and also, “What foundations do I want to set in place to get a good start for 2020?”
So, planning for the new year, I feel like,
starts a couple months before the new year even begins,
because once you start in January, it's already started.
I don't know about you but I like to plan things,
so I'm already starting to plan, “Okay, what do I want to wrap up?
What projects do I want to finish this year?
How will I lay the grounds and the foundation
for what I want to accomplish in 2020 but also in the next decade?”
because 2020 is just a very pretty-sounding year: the number 2020.
And I mentioned in the last video on the Artist of Life Workbook
that we are entering a new decade,
so we are closing out towards the “tens”, if that's what you call it,
and we are entering the 20s, so it's a very exciting time.
And I felt like because it is such a big deal – you know, a new decade –
I should give myself a little more time to prepare and plan for it.
So, we are starting now, okay?
Comment down below on the things that you want to get done before the end of this year.
What will your road to 2020 look like?
For me, since I just came back from travel,
it's all about resetting my foundation, kind of getting a clean slate.
So that includes unpacking, decluttering, organizing my entire house,
because it just doesn't feel – it's not where it should be.
You know, my space is a mess, I feel like a mess.
So I need to get that together.
And then after we organizing my home and my space,
I want to restructure my habits and my routines
and kind of set a new routine in place.
And then I also want to personally spend time restrategizing
and rethinking the whole Lavendaire business model.
Just like clarifying how I'm gonna build it
and where I'm going to take it in the next year or the next 10 years.
So that's what I'm gonna do.
Let me know what you guys are going to be working on down below,
and just be on the look out for my #Roadto2020 videos
that I'll be posting sporadically in the next couple months.
All right, now let's talk about the new Artist of Life Workbook.
I have them here.
They come in two colors, lavender and gray –
and you guys, I realized that I didn't get photos of the inside of the gray workbook,
so I'm like, “Oh my god, I need to make a video showing you guys what it looks like inside.”
So today I'm gonna do a flip through.
I'm going to show you the color comparison between the two workbooks
and answer any questions that you guys had on Instagram.
So, for those of you who don't know,
the Artist of Life Workbook is a guided journal that I created
to help you plan at your most intentional year, plan your best year ever, basically.
I started making this in 2016, end of 2016.
The first version was 2017, and so each year,
we've improved the quality and the content of this workbook.
Basically it has 125 pages of questions and exercises
that guides you through reflecting on your past year,
planning the new year, planning your goals in detail.
And there's a whole section on a self love, designing your mindset, your habits.
And then there's a whole section that I call the Goal Book,
which is where you plan your quarterly and monthly goals,
and then you do quarterly and monthly reviews.
So it's essentially a workbook that helps you guide,
at the big picture plan of your life in the year.
It's not really a daily planner.
I have a separate Daily Planner product for that,
but this is more of a big picture, guided experience.
All right, so here we have the gray and the lavender workbook.
Inside of the gray, I decided to do more of a blue-ish tint.
So, if you look at the two, you can tell that the gray is more blue-ish gray-ish.
And then lavender is just lavender to match the color.
All right, so now let's do a flip through of the Artist of Life Workbook.
So one little change that I think is really cute is this extra page in the front.
And so we have the intro page, inspirational quotes here,
and here is the Table of Contents which you can see on our website,
and the Welcome letter, How to Use the Workbook.
And then we have our Goodbye 2019 section
where there are questions to help you reflect on the past year.
Then there's a Hello 2020 section to help you set your intentions for the new year.
There's a Vision Board exercise, a Current Me vs. Future Me exercise.
And here's our Self Love section with questions and exercises
to help you discover more about yourself and what you want.
So we have questions on Mindset Refresh, Self Care, and Designing Your Habits.
Then we have our 2020 Goals section that helps you set your goals
in all the areas of your life, including your health, relationships, career,
personal growth, creativity, and more.
And then this part, Lessons for the Journey,
includes content on How to Stay Committed and managing your fears.
Here's a Bucket List section,
and then that's the end of the first part of the workbook.
So we have some Helpful Resources, as well as some links.
And then we get to the Goal Book, which is the second part of the workbook.
So the Goal Book includes monthly and quarterly goals and reviews.
Here you set your quarterly goals.
So here, you set your monthly goals at the beginning of the month
and then you review your month at the end of the month.
So here we have some trackers: We have a Habit Tracker, a Daily Tracker.
We have an area where you can jot down your Gratitude List throughout the month.
And then it continues on with this format for every single month of the year.
At the end of each quarter, we have some Quarterly Review questions
to help you stay on track with your goals throughout the year.
And that's about it for the Artist of Life Workbook.
Oh also, at the end, there are some extra journaling prompts
and ideas for the blank pages in the back.
So we have half lined pages and half blank pages,
because I couldn't decide – I liked them both.
All right, let me quickly answer some FAQ about the workbooks.
Yes, we ship internationally all over the world.
But if you're curious about shipping costs,
all you have to do is enter your address and you can get a preview
for how much shipping would cost before you check out.
So yes, I know international shipping can be expensive,
but that is just because it's expensive to ship things around the world
and that's the rate that the carriers give us.
It's basically something outside of our control.
But if you are concerned about high international shipping costs, then you have two options.
The first option is: We do have a digital PDF version of the Artist of Life Workbook
that you can download, and get instantly and print out.
The second option is to share shipping costs with people in your area.
So we just started a new Lavendaire club on the app Vibely, which I'll talk about later.
In Vibely, it connects you to people who are local nearby in your cities,
so you can reach out to someone in your area
and decide if you want to put your order together
so you can split the shipping costs.
But I just have to say that we don't take any responsibility for that,
because that is just on you and whatever you decide and communicate.
Honestly, the 2020 workbook is very similar to the 2019 if you have it.
The cover material is essentially the same,
because I loved that cover material of 2019.
It's so plush and soft, and so is this one.
So I want to keep it standard from here on out.
And then the content inside is mostly the same with a few edits.
I've edited a few prompts just to help clarify your answers a little bit.
And then I also reformatted the Goal Book,
which is the monthly, quarterly sections.
There's new resources listed which are updated each year.
And then there's a few new journal prompts within as well.
The best time to start the workbook is anytime between now till end of January.
I think end of the year to the beginning of the year is the best time to start,
because there's a lot of prompts on reflecting on the past year and planning for the new year.
And if you decide to buy this workbook later on in the year,
it's also usable and you can just, instead of reflecting on the past year,
you can use it to reflect on the past quarter,
or reflect on the past half year, so you can break it down.
So I'd say the second best time would be to start either a second quarter or mid year.
We are proudly making an effort to be as sustainable and ecofriendly as possible.
I mentioned in the Pastel Notebooks launch
that everything we package and use is made of recycled materials.
The workbooks and planners are packaged in these white boxes,
which is cardboard made of recycled materials,
as well as – let me get this –
as well as this brown cardboard packaging box.
We have these boxes in different sizes
depending on how much you order,
but everything is cardboard and recycled materials and recyclable.
I'm trying to use no plastic in our packaging.
Even the tape that we use is recycled tape.
And if you haven't seen in the last video,
our Pastel Notebooks are packaged in this cardboard sleeve as well.
All right, now I want to talk about what's new for our Lavendaire community.
I started a Lavendaire club on the app Vibely.
What it is, is an app that helps connect you to Lavi Loves from all over the world,
as well as Lavi Loves near you, in your local city.
So once you join the app, you'll be automatically sorted into your local chapter.
For example, I'm in the LA chapter and the SF chapter,
but there's chapters all over the world, in all different cities.
Ideally you get to connect with people who are like-minded,
into self help, self care and all this stuff, in your area.
So it brings the online offline, which I think is really special and fun.
On the app there is a Lavendaire - World group,
and that is a giant group chat of everyone
who is in the Lavi Love community on the app.
And then you'll have your chats for your local chapters.
For me, it's just really fun to see the map of where you guys are all over the world.
It's so fun to see that.
Of course, the purpose of this app is to make it easier to create meetups.
There are virtual meetups and in-person meetups.
A virtual meetup is just a Google Hangout
with people that are from all over the world in our community.
And then in-person meetup is a meetup in person.
So every Sunday on the app, I'll be posting prompts to inspire your journaling sessions
or your group chats on the app to help you self-reflect.
Or sometimes it might be like a weekly challenge or something like that.
And then what I'm most excited about is:
Through the app, it'll make it easier for me to know
when and where you guys are meeting up.
And then, if I'm in the area,
I can just decide to drop in and join in on the meetup.
And by the way, I mentioned this on Instagram,
but Vibely is an app started by one of my friends from college.
Her name is Teri and I'll have her on the podcast,
if you guys are interested in learning about her journey.
It's just so cool, I'm always so proud to support female entrepreneurs.
And I'm at this age where it's cool to see all my friends
succeeding and doing cool things in life, so yeah.
Anyway, I'm excited for you guys.
I'm excited for our community.
This is a great place for you to meet new friends
and connect with other people who are into the same things that you are into.
And it's also a great way to meet other people who are doing the Artist of Life Workbook.
So you can go through the program together,
maybe meet up and journal together, make vision boards together –
I don't know, it really is up to you.
And lastly, I just want to thank you for being
the sweetest, kindest, the best community out there.
You guys are so amazing.
I'm honestly so grateful for you, for you being here,
just being on this artist of life journey together
because I feel like we've transformed, we've changed over the years.
But if you're still here, thank you and I wish you all the best.
I wish you a successful road to 2020,
but also just all the best things, all good things for 2020 and beyond.
I love you guys so much and I cannot wait to connect with you guys more on the app.
And just a heads up: My next few videos will be travel-related
because I have a lot of vlog footage,
a lot of lessons and things that I want to share from my travels.
So you're going to see blonde hair Aileen.
It's going to be a little rewind, but it'll be good.
All right, see you next time.
Bye!