good morning good morning I normally don't eat breakfast outside but I didn't want to wake my
family up so this week I'm doing another little week in the life video but this time will be a
little bit different because the last time I did this I was still in school and so basically half
of my life was spent at school but now I am graduated I am on summer break so it might be
a more interesting video I don't know today is also Tuesday which I realize it's a weird day
to start this on but literally I forgot that I was supposed to film this this week but since it
is summer I feel like it doesn't matter as much because there isn't as much of a strict weekly
schedule the reason I woke up at 5 a.m. today is because I am trying something new this week I
normally wake up anywhere from like 6:30 to 7:30 which was working pretty well for me but I just
wanted to see what if I woke up even earlier than that I love mornings and since it's summer the Sun
rises so early so I figured why not take advantage of that while I can so yeah waking up today was
definitely hard but honestly this view right now made it all worth it ok I'm gonna go brush
my teeth drink some matcha and then get started so the two big things I'm working on today are
getting this shine interview project thing going and then editing a bunch of photos so I'm doing
the interview stuff first because that takes more brain power and I'm better at that in the morning
I'm not saying photo editing is easy but it's just something that I can do it even if I'm kind
of tired I always wear earplugs at school when we had work time because I just can't work when
I hear conversations around me which is pretty normal right but it developed into this thing
where even if I'm in a quiet environment I need my earplugs in order to feel like I am in work mode
but the even weirder thing is if I'm in my room where it's quiet and I'm wearing both earplugs
somehow it gets too quiet to the point where then I can't focus again and so literally when I'm at
home I wear one ear plug for optimum productivity and I know that sounds so weird but it's just it
just works for me so I just finished sending out the emails and I said 12 total my goal is for 6 6
of them to reply to me my next project to work on is I want to organize a blog calendar using
Trello I don't know if you've heard of Trello but it's this organizational tool or you have
like boards and columns and cards and you can start stuff around I've been using it for my
photography business and it's so helpful because I can have a separate card for each client and then
a checklist for what I need to do oh by the way I'm thinking of doing a video where I talk about
how I got into freelance photography so if you're interested in that please let me know because if
no one's interested in that I probably won't make the video where's my charger oh wait here it is
wait that's not a charger I know where it is that meeting took a little longer than I thought
it would and it was very draining hopefully some movement will get me back on track it
is 80 degrees inside the house right now because something happened to the air conditioning while
we were out of town so we're gonna try to get this set of photos edited this was not a paid
photo shoot this was a just for fun shoot but I still have to get it edited and excited though I
love photo editing so I can't complain I finished the photos and I uploaded them to the website so
I just need to post these on Instagram and then I think I'm done for the day and I can go to bed
I did not wake up at 5:00 a.m. today that was just because I couldn't get to bed on time yesterday
actually set my alarm for 6:30 to get seven hours of sleep and then I was so tired that I couldn't
get in a bed for another hour so I woke up at 7:30 but it's fine because sleep is good and the five
am experiment will continue tomorrow the first thing we're gonna do today is practice some Korean
because I was supposed to do it on Monday and I did not get to it so I'm making it a priority
today and getting it done first some other things I have to do today are planning out Friday's video
filming Friday's video editing some photos editing this video that I made for fun yeah that should
take up the majority of my day it's 12 p.m. for once in my life I'm not behind on my to-do list
we're doing great what have I done today practice Korean I planned out the video I'm gonna film
later today and I did daily social media stuff for my blog and for my photography business thing
so now it's lunch time for the rest of the day I had to shift some things around because unexpected
things came up I have two calls with photo clients and then a meeting with someone I'm setting up a
website for but it's gonna be okay we're still gonna get everything done hope you're having a
good day I'm having a good day it's time to meditate it is 3.50 I'm calling a client in
ten minutes and I just finished the rough cut of the video I was editing so my plan was to
film Friday's video today and then finished this video tomorrow but I'm really like in the flow of
editing so I think I'm gonna move filming into tomorrow and finish up this video today I just
like finishing things I want to get it done and out of the way it's so nice to be outside because
it's literally cooler outside than it is inside my house it was 83 at one point today that was fun
hello so that meeting took a little longer than I thought okay a lot longer than I thought it
would but I do not mind at all because wait what the hell it's um driving is difficult
basically what I'm doing is I'm making a website a logo photos video for an old teacher of mine
so obviously we talked a little bit about what she wants with the website but for a lot of the
time we were just catching up and it was really really nice to talk to her this summer I feel
like just a lot of different photo and video opportunities have been coming my way and it's
just so exciting and makes me so happy like I was just talking to my art teacher about this
but at the start of high school like when I took photo 1 and sucked at photography
I would not have imagined that photography and videography and blogging too would become such
a big part of my life though I've been busy this summer but I am honestly so happy the
stuff that I'm doing the stuff that I'm busy with is so satisfying to me and I guess my
only hope is that when I'm an adult I guess I am an adult when I'm older that my job can be
like this that I can actually feel passionate about it and like good about all the time and
energy that I'm pouring into it so yeah those are my little 10 p.m. existential musings now
I think I'm just gonna listen to some music hello and welcome back to the bliss bean
I just got home and we also stopped at the library to pick up these two books
that I had on hold this I've been trying to get for such a long time because every
time I would put it on hold and it would come into the library I'd always happen to be out
of town and so then they canceled the hold and then I'd have to re put it on hold and this is
just one that was on my to-read list so I'm finally getting around to it something that
I've been trying to do this week and that has been going really well is instead of doing 25
minutes daily of Korean practice 15 minutes Spanish practice in 15 minutes reading I've
been trying to chunk it more and for more of the reasoning behind this you can look at my
blog post on tasks batching but I was like why don't I apply that same technique to these daily
habits that I'm trying to do and try and not do them daily so I made this little schedule
and I've been following it only for a few days but I really like it because I feel like I can
actually delve into whatever I'm learning or reading about more and it just feels a
lot more manageable so today for example is a Korean and reading day I got my Korean out
of the way first thing this morning and then I'm probably gonna do the reading before bed I don't
know which one to start with so I'll probably ask Instagram because Instagram solves all your
problems but for now I'm gonna go edit tomorrow's video and hopefully I can get it done today
it's 10:00 p.m. and I'm nowhere close to being done with the video but I also really don't want
to leave it for tomorrow so I think I'm just gonna stay up as long as it takes to finish it but I did
have to read for an hour today and so I'm just gonna do that now just kidding I just decided to
go to bed reading made me very very sleepy and I don't know why I wasn't anticipating that yeah so
I guess I'll be finishing the video tomorrow and you probably get up at like 5:00 or 5:30
again get a few good focused hours of editing in and I'm going thrifting with a friend at 10:00 so
it'll be like a nice deadline to push me to work faster my computer's decided to be very annoying
today and I have like one hour to finish this ready it is 9:50 a.m. so I woke up early today
and I was feeling kind of crappy and anxious so I did my morning routine and as always that
helped and then I felt all motivated to get the video done and then premier decided to sabotage
me it was all going fine and dandy and then it just stopped previewing all of my clips like it
was totally frozen and I couldn't see what I was doing I could only hear the sound which obviously
you can't edit videos with only sound so I tried closing and opening the file a bunch of times I
tried restarting my computer and then eventually I was like okay this I guess it's not happening
today so I left it at home to update and hopefully that will help something but I guess the reason
I'm telling you this is because I don't know it was kind of a learning experience or maybe not
a learning experience but a chance to put things I have learned into practice I was getting kind
of frustrated so I had to kind of take some deep breaths and acknowledge that on the grand spectrum
of problems that can exist this is a very very tiny problem like my computer didn't even crash
or anything so I just kind of told myself that I could just rearrange my day and I could still
have a good day and everything would turn out fine and it reminded me of this meditation that I did
once I'm gonna link to it in the description but it's by Sarah Blondin and in it she talked about
how surrendering doesn't mean that you give up and you never try anything ever again and that
you don't experience stress because stress is probably literally unavoidable in life at least
if you're trying anything but she said the point is that you are letting go of the hole that it has
on your physical body and that just blew my mind this idea that you can experience stress without
letting it get to you I feel like that's really freeing because then you don't feel like you have
to avoid stress at all costs you just make the decision to not let it take over your life so
yeah that is what I am pondering this morning and now I'm going thrifting with my friend so I'm just
gonna disconnect for a little bit and have fun doing that I'll check back in with you later my
bangs will not stay at the front of my face okay so I've been slacking a little bit on updating
but basically yesterday I finished my video it took four hours of editing on Thursday and 8:00
on Friday but it turned out really awesome so it was worth it then I was very tired so I ate dinner
and I watched two episode the strange things with my brother and then went straight to bed so I kind
of fell behind schedule a little bit but today I am making up for it I've had a very productive
morning I woke up and uploaded and promoted my new video I also reached 3000 subscribers while
I was doing that like every time I would take my little break I checked the number and it just got
closer and closer and then it got to 3,000 won so thank you so so much for that yeah I did that and
then I planned a photo shoot I'm doing tonight and just went through and like checked on all of
my photo clients to make sure that I know what I need to be doing for them now I'm going to macy's
with my family because we're leaving for Europe on July 30th which is just over two weeks away
which is crazy so we need to get some new luggage for that and yeah that's where I am right now
so by some absolute miracle I'm actually running ahead of schedule today so I figured I would fit
in a workout because I've been slacking this week a little bit so I'll just do something
quick it's 4 right now and I have to be at the photoshoot at 6:30 so plenty of time oh
omg this lady destroyed me I just finished the shoot and I have never been sweater in my life
oh my god right now it's not even that bad my god that's a that's a look though he started out at a
nature location and there it was terrible and the mosquitoes were terrible and I don't know
I guess I was just nervous about the shoot too so I just didn't I guess feel great about how I was
doing doing photo shoots just like takes so much energy out of me because I have to be energetic
and friendly and professional and that's a lot especially for an introvert and so I felt like
I wasn't doing my best job while we were at the Nature location but then we drove to our second
location and I just had some time to like sit in my car while I waited for her to change I had some
time to like recenter myself and really thinking about the shots that I needed to get at the second
location and it went so much better and I feel good about how this turned out so yay now I have
to get home because I have some very important things to do I have one episode left of stranger
things 3 I am nervous because people have told me when they finished it they cried and so I am
I think someone's gonna die I think Mike's gonna die it's gonna be some super heartbreaking ending
where he finally is able to say the words to Elle that he loves her and then he's gonna die you