Hey friends, here's a roundup of the best simple habits from 2019 that I'm hoping to continue incorporating into the new decade
Quoting the book Atomic Habits
Every action you take is a vote for the type of person you wish to become no single instance will transform your beliefs
But as the votes build out, so does the evidence of your new identity.
I'd like to vote daily to be someone who's disciplined reliable and consistent
All adjectives I'd like to be more of.
Someone who has time to spend two minutes to make the bed
someone who can check off the small win at the start of the morning for future Rowena to come home to a
Nicely made bed after a long day. It's like that saying: tiny changes, remarkable results
小小的改變，大大的不同
Speaking of having two minutes to make my bed every morning
The two-minute rule has been one of the best additions in my daily routine this year.
If I could do something in two minutes, I do it. Putting stuff back where it belongs,
putting things back where their homes are, taking the socks off the floor and throwing it in the laundry basket.
A quick tidy sesh to help tidy my mental state.
Washing cups and dishes I just used answering a text or email
So I'm not left with an avalanche of messages at the end of the day or the week
These are all definitely still working progress is especially the messages in the texts
But I found that the more I remind myself of the two-minute rule and the more I implement it
The lighter I've been feeling overall because my apartment doesn't perpetually look like a tornado has just ripped through it
Quoting the book The One Thing, what is the one thing I can do such that by doing it everything else will be easier and
Necessary. This is the productivity system
I came up for myself two weeks ago due to sheer desperation and fear that my head will explode
From overheating due to all the open tabs floating in my head
With multiple projects and deadlines, putting sticky notes on my wall and dividing them into three sections of open, in progress and completed
really helped me prioritize
What was most important. Another quote from The One Thing,
"Extraordinary results are directly determined by how narrow you can make your focus when you spread yourself out you'll end up spread thin."
So this is taking what I shared with you guys last week to the next level
I like taking two post-it sticky notes at a time and putting it on my desk or
On my forehead just so I know exactly
What I'm working on at that moment and once that is done
I put it in the complete file, move the second sticky now over and rinse and repeat
I've mentioned in previous videos earlier this year that I've worked myself to the point of forgetting to eat
I really don't want to continue doing that in 2020 because I'm starting to feel it. My head gets dizzy
Easier I'm more light headed, I start having headaches out of nowhere
I haven't had a headache in five years
so I definitely would like to stop doing that in 2020 and
To eat more whole and nourishing fruits and veggies and take better care of myself from the inside out
I'm sure by now
you've watched many many youtubers make green smoothies and talk about the importance of whole fruits and veggies and eating the rainbow and
Incorporating as many colors as you can into your diet, so I'm not gonna drone on and on about that instead
I'll just share with you guys how I will be incorporating more
fruits and veggies into my diet and
it will be with the help of
Daily Harvest for as much and as frequent as I make green smoothies
In the past you guys may be surprised to know that I actually haven't drank a smoothie this whole year
Yeah, like I didn't use my blender
Once this is the first time I used it in a really long time
Just to share with you guys that I just I don't even have time to cut fruits and veggies
It's terrible which is why I'm so grateful of how convenient and quick it is to make daily harvest
smoothies and bowls and lattes
Let me just say that this smoothie tastes exactly like a smoothie. I will make myself
I also
Appreciate the quality
ingredients that are organic the variety of
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Different seasons of your life brings different
Life occurrences, and I also feel like in the different seasons of your life
There's different ways you prefer to learn or absorb knowledge
For my earlier years the past, you know, three four or five years
I think I really appreciated reading physical books, but because recently things I've just been crazy
My brain is not working as well as I would hope it is working because I'm just really tired and busy all the time
Audiobooks have been helping immensely and I think doesn't matter in what way shape or form you are
absorbing information as long as you are. One of the most important things I've learned through books these past couple of years is
to look at difficulties that befall us as
Opportunities to learn and grow quoting the book Man's Search for Meaning, the author is a neurologist psychiatrist and a Holocaust survivor
Who was at Auschwitz and many other concentration camps. Here's the quote
"Everything can be taken from a man
But one thing: the last of the human freedoms to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances
To choose one's own way."
For someone who has gone through hell and back and to be able to find meaning in his suffering. This is
Such- so beautiful that this is why I love books
Here's another thing that's completely changed my life in 2019 and is something that I wish I
Could be more far more consistent in because it's really one of those things where you know, it will do nothing
but the best things for your mind body and soul but
You make excuses or you prioritize work or other things over something that can bring you...
inner stillness and calm and this for me is
meditating having gone through
spurts of
intense not intense, but spurts of consistent meditation throughout pockets of this year and having gone through
spurts of lack of
meditation throughout this year, I think you know things like this happen in our life to show us and to give us
perspective that this is what your life can be like calm and peaceful when you meditate consistently and
When you don't prioritize something like this, it doesn't mean it's a right or wrong thing
It's just you know
You know exactly what you're getting yourself into but having that state that calm still state versus
Not calm and not still in an avalanche going on in your head at all times. I think it's really
important and I've learned this year that it's okay to be at either sides as long as
you're aware of what you're doing to yourself and
Actively work towards where you would rather be more
For the whole year, I would say that I don't really notice my state of being alone
but on days
Just one day out of the year on my birthday
I think it's when it becomes the most apparent whether I
Spend it with people
I love or whether I spend it with myself and my parents and I feel like for the past
Five six seven years. My birthday has been one of the
loneliest I feel it's like when I just realize how
There's not as many people around me as it wish but I will say this year was very different and
The reason why it was different was the past few years
I've just been investing in myself investing in work business trying to go places and
Build something and this year. I really realized the importance of
relationships and friendships like I mentioned in last week's video where if you invest in people
for the most part they will reinvest back into you and I think that's the beauty of
Relationships and friendships because if you bigger you grow your business the bigger you grow other things
You get money and status sure, but like ultimately that doesn't really- it's not as fulfilling
I think that's what I'm trying to say. This is something that I've learned and with that,
Thank you guys for being such an integral part of my online life and just my life in general
For your presence for your love for your kindness for making me feel so warm and so loved this past birthday.
Here's a voice hug. Love you guys
Appreciate you guys immensely. I'll see you guys next week
In the new year. Oh my god. Bye!