Hi loves!
Welcome back to Lavendaire.
Today I want to try out a new interactive format
for a monthly planning series,
and you let me know if this is something that you like.
Around this time of year is a time where
a lot of people fall off their goals.
They forget about the goals they set at the beginning of the year.
We stop setting monthly goals.
And we just kind of let time fly by and not be intentional about it.
So this Plan Your Month series is to help remind you to set monthly goals,
to help you stay accountable and on track
towards making progress towards your dream life,
because even though we're in a pandemic,
and things are really uncertain and crazy,
there are still things that you can do to improve yourself and your life.
We got to focus on what we can control and work on making baby steps.
A little bit of progress is better than nothing, right?
The idea is: At the end of each month,
I'm going to post this video that guides you through reflecting on your past month
and then planning your goals, setting your intentions for the next month.
And I'm just going to keep it simple.
It's going to be five easy questions to reflect on your past month,
and then five questions and exercises to plan your goals for the next month.
This format is loosely based off the Goal Book in the Artist of Life Workbook,
but I've added some extra prompts to it.
So if you have the workbook,
then you can use this to journal along with.
But if you don't have the workbook, that's fine.
Just use any normal notebook that you have.
Please give this video a thumbs up if you like the idea of the series,
and also make sure you subscribe and click that bell
so you're notified of all the updates,
because we're going to be working on our goals each month.
All right, so first let's do our May review.
Describe the past month in one word.
Next, jot down some highlights from the past month
that you want to appreciate and remember forever.
Next, what was one thing that you learned this past month?
What is one thing you're proud of from the past month?
Next, what is one mistake or weakness from the past month?
And what will you do to improve on that next month?
So if you're doing this along with me,
comment down below with the one thing
that you're proud of doing in May.
All right, so now I'm going to share my answers
for my monthly review for May.
If you're not interested in hearing my answers, that's totally fine.
You can skip over to this timestamp on the screen to continue planning for June.
But May for me in one word was: Emotional.
For some reason I felt a lot of emotions this month,
and not saying it was all bad emotions.
It was like happy crying, crying over beautiful things,
crying over being nostalgic, crying over just anything really.
Nostalgia was a big theme this month,
just looking back at good memories I had in the past,
looking at old photos, travel photos,
listening to music that I haven't listened to in a while,
and even dreaming about people that I haven't seen in years.
It was so weird.
Another highlight was: I finally went out into nature.
I went hiking for the first time in this quarantine with my family,
and that was really, really refreshing and nice.
Mother's Day was really nice.
We were just listening to a bunch of old love songs
from the 80s and 90s like Celine Dion,
just songs that my mom used to love singing karaoke to.
I gave my brother a K-pop makeover.
I curled his hair, and we were so excited,
we were like, “Let's do a photo shoot right now,”
so we just did the whole shebang,
and that was really fun and surprisingly,
I was very impressed at myself.
This strawberry green tea with cheese foam on top was a highlight.
I love this drink.
I haven't had it in months.
If you guys don't know about cheese foam,
it's like an Asian boba thing, but it's so good.
The day Wilson came home with a big box of Pocky.
I did a bunch of dance workouts.
I love My Lee on YouTube, and her Despacito video.
for some reason it just got me feeling the feels,
like I felt like I was in a sweaty hot summer Latin country,
dancing the night away.
That was just me getting emotional again.
Dressing up to go nowhere.
I also did a YouTube takeover for the YouTube Creators channel.
I did a fun IG live.
Moving on, one thing I learned this past month was:
I got a lot better at my astrology practice
because I did my first unofficial reading for my cousin.
And doing readings for other people,
obviously, I'm still a beginner,
but it was a chance for me to practice my skills,
connecting all these meanings, and it's just a fun hobby of mine.
I am proud of being more productive this month
than I was in the past two months.
I felt like momentum started building again.
I'm really proud of the videos I've been editing lately,
especially the Essentialism one
and also the new workbook that I made for my
How to Figure Out What to Do With Your Life video.
My mistake or weakness from this month is not getting to certain important projects
because of time management.
I wanted to finish the 2021 workbook design,
but I haven't actually started yet, but that's okay.
I feel like I was already being really productive with my time.
It's just the fact that I overestimate
the amount of work that I can do in a month.
So learning from that, next month I'm going to try to do even less,
set smaller goals, just to make sure it's achievable at a balanced rate.
Moving on, let's plan for June.
Let's set our intentions first.
June will be ___, and fill in the blank.
Next, decide on your top three goals for June.
After that, do you have any mini goals,
any habits or fun activities that you want to do during this month as well?
So now that you have your top three goals
and your mini goals that you want to do this month,
it's time to break those goals down on a weekly basis.
So we'll create a weekly breakdown for what you want to achieve at the end each week.
At the end of each one, what will that look like?
And then at the end of Week 2 and Week 3 and so on.
Lastly, you take this time to put things down in your calendar.
So look at your breakdown of your goals
and mini goals that you want to do,
and schedule them in so you actually make them happen.
All right, so I'm going to plan for June.
For me, I wrote June will be “bright”,
because it's the beginning of summer and I love the vibes of June.
My top three goals in June is
1) I want to find a new designer or designers
to help me execute everything I want to execute:
rebranding my website, just new logos,
new product packaging, things like that.
I've been meaning to 2) work on my book outline.
So that is something that I want to tackle this month.
I want to at least start.
I want to at least open the doc and get that started.
My third main goal is to 3) finalize new packaging design,
because around this time of year I have to confirm
and finish all the designs for the 2021 workbook,
which launches at the end of the year.
And for mini-goals I just wrote dance and yoga.
Do those activities at least twice a week.
I'm going easy on myself.
I also added this note to plan a new challenge
because I want to do a challenge on YouTube again for you guys, so I gotta plan that.
Then I'm just going to do a weekly breakdown of these goals,
just to see what I can accomplish each week.
And finally I'm going to take some time to
just put it all into my calendar, just the weekly goals.
And seeing it like this in my calendar really shows me
how little I can do, meaning I always overestimated,
like I was like, “Oh, I want to do all these things.”
And I thought it was possible to finish within a week,
but actually I should just give myself more time to do stuff.
All right, hope you guys enjoyed this monthly planning video.
Again, comment down below,
give this video a thumbs up if you like the series,
if you want me to keep doing it each month,
because I think it'll be fun.
It's like a little reminder for you to plan your life,
because each month we have a chance to make progress towards our dream life.
I mean, every week, every day we have a chance to change our life for the better.
So yeah, hope you guys stay on track.
I'm sending you so much love and you know what?
Even if you fall off track, it's okay.
Just be gentle with yourself.
Pick yourself back up and try again.
We're gentle and compassionate here.
All right, sending you so much love.
Bye!