Hi everyone! Welcome to Sandra Cires Art!
Like this video right now, if you prefer to be watching a movie, playing
but you know that... In order to have a better future you should be preparing yourself
Let's see, do you know what a habit tracker is?
I'll show you in a bit, but first I wanted to thank Preply
for sponsoring this part of the video
What I like the most about Preply is that it has a wide variety of tutors
That means that you are going to learn the language you want: English, French, German
As you can see, you have filters so that you can find the tutor that best suits your needs.
For example: how much do you want to pay, what time works for you.
I chose Beatrice, which in Italian would be Beatrice
(In Italian) Hello! My name is Beatrice, I am a native Italian speaker
She killed me with her presentation video, I really liked it!
Because I feel like she is excited to teach
(In Italian) I really like this job, I am passionate about it because I like to teach
the Italian language and its culture
(In Italian) Hello Beatrice! I chose you because we have many things in common
I also lived in Russia for six years
Among the constructive habits that I have proposed myself to maintain lately
are dedicating at least 30 minutes to 1 hour a day to learn something new
And learning another language can give you so many new chances
As you can see here in this lesson that I am having with Beatrice I was practicing
the remote past (In Italian) Eli did, right? -You pronounced well, the verb is correct
As you can see, the class can be taken with total comfort and is absolutely personalized for you.
I found it entertaining and very fun
(In Italian) A hug is good, see you next time! -ok, you too! Bye Bye! -Bye!
Oh, I loved it !! I really liked the teacher! She reminds me of Mirella, ohh! Makes me want to cry
Open in the description box that there I'll leave you the link to preply
so you have a 50% discount on your first lesson
And thank you Preply for sponsoring this part of the video!
And now I'm going to show you what the habit tracker is
Oh! An anecdote from when I was little just came to mind and I wanted to tell you about it.
When we were returning from Russia: my mother, me, who was only nine years old
and my little brother Pipi who was only nine months old; the plane made a stopover in Canada
And obviously since my little brother was only nine months old, my mother had to look after him.
And she had to take care of him and she was with the suitcases, plus she had the child in her arms, etc. etc.
And we were very thirsty, so my mother told me: "Sandrita, go there to the cafeteria and ask for three bottles of water."
This may sound silly, but it was a problem for me
So I got in line and started seeing that everyone was speaking English
And I was like... oh, how am I going to ask for the three bottles of water?
And while I was standing in line, I remembered that I knew how to count from 1 to 10 in English
(In English) One, two, three, four, five ...
So when it was my turn, I told the man just two words
three water, which was the other thing that I knew how to say, I knew how to say water
When they gave me the three bottles of water, and as I was walking towards my mother
I swear that I was feeling like a super hero
It may seem like not a big deal and nonsense, but
See how important it was knowing how to count and say two or three words in order to solve a problem!
Ok so now is the time!! Are you ready to find out what a habit tracker is?
Leave in the comment section below if you already know what it is about
If you've heard of it, or if you don't have any idea!
A habit tracker is a system designed so that you can see the progress
that you're doing in creating new habits
This is a technique popularized by Benjamin Franklin, it's very old!
Franklin wanted to follow 13 habits that would make him a better person
And he came up with the idea of creating a kind of calendar, where in the columns were the days of the month
And in the lines the 13 behaviors that would make him better
Every day that he fulfilled the task, he marked it with a cross
So, as the days passed and he saw more crosses on his calendar
He kept himself motivated not to break his crosses sequence
And that's how he realized that the important thing it's to focus on the process
And take those little steps every day that will bring you closer to your main goal
Meaning that having goals, of course! It is important, but it is more important to focus
in all the small steps we will take to get closer to them
Because if you don't take those steps, you will never achieve the goal
So the most important thing is not to break the sequence of crosses!
Don't break the chain of Xs!
Now I am sharing my personal habit tracker
Oh! It's a bit embarrassing, but if it can be of help to someone, it is worth it
As you can see, I already managed to incorporate drinking a green juice every morning
Because if you look at this I haven't broken the chain! At the moment I am recording this video
It is November 19th and as you can see there are 19 crosses
So that means that I have done it daily
A green juice will make you start the day on the right foot!
And since I know that you all are going to be asking me: Sandrita, show us what the green juice you make is like!
Which is also super easy to do, I'll be sharing it here!
I add a handful of spinach, a handful of kale, a whole banana
If you want you can add more fruit as I'm doing I love strawberries
all berries, back berries, blue berries, raspberries, I put all that in there
And then I add coconut milk, you can also do it with almond milk
I have tried it both ways and it is delicious
But let's say coconut milk goes better
The coconut hits different in this smoothie!
And I also like to add a handful of almonds because they give it that crunchy touch.
Oh! I love the texture of the almonds in the smoothie
And that's it! You do not have to add sugar because if the banana is well ripe
with the sugar from the banana, it will be enough!
I hadn't told you yet, but this juice will guarantee you the daily vegetable dose that you should every day
Of course, if you eat more variety of vegetables, it's better
But if you are a person who has to make an effort to eat vegetables
Make you this green juice every morning, it will be enough for your beautiful body
To get the vegetables you should eat daily
You've got to give this smoothie a try, gentlemen.
Because it really is delicious and you won't even feel the vegetables
Another habit that really makes a difference
Is cleaning every day, at least 15 minutes a day
I started with this habit cleaning only for a minute every day, then I increased the time
Pick stuff up at least two minutes, and now I already have it on 15 minutes a day
You really don't know how many things you can clean and pick up in
just two minutes, wow! Two minutes!
And it's not so annoying because ... even if you feel that cleaning is an annoying task
because it really is!
You could do it just for a minute, and then you'll see that you'll be able to do a task that you don't like to do.
For two minutes… too! Because it is not that long! You can bear it!
And at the same time that you start to do it, you'll get excited and sometimes even you'll do it
up to more than the minutes you planned
Let's do a test now, together!
How much can we clean and pick up in two minutes, let's go there!
Titi, could you do me a favor... -What happened?
Please be the cameraman for this part of the video, just for two minutes I'm going to pick up this room
Go ahead!
Let's start by turning on the lights, so we can see well
I'm not going to rush or anything like that, it's just for you to see that in two minutes
It seems silly but in reality you can do a lot of things
Everyone can clean for two minutes or pick up stuff for two minutes
We are going to make the bed, the truth is that I have never believed that it was so important
making the bed, I'm honest here with you
But if you are one of those who like to see everything well organized, it can give you mind peace
What I do… -Carin, don't you want to help?
What I do like, is having a clean bathroom
Look at Titi's mess -That's yours
Ok, it's not beautiful, beauty, perfect, but it's better than how it was
Then we can pick up in a second Titi's mess
And the shoes too… Look at this! Look! It has mold on the shoes of the back
Why did you put my shoes there? I do not understand…
Follow me, cameraman, I'm going to leave them here ... That's it!
I putting this here in the drawer, everything in the drawer
Carin, do you want to go to the drawer?
A ver cuánto me va quedando...? 12 segundos! -12 segundos?
Hey but look! I've just finished! - You only have those shoes over there left
I already put my purse in the closet
Done! -Done?
That was two minutes, right?
We are going to set two more minutes to clean the bathroom
So in 4 minutes time you will see the before and after
Look, this is going in the drawer
I'm going to grab one of these wet wipes, satinizer
I do it like this, come over there so they can see it
Look... look! -Super clean and organized
It really doesn't take that long, and it's easier to maintain it clean rather than doing a deep clean
That could take you a whole day just cleaning, because the house is very dirty
Carin tucked in the middle, as he likes it -It's a rug
Look at Titi's space -Titi's mess
This is going down over there
This goes here
And now let's clean it with the wet wipes
This one is dirty -No
Looks nice! -Look .. -Very clean
Oh, time's up -Look at this
Look how clean!
And in order to keep the video short, I am going to read quickly the other habits that I am trying
Cooking, because many times when someone is tired, it's not easy
When you're on the street and then you say, well I'm going to stop to eat a sadwich right here
But it is very important to cook, because when you cook at home
You are preparing the food, you know the way you are doing it
what ingredients are you adding
That means that we will always eat healthier when we eat at home.
Eat more vegetables, I have it on here too
And the truth is that I am proud because it has a cross on almost every day
And this is precisely the importance of the habit tracker because just by looking at it
you realize which habits you have managed to maintain and which ones you are having more problems with
And, for example, you stop doing it one day, it's dangerous because when you have been two days
without doing the habit, you are creating the habit of not doing the habit
So when you see that there are two little blank squares, you already know that tomorrow
You have to put the cross to that day no matter what!
Another habit that I am very, very proud of and that I can now remove from this list is
Doing my skincare routine every night, that one does have all the crosses on
So this as well as the one about drinking the green juice, I would say, that are the two habits
Which I managed to maintain, and the ones that have already become a habit
So I can remove them from this habit tracker now
At the beginning it was a bit difficult for me to do the skincare routine
Since I do the Asian ten step routine
It's a very large routine, so at first I was kind of
Oh Lord! Being ten minutes in the bathroom doing the routine is a lot
But with repetition, and repetition, and repetition, it became a habit and now I already do it automatically
It's no longer annoying, it's like brushing my teeth, it's like ... I don't know.. Like going to sleep
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I could recommend you books that I am listening to, I no longer read them, I listen to them
Because it is what works for me, that is what it all is about, getting to know yourself and doing what best fits
to your temperament, to your lifestyle
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