Hey there guys. And welcome back to Unjaded Jade.
Welcome to me talking about one of my favorite day to day things that I use,
something that my life hinges upon.
It's a thing that allows me to juggle uni and YouTube and
personal life and social life.
And when I read a book, it's how I explore my takeaways and remember things.
It's how I write my journal.
It's how I plan everything.
And that is Notion.
If you haven't already, I highly recommend watching my little video here
about how I set up my life using Notion.
I got many of my notion templates from this incredible human called Amelia Kroner
who is an alumni of my university.
If you like my general setup, I'll leave the link down below
and you can explore her template.
So feel free to donate to her Patreon et cetera.
Today, we are doing one of my favorite things.
And that is reflecting and setting goals.
If you follow me for a while, you know, that's something I do quite regularly.
I just love it. How can you know how best to set up your life
if you haven't even established your goals to yourself? Where do you want to put your
energy and what do you want to prioritize?
What do you want to achieve?
It's really important to just make the time to do that with yourself.
But at the same time, how can you set these goals
if you never look back and you never reflect on what's happened?
2020 has been quite a year.
I don't know about you, but it's been a bit of a mess emotionally,
work-life, loneliness wise, relationship wise.
This has just been a bit of a year.
So before I start forecasting 2021, I really want to just sit in the space
of what this year meant to me. Today,
I'm just going to take you through my notion process and how I reflect on 2020
and how I'm looking forward into 2021. Notion has so many incredible tools
to help make your goals actionable. I love notebooks,
I love pen and paper, but there is something amazing about this tracking tool
the habit tracking element,
the ability to have calendars, everything. Using notion like a
second brain, just super helpful.
I hope this video inspires you to reflect on your lived experiences of this year and
to really be intentional in crafting next year.
Also, if it wasn't clear, this video is sponsored by Notion,
which has just bloody dream.
Thank you.
Cool. So welcome to My Life Hub.
This is where everything happens.
This is where my life is contained.
This is everything from my university notes that I make in class to how
I plan my videos, how I think about content, how I journal my life,
how I prepare for moving abroad.
Again, if you're interested in this template, I've left Amelia Krona's
templates down below.
I also love to leave myself some kind of inspiring quotes or just conversations
with myself in the comments here.
One of my kind of mantras thoughts for going into next year is
really to stop taking things personally.
I am so emotional.
I'm sensitive.
And I think this year has really proven that more than ever before.
I just feel things a lot and get into overthinking
spirals a lot even if I rationally know that I shouldn't take things
personally and that it's not helping me.
I just do it anyway.
So yeah, one of my real mantras for next year, how can I hear
criticism and not take it personally?
How can I engage in difficult conversations and not take it personally?
So yeah, I've just kind of left out there. Cool.
But I made this page here.
You can just... it's really easy to make a page.
You just do a slash and you've got all these options for block.
You can build a notion and you can page.
And bam, you've got this untitled thing.
My 2020 Reflections.
It would be that easy.
There we go.
So that one would be there.
I woke up early this morning and made this one.
I feel like this is a blue pizza moment.
Here's one I prepared earlier.
Here are my goals and reflections, which I've kind of put into
different sections of my life.
But let's start with 2020.
I'm going to show you really quickly how I made this very simple reflections guide.
I've got two headings.
And then in each of these, I have questions. But what I love about
notion is that each question is a toggle so I can open it.
And then I've got my little answer there.
The way they made this is I click /
Heading 2, why not heading 2, heading 3, who knows. 2020 reflections.
Let's be creative, let's put some colour there and then underneath
it, I'm going to do the / again.
I've got all these options and I'm going to click the toggle list and
I can ask myself what other deeper, meaningful question I want to.
What was your most challenging moment of 2020?
And then I can just open that here and just take a moment and answer
that prompt and then... so yeah, here are the questions that I asked myself
like what am I most proud of?
What challenged me this year?
And a lot challenged me this year.
What were my favorite moments
where can I vividly feel the feelings that I felt or remember people's facial
expressions or like the way that the
sky looked well, you know, there's moments where you try
and capture the scene and your mind, because they're just so meaningful.
This is a moment to consolidate that.
And then before looking at tangible 2021 goals, I think it's kind of cool thinking
about how do I want to feel in 2020?
What is the ideal version of Jade?
What am I currently worried about?
What am I look forward to?
What am I committing to?
What does this exact day look like in a year?
So I kind of sit with myself and ask these questions, and then I haven't
answered these questions yet, but I will.
What will I say no to? A lot.
Another 2021 energy I need to have is
kind of going along with that, don't take things personally.
Don't be too much of a people pleaser.
I just ended up saying yes and over committing to things that
make me end up being really stressed and really time pressured
even though these things I say yes to earns me. I want to be a priority
and I just need to treat them like they're not because
every time you say yes to taking on something new,
you are saying no to something else.
If I say yes to this project, I'm saying no to more free time doing yoga.
If I say yes to going out with these friends, I'm saying no to a relaxed night
in when I'm already really stressed to just really being intentional with my
priorities and my ability to say no.
Yeah, this is the way that I do my goals and reflections.
I'm pretty basic.
I've seen some people doing some gorgeous
deep interesting tables and notion really does let you do that.
But for me, I've just gone for a classic list.
Kind of like blurting out everything that I just think over the top of my mind.
And then I've got my month overviews, which I tend to use quite religiously.
So every month I have my priorities and then what's going to happen in each week.
Here we go. So I'm trying to make my goals super realistic.
Everyone does new year's resolutions and goals a bit differently.
Perhaps you've heard of the smart
framework of making your goals really like realistic and manageable and actionable
time based, all these things that you can integrate to make it more likely
you're going to complete your goal.
I'm a mixture of smart goals and high level goals often with
continuations of things I'm already doing with a few super ambitious goals
just chucked in there for the fun of it.
For example, I'm quite proud currently of my yoga and meditation training.
I am mentally very good
right now not because the world isn't a mess because it really is, but more because
I just do stuff from my brain every day and it's really important.
And I want to do that next year too.
My level of patience, my level of positivity, it all hinges on exercise.
I have to exercise or I just feel rubbish.
So that's just something I'm putting into next year.
I'm going to be taking my vitamins more frequently and the way that
I'm going to help integrate this is
In my habit tracker, here we go.
I can create a new column, Vitamins taken?
Now to help me do that goal, I can tick when I've remembered to
take them and sort of review this.
I want to improve my German.
I want to maintain my Dutch.
I'm really trying to get better at Hangul and having basic conversations in Korean.
I really... like I'm the worst also ever.
I have no coordinational s kill, but I would love to do a bit of K-pop dance.
You know, they're really sassy people who just look so fire and amazing,
and I'm like, this really isn't my skillset, but why not?
Why can't I learn that? Growth mindset, so I'll start with note tutorial or so,
but by the end of next year, I will to present to you some kind of K-pop dance.
I'm committing that now.
I think something ukulele this year and I would love to love finger
picking and just be able to like do a few songs really confidently.
And it's a real challenge for me.
Like we think was just, don't do it.
There are so many things I want to learn next year.
I want to learn more about Korea.
There are so many books on different topics that I want
to read on climate change. Climate justice.
So many anti-racism books that are on my TBR pile, and I still
need to get round to them.
I really want to read more of a DGAs books.
I want to explore my spiritual beliefs more.
I want to read some more Eckhart Tolle.
I want to explore my activism.
I want to speak to mentors that I have and be more
intentional investing in mentors.
There's something really special about having someone external to your life
who's still kind of invested in it and just can help give you direction
in a coaching way. The way I'm already structuring this learning
element is I have got the next
six months here in my overview of my months. And to make these crazy
goals like land a career and more actionable, I'm already starting to
break it into many actionable goals that I can slot into the months.
Otherwise, they'll just never happen.
For example, finish level one of Talk To Me In Korean, which is this really
cool Korean podcast learning platform.
January, I will finish level one. Whatever I need to do to
make that happen, I will do it.
I'm already sort of putting in the books that I'm going to start
reading in different months to make those elements of learning happen.
And I really like this gallery view on notion.
I think it just helps you visualize things better.
YouTube, you see, I set these random numerical goals, like, Oh my gosh, I'd
love to get 500K on YouTube.
But at the end of the day, numbers are numbers.
I really want to continue crafting this positive.
amazing, inspiring community of people that I just feel so
grateful to have on here and on Instagram and on TikToK.
And so my YouTube goals were very intangible here because it's
such a creative space that I don't really know what I want to say.
Like I weirdly don't care about numbers that much.
I just want to keep being something hopefully, good and useful on the internet,
continuing to connect
to people in a more meaningful way and exploring that. In quarantine, I
really didn't plan to be as weird and creative on YouTube as I ended up being.
But that was kind of the beauty. It was just very spontaneous.
So let's see.
I would love to have a podcast, but at university, I just don't have time.
And university is my priority.
But podcast?
I don't know if you guys have ever kept a diary, but I never really did
in my teenage years. I did as a child early teen, but notion has changed my
commitment and ability to journal.
I have maintained a journal most of the week, most of the days of the week
in Berlin. And guys, I can't show you this because it's embarrassing.
This is all the T of my life condensed into journals, but already, now that
I'm coming to the end of my time here, it is so meaningful to be able to
look back and watch how my feelings unraveled, how my experiences
had changed, how my relationship to my roommates developed over time.
All these good memories just captured in the moment.
I can't recommend journaling enough.
So I'm going to continue that the older I get. I also realized just
how important friends relationships and being intentional with it is
especially now I live abroad a lot of the time and seeing family is just
really hard for life takes over.
You're always going to be busy. So how can I be more intentional
next year in calling the people that matter.
There are awesome personal projects, which have been in my mind
for so long and I'm hoping could maybe come to fruition in the next year.
We shall see. Academically, just to keep my head above water and still
trying to enjoy life like university is hard, but try and be specific.
Some resolutions I have are to
get to know my professors more, go to office hours more frequently
with every professor that I have.
And I guess that's it. I've gone through phases
with new year's resolutions.
Sometimes I set a hundred different resolutions and realistically
not every single one happens.
So I try to boil it down to things I really do want to commit to.
But as I said, notion is just
the best thing ever. I wrote all my class notes and how I sort them.
I have my University Hub. I think, after what has been such a tough year
and then looking into the next year where we still didn't really have closure
on a lot of what made this year hard,
you can just feel a bit fake trying to be optimistic about about the
year, you know, why set goals when everything's so uncertain?
Things like go traveling in summer, they're so uncertain. But at the end
of the day, there are a lot of goals, which aren't external, maybe like on
huge external achievements,
aren't like go traveling or do this, but instead more internal challenges,
more things you can learn, aspects of yourself that you can focus on,
aspects of your personality.
You can be more conscious of work, on...
Us humans, we just construct time, like years are so arbitrary.
Why is there a huge reset as soon as it goes January?
That doesn't have to be. If you want to have a huge reset right
this very moment, you can have a reset right
this very moment. New year's resolutions or midday resolutions or whatever.
I really do believe if you need a framework, if you need some new goals
to reinvigorate your life, you can give yourself that. You just have
to choose to. Here's thank you to Notion for sponsoring today's video
and more generally for helping me sort out my life.
Whatever this year hold for you, whatever next year holds for you, I'm
wishing you luck in the journey of it all. Be kind to yourself, but also be
ambitious because you're amazing and whatever you want to achieve, why not?
Truly, if it's something you want to do, you can do it.
Very quickly, the casual magic of my day is that I'm looking outside and
it's been such horrible weather in Berlin for the last few days.
But the way that the sun is shining on the building opposite me,
it's like, it's turned the street a new color.
It's just made all these blue shadows.
It just looks really beautiful.
So that's... I was just talking to Google board today.
Have a lovely rest of your day. Bye!