- Don't go corona-crazy, honey.
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Good morning, good life.
Welcome back to Amy TV where we come together
to help you go after the life you want.
What a crazy time to be alive, right?
The world has come to a complete standstill
over a crazy virus that's trying to take us out.
I'm starting to take it a little personal.
We have been left with no choice
but to stay home and protect each other
so that we can all come out on the other side of this.
But just because you're in quarantine
doesn't mean you have to go crazy.
I know that there are some people out there
that are chomping at the bit and we have not really gotten
very far into this process yet,
and it's still gonna be a minute.
So I have a few suggestions for things
you should not do during this time of quarantine
so that you can still try to be your best possible self
on a daily basis, and come out better on the other side.
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But we don't live in a perfect world.
We live in a world of coronavirus.
So give it a shot anyway, why not?
The first thing you should not do
in quarantine is overeat.
Isn't it delightful being next to your kitchen all day long?
On one hand, we're all trying to salvage as much
as our food as we can just in case the worst case scenario
were to happen and we literally can't leave the house.
But also, we're hungry a lot.
Like, any time you think of food, it's time to go get
something out of the pantry.
This is not a good idea
because we have the ease of our stove and our oven
and our refrigerator and our pantry and everything
available to us.
So you have to figure out
how to set those boundaries in place.
How're we gonna keep ourselves from eating all day long
even though it feels like the weekend
where we tend to do that?
I mean, I do, I don't know about you.
This won't work for everybody, but I do have some more
suggestions in the printable download
in the description below if you would like to try something
that's going to help you to regulate your overeating
while you're quarantined.
Number two, while you're quarantined do not
leave the TV on all the time.
It is far too tempting to just watch TV all day long,
especially for those of you who are working from home
or need to get something done while at home
and think that they can do it and multitask
with a TV in the room.
I've said it once before, those programs on the Netflix
are highly addicting for a reason,
because they're excellent!
So are you really gonna run the risk that you think
that you can allow your brainpower to work just as well
on what you have to do while you're definitely
watching that TV that is on right now?
Instead of leaving the TV on,
my advice would be to set TV time for you.
Even if it's different for other people in your house,
there are only gonna be certain times that you will enjoy
a little bit of Netflix and chill.
The rest of the time, choose a designated space
away from these devices that you can focus on
on the things that you need to do.
This may not be possible for some people,
there may not be that many rooms in your house,
there may not be that much space alone for you.
But if you can at least limit the amount of television
that you're watching instead of constantly having it on
because you like background noise,
then you're gonna come out a lot better
from this whole process, not finding you end up
watching hours of television more than you had planned.
Do not forget to exercise.
It's so easy to not have energy to do anything
when you're lazily around the house,
even if you are working but you're very sedentary.
If you don't make the time to work out now,
when would you?
How can we be better at this when we leave the house often
than we are when we're not?
I'll tell you.
If people are used to going to classes or the gym,
this feels like an impossible feat.
How am I supposed to work out just as effectively at home
if I feel I don't have the equipment
or the space to do that?
One really important thing you should be doing
is getting outside.
This is both great for your exercise
and also for your state of mind,
your vitamin D levels and also your sanity.
Where I live, it's not been perfect to be working out
outside every day.
We go from like a 45 degree day to like a 28 degree day,
so it's still kinda iffy at this moment.
But spring is supposedly coming,
and this should get a lot easier as we go.
Regardless, create a plan.
If you need to just do a body weight workout with an app,
then set the time to do that, find the space to do it.
If you have no weights and you have no other equipment,
there are options everywhere.
There's even an app you can download
that will give you a seven minute workout
that's very effective.
I will link to a lot more options
in the printable download,
but what's most important is that you do not avoid it.
This is a very important source of energy
that you're going to need to pull from
as you continue to go through this process
and not be completely worthless
for the entire amount of time that you are quarantined.
And do not forget your good habits.
It's very easy to forget habits when we change our routine.
We finally nail down a routine that we love
and then it falls to the wayside
because of uncontrollable events,
it's very easy to forget those habits
and that we need to keep up with them.
The ones that you can continue, like working out
even though in a different space,
is so important to your state of mind
because these are decisions
you don't have to make every day.
It's really important we save our decision making process
for the important things,
so stuff like how you wake up in the morning
and how you take care of yourself
and how you work out and those things,
make them a decision in advance
so that you're not waking up every day
trying to figure out what you're gonna do.
Instead of forgetting your good habits,
one suggestion that I have
is that you have a weekly reflection routine.
I do this on every Sunday, where I go through a lot
of reflection questions for myself, check in on my goals
to see how things are going.
I find that this is an even more critical time to do that
because it feels like Groundhog Day every day
where you're waking up in the same space
trying to do the same things all the time.
Are you making progress?
Check in with yourself.
While you're quarantined, do not waste the entire day
going on a scroll.
You know how much I hate an incessant social scroll.
Sometimes when you're on Instagram
it really is a great time.
I have to say,
I have become quite the Tik Tok consumer lately
and that is the new YouTube black hole,
I am just gonna say.
It is enjoyable.
But you lose so much time.
It is amazing how much time passes
when you are fully enjoying that moment.
If you spend an entire doing that, what life do you have?
Let's be honest.
I mean, yes, it's great, but how is it really helpful?
It's funny but it's not helpful.
Instead of wasting the entire day on your phone
which is, again, a total black hole once you pick it up,
start your day with the Ivy Lee method.
I love this method, it keeps me really focused
if I'm feeling all over the place, no matter if social media
is distracting me or my ideas are distracting me
because I have so many.
Sit down and write down your six priorities for the day.
Guess what, you probably won't get to them all.
By having them and putting them in order of importance
so that you can get to the ones that are the hardest
and the most important first whenever possible,
you're much more likely to get something done that day
than completely leaving everything to chance
and definitely scrolling too much social media in the act.
While you're in quarantine, whenever possible,
do not fight with your loved ones.
We're gonna be in this situation for awhile, okay?
You gotta be the good you want to see in the world.
For real, though.
Some of us are blessed with three floors
in their brand new house and lots of rooms to choose from,
so you can avoid fighting with their significant other.
We actually right now don't have anything to fight about
because we've been able to give ourselves a lot of space.
If I need to work upstairs, my husband will work
in the dining room and we'll swap whenever that's needed.
And we give ourselves the time and space
that we need so that when we come together for meals,
when we watch television, when we Skype with our friends
on Saturday night because we can't actually hang out
in person, it's much more enjoyable.
There've been a lot of articles going around about how
coronavirus is going to be causing a lot of divorce,
and if that feels a little bit too close to home for you
that is devastating to even have that be a consideration
in someone's mind.
My instead for this is if you feel that a fight is coming,
do your best to not let it happen,
do your best to not contribute to it
while also listening to the other person
so that they don't think that you're just completely
checking out and not giving them the time of day.
I know that that's a delicate balance.
But also, if you want peace, it's not going to come
externally before it comes internally.
And if you just crave for somebody else to not put you
over the edge, you have to not allow that to be the case.
This is hard.
Like, it's just going to feel impossible
depending on where you are
in the wavering of your relationship.
But the best thing that you can do right now
is keep everyone healthy and the opposite
of keeping everyone healthy is being stressed to the nines
and screaming at the top of your lungs
when you literally should not be leaving your home
for the betterment of everyone on the planet.
That's a lot of pressure for y'all to be okay right now.
Take that pressure on yourself
but do it be saying I can find the peace within,
I will do the work to find the peace within
if I expect it outside of myself.
And my final thing to advise you not to do
during this quarantine is to avoid that thing
you never have time for.
Isn't this interesting?
We have so many things that we wish we could accomplish,
things that we wish we could do.
Things that we wish we had done in our life,
things we wish we knew.
Foreign languages we wish we had learned,
books we wished we read.
But where's the time?
But where's the time, they say?
Where is the time?
Again, parent police, hold on, okay?
Just give me a second to get my point across, okay?
I know, I get it, I get it, I don't get it,
but I get it.
It is possible to prioritize yourself.
You know when that window of time is.
It could be 15 minutes long, it could be 30 minutes long.
You might actually have two hours that you know about
and you don't like to tell your friends
because it's easier to say who has the time?
But the baby has to take a nap,
the kids have to go to school still.
A lot of them are getting educated virtually.
If you have any faith in the education system
that your child is in, you should be setting up
that virtual teaching for success in any way
that you have possible.
Now I know there's a lot of kids that need devices
that don't have them because they're not going to school.
A lot of kids need to eat and they're having struggles
with that depending on the home life there.
And that's a lot of pressure as a parent.
Regardless of all of those things and your state,
whether you have kids or not,
if there's something you've always wanted to do
and it is possible to do from the safety of your own home,
now is the time.
And if it was every really a priority to you,
if it's actually the life you want,
you'll make the time.
So if you avoid it, if you let this moment in time
where literally the entire world is saying,
oh yeah, grace period of you need to stay home,
we can't really hold you accountable for anything,
with all of those things, the entire world
is giving you time right now.
And although yes, we have to manage the people in our house,
we can have to take care of them potentially for more hours
than we have been because we had a job to go to
and they had a school to go to,
you still have right now more time.
No commuting, none of that other stuff
that people are holding you accountable to.
You don't have to go to any parties,
you don't have to go do something that you said you'd do
even though you really don't want to.
You don't want to go volunteer for the PTA.
You don't have to do any of that right now.
You have time.
Whether you decide to use it is completely up to you
but you cannot blame the world right now
for the fact that you do not have time to do the things
you've always wanted to do.
You can't blame the world for not knowing how to do
the things you've always wanted to do
because you can figure it out if you want.
If you're watching this video right now,
you can figure out anything
that you wanna know right now,
and you can find the people that can help you
figure it out.
Will you make the time?
Will you continue to use that talking point?
Who has the time to avoid the things
you've always wanted to do.
Those are the things that I hope you avoid in quarantine
and some suggestions for what to do instead.
I've got even more suggestions
in a printable download for you.
That's linked in the description below
so make sure that you check that out.
Question of the day.
What is something you've always wanted to do,
you knew I'd ask, you knew I'd ask this.
What is something you've always wanted to do
now that you might actually have time to do it?
Share that in the comments below.
Let's hold each other accountable here.
It's what we do here at Amy TV.
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That's all for today, thank you so much for tuning in
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Kiss the ones you love, actually, probably don't do that.
Stay about six feet away and stay home and protect
the ones you love and the people you don't actually know,
protect them too, please.
And wash your hands.
And go after the life you want.
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It's nice and quiet up here, yes.
Are we working?
My husband will work in the dining room
and we'll swip,
and we'll swip.
What's a swip? (laughing)
I have bed head today, I can't get rid of it.
I can't.