A Day in My Life & My O.G Affirmations & Vision Board that Got Me Here

What's up, you guys? Welcome back to the podcast. I don't think I've ever laughed this hard while recording maybe any episode of the podcast, but definitely a solo episode, like just sitting here by myself hysterically laughing. You'll just have to listen in to find out why, and hopefully you think it's funny too and we can laugh together. Um, in this episode, we're gonna chat about what a day in my life looks like from morning to night, how I schedule my week. The scheduling software that I cannot live without, and the time blocking technique that I like to use. I also get into my brand new revamped morning routine and how after telling you last week that I had no routine, I immediately got the ick and felt like I needed to switch it up. Classic Virgo Rising was like, bitch, absolutely not. This cannot be us. So there's a new revamped routine. I'm going to share with you my signature journaling method. And the most fun part of this episode, I think, in my opinion, is where we dissect and laugh at my very first vision board. I also give you my OG affirmations that I was using religiously at the start of my journey that have helped me get to where I am today, and a gorgeous little exercise for you to try in your journals. So let's go.

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Let's go make shit happen. I think we'll start with kind of like schedule and daily life stuff. So someone asked, how do you manage your time? And do you time block? So I like this question because I think we're it's natural that we're just curious about how other people do things so that we can kind of cross-reference how we're doing it or find a new way of doing things. Or maybe the way that you're doing something isn't really working for you, but you're not totally sure of what a possible or potential alternative could be. So it can be really helpful to just hear from other people, hey, what are you doing, right? So I kind of time block, but it might not be in the traditional sense. I think when I learned about time blocking a couple of years ago, the way that it was described was a little bit different than how I actually do it. So I'm just gonna tell you how I like to do it. I basically, Google Calendar is my Bible, and if you are a business owner of any kind, especially you need Google Calendar. Like all of my clients, if you're in ANA, if you're a private client, I'm always like, please, for the love of God, get Google Calendar and start living by it. It's going to make things so much easier for you. I used to be a physical diary person. I loved having like an agenda, and for a large part of my business to start, I would like write down all of my appointments and my to-do lists in a physical agenda. But as you grow and kind of expand your business, you're gonna want a Google Calendar. And this is helpful, I think, for even people that just have regular jobs or regular lives and you're not entrepreneurs, but specifically just speaking to the entrepreneurs for a second here, you need Google Calendar. Okay, I'm just gonna, I'm just gonna put it out there. I really think that you need it. So this is how I manage my time. I literally use Google Calendar as my to-do list because here's what I used to do. I used to make a really big to-do list and then each day I would be like, okay, let me take a couple of things off of this master to-do list and try to get those done today. And I'll I'll just go through and I'll tick off the things that I can for today. But it wasn't very well thought out and it wasn't super organized. And I also didn't have any like timelines attached to those items. So it was just like, oh, I hope I can get to these 5 things today. But then I would end up feeling defeated when I didn't get to those 5 things. And then I still had this whole other master to-do list for the rest of the week. And I was like, well, I didn't even get to my 5 things today. So Now I'm gonna have to do more things tomorrow, which probably isn't possible 'cause I'm clearly not even getting the 5 done in one day. So it's just like a big mess, right? And so this is how I made it a lot more simple and realistic for myself was I started plugging in the specific tasks, like the specific to-dos on the to-do list. I would plug them into my Google Calendar and give that an estimated time block. So if I know that I need to sit down and plan and record this podcast, I'm going to budget an hour and a half to 2 hours for that, which it shouldn't really take that long. But sometimes we do record for up to an hour. And if I need to, like, you know, get my thoughts together, gather your questions, put some notes on a little thing in my notes app before I sit down, that could take 30 to 45 minutes depending on how distracted I am, right? So that's another part of this is being extra generous with your estimations of how long you think something will take. Because I used to be like, oh, I can write this email in 30 minutes, and then I can record this podcast in 45 minutes. It's like, well, no, if you're recording for 45 minutes solid, like that's the amount of time that you're talking for, you're going to need a buffer period of getting your equipment set up and getting your notes together and sitting down and, you know, stripping away distractions and actually pressing record and then saving the file at the end of it, all that other stuff, right? So instead of just being really tight, being extra generous with the amount of time that you think tasks are going to take you. I used to think I could write an email in 30 minutes. I'm just not that person. Like, it's probably going to take me an hour to write an email. Not just like a simple— I don't mean a simple email response, like someone's like, hey, where's this thing? Or how do I access this? That's not going to take me an hour to respond. But if I'm actually writing an email, like a newsletter that's gonna go out to my email list and I'm being creative, it's almost like a blog post. Like it takes time. And so understanding the amount of time that these tasks tend to take you and then just adding a little bit of an extra buffer, overestimating, and then plugging in those tasks with that estimated time block into your Google Calendar for the day. So this helps me stay really realistic about how much I can get done in a day. And instead of trying trying to get 5, 10, 15 things done in one day, I can see realistically, hey, I already have 3 client calls on the calendar for tomorrow. So let's plug and play. Let's take a look at the things that I'm wanting to get done this week and how much time I think they're gonna occupy with a little bit of a buffer and an overestimated time, and then see where that fits in to this day on the schedule. And that way you're not overbooking yourself or like overcommitting to how much you can really get done in a day. It just helps me be way more realistic with blocking my time. Are there times where I still go over the amount of time that I thought it was gonna take? Yes. Most of the time that's because something else came up, something unexpected. Um, like I have a, a message from my team or my assistant, or I have a, an important email from my graphic designer or an invoice that needs to be paid or something like an admin type task that I didn't have listed in my blocked out schedule for the day where I'm like, well, I need to get this done. And then that kind of eats into whatever I was supposed to be doing at that time. But again, it all comes down to like organization. So if you know there's certain admin things, even personal admin, like booking doctor's appointments or taking returns to the post office or checking in with your like with your CPA for taxes or anything like that, like booking a dentist appointment, like all that kind of stuff. I leave an actual block of time in my calendar for personal admin so that I know guaranteed every single week on Wednesday there's a 2-hour block where I can go, hey, what do I need to get done? And it may be something as simple as I need to do some online shopping because I have a concert or an event coming up that I want a cute outfit for. That's personal admin and that still needs space in my life to be able to get done, right? So it's all about like being able to input those things in there. I think some things that I can get better about adding into my personal schedule is like the unforeseen admin tasks when it comes to my business, making sure that there is a set like time block for that so that it isn't eating into my other tasks on a daily basis. I can also get better at inputting the actual time that I spend in Voxer with my clients because that's how we communicate back and forth. And right now it's just kind of like I check my messages at some point pretty much every day. And if I have messages from clients, I'll go in and I'll respond. I usually respond like while I'm on a walk or while I'm doing something else. But it would be nice to have a set time in my calendar of when I do that. So that things are just more organized. So we can always improve, but basically that's how I manage my time nowadays. Google Calendar is my Bible, and I think it will really, really help you putting in your to-do list with actual time blocks. Like, from 10:00 AM to 11:30, you are going to record that podcast. From 11:30 to 12:00, you are going to do that personal admin and shop for that outfit and get it get it shipped, like whatever it is, you can just put all those things in there and leave an allotted amount of time and get it done. So we love that. That's my Virgo rising coming out, just like hyper organization helping us make our lives more effective. So somebody else asked, what does your day-to-day look like? So I guess I can kind of take you guys through. I have a couple of themed days, which I know is really popular in the coaching space. But could be useful for anybody else. Like you can make your own themed days of sorts if you have the ability to. This relates a little bit more to my work life than personal life, but basically is— basically Mondays are my content days. So that's where I'm filming Reels. I'm writing out captions, I'm creating carousel posts. I'm making all the covers for the reels, so I'm in Canva doing that kind of stuff. All of the execution of the content that happens on Mondays, and that's basically like the whole day because I'm doing the content for the full week. And yeah, I'll do anywhere from like 5 to 6 posts a week. And so that'll take me about 5 or 6 hours. I think the more that I do it, The, the fa— I am getting a little bit faster, but it still does take quite a bit of time. And I think if you're, if you're still working a regular job or you're early on in your content creation journey, this isn't necessarily like the method that I would recommend. It's definitely not how I started when I was first creating content.

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I just didn't have the space or the bandwidth to be able to do that at that time. And so I totally understand that, and I don't want you to take what I'm doing now and just apply it to yourself and be like, oh well, I need to be doing that then. It's very unrealistic for a lot of people. So take that with a grain of salt. Obviously, you know, I work full time for myself and I have the ability to do a full content day anyways. Mondays are content days, then Tuesdays I have client calls and we'll, you know, shuffle in some work tasks in between those. And then Wednesdays I have personal admin and hypnotherapy. And it's kind of like a personal day. It's not that I'm off work the entire day, but it's definitely a much like lighter, more easeful day where I'm doing things for myself, personal admin tasks. I have my hypnotherapy appointments on Wednesdays. I'll probably like go to the beach or go to the pool for a little bit, but then I'll also do like some work tasks. But it's, it's things that are less demanding. I don't need to be sitting in front of the camera. I don't need to be fully on. I don't need to be I don't need to like have my makeup done or be looking a certain way. I can work on creative things behind the scenes when I have projects or courses that I'm creating. I might do that type of stuff for a little bit on Wednesdays. Um, Thursdays are another client day, so I have client calls with some other work tasks mixed in between there. And then Fridays are another day that I take off of calls. And what I do mostly on Fridays is plan the content for the next week. So I'll take about like 2 hours, an hour and a half in the morning to sit down with my Google document. And I have a running list of like potential content ideas, but then I'll also look at what is my life like right now? What am I desiring to share? Do I have anything coming up that I'm selling that it's really important that I talk about a specific topic so that it can directly relate to this thing that we're promoting? Um, and if not, it's just like, what am I feeling called to talk about? Where's my inspiration? Feeling into my ideal clients and what they might be thinking, experiencing, things they could resonate with, and coming up with the content ideas for the following week. So that's where I'll come up with 5 to 6 content ideas. I will start with just the general idea, and then I'll let myself flow and write things out a little bit. And then once I have a little bit of a written idea of what that piece of content might con— contain or entail, I'll go, okay, what's a good hook for this piece of content? Like, what's the title or the thing that's really going to draw people in? And now, how do I envision this piece of content coming to life? Do I picture this as a reel? If so, is it a reel where I'm going to share this message talking to the camera? Is it a reel where I want it to be like B-roll videos of, you know, things in my life and then there's just text over top? Is it a carousel post where you swipe through some images? Is it a carousel post where you swipe through and you're reading text? Because maybe there— maybe it's a text-heavy type post. So I know this is like kind of like getting businessy, even though it wasn't intended to, but like, that's my life, you know? Like, what does my day-to-day look like? Well, I'm a business owner, so that's what it is. Fridays are content days. And then, you know, I might— maybe I'll record a podcast on a Friday, but also might do that on a Wednesday. That's kind of why I just have Wednesdays and Fridays. Without client calls and Mondays as well. But Mondays are content days and that's just like the only thing that I'm gonna be doing on a Monday. But Wednesdays and Fridays are a little bit more open and that way I can fill in other things if need be or if things need to get rescheduled. I always have like 2 pretty open days that are options then if I wanted to move a call or something. So that's how I like to set up my week in terms of like from like morning to evening what my day-to-day looks like. I shared a little bit about this in the recent episode of my non-routine morning routine. And it's funny because literally the day after I recorded that, I was like, you know what, fuck this, I'm doing— I'm doing something different. So I literally told you guys because I'd been doing that for months. So it's It was, it was and is true. But I was like, you know what, maybe I am a little tired of the non-morning morning routine. So for the past 3 days, I've been doing something different, which it may change again. I'm not saying that this is like the holy grail and I'm going to stick with this forever because I'm a very like fluid person. I just kind of like do what feels good and what I like, and I try not to make it mean anything or get too obsessed with it or too addicted to it or you know, create an idea that like, I have to do this for X amount of time. I'm just like very— I'm way more chill nowadays, so I don't really care. I try stuff out and then if it doesn't work, I'm just like, meh, whatever, we'll try something else out. But I do kind of want to have a little bit more of discipline. Maybe that's like a— maybe that's like a deeper desire where I'm like, I don't really care. And then deep down I'm like, I kind of want to be like that person again who's like, I wake up and I do this, this, this, and I never miss. I don't know. We'll see. But for the past 3 days, I've been doing something different. So I've been waking up. I told you guys I snooze, but I've only been snoozing once. So I get a 5-minute— I get a 5-minute snooze in and then I'm like, okay, eyes open, sitting up in bed. I have been turning my phone actually all the way off. It. I always used to just have it in airplane mode, but I started turning it completely off just to see, I don't know what that would be like. Again, I just, I experiment on myself. I'm the guinea pig. So turning my phone off that way and I have a, I have an actual like alarm clock next to my bed, which is helpful because I hate getting sucked into the death trap of trying to wake myself up by looking at my phone because then what happens is you know, I have Instagram notifications and I have Slack notifications and I have Voxer notifications and I automatically just start going into work mode and then I'll be there for like an hour basically playing catch up with these work tasks and I'm like, oh shit, I didn't even do like a morning routine. So I haven't been doing that for a while, but that was like a pattern that I had to work through for sure. And so I decided, oh, it would be even harder to revert back to that pattern if my phone was just off. Not airplane mode, because you can easily just— you swipe down, you click it, and the airplane mode disappears. And now you're free to go back to all of your dirty little secret patterns. So I'm turning the phone off. And the reason I'm doing that is because I want the first thing that I do in the morning to be my journaling. You guys, I went back to doing my 3-3-5, which if you are an OG you will know what the 335 journaling method is. I started this so long ago, like I think 2018, so it's been years. And I used to use this. Yeah, I used to use this method religiously. I would do it every single day. And I was thinking the other day about how when I was still working in my 9-to-5 job and I was teaching in schools in Spain, and I was also trying to build this business on the side. I was so committed to doing the 3-5 every day that I would bring my journal to school and I would try to get there like 5 to 10 minutes early in the morning so that I could sit down, open my journal, and do my 3-5. And if I didn't finish it in the morning before my first class, then on my lunch break after I finished eating, I would go back upstairs to the staff room, I would whip out my journal, and I would finish the 3-5. And I'm like, you know what, this is— it was such good practice. And I've shared it with so many people. And it's helped so many of my clients and friends and peers. And people really have like a solid, quick way to journal in the morning or in the evening, whenever you want to do it. And I just haven't been doing it recently. And I was— I had so much more, I guess. That's subjective. I feel like I had more going on when I was working another job and building a business, which I guess is true, but there's also a lot going on now with just— it's, it's pretty like full on, you know, running a company of this size and still being a very small team of just me and my assistant and then a few freelancers who do some things for me on the side. So yeah, I don't know if that's exactly, exactly 100% factual observation of saying like, oh, I had so much more going on back then, but it kind of feels like life was more hectic. Then, and even then I was committed to doing the 335, to doing my daily journaling. So I was like, you know what, fuck it. If I could have done it then, I can definitely do it now, which is— that's very true. So I started in the mornings leaving my reMarkable next to my bed. I have the reMarkable, which is a— how do we describe the reMarkable? It's like it's a tablet but it's not a tablet. It's basically like a virtual journal, but it helps you keep everything organized. So instead of having a million notebooks laying around where everything gets lost and you're like, oh my God, I wrote that one thing down in that notebook once, and then you're trying to find it and it's gone. And that was my life for so long. I got the reMarkable back in at the very end of 2021 for my birthday. I got it for myself for my birthday, for my 28th birthday, it must have been. Yeah, it was right before I was going to Costa Rica on a leadership immersion retreat. And it was my birthday. And I was like, you know what I would love, especially when I'm traveling and going on retreats and things, to just be able to bring this like tiny, thin tablet of a notebook. And it has all of my notes that I've ever taken in it. I have my personal journals, it has business ideas, it has things that I want to do or create or talk about for certain programs. And it's all organized into separate notebooks for everything and it's all in one and it's just compact and beautiful. So I got that for myself and I love it. I highly recommend it. This is not sponsored by reMarkable, but honestly it should be. Shout out reMarkable. If you want to sponsor the podcast, hit me up and let me know because I know a lot of people have bought reMarkables because of me. And you know what? I didn't get a single cent of commission on that. But anyway, I put my Remarkable— so it's basically like a virtual journal and you write on it with a— like, it's almost like a stylus, but it feels like you're writing with a real pen. It's much different than writing on an iPad, for example. It feels really like you're writing on paper and you can choose different— like if you, if you want it to be like a pencil point or a ballpoint or an ink pen or highlighter or marker. And it's— check it out, it's cool. But I'm going to get off my soapbox about the reMarkable. So I leave it next to my bed. Phone is off. Alarm goes off. I snooze it once because you know what? I'm just not ready yet. And then I open my eyes. I sit up, which is so hard for me. I don't know why. Does anyone else experience this? Like, it's literally— it feels like there is a 1,000-pound weight on top of my eyelids every morning when I'm trying to open my eyes. It like it pains me to open my— like, it's physically taxing work to be able to open my eyelids in the morning. Anyway, I force my eyelids open, I sit up in bed, I grab my reMarkable, and I do my 3-3-5. So for anyone who's not familiar, the 3-3-5 is my signature journaling method. I made it up. I tried all the journaling that everybody had ever given me in the world. I tried the Five Minute Journal and all these different methods, and I just basically condensed it down into what I felt were the most potent and powerful aspects. And I used it for years and it helped me manifest a ton of stuff. So if you want to try it, here it is. It's 3 wins or gratitudes. So these can be things that you're grateful for or things that you've accomplished that you feel really proud of yourself for. 3 wins or gratitudes, and then you have 3 affirmations. So you're gonna think about how you are desiring to feel that day, and you're gonna write out 3 affirmations that help you embody that, that are an expression of how you're wanting to feel, how you're wanting to approach the day, or what you're wanting to believe about yourself, what you're wanting to believe is possible. So the way that I like to do the affirmations on a daily basis to avoid doing the same affirmations all the time is to look at it through that lens of like, okay, what is today? What do I have going on? What's coming up? Maybe, you know, what's feeling off for me? Where am I feeling? Is there any blocks that are coming up for me? Do I feel a little bit nervous about something? Do I feel scared about something? Do I feel like I'm holding myself back in some way and using that as fuel to go, okay, Let's rewrite the narrative for today. What are 3 affirmations that can help me counter those things and really embody the version of myself that I want to be today? So you write the 3 affirmations and then you have 5 big life goals. The 5 big life goals, they stay the same every single day. And the point of that is that you are using that repetition to rewire your neural pathways to believe that those things are possible. For you. So 5 big life goals. They could be goals about your health, your relationships, your career, money, anything like that. You're going to create your 5 big life goals and write them down every single day, and eventually they will become memorized. And that's amazing because once they become memorized and you're able to write down like 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and whip them out without even having to look at what you wrote the previous day, you know, you're getting really— you're getting a lot of reps and you're really starting to work that into your subconscious mind because you don't even have to think about it consciously anymore. You just know it. And that's the whole point of doing it that way. So I started doing the 335 again, and then I'm doing my lemon water again, which I used to do in the mornings a lot last year while I was heavily working on my gut health. So I've gone back to doing a big glass of lemon water, and then I'm either going down to the gym for a quick workout or taking the dog for a walk. I'll do one of those two things. And that's the new morning routine. Okay, we're trying it out. I'm not saying I'm going to stick to it forever, but I will let you know. And then I get into work. So I usually start my client calls around 10 a.m. If it's a day where I don't have clients, I'll start whatever my work tasks are for that day around 10, and then I'll usually take like an hour or two break in the middle of the day for lunch. Because Jaime and I usually have lunch together. So someone will cook lunch while the other person takes the dog for another walk and then we'll eat together. Sometimes I'll go down to the pool or the beach after lunch for a little bit and read a bit of my book or reply to some client messages while I'm doing that. Or maybe I'm like writing out some notes of what I'm thinking for a podcast episode or doing some sort of like productive task. But I'm also getting out into the world and enjoying my life, and then I will come back and continue working from anywhere from like 2:30 or 3 until probably like 5 or 6. It depends if I have evening calls with some of my groups that I guide. And then after that, I will probably either take the dog for a walk or I'll have some sort of like entertainment, like I'll listen to a podcast or I will watch something on Netflix or I'll watch a YouTube video. Something to just kind of like disconnect me from work. But that's a place where I definitely struggle, is that like transition from working from home to just being and living at home. And then Jaime and I will do dinner together every night. We'll cook, we'll eat, clean up, maybe watch something, maybe not. It's not like we do that every night because we usually finish kind of late and we're trying to get to bed earlier. And then, yeah, we'll go to bed around probably like 10 or 10:30. And that's a day in my life. So exciting. Oh my gosh, you guys, this is really long. We might have to split this into two podcasts. Okay, let's see how far we can get. Someone else asked, how do you do so much and still look like you're on holiday every day? Never stressed and never tired. I don't think I'm never stressed or never tired. I definitely do get stressed at times. I will share a post this week on Instagram about how last week we thought there was $250,000 missing from the business. And I can promise you, your girl was stressed when that happened. So there's definitely things that happen where I get stressed. There's times where I'm tired, but I sleep pretty well. I usually sleep like at least 8 hours a night, every night. That's also because like if I go to bed later, I have the ability a lot of days to let myself sleep in a little bit later than like I don't need to wake up right at 7 every single day because again, I don't really start my work tasks until 10. So I just, I get good sleep, but I'm definitely— and it also helps like the thing about like looking like you're on holiday, it helps when you live in a place where people do holiday. Like, this is a spring break destination. It is a holiday town. It's a place where people come to retire. It's where people have vacation homes. Like, that definitely helps the overall, like, image of like looking like you're on holiday. It's like, yeah, well, I live in a place that people do go for holiday all the time. So living right across the street from the beach will make it look like you're on holiday every day, even though you're still working and doing normal life stuff. So I think also just remembering that when hard things are happening for people, the most likely thing that they're going to do is go inward. Or talk to the people in their life that they need to talk to in order to work it out. What they're probably not going to do is like whip out their phone and start recording it, which is why we get like the highlight reels on social media. So even if I'm having like a really bad day, I like to share the duality as much as possible. But also sometimes like you just need space on your own. To like move through something or to feel something fully and you don't want to record it and you like, you don't want to film yourself crying or you don't want to. And that's also like, I think we have the right to reserve that piece of our privacy. But in terms of when we're looking at everybody else from the outside, just remembering that, right, of like what you're seeing is naturally going to be the best parts because when you're experiencing something, beautiful or aesthetic or fun or exciting, that's when you whip out your phone and you're like, oh my God, this is so cute, or this is so pretty, or this is so valuable, or people would love this, or I want to share this, I want to tell someone about this. That's when you whip out your phone and you record it. When you're like, oh my God, fuck this shit, I feel like garbage, you're not like, let me whip out my phone and record it. So I think that that's part of it also. But I will say I am a very like happy, well-rested, not super stressed person most days. And that's because of a lot of like the work that I've done on myself. And it's also because of the privilege of getting to control my own schedule. How do you show up for your business when you don't feel aligned or energetic? So I think like sometimes we can use alignment as an excuse And what I mean by that is we hear about alignment so often that we assume that if we were in alignment, everything would feel easy and it would feel really good. But you can be in alignment and still do things that feel hard or that you don't feel like doing, and that can actually be part of the alignment. So I think rewriting the narrative about, oh, alignment means that it just clicks and it feels really good and it feels super easy and it's like, yes, oh my God, I'm aligned. Mm, not really. You know, like, you could be directionally aligned with where you're trying to go in life, and that could still mean that there's really hard steps and tasks and things that need to get done along that path. And showing up when you don't feel like it could actually be part of that alignment of, like, you are so in line with your direction, with your mission, with your vision, that you're willing to do what it takes every step of the way, even when sometimes you don't feel like it. So I think That's what I would say to that question. Also, it's like, how many of us have showed up for a regular job when we didn't feel aligned or energetic? It's like you just fucking do it, you know what I mean? Like, we've all done that. We've all gone to a job and been like, oh my God, I don't want to be here today. I'm not feeling it today. But you fucking do it. So that's what I do with my own business, right? That's what I do with my own company. It's like, oh, I'm feeling a little bit off today. I'm feeling a little bit tired. Could I— if it's like a very dire thing, could I give myself the space to take a break, take a day off, go inward, do some healing work, whatever it is? If I really needed that, yes, I could do that. But sometimes it's like, do you really need that? Or are you being a little bit dramatic and you just need to suck it up and do the hard things that sometimes we don't feel like doing? So that's my answer to that one. Someone asked for to give kind of like a flashback of my vision board and what my affirmations were back in the day compared to what my life is now. And I thought this was a really, really cool question. So I actually went back and I looked at my very first vision board that I ever made in 2018, and I pulled some of the quotes off of it. And I'm going to, I'm going to paint the picture for you since this is just audio. I'm going to point the— paint the picture for you of what was on this vision board and share with you my top 5 affirmations that I used at the time back then in 2018. And it'll be kind of fun to just see how it's all evolved. Obviously, like if you follow the podcast, you know a lot about what my— or if you follow along on Instagram or whatever, you know a lot about like what my current life and business and things look like.. So we'll just do the flashback and then you can compare to like what my life is now so that we're not here for 2 hours. Okay. So my top affirmations back in the day, like in 2018 when I was getting started, really going into my personal development journey, I didn't have a business yet, but I definitely knew that I wasn't going to be— I didn't want to be teaching English in Spain for the rest of my life. I just knew that I wanted something more. I wanted something fun. I wanted something that felt really aligned with me. I didn't want to do a boring-ass corporate job, but I had really no idea what that was going to be. My top affirmations back then were: everything is always working out for me, every dollar I spend comes back to me multiplied, I host a top podcast. Okay, so this one was part of my 335 back then, like part of my 5— my big 5 life goals in my 335 back then. There were 2 in there that I thought I would share. One was I host a podcast. And the other one was I'm a 6-figure coach, which we know that both of those things came true now. So recently when I redid my morning routine, like a couple of days ago, and I was like, oh, I'm going to redo— I'm going to start doing the 3-3-5 again. I was like, wow, this is so fun because I have to start over with the 5 life goals because the other ones I did them. And at that time they felt like they were like big monumental life goals. Like, if I could achieve this in my lifetime, I would be so excited. And I did them. So I had to start over and make new ones, which is so frickin' cool. And then another affirmation that I was saying all the time back then was like, my passion is my paycheck. I just wanted that to be true so badly, which is why that's the slogan for Abundant and Ambitious: Make Your Passion Your Paycheck, because it was this quote on my vision board and then it came into real life. And that's the program where I really teach people how to take their passion and turn it into their paycheck. So it's a whole inspiration for that program as well, which is quite cool. And then what was actually on my vision board back then was lots of images of like travel and some different places that I wanted to see in the world and kind of like healthy living and clean eating. And there was a lot of like images of yoga because I really wanted to become a yoga teacher, which eventually I did in 2019. So there was lots of travel, healthy living, and yoga. And then there were images of like working from a laptop and cameras and this like YouTube logo because I knew that I wanted to be more— I knew that I wanted to utilize social media as part of my creation process of whatever I was going to build, but I didn't really know what that was going to be yet. I thought I might do a YouTube channel. I really loved Sarah's Day at the time, which I still— I still follow Sarah's Day and I love her. And she kind of just like was inspiring me at that time of like, oh, wouldn't it be so cool to like have a YouTube channel? But then I don't know, I just never did YouTube. Maybe we will someday. I feel like I need a film crew to do YouTube because I'm like a very— I'm a very like when it comes to content creation, I'm like there's a lot happening already. So if I were to do YouTube, I would need a whole team because we need this to be minimal effort. We are not adding something else that big on, on our plate right now. So no YouTube at the moment, but that was on the vision board. But it was basically like being a business owner, working for myself, working from a laptop, content creation, that kind of thing. It was images that sort of illustrated that. And then these were the quotes that were on the vision board. Things will work out. Good things are coming. Be the energy you want to attract. Your vibe attracts your tribe. Make your passion your paycheck. Good vibes only. Radiate love. This— I'm laughing because some of these are literally just like so basic and cheesy. Like, I don't know, this is so 2018. I'm like kind of cringing, but it's fine. Radiate love.

Never stop creating more self-love.

As free as the ocean. Oh my God, I can't. I can't uncringe myself, you guys. And then there was another quote that said, my goal is to create a life that I don't need a vacation from. I don't know why I'm laughing. It's not funny.

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It's not that funny.

It's so, it's so cute. But my eyes are watering a little bit. The radiate love got me. Like, what the fuck? Oh my God, why did that make me laugh so much? Your vibe attracts your tribe. I'm crying. Okay, I don't think I've ever laughed this hard just like by my fucking self. Oh my God. Okay. I need to regroup. Woo!

Wow.

Okay.

So yeah, you know, we all start somewhere and a lot can happen in a few years, but the vision board was, it was really cute and it served its purpose. And I actually feel like I'm not, I'm not shading any of those quotes really. It's just, it's a very 2018 and just feels sort of basic at this point. But like, that's where I was at. And that— I think there's something important in that too, of like, dude, we all start somewhere and you don't have to be this like person that's like super advanced or like super spiritual or super clear on everything that you want to create or everywhere that you're going and have all the answers. But like, you do just need to start. Start somewhere. That's a fact, right? I had like a fucking YouTube logo and radiate love quote on my vision board, which is, you know, it's a little off, but directionally we were correct. We were moving in the right direction. So there will be things that change along the journey, but as long as you have the kind of general direction, that's a good starting point. When I was looking back to try and find images of this vision board, I also found a letter that I wrote to myself, which I'm going to locate right now and read to you because I wrote this in 2021 and it was a letter to my past self. So this was like 2 years ago. But even then I felt like I had already quote unquote like made it in a sense of like I had accomplished so many of the things that I was desiring through making that 2018 vision board. And I was so proud of myself. I, you know, I was running a six-figure business already at this point, and I was just moving into business coaching and I was about to host my first masterclass on how I built a six-figure business in a year. And I was really like kind of pivoting in that, in that direction. And, and I was like, wow, like, like so much. I've created so much and so much has changed. And so I wrote this little letter to my past self. Dear past self, please keep going, keep fighting, keep believing. You have no idea what's coming— beauty, joy, and abundance beyond your wildest dreams. Your determination, hustle, and grit will take you farther than you know. I know everything feels so far away, but trust me when I say your dreams are right around the corner. New levels of love, success, and wealth are on their way. You'll run into some unexpected twists, turns, and setbacks, but don't worry. One day it'll all make perfect sense, and you'll realize it was all happening for your highest good. Never stop feeling deeply and believing fiercely. These are your superpowers. You don't need anyone else to understand. You don't need your friends to be interested in what you're creating. You don't need your goals to be realistic to society, and you don't need anyone's approval except your own. Keep following your heart's desires, no matter how silly or scary. Your inner knowing is your North Star, and it knows better than any human or search engine. Follow it at all costs, for it's guiding you to the pot of gold. Hang tight, it's all coming. No matter where you are on your journey, whether you're at the start, somewhere in the middle, or you're very far along, I think everyone can relate to this message of writing in retrospect to your past self and encouraging her to keep going and keep putting one foot in front of the other and trusting and believing in the that there's more on the way. And maybe that's like a nice exercise for us to end this episode with, of just inviting you to actually take a look at how far you've come and write a letter to your past self. What would you say to that past version of you from a few years ago that maybe didn't even have any of this awareness, that was really confused, that didn't have the clarity, that didn't have the direction, that didn't even know what was possible, right? That wasn't even on the path yet. Or maybe she was just getting started and it all felt super far away or super overwhelming. What would you say to that version of yourself. And I think what's beautiful about this is that it's almost like this infinity of this letter to past self, because you can write it now from where you stand and look back to that past version of you. But even as I read this letter now, like 2 years later, so that was— I wrote it in 2021 and I was thinking about my 2018 self, right? Right. But I can read that letter now and be like, damn, like that could be from an even further in the future version of me writing to the me now, writing to the 2023 me, you know, like there's always more on the way and it's always going to require us to trust and believe and keep being kind to ourselves and putting one foot in front of the other and trusting the vision and all of those things. So even when I read this letter now, I'm like, wow, that brings me strength even for today because it feels like I've arrived in some regards to where I am. I know that I've created a lot for myself and I love the life that I'm living now. But wouldn't it be cool to picture that as like another beginning that like this is just the beginning of an even bigger unfolding of even more abundance, of even more impact, of even more joy, of even more fulfillment, of even more adventure. Like, I have goosebumps thinking about like, wow, you feel like you're fulfilled now. You feel like you have the things that you desire now. What if you could even go bigger from there?

Hmm.

That's a cool thought. So creating— to go off of that, I guess it's the vision beyond the vision, right? Of like if you're writing to your past self, yourself. You're like, damn, like, I'm so proud of you. You worked so hard. You did all these things. Like, keep going. I know it feels hard. I know it feels far away. Like, it's all gonna come. You just have to trust it. Like, it's so amazing here. When you get here, you're not even gonna be able to believe your eyes. But then you also get to sit in the present and be like, yes, I have quote unquote arrived in certain ways or certain categories. But now let's create an bigger vision, right? It was like the same thing of me starting over with the 335. When I got to the 5 goals, the life goals, I was like, well, I have to redo these because the other ones I achieved them. And so now it's what's the vision beyond my old vision? Because the old vision is now reality. So how can we create an even bigger vision for what's next? Anyways, I hope you guys enjoy this episode. I hope you took something away from it. If you did enjoy it, please take a screenshot, share it to your Instagram stories, and tag me at Samantha Daily and at Makeshift Happen Podcast. If you don't follow our podcast account on Instagram, I also invite you to come over and follow. It's— the feed is looking cute. We're sharing lots of fun, like, video content from the podcast, little reels of these recordings. I'm recording them on video now so that we can put them up on the podcast account. So come follow us over there if you haven't. And if you feel so inclined, you can leave us a 5-star rating or review on Apple or Spotify, wherever you're listening to the show. It really helps me. It helps support the podcast. It helps other people find the show in their suggested options when they are looking for podcasts. And it also, also helps people trust that it is worth hitting play because they can see that there's lots of raving reviews about people who love listening in to the show. So thank you guys so much for all of your continued continued support and love and showing up every single week. I so appreciate you, and I will see you next week.

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