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66. things that have made my life better... habits to take into 2024 · Hot Girl Energy Podcast

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Hello you guys, and welcome back to another episode of the Hawkerel Energy Podcast.
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I'm your host, Kayleie, and this is your weekly reminder that it's
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a new day, a new week, a new mindset, and another day
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if you do become the Hawkrel Energy you want to attract. Hello you guys.
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I think you might hear Freddy in the background. He's having a day
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today. I don't know, he's just been barking a lot. But I
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want to apologize because I know this episode is going to be going up a
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day later, just because I'm literally recording this on Tuesday. This episode,
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and I'm sure you guys know, but I am doing vlog miss, and
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vlog miss is definitely a lot of work, and I knew that was going
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to be the case. I am much faster at editing tiktoks and reels when
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it comes to editing videos, but I am doing full days. If you
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guys see, I am recording literally from morning tonight and today I'm actually just
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doing an evening routine just because today I've literally spent, like I want to
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say, at least four hours of my day just yeah, editing content and
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planning this episode right now. So I decided to just film an evening routine
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for tonight. But again, I apologize that this is up a daylate.
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I hope you guys understand, but I'm going to try and stay on top
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of it for the rest of December. But if you guys want to see
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more content from me, check out my Instagram, check out my TikTok.
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I am filming every single day for the next twenty five days on TikTok and
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I believe I'm doing twelve days of vlogmus on Instagram before we even get into
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this episode. I'm really excited to talk about the podcast giveaway. Guys,
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listen to my last episode. You guys know that I am doing a giveaway
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on my Instagram and TikTok. There's really really good prizes that I am doing
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there. So if you're based in North America which means Canada to the States,
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just in case we didn't know that, I will be selecting a winner
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sometime next week and yeah, you may have the chance to win certain items.
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And then for the podcast, I'm also doing a giveaway for my listeners
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just because you guys know how much you mean to me and I really wanted
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to do something separate just for you guys. The giveaway is in two parts,
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so I'm doing two winners, which means there'll be two gift cards two
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different companies as well. So the first gift card that I will be giving
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away is an Amazon gift card for one hundred dollars. So I thought this
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one was pretty perfect because I know not everybody lives within North America, and
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I really wanted to do something worldwide, and I do know a lot of
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people love to shop on Amazon, and that's why I thought this is the
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perfect gift card to give away because you can literally buy anything from Amazon.
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And if you're someone that's been wanting to get a discount on something, let's
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talk about some girl math. If you have one hundred dollars gift card and
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you buy a two hundred dollars item, I mean you're literally saving one hundred
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dollars. That's free money obviously, So you might as well get a Hatch
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alarm clock. You guys know how obsessed I am with my Hatch alarm clock,
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and that could be a really good thing to get off Amazon if you're
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looking to splurge on something and get a little bit of a discount. So
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that's just an example as to what you can use your Amazon gift card on,
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but there's obviously so many other things that you can get off Amazon.
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So in order to enter this giveaway, I'm gonna put everything in this podcast
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episode description. That way, you guys can make sure you guys follow the
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rules and all that. But it's pretty simple. You need to follow at
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the Hawkrel Energy Podcast Instagram. You also need to follow me my Instagram is
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also linked in the podcast description episode, and then you need to post a
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story on your Instagram of you listening to the hawkgrol Energy. Whether it's in
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your car, or if you're on a walk with your headphones on, or
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it could literally just be a picture of any type of scenery. It doesn't
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really matter. As long as you just make sure to tag me as well
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as the Hawkgirl Energy. That's all that matters. That way, I can
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make sure you're entered into the giveaway and I will take that into account.
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So that's all you have to do. You just have to follow me,
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follow our at the hawk Grow Energy Podcast Instagram, post a story and make
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sure to take us both. So hopefully that's easy for you guys, So
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make sure to do that, and yeah, you guys could have a chance
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to one hundred dollar gift card. I will be announcing the winner in next
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week's episode, and then I will be releasing the second part of the giveaway,
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which will be a different gift card, and then it's going to be
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the exact same thing. So now let's get into today's episode. I'm very
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excited to talk about this episode because I saw this on TikTok. It's been
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a trend that's been going around for the past few weeks, and for some
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reason, it's just coming on my for you page now and I really wanted
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to make a podcast episode about this instead of hopping on the trend on TikTok,
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because I have so many things to say about things that have bettered my
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life, just habits that I've been doing to make my life better, but
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also purchasing things that I personally think have made a huge difference in my life.
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Could be things that I started this year, things that I started last
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year. But I thought it was kind of the perfect timing to talk about
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these things because going into the new year of twenty twenty four, I thought
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this could be really good ways to start off fresh, maybe get into new
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habits or get back into habits that you kind of forgot about start fresh.
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I just thought it was the perfect time to talk about this, so let's
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get into it. I have about sixteen things that i want to talk about.
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It could be things that I've been doing for the past year, things
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that I've started to do recently, or just some things that I've honestly never
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talked about with you guys that I'm really excited to talk about. So let's
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get into it. My first one that I'm going to talk about this is
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something that you guys know that I rave about all the time, but I
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truly do believe it has made a huge difference in my mental state in terms
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of my energy levels all that, and that is my athletic greens. If
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you guys follow me on Instagram, you guys probably see that in my reels,
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in my videos and all that. When I'm doing a routine specific video,
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you guys will see that I put a scoop of greens in my water
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every single morning before I eat my breakfast. And I've talked about the greens
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here on the pod as well. But I truly, truly, truly do
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believe that it's made a huge impact in my life. The benefits to taking
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athletic Greens is so big. There's probiotics in that, there's prebiotics in it,
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and I know I've done an ad for them in the past as well
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in the podcast. This is not an ad at all. This is strictly
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just me talking about the benefits to taking it. But personally, for me,
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I've noticed a huge difference in my energy levels. I personally feel like
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my energy has been so much better in the mornings by taking this consistently.
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I take this every single day, and I've been taking this every single day
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for probably eight months now, if not longer, so not a full year
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yet, but I truly, truly, truly do believe that it's made a
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huge impact in my life. The second thing that I've done to better my
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life is I stopped drinking coffee on an empty stomach. This is a really
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bad habit that I really think people don't talk about enough or don't realize what
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they're doing. But I truly believe that you need to be drinking coffee with
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something in your stomach prior to You need to have something in your body before
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doing it, because if you're noticing that your anxiety is really bad or your
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jitteries are really bad after drinking coffee. Realistically, is probably because you didn't
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eat any breakfast prior to drinking your coffee, So you need to eat your
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breakfast first and take a pause and then have your coffee. Like I honestly
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don't have coffee till like ten sometimes eleven am in the morning. I try
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and push it as long as I can. However, I do still need
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to have coffee before noon because if I have an afternoon I will not sleep
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and have a really bad sleep. So anytime between ten am and noon is
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like my prime time to having my coffee. But this has made a huge
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difference in my anxiety. I truly believe that drinking coffee after breakfast has been
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a huge difference. Like my anxiety levels were so so bad, Like I
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could feel my chest just getting tight, and I can just feel the anxiety
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happening whenever I would drink coffee on an empty stomach. So if you're someone
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that really does struggle with really bad anxiety or anything like that, you should
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really reevaluate your coffee schedule and really try and push to have it at the
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later time of the day, or as I said, just eating a granola
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bar or a banana or just something in your system before drinking your coffee.
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So that's actually something that I started to change in the beginning of this year.
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So it's been a full year of me basically doing that, and my
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anxiety has just been so much better. Another thing that has made my life
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better is getting ready for the day no matter what. I was really having
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a shitty day on Sunday. I made a v loog miss video on this,
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but I really just didn't want to film. I wasn't in the mood
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to film. I just was having a day. And that's totally fine,
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like everybody has bad days like that. But I knew that if I did
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my skincare and if I did my makeup and I just did the little things
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that made me feel good, I know I would get out of that negative
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mindset. And I did just that. I put my makeup on, I
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got ready for the day, and I actually felt so much better just doing
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those little things. So I realized that pushing myself to get ready for the
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day no matter what, will definitely help my mood, help my mindset all
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that. So that's something that I've really tried to push throughout this year.
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And I've pretty sure I've talked about this in past episodes before too. Is
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that even if you're doing nothing or if you're not leaving the house, like
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just put a sweat set on, it is gonna have to be jeans or
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anything like that. Put a bit of makeup on your face, do your
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skincare all that. Like, just do those little things and you can wear
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the most minimal amount of makeup. That's what I do. I really don't
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put too much on, but it does feel good to feel put together.
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And putting that effort in just to help yourself out by just making yourself feel
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a bit better is so so important going into this next part, which is
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leveling up my appearance, and what I mean by that is really investing in
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myself, like doing things like facials, getting my nails done, getting my
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eyebrows done, booking hair appointments. Now I'm not saying you need to blow
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all this money on doing these high maintenance appointments, but the reality is that
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if you do invest in yourself by doing these little things, you are going
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to feel better but yourself. You are gonna have a confidence booster, You're
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gonna feel so much more confident putting in the money towards yourself. It's just
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the reality. Like I I don't want to say it's reality, but it
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is. I truly do feel so much better when I do get my hair
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done, when I do get my nails done, when I do get my
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eyebrows in, Like it's just something that makes you feel so good and so
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clean. And I don't know, there's just a huge boost of confidence whenever
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I do invest in myself. And yeah, I just think it's totally okay
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to just level up your appearance if you want. And another big thing that
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people talk about that I've been really wanting to try is brow elimination. I
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know a lot of my girlfriends have done it, and they highly highly recommend
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it. It is definitely a huge, well not a huge change of appearance,
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but it is a subtle difference for sure. And yeah, I'm just
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hoping that it does look good. I'm going to probably do it hopefully in
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the new year. I'm trying to do it like far away enough from my
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wedding that way it's not like too close to the wedding where it will fade
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by the time I get married. So I'm like, if it looks like
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crap, at least my eyebrows will look the same for the wedding day.
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If it it looks great, then like, why have I been waiting so
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long in this? Right? Like everyone that talks about brawl elimination literally never
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goes back, like they say it's like a game changer. So yeah,
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hopefully I'll be able to do that on the New Year. But that's something
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that I've been wanting to try out. But that's just an example of like
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leveling up your appearance if that's something that you want to invest in. Okay.
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Another thing that I have done that has made my life better is washing
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my hair less. I used to wash my hair so much and I really
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felt like I had to retrain my hair, Like that is a thing where
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you need to retrain your hair to get into a hair wash schedule. There's
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some people who watch their hair every single day, and I have to be
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honest, that's probably not the greatest for your hair. At least that's what
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my hairdresser has told me. I'm not obviously hair professional, but my hairdresser
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told me to really not wash your hair every single day. So I try
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and wash my hair twice a week, but I personally feel like when I
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was washing my hair, I think I want to say like three to four
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times a week, which is a lie. I was just noticing my hair
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was like getting greasy really fast and just wasn't looking as clean because I was
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washing it so so often, Like I would blow dry it and it would
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literally just feel greasy, like from that burst wash. So my hair justly
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recommended. She was like, you really need to try and push your hair
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wash days. So I think there was like one point where I literally tried
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to push it for like two weeks where I only washed my hair once a
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week for those two weeks, just to like really train my hair to get
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into this new schedule. And then I gradually started to add twice a week
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into my routine. So now I wash my hair twice a week, and
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I feel like my hair has never looked healthier and never looked cleaner. On
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the days where I do find it looks greasy, I usually do slick back
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looks, so I've really trained my hair to do different hairstyles to accommodate for
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my greasy hair days, if that makes sense. Thankfully, slick black hair
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looks are very end right now, so doing slickbackbuns, doing slick back ponytails
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have been a huge game changer. So yeah, and also I have a
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lot of hair, and blow drying my hair it takes so freaking long,
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guys, Like I'm talking like my whole shower routine, blow drying hair routine
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to make it styled actually nice is probably an hour and forty five minutes,
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like not even over exaggerating, like it takes forever. So I do not
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want to do that. I don't even want to do the twice a week,
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but I typically have to. And my natural hair is not nice.
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It's very frizzy and like wavy, but not like a nice wavy. So
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I don't know how to explain it. But yeah, so I have to
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style my hair no matter what. It's just my reality. So yeah,
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long hair problems, it is what it is. But as I said,
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thankfully I've been able to figure out like other hairstyles that have worked for me,
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slick back looks have definitely been my go too. And yeah, I
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just feel like my hair has definitely looked healthier and felt healthier, and I
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do truly believe that it's because I washed my hair less. Next thing is
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being consistent with a skincare routine. I do my skincare every single morning,
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no matter what. Like it's just a habit that I've built into my morning
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routine. And I truly do believe that my skin has honestly never looked better
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because I've been consistent with the same products. And I don't change my skincare
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up too much. Like I don't change to different products that often because I
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do have very sensitive skin. So when I know what product works for my
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skin, I stick to it. I don't change it. If I do
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change it, it's something that I'll just gradually include into my routine. But
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I want to say I've been using the same stuff for like I want to
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say, like six months now, like the exact same products, and it's
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yeah, just been a huge game changer for my skin. So definitely try
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and create a skincare routine for yourself. Always make sure to include a moisturizer
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and I cream. I really like the facial sprays. It's good for like
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hydration oils. I have very dry skin, so like I need to use
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a facial oil, lip chop, lip bomb, I cream. I think
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I already said that but I can't think of everything. Sunscreen, Oh my
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goodness, how could I almost forget? Sunscreen? Doesn't matter if you're leaving
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the house or not. I don't care if it's gloomy outside. Make sure
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to wear SPF every single day. You will think yourself twenty years from now.
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And yeah, just trust me, keep a consistent routine of putting SPF
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on your face. It will truly truly help your face. And yeah,
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just in general, just help your skin. So definitely make sure it to
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be consistent with a skincare routine. Another routine that you should definitely be consistent
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with, and this is something that I have been very very bad at,
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not gonna lie, but I have been better with this year specifically, is
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bodycare. I really do believe that people just forget this step completely. They
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just completely skip it and they don't even think about doing it, especially when
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they just come out of the shower. But body lotion, body oil,
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all that. Like, I understand there's some people that just don't want to
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do that step and that's totally fine. But one thing that I personally feel
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like has been a game change is body serum and body oil. I do
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not use a body lotion. I've tried so many lotions and my skin just,
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yeah, it just doesn't react very well to it. So for me,
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I need certain products that just absorb into my skin with no issues.
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I don't know, there's it's really hard to explain, but basically I use
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the body serum by Necessaire, very very good, very very hydrating, and
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I also use a body oil from my gosh, I can't think of the
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name sal Dejanio. I think that's how you pronounce it. And first off,
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the oil literally smells like you just came from a beach. It smells
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amazing, and I put that all over my body and I just am glowing,
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like I'm not even over exaggerating, like I literally am glowing like it
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is the best oil I've ever used in my life. And then the serum,
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as I said, is super hydrating, and I just prefer a serum
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over a lotion. I don't know, I just find it absorbs into my
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skin really really well, really really nicely. And so I've been very very
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consistent with my body care post showers, and yeah, I truly just believe
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that it's been a game changer. This next one. You guys know how
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much I love my Hatch alarm clock. Girlies, If you have not purchased
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this for yourself, I'm telling you right now, put this on your Christmas
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list, put this on your Birthday list, or just buy it for yourself
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on Boxing Day. This has been the biggest game changer for my sleep schedule
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and my sleep routine. It puts me to bed earlier, I wake up
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earlier. I feel good when I wake up in the morning. It is
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a game changer. If you guys don't know what this is, this is
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the sunrise alarm clock, meaning that it projects a light in your room that
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essentially acts like the sunrise. You can put the lights at different settings.
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It could be orange, you can be white, it can be whatever you
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want. You have a white noise option. So I listen to white noise
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every single night. I never used to be a white noise girly. Let
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me tell you. I hated any single noise in the room. I just
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needed absolute silence. Then I got the Hatch alarm clock, and I discovered
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like fire burning noises or cricket noises, like right now, my white noise
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machine. I forget what setting it's on, but it essentially feels like I'm
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out of cottage, and so every single night before I go to bed,
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I put it on and it's just like, it's so soothing, it's so
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relaxing. And then I wake up to birds chirping instead of an annoying iPhone
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alarm. Can we talk about an iPhone alarm? It is awful, absolutely
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awful. You know, the typical iPhone alarm that goes off. It's just
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awful. So investing in the hatch alarm clock has been the best decision I've
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ever made. I'm not even kidding. I'm not even kidding, and I'm
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not gonna lie. I ordered myself the new one because they just came out
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with a newer one, and yeah, you just you just gotta get it.
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That's all I have to say. You just need to purchase it for
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yourself and you will understand that this is the best thing. Another thing that
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has made my life better is going to bed early and waking up early.
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Going to bed early has helped me stay consistent with waking up early, and
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waking up early has helped me stay productive throughout my mornings, throughout my days.
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All that so I get so much more work done if I wake up
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earlier. In the morning and just going to bed early, I feel like,
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I don't know, I just feel exhausted already at that point because I
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woke up early. So it just creates a consistent sleep schedule for me.
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So personally, for me, I go to bed at ten pm every single
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night. I wake up usually around seven am, or I may have mornings
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where I wake up earlier if I'm going to a spin coat class, like
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by forty in the morning six thirty in the morning. I am very lucky
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that I have the flexibility of when I get to wake up. I personally
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wake up every single morning at seven am because I like to start my morning
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off super early and just get some stuff done. Another thing I've done to
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better my life is I've added electrolytes into my daily routine. If you guys
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don't know what that is, it is essentially a powder that is supposed to
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help you stay hydrated. So I love to use the brand Organica. There's
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also a brand called Element, but lately it's been very hard to get.
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I used to order them off Amazon, to be honest, and since then
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I haven't been able to find it, or it's at like stupidly expensive prices.
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Just because of shipping to Canada and all that. So I usually use
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the brand Organica. I have the flavor pink Lemonade. Yes it tastes like
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pink lemonade, and yes it is amazing. I add it to my slim
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modern water bottle. I usually fill it around like twenty ounces. I like
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it to be a bit sweeter, but you could fill it up to the
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normal amount whoever big your water bottle is. And yeah, I personally just
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feel so much more hydrated with it. That's the whole point of it.
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It is supposed to hydrate you and not gonna lie. If I've had alcohol
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the night before, I will wake up in the morning and I will chug
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an electrolyte every single morning, just because obviously drinking alcohol dehydrates you. So
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having an electrolyte is really really beneficial for just hydrating yourself and all that.
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So yeah, if you don't add electrolytes to your routine, I highly recommend
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it. It is is really really good for just hydration in general. Another
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thing is learning how to cook and finding ways to make healthy, delicious meals.
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Honestly, before I even moved into this house, I wouldn't say I
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was the best cook. I always tried to live a healthy lifestyle by trying
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to create healthy recipes for myself, and I feel like it's just a learning
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opportunity. Just keep trying out new recipes, you find healthy recipes all that.
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So I think one thing for myself that I'm super proud of, and
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I would say this was more of a goal for myself last year and now
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I feel like I've been very consistent for the past two years. Is just
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really teaching myself how to try new recipes, how to cook, how to
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cook good healthy meals like it definitely is something that could be difficult for a
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lot of people, but once you figure out things that you actually enjoy and
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new experiment with things. So for an example, my favorite food ever is
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pizza. If I get a pizza every single night, I literally would it's
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cheese on bread, Like, how could you not be obsessed with pizza?
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But I have created a healthier version by making pea pizza. I use a
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whole wheat pea bread. I put the same toppings that you would on a
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regular pizza. So I put you know, tomato, sauce, cheese,
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peppers, onions, chicken or whatever. And I've made it in a healthier
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way that's better for my health. So that's just an example of It's not
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like a very good cooking example because it's literally I'm not really cooking. I'm
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literally just putting stuff on a peeda bread. But it's just an example on
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how I've been trying to make healthier recipes of things that I really do enjoy.
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And pea pizza is honestly something that Zach and I cook once a week.
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Like it's just it's easy, it's good, it's healthy, and yeah,
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it's just something that we stick to all the time. So yeah,
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I think learning how to cook has definitely been something that I've really enjoyed.
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And one thing I always always always try and do when I'm cooking any kind
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of meal is adding protein, making sure there's vegetables on my plate every single
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time to give me that fiber and nutrients. Eating protein obviously keeps you full
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and all that. So I think it's just important to do your own research
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and really understand how to fuel your body and what you should be fueling your
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body with is so so important and it really plays a huge impact on how
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you feel as well. Right what you eat is going to reflect on how
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you feel, and eating healthy is going to reflect you feeling so much better.
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All right, This next one has nothing to do with health and wellness.
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But this is something that I truly do believe has been a game changer
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in my opinion, is investing in real gold jewelry. I remember I used
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to just buy really cheap jewelry off Amazon, like my necklaces, my earrings
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and all that, and I just hated how fast it would tarnish and I
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would just have to completely buy a new necklace, you know, three months
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later, whatever the case may be. And I hated that. I hated
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to rebuy something. All the time, I have fully invested in all my
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jewelry. All of it's real gold. Everything that I have bought has been
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throughout the years. It hasn't been within one period of time. Collecting jewelry
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is not cheap, and it's important to invest your money on different categories of
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jewelry, Investing in necklaces, investing in earrings. It's definitely something to look
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into. I feel like I'm starting to explain that to my sister because my
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sister has been buying the same necklace every Christmas because it gets turnished. Every
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year, and I'm like to spend the extra hundred dollars of getting a real
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gold necklace of whatever she wants, and I'm telling you right now, you'll
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have it for the rest of your life instead of rebuying the same one every
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single year. So it's something to really consider because I truly do believe that
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you're wasting money if you just keep rebuying the same thing every single time,
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like you are literally wasting money. So investing in good quality jewelry, I
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think is so important. I remember you used to buy like all these Amazon
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rings and literally again from washing your hands hand sanitizer all that, it gets
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turnished so fast. So just getting real gold really just is a game changer.
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Another thing that has bettered my life is scheduling my workouts in advance.
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I honestly schedule my whole entire week and my whole entire workout schedule on Mondays.
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Every single Monday, I literally just write everything down that I need to
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get done for the week for work as well as Okay, what days am
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I free to do a workout? Okay, can I do a workout in
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the evening? Can I do a workout in the morning? What works for
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me, So booking workout classes in advance has helped me plan out my week
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better as well. And yeah, just in general, just having that mindset
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throughout the week, knowing, Okay, I'm going to be working out Wednesday,
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Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday. That's my schedule this week for an
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example, Okay, next week, what is it going to be? Right?
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So I think it's just important to release schedule that in because making workouts
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a priority is huge, and you guys know how much I love talking about
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moving your body and working out is just so good for your mental health,
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right, So definitely make it a priority in your schedule every single week.
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So take that Monday or take that Sunday to schedule out your week, schedule
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out your workouts, and it will really help you get into a consistent routine
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of working out as well. Okay, this next one is also just something
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that's more of a mental thing. I feel like when I have a matching
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workout set or matching pjs on or anything like that, anything with a matching
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set, really, I just feel so much more put together and I just
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like love that feeling. I know that's really weird, but I need to
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have matching pjs on when I go to bed. I've been doing this for
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years, like years one years. There's something about a matching PJ set that
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just feels so cute and so put together, specifically before bed, and then
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putting on a cute workout set before a workout class. It just motivates you
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and you feel good and you look good, like yeah, there's just something
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about a matching set that just feels so good. And then lastly, my
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last last point when it comes to things that have made my life better,
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and this is actually something that I realized I've done this year that I never
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really purposely did. Like I guess I purposely did do it, but it's
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just something that I really realized today when I was writing down this list,
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that I've been drinking a lot less, Like I don't get blackout drunk anymore,
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like at all, Like I don't even get drunk to be honest,
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Like, yeah, sometimes I might have two to three glasses of wine and
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I might be a little tipsy, but I would never say I've been drunk
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anymore, Like I don't remember the last time I got drunk. Like that's
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just the reality. And the reason for that is because I don't like to
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wake up the next morning feeling like shit. It's just the reality. I
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don't want to be sitting on my couch all day doing nothing, like I
27:25
want to have a productive day. And let's be honest. Typically, you
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know, at least for me, I don't drink during the week. I
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don't drink after work or anything like that. The only time I ever do
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drink is usually for some kind of event, or if it's on the weekend.
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You know, sometimes Zach and I might open a bottle of wine,
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or you know, if I'm with my girlfriends, we'll have a glass of
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wine together. All that, but I put a limit on myself. I
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say, okay, you know, after my second glass of wine, I'm
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like kymm good, Like I don't need to drink anymore. Like that is
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just my own personal choice. But I truly believe that me drinking less alcohol
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has made a huge impact in my overall mindset, my own all health.
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I feel good. I don't feel like shit when I wake up the next
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morning. Like I don't know, I think it's really worth looking into.
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I don't think it's necessary to remove alcohol from your life completely. I still
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like to enjoy a glass of alcohol or a glass of wine or anything like
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that. I don't want to remove it from my life completely. There is
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some people that have removed it from their life completely, and that's amazing and
28:22
good for them, and that just might be a personal choice based off their
28:25
mental health. But for me, I like the feeling of having a glass
28:27
of wine and I don't want to remove that from my life. So for
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me, the perfect compromise was to not get drunk and just have a glass
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or two whenever I am feeling it, you know what I mean. So
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maybe look into that for yourself if you feel like there's something off or your
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anxiety isn't good or anything like that, Like, maybe look into drinking a
28:45
bit less and just you know, having only a few glasses when you're out
28:49
or anything like that. So yeah, I never really realized this, honestly,
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until I started to create this list. I'm like, wait, I
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literally really don't drink that much anymore. Like I used to drink a lot,
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and I feel like now I've just been into this new habit of only
29:03
having the occasional drink or really just drinking just for yeah, social interaction,
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Like I like to have a drink when I'm in a social situation. I
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don't drink when I'm alone. I'll drink with Zach, I'll drink with friends.
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But that's really it. I don't know. I just wanted to bring
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that up because I think drinking less alcohol could obviously help your health out in
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general. So that's what I wanted to bring up, just because that's something
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that I've been doing, and I really have been feeling really really good this
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year in terms of health wise and just energy wise, anxiety wise, all
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that. So that is my list of things that have made my life better
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this year, whether it's habits that I've taken too this year or things that
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I've purchased for myself that has made my life better. That is essentially the
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list that I created here today for you guys. I hope this helps you
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out for the new year, maybe adding these habits into your routine, or
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just things that you didn't really realize that you want to take back into effect.
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It's going to be a lot of new things that I will be implementing
30:02
into my routine in the new year. I don't want to save them up
30:04
just because I think this would be a good episode to tie into the New
30:07
Years, just things that I'll be taking into my routine for the new year,
30:11
and just trying different habits, trying new things, but still sticking to
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my normal habits. But yeah, I think it's gonna be a really good
30:18
episode to tie into the new year of just yeah, trying new habits out
30:22
and I'll give you guys an update on how things are going with new habits
30:26
that I try. So I hope you guys enjoyed this episode. I've been
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talking so much that I can barely even talk anymore. I've been sipping my
30:33
water bottle like seven times right now just because I feel like I'm losing my
30:36
voice. But anyways, I love you guys so much. Make sure to
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and I will see you guys in next week's episode.