 Okay, so the first thing that I do in the morning to set my day up for success is not go on my phone. All I do is snooze my alarm or turn my alarm off, but I don't look at any of my notifications. I don't open my phone. I just basically use it for my alarm. And there's actually like something scientific to back this up that not going on your phone in the morning is really beneficial for you. It just makes me feel so much more clear-headed and less groggy. Just because I feel like looking at your phone is so much stimulation. And doing that first thing in the morning is definitely just way too much and could potentially trigger something if you see something negative. Then first thing, after I get out of bed, I like to make it just because it makes me feel accomplished because I'm accomplishing a task right when I'm waking up. And just for the aesthetics of it too, I just like having a made bed. And it also doesn't tempt me to go back in and fall back asleep if the bed is done. Next thing I do that just makes me feel really good in the morning is light some candles because it's cozy season right now. So it just kind of sets the vibe. And this may sound really weird, but I put on like a jazz morning playlist and it just really makes me romanticize my mornings. And it's just the best thing ever. So I would 10 out of 10 suggest that you try that. And I listened to this jazz music while I sit down and I journal, whether it be about my dreams the night before or just like my thoughts. Journaling is something that I've started to incorporate into my morning routine because it's something that I actually look forward to. And it really helps just to get me out of bed. And it's just really calming for me. And it's something that I really enjoy doing. I don't do this every single morning, but I do this on mornings where I'm kind of seeking more motivation. So I just like reading a self-help book. This one is called Ask a New Disgiven by Abraham Hicks and it's all about manifestation and everything. And it really just like motivates me and sets me up in a really good mindset and headspace for the day. It's really important to surround yourself with things that motivate you, especially in the morning because that is at the very beginning of your day. So instead of kind of consuming mindless content on social media, like I would normally do, transitioning to journaling and reading helps my mindset and productivity so much throughout the day. And it's definitely the best thing I've ever done. Putting on a workout outfit after I do those things helps me get motivated to actually get my body moving, do some movement. I find that if I don't do movement at the beginning of the day, then I might not do it at all or I will not do it at all. So stretching has been something that I've been loving and I cannot live without now. If I don't stretch, my body feels so stiff throughout the day, especially when I'm just sitting editing, especially after coming out of bed, I just feel so stiff from sleeping for eight plus hours. Kind of do like a stretch slash yoga. I just do my own flow, but doing this in the morning just really helps my body feel good for the rest of the day. Okay, I know meditating sounds really like cliche and everybody is kind of doing it now, but it seriously is the best thing ever and it just completely clears out your mind and starts you off on like a blank slate for the day. It makes me feel so good, so clear headed and honestly just really powerful and it's also a really good tool to have like once you get good at it to incorporate into your day to help reduce stress and everything like that. All that I do to meditate is I go on Apple Music and I just search up like a spa music playlist and I just put that on, put my headphones in and I clear my head of all my thoughts or I try to at least because obviously thoughts are still gonna come in but you just kind of have to address them and push them to the side. But yeah, it's super simple to do and a lot of people meditate in different ways. So finding which way you like the best and works best for you is also important, but I really suggest you at least try it. It's something that really just helps me throughout the day with stress and everything. So three times a week I will do weightlifting and then two times a week I'll do 12, 330. So today that's what I was doing and doing movement in the morning just helps me feel really good throughout the day. It honestly just gives me and releases so many endorphins and it makes me feel a lot less tired. Like I feel like up until this point I'm still feeling a bit tired but then once I get working out it helps wake me up and set me up for the rest of my day but it's definitely important to just have some type of movement within your day whether that be a 10 minute walk or if that's just even stretching for you whatever it is that makes you feel good that requires your body to move is definitely really important to get the blood flowing and to just make your body feel good. So another way obviously to set up your day for success is to get a good night's sleep the night before obviously because I am somebody that cannot run or function off of no sleep. If I don't get a good sleep my whole day is kind of hindered and it affects everything. I would love to thank Birch Living for sponsoring this video. They sent me a mattress a while ago and it's been the best thing ever for me and my boyfriend's sleeps because we have not slept better in our life since getting this mattress. So Birch Living is a in a box mattress company that delivers right to your door. The setup for me was so easy. I basically just open the box, unroll the mattress and you just have to leave it sit for a while but then it's ready to go. It's so easy. They ship the right to your door. So they're non-toxic mattresses that are made in the States and they're crafted with organic and natural materials that have been sustainably sourced and you guys know that I've been trying to live that more sustainable route. So I absolutely love that Birch is committed to being better for the planet. It makes me feel good that my mattress isn't like emitting any harmful toxins. So the mattress that I actually have now is the Birch Luxe mattress which is a premium upgrade to their original one. I've had my mattress now for like five months. Every single time I get into bed, like I plan, I'm like, oh, I'm gonna watch a couple of YouTube videos but once I get in bed, it is so comfortable that I literally fall asleep in like 0.2 seconds. It's dangerous of how comfortable it is and I was so amazed on how easy it was to set up and it's so much easier than like going to a store. So when you order a Birch mattress they give you a 100 night sleep trial and also a 25 year warranty on it. And like I said, they deliver right to your door and it's completely free if you guys live in the US and each mattress comes with a set of their EcoRest pillows which are made out of recycled plastic bottles which is so cool. This is actually one of the pillows and I sleep on it every night obviously and it's so comfortable. So if you guys are interested in purchasing a Birch mattress you guys can click the link in my description and get $400 off plus two free pillows. So yeah, thank you again to Birch Living for sponsoring this video and I'm truly in love with the mattress and I love how as a company they care about the environment. I love it. Good morning you guys. So as you guys saw by the title of this video I am doing a, how I set my day for success video. Just because I feel like especially recently I've implemented like a lot of things that have really helped me just like have a good successful happy day whatever that looks like. And it just been feeling like I kind of got my mornings down pat. Yeah, so I just showered I just got back from the gym and the first thing that I'm gonna do now before I eat is make myself a to-do list for the day. That's one of the ways that really, really helps me set my day up for success because you probably have some of those moments in the day where you kind of get lost and you're like, I don't know what to do next but having that to-do list planned out you're like, okay, I'm gonna take this off I'm gonna do this and then it's like all planned out there for you so you know your next step and it makes you more kind of productive in a way. Without a to-do list I honestly get really, really lost in my days sometimes and being able to just tick it off is the most satisfying feeling. I love first thing, opening my laptop and taking off how I did my workout and I made my bed because that just sets me up for the rest of the day as in like, it makes me feel good that I can accomplish these things. So yeah, that's like one thing that's helped my productivity so much is making to-do lists. I like to use Notion just lay it kind of all out for myself on there it's like the best thing ever. I also love including doing things for myself like journaling or going to the sauna stuff that I wanna do that's gonna make me feel better incorporating it in with those other more daunting tasks makes me feel so good. So if you guys have never made to-do lists before I highly suggest you at least try it for a day. That's what I'm gonna do now I'm just going to write my to-do list for the day and then I'm gonna make some breakfast. You guys have seen me make this already but I'm still obsessed with this. This is one of my favorite things to have for breakfast and it just makes me so happy because it's just so delicious. I'm so excited. I just applied a layer of the Super Goop Glow Screen I've been using this for like every single day since I got it, it's so good. I love it so much, I'm almost out but highly would recommend. Anyways, so putting a little bit of makeup on really just like helps my mindset be more of like a you're put together mode gets me more motivated to do shit. There are days of the week where I don't put makeup on because I do love to use my face at break obviously sometimes but from day to day I do like it just because obviously for filming but also just because it really does help me kind of get more done because in my head I'm like I don't want to take a nap when I have makeup on and it just like makes me subconsciously less tired. I don't know if there's like a science behind that or what but I swear having makeup on just helps me stay more awake throughout the day. I guess it ties into that whole thing of like being and feeling more put together but anyway so I'm just really doing a light face though I just put that oyster on and then I just use the Rare Beauty Concealer just to conceal a little bit just like brighten up my face a little bit. So I got this Coatless Concealer and it's more like my summer shade but I kind of just like dot it in places that I want a little bit more coverage like just a tiny bit but I don't know if I'm using it wrong I don't know what it is maybe it's just like not maybe I should get a lighter shade but I don't understand the hype about it like I don't know if it's just me but it doesn't really do anything maybe it's just not for my skin who knows but I bought it and I had really high expectations for it and I don't really like it that much but maybe I do need to get like a lighter shade and then pile it on a little bit more but to me it just like I put the concealer on and blend it in and then I don't see a difference so then after concealer I just go in with this makeup by Mario on bronzer and I just kind of take a bit on my brush and then I kind of just lightly bronze my face also random but have you guys seen the Watcher on Netflix? It's like this new Netflix show the other day mandrel binge watched it all on Friday night and we couldn't keep our eyes off of the screen it felt like one long movie we loved it so much and it was like one of the best shows that we've ever watched it was so like it just kept you entertained the whole time and it was hard to stop at like the next episode so we literally binge watched seven episodes in one night it was crazy but it was so much fun so I'd highly suggest it gives you that like cozy spooky vibe so freaking good 10 out of 10 would recommend I'm gonna just do my brows I don't know if I've said this before on my YouTube channel maybe I haven't actually but it's super easy the way that I do my brows I just use the Got to be gel this thing's like $4 and look at how big it is this will probably last me the rest of my life to be honest but I just take like a tiny bit on my finger and then I place it in my brows and then I just take a spoolie and comb my brows up into place and that's all that I do for my eyebrows it's so easy but gives me such great results and I used to buy those like smaller eyebrow gels like made for your eyebrows and they just like would never last me more than a month and I don't know this is just like just as good or even better and this will last me probably for like a hundred years because it's so big and I use such a small amount of product and it keeps them in place all day how have you guys been though? let me know down below in the comments how you guys have been what you guys have been up to if you're excited for Christmas if you're loving the full vibe I wanna know just give me an update on your guys' life I would love to know how you're doing honestly I just love YouTube so much the fact that I can just come on here and talk to you guys just so casually and it's like a long video and you're listening to me right now is insane I mean if you guys liked more of like my theme videos cause I feel like I've been doing more themed videos recently and not as many just like casual vlogs I am uploading a week in my life that's gonna be my next video on Wednesday so that's going up soon so stay tuned for that but that one's definitely gonna be more casual and just like more vloggy and not such like a themed video but let me know what you guys like better if you guys liked like my themed videos better or if you like more just chill vlogs I would love to know your feedback okay now I'm just going in with this NARS blush in the shade Org-Avum and I just like using this really lightly just to give myself a little bit of color and the shade is just so pretty I just wanna casually remind you guys I know I may say this a lot but we are on a floating planet in the middle of the universe like we are floating right now in the universe and the universe is just infinitely long we don't even know how big the universe is which is a crazy thing and so in the grand scheme of things it's so important not to stress over little stupid things in life and just realize like zoom yourself out I love doing this zooming myself out and just realizing like hey like this isn't really a big issue because we're just here in life to experience and have a great life, live our best life and learn and at the end of the day we're literally on a floating planet in the middle of the universe like how is that even possible? it's crazy like we get so caught up in our day to day lives I feel like and we don't really take the time to just like sometimes zoom yourself out and just realize that nothing really matters the only thing that matters at the end of the day is your happiness anyways it feels really deep but my mind goes there a lot now I'm just applying my Charlotte Tilbury powder just a very light coat around my nose area because that's where I get the most oily but I love this stuff so much now I'm just gonna finish everything off with the Rare Beauty setting spray and yeah the most that I'll do after this is just curl my eyelashes but I don't really apply mascara on the day to day just because I don't know why I just don't like mascara that much if you guys are looking for a good eyelash curler the tweezer man one is the best like I have never used an eyelash curler so good that actually does a good job and then as for my lips if I'm feeling it I'll put a little bit of the Benetton's on it's like a lip and cheek stain I like how it's not like a lipstick so you don't have to worry about it like fixing it but it just gives you a little bit of color so here is the fit of the day that I chose I like to put on something that makes me feel cute but I'm still super comfortable in and I feel like I can move like I honestly would never wear jeans at home that's just like a personal thing I just only put on jeans when I go out because I just can't justify wearing them around my home like I just can't so I always probably go for like a legging or sweatpants but it still makes me feel cute still a little put together so I feel like I can be really productive but yeah I just feel like putting together an outfit that makes you feel comfortable and cute if you're like working from home is really important than just like staying in your pajamas the whole day because staying in my pajamas just makes me feel like sluggish and I basically just want to go take a nap because I'm like oh I'm already in my pajamas so why not but putting something different on really does help and it does the trick because I was trying to make a coffee and then I just spilt all of the milk that was in my cup the warmed up milk just spilt everywhere because I was trying to adjust the coffee maker to come forward and then the cup tipped over and I didn't catch it on camera but that was very catastrophic it is okay we are going to try that again I actually think that this is the lesson to be learned though because a lot of the times in life or especially during your day in the morning or whatever when something bad happens like AKA spilling your milk we tend to just like let that ruin our day and focus our energy towards it but it's so important just to realize like it's okay it's just a spilt cup of milk that is all I can repour it nobody got hurt it is fine and just kind of push it back to the side and laugh about it and then continue on with your day without it letting affect you I just feel like doing that is going to essentially set your day up for success because shit happens this was out of my control it just happened like what am I going to do milk about it, get mad about it no it's just important to move on and then focus on the positives because if I were to focus on this and be like holy shit I'm so unlucky bad things happen to me why would this happen to me and if I had that type of mindset then throughout the day more negative things and more bad things are going to come into my life it happens to me because I'm manifesting and that's what my energy is focused on so essentially we're taking this as a lesson and it's funny how this happened for this video cause I swear this was obviously not on purpose but so we're taking this as a lesson and I'm going to clean it up and then we're going to try that again welcome to the new desk spot I actually filmed us setting up this desk and everything it's going up in my next vlog I'm just using Joel's desk chair right now cause I haven't gotten one for myself yet so let me know if you guys have any desk chair recommendations that's really random but let me know so I just made myself a latte and I was just feeling in my fall cozy era so I wanted to make a hot drink and it's just so good I put the Starbucks pumpkin spice creamer in it I honestly feel like I'm in my romanticizing life era like I just feel like I'm taking a lot of time to nurture myself lately and it's just been feeling so good I honestly really do love fall and are estimated how much I love this season anyway so now I'm just going to sit down do some emails because I haven't checked my emails yet today and so I want to get that done off of my to-do list for the day cause that's something that I need to do every single day so that's what I'm going to do right now so me and Lexi are currently about to go on a walk I want to take her to this new spot that I found that's really fricking beautiful and it just helps like romanticize your day and I love doing like things in the day that make me happy aside from like work and stuff and going on walks when it's nice in nature just makes me so fricking happy so that's what we're doing that weather isn't really, it's been really weird lately like it's been really nice, don't have me wrong but it's been just like awkward weather where it's like sunny but cold but hot in the sun, cold in the shade so I kind of have, I put on some biker shorts cause I just know my legs are gonna get warm with my wear stuff pants and then I still want the same shirt but I just put on this jacket over top cause I can always take this off if I get too hot but yeah, the weather has just been really awkward but it's been kind of nice cause like it hasn't rained in a while and I'm just gonna put on my runners and now we're going to go enjoy the walk