 Hey guys, it's Jess and welcome back to my channel. I hope you've all been having a very happy and productive week and I'm really excited for today's video because it's something I haven't done in a really long time. It's a haul and I wanted to share with you some of my favourite life-changing books and inspiring items as well. So I haven't really done anything like this before. I didn't want to do another stationary haul. I wanted to show you guys some things that I have found to be really beneficial with my day-to-day life, my productivity and my general well-being and just positive mindset as well. So I hope you guys enjoy it and if you want more hauls and if you want more videos like this then comment below and of course please thumbs up this video as well to show me some love and if you're not already subscribed please subscribe down below. Also there is actually one little giveaway at the end of this video so if you want to potentially win one of my favourite inspirational items that I show you guys today then stay tuned to the end of the video to find out more about that. Okay so on to some of my favourite things. The first two items I'm going to share with you guys are books and I love them so much. I didn't think it was possible to love a book like I love these books. Besides my book The High School Survival Guide. I love that book too. I worked very hard but I really love these two books I'm going to share with you because they've really changed the way that I go about my day-to-day work as well as just how I treat myself in general. The first one I'm going to share with you is Work Smart and Live Better. Now this featured in my apartment tour. If you guys haven't watched that already from a previous video so I'll leave that as a card up above if you want to check it out. But I featured this in my little reading nook section of my apartment because I've been reading this most nights and I just finished it. I think it is fantastic. It's written by an effectiveness coach and something that he talks about which made me realise that I've been doing something completely wrong for such a long time was the negative impact of making to-do lists. Now that goes against so much that I ever knew but what he was saying it's written by Cyril Papillon I think he's French. What he was saying is that when you make a to-do list and you display it on your desk so first off you should never display all your memos and to-dos or reminders on your desk it breaks your train of thought and your focus and it makes you more stressed knowing that you've got so many things you still need to get to. So he says that making to-do lists does the same thing it increases your level of stress because you know that you've got to work through so many more tasks and it actually draws your focus away from the task at hand. So what he suggests that we do is actually write down everything that we need to complete like you would for a to-do list however anything that will take you around five or 10 minutes put that onto one list and batch it in together so you're going to complete all of those little tasks right away. You can either do it first thing in the morning or the second you make your list and you just want to get it out of the way so you can focus on all of the important things you need to get done. So typically I like to set aside the first 30 minutes of my day to get all those annoying things out of the way phone calls making appointments with the dentist checking emails cleaning my desk anything like that just get it done and then anything that takes more than that time five or 10 minutes long that needs to be scheduled into your diary right away so that it's not displayed on your desk and it is all scheduled there so you know that you've got time to complete everything and you don't have to be worrying about when am I going to have enough time to complete this task do I have enough time and you're going to feel stressed because you don't know when you're going to get it all done the other thing he then says is if you have a diary rather than relying purely on checking your diary all the time to put reminders on your phone to know when to move on to the next task or you can use something like outlook or google calendars so fantastic book I found that the second I put that into practice the very next day I actually finished all of my work and the work I had scheduled for the next day and I'm not kidding you I promise you this by 4pm I then went for a walk and then went to yoga and my dinner and that was it so I actually finished two days worth of work in one day and had extra time to spare that afternoon so it really has helped me to feel a lot less stressed about all of the work that I do because as you guys know I don't just have YouTube I've got my book I've got my station in line I've got a whole lot of other projects I'm still working on as well so being able to get more done in less time is just the best thing ever I can't tell you so this is a really good book if you guys want to check it out it's called work smarter live better by Cyril Papillon now the next book I want to share with you I love it so much I get so excited I really didn't think I would get so excited about reading but when I find books that are more about self-development and that really impact my life for the better I really can't put them down so in true study with Jess style I'm going to show you this book look at that annotation going on right there look at all the post notes there are so many pages that are underlined it's actually also like a workbook there are a bunch of different exercises in here before I get into the content of the book first off it's called the life plan it's by Shana Kennedy and this is another limited edition copy at Kiki K so the cover is really just absolutely beautiful but you can buy it outside of Kiki K as well if you don't have a Kiki K store nearby it's written by an effectiveness and life coach but it's all about not just being productive and organized but really knowing what you want out of life how to make a plan to get it how to work smart and also how to make sure you're looking after yourself so that you're not going to spread yourself too thin you're not going to burn out because she actually experienced chronic fatigue when she was in her 20s I don't know if you guys know what chronic fatigue is my dad actually suffered from chronic fatigue and so did my auntie and it's not saying that you ever completely get over it's that you feel incredibly drained and exhausted and your energy is just really diminished so she actually couldn't work for three years and it made her really put a lot of big changes into place so that she could bounce back so I'm always mindful that I don't want to burn out I don't ever want to end up having chronic fatigue and not being able to do my job and live the life that I want so I really found a lot of value in this book and it even talks about things like a vision board as you guys know I made a vision board and I made a video about that recently too on my channel again I'll link that in a card up there somewhere which will be clickable but yeah there are so many beautiful things and there are some fantastic exercises in here too and I really want to find you one okay so this one is a double page spread it's called your hope map where you actually write down all of the things that you want to accomplish in life in different areas of your life from your health to your relationships your finances so she actually gets you to write everything down and you've got it all documented so you can work towards that there's even goal-setting exercises in here there's beautiful quotes and um photography as well I'm just going to hold up a page there if you can see and I just love it I think it's such a beneficial book and there was even a section at the very start of the book for writing down your definition of success which I actually talked about in one of my recent question of the week videos as well so if you guys are looking for a couple of books to read check out these two and I would absolutely love to hear your thoughts on them too I only ever want to share things that I genuinely find a lot of value in and these two really are incredibly valuable and they've made a really big impact in my own personal life too so wanted to share them with you and yes they are life-changing books okay then because I went in to get those two books from Kiki K I couldn't help myself but buy two little stationary items so the first one is this well-being tracker again it's not just stationary it's also very functional as well so it's got a section for writing down your weekly focus and your goals as well as how you plan to exercise for the week and what you plan to make extra time for as well and then there's a little section at the bottom that says I am grateful for so you get to write down your gratitudes so if the camera will focus on that not my face you can just have a little look there so that's the well-being tracker and then I used to have a write it down notepad I think it was called the 4am notepad if you guys ever had it then comment below but this one says make time for what matters because they discontinued the old one and this is the new improved version and it's just got really beautiful printed pages on every page they all differ they've all got different quotes as well so I'm not going to be using this to make to-do lists anymore gone are the days of writing to-do lists but I am going to use it for writing down memos or little reminders or I don't know just jotting down ideas as well even if I just think of an idea for a video then down it goes now the next two items are two very inspirational items I went into a little home where store very close to my apartment and I saw these and I thought they were really different really cute and just beautiful so they're actually tiny little matchboxes they look like little matchboxes so this one says a tiny message of inspiration and this one says a tiny message of gratitude and they've got a little message inside of course and I actually bought this one for Adam I hope he doesn't mind that I'm sharing this with you guys but I bought this for him and he keeps it on his bedside table I wanted to give him something that just constantly shows him that I'm grateful for him and that I love him and I really appreciate him so this one if you slide it open there's actually a little meditating Buddha inside and it says thank you for all that you are so you can see that one there and then this one that says a tiny message of inspiration I keep this one on my desk and it says believe in yourself because you gotta believe in yourself it's very important guys all right now the next item well this is actually also featured as a little giveaway on my instagram account so I'll get into that in a minute but this one is a box of birds this is actually from the same store that I bought the two little matchbox messages from and I love it because it's 24 cards of inspirational quotes so it says a box of birds 24 cards to inspire the soul so on each card there's a really lovely quote or positive affirmation and I like to just switch them up every day and just change them on my desk so the first one here that I've got on for today says magic is believing in yourself if you can do that you can make anything happen and then another card I've got here which was yesterday's card was reflect upon your present blessings of which everyone has many so that's actually written by Charles Dickens and I'll show you that card there so to me this card is so beautiful because it's so important to focus on everything that we have in our lives and focus on what we're grateful for too so because I love these quote cards so much I actually bought another deck and these ones have a bunny on them oh I haven't filmed with honey for a really long time I've realized I really should put her in a video coming up but this one is called up the garden path and it says 24 cards to inspire the soul again and I'll just show you they've got very very similar cards on the inside but some of them have slightly different illustrations and I love the first one so this one says happiness is to hold flowers in both hands and that's a Japanese proverb and you've just got the most adorable illustration there so I wanted to give back to you guys and I thought I haven't really done a giveaway on my Instagram account in a really long time actually so if you guys want to have a chance to win your own gorgeous little affirmation deck of cards then all you have to do is head over to my Instagram account at studywithjess and I'll have the details there on one of the posts that features these cards and you can find out how you can be in the draw to win these and yeah I just wanted to really do something nice for you guys because I love you and I'm in a very good mood I'm feeling very inspired so just wanted to give back anyways if you guys enjoyed today's video and you want more of these kind of hauls where I share with you just some different items that are not necessarily stationary but just items that I'm loving any books that I've found really valuable any inspirational items that I'm finding to be very helpful for my days as well then comment below and of course if you did enjoy today's video then thumbs up to let me know and spread some love and if you guys aren't subscribed already then please do subscribe to my channel so you can join in on all the desiccate fun and like I said I'll leave some previous videos in the top corner over there as some cards you can click on and also if you want to check out my study skills book then that will also be linked in the description box too I'll see you on Friday for my question of the week video so don't forget to leave your study related questions down below too okay guys have a very happy and productive week and I'll see you soon bye