 I realized I never actually made an introduction for this video so, you know, plan with me for January in the middle of January. Let's just dive right into the video. There are a January plan with me. Now I've been following my channel for a while. You may have noticed that last year I attempted to do plan with me and then I quickly abandoned them. I think I did like a January one and a February one and that was it. But this year, 2024 is our year of planning and being on top of everything so I really want to add plan with me to my channel and I also want to add like book reviews to my channel and yoga meditation videos. That's a lot for 2024. Hopefully we'll get it all done. Also I want to tell you guys I was thinking of kind of doing different upload days besides like from Sunday and Wednesday just because on Sundays I also have my Dula training and I teach yoga in person at 4Power Studio and it just seems like I'm doing too much work on Sundays and when I have an upload on Sundays I'm really tempted to work on Fridays and Saturdays to like edit it and get it up for you guys so I am thinking about changing my upload schedule in the new year. This coffee also was sent to me by Javi. I believe that's how you pronounce it. They're like this coffee concentrate company and it actually tastes really good. I do want like a flavor or something with it but I think when I go to my workout today I'm going to pick up like flavored soy milk or oat milk and hopefully that will do the trick. Okay things look a little bit different because I made breakfast even though it's like 11.15 and I realized when I was going to start streaming and recording that my laptop was going to die and then I accidentally left my camera on for like the 20 minutes that I was allowing my laptop to charge and making breakfast so now my camera is going to die but you know we're just going to keep going until the camera dies and I'll just film the rest of this on my phone. So I'm going to start my screen recording and let's dive into my new notion. I'm pretty excited about it. Again I got this from Juna Hong and I just updated it to make it black girl version and just like all of my vision boards and things I'm manifesting for this year so I'd love to get to 5000 subscribers on YouTube in 2024. I feel relieved because my goal for last year was 1000 and we didn't hit it but I believe in us we still have faith. And then I just added pictures of my family so this is like me and my brothers. These are like locations I want to go to when I really get friends. Nikki moved to Brazil so I'd love to visit her in Brazil this year. Friends and family on my birthday. YouTube of course. I would love to go back to Paris. Paris was on my board for last year and I didn't go but I didn't make it to London so you know it'll happen one day when it's meant to happen. Romance, relationships, success, it's a hot day because why not. Octopus is this is one of the best octopus that I had in the United States. Greece was actually where I've had the best octopus in my life but like I love octopus so I would love to get more into that. So let's go into January and just kind of get some of these things going. I mean I don't know do you guys want to check out my yearly goals? I feel like a year is way too big to have a goal but these are some of the goals that I have for this year and I think I'm honestly going to make a separate video just talking about life after grad school and kind of like what I envision happening for myself. As you guys can see here I have like nine to five because I do think I'm going to have to get a job until I can get some things kind of up and going for my podcast and my YouTube channel and like all that fun stuff and then just some reminders like the universe is right to make your dreams happen and yeah so I have like learned pianos singing lessons here become conversational in Spanish because I'm actually going to a Spanish speaking country in February and my Spanish is very good for why or why I don't speak Spanish a lot. So my Spanish is how do you say slow like it just takes me a while to understand Spanish and also to speak in Spanish so I want to come a little bit more conversational I want to start budgeting stuff I want to get a therapist just going through all my personal goals right now journal once a week one first date per month which dating apps are set up is a struggle talking fitness there's just some other things I want to do so handstand phone angel split I also want to say really on top of my iron supplements career YouTube rebrand I'm actually already working on that so I'm really excited for that I want to put my podcast get into the HG program I set up the question mark because it's not really in my hands like I did everything I could do and so now I just have to let go and wait and see launch my Dula business which I will be certified in April and market yoga Dula and coaching because I do want to start offering like live coaching in addition to Dula stuff in April again and then also graduating because I graduated nice so we'll go more into you kind of like my career and stuff in a separate video but those are kind of like what I'm thinking about right now when it comes to my goals love it's really big for me like I definitely want to get into a relationship I just don't know when that's going to happen or what that's going to look like but I'm really hoping it happens in 2024 if not I'll survive so my calendar I don't really use this that much and then this is honestly still in 2023 from December and as you can see Virginia where I haven't anything for you to get but hopefully I'll have that number this week we're here my camera's gonna die so let me switch out the battery that's been charging and then we'll pick this up okay so I really like this section the monthly goals and reflection so I have the three categories career I want to have a new YouTube rating so that's just kind of everything that falls under there and that's all being worked out I'm ready I'm really excited to show you guys I also want to film three podcast episodes I've been talking about this podcast for a very very very very very long time so hopefully I can get that done in January and then applied to 10 jobs I've actually already applied to three so we're heading in the right direction there I hope I can beat this because when it comes to landing corporate nine to five jobs it's really just a numbers game like the more you apply the better your chances are so 10 is like my goal but I hope I get a little bit more than 10 and personal I want to get a therapist again so I want to interview 33 therapists have not even begun that speak 30 minutes of Spanish per day but it's only January 4th so we have some time we have some we have some goals journal once a week I've been really good with that actually actually journal twice so far budget for January I also have been good at that and it's so hard I think I also want to make like videos about money in graduate school so if you're interested in that we may comment below but yeah budgeting when you're living off the student loans is like a mind fuck not gonna lie and then I want to find a piano teacher and figure out Columbia financial aid which kind of goes hand-in-hand and we'll talk about that in a different video and then health and fitness class pass which I started my free month already so I'm really excited about that and then just getting back to going to sleep earlier like I did not go to sleep early last night but I did the night before and I woke up at 6 30 like the next day so I'm like if I get to sleep on time I can wake up on time so I just need to have the self-discipline to do that and then this is an end month reflection which obviously is the beginning of January so we're not doing that now weekly check-in which I've honestly just been using this as like my to-do list so so from last week I kind of did that checking in I just feel really excited about the possibilities of the new year and new possibilities I'm applying to two nine to five jobs actually five to three so I think that posting to YouTube videos don't know if that's gonna happen getting back to work out and meal planning and then solidifying my financial aid for the spring which is actually really high in my priorities as you can see kind of down here and I just still haven't done it yet I actually sent them an email in December and having heard back so I just think I need to send them another email and then finding like what I'm working on this week to get closer to my goals just find a new healthy routine understanding what my life looks like for 2024 because my life is just going to change so much this year with me graduating and stuff and I also was really excited I got a Brooklyn library card I have some stuff for the ones I need to do but yeah filming my January coming with me gonna work that complete because we're doing it now this says captured and planner but honestly I'm just gonna change this to complete because I've just been using this as like to do this from being completely honest and yeah and then at the end I have my vision board nice and big and beautiful and I just really really love it random journal entries I honestly don't like journaling on digital stuff so I have a physical journal that I use and yeah I don't think I'm gonna be using the section too much YouTube posting dates I still need to do that I have like two videos that I want to do actually three but I usually post like eight videos a month so I need to spend some time planning and brainstorming that and there are so many requests that I've gotten and I have not been good at keeping up with them so if you've asked for a video in like the last month six months yesterday please leave it again down below in the comment section so I can actually start kind of keeping up with them knowledge management such a great skill to have still working on it right now YouTube brain dump this is probably where I should keep the videos you guys request so hopefully I'll start doing focus hub which is actually one of my favorite parts of this planning template like thank you so so much for making this because this makes it so easy I don't really do any of these like YouTube videos or playlists that are on the bottom here but I literally like as you can see from finals my psychology of sexualized violence outline presentation final paper studying for my nutrition exam and then like my passives like I knock this all out utilizing this hub so I really enjoy it this is for my podcast whenever we get rolling on it as you can see like these are kind of scripts that I made but I actually did record my introduction at my outro I think the biggest roadblock for me right now is that I just don't know how to upload stuff onto like Apple podcasts and Spotify and that truly is the biggest roadblock like if I was just doing it on YouTube I probably would have launched it already but it's just so hard to do things that you don't know how to do it's so hard to do things that you don't know how to do yeah so once I actually figure out how to upload audio onto the like podcast streaming services we are going to be on and popping but until I take the time to actually do that it's gonna be a journey also these are some of the episodes that I'm thinking of again if you have any episode ideas leave me a comment below but yeah so how to start meditation practice have a man best your dream life tips for new yoga teachers like I'm really excited about this stuff 80-20 lifestyle is something that Jenna does about like food and nutrition I'm actually really really into nutrition I took a nutrition class last semester you guys weren't aware so I already eat pretty healthy I don't really drink that much I don't really think this really applies to me but I do really want to start recording some recipes that I love in a digital format because I literally spent like three hours yesterday looking for this recipe that I made before so I think I'll probably turn that this into that like this into just like a recipe hub versus like meal planning and tracking my stuff because I already kind of do that intuitively quite well there you know it's still looking for a therapist so nothing there books and media hub I have really enjoyed this tab so I have all these books that I wanted to read here and then I just finished Verity by calling Hoover gave it like literally five stars it's so so good and I do think I want to do a book review on my channel about it so stay tuned for that content trackers which is honestly my favorite favorite part so I have been using originally something created by Alexis Eldridge so she originally created this tracker I've been using it when I moved myself into this new notion template I brought it with me because I really like it and I typically tracked my YouTube the most I don't really track anything else so if we go into our oh it's right here so my YouTube growth so for January I was at 867 subscribers I have somehow lost two subscribers but would have you it happens but what I love because I've been tracking it for so long I can literally filter anyway I'm gonna have to figure this out for the next video because my camera is gonna die and I don't want it to take forever but as you can see here and January this year had 867 and then January of last year it had 464 so I'm really excited just to see the growth year over year now that we've been doing this for so long so yeah that is it I haven't really created a goal for growth for next month so actually we will go into monthly goals I don't remember the last time I did this okay in August so let's say for January my subscriber goal we're at 865 right now because I lost two subscribers um let's do like 900 solid watch time 29 and then use 45,000 like a hundred and 45,000 I think that's fine all right cool yeah and my camera's gonna die so we're gonna wrap this up here but I really hope you guys enjoyed this play with me I didn't want to get into my physical planer but this camera's gonna die in any moment so hopefully in February I can introduce you guys to this I really love these planers this is actually from a plan called plum paper that has me in a chokehold darling because you can customize like literally everything about it and then you have these like cute little sections that I haven't used for like monthly planning and monthly reflections that I also haven't used but hopefully 2024 it'll be the year of planning and you guys can help keep me accountable I love you guys so much again my name is Nika make sure you subscribe and I will see you guys in the next video oh also I'll keep my link for the hobby copy which is actually really good and the description box below and a link for a plum paper planer whatever if you want that and the link for Jenna's notion template yeah wow that was a night full make sure you subscribe if you haven't already and I'll see you guys in the next video love you bye