I've Literally Just Started Doing This Very Thing Like For 2 Days In A Row Now. And It's Been Uplifting

I've literally just started doing this very thing like for 2 days in a row now. And it's been uplifting my mood. I smell so good, and look so adorable! I buy the "A Thousand Wishes" scent from BATH AND BODY WORKS. And I get the Body Scrub, the Body mist, the Shimmery Body Butter, and the Shimmery Body Mist. And that's all from that store. If I feel like wearing a scent from any other place/business I'll wear frankincense & myrrh fragrance body oil, and another one I'll keep a secret but I get it from the local mall's perfume store. 🥰☺️ but putting those on with a super cute outfit seriously does lift my mood. Not to mention my new boyfriend melts all over me when I take the time out to get all completely dolled up even if I'm NOT going anywhere. (Except for in his arms ☺️🫠🥰😍)

I started wearing my favorite dresses even if I’m staying home. I decided I don't have to wait for an occasion to dress up, put makeup on, or take the time to get ready. I deserve to feel lovely while I’m folding laundry or doing the dishes. Feeling beautiful during the mundane tasks of life makes them feel more beautiful too. 

be your best version before 2024

i have come up with a kind of challenge to become our best version before the end of the year.

with this habit we are going to implement healthier habits in our lives and abandon those that are not benefiting us, also get to know ourselves better and manifest our desires or goals for the next year.

the challenge has a duration of 21 days but obviously after that we have to continue with this healthy lifestyle that we have created.

- habits to implement on a daily basis

drink two liters of water a day (recommended for physical and mental health).

movement (training at home, at the gym, going for a walk, running, yoga, pilates, any activity that allows you to exercise your body)

commit yourself to one habit during these 21 days, for example journaling.

choose a meditation on something you want to improve in your life, it can be self-love, relationships, economic abundance, health and do it daily (i recommend before going to sleep) during all the days of the challenge.

also choose a video of affirmations, a subliminal, mantra that has to do with the meditation you chose and listen to it at least once a day and if you can more, whenever you feel like it.

print, make or buy a calendar to keep track of this challenge and mark the days you met, if you miss one, start again, propose it.

go to bed an hour earlier than you usually go to bed and get up half an hour earlier than you usually get up.

- habits you need to start replacing now

screen time, stop being so much connected to social media and do something outside or even at home but you don't have to use your phone.

in any social media, stop following 10 accounts that you think are "hurting" you and in turn follow 5 new ones that you think will help you in your personal growth and development or at least inspire you something positive, the time you are going to use social media at least see things that nourish you.

stop worrying, when a problem or difficulty of any kind comes up, write in a journal how you feel, do a meditation or anything else that keeps you focused on something other than the problem, if necessary you can feel the anger or sadness, but don't get stuck in those thoughts.

instead of spending time watching tv or any streaming platform, read a book or listen to a spiritual/personal growth podcast.

- journaling ideas

during these days you can write in your diary these kinds of things:

how you would like your year 2024 to be.

all your goals for the next year.

how you would like your best version of yourself to be from now on.

an extraordinary event that you would like to happen before the end of this year.

a letter of forgiveness to someone who hurt you (it can be yourself too).

a list of 10 things you would do or would like to happen to you if you believe that everything is possible for you.

list of books you want to read from now and this 2024

a mantra or affirmation that you will write daily every morning for the next 21 days. write one that comes to mind or one that resonates with you.

- how to do the challenge?

organize your day to implement the habits i mentioned at the beginning such as exercise, journaling, drinking the two liters of water, doing the meditation you chose, listening to the affirmations you chose.

if one day you don't do any of these things, propose to start again from day 1.

you don't have to exercise daily either, if you are just starting out it can be 3 or 4 days but for example the other days go for a walk or do a stretching routine.

what i have proposed are small habits that can be done daily and complement the routine you have right now, you can do it and after those 21 days you will see a significant change in your life.

this challenge is just a kind of game to make it more fun and have more motivation to implement these habits in your day and start doing it now and not when the year begins. that your best version does not wait any longer to come to light.

and i hope you tell me how it went 🤍

This is definitely something worth reposting also 😊

the cure to self-sabotage is to anchor yourself to the universal truth that you are worth it. you are worth the effort. you are worth the difficulty, you are worth the time, you are worth the consideration. there is never a point in your life, in time itself, that you are not worth it. return to this truth when you feel yourself slipping. do not let it go.

Upon seeing this movie and her, she is the reason as to why I eat popcorn WITH hot sauce. 💯

And this is ALSO needed to read at the butt crack of dawn on a Monday morning! Now I have the much needed motivation to just do what I know needs to be done without anymore delay. Enough is Enough already with ALWAYS seeking "love" and "validation" etc etc in others. I've gone majority of my young adult life ALWAYS putting the people i wanted love from....on a flicking pedestal. Bending myself into a damn pretzel trying to get them to see I'm worthy....worthy of their time, love, energy, respect etc etc. Spending countless amounts of money on them ("spare no expense"-as John from jurassic park always said) to see how much of a down ass woman I am, and all they ever did was take without so much as a heartfelt thank you. When I needed things for myself, I put it off just to please the other person's wants and needs. Well this post was precisely what I needed this morning. 👏

Fuck them typos. I said wtf I said.

& that’s on that!