Chaostude

Slow Morning

Wake up before 8 am.

Do some Yoga.

Meditate.

Make your fav breakfast.

Plan

Plan your schedule for the week.

Set intentions for the week.

Check in on your goals.

Upate your calendar for the week.

Plan meals, grocery shop, meal prep.

Chores

Make your beed,

Change bedding.

Empty dishwasher.

Clean bathroom.

Clear/wipe surfaces.

Sweep/mop floors.

Take trash out.

Do your laundry.

Clean out your purse or backpack.

Wash makeup brushes.

Organize closet.

Relax

Listen to a podcast.

Spend the day without social media.

Call a loved one.

Bake something.

Go for a walk.

Selfcare

Do your skincare routine.

Bubble bath.

Wash and condition hair.

Use a hair mask.

Wash and moisturise face.

Use a face mask.

Apply body lotion.

File and paint nails.

Exfoliate your skin.

Shave.

Wind Down

Have a light dinner.

Drink a cup of tea.

Light a candle.

Read a book or watch a movie.

Journaling.

Go to sleep early.

Hey Love, I hope you're doing alright; I know how horrible going back to school can feel. Before I switched to online school, I would always dread the end of summer, but here are a few things that might help you get through it. <3

Remember, everything is temporary. As dumb as this may sound, it's the truth. Before you know it, it will all be in the past, and you'll just look back at it as a slightly uncomfortable memory.

Establish little rituals before school. Do your make-up in the morning, have tea, do some reading on the bus, text your friends, and write down some affirmations. Little things that take the focus off the whole school thing and make the morning a bit nicer, you know? :)

Pick up a journal, not in a cute and aesthetic way but rather in a messy and freeing way. Write down all of your thoughts and worries. Getting things out of my head always helps me calm down :)

Be prepared for class. If you had any homework over the summer break, make sure to finish everything, do some extra reading and so on; being prepared will at least make the whole class thing feel less scary…

Plan a cute outfit. Wear something that makes you feel beautiful. <3

Romanticise, Romanticise, Romanticise. Make a vision board, buy some cute stationery, get a coffee before class, listen to a comforting playlist, bring a book to distract yourself…

I made a little “back to school” playlist that might help you; autumn always puts me in a gloomy mood and cosy, so if that's something that you resonate with, feel free to check it out!! <3

As always, Please feel free to add your own suggestions and tips in the comments!!

journaling is a really powerful habit that i love because it has helped me a lot in my transformation and healing process. it also offers us many benefits for our life. when we write down what we feel or what we want to achieve we are focusing and giving it much more clarity. through this magical practice, we can solve any type of situation or problem. It helps us to get rid of fears and anger. my favorite way is to ask myself questions that I can answer, this gives me more clarity and concentration. i recommend doing it on paper in fact i have my own notebook in which every day i carry out this wonderful practice.

✨ some of its benefits are:

helps reduce anxiety and depressive thoughts.

improves cognitive capacity, writing by hand activates many neural networks and, consequently, improves our cognitive capacity. In addition, it also emphasizes that this activity promotes prospective and working memory.

helps cultivate discipline

improves memory

it helps us to create habits moreover, writing on paper those "tasks" or habits that you want to integrate into your life, makes your brain catalog them as "important actions" and it is more likely that you fulfill them in the day. What happens is that your reticular active system (SAR) files them as actions that you must accomplish.

✨ journal prompts ideas

for the morning - have a great day and focus on the positive and what we want to accomplish today.

how do i want to feel today?

what should i focus on?

how do i need to act today to get closer to my best self?

what should i avoid?

what can i do to have a great day?

what would i like my day to be like?

today…(the things you will do, how you will feel)

today no…. (the things you want to avoid and not focus on)

for times of stress or anxiety.

how am i feeling?

what has caused me to feel this way?

have i felt this way on other occasions? is it a pattern i am repeating?

how would i like to feel?

what should i focus on?

what would make me feel good right now?

is there anything i can do right now to fix it?

how would i like to act the next time this situation happens?

how would my best version of me act in this situation?

is there anything I can do to make this better?

to become our best version

what would my best version look like?

what things should i change to get closer to my best version? (like thought patterns, habits…)

what can i do to get closer to becoming my best version?

what do i commit myself to every day to be closer to this version?

what would my desired life look like 6 months from now?

what would my desired life look like 1 year from now?

what are those thought patterns or limiting beliefs that prevent me from living my life the way i want?

what is it that makes me feel fearful or insecure? (make a list and next to it you can replace the negative affirmation with a positive one).

write down 5 positive affirmations of how you want your life to be from now on and commit to repeating them daily.

to focus on new goals or habits

what habits would i like to implement in my life from now on?

what habits do i need to remove from my life?

what would my desired routine look like?

what can i do to achieve this?

what would be my dream lifestyle?

what can i do to achieve it?

what are my goals?

how can i get closer to them?

do i feel capable?

if not, what is stopping me?

what can i do to change that thinking?

against negative thoughts

where does this thought come from?

how does it make me feel?

how would i like to feel about it?

what thoughts would i like to have?

from now on i commit myself to…(list of positive beliefs you will have from now on)

for the evening, to end your day on a high note and prepare for the next day.

3 things i am grateful for today

how did i feel today?

what can i improve tomorrow?

what should i focus on more tomorrow? (e.g. goals)

how would i like to feel today?

these are just a few examples, you can use them if they help you or invent your own, the important thing is that they help you feel better or whatever you want to achieve at that moment.

it's not that you are lazy or don't know how to do it, you just don't know how to organize your time well, stop telling yourself that you don't have discipline or that's for other people and take action now!

start by organizing your current life

what are my goals? what would be my ideal routine? where can i start? what habits are stealing my time or are harmful to me? am i satisfied with my current life? what should i improve? what can i do now to improve?

after answering these questions yourself and having a clearer idea of what you want, write down your short-term goals (for example to become more disciplined in one month by creating small routines) and start organizing yourself, again ask yourself, what can i change right now? and for sure you can improve many things, you can start exercising, have a day and night skincare routine, go for a walk every day, write a diary, whatever you want! and propose to do these new things for at least a week every day, take it as a challenge, even if it is 10 minutes a day, but make a space in your agenda for this new thing you want to start, this is how you will start to create a discipline.

find your motivation

what are the long and short-term benefits you will get when you start this habit or routine? how will you feel when you get what you want, no matter how small? what improvements will there be in your life during and after this?

little by little

as i explained before you can take this as a small challenge, choose a new "harder" habit and another smaller one like drinking water several times a day, and to remind you of this you can carry a bottle of water with you (and i recommend this habit to everyone). if you want to start exercising and you always end up leaving it, propose to yourself the challenge of doing every day 10 minutes for a week and this way you will get used to it (it can be any task that you want to incorporate to your life) and enjoy the process, write or talk to someone how you feel, it may be hard at first but you have to get used to it, do not put too much effort during the first week, maybe there are days that you do not feel like it, but remember better little than nothing, but remember always do it for your well being and improvement, that is the biggest reason you will find.

it can also help you to keep a record of what you do during the day, you can write it down or use an app called daylio, by seeing your progress will keep you motivated.d

some ideas to train your discipline

wake up one hour earlier than usual and go to sleep one hour earlier

organize yourself every day with a planner as soon as you wake up

know your goals for the day

control the time you spend on social media or watching tv

don't give up!

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