A productive day in my life *getting things done that i've been avoiding & productivity tips*

Good morning. I hope you guys are ready for a very productive day because I know that's what I really need. I started my day off at sunrise as you guys saw. Kind of felt like that would really kick start my morning and it did. So I got back from sunrise, took a shower, put my PJs back on, and then just zipped around and did random things I needed to get done like putting away laundry, not clean the kitchen, but now I need a coffee. I was thinking my little plan for the morning would be go get a Dunkin. I have to film some things for all Lynn because these are restocking so I wanted to get like a cute little video of me going to Dunkin and then I'll have my Dunkin and I can plan my day with my cute little planners right here. I wanted to start planning at night and then by the time I was pulling out my planner I was too tired. Tonight I think I'm gonna try to start that at like 7 maybe and plan my day for tomorrow. My day is not planned yet. Once I have my coffee I'll be really inspired for this and I need to make a little breakfast. I really should make the breakfast before coffee. Plan, breakfast, coffee in my PJs, planning my day, and then I'll really know what I'm up to but kind of what I'm gonna try to do is get some things done that I've been avoiding. Matt and I need to put some things on the calendar like changing our licenses to Florida and we have a really big trip coming up so just making sure that we're all set for that. Updating my calendar so I know what I'm up against the next couple weeks before we leave. That's what I'm thinking and then obviously we have to go for a walk because that's been in my new routine. I shouldn't have said that yet because Lila just whipped her head at me and I've been doing an ab workout every day so I need to do that as well and it's kind of a busy day for me work-wise for all of when. A lot of planning, I need to schedule a meeting for something so yeah it's gonna be a good day. Checking off my to-do list, that's gonna be my goal. Just checking every single thing off. I'm gonna go make an egg I think. Oh I might have an English muffin. Do we have English muffin? I'm gonna make a little English muffin egg sandwich then I can go to Duncan's. Hi yes can I get a medium iced coffee with cream and then the liquid sugar and then can I also get blueberry and butter pecan in that? Um then just blueberry and then extra ice. A little nervous because as you guys saw they didn't have butter pecan and I usually really heavily rely on that for like the sweetness but we'll see. It could definitely be sweeter. I haven't been to Duncan since Georgia and I just feel like once I'm in Florida it's just not as good. That's so sad. Dang it. That's the only downside to Duncan is that it's unreliable. Sometimes it's just not the best. Okay anyways I'm still gonna pick out a little koozie for it and film a cute little video for all of when trying on all of these so I'll probably do for today. I've been just kind of like a pink girl today so I feel like this will be the one I end up with. I've been gravitating so much towards pink and yellow. So cute. It says I went to bed dreaming of this coffee and I did. Maybe for it to taste better than this but I still did dream about it. Now we can finally plan in my favorite new planner. I haven't gotten the card yet to use a pen. I've just been using a pencil which is fine. It's been working really well actually and I just have been loving it. It has a weekly overview then you can put in your priorities for the week, important things that you need to do. I didn't fill that in for this week yet and I wish I did and then each day has a little thing. Today's Wednesday for me at least. I'm just really loving the layout of it. I feel like it helps me stay on track. My most important thing is getting ready for the koozie restock so I'll write that down. Means I have to get a list together of which things are restocking, edit the koozie photos and the videos and then I already sent over some new koozie designs so I have to answer them. They sent me a photo of the samples and I know when the colors is off so I have to talk to them and make sure that gets fixed. Very koozie day. I have laundry I have to move over right after this and whenever I write down laundry in a to-do list I always like to do a little box for starting it and then moving it over and then folding it because laundry itself like when do you get to check that off when you start the wash? No. I like to give myself a little more that I get to check off per step and then I'm just gonna sit here kind of journal fill this in so I can get started on my day. So if you need to make a to-do list for today now is your time and we can do it together. Coffee. I feel like the Nescafe beans my espresso machine has changed my life like it ruins coffees out for me. I made this one extra sweet because I think I was like overcompensating for how unsweet my dunkin was but it's just so good. I put a bunch of cookie butter in it. My method is putting the cookie butter in the brown sugar first, melting it with the espresso, shaking it up and like I'm already drinking this so fast and I put this koozie on it so it's a double koozie day but I'm just gonna sit out on the porch with this edit the photos I took of the koozies and edit like a little video while the dogs play because that feels double productive getting their energy out and getting some things done and then I have to move some laundry over fold it when it's dry. Never film in this room it's kind of just like thrown together has the couch that I don't want to get rid of but like doesn't really fit in the living room right now but this is my favorite little laundry contraption. It has places to hang clothes that I'm drying some of my stuff that I don't like to put in the dryer and just so nice I pop it up in here when I need to and then when I'm not using it I put it in between my washer and dryer and I love it. My main ways of feeling productive are having a fun drink, having something to look forward to and feeling put together. I do feel put together in my PJs but I want to change into a cute outfit for the day. I need to pick that out and I'm looking for like productive but cozy vibes like nothing too frumpy but nothing too put together you know something in the middle and I did just clean the closet but it's really nice. My favorite touches in the laundry right now. Oh man I love wearing this. This could be really cute and cozy. It feels like January. I'll wear this back. I've worn this a million times. Yep this is it and then I'm gonna accessorize it a little. Maybe some more jingling. That would be really cute. Very cute matching set. Making my bed in the morning also makes me feel so productive and just extra cute especially when there's a jelly cat on my bed. So cute. I usually try to open up packages right when they come in but these were like in my little mailbox so I didn't notice them then this came today. So I have to unbox them but I feel like doing it right when something gets delivered helps me so that it doesn't pile up too much because sometimes it's just like it's cluttered because I get a lot of things for work and that type of thing so keeping up with my packages is always really nice but I haven't for the past like couple of days but it's okay because it's only three but this first one is a really fun one that I ordered. Well not really fun but to me it's really fun. Oh it is really fun but I ordered this black velvet thread for my needlepoint little Minnie Mouse ears. I can finally finish those and this little Valentine stitched angel. I should have got two so I can make one for me and one for my mom but this one's for my mom because I made her one for Christmas and my dog Blue ate it basically but in his mouth and then it ruined it so that was really sad. So I ordered a different one to make for her. Um this is so cute and luckily I have all the threads ready for it which makes that really fun. I wasn't expecting both of them to be in there because the little Valentine's one was a pre-order but that's awesome. Then this is from Amazon but me and Natalie keep talking about how it feels like our metal straws go missing and I think that I accidentally steal them. I ordered a pack of like ten. I think it's like seven dollars something. I'm going to split up of these perfect little metal straws. I'll just bring these over to her house and split them up and then lastly kind of goes along with that but I have a restock of finesse cafe beans. Perfect. What a cute little haul. I need a pint and coffee. So me. I love getting fresh bag in. It always comes in just in time for me. I'm a bag ahead right now because I ordered extras for Disney but usually I use it up in perfect timing for my next bag to come. Now I'm going to stay right here until I get the rest of my stuff done. I'm going to put on my blue light glasses, drink my coffee, lock in because I'm starting to get a little stressed about some of the things I need to do and I know I'll feel a lot better once they're done and it just feels like a lot right now. If I walk around a little too much then I'll start to do chores and straighten up and stuff but I need to really sit and look at what else I'm going to do. Okay it is time to check off my next thing on my to-do list and that is going for a walk with dogs specifically. I'm going to fill up my water bottle. I have my cute workout set on which I talked about this in the last video and I made all of my workout sets more like accessible in my room and it's been helping so much for when I pick out an outfit. Don't mind how crazy my hair is but my lineup for my workout lately has been going for a walk first because it is so much easier for me to say yes to going for a walk than it is for me to say yes to doing a workout. I almost always will say no to a workout. I don't know. I just don't usually enjoy it but I love going for a walk. I'm going for a walk first then before I even think anything else I do my jumping jacks and then I do my ab workout and then a little plank and Russian twist at the end. That's kind of my lineup I've been doing and I'm loving it. I think today is day nine. I started a little bit before the new year and honestly I haven't stuck to something for this long in probably like four years um so I'm really excited and impressed and I know it's really good for the dogs too. So I'm gonna fill up my One thing I have been putting off that I really need to do is wash my hokas. They're needing it. Maybe I'll throw them in the wash today since I'm getting things done. I just finished my ab workout and I always have to put my hair up on the top of my head so it doesn't like hit the floor and it gets literally so crazy after I work out. I don't know why. I think my hair wants to be curly really bad. That's so hard but I'm so glad I got it done. Another thing checked off my to-do list which feels really nice. Okay I only have a couple more things left on my to-do list. One of them is cleaning this mirror. I have been putting this off for so long and it's time. Every time I take a mirror selfie I'm like I need to clean that mirror. Then I'm also going to do laundry and my reward for both of those things is I just need a point and I'll give you guys a little name for my update. If you have anything you've been avoiding doing get up and do it really quick while I'm doing this so that we can get those things done because has been weighing on the back of my mind and it's going to take me less time than it's taking me right now to explain it but I need to just get it done. A task I've been avoiding for literally weeks over in a couple minutes. And now it is finally time for our little reward for having a super productive day and that is going to start with some tea. We did already get to go over to our friend's house and have a little dinner with them. Matt made a little like chicken noodle soup with pastina, my favorite pasta in the world, and then we were supposed to put lemon in it and it was very hot but it still was really good. Now I'm in charge of making the tea and I'm gonna have you guys guess whose tea is whose because Matt and I's tea orders could not be any more different from each other. So I already boiled the water. I'm just gonna fill them both up. I love this little tea kettle. It's such a game changer for me. I used to make tea with my Keurig and I just feel like, I don't know, something weird with that. I really like making it in this little kettle instead. Filled up. Okay so one of them gets peppermint tea. I just do one little bag in there. The other is a ginger turmeric and then in that one I also do some turmeric, some lemon, and honey. And then I let both of them sit for about six minutes. Okay the timer just went off. So now I take out the tea bags and then there's one more step for the peppermint that it goes over ice. I'm gonna do over the sink though. And there are two very different tea orders. Final guesses on whose is whose. Your tea's ready. So I'm having them guess whose is whose. I feel like it makes sense of Alan Towers. Yeah. And like I'm always with a hot cup of tea. So it'd be weird. I don't do hot drinks. Yours smells good. And of course yours would be like simple, easy. Mine has all these extra additives. Even some lemon. Yeah mine's still too hot. Do you put turmeric in there? Yeah I always do. Turmeric, honey, lemon. Yum. Needlepoint time. Needlepoint time. Finally my favorite part of the day and that is needlepoint time. I became this and I don't even think I've showed you guys yet. It's so cute. I got it during Black Friday sales and then just recently went and got all the threads for it except for one color. I couldn't find the right one. I think it's so pretty. My intentions for this one is that it would be kind of a long-term project for me. I'm trying to decide if I'm going to do different stitches for the different colors. Right now I'm just doing this light pink. I'm doing that all just like continental which is like the regular stitch. But I'm not sure if I want to do something different in the different ones or what I'm going to do. And then it has this faint like yellowy background. But I think this will be a really good project. I was realizing that I need a project for my upcoming trip to Thailand because that's a super long plane ride and so I'll want something to work on it. But I don't think I want it to be this because I'll have to be kind of like with a little lamp and I don't want to mess this one up. I do need to think about that. But that's the current one that I'm working on. And then I have some new kind of organization stuff in here and you guys saw this stuff came today. I need to organize it into it. I also just got this canvas. It reminds me of a jelly cat. So cute. And then this jam jar one. I think I've shown it before but I didn't finally start it. I'm trying a new stitch for the blocks and then I got colors for it. They're all a little bent. I just started putting a bunch of my supplies into this thing. It's technically like a tag organizer but the strings that I cut I've just been stuffing in here. And then it just has random things in it like tacks, extra needles, my light hand cream. But yeah this is ridiculous. These are the threads for that canvas. I do think I'm just gonna keep them in here for now or maybe put them into a project bag. But I don't want to organize them out yet because I want to know which ones are exactly for this. Yeah maybe I'll put them in here. I feel like that'll be really cute. But anyways I'm gonna work on that flower one. I'm just loving it so much. I think it's so cute. I need to honestly organize my needlepoint stuff and kit a bunch of my projects which is where you put the right threads to each project. And like this one I need to go buy threads for it. That might need to be in the next video. I feel like that would be a fun thing to film. Okay well I'm gonna finally start my needlepoint, wind down for the night. But this was definitely a really fun day. I feel like these types of videos always motivate me a lot to get things done which is a hack. So I feel like if you're watching this and you're like oh I don't do enough in my day or something like that just know I'm doing extra because I'm filming it. But I just love it. It's so fun. I feel like the camera's holding me accountable. You guys are holding me accountable and it just makes it more fun. It's like I have a little buddy. But thank you guys so much for watching. I hope you guys had a really good day and I'll see you in the next video.