1.Make dinner together! It's cheaper and waaaay cuter than going out. Have fun picking the recipie (check my Pinterest for ideas), going to the grocery store, and put on some sweet tunes and dance while you cook. It'll be a memory to treasure for sure. My all time favorite date meal is this gnocchi. 2.Give yourselves a spa day and just relax and enjoy each other's company. Your man might be reluctant at first, but trust me he'll enjoy it. Face masks, oil massages, maybe even hit a yoga class! You'll be feeling refreshed and rejuvenated. 3.Go for a hike! Yeah I know it's winter, but bundle up and keep each other warm. Bring some soup, hold hands, and forget that it's even that cold. Bonus points: bring a camera and take pictures you'll treasure forever. 4.Make sundaes together and cuddle up on the couch with your favorite movie! 5.Start a tradition together. A new show to watch together, a weekly date, anything that's special to just the two of you. 6.Take a class together. It could be a cooking class, a yoga class, an art class, anything! Find something that interests both of you and get better at it together. 7.Go on a dessert date! Dinner dates are oh so basic but dessert dates are fun & new & can be done at any time of the day!
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Let's all be honest for a second. How many hours a day do you spend on your phone? How much of that is productive? We're all basically addicted, and that's not going to change anytime soon, so what we should be focusing on is how to change what we use our phones for. The first step to a useful phone is to purge everything. That app you used once right after you downloaded it and never again, the game your little brother borrows your phone to play once a year, anything and everything you don't use on a daily basis. Even your texts. You're never going to miss them, I promise. Doing an electronic purge feels just as good as throwing out your old clothes and toys. For an extra blissful phone experience, organize your apps by color. I swear my phone is so much nicer to look at just because of that. Now that you have a clean slate, it's time to download all the apps that will make you feel better about spending time on your phone. PRoductiveThis app is honestly incredible. It helps you build habits and stay with them. Using this app, I've managed not to miss a single day of meeting my January goal of eating breakfast every day. It let's you create habits for different times of the day, and it suggests habits that you might want to try achieving. It also shows you a monthly and weekly view of what days you did or didn't achieve all your goals. Apple NEwsIf you got rid of it, it's time to bring it back. You can personalize what kind of articles come up and what newspapers they come from. And you increase your knowledge about the world and sound smart when you say "well, the New York Times said..." If you haven't opened your Pinterest since junior high it's probably time for a Pinterest purge too. Surprise, it's actually good for something other than pinning tacky outfits and sappy quotes. Pinterest might not seem terribly productive, but I think it's incredibly useful for finding recipes, DIYs, holiday decorating and party hosting, and style (clothing or decor) inspiration. KeYnoteIt's Apple's version of PowerPoint and it's so much better. I use this app to make all my school presentations. It's fast, easy to use, looks nice, you can do it all on your phone, and it's accessible from any computer. Just log in with your iCloud account and save your presentation to iCloud and bam it's available on any kind of computer. Sleep CYcleThis app wakes you up at the optimal time in your sleep schedule so you never wake up feeling groggy again. It also gives you a bunch of data on how you slept and how you sleep best. MintKeeping track of your money and budgeting has never been easier. I swear I check this app before I buy anything. VenmoIf you're the kind of person that always forgets to bring your wallet, this app is going to make life a whole lot easier for you. You can transfer money straight from your bank account to your friend's and nobody has to worry about you forgetting to bring cash next time you see them. Bloglovin'An easy way to keep up with all your favorite blogs. HeadspaceLearn how to find that inner zen you keep looking for. This app was created by a Buddhist monk and he does an incredible job making meditation accessible to everyone.
Today is day thirteen of the new year and I am thirteen for thirteen on reaching my goal. Let me tell you, that's crazy. To be completely honest, I suck at reaching goals. Like 0% success rate kind of suck. I kid you not every year in elementary school my goal would be 'read nonfiction.' And guess who never read nonfiction in elementary school. Me. And now all of a sudden 2017 has a 100% success rate. Yeah, it's only been thirteen days, but that's twelve days more than I've ever been able to do before. Maybe that's not that impressive, but just roll with it and let me tell you how I did it. MotivateIf you don't really truly believe in something, there's no way you're going to stay motivated. I've noticed that I only lack motivation when I'm trying to do something I don't actually want to do or don't see as necessary. This is why it is so important to be mindful and selective with your goals, making sure each and every one of them is important to you and necessary to your success. Set ReaSonable GoalsIntitally it feels good to set large goals. Spending three hours a day doing yoga, eliminating sugar, waking up at six o'clock every morning, and getting perfect grades are a few things I'd like to achieve. But these goals aren't realistic. Maybe I'd meet my daily goal once, and feel great, but when I didn't meet a goal, and if I'm consistently not meeting a goal, I'd be likely to give up and feel like I can't accomplish anything. Your goal must be something that you want to accomplish, but also something that you can accomplish. Otherwise it's worthless. The goal must also be specific. "Work on my fitness" is vague. You could exercise for ten minutes the whole year and count it as "working on your fitness." If you really want to work on your fitness, set a specific goal. Maybe "once a week I'll go to the gym for an hour." Pace YourSelfYou aren't going to build thirty new habits in a month. There just isn't time in a day and with too many goals you can't focus on the ones that are most important. This year I plan to set one goal a month. That way I can completely focus on completing just one task a day, and acclimate to doing new things habitually. Each new month I will keep the old goal, and add a new one. A month should give me enough time to get used to accomplishing the goal, and by the time the new month and new goal come around, the former goals won't take attention away from the new one. I'm going to start with simple goals, and progressively move towards more difficult ones. My GoalsJanuary: eat breakfast
Febuary: drink eight glasses of water March: exercise for fifteen minutes April: go to bed by 10:30 May: read for fifteen minutes June: meditate for ten minutes July: wake up at 7:30 August: learn to cook fifteen simple meals September: miracle morning October: no chips, no ice cream November: do fifteen simple DIYs December: journal every day This wedding has undoubtedly been the most elaborate and extravagant event I will ever attend. I've never felt so pampered in my entire life. From the days of parties to the wildly decorated rooms to the millions of red roses that probably cost more than my entire wedding will, this trip has been quite an experience. Today marks the last day of the wedding, and frankly I'm just fine with that. I fully support the 'more than one day wedding' but eight has just been too much for me. I couldn't drag myself out of bed for the final event with a guest list of five thousand people. Lately I've only been attending one event a day (yes there is usually more than one!) and am still not caught up on sleep. Maybe I'm just a grandma, but I think I'll stick to no more than four days for my own wedding and my events will certainly not go until 5am every night. I still don't know how the bride and groom did it. An Indian wedding, at least one like this one, requires a stamina that I do not have.
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H E L L OI'm a college freshman at the University of Iowa, a Kappa Alpha Theta, and a philosophy major. I'm in love with holidays, sparkles, black clothes, J. Crew, and anything white. ArchivesCategories |