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Life Reset: Focus on Your Home
We have looked at a lot of areas to address when doing a life reset. We still have a few more to cover! If you are in the midst of doing a life reset, don’t forget about your home and environment. Far too often, people improve their health, habits, and even finances, but forget about the space where they spend so much time. Luckily, it is super easy to “Reset” your life in your home, with these tips. Get Rid of What You Don’t LOVE In classic Marie Kondo style, go through your home and get rid of anything that doesn’t bring you joy or happiness. All those things you…
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What You Can do for Your Fall Anxiety
Autumn anxiety is a form of anxiety you get seasonally, often between the end of summer and the beginning of fall. Learn more here. Preventing it comes down to understanding what it is, and what you believe is the cause for you specifically to get this disorder. Here are some tips to help you prevent autumn anxiety, or at least reduce its effects. Don’t Make Things Harder for Yourself It can be hard to accept at first, but sometimes you are doing things unintentionally to make your anxiety worse. If you have had autumn anxiety before, and you fear it happening again, try to rationalize what these fears are. Do…
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Life Reset: Don’t Forget Your Finances
Resetting your life should encompass every area of your life, not just your health or habits. It should also include your finances, which is such a big part of your life, and actually impacts whether you can reach your goals or not. Here are some things to know about working on your finances, and why it should be a priority. What are Your Financial Goals? Start simple by writing down exactly what your financial goals are. Be as specific as you can, down to the amount of money you want to earn or save to achieve those goals. While your financial goals will be specific to you, here are some…
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Life Reset: Have a Plan
Make sure when you start looking into doing a life reset, you have a solid plan. This includes understanding why you are doing it, what parts of your life you want to take inventory of, and what changes you intend to make. Understand Why You Are Doing a Life Reset You can’t really work on your life reset plan until you know your main reason for doing it. Everyone has a different motivation for wanting to make changes in their life, which is why it is important that you understand your own reasons. What made you originally come to this decision? Write down anything you can remember from when you…
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Do You Know What Your Limiting Beliefs Are?
Limiting beliefs are something you often think or believe, without even realizing it. A limiting belief is a type of thought you have that provides some type of limitation and keeps you from even trying. It can be about you, other people, society, or anything else. This might be a limiting belief that you can never be wealthy, won’t achieve the level of success you dream of, or that you can’t wear that swimsuit with the body you have now. Limiting beliefs can be big or small, and all impact you greatly. Why Are Limiting Beliefs a Bad Thing? The reason you don’t want to have too many limiting beliefs…
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Self-Care Activities For a Bad Day
When you have a bad day, you might find that you want to grab a drink or eat something unhealthy. But these are not healthy habits to have. A better option is to work on your self-care activities, which can make you feel better and will be good for you at the same time. Watch Something Funny Don’t underestimate the power of laughing! If you are having a terrible day, find a way to watch TV or a movie that makes you laugh. Avoid action, drama, and other genres that might make you feel miserable by the end. Binge-watch your favorite comedy on Netflix or turn on the TV to…
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Time for a Mental Health Reset: Use Affirmations
If during a life reset you are more interested in improving your mental and emotional health, you might want to use affirmations. These are a wonderful addition to your mental health routine, as they can help you with your mindset, both in good times and in difficult times. Understanding Why Affirmations Work Affirmations are positive statements or phrases that help you experience happy, uplifting, optimistic, inspiring, motivational, and positive emotions. They can be used in so many different ways, but during a reset, they help you to stay in a place of inspiration when it comes to making positive changes in your life. Affirmations are going to help put you…
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Life Reset: Meditation and Mindfulness
A common theme surrounding improving your life and especially your mental and emotional health is doing meditation or practicing mindfulness. I am a big fan of doing both. Each of these practices benefits you in similar ways but uses slightly different techniques. In the end, they blend beautifully into one life-changing practice. Meditation and Mindfulness These are similar practices, but done in slightly different ways. With meditation, you are most likely focusing on your breathing, closing your eyes, and trying to clear your mind. When you are practicing mindfulness, it is not done with your eyes closed, but instead when participating in another activity. When to do meditation – If…
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Life Reset: Work on Better Sleep
Sleep is one of the best things you can do for yourself but is often overlooked. Too many people lose out on sleep or at least have a poor quality of sleep, assuming it is just something you do, and not at all important. But your sleep quality can affect nearly every facet of your life, including your physical health, mental health, and so much more. How Much Sleep Are You Getting? Before you can adjust your sleep routine, you need to have a starting point. Keep a sleep diary for a few days or week with what time you went to sleep and woke up. Note what are doing…
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Life Reset: Check Your Gut
If there is one thing you learn today about resetting your gut (and health) it is this: this is NOT about a detox or a cleanse. Your body detoxes and cleanses itself on its own, thanks to a little something called your internal organs. You don’t need flat tummy tea or a juice cleanse to get it done. Instead, you should focus on making small changes that will improve your digestion and help restart your health from the inside out. Start With What is Bothering You the Most Before you can reset your gut, you need to know what you are actually trying to change. When it comes to your…
