throughout history people have connected
themselves with shared values attitudes skills that has created them to be the person that they
are today and this has happen from one generation to the next these are things that we experience
in our everyday lives that we don't realize that we're experiencing and that has an impact on our
values even today if you sit there and you reflect your family your friends your religion social
media the news all of this has an impact of how your brain is str
uctured and how you do things in
your everyday life and I will be the first to say social media definitely has a big impact on that
I read this book called Atomic habits and I think that is something that everyone should read it
just shows you how little things in our lives can make the biggest difference and also like the
little things that go on our lives and things that we do we don't realize that they're habits that
implement it to us through Society standards at the end of the day what
I'm trying to say is that
all these experience form our knowledge it forms our perspectives and it just flows throughout
other aspects of life I will say that it is truly beautiful it's really nice to see when you
experience other people from other walks of lives and seeing how those things have made a change or
have made a impact on their lives overall and just know that through those experiences that we have
in life we're also going to make mistakes we're not going to know everything we'
re not going to
do everything perfectly and we are changing and I had to realize too for myself that it is okay
to change and you hear it reference in songs or movies and you're just like no I know who I I am
but as you get older and as you go through life you are literally changing all those experiences
are changing you and they are forming you and this is why I emphasize so much on creating healthy
habits in real life so if you're like me and you overthink things or if you fall off just
know it is okay and this is why I made this video just to give you some tips and tricks that
you can Implement into your everyday life that will help you achieve your goals it will help
you you know create those healthy habits that you have been desing to create and they are very
simple things that I didn't realize I had to learn through trial and air i c myself having a quarter
life crisis but I just think it's things that we have to experience in life like when I tell my
younger niece or
nephew just someone else like hey this and that but I feel like these are also
things that I realized that I had to experience and I think that's just part of life we have to
experience things we have to mess up we have to get up and try again and that makes us better the
next time we try to do it or we realize those are just things that aren't for us I don't want
to waste your time I'm going to go ahead and notate sections of the video if you want to watch
the entire video Welcome to the j
ourney welcome to the video but if you're just here to get one
specific thing out of this and you're just like I just need to hear this I just need to know this
so I can get on with my life and just apply this one specific thing and that's totally fine I going
to do that too I'm not going to lie I will go to a video and if I'm like I just need this from
this it's what I need to get value from it to skip right over I just wanted to make that easy
for you guys and I'm just really excited that
you guys are here with me on this journey focusing on
your health and wellness let's go ahead and get into the video I'm not going to waste time just
ranching because I am a talker it's 2024 you're now into your New Year's resolutions whatever
those may be trust me I am right there with you initially when I started New Year I told myself I
was going to be hitting the gym all the time I was going to be doing all these things because I had
just gotten over a really bad cold and it actually a
lmost turned to pneumonia thankfully I went to
urgy care at the time that I did and I was able to get my antibiotics and I was also able to get
my medicine that I needed to take care of my body so with that I realized that I didn't do exactly
what I had planned out to do and I realized that life does have a feat B and that's okay and at
times I do beat myself up for that too and I'm quite sure if you're like me you do that too but
ultimately what it is is just your change of focus so if you
're changing your focus you're realizing
the things that you need to prioritize your time to and it may not be the things that you were
able to before and that could be going out for drinks with friends that could be eating desserts
every single day and it just starts with forming healthier habits not saying those things are wrong
all those things are great and moderation for me personally I follow the 8020 aspect of 80% of the
time I'm going to be doing things that are helping me improve m
y health and improve my wellness and
improve my body that way I get more longevity out of life and also I feel better and there are
some few habits that you probably do already and you're probably not giving yourself enough credit
for if you haven't already what I want you to do is start by setting small healthy habits for me
my routine they're small things but I feel like it goes a long way once I get through the week
or just getting through my day so for me I am personally a morning worko
ut person if I work out
in the afternoon or if I work out in the evening I just feel like I'm not as efficient with getting
the progress that I want to get so I just go ahead and knock that out in the morning you may not be
a morning person and that's okay I wasn't always a morning person I used to be a nighttime gym girl
but as I got older my sleep schedules changed and it just wasn't for me another thing that I did as
far as the healthy habit is I started to get more of my water intake an
d I'm not going to lie to
you guys I have kind of fallen off from my water intake and I need to get back to it especially
living in Arizona you have to drink water and it's approaching the summer and I know I need to drink
more but for me I noticed trying to keep track of water bottles it's not I'm not going to I'm just
not going to get my water intake I have to carry that big old jug around if you have one you know
what I'm talking about the 64 Oz ones so I try to drink that and I try to m
ake sure I get my water
intake because ultimately it's not just to make my skin look better or just because I'm working
out or I'm trying to live the GM gr lifestyle water has a lot to do with our hydration it has
to do with our internal functions of our systems and it has to do a lot internally I think it's not
taught enough of how important water is for your body for that I'll probably do another video still
going through my certification to get licensed and certified in nutrition I did h
ave a detour I
detour back healthy habits I can definitely do another video on that on hydration I did go
over that in my personal training certification so I do know a little bit about hydration I know
a little bit about that water another thing as far as a healthy habit for me I decided to go on
a benge of not eating meat I'm not saying because I'm not eating meat I'm not eating protein protein
is definitely key and you have to have protein if you want to see progress in the gym I don't
know how to emphasize this enough if you're going to the gym and you're not eating and you're
not eating enough protein you're not going to see your muscles grow it's called protein muscle
synthesis and this is an actual thing everything with our bodies is pretty much based on science
and science works with our bodies crazy because our bodies are literally like a system but I
would encourage everyone if you're trying to go on your health and wellness Journey if you're
trying to start these
healthy habits to go ahead and make sure you are getting in your vitamins
and you're getting in your protein actually you just need to be getting your macronutrients but
that's another conversation for another day but why I say protein is because if you are trying
to be on your weight loss Journey like myself or if you're trying to grow muscle you want to make
sure you're prioritizing protein the reason for this is because if we're working out and raring
muscle that muscle needs to rebuild
itself and the only way for it to do that is to get it essential
amino acids and that is what protein contains it also helps you stay Fuller longer I am a big
carbs person so I will notice myself getting hungry after I ate some type of carb some type of
bread it's like no this should be filling and a couple hours later I'm hungry again if you eat
protein that is going to increase staty St is just basically that feeling of feeling full so it
avoids those additional snatches and things like t
hat that you don't necessarily need to do so even
though those are like more so healthier habits you also have to have habits that you implement for
yourself that are also healthy but that you enjoy so for me I'm starting to implement self-care
Sundays so it can be for my mental health it can be for my physical health it can be for anything
but I honestly today went for my spiritual health I went ahead and tried out in church I actually
went by myself so I was very proud of myself it was ve
ry interesting I usually don't really do
much much by myself it's really nice I haven't gone to church in a long time and it's been
really hard trying to find a church similar to the one that I used to go to Back Home In Indiana
it was really nice I really liked it everyone was super friendly and it was just a good experience
doing things like that that you enjoy that bring you fulfillment in life but also help you stick
to your other healthy habits because you're just forming this entire n
ew lifestyle when I was
training people I would just try to tell them like this is not just a thing that you're going
to do and you're going to just like see all these results you're just going to be done and then you
can go back to doing everything as normal when you're doing this this is literally a lifestyle so
this is a fair warning I didn't realize it I think I started to realize that as I started to go on my
own journey and then I decided to get certified as a trainer because I wanted
to know what my body
was doing I actually sat down with someone and I did a virtual meeting to do training with someone
and I realized during the conversation that the person that was speaking to to go through training
with wasn't even certified and I knew just general understanding that all of our bodies are different
and me going by a standardized plan that they do based on their experience wasn't actual educated
knowledge that they were applying to me so I wanted to go ahead and get cer
tified and honestly
I kind of did the whole personal training thing for selfish reasons because I wanted to improve my
health but as I was learning I was just like oh my God this is just like things that everyone should
know and then I started becoming more conscious and aware when I was in the gym and I would see
people working out and I'm just like they're doing something that is really going to hurt their
bodies like just something simple as like form and like a slight like twinge and li
ke slanting
your knees or like arching your back or just small things that have a major impact on your progress
and also just your overall body's health so I felt the urgency to go ahead and try to train people
and I realized my training started to fall up personally when I started training other people I
did love the fact that I was helping other people in fulfilling their health and wellness Journey
but I realized just for me right now personally training is not for me I'm still on my jou
rney of
figure out what I want to do with life my job now and it's something that I'm grateful for but I'm
just trying to find those things in my life that bring me passion so that is why I'm doing these
videos so hopefully this brings some type of fulfillment to my life this is also helping me on
my journey because you're going to be falling off and I need something to keep me on track and I
think this is going to be the thing and I'm just excited to share the knowledge that I do have
to
help other people along with the journey cuz they're small things and they make the hugest
impact and I didn't realize it I didn't have anyone to tell me when I started my health and
wildness journey like what to do I had someone to guide me through that I think the year of going to
the gym I would have saw way more progress I would have had way more out of it because my initial
goal was to go because I wanted to lose weight like if you're doing your health and wellness
journey I promise yo
u if your goal is just to lose weight you're not going to stick to it like or if
it's just to gain weight you're not going to stick to it you have to realize that you are making a
change in your lifestyle and that's the beautiful part about it and the best part about it to me
is actually the process because me now looking back at pictures I'm like oh my gosh I totally
fell off from the holiday season and I lost of that progress I made but it also made me feel very
you know empowered because
I was like I am capable of doing this I was seeing more results but I
was just being too hard at myself I don't know if you guys know when you go to the gym and you
see yourself and it' be the same Alpha you were a couple weeks ago but you feel like a completely
different person you just don't like your body that you're in that I'm just like oh my gosh like
my body looks horri it's all this and it's all that I hear someone give me a compliment they're
just like oh like your arms are really
toned or like you look good I'm just like thank you like
I needed that so I appreciate the encouragement I also have to realize with this lifestyle we
do have to make sacrifices so for me I realized things that I did like is sweets like I'm a big
sweets person realized I had to sacrifice my wi that is unnecessary calories and I'm a lot and
that sugar that Sugar turns into fat and then it's just defeating the whole person purpose of
me going to the gym so I still have those things like I wi
ll still have a glass of wine when I want
to have a glass of wine if I'm going out with the girls but just don't sit there and drink the whole
bottle I trust trust me I will I will drink some wine and what I realized to with not drinking and
not eating all the sweet things that I love to eat I realized that it really wasn't serving me I had
to realize and reflect like what am I getting out of this like am I just doing this because it's
for social purposes or am I doing this because I actual
ly enjoy this and I do to still do those
things and have those things but it wasn't serving me that much of a purpose for me to do it on a
continuous basis and to do it all the time and to take away my progress that I was putting into the
gym and I noticed too with my body with not having like all those sugars and not having all that wine
and alcohol my body just felt better and when I do have those things now my body completely registers
that and it tells me like this is not Isis like we n
eed to stay away from this I realized that too
for myself and in my body and I think as you take out different things from your life and it may
be something different it may be food it may be people it may be just whatever but if it does not
serve you a purpose think about it reflect on it think of it and just be like hey like what are
these three major things that these are giving to me and it's bringing fulfillment in my life
rather or not it is and if it's not then I think that's a sign
that we need to you need to just
you know push it aside and continue to reflect and also something you have to realize is that
you attract what you put into yourself so that can be food that can be people but you have to
find people to put yourself around if you do want to be around other people that are encouraging
you to go towards your goals and to accomplish your goals and not someone that's bringing you
down you have to realize you attract what you put into yourself try finding people
or groups
or classes that encourage you to do the things that you are trying to accomplish and even try to
find people that are doing those things that you inspire to do me I realize too I have to to like
take myself off of social media for a while and I just did a social media detox because I realized
I will tend to get very absorbed into social media and I will start comparing myself like my life
the things that I have the things that I do and then I'll sit there and I'll be complacent wh
ile
I'm scrolling through and then I'm just like oh my gosh I feel so bad about this but then at the end
of the day I'm just like that takes me to put the effort to get up to do those things so I'm sitting
there just reflecting and thinking about things but it's just like I'm not watching social media
for the purpose of encouragement or inspiration and I think when you change your focus and you
use social media for example for that purpose I think you'll start to implement more things
and
healthy habits into your life versus putting yourself down and getting discouraged about it
because if you're following people and it's just not serving you and it's not bringing you peace
or it's not bringing you Joy and fulfillment and things that you can apply into your life then it
may be time to take a social media detox and I'm saying this I'm recording YouTube videos I love
that you watch the videos because it supports me on this journey and keeps me going if it's not
serving you rig
ht now go ahead and just unplug yourself like we don't realize how much we are
so absorbed into technology technology is not even that old and Me growing up I didn't even
have a cell phone I had like one of those little prepaid phones from the dollar store now you see
everyone with a phone you see kids with phones and it has became a major thing in our life and I'm
not saying technology is not good for us I am a huge advocate for technology and the evolution of
everything but we also have t
o realize that we're human and this is not necessarily natural for us I
noticed myself with just like referencing like my phone for no reason like I'll be standing there
I'm just referencing my phone and you know what I'm curious I want you guys to play in the comment
section what your screen time is for the day and you don't have to tell me for the week because
it may be more than like you might be spending more of your life on the phone than you are in
reality I know for myself I was very
surprised with my screen time and I'm just like oh my gosh
like I need to be more conscientious of what I'm dedicating my time to and I know for me a lot of
time will be towards creativity but even so like I just need to be present in the moment and we all
need to learn how to sit back be present in the moment and to enjoy time with others or just enjoy
time by yourself in silence we don't always need a phone we don't always need a laptop we don't
always need something going on I think it'
s good to clear like our minds like at times I will just
listen to instrumental music I will take out like actual music with lyrics other than the gym if I'm
in the gym I need something to keep me going and I will tell you Megan the stallion is like number
one well her and Beyonce are probably neck and neck but I need lyrics When I'm working out just
because the beats and I don't know something about it just gives me that extra drive but ultimately
what I'm trying to say is that it is good
to spend time yourself and to focus on you and also taking
out those things also improves your mental health I noticed how important mental health is is and
I didn't realize that until I got older and I started experiencing anxiety and depression and
all these things and we really have to talk and treat our mental health and it's something that
we don't normally talk about and it's something that a lot of people stray away from and I'm
so happy that today and now like it's becoming a societ
al Norm where people can't talk about
their mental health and it being okay and I'm just really happy because I realized out of
pursuing my health and wellness training how I've noticed my health and my mental health change
change I noticed when I work out my mental health and my head space is just totally different and I
was going through a very hard time in my life and I noticed I just turned towards the gym and all
that frustration and all those emotions and all those feelings I just wou
ld let loose at the gym
and I would get so excited to go to the gym and it makes even better if you have something that
makes you feel good like I will wear an outfit or I will justify a gym outfit because it makes me
feel good and it's also me being being able to be comfortable with myself and everybody's different
you may find a different outlet that allows you to do that whether that's like yoga or running or
cycling whatever the case may be you have to have something to help you focus o
n your mental health
it is a journey I have been focusing on my mental physical and emotional health and I'm I will tell
you it's not easy so if you see someone and you just think they haven't figured out they're either
lying or they're a monk like I feel like Buddhists have it figured out or not Buddhists but like
monks the people that are very just peaceful careful and you know the the ball guys that are
always praying and they have those like robes and stuff on like they I think they hav
e something
figured out I remember having a trip when I was in school and we were talking to one of the monks
there and they were just saying I forgot what it was but basically they were saying they didn't
need things from the exterior world or they didn't need peace from the exterior world because they
found peace within their own own mind and that's what I ultimately want to get to um because I am
an overthinker i overthink things and it tends to fester in my mind and it becomes unhealthy
so
I've had to find Outlets to help me you know get that energy out I don't want that negative energy
the negative space in my life so I've found ways to help me improve that and something that I've
learned and I've started to do is I've had to you know separate myself and it could be separating
myself from people or separating myself myself from environments but I had to realize I had to
put myself in the space and around people that serve me and I know it can be hard especially if
you h
ave family and friends or children um it can feel very selfish to take the time for yourself
and to isolate yourself um but I think ultimately it's healthy like you need time to think about
your own thoughts and to process your own thoughts and when you have so many things just coming
from different directions from people telling you how they would do things or just people doing
other things that don't make you happy or just bother you in some type of way you have to start
grounding yoursel
f within yourself and you have to be okay with yourself and I think that just goes
for like spending time alone rather that be going for a walk or just reading or just having a place
in a safe space to where you're able to just focus on you so it can be 5 minutes it can be 10 minutes
I'm not saying you have to spend a whole day to yourself that's not what I'm saying it's probably
not even possible for a lot of us but I'm just saying you have to find some time for yourself
and during that ti
me try to just clear your mind don't even think about the things going out in the
outside world don't even think about other things that people are doing everything will still be
there when you get back you can go ahead and just zone out Zone into yourself and just find peace
within so that is something that I've started to do personally I've started to take time to myself
and like I said I went to church by myself today I when I tell you I would not go to church before
by myself I always h
ad like my church friends growing up family and people going with me so it
was definitely an experience and I I recommend it my sister says she takes herself on movie dates
which I was just like I need to do that so I might eventually go ahead and take myself on a movie
date so I can you know get the popcorn and the candy too other thing is we are all responsible
for this to stop focusing so much on the negatives and focus more on the positives there are so many
blessings that we have in ou
r lives and we don't even realize it it's a lot of things that I feel
that we tend to take for granted and I realized that when we have went out of the country to B
and even when we went to Europe I noticed that um we have it really good here in the United States
and we fail to realize that like we have so much opportunity here I'm not saying there are things
that are Roblox here it's not going to be perfect nowhere is perfect but we are just so blessed and
privileged just to have a roof ov
er our heads or even being able to have our phones like to even be
able to sit here and watch this video and choose what we want to do in our everyday lives like
we have that freedom and we have that ability to do that so I think getting so caught up on the
negatives is not necessary we have to worry about the actual things that we do have in our lives
and just like having the ability to get up this morning or having the ability to call our loved
ones and being able to talk to them there ar
e so many blessings that we tend to forget about and
it's easy to especially when you get absorbed in social media and you see people just highlighting
on these positive aspects or these positive Parts in their lives there's nothing wrong with that
that's great that people want to share that but we have to realize like that starts to become like
competition at times or sometimes people could be just giving off for front and they just don't
show you the actual reality of their lives and we a
ll are human none of us are perfect none of
our lives are perfect and we all go through trials and tribulations so you just have to worry about
things that are in our control and focus on the things that are good around us also I just want to
give you guys a note that it is okay to fall off it it's okay to mess up don't have expectations
for things to be perfect don't think you have to have this or you have have to have something else
in order to get started I've been there I've done that I
've said I had to get this camera I've had
to get these clothes I had to do this before I can start even making videos and I've started to
realize as I've gone through life I actually just turned 28 so I don't know if I'm just reflecting
because I'm approaching 30 but I realize nothing's going to be perfect and we can't expect things
to be perfect but we have to realize the things that we can control and once we do realize that we
won't focus so much on those things and we won't won't be so
hard in ourselves and also realize you
are watching this video to create a new version of you you are in the mindset of creating a new
version of you so why get yourself back into that old mindset or into a negative mindset and just
give yourself Grace like I had to realize that too for myself I didn't give myself enough Grace
going on my health and wellness journey and if I fell off or if I ate a brownie I would be so hard
on myself and I'm just why can't I have it all why can't I just li
ke have these things and still see
progress and all those things but it's okay like life is to be enjoyed and if you're falling off
it is okay just know you have another day tomorrow and if we were to treat every day like our last we
probably would be doing way more things but just give yourself Grace be patient with yourself and
just know what your ultimate goal is and try to work towards that I'm learning for myself to give
myself more grace and to have more patience with myself because I
know myself I'm an overthinker
I'm I'm a Pisces so I know I'm I'm an emotional one but it's okay um I'm just I'm just learning
to be patient with myself and to have more grace and to just allow God to you know flow through my
life I have to realize our values and the things that bring us purpose in life and put our foot
forward every single day so it may seem like it's something very small but we have to realize that
we are forming the person that we who we are um and you are you and you'r
e different and you're
unique I'm different and I am very happy to be different because if I wasn't then we would all
be the same and what is the fun in that ultimately what I want to say is just try not to overthink
those things try to take out some of the stresses that you can't control all of your life because
you stressing over something that is not necessary and it's small and it's not even like helping
you pay your bills or making a positive impact on your life like that is taking tim
e off of your
life there are scientific studies that proves that stress takes off time of your life and time by too
fast for me I just feel like I was 25 and now I'm 28 so I don't have time to be stressing and to
just be giving years away so I'm going to try to put myself in the most positive head space I know
there may be days that I'm down but and that is just something that we have to you know realize
that's part of the process the beauty of that too is that we're going to come out stron
ger from
it give yourself some credit you clicked on this video you learned something from this I hope you
learned something from this and took some value out of of it and if you did make sure to go ahead
and subscribe to the channel I am planning on posting more frequently to just you know give
people more insight of things that I do and hopefully it brings you inspiration or if you can
learn from it and also like I'm learning from you so make sure things that you know to comment that
dow
n in the comment section down below and also tell me what you want to see because I'm going to
just give out what I think is value but I need to know what is value to you but thank you so much
for watching in this video I'm so excited for you during the health and wellness Journey there are
a lot of us in this space so I'm very excited that you're joining I'm just excited that you're taking
the time to focus on you and to do something that brings more fulfillment to your life but like
I sai
d if you're interested anything regarding health and wellness make sure to go ahead and
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