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March Favorites

Yesterday was the first day of spring! Where did the first 3 months of the year go?! It feels like such a whirlwind. My goal for March was to “Restart” and with 10 days left in the month I’m at a steady pace toward the month end finish line. When I know I have less than 2 weeks left in the month something comes over me. This innate urge to make things happen. It must be the procrastinator in me lol!

March has definitely been a restart, though. I’m starting to find a routine in the madness of owning a restaurant among other businesses, I’m starting to blog consistently again, I’m about to start my podcast up again. Personally, I dove back into my skincare routine, I try to look somewhat presentable at work and not like I just rolled out of bed (haha!), I’m on a food diet (I don’t really like to call it a diet) that fits with my work/life. I’m able to do the things I was able to do before all this crazy started to make its way into my life and I’m starting to find some peace in it.

Every week or so I bought myself a little something just to give myself a little boost in morale – whether it be a treat, a cocktail, a new face wash, just a  small gesture to myself that I’m working hard and to keep pushing forward. Today I’m going to share my March favorites that got me through the last month.

Speaking of skincare I decided to try an new product for my face cleanser and I went with Pacifica’s Coconut Milk Cleanser. I love the way it makes my skin feel soft and clean.

 

I’ve been using my planner to keep me sane lately. Not only is it a place to jot down notes or input pending meetings and events, it’s a place where I can be a little creative. Every Sunday I look forward to planning out the following week – how I’m going to design my weekly layout and what colors am I going to use. I love using Crayola’s Supertips for hand lettering and coloring. The markers are really inexpensive, they don’t run out of ink quickly, and they come in a ton of different colors!

 

The weather in LA has been so.freaking.dry. My skin has been dying of thirst! Especially working in the food industry, you have to wash your hands a lot and it’s made my hands extremely dry. I’ve been using the St. Ives Coconut and Orchid Lotion to keep my skin moisturized. This lotion is great, it absorbs into my skin quickly. I hate those lotions that feel like they’re just sitting on top of your skin. Plus, I love the scent! For those of you that need to keep your hands constantly moisturized like I do, I bought a little travel lotion bottle and keep that in my pocket or purse at all times.

 

Last but not least, my air fryer! If you didn’t notice from my last post  I love my air fryer! It has changed. my. food. game. If you don’t have one yet I highly recommend the one we have – the Philips HD9641Airfryer Digital Turbostar.

 

xoxo,

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March Plan with Me

I tried so hard to be ready for 2018. I wanted to be organized, I was setting goals, I was getting everything in order.

Wellllll, it didn’t happen the way I planned.

All of my time, literally, all of my time revolved around Ninong’s since November. I was working an average of 14 hours a day, sometimes 18 hours a day. I barely had time to eat, let alone drink water! So bad, not something I’m proud of. I’m sharing to show how bad my work-a-holic “ism” was. I know for a fact that if I made time to prioritize and organize my days things would have gone a lot better. But I didn’t. I couldn’t get myself to look at work when I got home. I was already thinking about it so why apply myself to write things down? Stupid me.

So November passed, December did too, there went January, finally here comes February and I was able to get myself together. I’m able to walk away from this month with my feet planted on the ground. I’m finally starting to feel like my old self again!

This upcoming month is exciting for me! With all the ch-ch-ch-changes I’ve been going through personally and professionally I’ve learned so much about myself, what I can endure, and what I can become if I apply myself. So March’s theme is “Restart.” If I want my 2018 Word of the Year is “build” then I have to get back to the point where I feel like I have something to build upon.

That being said, March is when I’m going to start fresh! I may be late to start my goals by 2 months but at least I’m starting. Like Lara Casey (author, successful business woman, mom, and beautiful soul) says, “There’s nothing special about January.” 

Original Artwork by Lara Casey

And for me, this couldn’t be more true. I’m not going to beat myself up about what I haven’t done. I’m going to celebrate what I have done and try to grow from here.

First thing is get organized. I need to get myself to where I was at the end of 2017 with my productivity. The best way to do that is to just jump back into my productivity tools – Todoist, Evernote, and my planner. I want to start the small little habits that made a big difference with my organization.

  1. Open Todoist, Evernote, and my planner 1st thing in the morning.
  2. Have a notepad or my cell phone nearby so I can jot down random thoughts.
  3. Update Todoist, Evernote during in the middle of the day and at the end of the day.

You won’t believe the difference these 3 steps have made in my productivity.

Next on the list is to prioritize. When you have a long list of things to do it’s easy to get cross eyed or stressed about it. When this happens to me personally I don’t get motivated to work because I’m overwhelmed before I even began! What I do to help with prioritizing different aspects of my life is to set things for certain days. For example, when it comes to cleaning I prefer to do it on my day off since it takes a good amount of time. That means priority for Mondays is cleaning. Another example is weekends are very busy for Ninong’s so my priority, naturally, is the restaurant on Saturdays and Sundays. This means, I’m going to schedule most of my cleaning tasks on Mondays as well as the bulk of my Ninong’s tasks only when I’m there.

Last thing for this month is to find balance. If you know me you know I’m everywhere. I guess it’s because I have so much going on that I become really scatterbrained. If you also know me then you know not only am I scatterbrained but I also am a major work-a-holic. I live and breathe business, I love everything about it so I have a habit of taking my work home. But this has to stop! When I say I’m done for the day then I really want to be done. That way I have time to give to my husband, family, friends, and to myself without feeling guilty.

Cheers to a productive, blessed, and successful month!

xoxo,

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