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Good morning! day two of my experiment of reclaiming my title as morning person. Kurt
and I got back from the US on the 15th of April so almost a month ago and we have been relatively
jetlagged - I also think it's because the sun is coming up earlier - but both of us have been out
of bed, productive happy people by 7am. And I used to wake up like for high school,
for college, I used to get up I remember I set my alarm clock for 5:55am and I have no
issues like if my alarm goes off, I'm up. So I really enjoyed that, I liked being up early
in the morning and in our old apartment it was difficult because Kurt is not a morning person
so I didn't want to be noisy and starting my day to wake him up - because he gets out of bed
at like 9:00 if we're lucky, 10:00 usually. Now that we have extra space, I have the ability to
kind of make a little bit more noise in the morning. I'm going to try and really get back
to that lifestyle that makes me the happiest. So yeah I'm just making it a point to wake up
early, get out of the house, do something and I'm going to take you along, take you along
with me. So day two. It's gorgeous. Beginning of May, perfect weather, stunning out. I somehow
managed to walk myself back to my normal walking path. I walked like literally an hour out of my
way cuz I'm just a creature of habit and I don't know where else to walk, and I miss my trees.
So anyway I'm going to focus on getting home and I will see you guys there okay bye!
Hi from Seongsu! We're hitting a cafe, trying not to get hit by cars, the usual. See you there!
Hey, checking in. It's 1, I think. I managed to do a ton of my work and come out and read a
book for 2 hours in that gorgeous cafe that just smelled like lilacs the whole time. I did - I
stopped in a thrift store. I'm about to peruse a plant store. I'm not going to buy anything yet, I
just want to look at the options and then I spontaneously bought tickets to see Challengers
tonight. I asked Kurt and he's like not super interested in seeing it and I am, so we're going
to go see that as well so I'm going to kind of pop home, make some lunch, but yeah it's
just been - it's this perfect weather. If you're ever wondering, 23° C is * and I'll see you at home.
Hi we missed the bus and
now we are a little late to the movie - we're going to be right on time which
to me is late so power walking but I will see you after the movie!
Okay a quick check in. I don't know what that movie was - I didn't like a lot of it but I had
a good time. I walked out of it having had fun. I laughed so much at a lot of things.
Tennis has been a part of my life for as long as I can remember - will always be that girl.
Love tennis. So it was just like, I loved how they portrayed tennis and I had a good time.
I had to sit like, the last probably 15 minutes of the movie, I had to sit like
this so that I'm - I'm a very like vocal tennis audience member which is why I don't go watch
tennis because I scream so I had to literally like force myself to shut up for the last half.
Good time. But anyway Kurt and I are going to find dinner. We don't know what we want so I'm just
like meandering around these back streets of Apgujeong which are so bizarre because it's just churches
and homes - I like never come back here. Oh Kurt's calling me so I'll see you later!
Hello, hi, happy Friday. Still trying to figure out like first of all I need
to like figure out literally just where to put things, but also where to put myself. I will be
filming in strange places in strange angles for the foreseeable future. Yeah welcome, welcome to
the new house. This is - what - day three? Day three of becoming a morning person again. I just really
love waking up early. I've never, I've been really fortunate - I know that a lot of people genuinely
cannot get up in the morning, I'm married to one of them, I've never had an issue even in
high school - like I used to have to wake my mom up to drive me to school. I was not the teenager
that you had to drag out of bed. I was like my alarm is off, I'm out of bed, let's get going. And
so like I said earlier, Kurt is not that so just because I didn't ever want to mess up his sleep
because he is actually much more attached to sleep than I am - I was always like oh I'll just
live like a quieter existence in the morning. Now I can make like a full breakfast and tea and
stuff like that without worrying about waking him up which is so great and I just feel like I get a
lot more done. I've always been more productive in the morning. It was true for school, it was true for
when I was working in an office...after lunch: game over. I am checked out, I'm done. Also one thing that
I always wanted to do in the mornings that I could have done but I just felt guilty - I don't know, I
used Kurt as an excuse to not do this. I always want to wake up and again, I'm more productive so
the chances of me studying and studying well, the chances are much higher so I used to really think
of like 'oh I'm going to go study Korean like for an hour every morning' and now I don't have the
excuse not to anymore. I've set up a Mirror work session for all of the classes that I want to
work on in the morning because I will put things off and then when it gets to the evening I'll be
like, I'll do it tomorrow. So I want to give a shout out to the sponsor of this video which
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would like to listen to me talk to you. Thank you as always and yeah I'm excited, I'm excited for the
productivity. And so I've just been feeling - I am mentally in such a good place recently. It's not
just because I'm waking up early and being active. It's just this perfect combination of a bunch of
different things - the weather has been so nice, it is the my absolute favorite temperature in
the world, we had quite a few days of amazing air quality so I could see far in the distance and I
could take my walks without having to worry about anything, also just a change of scene is very
reinvigorating so the fact that we're now in a new home. But also yeah waking up early has really -
I've just feel like I'm not even getting more stuff done but like I feel less guilty about quote
unquote wasting time because even today - I played tennis, I came home, I took a shower, I posted my
book video and I was answering comments and then I just sort of I made breakfast and then I was just
sort of like lounging about answering comments and just kind of wasting time online - even now having
done that, having quote unquote wasted a lot of time online, it's only 10:45. I still have a lot
of the day left and I just put in laundry - like I just feel like I can fit more stuff in in order
to have lazy time. Cuz I do think that - I've been thinking about this a lot actually. April was the
month of like really long car rides and airplanes and just like waiting in airports so I've been
thinking a lot about kind of the importance of of boredom and the importance of free time. I find
that the quieter times are when you find a lot of inspiration what I want to work on now, my next
step along with being less guilty about wasting time, is wasting time correctly. I don't want to
be scrolling on social media, I want to just be like laying around, like staring out a bus window.
I found that recently I've been like either scrolling on my phone or answering emails or
things like that on the bus when I used to just listen to music and look out the window and like
it's okay to not be productive in those times, like I can ride a bus without also answering my
work emails, you know? So yeah I'm just like working on that of giving myself more time and because of
that I can have more quiet moments - does that make sense? So I think for today I just finished or
I just put in a load of laundry so I need to wait for that to finish. I'm going to just kind of
pitter patter around the house, try to put a couple things away and it's a 3-day weekend so I don't
know what we're going to be - what we're going to get up to but I have a little bit of work to do.
I might head out a little bit later and get a coffee and sit outside cuz again it's just
really nice, the air quality is not good today but but yeah. Let me know are you a morning person, what
are your tips? I've tried so hard to be a night owl and I just can't because I will wake up early
like even if I stay up until 2am, I'm going to wake up at 7, at 8 maybe. Yeah let me know your
tips for either one. I know it's easier in summer when we get more sun so hopefully I can like
really get this down and by winter I can keep it up. So anyway I'm going to go do all the things I
said I was going to do. I hope you guys are doing well and I'm kind of using this week as well to
brainstorm future content so let me know what you're interested in seeing and I'll catch you
later okay bye! Speaking of having time to waste, I fell asleep. I set a 10-minute timer and then
that went off and then I just continued to sleep. It is 1:30. I think I clearly, I just needed rest.
So yeah now we're going to - I got changed, I'm in I thrifted this just like potato sack of a dress.
Will be my summer uniform but let's take out the trash, go read a book - maybe I need caffeine, who
knows! But that was a lovely afternoon nap, now we got to read!
Hi! Strange day today. I've had plans to go to this cafe in the kind of Dongdaemun
area but because it was so rainy this morning, I decided like no let's not, put on this tiny jacket,
was like I'm going to go get coffee across the street and then I saw that the air quality was
beautiful and I just kind of wanted to be outside more. I got on a bus not really thinking like oh
I'm going to be very cold, not prepared. So here we are. I don't really...I'm...slight reget
but I'm excited to see this new cafe, be in a different area. It suddenly got noisy.
We're in the kind of Dongdaemun Area. Went to the gym today, trying to like create a routine
so that that becomes more natural. Oh my God that is the cutest puppy oh my God I think
it's coming towards me hold on I'll try and get it for you.
Anyway we're going to go get coffee, and read a book and enjoy this stunning air quality.
It's just way too cold
It was really warm and now it's not and my body doesn't know how to adjust so...
I have some work to do but as I am eating my pasta I'm going to watch the Dead Boy - Dead
Boy Detectives. I'm almost done. I'm buddy watching it with Olivia. Yeah two more episodes. Okay see you!
Hello so I'm just finishing a load of laundry. I'm actually going I need to grab my sketchbook
I'm going to take a figure drawing class. Like I said, I'm trying to get into when I have time,
actually doing things with that time that I have always said that I want to do. Skillshare has a
learning path for build your foundation and figure drawing and it has like basically from beginner to
slightly less of a beginner and then hopefully by that time London will be awake and I'll be able
to finish up some of my email work and things like that. That's the plan so let's see this
Okay JK, he told me that if I want to do figure drawing, I need to actually know how to draw and
I'm not quite certain I know how to draw so now I'm going to do the how to draw a beginner's
guide course.
Okay so I can read romcoms all day. I love reading a romcom. For some reason
I can't watch them. So I pretty much watched until the first kiss scene and then I fast
forwarded until the very end and okay, okay that's fine. I'm actually going to try a new
tennis place and they - you have to make a reservation so we got to go. But yeah
happy - what is today - Tuesday. Happy Tuesday. It was a 3-day weekend because of children's
day and I feel like everything's out of whack happy Tuesday!
Oh my God on that note, I think we got to end the week here. First of all, something I just did at
the tennis court - just a reminder, I know that I talked about it before when I was like trying
to learn guitar )and I put that down oops) or like drawing or anything like that - I always say
that it's okay to be mediocre at something. You do not have to be the best, as someone who has put a
lot of hobbies down because I wasn't immediately the best at them. You're allowed to be just like
enjoying something and not doing it very well - obviously with my guitar - but one thing with tennis
is also remembering that you can lose skills and you have to build them back up and it's
like not a bad thing to have to kind of return to the basics. So I haven't played tennis in a
couple months and my forehand sucks I have no - even though I'm right-handed - I have no muscle
in this arm. So my backhand is fine but I ended up switching to the beginner level instead of
the amateur level - there's three, four levels - but I lowered myself to the beginner level
to practice my forehand to just get the form and the strength back so that next time I can play my
normal level. A part of me like as I was hitting the beginner button, I felt bad because I felt
like I had worked so hard to not be a beginner. That's okay. We're always fluctuating. So anyway
this week a success, definitely. Kurt and - both of us, Sleeping Beauty has been up before
8:00 this week. We've been waking up early. I feel like I have just had so much more time during the
day. I've been more productive and not stressed in terms of like household things. I tend to like
put those off, hence why you've seen me doing so much laundry is because just with the move and
everything like we've had laundry that has needed to be done and stuff like that and cleaning the
windows, putting stuff away, like we're still moving obviously - like we haven't hung any art or anything
we're still doing little things around the house, so I was able to do those but also film a couple
videos that I have to make. I've still had time to read and just like go to a cafe. I don't know
I'm feeling just very at peace, like happy that I have been able to do all the things that I
want to because I've given myself literally four more hours a day cuz I wouldn't really start work...
maybe I'd go for a walk early in the morning but like I wouldn't start working and doing things
until probably 10am on weekdays because that's when Kurt would like leave for work. I've
literally gained four 3 to 4 hours a day and once I'm productive in the morning I feel like
I want to be more I just continue to be productive throughout the day versus if I'm a little bit slow
in the morning I might still be slow, you know, it's just harder to get started. Overall I'm so
happy and I have a pretty wicked blister on my thumb from playing tennis two times a week when
I haven't played in a very long time so I had a Peppa Pig Band-Aid - fell off immediately.
Thanks a lot Peppa but that's my only complaint for the week is just that I have a blister. But
yeah I hope that maybe inspired you guys to try and get up earlier if you can. I know that it's a
real luxury for me to have so much control over my schedule. I know a lot of you guys are working
around work or school or kids or things like that so yeah I'm very thankful that I was able to
move things around but we'll see if - how much I can continue this because this week I'm actually
meeting up with e- veryone's here in May. I feel like I said everyone was here in April, everyone's here
in May. So I have a lot of friends from abroad who are here for one week only - need to see them
all. So yeah I think this week, this upcoming week is going to be quite busy and hectic but
we'll see if I'm able to kind of continue getting up early and starting the day strong. So anyway
just thank you so much for being here and I'll see you guys next week. I don't know what's going
on, I don't know what's going on but I'll see you there and thanks again to Skillshare.
There will be a link in the description box, first 500 people to click it will get one month free of
Skillshare and my class will be linked down below as well. Thank you for everybody who has
taken it already and yeah I'm going to take a nap and then get dinner with Kurt and
yeah - going to the gym and then playing tennis in one day was not my best decision but we
live and learn. So I'll see you guys then. You really got like the most beautiful weather and
then kind of the most cold, it got really cold, it's going to be cold for like 3 days. Cold
and strange weather. So I don't know what's going on
but - we'll see what happens next week okay? Bye!