Hello beautiful and welcome back to the [Music] channel I am so excited to talk about today's video because we are talking about my favorite subject everything glow up Reinventing yourself and I was sitting in my bed last night and I was just thinking about my own glowup story and I was also thinking about other like glowup stories transformation stories I've heard through self-help books podcast whatever it may be and I don't know I was very reflective and I kind of saw a Common Thread throughout my story other stories and I really felt impassioned to talk
about that very subject today glowing up becoming your best self if focusing on yourself is something that you are trying to do this year go ahead hit the Subscribe button that's what this community is all about like this video if you found it helpful and meet me in the comment section so we can chitchat today's topic is all about how changing your environment will change your life not to be dramatic best thing that you can possibly do for your glowup journey is to change your environment I have broken up this video into two separate parts
your physical environment and your internal environment your mental environment so I hope you found this video helpful please give this video a like it tells the algorithm that this is a good video and shares it to other women just like you without further Ado let's get into today's video okay so it's like I said in the intro I was deep in thought I was deep in my journaling and you know all day long if you watch any of my glowup Diaries I listen to a lot of affirmations a lot of positive podcasts I consume a
lot of positive content I make social media work for me so I'm constantly motivated I'm constantly learning you know if I'm going to be Doom scrolling then I want to feel good afterwards so so I just had a day full of just like positivity and pouring into myself and I was journaling at the end of the night and just journaling how far I have come on my healing Journey on my Globe Journey on Reinventing myself and then I was also thinking about you know some of the other women's content that I consume and seeing how
they changed their life around and I noticed always a moment in our stories in which we made an Abrupt and intentional change to our environment for me it was a couple of different things it first started by leaving law school that was the biggest stressor in my life I had gained a whole bunch of weight I was breaking out my hair was falling off I was the most depressed and anxious I had ever been step number one for me changing my environment the next thing I did is I moved Apartments I have a very big
belief that the trauma and emotions are held Within Walls if walls could speak so the second thing that I really prioritized was moving environments third thing I did Wasing breaking it off with my toxic relationship I'm sorry but you are who you attract and that low vibrational energy is just attracting more and more toxicity in my relationship I should have left a long time ago but because of my own insecurity and my own unhealed parts of myself I thought that that was what I deserve so once I broke it off with him I proved to
myself and to the universe and to God that I deserved better and I was going to go out and get better things started changing for me the fourth thing I did is I started going to workout classes now I love an at home gym I love things that are in an apartment but there was something about going to workout classes in a fluent neighborhoods taking Pilates classes introducing myself to some of the women in those classes really changing up my environment really helped and the fifth thing kind of allowing that same thing is I started
switching up where I was working I personally work from home so instead of just staying at my desk in the corner once or twice a week I would go to a coffee shop in an influent neighborhood or I would go to the park or I would sit outside and I would do my work in a different environment now right off the bat those are the five things that I personally did to change my environment a lot of those things are drastic things and not all of them came at once this happened throughout time and some
of those decisions felt very intentional and some of those decisions felt like I was backed up against the wall and I had no other option it is extremely important that you are intentional about changing your environment on your glob Journey humans are very very adaptable creatures we adapt to our environment you ever noticed at the beginning of winter that first really cold day it feels freezing it feels unbearable you don't know how you're going to get through another winter then by the end of winter maybe you invested in a good coat all your warm socks
and warm gear and by the end of winter it just kind of feels like a part of your day-to-day you don't even really think about the cold you can apply that same analogy to life if you are surrounded by toxic people that are always gossiping are never trying to improve in life if you are in a very cluttered and messy home and environment if you are just doing the mundane things working in a corner every single day not going out and experiencing the world you are going to adapt to that and you are going to
meet it at that frequency rather than if you change the tone of your environment not only will you raise your frequency you will raise your energy but you will also challenge yourself you'll also meet new people you have something to look forward to something to be excited about and through this process you become a Ely aware of the things that bring you stress and you become aware of your boundaries and your limits with people with places whatever it may be you learn a lot by being intentional about changing your environment like I said at the
beginning of this video I'm breaking this video up into two different parts the parts that I can speak to your physical environment and your mental your internal environment so let's start off with the physical environment let's start right off with your home now one of the main things like I mentioned before that I did is I made a very intentional change to move whether it was breaking my lease whatever it had to be I needed to move I felt so cramped in that apartment my last apartment had two windows and it was facing a courtyard
of other apartments windows were so slim I barely got any light in that apartment it was so dark I couldn't see nature I couldn't see anything except for concrete and it was drainy that was also the apartment that my ex lived in with me and I felt so icky in that apartment my color palette was black and white I felt like it didn't like serve me it drained me every single day to come home and your home should be your personal Sanctuary you should not be drained coming home now ideally in a perfect world could
we all just get up and move to a new home to a new apartment to a new house whatever it may be yeah in a perfect world we can do that but maybe you just renewed your lease maybe your lease isn't up till another 6 months May maybe you're in a situation where you just cannot move let me give you some great tips about changing your home environment for your glowup journey number one I've mentioned this before so let's just get it out of the way organization investing in some organizing bins watching organizational videos here
on YouTube organizing your space and taking it room by room maybe tackling your closet because your clothes are always on the floor and it makes you feel overwhelmed maybe organizing your desk desk you associate more with work rather than creativity and passion organizing your kitchen cabinets if you love to cook is your access to things organizing your bathroom of all of your self-care items that make you feel so loved and so pampered in there organizing your bookshelf of your accomplishments from high school from College from this activity to that activity and maybe your favorite self-help
books or romance books that make you feel like you're going into another world changing your environment can look like just organizing your environment that same notion with your home optimizing your home I didn't even know that I was doing this until just recently I think I was listening to a podcast episode on optimizing your home and I was like oh I was just doing that because things were stressing me out but then I realized even in my dream apartment right now things were still stressing me out so this is what I started doing I started
doing very little things that started to have really big impact on my daytoday life so what I would do the night before is I would set out my workout clothes every everything from my socks to my shoes to my water bottle I would pack my gym bag the night before so that I'm not running around doing 50 million things rushing my morning routine in the morning everything was there same thing with my morning skincare every single night I laid out my morning skincare routine on my bathroom counter so I wasn't sifting through drawers my pre-workout
my protein shake my L glutamine I lay it all out on my kitchen counter for when I go into the kitchen to do all of my liquid supplements in the morning I heard a great hack on a podcast if I can remember the podcast what it was was I'll include this below but the person was saying CLA used to give them a lot of anxiety doing laundry clothes would pile up on the floor but she noticed that she would always throw her clothes into one corner of the room what she did is she got a
really really big hamper and the hamper separated colors whites and towels and she put the hamper in the place that she always just naturally threw her clothes so when she went to go throw her clothes hamper was already there so she's like oh I might as well just put it in the correct bin that's how was optimizing her space I thought that was like an ingenious way to optimize your environment for your glowup journey another thing you can do for your home is bring out more of your personality in your home or you can go
the minimalist R you can bring more personality in your home showcasing different like Awards like I said or books or different colors things that bring you happiness and vibrancy or you can be like me and everything can be very neutral so when you come home Everything is Everything is peaceful everything has their correct space honestly a lot of colors stress me out that is just me personally I prefer a very minimalist neutral color palette because when I have a crazy day out there when I come home everything just feels like a spa and it's very
neutral and it's very clean and I love it this can even go towards lighting I really recognized how I feel in different moods with more fluorescent lighting or more yellow lighting personally I have Smart bulbs that I can change the different temperatures on the light bulb and I really found that this made an impact to my mood in my environment okay so that's the home like this video if I should make like an IT girl home favorite the last thing I will mention about changing your environment changing your home is creating a meat corner or
a sanctuary of peace in your home it could be the smallest Corner in your house I personally have a meat corner I have a big neutral bean bag with a little desk chair and an olive tree and it's very simple but it is a place where I decompress I can scroll on my my phone I can FaceTime loved ones it just there's such good energy good intentional energy in that corner that although that I have like this entire home to myself like I live by myself I have a little pocket and I have a little
corner of the world to call my own to journal to pray to do whatever I need to cry in that corner it feels very very very safe for me so if you can't go and get some new furniture do all of these different things maybe all you can do in that moment find a corner in your house bless that corner deem that corner to be intentional and peaceful in a safe space put a pillow next to it put a journal next to it and that is a place when you get stressed out or when you
feel happy or when you feel anything when you want to journal when you want to cry when you want to pray when you want to scroll on your phone that is the corner that you do it in optimizing your physical environment can also look like the places that you frequent now I talked about energy and frequency and if we are always doing the mundane things going to the same places over and over again we're going going to adapt that frequency when you change the places that you frequent you make life fun again you make it
playful some of my favorite things to do is instead of working all day in the corner of my apartment one to two times a week I go to coffee shops and affluent neighborhoods it's a great way to meet people a great way to network across different Industries I tend to get a lot more done in a coffee shop in a few hours than I do at home Dilly dallying love trying new coffee shops all throughout Atlanta and Georgia in general create something fun to look forward to during the week I'm like Wednesdays are like my
new coffee shop days like I'm going to look up this coffee shop on Tik Tok or on Instagram and I'm going to go and I'm going to try out the food there and I'm going to work there and maybe I'll meet a new friend like it gives me something to really look forward to and really raises my vibration and my energy this can also look like restaurants like I love trying new restaurants and new parts of Atlanta it switches up my routine it switches up my environment it's just another great thing that I like to
do walking walking should definitely be a part of your just in general glow up it is great exercise you can do walking meditations and everything like that but it can also give you a great appreciation for the environment around you I recommend not going on your phone and really taking in the birds chirping the different trees and the different plants that you see maybe choosing different walking paths maybe driving a little bit further to go to a different part being in nature in general is a very grounding energy and if you have maybe one day
a week or maybe one day a month where it's like I'm going to choose a walking path to go to I'm going to switch up my environment for the week I'm going to switch up my environment for the month and I'm really going to take in all of these senses and this new experience again it gives you something to look forward to and it has you vibrating at just such a different frequency let's talk about work because I would be remiss to say how much work again for me it was law school had an impact
on my mental health and I really felt like once I left law school I Fel like I viewed the world differently like I felt like when I left law school like things started to become more vibrant like my eyes started to become more vibrant I know that sounds crazy but if you've ever left something so toxic I promise you you wake up the next day and you start to notice different things in your environment now does everybody have the luxury in this economy to just leave their job no so let me give you an alternative
one thing that you need to be doing just in general I'm not saying everyone needs to have an entrepreneurial spirit it's not for everyone but maybe you just start a very very small side hustle something outside of work that is a passion project of yours that may or may not bring you money who knows you could be able to quit your job one day just based off of this passion but it gives you something else to work towards for yourself for your own passion it gives you something to look forward to that is just for
you this in essence is changing your environment and you start to see work as funding that passion instead of just working tirelessly 9 to 5 8 to 6 making somebody else money but instead you have a purpose for being there to fund your own passions and to fund your own life the last thing I will talk about with physical environment I really don't know which category to put this in internal or physical so I put it towards the end of physical going into internal but but changing your environment also includes changing the content that you
consume I've mentioned this in a couple Tik Tok videos I've mentioned this in couple Instagram reals if you are not following me on there I post a lot of content that you will not see here on YouTube but luckily I have also mentioned this on YouTube about making social media work for you now you can go as far as unfollowing everybody in starting from scratch in this new version of you maybe you don't go to that extreme maybe you do but at the end of the day it is your phone it is your phone bill
it is your social media account why are you being a victim to to these things you need to make social media and the content you consume work for you what you need to be doing is you need to unfollow the shade room unfollow gossip Pages unfollow all of those celebrities unfollow the influencers that you do not resonate with or that you feel icky about you just cannot relate to what you need to be doing is you need to be following motivational Pages quote Pages you should be learning following self-help glow up content how to become
your best self how to start that business if you're very interested in golf following golf Pages if you're very interested in sewing following sewing Pages you should be learning you should be motivated you should be inspired or you should be checking in with friends and family on social media when I'm scrolling through social media I honestly never really feel icky afterwards if anything I feel icky about the amount of time but I never feel icky about the content because I know there was something on there that really motivated me I learned something that was like
a little nugget in my brain like oh I'm going to try that makeup makeup hack next time I really really like how that one makeup artist that I follow I really liked how they'd use that like oh this really skincare influencer she has the same hyperpigmentation and acne as me and she says this really works and I really trust her opinion I'm going to do this or I saw this really good quote that really resonated with me I'm going to journal about it you need to start making social media work for you and even talking
about your phone in general I highly highly highly recommend utilizing the Do Not Disturb button or the personal or the focus buttons I highly recommend doing that when I put my phone on do not disturb and I do not have constant notifications popping up on my home screen and I choose when to interact with people and I choose when to be bothered and I choose when to interact with social media world of a difference the last thing I will mention is the conversations that you have again I'm going to relate this back to the people
that you surround yourself with take inventory about what your conversations are mainly talked about are they a lot of gossiping and there's nothing wrong with that I love a good key key but are we talking about how to build a business are you putting me on with this person are we talk are we motivating each other what do those conversations consist of I know you saw this coming but changing your environment also looks like changing the people that are in your environment you should try your hardest not to be the smartest in the room if
people are always coming to you for things and you can't go to anybody for anything that is a problem take inventory of the conversations you are having with people and how they are making you feel after that conversation if you have a conversation if you have a lunch with that person if you have a FaceTime with that person and you leave that conversation feeling drained you feel icky you feel tense you feel anxious or do you feel motivated you talk to that person you're just like oh you're doing this and this and this oh let
me get on it like oh like wow you really heard me out in that moment I feel really good I feel really safe like I feel a lot more relieved after talking to you how do you feel after talking to that person energy and frequency is everything I'm sorry are what you attract when I started to love myself when I started to demand a certain energy around me I promise you the men that actually were intentional about dating me and approaching me were such a caliber because I exuded the type of energy like you can't
even really come up to me because you know I'm not even going to mess with that type of energy because I'm not even at that place now a lot less men came up to me but the men that did come up to me were s of such a high caliber because of what I was exuding the same thing in my personal relationships you lose friends that way but you also gain amazing girlfriends by working on yourself let's move on to our internal environment our mental environment because this is just as important as our physical environment
all know it starts from within it starts from our own energy it starts from our own frequency you attract what you are you are what you attract so let's work on the internal glow up the internal environment the mental environment so I mentioned the whole idea for this video came after a day of a lot of positive selft talk a lot of affirmations a lot of podcasts the things that I do on a normal basis to fill my day with positivity now at first it kind of seemed silly to me to letter off these morning
affirmations as I go to Pilates or you know to take time to listen to podcast somebody else speak about something throughout the day but I really really realized after a while the repetition of physically hearing all of these positive things really made a really great impact on my self-concept I started to talk to myself differently I started to view myself differently I started to demand a certain type of treatment from everybody around me because I was demanding it of myself every single day one of those things was again positive affirmations I love habits of a
goddess podcast I personally listen to it on my way to Pilates on my way to berries on my way to workout classes but if I don't work out for that day I'll listen to it as I'm doing my skincare routine I will repeat the affirmations in my head or again if I'm going going to a workout class in the morning I will repeat them out loud and I try to really really feel and internalize that affirmation every single time I say it it really improved the way that I talk to myself and the language that
goes on in my head when I'm talking about myself if that makes sense this also goes to podcasts I listen to a lot of self-help podcasts I'll put some of my favorite podcasts down below I've made a number of Tik Tok videos and IG reals on some of my favorite podcasts but listening to those throughout the day again really really helped this mental environment that I have in my head podcast plus the affirmations plus the music I listen to which I'll get into in a moment really helped this mental mental environment that I kind of
had going to my head turn into a very negative space to a safe space in my head where I affirmed myself and I loved myself speaking of listening to affirmations and podcasts the soundtrack to your life I don't know where I heard this from but I love hip-hop I love rap I I love those so much there is a time and place for them but again there's a time and place for them I found that my mental Clarity and my mental environment my internal environment was so much more improved when I woke up and I
played classical music jazz music gospel music when I first woke up and was doing my morning routine or even when I'm working I listen to like lowii hip-hop beat it is a crazy thing how much this romanticizes your life it is such a free 9 9 way to upgrade your life to upgrade your environment literally makes you feel like you're in a movie and it really sets the tone for your day you can find a lot of great playlists on Apple music if you literally just put chill at the end of them like jazz chill
or morning chill or piano chill or jazz music for the morning or morning Soul or morning gospel there's so many different playlists that you can find the best one for you just try it tomorrow tomorrow morning just try playing music classical music jazz music gospel music whatever music that makes you feel full try playing it tomorrow morning and see how much of a better day you have I'm going to mention this briefly because I mention this in every single video but the whole reason that I mention this is because of how important it is it
is journaling I know the whole internet talks at nauseum about journaling but it can really really help your internal environment your mental environment I found that when I'm really stressed about things it feels almost like a floating cloud above my head but when I spill it out into paper not only do I feel so much more reliev I almost look at it being like okay this might be a bad problem or this might be stressful but when I read this through there's a way through and when you journal and you look past in other journal
entries and you see what you've been through before and you see how you were stressing about the previous problem and you saw exactly how God got you through it you look at your current problem and you'll be like okay well if logic proves right I'm going to get through this too I think in a very very silly the greatest things that I get from journaling is the ability to be relieved that feeling of relief and that feeling of mental Clarity is great for my glow up the last thing I'm going to mention with your mental
environment your internal environment the changing this environment in your head all the things that are going up in here is going to sound controversial but you need to walk with me identity switching now am I saying start developing multiple personality disorder that is not what I'm saying but it has been proven time and time again that we are much more likely to stick with things once we associate ourselves with that environment for Better or For Worse as humans as much as we like to adapt we end up being self-fulfilling prophecies if we say h I'm
so bad at math you're not going to take the steps to achieve that if that is what you are telling yourself you say I'm always a mess why are you telling yourself that why are you associating that with your identity you tell yourself oh I'm so bad at making friends like it is so hard for me me to make friends guess what it's going to be hard for you to make friends guess what it's going to be hard for you to make and maintain friends this comes with the Positive selft talk with the podcast with
the self-help this comes with all of the tips and tricks that I talk about on this channel but you need to start associating your identity with something positive I'm going to give you a few examples that I've kind of noticed that I've done for myself and hopefully they will be helpful for you one of the affirmations or positive selft talk or identity is I'm a healthy person and I take care of this body that God has given me I honestly feel so grateful that God has given me life and that has giving me this body
I'm going to take care of it and I'm a healthy person that was my identity I'm a healthy person but when I start to almost like a tree look at the branches of a healthy person and a person that takes care of their body it's someone that institutes self-care days it's someone that works out it is someone that does Journal that does seek out therapy it is someone that eats right it is someone that seeks out a personal trainer or or different workout classes it's someone that takes care of their appearance now you could look
at it like H I don't want to go work out or you could look at it like I'm a healthy person of course I work out like that's just kind of who I am you're very unorganized and you have things all over the place you need to start associating your identity I'm a very organized person and I love how being organized helps me get things done you need to say that to yourself every single day maybe make even more affirmations associated with organizing it might sound silly at first but once you associate your identity with
I'm an organized person you start including habits and taking aligned actions to self- fulfill that prophecy it's the same thing if you say I'm a mess I'm so unorganized like I never have it together guess what you're never going to have it together but guess what I really try to have it together and I'm a pretty organized person guess what you're going to do you're going to start looking at planners you're going to start looking optimizing your workspace looking at different productivity videos on how to become better because that's just who you are I am
an organized person I understand the person I see in my head she's very organized she has it together like she is me and I am her so if I am going to be that organized person that I know in my heart and soul then let me start taking aligned action to get to that place it's definitely easier said than done but step number one to your internal environment is identity switching whatever you are trying to achieve you need to sit up straight and you need to affirm yourself okay we are at the end of this
video but before I go I want to give you three things that you can do today to change your environment first thing I want you to do girl is I want you to start saving for either a station or a vacation I call this my higher self day I've made a few videos on it but I really want to reiterate this for changing your environment this is one of the most powerful manifestation techniques that I love okay so I really want you to start saving for this and I want you to do it alone cuz
you need to be alone because when you're imagining your higher self you're imagining her her environment looks different than yours so just for a day maybe even two days we are going to replicate that and feel the energy of that as if it is in our present so what you're going to do is you are going to find a really beautiful home it could be a six-bedroom home or maybe it's a beautiful Condor apartment or maybe you go on vacation to a resort but I highly recommend doing a station or maybe you want to live
in LA and you rent a really beautiful home just for a day or just for a night in La maybe your higher self lives in New York maybe your higher self lives in Nashville wherever it may be maybe it lives in your current city and that's where you want to stay so book a station in a beautiful home a beautiful apartment whatever it may be maybe even just looks like a hotel at the Four Seasons or the St reges I want you to live a very regular day in the life of your higher self now
if you want to be organized what I would do a couple of days before maybe even a month before maybe now you're starting to save for this higher self day is I want you to journal in the woman that you want to become for and be very intentional about her environment and what it looks like where is she waking up what car is she driving what time does she wake up how does she feel in the morning is she waking up next to a partner does she have family does she have kids is she meditating
in the morning does she go to a workout class with a friend what does she do during the day does she own her own business what does her day to-day look like and I want you to try your best to replicate that day because I bet a lot of the things that you Journal can be done let me set this scene for you you get a three bedroom modern home in Atlanta Georgia and you book it for two nights on Airbnb now you go in set your stuff aside put your clothes up put everything in
the bathroom act like this is your home the next day you're going to have this higher self day you're going to wake up at 5:30 in the morning or whenever she wakes up you're going to journal and you're going to meditate in their home you're going to feel the energy as if this is your home really be in that frequency maybe you go as far as to even rent the car that you want to buy one day maybe you get in this car and you go to a pilates class and you get a smoothie afterwards
and you come home and maybe you have a massage book maybe you have a shopping day and you treat yourself but you're not really treating yourself cuz this is the type of stuff that your higher self does this isn't treating yourself this is just day-to-day regular stuff and you have dinner at your favorite restaurant alone you look good and you put on all your expensive body butters and perfumes and your best outfits maybe you got your hair done beforehand so you just look and you feel your best and at the end of the day the
most important part is I want you to journal this day I would just I really want you to reflect on the day that you have because this is the true power of manifestation you literally lived it you felt the feelings you felt the frequency you felt the energy of that day and I want you to take that essence of changing your environment and noticing the different feelings of that environment and I want you to always remember that feeling when you go back home when you go back to reality see what aligned steps you need to
take to get to that version cuz you've already felt it you've already been in that environment you know that it's possible now we just need to associate ourselves with the identity of that woman that is in that environment and take aligned actions to get to that woman the next thing you can do is you can switch up your living environment again the next thing that you can do today is you you can switch up your living environment even if it's just moving your desk to a different part of your apartment then the third thing you
can start to do today is to switch up your routine maybe take a different workout class tomorrow maybe walk a different path with your dog maybe go to a coffee shop tomorrow to work do something this upcoming week that is something different in your routine those are three things that you can do today I hope you enjoyed that video I hope it was super helpful I hope it was super informative I'm sorry if it sounded like I was r Ling again I was just in my room and I was journaling and I was like this
is it this is what I really did to glow up and change my life is I changed my environment changing my environment changed my life and I get passionate about this stuff I get passionate about you becoming your best self because I know I know how much loving myself has brought me my dream apartment brought me my dream dog brought me my dream man and It All Started From Within so I'm very passionate about you getting everything that you deserve so I hope this video was helpful please check out my other videos if you want
to become your best self like this video if you found it informative and leave a comment down below what a higher self day would look like to you I want to know everything thank you so much for watching thank you so much for supporting this community and I will see you in the next video bye y'all nothing's going to tear us AP
