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As a fellow self employed person I loved this and found it very relatable. Plus I live in the states and also enjoyed seeing the streets and sidewalks around you. I think the self-employed-living-the-dream thing can be a lot of pressure, thank you for this real take.
On my daily planning sheets, there are two columns. The right column is filled out in advance, all the things I hope to accomplish that day. A wish list. The left side is all the things I actually do. That way, I don't have to figure out what I need to work on, I already have an ordered list. But, the list's only a suggestion. So, if I feel supper low energy one morning, wake late, I put "break" at the top of the left column, set a timer for 25 min. I get coffee or whatever. After that, I find something easy from the right column and focus on that for 25 mins. Then, I'm usually ready for the bigger stuff.
Tips that help me when I wake up lethargic and unmotivated (and late): - If possible, work out. (yoga is great too!) - Take a shower - Get dressed and put make up on. (even if you won't head out the door) - Clean and tidy room - Write a to-do-list It may help a little :)
From my POV post whatever videos you want. I like learning new storytelling theories and methods, but more than that I find your voice very calming. So upload a video of you reading the dictionary and I promise you'll have at least one viewer.
I had been saving this video for my own blah morning. Today is the 3rd day of NaNo, and I just can't seem to push through to a productive mode. I loved this video, and I am taking your advice! Do what it takes to feel better; then take one step at a time.
Loved this video. It's so good to see how you handle when you don't feel great. I think we get a lot of people who try to portray that everything is a dream and it's so easy, and I really appreciate how real you are when you talk about self-employment.
I really appreciate your sharing this. I enjoyed seeing your day, even though it was a blah day... actually no, probably BECAUSE of that, it made me feel less alone and comforted.
It was nice to see someone push through the same kind of crappy day that sometimes gets the best of me, thank you for the encouragement and the advice 😊
I really loved seeing another person’s process for how to cope with difficult and low energy days. I work from home half the time, and have in the past worked from home full time, so can relate to those days waking up feeling isolated, unmotivated, or directionless. It was helpful watching you reason with yourself and make decisions about where and how to start getting the ball rolling. Thanks for sharing! 🌟
Current Academy student here. I and everyone else in the Academy appreciate you for how hard you work just for us. It totally sucks that you're going through this and don't feel pressure to avoid addressing what's happening in your life.
This is really relatable. I’ve been feeling down the last two weeks. It’s nice to learn how other people cope with such a mood. I hope such days won’t visit you often!
Waking up with blah mornings for weeks on end is the worst. I've noticed a pattern that I usually forget how to live properly after about a week of dreadful mornings. I know it'll linger too long when I'm first having trouble with small talk. Then I become uncertain in general if I'm using the right words when speaking/writing, so I try to avoid lengthy conversations. After a while I just don't feel like talking to anyone, let alone writing anything creative. Admittedly, I have yet to figure out a good routine to "feel better first" and I'm in my 30s. All I can say is good luck to you, and everyone else suffering from sluggish days like these. Can't say I was entertained by this vlog, cuz I think that'd be wrong, but I did find it interesting. I prefer it when fellow writers are honest and don't wear pretentious masks. So, thanks. I hope you're feeling well enough now. :)
Really enjoyed this & you talking openly about what to do (or not to do) when you're not feeling great! Very relatable! I hope you'll do more vlogs, especially if they make you feel more motivated & productive. Also, the city clips were kind of nostalgic for me (need to visit Glasgow again!).
This was a really calming, reassuring video. You described the feeling of a lack of motivation really well, and it's good to know that I'm not alone in days like this. Watching you manage to regroup from feeling really bad and having no workable structure from the day was inspiring as well. Thank you for sharing this day with us.
I really liked this video, even though I'm sorry your day was blah. I really enjoyed the scenery and the music and it was nice to hang out with you. I hope you're feeling better and taking care of yourself
That's the kind of mood that I get all the time. I simply make a To Do list, draw a big checkbox beside each item, and start ticking them off one by one. I'm okay with not doing everything. Most things can wait. Choice Paralysis is a killer!
Lack of motivation is simply your body's natural way of saying there's a sufficiently large disconnect between what you past said you should be doing and what you presently think you should be doing. Just work out the discrepancies in your bujo, adjust your plans accordingly, and enjoy your newfound motivation. But yes, take care of yourself too.
This was a heck of a writing video to wake up to 🖤 I have days like this so much after transitioning to a more flexible schedule basically working for myself. Sometimes it's overwhelming figuring out how you're gonna get it all done, and watching someone else work through a blegh day like this is honestly a true inspiration, so thank you so much for sharing! I look forward to more writing/work/productivity vlogs, they've been my fave youtube genre as of late. 🥰
I can relate to this as I'm currently grieving for a family member that just passed away a few days ago. This is where I'm at, even though I'm taking time off to recover emotionally and attempt to write more on my book.
I wake up every morning dreading taking a shower. For some unknown reason. I felt you when you were trying to come up with reasons not to shower 💖 some days are just blah. Love your channel 💖
I wish there were more videos like this, especially when I have hard days. Thank you for being vulnerable with us and helping us know how to break through a crappy morning. I needed this. ❤
Thank you for this. This was me today. It's 11pm and only now I have a little motivation to write, so I'm going to write until I get tired. Again, thank you for being such a wonderful and relatable authortuber and person. Also, I totally have that moon lamp and I love it. I'm not a morning shower person, but I think on the days I feel rubbish, taking a shower will probably help.
I know this was a long time ago - just wanted to say sorry you had a bad day. I did enjoy the video. It was nice to watch a more gentle approach to the day considering you were not feeling well.
I enjoyed getting an idea of what your day might be like. If you enjoy doing these I say go for it, the storytelling possibilities of vlogs pose some interesting questions and you’re the most capable person I know to investigate anything storytelling!
Loved the vlog video. Kind of reminds me of the candid elements of your earlier videos, which I found relatable and charming--things that made me subscribe to your channel a long time ago. :)
Just found your channel a couple days ago. Thanks for this very real vlog (vrv???) and for capturing some things I've been feeling in my own work lately. (I'm not self-employed, but I've been feeling the burnout beast HARD. Even just last week I had a day much like you had.) Thanks for the encouragement to prioritize making yourself feel better before you try to make decisions. I forget about that one sometimes. Keep going. You're surviving. I appreciate you.
Really loved your vlog! It was very relaxing and inspirational. I totally get the blah, wake up in the morning feeling like crap and deciding today's gonna suck. But you're right, if I can focus on what I need to do to feel better the rest of the day falls into place. I'm new to your channel (found you through your bujo mistakes vid, which I found super helpful!) and am looking forward to seeing more of your vids! I'm gearing up to hopefully do nanowrimo for the first time but I'm not quite sure how to do that! I might have to look back on your vids from last year. :)
I have to structure my day as well. You're not alone!! We aren't machines. I like your idea of doing what you need to do to feel better. I like your hair color.
I'm also struggling to learn that if I don't feel good in the morning, I need to feel better before doing anything, if I can help it. And since I currently don't really have any obligations, it's okay to take a day and just be on the couch with a headache. Although, I would also like to learn when I actually can't do stuff, and when I'd feel better if I just got up and did the stuff, because just like you, I do sometimes have fairly productive days if I just force myself to start ... one day, I shall learn to read my body's signs properly X)
Absolutely love the blog content - I was literally wishing you did more vlog content as that's some of my favourite low-mental energy stuff to watch, and I really like you as a person/creator
Yes, please do more videos like this! I just started trying to launch a freelance writing career and everyday I feel I'm making a complete catastrophe of it. This video helped me feel a little better about the bad days!
Humans are fragile. We have bad days, and while we can achieve unbelievable things over time, meeting consistent day-to-day expectations can be impossible or at least very damaging for us. This is why work under capitalism causes so much mental damage for people. Work is natural for humans; no healthy person could stay sane without performing what could be called work. If all the work would be done for us, we would suffer mentally. But work under capitalism is different; we are alienated from our own work. The work ahead is prefixed by the capitalists to be just a little too much, and as workers are treated like robots from the perspective of capitalists, we are ecpected to provide inhumane consistensy on daily basis, in phase not set by us ourself, but from above. We are taught to feel bad when we have a slow day or can't reach that goal, and we are expected to inflict mental damage to ourself in order to push ourself when our human nature is telling us we should slow down. Modern humans are not taught to manage ourselves: it's not suprising that self-management feels hard for many, when our whole life we are taught to work as cogs in a hierarchical machine. We are expected to work as our internal capitalists when managing ourself. To expect inhumane consistency even when we could choose othervice. We are taught that listening our own bodies is lazyness, and that taking time off from work to feel better is wrong - when in reality work should exist to make us feel better!
