What's up, my people? Long time no talk. For the past few days, I was in a rut. I wanted to share what helped me get out, in case it resonates with and provides value to even one person reading this. I went from being super productive, confidently sweeping through my habit tracker, to laying in bed all day, scrolling mindlessly on YouTube. I went from being motivated and driven towards improving myself to (might be TMI but just want to be transparent) not even wanting to change out of my clothes after a long day of wallowing in my own self-loathing. I was in a full-on rut; this is how I got out: 1. Changed my environment. By cleaning up my desk, etc. I could dissociate myself from the environment that created the rut in the first place (a chance to refresh). 2. Journalling. I did a 5-step written journalling exercise; I forgave myself for not being productive, I wrote down everything that had been stressing me out, I reflected on why I had been stressing about those things, I created an actionable list of things to do to get out of my rut, and finally I reminded myself why it is that I wanted to get out of my rut in the first place (contentment, etc.) Final thoughts - If you're in a rut, don't worry my friend. Take a step back, and forgive yourself by thinking about how far you have come from when you first started. And you'll be great. I believe in you!

I used https://systeme.io/ to make this. I'm probably going to wait to use it until I can afford to pay monthly for a domain. What do you think?

I don't really like Skool 🙃

I'm going to distill everything self-improvement related I can think of over the span of 3 whole hours. What title should I use?

I've been preparing all the resources I need to optimize my workflow and said that I would start being productive on Monday, I saw someone living my dream in Thailand and got so motivated that I wanted to work imminently but promised to start on Monday. Monday rolls around, and I read 100 pages of a book in between school class periods, was learning about the YouTube algorithm and thinking about how I can improve my channel the entire walk home and once I got home rushed to my room to produce a video. Normally when this happens, I would get distracted or procrastinate it, but I went straight to it and blitzed out my video outline and A-roll an hour earlier than expected. Now I just need to add some graphics to my intro and finish up my description, and I'm done for the day. I'm posting this to prove that motivation is a tool you should NOT ignore. Take care, y'all!