- It's the Life Admin Day.
And I am ready to do a bunch of little things
to get my life together.
So this video is going to be separated into three parts.
I'm gonna start by doing a bunch of little things
to make me feel better in my home and my life.
Then I'm gonna do some fun things that are focused
more on making future me happy.
Then I'm focusing on multipliers.
So things that are going to ultimately
save me time in the future by doing them now.
If you haven't seen my life admin day videos before
I've been doing this series for a while.
Basically, I just spend a day doing all of these things
to make future me's life better,
and also doing a bunch of things that I've been avoiding
that I've been procrastinating,
that I know, or when I do them
will make me feel better about life in general.
We're doing it a little different today,
but same general gist.
So the first thing that I wanna do
to make my home and life better
is to put these prints up, to replace these prints.
Something that is really important to me
is the look and feel of my home
as I am walking through my home.
These are prints that used to be my office,
but no longer fit there.
I love them and I just feel like
they'd be a better fit here.
And I'm gonna move these elsewhere.
'Cause look at this little space,
ignore the black stuff in the corner.
Like the they'll just look so good up there,
like a little reminders of nature.
So the first thing I'm gonna do
is actually cut out some of my Christmas wrapping paper
to be the size of these,
'cause this house is crooked
and I need to be able to put these up on the wall straight
and I don't really have help visually.
So this is the easiest way to do it.
So I cut out my wrapping paper to the shape of the frames
so that I could mock them up on the wall.
And I took the current frames down.
It felt like the end of an era.
And then I put my mock-ups up to get the placement right.
It looks straight to me.
After that, I tucked up my new frames
and this is what they looked like.
Okay, they are up, they are relatively straight.
The only other change I wanna make, not right now,
but I wanna turn that into a mirror.
This print I still love.
So I wanna put it up in our hallway.
Currently, this is our hallway situations,
so you've got sort of the entry bit, you've got the mirror,
you've got the calendar, which needs to take over.
And I wanna put it here
'cause there's like a big blank space
and it just looks really stark.
I cut out a piece of paper that was sized to the big frame
and then I stuck it to the wall to get my placement right.
Once I was happy with it, I put my frame on at the wall.
Okay, it looks so good.
It could have been put a bit more this way, but that's okay.
We're filling out this whole way so slowly.
This used to be completely blank and it was just so boring
and now it's just looking so much more homely, I love it.
While I was in this area
I finally moved the birthday wrapping paper
that we'd been storing in this basket.
It's a tiny change, but the bright wrapping paper
sitting in the lounge room really didn't work for me.
And it was a little task that had been on my mind.
While I was still sort of in that command strip mindset
I hung up a hook beside my bedside.
I've actually tried to do this twice before,
but I failed because I couldn't get the placement right.
So I was really happy to get this done.
I also added a hook into this little alcove
on the other side of our room.
So this one is to hang clothes when I steam them
with my little portable steamer that I've gotten
because I've found that it's much easier
when you have clothes hanging up
and it doesn't really work when they're hanging out
in that section.
This one is for my hoodie.
It's right by my side of the bed.
It didn't go exactly where I wanted it to go.
Like I wanted it to up here
but it turns out that the ability for this to stick
relies on the brick being really smooth.
And that was the only smooth brick that like
let the sticky things lie down nicely.
I told myself, I need to make my laundry
a priority on this day 'cause I'd left my clothes out
in the rain.
And this was the first sunny day
that we'd had in a second, laundry needed to get done.
While I'm at it I'm gonna put away
all of the laundry that has been sitting in my room
for like longer than a week now.
It's absolutely time to be put away.
I have been absolutely hoarding laundry.
I've collected two baskets,
actually putting your laundry away
is a guaranteed feel good activity.
Getting these laundry baskets out of my room,
it made me feel like a weight was lifted.
I ended up spending my life admin day
over two half days
because of appointments and commitments.
So after this, I went on a walk and I went to sleep.
This morning I hung my pants over here
to stain them and it made it so easy
and look there hangs my hoodie.
It's not super pretty hanging there,
but it's very functional.
Already my little life admin changes are paying off.
So now I'm going to be booking in at my brows.
They very much need doing,
I don't know if you can see that.
I've recently switched brow places.
And the new place that I go to has an online booking system.
I love an online booking system.
Love not having to call up,
having to message them to organize a time.
So that is my next task.
Done, booked we're in.
Now I really want to clean my couch covers.
They get a little dirty from time to time.
They are all white.
We finally have sun, hopefully for the next few days,
I took all of the covers off of my office couch
and my lounge couch to get all of the couches done
in one sweep.
And then I piled them up in the laundry,
ready to wash and chucked on my first cycle.
While we are in that mindset
I want you to wash these marks off of this curtain.
These are the weirdest marks
and I genuinely don't know where they came from.
They're kind of like little crosses.
Those marks up here, like a day after
I had already washed and hemmed these curtains.
So I'm gonna chuck some stain spray on them
and get them off.
This is something I absolutely would avoid
for the rest of my life,
but also it's right next to me when I sit at my desk
so I can always see it.
So the next thing that I'm doing is actually creating
a monthly and quarterly home tasks list.
The reason I'm doing this is because
every life admin day I find myself doing similar things.
I mean, not all things,
obviously I'm not gonna be cleaning
the marks off my curtains every single time.
But in terms of cleaning my couch cover,
cleaning my car,
don't ask me why it's taking me so long to realize this
but I'm like, there should just really be
part of like my monthly reset day or my quarterly reset day.
So I'm gonna take a second to just put those things
in my monthly and quarterly list
that I have in notions set up already.
That way they kind of just become integrated
into part of the routine and then not just an abnormal thing
that I do on the life admin day that I schedule.
I just have a really simple checklist
for my quarterly and monthly resets,
but right now they're pretty focused on goal setting
more so than home tasks.
So I added a few bits and pieces that I know I do regularly
to those lists.
Done, I'm also thinking next to this image,
I'm thinking I'm gonna have like a
daily, weekly, monthly chore chart.
That way it's visible to everyone in the household
as in the two individuals that frequent here,
because having everything in my notion is well and good
but I do think with those kinds of things,
you kind of need to keep it visible.
I don't know if a chore chart for an adult is like
socially acceptable, but for me and my brain, it works.
These makeup brushes have not been cleaned in so long.
As you can probably tell right now I'm wearing sunscreen.
So my face is really shiny,
but I'm finding that the more products I'm wearing my face
and tons of sunscreen, like heavy moisturizers in winter,
the dirtier my brushes are getting
because my face is just always covered in product.
So I'm going to go ahead and clean
all of my makeup brushes today.
This is gonna feel like such an accomplishment
when I've done it.
We're using shampoo and olive oil to clean them.
We're moving along to doing little things
that will make future me happier.
So every morning when I wake up,
I listen to some kind of audio,
whether it is a podcast or an audio book.
Right now, I'm leaning more towards podcasts.
And I have a Spotify playlist
filled with a bunch of podcasts episodes,
but I've listened to a lot of them now.
So what I wanna do is go through that podcast playlist
and update it so that it has a bunch of new, fresh podcasts
that I'm excited to listen to my podcasts every morning.
The next thing that I'm going to be doing
to make future me happier
is creating a Skillshare course list.
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The next task was to create a reminder that goes off
to remind Luke and I about
our weekly relationship meeting that we do.
I also have layered on a texting function.
So Luke and I will both get a text on Sunday night
to remind us.
So now on a Sunday evening,
the Google Home will say,
hey, don't forget that there's a marriage meeting
and we both will get a text.
Luke's gonna love it.
Recently, I grabbed this and what this will do
is let me and Amy share files really easily
without slowing the video editing process down.
So that way, when I need to review videos,
I don't need to like go into Amy space
when she's in the middle of like making dinner,
she has the little ones around and review videos.
I can just access the videos, whatever I want using this.
But I have no idea how to set it up.
I'd say it's been sitting there for about two weeks,
'cause I'm like, oh, I need to dedicate time
to doing that one.
So I have this quick installation guide
that I'm going to follow and get done
so that doesn't just sit there unused for ever.
So I took a lot of time trying to get
this hard drive set up.
Much more time than I thought that I would.
I couldn't find a spot for it
and it ended up sitting on my vanity,
which is kind of a temporary solution.
But getting all the programs that come with it set up
was a whole process that I didn't actually accomplish.
Greetings I'm looking my absolute cutest, wow.
It's night time, we've got the warm lights on.
I've been to Pilates, I've showered
and I'm still trying to work this hard drive stuff out.
I have decided, I made an executive decision
that I'm gonna go on Airtasker
and pay someone to come and figure this out for me
because I simply am not a tech expert
This task took way more time than I thought it would.
Like it literally did take my whole afternoon,
had a few fun problems arise.
Sometimes outsourcing just really is the best answer
'cause I could take days to solve this
and someone will probably solve it in like under an hour.
I did have a few other multipliers that I wanted to get done
but it's okay, I still wanna get to those
and I'll probably get them into during the week,
but I don't wanna drag this blog on.
I appreciate you guys so very much
and I'll see you.
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