THE ULTIMATE LIFE GLOW UP TRANSFORMATION
By: Minute Hustlin' Goddess
Tags: Healthy Habits, Useful Habits, Self Care, Glow Up Mentally, Mental Transformation

Just a disclaimer, what i’m saying in this article is based on my own experiences, what other influencers and motivators say, I’m not a professional or a specialist so take it with a grain of salt. Now let’s begin!

HABIT #1: PODCAST BINGING *instead of Netflix or Music*

Well, who doesn’t love Netflix these days? We have the pandemic to quarantine us in our cozy home. Open our laptop, turn on the Wi-Fi, choosing what to watch on Netflix, BOOM you sit in front of your laptop binging on every Netflix movies you can think of.

There’s nothing wrong with watching movies or Netflix but when you do this too often, it may give you happiness on a short term but it affects your long run. But when you listen to podcasts, you are literally feeding your brain so much positivity, inspiration, motivation, dedication towards your goals which in the long run, it boosts your productivity strongly. I recommend listening to podcasts such as ‘The Nod’

Glowing up is also about mental and brain glow up, not just physical glow up, when you glow up mentally, congratulations! You just levelled up when most people just won’t even bother to consider about all of this.

HABIT #2: BINGE ON MOTIVATIONAL SOCIAL MEDIA ACCOUNTS *instead of following drama queens*

If you feel like life is just so filled with negativity and it just makes you feel awful, try looking at your instagram following, tiktok following, twitter following and the following of all your social medias. Slowly, you’ll notice that you followed so many useless, negative, unproductive, unmotivating, uninspiring accounts.

They give you so much drama, hate, jealousy, pain, and mental destruction. Start unfollowing these, just click on that unfollow button, it’s free, it even gives you YOUR PEACE. PLUS, when you follow accounts like https://www.instagram.com/imjennim/

https://www.instagram.com/garyvee/

https://www.instagram.com/tonyrobbins/

https://www.instagram.com/stevemaraboli/

https://www.instagram.com/thegoodquote/

then BOOM! Congratulations, you just removed the trash from your life and mind. Your life would instantly be filled with hope, love, laughter, positivity, motivation and these things can increase your happiness, which leads to health, increased productivity, longer lifespan and more

HABIT #3: VISUALIZING YOUR DREAM LIFE DAILY

When I say visualize your dream life, I mean imagine you already have your dream life, believing so strongly that it is already a reality. You might wonder “What for? It’s pointless” , “How does it affect my actual life” , etc.

Let me explain, when you visualize yourself in your dream life (for example, being crazy successful, having your luxurious house, fancy car, financially stable, healthy and fit body, healthy relationships with your family, friends, loved ones, kids, and your goals achieved), it affects how your mind works, when your mind starts believing it already happened, it affects how you work towards your goals.

You start working harder and harder, resulting in you start achieving your goals little by little, it sparks your confidence, you even believe more deeply that you are capable in achieving your goals. Then you tell yourself, WOW, the visualization actually worked so well. And the cycle repeats back again from visualization, it affects your beliefs, it affects your actions, then it affects your results and lastly it affects your beliefs “WOW this actually works”.

Wanna know if it works or not? Try it yourself. No one can do it for you, in the long process you might feel discouraged as well, but never give up. Pick yourself back up, tell yourself “I can do everything I set my mind to”.

HABIT #4: ORGANIZING YOUR THOUGHTS WITH JOURNALLING

Studies actually said that humans think more than 6000 thoughts per day. A surprising amount of thoughts right? Work, school, college, assignments, bills, debts, and something as simple as choosing the right outfit, choosing what to eat today, etc. Just like the Rihanna’s song, work work work work work right? So many new targets to achieve, things to do, errands to run.

When this happens, all you need to do is grab a piece of paper or a book and a pen, just write down all those thoughts that bothers you right now. After writing, the paper carries your burdens, not your mind, now you can plan ahead which tasks you will do first until you tackle all the assignments you have to do. You can also use the journal to write about how you feel during that day, maybe you just met your biggest crush, you had a good shower, good walk in nature and just everything you can think of.

This method does not directly affect your whole life but it affects your mind, it makes you feel more relaxed, organized and you know which things to do first, and when you feel relaxed and not too tense, you will start becoming happier, healthier, less deprived, less stressed, and lastly increase your productivity.

HABIT #5: DECLUTTERING TO CLEAR YOUR MIND

This might feel like a chore, but consider it as a mental therapy, because we work almost all the time, our space tend to get messy, our stuffs, papers, gadgets and other stuff that we use often get dirty or get scattered everywhere. The best way to handle this is to organize all of your stuff, put your stuff in their rightful places, throw the useless things away, clean the dusty stuff and if you have time, deep clean your entire room.

You might be thinking, “i don’t have the time and energy to clean my entire room, i’ve got tons of work to do”. Yes i feel your struggle but trust me, just take your phone, set a timer for 10 minutes, leave the phone and start cleaning your room. When the timer runs out, you’ll be surprised of how much clutter you can clean. It’s not much of a time, but it’s so worth it. And when your space is clean, your mind is clear. You can boost your productivity during work or study session, you feel more relaxed, you feel like you’ve just conquered a hard task which creates happy hormones, and it makes you a responsible and neat person. Another positive effect is your stuff is organized, everything is in the right place, everything is clean, neat which saves you a lot of stress in the future.

HABIT #6: GET OUT OF BED EARLIER

“NOOO I don’t want to leave my cozy and warm bed!” Yes, I feel that almost every day. But you know what? We can’t enjoy the luxury of our bed forever, every morning we have two choices, continue to sleep with our dreams or get up and chase them. The morning hours are therapeutic, you are already awake when the rest of the world is sleeping, you’ve already done your homework and tasks when everybody else is sleeping in.

A method you can use when you’re already half awake and half asleep in the morning is count in your head from 5..4..3..2..1 and get up straight away. This method will distract your brain from talking you into not getting up. This takes lots of discipline and dedication so that’s why you should do this every day, but when you feel like you deserve a break, take some days when you wake up later but not too late. For example when you usually wake up at 10 A.M and now you already have the habit of waking up at 5 A.M, don’t wake up at 10 A.M again when you take the break, wake up at 7 A.M or 6 A.M.

You might feel like you don’t have time, but realize that everyone has the same 24 hours a day, you can’t change that but you can change how you manage your time. This is a skill anyone can learn and master. There’s also a fact about this, when you wake up earlier, it acts as a keystone habit to make you want to exercise more, eat healthier, drink more water and do other good habits. It’s not that waking up early cause you to develop good habits but it affects you mentally and making you more productive, responsible, less lazy and overall just happier.

HABIT #7: SLEEP EARLIER

Waking up earlier starts from sleeping earlier, how to do this? Sleep at least one hour earlier, prepare to sleep two hours earlier. For example when you usually sleep at 12 A.M, prepare to sleep at 10 P.M (brush your teeth, prepare your bed, drink water, go to the toilet, skincare routine, put on a cozy outfit to sleep, make sure you don’t eat anything at this hour, finish all of your work and assignments at least 1 hour before bed (that is 11 P.M), and when the time hits 11 P.M, relax, do some journaling, meditation, put your phone away to avoid distractions, feel yourself getting sleepier in the bed and sleep soundly.

Repeat this process daily, and when you get used to sleep one hour earlier from your usual sleep time, sleep one hour earlier, then sleep one hour earlier until you get the habit of sleeping early. “I regret sleeping early” said no one ever. When you just don’t want to sleep, remember.. in the morning you would not want to wake up so you would want to sleep earlier.

Sometimes at night, our thoughts are running endlessly, notifications are running in our phones, more errands to run and it makes us unable to sleep early so make sure to put away your phone, journal to organize your thoughts, take care of your work. GET YOUR BEAUTY SLEEP GUYS!

HABIT #8: SKINCARE ROUTINE *plus visualization time*

Whatever your skincare routine is, just do your thing, i’m not a skincare specialist but still what i know is when you do this, visualize your skin getting healthier inside out, glowing, your acne and blackheads disappearing, your dead skin cells fading away, welcoming a new, healthy skin.

Just like the third habit, visualize your dream skin already a reality and when it becomes reality, you will tell yourself “wow my skin is rejuvenated”. And just do this daily, or as often as you need. Don’t consider this as a chore or a must but a therapy, your skin deserves love, you deserve love too, skincare is the one of the way to give love to yourself.

HABIT #9: ONLINE CLASSES *instead of Netflix*

I know what you’re thinking, another not so fun habit to do, but still this is your choice. Let’s compare the two of them below:

Netflix: wastes your time and money, gives you happiness, useless habit in the long run. On the other hand, Online classes will waste your time and money (if it’s costly), give you wisdom, knowledge, skills, and insight, it’s a useful habit in the long run

Now do you get it? This pandemic has brought us to this condition where we all have to stay at home, bored? Stressed? Stuck inside these four walls? Open skillshare/coursera/khan academy or any other educational websites to start learning, dig deeper into the things you’ve always wanted to learn or curious about, satisfy your inner child curiosity by doing this, never let the curiosity inside you die. Of course you can reward yourself with netflix for example, after 45 minutes of online class, watch 15 minutes of a movie on netflix. Still balanced, you’re improving your skills but still having fun at the same time.

HABIT #10: TAKE PICTURES *instead of posting on social media*

It’s so easy for all of us to access any information through our phones, we can even view other youtubers, our friends’ status/instastory/instagram posts/any other online post that we can see. Thus making us compare ourselves to them, whether you notice it or not, you can sometimes compare your face/body/financial security, etc. It’s so easy for us to get caught in comparison, e.g “wow it must be nice to be as pretty as her”, to be as successful as her, to be as slim and lean as her, etc.

This only increases your stress levels, wastes your time and energy uselessly, and this is an unproductive habit of course. Sometimes we post something on instagram/facebook/twitter or any other social medias but then we scroll down and see the posts of our friends going out with their date/going on a holiday or doing other fun things and it makes you compare yourself to them, of course this is a toxic habit. So replace them with just taking photos with your camera, no toxicity, no other posts in your camera, nothing else but you, just you. And this is therapeutic, you can take photos of good memories to keep forever, it’s better to not know what your friends are doing, instead of knowing and then comparing yourself to them.

HABIT #11: READ INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES

This is a simple habit, of course with your thumb’s ability to scroll for hours you can do this. You can scroll down the quotes from gymholic, bossbabe, the millionaire mentor, and other inspirational quotes you can find online. This is so empowering, it makes me feel badass, classy and powerful, so instead of scrolling endlessly and wasting time and energy uselessly, try this one. I assure you, you will feel like a newborn person after doing this.

This feeds your mind with positivity, inspiration and you won’t even find drama, negativity, and toxicity by doing this, there’s no negative impact by doing this every chance you get.

HABIT #12: TAKE PERSONALITY QUIZZES

Not only getting to know yourself more, but this is also useful for your career, friendships, relationships, family life and just other aspects of your life. You can find out more about your strengths, weaknesses, career paths and opportunities, how you handle stress, anger, sadness, pressure, what’s your unique traits, what makes you valuable, and just find out as deep as you can about yourself.

Some day you will gain the benefits of doing this habit, i can’t guarantee that you will gain the benefits in one day/one year/one month/ two weeks, etc. Once you find out your strengths and weaknesses you can work on them, and that’s what makes life meaningful, you work on your weaknesses so they become your strengths and your strengths become second nature.

HABIT #13: FLIRT WITH YOURSELF

As humans, sometimes we tend to freely give love and compliments to other people and we forget to do that to ourselves. But you know what? Giving yourself some love isn’t selfish or evil or mean. It’s an act of self love, gratitude and self respect. You also deserve the love you give freely to others, when you give love to yourself, your body and mind will love you back. But when you give love to other people, they may or may not return the same love you give them, so that’s why you need to love yourself first before loving other people.

And the way to do that is flirt with yourself, start giving sincere compliments to yourself, talk to yourself in the mirror and start saying nice things to yourself, at least ten nice compliments every day. “my skin looks glowing”, “i have a great butt”, “i have beautiful body”, “i have a loving heart to love myself and others” and just any other compliments you can think of, throw that compliment to yourself.

HABIT #14: FIND THE INSPIRATION FROM EVERYTHING

When i say everything i mean literally everything, from failure stories, success stories, and just every little thing you can see or hear. For example when you see someone smiling, find an inspiration from it, realize that wow she or he is strong, i don’t even know what they are going through and they are still smiling, or when someone is rich but they still dress as an average person, realize that they are lowkey rich, not trying to look rich.

And below is the last habit to do

HABIT #15: RELAX

Take a deep breath, literally feel the air get inside your nose and lungs, and exhale, feel the air leaving your lungs and nose, practice mindful breathing. Drink water, cuddle your pet, take a walk in nature, take a power nap, eat a small snack or do anything you want to feel relaxed, but don’t forget to do it mindfully, it’s okay to take a step back and slow down, it’s okay to make mistakes and take some rest, just don’t quit.

Overall, good luck in glowing up mentally and feel yourself slowly levelling up and upgrading like never before