healthy morning routines that we hate

healthy morning routines that we hate

Thursday, September 10, 2020

 

We've read (too many times) about how successful people go about their day, and we wanted to do the same thing to be...uhm..successful? But, we're too lazy for that. Newsflash: Successful people don't just wake up in the morning, they take charge of the day and make things happen themselves. Well, I've listed 6 of those morning routines here some I secretly hate.

1. Wake up early. I know this sounds tough and demanding, especially for nocturnal people. Even though I couldn't wake myself up early without depending on my alarm, rising up early has its own advantage. It gives you a quiet time to simply meditate and to prepare yourself by setting your intentions for the day. Studies show that our brains function at their best after waking up because of the mental decluttering it's gone through while asleep.

2. Healthy breakfast. Insert this well-known adage "The most important meal of the day." I was a breakfast skipper during my college days because (1) I woke up late rushing to class most days and (2) I don't know how to cook. I then stopped this madness until I felt the heartburn and contemporarily stopped drinking coffee and smoking for a bit and then later resumed when my heartburn episodes subsided. Stubborn, I know. Now, I could never go on a day without breakfast because then I'll have this bad headache and my acid reflux would resurface. Too bad, I've waited for something like this to happen to me before I appreciate eating my morning meal.

Successful people never take their health for granted. Eating breakfast daily improves concentration and brain functions compared to an empty stomach. Breakfast is our source of energy to start the day, and skipping it can lead to cravings later in the day leading to unhealthy body weight. It can also affect your mood. Notice when you're hungry you act so grumpy and you easily lose focus?

3. Make a to-do list. Your to-do list is your brain's backup drive in case you forget something. Write everything you need to do that day to get you aligned with your goals and remind you of what you need to accomplish to avert leaving yourself frazzled and disorganized. You can also write down things you're grateful for to throw in a feel-good vibe in starting off your day. I don't hate this one. In fact, I love making lists coz then I'd lose myself if I didn't.

4. Get inspired. Listen to educational or self-help audiobooks/podcasts while driving or commuting. Read inspirational or motivational books for 30 min. to get you in the mood for success and to inject positivity into your day. Well, this one I don't particularly hate.

5. Be updated. Spend quality time with your family/friends over morning coffee. Read the news to stay updated with current events.

6. Exercise. Give yourself a quick boost. Truly, I'm a sedentary type of person. I'm not sporty and my movements are uncoordinated. I'm a real couch potato, and most of my hobbies don't require any physical activity. No matter how grueling a task it can be, it's essential to my health and whole being, so I need to coerce the life out of me to do it. Post-workout, you'll feel more awesome about yourself as it helps elevate your mood.

Bonjour!

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je ne regrette rien

je ne regrette rien

Sunday, July 12, 2020

I want to start by saying that I loved you so much. Being with you has been one of the greatest adventures of my life and I will always hold you in my heart.

I’m sorry that things didn’t work out the way we wanted them to. We both tried our best, but at the end of the day, trust was broken and there really wasn’t much we could do. I hope you know that despite everything, I don’t regret being with you, nor do I regret giving you a second chance after what you did. 

I know you meant it when you said you were sorry and I know you tried your best to make things right. I truly appreciate your effort. I am so honored to have been a part of your life at all. You gave me so much even when you had little to give. You were patient and kind and never stopped trying to make me happy. You’ve taught me to be a better, more understanding, and more open-minded person. You gave me a love that I will always remember and for that, I am eternally grateful. 

I know I wasn’t always easy to be with. I have a tendency to get emotionally jealous and insecure, but you stuck with me anyway. I’m sorry if I ever did anything to hurt you or make you believe that I didn’t love you with everything I had. I appreciate everything you’ve done for me and I’m sorry if I wasn’t always the best at showing it. Maybe that’s why you did what you did. You must have suffered some sort of discontent or else you wouldn’t have felt it necessary to cheat.

I shared my family, my friends, and my home with you. I shared my whole self with you. I let you see me when I was vulnerable and scared and I let my walls down for you. Still, you chose someone else over me. I wanted so badly to be angry with you because I thought it would make it easier for me to leave, but in all honesty, I’m not angry. Although, I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t hurt. You hurt me in a way I would never want anyone else to experience. But I forgive you. And I will always care about you. However, I will always have it in the back of my mind that I was not good enough, and I sincerely hope that one day you will find someone who is.

As much as I would love to work things out, I could never subject you to a life with someone you are not fully content with. You deserve to be with someone you can choose everyday–not just when things are easy. You deserve to be with someone you can be honest with when you have a problem instead of seeking comfort in someone else. Clearly, I am not that person.

And I’m sure you can understand that I deserve better, too. I deserve someone who will fight for me. Someone who will choose me and be loyal to me regardless of the hardships we may face in our relationship. I deserve to have peace of mind in knowing that my partner will not betray my trust. Thinking about a future without you absolutely breaks my heart. We’ve been through so much together. Zero to 100, we used to say.

Through the ups and downs and everything in between. Seeing you when you had nothing and being there through all your victories showed me what an incredibly hard-working individual you are and I am so proud of how far you’ve come. Still, it hurts knowing that I will not be around to share in your success. It hurts knowing that someone else will be there pushing you forward and helping you along the way. But everyone who enters your life has a purpose in it and I guess I must have already served mine.

So for now, I think I need to let you go. You have such big things ahead of you and I know you will get far. It’s not fair for me to hold you here while I try to figure out what I need. I know you can’t be my friend for obvious reasons, and though it hurts me to not have you around, I need to respect the fact that you need time and space. Maybe I do, too. Again, I want you to know that I am not angry or bitter. I still love you very much and I am so thankful for all of our little adventures. I hope that one day we can come to a point where neither of us is hurting and we can truly be friends.

Until then, I wish you the best. You’re in my heart.

on drafts

on drafts

Monday, July 6, 2020

To that one guy that I loved truly, madly, and dearly. To that guy whom I sacrificed a lot. This one is for you.

I treated you like a King.

I loved you so much. Binigay ko lahat lahat sa’yo. Panahon, tiwala, oras, pagmamahal, pagkalinga. I have been everything you want and need. I tried and made sure that you would open your eyes with a smile, and close them with relief and happiness because I am here and I will do everything for you. Every single time that you need something, I make sure that I will do my all to give it to you. When you’re tired, even if I am equally as tired, I will do my best to relieve your stress. When you’re sick, I made sure that I was there to take care of you. Inalagaan at minahal kita ng buong puso. 

I accepted every bit of you.

Tinanggap kita at ang buong pagkatao mo- mabuti man o masama. You told me you’re a mess and I accepted you wholeheartedly. I tried to fix you. But in the manner of fixing you, I wasn’t aware that I was breaking myself already. We had fights, a lot of them. But every time you screamed at me, I tried to understand. During every fight, I tried to look at the good in all of the bad. I fought for you- for us.

You treated me like a Princess.

You showed me that you really do love me. That everything was real. You showed me that I was the only one. You showed me what effort is like. You also sacrificed your time and effort for me. You did everything to make me feel special.

We were the same. The only difference is that I didn’t lie.

And this what hurts more. Hindi ko lubusang maisip na magagawa mo ‘yon sakin. Hindi ko lubos maisip na kaya mo akong lokohin at pagtaksilan. Hindi ko lubos maisip na kaya mong gawin ang bagay na ‘yon. I forgot that you were so good with words. Na lahat kaya mong kunin at paniwalain sa mga matatamis mong salita. Na lahat kayang kaya mong paikutin ang mga bagay sa kamay mo gamit ang mga mabubulaklak mong mga salita. You know exactly about my past and you made sure you would do the same.

I was broken. Lost. Wrecked. 

It was so sudden. I was so blindsided, taken by surprise. One day,  you were so sweet. You were telling the whole world that you love me, of how I make your mornings extra better, of how I was your stronghold, your anchor. Then the day after that, I found out that you were again seeing the same girl who caused all the troubles our relationship had. 

Of course, I am not fine. I am not even close to being fine. I am far from being all right. Every time I remember everything that we have been through, all the times you were so sweet to me, all the times you made me feel so valuable, I can’t help but think. But I realized that I can’t force this to last. I can’t force consistency, loyalty, or even honesty. I can’t force you to keep your word and your promises or to communicate. I can’t force you to realize that something special is right in front of you.

I want you to be happy.

Ngunit kahit ganoon ang nangyari, I still want you to be happy. And if it’s not with me, even if how hard it is, that is fine. Because you are the only person I have loved more than enough to put before myself. Seeing you happy, makes me happy, and that is what real love is, right?

sup ding-dongs

sup ding-dongs

Saturday, June 20, 2020

Here's to another week wasted doing nothing really productive. There's this one task I've been putting away for about 2 weeks now and I still haven't got the motivation to start. I've been yapping about plans I have for this in my head, but truth be told, I haven't really gotten around finding the right template for my blog.

Why am I writing when I'm supposed to be sleeping now? I have work later at 6AM. Well, I took a nap earlier for I-do-not-know how long, kept myself a little busy, took a shower, coffee, then boom. Gising na gising. Honestly, I don't have anything in mind to post. I'm just bored. And a little pissed CHAR. 

Hmm, what else. Oh right.

Whenever I play Mobile Legends I always tell myself not to give a fvck every time I lose because it's just a game. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. specially when I'm on a losing streak. There's only so much failure I can handle and losing 3 to 5x in a row kills my zen yknow?! So this game had eaten up pretty much of my entire quarantine-life without actually reaching Mythic. Annoying right? End na ng season oh amf.

Anyway, I'm currently listening to Gare du Nord by Claire Laffut while writing this. I think I heard this song from one of the movies I've seen on Netflix ~ fvck. Di ko ma-google. AHAHAHA

30 minutes later..

Yknow what, ever since I got stuck in the house, I came to notice that social media is boring. Yup, I sometimes scroll here and there, like and heart posts yada yada ~ but aside from the news, nothing is really worth the whole day of scrolling. I dunno how some people do it, but God, there's so much more important thing to do than watch annoying and pa-peymus vids on FB and on other social media platforms. I'm thinking about looking for another job that's why I still keep my FB active, pero pag ako nainis na naman, I might deactivate it again just so I won't waste time scrolling. And lately, people have gone crazy about this FaceApp. Like kada scroll ko mga fes ng mga boy turned into girl and vice versa ang nakikita ko. Nakakainis na din hah. Tama na. HAHAHA.

Why am I planning to look for a part-time job? Now that we're experiencing this pandemic, it's actually the best time to save kasi walang transpo and bawal lumabas ~ but nope. And I totally understand that. Nakaka stress lang sometimes. So I hope maging okay lahat in the coming days. I have unsubscribed from my online subscriptions like Spotify and Netflix. Wala naman sila naitutulong sa boredom ko kung tutuusin. I reckon to use my energy na muna in improving my finance. Even online deliveries. Stop na muna. So help me God. 

I'm doing IF again. I felt like I've been eating a bunch of carbs since the quarantine started so need to shed them fats. Baka mawala na naman collarbones. Don't ask me to exercise cuz I always get sick whenever I do it. Fasting na muna.

IF daw pero nag-beer nung isang araw 🙊

BTW, I'm turning 30yo eleven days from now. Frustrating cuz end of the month is when we pay most of the bills LOL. I'm a no-frills type of girl but yearly, I always hope that someone will send me a birthday cake with my name on it. Wala lang. No one has ever done that - except my sister pero "TOL" nakalagay, amf. Even sa work wala pero lagi naman ako nag aambag pag may gusto sila i-surprise, bakit ganon? 😂

Annnnnnnd .. di pa din ako inaantok. Good luck sakin later :D 

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on quarantine thoughts

on quarantine thoughts

Saturday, June 13, 2020

Posting this in mid-June, and it has been more than 2 months since quarantine started. My notes and things to do have been piling up (and so has anxiety). You might think time will make things easier, but it has not. And it might not. To be honest, I don't even know what to expect when things go back to normal - most likely, there is no normal to go back to. This is not just another glitch in the time frame, not a reset, nor a break. Yet we still look forward to the day when it all ends. Because it's one of the things we can do and hope for to stay sane. 

I'm extremely lucky with the privilege I have - having a home to stay at, food on our table, and a work-from-home option. Yet even with all the help I can give, there's only so much my privilege can do for others who do not have the same luck. For them, uncertainty is scarier than it is beautiful. 

Uncertain times call for uncertain emotions. You can stay pressed and be mad and sad and unmotivated, and even then, hopeful. You can demand accountability! The mass of all your emotions is valid in these trying times, you too, are also trying to get through it. 

It's hard to stay positive, but for now, hold on to the better days we long for. Even if just to convince ourselves that it exists. That maybe if we say it enough, it'll happen. And maybe it could add something good, even if just a little, in a not-so-good world. 

When all of this is over, know it isn't the end. 

PS: to you who are reading this, I hope you're doing well where you are. Aside from staying home. I hope you find ways to stay sane through it all. 

self-care ideas at home

self-care ideas at home

Saturday, March 21, 2020

We are officially in a COVID-19 pandemic. Depending on where you are in the world, it could be mildly serious, or incredibly serious. Regardless, it can be really terrifying. But instead of getting into fear and panic, do your best to stay calm and be safe. Practice social distancing and wash your hands. This is literally a time when staying home can save lives. Since this is the best thing we can do right now, why not use it as an opportunity to go inward and explore yourself. Use this as a chance for self-care and self-reflection. You can take this time to relax, spend quality time with yourself, nourish yourself, explore and learn more about yourself, and take care of whatever needs to be taken care of.

So here are 15 self-care ideas you can do at home.

1. Disconnect from the noise
2. Put on a cozy playlist
3. Journal
4. Take an online class
5. Clean and organize your space
6. Meditate
7. Exercise at home
8. Do some reading
9. Practice a hobby
10. Learn a language
11. Watch some feel-good TV
12. Cook at home
13. Take a relaxing bath
14. Indulge in skincare
15. Follow your heart

You don't need to feel obligated to make a list or keep busy during your time at home. What if you were to just do NOTHING? Simply do nothing, then listen to your heart and see what it wants. Leave it open and just see what happens. The point is not to feel forced or pressured to do anything. This is your time to explore yourself. So really, you can do whatever you want with it. I shared some ideas here, but your heart might be just somewhere else. Follow it. Explore it. The beauty of this journey is that you don't know what's next. So please share this blog if you liked it and I'll write more in the coming days just because this is the perfect time for me to reconnect with my blog and readers.

Please stay safe and healthy. Until next time.