La Ivana Cert. Life Coach · The La Ivana Podcast

Are you feeling like you’re in a rut lately? Like every day is the same and you want to do a mini life upgrade? If you’re looking for inspiration to bring more joy into your life and stop living on autopilot, then this post is for you.

I covered 8 different areas of your life that you can upgrade. We’ll talk about mindset, goals, habits, relationships, and more.

There are going to be a lot of journal prompts and ideas for action steps you can take, so grab a notebook, and let’s dive in!

1. start your mini life upgrade by doing mindset journaling

Whenever you want to make a change in your life, I encourage you to start with self-awareness about where you are currently.
Instead of saying how you want to change your whole life, gain clarity on what it is specifically that you want to change.

Here are my podcast episodes to help you with journaling:

Journal Prompts to Activate Your Next Level

Journal Prompts to Stop Procrastinating

2. check-in on your goals or set new goals

“When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.”
― Elon Musk

Then, gain clarity around where you want to go from here.

Think about goals you set a month or a year ago. Are they still relevant?

Questions for reflection:
What goals have you been working on in the last 6 months? Are they still relevant to you?
If you could achieve one goal in the next 6 months, what would it be?

Read next:

20+ Journal Prompts for New Goals and a Fresh Start

3. start doing…

What are some things you want to start doing?

Maybe it’s the start of summer when you’re reading this and you’re thinking about going to the beach a few times a week. Or it’s fall or winter and you want to get into the habit of cozying up and reading for half an hour before bed.

Write a list of things you want to start doing and schedule them for the next 7 days so that you can move from wishing to doing.

Just thinking about things we want to do without making an effort to put them in our calendar is a surefire way to never do them.
Need some ideas for new positive habits to develop?

Read next:

8 Positive Habits That Have Improved My Life

6 Habits That Will Make Your Life Easier

4. stop doing…

“In order to change ourselves, we must first believe we can.”
― Marie Forleo

What are some things you want to stop doing?

Maybe it’s a habit you want to quit or a distraction that’s wasting too much of your time.

After you made a list of things to stop doing, ask yourself what would make it easier to follow through.

For instance, what would make quitting snoozing your alarm easier?

Or what would make spending less time on social media easier?

Think about 1-3 ways you can make quitting these things easier for yourself.

5. upgrade your relationships

What I mean by upgrading your relationships is bringing more joy into the relationships you have with others.

This can look like reconnecting with someone you haven’t seen in a while or even cutting cords with people you don’t enjoy being around.

If you noticed there are some people in your life that you’re just not compatible with, maybe it’s time to rethink those relationships.

Make sure that the people you’re around are your hype people. People who are there to support you, who are genuinely interested in how you’re doing, and who you just love being with.

If they only talk about themselves, never ask how you’re doing, and don’t even give you time to respond and instead make their own conclusions, it might be time to distance yourself from them.

You deserve people in your life that bring you joy and positive energy.

If you leave conversations with certain people needing to recharge for two days, then those are not your people.

6. tidy and declutter your physical space

Our environment can often impact our mood and our energy.

Does your bedroom look like a storage space? How does that make you feel?

If you live with someone else, there’s no need to try to control or declutter their things. Focus on your own.

Even if you’re an extremely organized person and you live with the messiest person you know, don’t let those differences come in the way of you upgrading your environment.

Here are some things to do for a mini life upgrade of your physical space:
– do the laundry
– change the bedding
– clean the kitchen counters
– declutter your closet (donate or sell things you haven’t worn in the last 12 months)
– declutter your makeup/toiletries (sell or give away stuff you don’t use – check with your friends if they’d like a perfume or even some nail polishes you want to get rid of)

Related:

6 Things to Declutter for a More Organized Life

9 Ways Minimalism Changed My Life for the Better

7. do a mini life upgrade of your appearance

“Never dull your shine for somebody else.”
― Tyra Banks

You can be all about mindset but also want to do a complete makeover. Why not?

If you’ve been feeling stuck lately or you’re craving a change, I encourage you to include a mini appearance upgrade, as well.

This can look like:
– scheduling a hair appointment and trying out a new hairstyle (or even just trimming the ends)
– creating a new workout plan or trying out a new form of exercise (rock climbing, Muay Thai, spinning?)
– selling clothes you don’t like anymore and introducing a new color palette to your closet

8. upgrade your reading list

If there’s a specific topic you’d like to learn more about or it’s been a while since you picked up a good fiction book, I recommend adding a few new books to your mini life upgrade.

Need some ideas?

Here are some non-fiction books I love:
Jen Sincero – You Are a Badass: How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness
Brene Brown – The Gifts of Imperfection
Eckhart Tolle – A New Earth

Also, here’s a blog post on 5 self-development books that changed my life and what I learned from them.
As a fiction recommendation, my favorite I read this year is Shari Lapena’s The Couple Next Door. I finished it in one afternoon and I highly recommend it if you’re looking for some exciting thriller. It’s such a page-turner and I loved the ending.

Until the next time,
Ivana

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