Confidently Beautiful with Ciera
Confidently Beautiful with Ciera
"My Summer of ________" | What Will Define Your Summer?
Inspired by Gretchen Rubin's podcast episode Ciera shares her summer of unused and underused. What summer are you going to create?
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you're listening to confidently beautiful with Ciera a podcast to help you stay confidently beautiful, because we all have confidence inside us. We just need to bring it out and I'm here to show you how body image, dreams, parenting, style, personality and more here we cover it all. Get ready to stay confidently beautiful. Welcome back to the. I am so happy you are here. I would love to hear from you. So, if you want to text me, there is a link at the show notes where you can text me and you can tell me, if you're a frequent listener, what you love about the show, if you're a new listener, what you would love to hear. I just would love to hear from you. It will just open up right on your phone as a text message and you can text it to me and it comes up to me in like a nice little dashboard so I can go through and I can read everything, and it would be really fun to hear from you. So I would love to hear from you if you are a new or a frequent listener.
Ciera:I was listening to a podcast the other day. It's called the Happier Podcast by Gretchen Rubin, and it was really interesting to me. She called it the summer of blank. So it got me thinking what is this summer going to be for me? I thought and thought of all the things that it could be and I came up with something, but it's definitely not like the prettiest thing For me. I came up with the summer of unused or underused. It's not like the most glamorous phrase, but what I was thinking of is all of the books that I have on my shelves that I have bought and never read, all of the clothes in my closet that I either have never worn or haven't worn in a very, very long time. I thought about, like the dishes that I have, we have this special star plate that I had when I was a little girl and anytime somebody had a special day they got. We have this special star plate that I had when I was a little girl and anytime somebody had a special day, they got to eat from the star plate at dinner and I have had the star plate. My mom gave me the star plate and I was so excited to get it, but I have only grabbed it a couple of times to use it, and so I want to be able to remember to use that more frequently for, like big things like birthdays, but then also just for little things, if somebody does well on an event that they're doing or they did something really special that they just deserve to be recognized, but to have that for dinner time.
Ciera:So I want to remember to do that and I think about, like the journals that I have that I've never used and all you know, all the things that I have in my house that I have bought because I thought I would love them, or I actually really do love them, but I haven't touched them or used them in a long time. There's some skincare stuff, there's some makeup products that I love and genuinely love them, some that I have that I have never even tried. Some of them I got for free, Some of them I did pay for, but I have never tried some of them. And so I want to actually like put it into my routine and practice to actually use all of these products this summer and also same with my kids, like I want to use all of the things that we have, like go through all of the toys and actually like play with them and use them. The puzzles that we have, the games that we have, actually use them and, as summer goes on, pay attention to what we don't use, and then at the end of the summer, I can get rid of the things that we don't really need or want, and I think it will be a really fun way to make summer exciting and new. But I'm not buying anything. I'm using the things that I already have, so I am really excited for that. For my summer of unused and underused.
Ciera:I would love to hear your summer of whatever it is.
Ciera:So what is your summer looking like? What is it going to be? Is it going to be a summer of travel? Are you traveling a lot this summer? Is it the summer of calm? Maybe you're just calmly staying at home and not doing much.
Ciera:Maybe it's the summer of reading. What are you going to read this summer? Maybe you're just going to read as many books as you can. I want to hear all about what you are doing this summer, so use that link in the show notes below and text me. Tell me what your summer is, and I also will be sharing some stuff on Instagram, so look over there and you can respond to some of those stories and stuff that I do, and I would love to share all of the responses with everyone so that you can all think about what your summer is going to be and what your perfect summer of is looking like. Have a wonderful week and I will talk to you me on Instagram at confidently beautiful podcast, and share this episode with someone in your life who could use a little reminder of just how amazing they already are. Stay confidently beautiful.