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Today I'm Growing
Romanticizing Your Life
Hey Team 💕 Today, I’m talking about finding magic in the little moments of everyday life. ✨ From my cozy morning routine to taking solo trips (my first was to Morocco at 18!), I’m talking all about how I learned to find joy in the small things— 🌸 It’s all about slowing down, being present, and making every day feel a bit more special.
Tune in and listen along as we explore how to make life a little brighter, one small moment at a time! 💖 Big hug, Anna xx
Hey, team, welcome back to my podcast Today. I'm growing. I'm so excited to have you here. I'm recording this podcast episode for the second time now, because I was recording this morning and then I checked the file and guess what? The whole video file was out of focus, and when I saw it, I was like, oh no, I was really angry, I was sad and I don't know if I ever told you, but I had to record a couple of episodes here on this podcast twice because, yeah, things go wrong and things don't work, and I want to share this with you because that is how life is.
Speaker 1:Sometimes, things go wrong, and you always have to stay optimistic, though, and if things go wrong, you just do it again and you learn from the mistakes that you have made. You hopefully learn, because, not being in focus, this is not for the first time happening. I hope now I learned a lesson. I really hope it, and I hope this is the last time me being out of focus. All right, team, thank you so much for jumping in today and listening to this podcast episode. It is a topic that I'm so excited to talk about. This is something that I'm doing almost every day, I would say. Now I'm not really realizing anymore that I really do it, but I definitely do it. I'm romanticizing my life. I'm romanticizing my life a lot because it makes me jump out of bed every single morning, it makes me feel excited and actually so much more happier than not romanticizing my life, and I want to share a couple of tips with you. I want to share how you can also romanticize your life because I guarantee, if you do it, it will make you feel just happier happier in every single day life. So the reason why I want to talk about this podcast episode is because I had a conversation.
Speaker 1:I had a conversation last week with Tudu. We were in Spain and we were driving with the car. So we were renting a car. We were in Marbella. Marbella is a beautiful place that you all should visit. I highly recommend it. It was beautiful, it was wonderful, the weather was weathering, it was beautiful every single day blue sky but anyways, we were driving with the car and we had a conversation. So we were talking about, I don't know, happiness and how we can be happier people, what we can do, and somehow we came up with romanticizing life and I was sharing that.
Speaker 1:I'm actually romanticizing my life a lot with a couple of things, like every single day. As an example and I'm going to share more examples with you later but as an example, I have a morning routine every single day and this morning routine is already such a rom what is the I don't know the word, what is the exact word Romanticizing, romantization, romantization, I don't know, but you know what I mean. Like, this whole morning routine is already me romanticizing my morning at my life a lot. I'm going to share my morning routine with you really quick. So I wake up every single morning and the first thing that I would do is I would go up into the bathroom and brush my teeth. That is the number one thing that I would already do and by looking into the mirror and brushing my teeth, I most of the time, wear these super cute pajamas.
Speaker 1:And these super cute pajamas let me tell you you, this is already putting me in this kind of like a movie scene. It don't, I don't know like. I bought these super cute pajamas online and the store was called Dior Avenue. You should definitely check it out. But wearing these cute pajamas, it's a form of romanticizing my morning that I cannot describe. But I love wearing these pajamas, brushing my teeth, and then I go down, have a big glass of water and have a coffee and this whole morning routine.
Speaker 1:This is like an hour in the morning that I have just for myself. I cannot stress enough that everyone should have a morning routine, and for some of us it might be just 10 minutes, for others it would be half an hour. For me, it's like an hour that I have for myself every single morning. There are other routines that are also really powerful and really strong, like evening routines or routines throughout the day, but to me, what works the best is just a morning routine, having a strong morning routine. I wake up an hour earlier. This is just me time. This is just time for myself. No one can take this time from me. And then I have my coffee and I have my water.
Speaker 1:Then I, almost every day, have a little breakfast. Sometimes I have a normal breakfast, like my rice cakes, avocado and boiled eggs. This is my current favorite breakfast. I have to share with you like how I'm making it, because when I posted on Instagram, a lot of you are actually asking, like, how do you make these eggs look so perfect? Okay, let me share with you my seven minute soft boiled eggs. This is what I have for breakfast every single morning right now. Also, when I like something I have to share with you, like I'm eating it every single day.
Speaker 1:If I like having these rice cakes, avocado, soft-boiled eggs every morning and I like it, then I have it every single morning. I'm not a person who needs different kinds of things every day. No, if I like something, I'm going to have it for I don't know for weeks, until I'm like okay, I'm done with it. Then I check out the next breakfast that I have for weeks again, but right now it's my rice cakes. How do I make it? I just put two rice cakes out of the package, I mash half of an avocado on it and then I have these seven minute perfect soft boiled eggs on it. So I boil the water, I put the eggs in, leave it there for seven minutes, so I set the timer and it has to be exactly seven minutes and then I put them out and put them in ice cold water. Sometimes I add ice cubes so the water is even more cold, but I let it sit there for I don't know like another minute, and then it's easier to peel them off. Then I peel them off, put the soft boiled egg on the rice cake, cut it in half and then the yellow, like the egg yolk, is just running a tiny little bit. It's oh, it is so good. When I think about it, I'm already hungry again. But this is my current breakfast. I have this before I jump into my workout.
Speaker 1:Lately I'm doing a lot of runs in the morning because I signed up for a marathon which is in two or three weeks I think three weeks. I am so nervous oh, my god, like I'm so nervous, but I'm feeling prepared because I go and do a lot of runs at the moment. I think my body is ready for it. There's one more long run that I have to do, which is around 31 kilometers. I'm also romanticizing this already, like my next run 31 kilometers. I will survive it and I will romanticize it, so it's gonna be more fun. But, yeah, I have my breakfast and then I do my workouts. I do some journaling, planning also in the morning, and this is it. This is my morning routine and this is the perfect start into my day. This morning routine really sets me up for a successful and great and healthy and happy day and I really want to encourage you to have a strong morning routine as well. A morning routine, believe it or not, is already a big way of romanticizing your life, like it's a big first step, and I want to encourage you to have a strong, healthy, happy and powerful morning routine as well.
Speaker 1:Before I jump into the next way or another way on how to romanticize your life a little bit more, I want to talk about the biggest inspiration that I have in my life when it comes to romanticizing, and it's my mom. My mom is romanticizing her life a lot and she is. If you imagine a woman being just so happy in life, then it will be her. She's just so happy and it's not because she is super rich or she has a lot of money or she has a big house. She doesn't have any of these things, but she's just generally so happy, she's so independent, she's so strong, she's living her healthiest and strongest and happiest life and she's a huge inspiration for me. And the way she's romanticizing her life is I don't know. I just think of all the little things she sees in life that make her so happy, and I have this one story in my head right now, when I was younger, like we would go out for a lot of hikes.
Speaker 1:She loves the mountains, she loves hiking and I'm from Austria. Maybe you have heard in another podcast episode or somewhere else. Yeah, I grew up in Austria, in this little village, and we have a lot of mountains around us. We have a lot of nature around us and for her, it would be the the most beautiful thing and the best thing if we would go out for a hike, if we would walk up in the mountains and we would walk there and she would see a stone on the street or like on the path on the way where we're walking, and she would see the stone and she would grab it and she would see the most beautiful stone in it and she would show us kids, like, look at this beautiful stone, and she would grab the stone and take it with her home and now the stone is still in her apartment, like she would see these tiny little things throughout the day. That would make her really, really happy and I think this is super important to share because when it comes to romanticizing your life and romanticizing your day and your morning and your evening, I will also talk a lot about these material things throughout the podcast episode.
Speaker 1:But actually, when it comes down to the most important things in life that can make you feel happier, then it's not always about expensive things that you need. Yes, cute pajamas can make you feel a certain way and cute outfits we're going to talk about this later on it can make you feel a certain way. But it's not just about that. It's not about the things that you can buy to feel a certain way. It's more about what are the tiny little things throughout the day that you see that can make you feel you are in a movie and it's something beautiful and it's something wonderful.
Speaker 1:So I want to be like my mom one day and I want to be like her today, like I don't know if I go out after this podcast, after recording this podcast episode, and I just walk around and there is a beautiful blue sky. I just want to appreciate it. I want to look up and I want to be like whoa. Today is a beautiful day and I want to make the most out of it. I want to feel powerful and strong walking here under the blue sky, and this is also a way of romanticizing your life Just seeing the tiny little things throughout the day and being really grateful for it.
Speaker 1:I think being grateful is so underrated. If you are grateful for the things that you have, I think you live a healthier and happier life, I think. So I truly believe in that being a little bit more grateful, being grateful for our today, for even just sleeping in an apartment Like how many people are not sleeping in an apartment in the super cozy bed? And, yeah, I think we all should be a little bit more grateful for the things that we have and really appreciate it, because it's not that everyone has it. And yeah, what are other ways to romanticize your life? We talked about the morning routine, I talked about my cute pajamas, and it leads me to the next point cute outfits. Cute outfits can really give you a wonderful feeling, and I'm not a fashion creator or a fashion influencer and I I'm not really super crazy interested into fashion yet because I don't know.
Speaker 1:It overwhelms me and I don't. I don't even know what my kind of style is. I'm gonna like I'm experimenting a lot right now. I'm searching for a lot of different styles, I'm asking for a lot of feedback and a lot of help to figure out what my style is, but what I realize is that outfits can really do something with you. They can really lift you up, they can make you feel more confident.
Speaker 1:And when I think back in the last couple of weeks, there was one event specifically I was going out. As you know, I'm not going out very often. It's always a big step out of comfort zone for me. I don't know. When I go out, it's like I don't know what to do, I don't know how to behave, I don't know who, who to talk to. I'm not the most confident person when it comes to going out, but when I have the right outfit on, then I'm kind of like a different person.
Speaker 1:And on that specific day, when we were going out, I had this outfit on, something that I usually wouldn't wear, something really sexy, something that made me feel really sexy and really confident, and it really did. I felt so unstoppable on that evening and I had the best evening ever. I felt like a different person, I felt like a different character, and talking about different kind of characters, yes, outfits can definitely transform you into another you into another person. It made me feel so much more powerful, so much more confident, so much more badass, so much more confident, so much more badass and I absolutely loved it and that made me realize that outfits can really really change you on a specific day. It's not that you have to change, but I think we all agree that sometimes we want to feel a certain way, we want to feel like a different character. Maybe we look up to someone and we were like I would also love to be like that person one day, and an outfit can make you feel that way. So try to experiment a little bit more. Try to be more brave with outfits. Experiment a little bit. It can definitely turn you into I don't know the hero that you want to be, talking about different characters.
Speaker 1:As you know, I went to acting school the first time I went to acting school. The first time I went to acting school had been in LA that's years ago when Erin signed me up. For Erin is she had been my personal assistant back then and she was signing me up for this acting school in LA to actually just become a little bit more confident and I loved it so much that I couldn't stop thinking about it. And since then I'm still going to acting school here in Germany now here in Berlin. But I love it and what I've learned at acting school.
Speaker 1:I've learned a couple of things there. First of all, I've learned that playing different kind of roles, playing different kind of characters, it can be also really powerful and really interesting. You can learn so much about different kind of characters, but also about yourself. You can learn and figure out things that you like, things that you don't like. You can try different things that maybe you are afraid to try right now.
Speaker 1:As an example, like I'm Anna and for the rest of my life I want to be Anna but I think it's a lifelong journey figuring out who Anna really is. Like I'm constantly. I'm constantly trying to figure out who I am. I'm constantly trying to figure out what I like, what I don't like, and I don't want to stress about it. I don't want to overthink it because I think it's a lifelong journey and we also change and I think change want to stress about it. I don't want to overthink it because I think it's a lifelong journey and we also change and I think change is also super important and it's okay.
Speaker 1:My mom always says we are changing after seven years. Like, after seven years, we're always changing. That's what she says and I believe in that because, thinking back, I had so many different kind of jobs. Now, like, I started working as a software engineer, then I quit my job. I was working as a crossfit coach, I started my youtube channel and now I still. I'm still into social media, I'm still a creator, I'm still a youtuber and I don't want to give that up because I'm obsessed with it and I love it so much to help you guys. But my content is also changing.
Speaker 1:I started, like when I started. I started as the skinny girl who wanted to lose weight. Then it transformed into this crossfit profile where I was lifting heavy weights, where I wanted to show the transformation from skinny to strong, and now it turns into a lifestyle profile. I share way more about my whole lifestyle, not just about fitness anymore, and it way more about my whole lifestyle, not just about fitness anymore, and it's more about my whole life. And it's this change and I want to encourage everyone to change, because change is okay and life is changing, weather is changing, the world is changing. Everything is always in like this change cycle. So I think it's okay, even though when people say to me, oh, you changed so much, I'm like, yeah, but also, yeah, I changed and that's okay because I'm growing. So with every single change there's also growth coming, and that's why I think change is really cool. But yeah, what did I talk about? I talked about acting school and then I drifted away into this whole. I'm Anna. I'm changing. So well, I'm Anna.
Speaker 1:I'm still trying to figure out who I am, but changing also throughout the day into different kind of characters is also a way for me to romanticize life a little bit more. Again back to the example when I was going out, when I had this different outfit on, I also felt like a tiny bit as like a different character as well. On that evening I felt so confident and so sexy, as I told you. But right now, as an example, I don't feel like this super sexy, crazy woman. I feel like a best friend who is just talking to her best friends and just in a chilled way. That's my mood right now.
Speaker 1:But I also love to think in a way of different kind of characters throughout the day. I love that when I go on a date, as an example, I also love to think as a different kind of character, I don't know. Then I love to think of hey, I'm this independent girl, but I also need some love and I need some I don't know hugs right now or some sort of romantic things right now. And then I'm this, this different kind of character, and I think of in a romantic way I hope anyways, I hope this makes sense but also thinking of my business right now, like sometimes I have to be the CEO and I have to be the boss and I also have to think a bit different than the bestie Anna talking to you right now. So it's always different kind of characters, different kind of roles, different kind of ways of romanticizing your life. But I think there is beauty in every single character and you should see the beauty in every single character and then take out of the character different kind of things and, yeah, try it out, try it out.
Speaker 1:I don't know if acting school taught me these kind of things and taught me that it's okay to play different kind of characters throughout the day. I don't know if I have that from acting school or if I have that from moving to Berlin, because moving to Berlin also it made me feel like, think that way. When I used to live in the village in Austria, I never thought of things like that because I never really thought of experimenting in that kind of way, and now Berlin shows me so many different sides of people and so many different sides of myself. Like Berlin is really a crazy city I cannot describe. But no matter where you are in this world, I really want to encourage you to try different kind of things. Like really try to figure out what you like and what you don't like. Try to learn more about yourself and more about all these different kind of characters that are within you. Try it out, no matter where you are. I think there are no excuses to not try a little bit and to be a little bit brave and just yeah, have fun with it.
Speaker 1:When it comes to different kind of characters, one thing that we also learned in acting school is listen to music, because music can have such a crazy great impact on you and on how you walk throughout the day, how you dance throughout the day, how you just act throughout the day, and I love music so much. As an example, I'm a big fan of the trend hot girl walk. It's not a trend anymore, but it had been a trend one year ago or two years ago. On TikTok Hot girl walks, we all were walking on our hot girl walk, which means I don't know, we were getting ready in the morning, wear a cute outfit, put in the headphones and then go out and go on a hot girl walk, even on treadmills, like I was listening to music and I was feeling like I'm the main character. I'm the main character walking now on the treadmill or walking on the streets and as deal to that. They do that, I do that and I love it. I love it so much. Hot girl walks, or let's call it main character walks. To me this is such a mood booster and I do that. I wouldn't say every day, but quite often, even in my apartment.
Speaker 1:Sometimes I put on the headphones, I listen to music and don't ask what kind of music I listen to, because what is it? I listen to a lot of ABBA. I love ABBA. I listen to a lot of musical songs. I listen to high school musical songs. Sometimes I listen to film music, so I just type in film music. On other days I listen to badass kitchen cleaning playlists and then I would grab my vacuum cleaner and run for the apartment, vacuum clean, listen to the music and just really feel it Main character energy. And I want to throughout this podcast episode, throughout this microphone, I want to give that main character energy to you right now, or just the inspiration of like use the main character energy. You should really use it, you should really try it. You deserve it. You deserve this. It's so powerful and it makes you feel so confident and so unstoppable, and this is such a wonderful feeling that hopefully, you can feel too if you try it.
Speaker 1:What are other ways to romanticize your life? So we talked about music. We talked about playing different kinds of characters or stepping into different kinds of characters. We talked about playing different kinds of characters or stepping into different kinds of characters. We talked about clothes. We talked about routines, like the morning routine.
Speaker 1:One thing before we keep going is that we all are so different, and I talk about how different we are in every single podcast episode, because what works for me might work for you, but maybe it doesn't. We all are so different and I think, from all the content that we consume as an example, listening to podcast episodes or scrolling on social media, getting inspired by Pinterest posts I think it's very important to figure out what works for you and what doesn't, and I think the main key is just to not copy someone or to compare yourself, then Because if one person like, if I'm going on my hot girl walks and I do my one hour morning routine and I do this and I do that, then it works really well for me and I give you these kind of tips to inspire you and motivate you. But don't try to do everything the exact same way. It doesn't work because your life is so different to my life. And with every episode that I'm recording, I tell you that I'm like don't compare yourself. Don't compare yourself. No matter what you try to figure out, just get inspired. Get inspired and then try the things on your own, and if things work, then great. But if there are things that don't work or that don't feel right, then that's okay too. It's just really really important that you figure out what works for you, and if it doesn't work, then we skip it All, right. You know that.
Speaker 1:Also, while I'm recording every single podcast episode, I always have to drink a sip of water throughout the podcast, because I'm the definition, I feel like, of a hydrated girl. So if you see me drinking right now, or if you hear me drinking right now, I just always have my water bottle with me and then I have a sip of water because I have a dry mouth and I really need this sip of water right now, and maybe you also need it. So here's your reminder to take a sip of water now as well. So go and get up, grab a glass of water or fill up your water bottle, whatever you have, grab it and on the. So my water bottle is on the left side and on my right side I have another coffee, because I'm also a coffee junkie.
Speaker 1:I don't know how many coffees are okay, but I think I'm drinking a little bit too much coffee, because I'm also not just drinking coffee, I also drink a lot of pre-workout before my workouts. Ah, I know it's too much. Maybe I try to drink more decaf coffee. I don't know if it makes a difference, I don't know. I mean, maybe I don't know, I have to do a little bit more research. But coffee in general it's not a bad thing, but everything in moderation, as you know. But anyways, I encourage you to drink more water here, but not to drink that much coffee. But if you have a coffee right now, then also enjoy it. Go grab your coffee and romanticize it. Romanticize the way and how you drink your coffee and then, hmm, let's keep going with this podcast.
Speaker 1:Ah, the next thing. I'm excited to talk about this because that's something I I think I started doing at a very young age, without realizing it. Back then there was no cool name for it. I'm talking about solo dates, taking yourself on solo dates. So when I was like 17 or 18, I started going on solo dates or going on solo trips, without even realizing. But I remember when I booked my first flight ticket just by myself I was just turning, I think, 18. And I booked this flight to Morocco.
Speaker 1:I think that was my first trip just by myself alone. I booked my first trip. I went to Morocco. I had a wonderful time, just by myself. It was super, super cool. And since then that's now more than 10 years ago I'm 29 now. Wow, just realizing how, more than 10 years, just I don't know flew away. That scares me. But yeah, since 10 years, I would say I flew away. That scares me, but yeah, since 10 years, I would say I'm practicing doing things by myself, going on solo dates. I don't know why it's such an. It's not an easy thing for me, because I also had to practice and I had to do it over and over again so it doesn't feel awkward anymore.
Speaker 1:But I think also my mom had been a huge inspiration for that, because she's also this independent woman. She is in a relationship right now, but so my parents aren't together anymore. To give you a quick back info, they split up when I was like 12, 13, 14 years old. Then my mom had been single for quite some time, but then she had another relationship. She's not together with this guy anymore, but now she has another relationship. She's not together with with this guy anymore, but now she has another relationship, a really happy relationship, but she's still that super, super independent woman and looking up to her, yeah, it encourages me to also do a lot of things by myself, like she also goes on hikes by herself. She does things by herself all the time and I think that also influenced me a tiny bit to also do things by herself all the time, and I think that also influenced me a tiny bit to also do things by myself and I'm so okay with it.
Speaker 1:I don't need anyone to do things. Of course, and that's also important to mention I think friends are really important. Friends are important. Your family is really really important Relationships are really important, no matter if it's a romantic relationship or another type of relationship. You don't have to be alone all the time and you don't have to feel lonely. You don't have to be by yourself all the time. That's not what I'm saying, but doing things by yourself. That's also such a great way to learn more about yourself again, to learn more about what you want, who you are. It is such a great thing.
Speaker 1:And I had a conversation the other day. Actually, I had two conversations. One conversation was one of my friends also tried it. She tried it to go by herself to another city. She went to Cologne in Germany. She went by herself and she was there for two days or three days. So that's nothing, that's really nothing. But she called me and she was saying that she doesn't know what to do. She was in her hotel room and she was like I'm trying it, I'm really trying it, but I don't know what to do. And it just blew my mind. It was just. I was just shocked, because if I would be her and I would be in Cologne by myself, first of all, I wouldn't be in my hotel room. I guess I would just go outside, I would sit in a cafe, I would read something, I would journal, I would grab a drink by myself, I would eat something by myself or I would just go for a walk. I would just do something. But I realized that it's not as easy for everyone because not everyone is doing it since 10 years, and that is okay. But I want to encourage everyone to try it and to start doing it, because it's a wonderful and it's a powerful thing.
Speaker 1:If you have struggles with not knowing what to do, I think Pinterest, as an example, can be a huge source of inspiration. I love Pinterest and I'm that type of girl going on Pinterest, typing in solo date ideas, and then there are 10 little cute graphics or images with solo date ideas and I would just do it and just try it. I do that a lot, especially now living in a city, living in Berlin. I get a lot of inspiration on what I can do by myself or what I can do also with others, but also by myself. As an example, I went out the other day by myself to grab a drink. I think that was the top, top, top level of where I was afraid of.
Speaker 1:I never thought I can sit by myself in a cafe or in a bar and grab a drink. I thought everyone would stare at me. I thought everyone would look at me. I was also the only one. No, that's not true. There was another person sitting there. There was another man sitting there, also by himself, grabbing a drink, and, yeah, but it was just the two of us. And you know what, nobody cared. The people that I looked at they might also looked at me, but they didn't seem like they think that I'm a bad person or I'm a lonely person or I'm a weird person. No, I just looked at them and I smiled at them and they smiled back, and that shows me that nobody really cares. Maybe they think, whoa, that's so cool that she goes out by herself and she has a drink by herself and she's simply, she's smiling there and she's enjoying life. I think that's where they fought. And if not, then that's the storyline that I build up for myself, because I'm romanticizing. I'm romanticizing this drink that I have, I'm romanticizing sitting in the cafe that I sit in, I'm romanticizing everything, and I'm also romanticizing what other people think of me, and it just doesn't matter. That's all I want to say. It really doesn't matter, even if they think something weird or bad, like it really doesn't matter. You should not care what other people think of you. But that was that was out of comfort zone, but also one of the best moments that I had.
Speaker 1:Another solo date that I did last week when I had in Spain, and that was my highlight of the whole Spain trip. It was so Juju and I were together in Spain, but it was on like it was this one evening when Juju said she's super tired, she wants to stay in the apartment, and I was so okay with it and I could also stay in the apartment. But I was really for I want to go out, I want to do something. So I went to the supermarket, I grabbed two packages of popcorn, I downloaded the Netflix episode and I packed a blanket. I put a blanket in the car, the popcorn, the phone with the Netflix show and I went to the beach. It was sunset, I was sitting. I'm smiling right now sharing that with you.
Speaker 1:I was sitting on the beach. I was listening to the waves. First I looked at the sunset, then I turned on my Netflix show. I put in my headphones, I could hear the waves through the headphones. Still, I put in my headphones. I could hear the waves through the headphones. Still. It was one of the most magic evenings that I had in a while, just sitting there and watching a Netflix show, and it's beautiful scenery. That was so beautiful and I'm so happy I did that.
Speaker 1:It was really one of the images that you see on Pinterest and I also want to share that with you. Like, if you see pictures like that on Pinterest, you can do that. You can also do that, and what I mean by that is, let's say, you see the picture on Pinterest that I just uploaded about this super romantic date that I had with myself on the beach I was watching a Netflix show. Let's say you see that and and I told you, I told you you can do that too. So either you have a beach next to you, then I hope you get up tonight when it's a beautiful sunset. I told you. I told you you can do that too. So either you have a beach next to you, then I hope you get up tonight when it's a beautiful sunset. I hope you get up and you just do it. Sometimes it's really about that. It's really about just doing it. But if you are in Berlin right now, I don't have a beach here, I cannot do that, but I have a balcony. I have a small balcony that I can also set up in a really cute way and I can watch a Netflix show there instead of watching it in my living room and I don't know, just not feeling it in that kind of way.
Speaker 1:Just spice things up, make it romantic in your own way and use what you have. So we're coming back to this use what you have. You can go into a park and sit in the park and romanticize your life there. Use what you have, use what's around. You can go into a park and sit in the park and romanticize your life there. Use what you have, use what's around you, and you don't have to be at the beach because you don't have to copy this exact same image, but you can copy this feeling that this picture gives you, that you see on pinterest, and romanticize it with the things that you have around you.
Speaker 1:Another solo date idea. Oh, you know what I did. Maybe I already told you, but I went to. It's not a pottery class, it's a ceramic painting class. That's like really close to here. I took the bicycle the other day and I was ceramic painting. I also vlogged it in case you haven't seen it. But I was painting, oh, I had this bowl and I was painting it pink and then I made little flowers on it. That was also such a beautiful solo date and, thinking back of all these solo dates, that I had some things I like more, some things I didn't enjoy that much. But it's just a way of learning, like what you like and what you don't like. And if I ever ever have a relationship again, a romantic relationship, now I know exactly what kind of things I want to do with this person, what kind of things I want to share with this person, and I want to suggest things like hey, let's have a romantic Netflix and popcorn night on the balcony, or let's go to a ceramic painting class, because I really liked it and I hope you like it too. Let's just do things and romanticize our life together. So I want to encourage you to figure out on your own, with a lot of solo dates, what you like, what you don't like.
Speaker 1:Romanticize your life Also the things you see in movies. So we talk a lot about Pinterest boards, but also the things you see in movies. Your life is a movie, your life is really like a movie, and I know there's a lot of drama. I know there are days that are not as good, and also in movies there's a lot of drama because drama is just there. Drama is life. Life is around a lot of different kind of drama things, but try to take the life outside of all this drama and the bad days and try to romanticize it as good as possible and as good as you can. I want to encourage you to romanticize life and I want to encourage you also which comes hand in hand to just be more grateful that's what we had but also be more present in life.
Speaker 1:I think romanticizing life is about being present. It's about putting your phone away and just be and breathe and live in a moment a little bit more. I think we all sometimes forget about that because we always have the phone we, we always have it with us. It's so easy to distract ourselves and to look at what others are doing. Maybe our day today feels very, very boring. So it's so much easier to look at what others are doing and their life. Yeah, seems so much more interesting and so much more exciting.
Speaker 1:But actually, how do you feel, honestly? How do you feel when you have a day where you feel like your, your life is really boring. How do you feel when you then open up social media and there is someone sharing the crazy stories and the crazy highlights they are living right now or experiencing right now. How do you feel? I feel really bad in those moments or on those days.
Speaker 1:And the thing is we all live a pretty boring life. I guess we all have moments when we feel that our days are just boring and there's just nothing exciting happening, because life can't just be an up and then highlight. All the time. It's not like that, and I know on social media it looks like, because we share our highlights. We share when we are on holidays, we share when we meet a crazy person, we share the crazy highlights. But that's not what life is, not all the time.
Speaker 1:So we all have boring days, but I think the beauty with that is that there are so many beautiful days that can happen on a boring day. If it's like to a flea market on a Sunday morning, that can be a highlight itself. If it's doing the laundry, if it's cleaning up the kitchen, sorting out things that you don't need anymore, whatever it is, there is beauty in every single thing that you can do, and it's about being present, it's about being grateful what you have and it's about appreciating all these tiny little moments and all these tiny little things throughout the day. That, to me, is romanticizing life. And if it doesn't feel cool, if it feels boring, then my number one tip right now is put on some music and everything's going to feel a bit different. Put on some happy, cool, fun, vibey music and everything's going to change a tiny little bit.
Speaker 1:Team, I think I kind of said everything that I wanted to say today. There are so many more things that I could say right now to you on ways on how to romanticize your life. As an example, go outside today, go in nature and look around how beautiful our world is, how beautiful nature is. So there would be so many more tips, but I think the most important. I said I didn't really plan anything for this podcast episode. The only thing is I recorded it now for the second time, but I added so many more details and so many more things, so I'm actually really happy that I recorded it the second time.
Speaker 1:Every time I record an episode, I'm sitting here, I'm smiling, I'm leaving it very inspired myself as well, because talking to you guys it also makes me think about so many different things and it makes me feel inspired and motivated to also do the things that I'm talking about way more often. So thank you so much for being here. Thank you so much for listening. There is a new feature that I quickly want to talk about here on Spotify. If you listen on Spotify, you can leave comments now, but also if you're watching here on YouTube because we are also uploading all the videos on YouTube then leave a comment. It would mean the world to me if you leave a comment.
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