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Maximalist Life
This is Maximalist Life, with Brianna Gamble and Tamika Stringfellow. This unfiltered podcast is your permission slip to chase after everything you damn well desire.
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Maximalist Life
Ep 12 - How To Manifest Your Dream Life
Episode Summary:
Dreaming big is great, but actually making it happen? That’s where the magic is. In this episode, we’re talking all about turning those dreams into reality—through visualization, goal-setting, and daily affirmations that keep you focused and fired up. Because let’s be real, manifesting isn’t just about hoping—it’s about doing.
- Writing down goals (big and small) to make them real
- Visualizing your dream life & what that actually looks like
- Daily affirmations to stay motivated (even when it’s hard)
- Vision boards: creative inspo & tips to make yours work
- Keeping your friends accountable & growing together
- Life isn’t a straight path—adapting & recalibrating as you go
- The power of community & why support makes all the difference
If you’re ready to get intentional about your dreams, this episode is for you! Let’s make it happen. ✨
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Welcome to Maximilist Life. I'm your host, brianna, and I'm Tamika, and today we're going to talk about how to visualize your future and make it a reality.
Speaker 2:Okay, first, we're gonna cheers, yeah, okay. Well, here we're trying to be really maximalist live today and have mimosas. And we didn't have any more champagne, we just had orange juice. So now we have to drink these high noons, high noons yeah, does it smell good?
Speaker 1:oh it smells really good, I love it okay, we're gonna do a little cheers, here we go, cheers to a great episode. Okay, yeah, is it good?
Speaker 2:Mm-mm. Disgusting. No, I'm just kidding. It's really good. It's really good, yeah, I like it yeah.
Speaker 1:Prickly Pear High Noon. Get you one of those. Start your day off right. Just so everyone knows, it's 855, 8.55 am and we're starting our day with a high noon. Yes, because I'm going to be drinking all day, because maximalist yeah.
Speaker 2:We're going to be bouncing off the fucking walls and shit.
Speaker 1:Okay, I think we should talk about your birthday. Oh my God, yeah, this week was my birthday. It was your birthday week, turned 37. 37. 37 years young, mm-hmm, and we have a lot of birthday celebrations. Yeah, thanks to you. Okay, so I really wanted to go to san francisco, because last year you took me to san francisco for my birthday and so this year I wanted to go again and do a fun little day. So the day before my birthday, on sunday, we took a little group of friends, went to the city, we took the ferry and here's the thing we've talked about this before like kind of pushing through when it's not going to be the perfect situation.
Speaker 2:We knew it's going to be rainy and windy and the weather is going to suck, and we were going to walk around the city and we all just said, fuck it, whatever, bring an umbrella, don't bring an umbrella, look like shit, don't look like shit. But we're going to do it anyway. Yeah, we, because I probably would have been like I don't really want to do that.
Speaker 1:But we like, we're like, we're doing it, we're doing it okay yeah, we're doing it. It was perfect. We took the ferry, which was so. I never took the ferry before. It's pretty fun.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you never did. I mean, I've only taken it twice, but, like, pretty, like recently, because I feel like it's a good way to go. It is for us. You know, vallejo isn't very far from us. Yeah and um, you can drink on the ferry and you don't have to worry about driving into the city, where it could be an accident and it could take you three hours instead of which also what?
Speaker 1:again, it was 9 am on the ferry, so we we actually were drinking coffee. We were drinking coffee on the way there and I think I had a little croissant.
Speaker 2:That was delicious.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that was fun. So we got off the ferry, we went in the ferry building and there's all these like little shops that had really cute stuff, and then there was a bookstore in there. Yeah, I love bookstores, that bookstore was so cute and I ended up buying three books.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so this bitch is carrying around these books in the rain in like paper bags and these heavy books, and I'm like bitch, you need to just get them on your Kindle.
Speaker 1:Also, yeah, I have a Kindle.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'm like you needed to buy these here, but they weren't like special edition sprayed edges, they were just like regular self-help books. Yeah, my favorite kind.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I got a true crime book. And then I mind, yeah, I got a true crime book and then I got a business book and then a financial literacy book, perfect. Yeah, I was really excited about them. But uh, I am feeling a little disconnected lately from my kindle. I don't know. I'm going through a phase, a paper phase, so I'm just reading my little paper books and me and my kindle will reconnect someday soon but, um, forget a little kindle.
Speaker 1:He's probably mad. He's sad, he's. I have it sitting there too. It's like in my living room on this little table. He's just sitting there on top of my other books. That are I know, but it's, he's fine, yeah, he's fine. Um, what else did we do? Okay, so we went to the bookstore, and then we also we went to that place to eat lunch. What was that place?
Speaker 2:called.
Speaker 1:Croquetta, croquetta.
Speaker 2:And I had been to the one in Napa before and it was good and we had the cutest little waiter and we were talking about our bush. We were talking about our vagina bushes in front of him. Oh my God, and.
Speaker 1:Brianna also Almost took his shirt off on accident. Yeah, took his shirt off, I was mortified. Yeah, I was mortified. Yeah, you were Okay because I'm talking. So we're at this big table and it's like a tapas restaurant. So there's like a big, like a part of the table where the servers are like handing food kind of over you, but like on top of the table thing, it's like a double-decker bar top table.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so he's on my left-hand side putting plates over there and I didn't know. So I'm like looking to my right talking to the girls over here and I'm like, you know, with my hand just going, my left hand is like and I have my nails, which are like just semi long, not super long, but anyway, as I'm talking and I'm moving my hand around, my fingernails like kind of go inside. You know, like when you're wearing a button down shirt, and then on the side of the shirt where you button it, there's like a hole, like a little slit. My freaking nails. The side of the shirt where you button it, there's like a hole, like a little slit. My freaking nails go inside of the slit of his shirt and then I'm trying to get them out and I'm basically just like pulling his arm yeah yeah, I liked it.
Speaker 1:He loved it what is happening.
Speaker 2:Little alan was like okay, yeah, you can touch me, you just have to leave an extra tip yeah, I'm so sorry.
Speaker 1:I was not trying to take your shirt off and he was like it's the nails.
Speaker 2:He was pretty funny with us yeah, I mean because then later we were talking about like uh, who waxes and who doesn't, and he got, he like came in right when two of the girls were talking about like they don't, whatever they you know, and he was like I mean, I'm not judging, I don't think men care, blah, blah. He just like came in on the conversation. I'm like okay, alan, and then he was like I'll be here next sunday.
Speaker 1:Yeah, see you next sunday, I'll be here, ladies, yeah yeah, that was really like this, I think, but we had a really good time. The drinks were good there. The drinks were good.
Speaker 2:It was like Spanish tapas, it was really really good. And then we went down to the hate and we did thrifting and Brianna had like fucking 10 bags full of shit and she's like the bag lady carrying around their paper so they're all wet and she's trying to carry an umbrella and she's kind of fussy anyways, so she's like, yeah, it's like this whole thing and you're just like and then everybody was like all of our friends were like do you want me to carry some your bag?
Speaker 1:She's like no, no, well, I felt bad because I don't want everyone like is already a pain in the ass. Like can carry one bag, I know, but I just I don't want to be like good, you know I don't want to be like a, you know I don't want to be an opportunity, and you know.
Speaker 2:Brianna's such a slow shopper and so like I'm at the end just like sitting for 30 minutes and I'm just like, are you ready yet? Like come on.
Speaker 1:I'm still looking through, and she's like I rarely go to the city too, and so I'm like this is my one stop, my one opportunity.
Speaker 2:I mean, I go to the city a lot but never to shop.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I never go shopping like that.
Speaker 2:I don't ever like go. I mean, last time I went was with you last year, yeah For shopping, yeah For shopping, yeah, I don't ever do that. But man, the Hay had some really thrifting like. Yeah, I mean, we only went into three stores and last year we went into a lot more and man, they have some good stuff. But I think the last time we went we went into those other stores and they were like priced a lot higher than the ones that we went to this time.
Speaker 1:We're just like in the medium price range, you know um, and so we found some really, really good stuff, I think well, the only one that was kind of pricey but definitely was priced appropriately was the one that was like an actual vintage.
Speaker 2:Wasn't a thrift relic, relic vintage we'll show you what we got yeah, we should do like a little haul we each can do, like a little haul of um the things we got. It is real vintage stuff, like from the 20s, from the 60s it's not just like 90s t-shirts, so and they're really nice stuff and so it is priced a little bit higher but I wouldn't say the other like my jacket.
Speaker 1:I got, I got two blazers and so they were both like men's blazers and then, um uh, got like a bomber jacket. I want to say I know I think the blazers were like one of them was 125 and one of them was 150. I don't remember how much the. I think the bomber might have been like 200 damn. I know, but it was just really cute. But everything is at the dry cleaner, so once it comes back, then we could do a little haul.
Speaker 2:I think we got mostly jewelry like I bought like cufflinks to wear with my shirts and stuff like they have like hella cute cufflinks, like vintage ones and so um. I wear a lot of button ups and so I'm just gonna cut the buttons off um, because they're not like cufflink shirts and then just wear these cufflinks with it, and I think it'll be really cute yeah, yeah, it's like another piece of jewelry.
Speaker 1:It's a really nice store.
Speaker 2:I love that place yeah, it has such great things and people are so nice in there yeah, super nice.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they're so nice in there.
Speaker 2:So, yeah, that place was really cool, um, and then we went to get pizza escape yeah, we got New York, or whatever it's called.
Speaker 1:I think yeah that was cool and it was good. We were just like eating some pizza, waiting for the ubers to come get us and we were gonna get tattoos. When we were at lunch we were like should we get tattoos today?
Speaker 2:and everyone was like hell, yeah, we took long at lunch.
Speaker 1:Too long at lunch and too long shopping. We ran out of time because we had to get back on the ferry which we already missed, the ferry we wanted. We had to get on like a later one.
Speaker 2:There's like and the last two were like. It was either 6 or 9 pm, and so it was like we got to make the 6 o'clock one.
Speaker 1:You know we couldn o'clock at night, no, yeah, so we had to get home. Yeah, yeah, gosh, it was just such a fun day, though we had so much. It was so rainy and gloomy.
Speaker 2:I mean, my pants were soaked, yeah, yeah my pants were soaking wet on the bottom because I was wearing kind of these long pants that were dragging a little bit. And I got home and Drew was like why are your pants so like wet? I'm like I don't know, I was just dragging the streets, yeah, you know. So yeah, I mean it was really fun that day.
Speaker 1:It was a really fun day, and then you also got me a really nice gift for my birthday, which I haven't. I mean can't take it off because Drew sparked it on me. But, um, yeah, you got me this really really nice bracelet. And then Drew what's it called like? I mean what's it called like welded it together. We call it sparked around here.
Speaker 2:That's the name of my business. Yeah, I got her a solid gold bracelet. It's so cute. It's so sparkly and pretty.
Speaker 1:I knew she'd like this one.
Speaker 2:And you know, just make. I try to make things easier for Brianna Because, like she's, first of all, if you're single, how can you put a bracelet on? Yeah, why you should come get spark um but also just things for her. That's easier, like you just have your bracelet on every day yeah, you don't even think about it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I need. If I wear bracelets, they have to be permanent ones, because I'll never be able to just like put one on yeah, yeah yeah or still remember. It's like having to put earrings on having to remember to put a necklace on.
Speaker 2:It's like it's too much stuff. No, yeah, I think that too. I mean all my bracelets. I never take them off.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, so yeah, you did that, and then we had we also had book club this week and then at book club you guys did a birthday thing for me at book club too, and you, chrissy, got me this cake the walmart heart cake, which people don't know, and we'll post it.
Speaker 2:And she even told them kind of what she wanted and walmart did it for her and it was really cute. So we'll post that cake too.
Speaker 1:Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and so the theme of our book club, even though it wasn't like we should have done. Like a love, it's typically supposed to be romance books and we should have done a romance book this month, but we did it. We didn't, but it was Galentine's, and so we'll show you our backdrop and everything that we did for that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you made a really, really cute backdrop for that and you spent hella hours just putting that whole thing together.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it was like a long day at work and then I came home for three and a half hours and I printed all these like love notes that I had saved on Pinterest, and I print them all out and then cut them all up and then made like basically garlands out of them. And then we um, I strung them all up and with red bows and stuff and it turned out really cute. And then I used like books and candles and stuff to put on the table and it was really cute.
Speaker 2:So we'll post that too yeah, we'll post that, yeah, because actually that was pretty simple and you know I was thinking like man, I really want to do like this love note thing for like a backdrop in my house or something. I don't know exactly how I want to incorporate it, but I just think it's so sweet and like kind of like different.
Speaker 1:I love it. Yeah, I really love it. And then we were able to utilize that backdrop again on Friday when we took team photos. So we had planned to do team photos. Um, I mean, everyone couldn't come. You know, riley doesn't live here and then Gabby does live here, but she was busy that day so she couldn't come, so almost everybody was here. Um, we took team photos and we did like a valentine's outfit in front of that backdrop and then we also did an all everyone did like an all denim outfit. That's hella cute, really cute. And then we also did we all wore the white button-ups that you got us for christmas that have pink door photo studio embroidered on the cuff.
Speaker 2:Um, so that was really and then we did a little birthday potluck for you.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and then you guys brought me with a little. It was like a birthday picnic.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it was so cute.
Speaker 1:Everyone like brought stuff like a little potluck and then after we did the first like portion of our photo shoot, we all just took all the food and drinks and sat on the backdrop on the floor like a little picnic and just ate and talked. It was just so cute, it was fun. Thanks for making my birthday extra special.
Speaker 2:Yeah of course you deserve it.
Speaker 1:It was really fun, yeah, yeah, but, um, some of the things I mean, you know, we always do stuff as a team like that, like taking team photos, but another thing we always do is we make vision boards every single year, which we have mentioned that before, and so today we were thinking that we could do a topic on kind of just like how to visualize your future, how to make it a reality, like how to actually take the steps towards reaching your goals. Um, so where should we start?
Speaker 2:I mean, I think that you need to kind of write down or recognize what you like, what you want your goals to be. Maybe like it's one thing, like I think about that all the time, like maybe there's these small goals that like I don't write down and I don't, I just like, oh yeah, I want to do this or I want to do that. But I think writing it down and seeing it on paper and it's like kind of real is like something you should do, so like just taking the time to sit with yourself and you can light a candle, or you could just fucking sit there with your kids screaming and like all the things and yeah, just write down your little goals.
Speaker 2:However, you want to do it and just really think about the things. Like I think it is good to say like what's your one year goal? You know your goals for this year? Or it could be your goals for this week. You know, having like a timeline, I think, works for you. It's not like, hey, my whole life I want to be a millionaire.
Speaker 2:I think that that is something that you should write down, but that's like a long-term goal, right? So it's like it could be like this week, all I want to do is dress cute two times. It can be something so small. Yeah, this week I want to curl my hair every day, you know. Like something so small, like that. I think those short-term, right-now goals are just as important as the long-term goals.
Speaker 1:Absolutely.
Speaker 2:Because that kind of gets you through your life a little bit like your daily routine life.
Speaker 1:Yeah, one thing that I've tried to do for a lot of years, maybe since my early twenties, is think about what like what is your dream life, even if it doesn't seem attainable. Like what if you could just close your eyes and visualize what your dream life looks like? Like where are you? Where do you wake up every day? What does your house look like? Who is in your life? What are the things that you're doing? All of these different aspects on you know, kind of like a life wheel, all these little categories. What does all of that look like?
Speaker 1:and then kind of reverse engineer it yes and then that kind of helps you to see, okay, yes, that seems so far off and maybe that isn't going to happen for 10 years or something, but I can start working towards those things now by breaking it down into, like you said, just a weekly goal.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you. Just I think I will not. I have a really hard time thinking of the big goals and then going, okay, let's start working towards it. If I don't have it completely broken down into like daily and weekly and monthly tasks, and, yeah, writing it down for sure. And then if you have a goal specifically for, like, let's say, you have a goal for how many books you want to read in a year I mean, that's a simple math problem. You go, I want to read, you know, 25 books this year. Okay, then you need to read, obviously about two books a month. And you know, like, maybe January was too crazy for you and you only got through one book. Okay, then just maybe look ahead and go. Go, well, march is going to be a little bit less, so maybe I'll plan on reading three and you just kind of have them like written out. You just kind of adjust. You just have to be flexible with how life goes, because it's not always going to be the same every day, every week, every month is not the same.
Speaker 2:I think that's the biggest part of getting to those big goals is realizing that we've I mean I've said this before like the journey isn't linear, and but as long as you're still on the upward trajectory overall, then you're making moves and you're getting there yeah, you're gonna have pauses and like stumble on, like you know crossroads of like changing things, but it's really just pushing through and I mean, I think that that is like the huge like concept of kind of what we're talking about, all always with maximalists is just kind of pushing through and going anyways, even though it's not always the perfect time, or, like you know, all these barriers and stuff is like you just got to keep going.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I think having resiliency is a really good trait to have just being able to be resilient and also being flexible with your goals to say like, okay, maybe my so.
Speaker 1:Like when I first started my photography business, my like dream in my head was like I'm gonna be this destination wedding photographer. That's what I thought that to me was. Success in my mind was like I want to be like traveling around the world and I'm just doing all these like weddings, and I thought that was going to be super cool. Well, you know, within the very first few months of starting my business, I realized, first of all, I don't like shooting weddings, so that's a problem. Um, second, I have this little baby. How am I going to just be traveling all over?
Speaker 2:the world.
Speaker 1:And I was married at the time. It wasn't like I was like this single mom who could just like take my kid with me and whatever Right. You know. It's just like you have to figure out what actually works for you and then kind of rearrange your goals from there and just keep moving. And it doesn't mean that you failed at something. You just change, change gears a little bit.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you only fail tests, multiple toys. I say this all the time, like, just because you did something, it didn't work out doesn't mean that you're failing, or you're a failure only if you take a test and I try never to take tests always winning, yes, always winning yes, yeah, another thing is okay.
Speaker 1:so let's say you've done the work of like you visualize your dream life. You've broken it down into goals and then you've kind of taken it and broken down into even smaller, like sub goals or micro goals, so you have things each week that you're working towards. Then what you can do is you can do some daily visualizations is what most people call them, but you like to call them daily manipulations.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you do them in the morning, so they're morning manipulations, and I think that I mean it's the same thing. You say what you want, you say what you're going to do and you practice on how you're going to do that. You know, go out in the world and tell the world that, like, I am the shit and I do dope things and I, you know, whatever it is, and this is who I am and I'm going to be this and you manipulate yourself through that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and it could be like either an actual like affirmation or something that you just say yeah, um, and I know some people like you just feel stupid saying these affirmations out loud or like, but you could even have them written on little post-it notes and they're just on your mirror and you just look at them. You don't have to, like actually say them out loud if you don't want to. There's also like daily affirmation apps that you can have them on, like your lock screen of your phone, just having them somewhere where you can be reminded of what your goals are.
Speaker 2:I think there's like books and calendars that have like daily affirmations, and I'm going to put my out my own morning manipulation. One Good yeah, and people can print them out.
Speaker 1:Perfect Morning manipulation pack.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so we could all be practicing that. That's the maximalist life, that's good.
Speaker 1:Yeah, some people like to journal, so some people like to journal, so some people like to journal and they will do either like they'll write a journal entry, either like in the point of view of like you already have reached a goal and so you're kind of writing to yourself like I've already reached this goal and so you can kind of like see yourself actually in that, or they just write it like they're just documenting the journey on the way there.
Speaker 2:I love, love journaling, at least the concept of it. Yeah, I like the idea of it. I want to be the person that just gets in bed and I'm just like here, just like let me write out my day, or dah, dah, dah, dah, and I love that, I just love it, but I never can do it.
Speaker 2:It's just like you know, if I could just do what you probably could do this, if I could do a voice memo journal, I think that that would be the easiest. I don't want to sit there and hurt my handwriting, but if I could, you know, or like, I'm like typing it on my phone and thinking all these thoughts, but what I would like to do is just make a voice memo like, okay, this is how my day went, this is what I thought, this is what I, and then have my own prompt, like my own prompt, like today's day. Today was like a good day because of this, and today I wish I would have been able to do this, and tomorrow I hope to do this and I wish I'm sure there is where it's just an app I speak into it, it types it all out, puts a date, and then I don't even have to think about it.
Speaker 1:I'm sure there is. So there's an app for that, but I do know that it is video, which is fine, um, but it's like a journal, it's like a journaling app and you just, yeah, you just hit record and it's just like a little video of yourself and you just talk through whatever, and then you can put little notes in there and it just saves it so you can go back and it's just this private thing that you could just go back and-.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but I want it to just turn, I want it to just turn into notes.
Speaker 1:Okay, so that I don't think so, but what you can do is you could just use the voice recorder on your phone yeah and then you can just throw it into a transcriber app yeah, I think.
Speaker 2:I think that actually now I'm thinking about it like because I don't want to write shit.
Speaker 1:Yeah, do that, yeah you can just do that. I mean, one app that does that does transcribe things that I have used is called cast magic. Okay, we used that a little bit a couple times for work and then I went on to other things. But Cast Magic is a good one and we'll look for some other ones and if we find any other ones, we'll post them.
Speaker 2:Yeah, because don't you think it's so easy just talking to something?
Speaker 1:It's easier, right, yeah, way easy, and it doesn't have to be this whole thing, yeah for an hour.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's like just I'm gonna give myself three prompts and then I'm just gonna say those things quick and just be done. But yeah, that's it.
Speaker 1:I think the um the biggest way or maybe not the biggest, but, like, maybe the most popular way to visualize popular is doing a vision board. Um, a lot of people do vision boards. Like we mentioned, we do every year with our team.
Speaker 2:Um, so we could talk about what we did, like what we put on both of our vision boards this year let me tell you about my vision board every day I have this great idea, like I'm gonna hang it in my bathroom right, and every year it sits on the floor, okay, and then it gets moved just to a different spot, and then to a different spot, and Okay, and then to a different spot, and then finally. Drew goes. Can we throw this away and I go, I guess.
Speaker 1:No.
Speaker 2:So right now, because we did division boards in January, it's just sitting on the floor in my bathroom it is. It's sitting on the floor in my bathroom.
Speaker 1:So as soon as we got home from making our vision boards, just got those 3m command strips, threw them on the back of my vision board and put it up on the wall. I wanted to frame it, I wanted to, and, but you know, I was like you know what, I just got to get up on the wall mine is in a fucking frame I know and sitting and I it's sitting on the floor and the thing is too.
Speaker 2:The reason why I can't just put command strips is because it's in our bathroom, where it gets wet and steamy and I think it'll come off.
Speaker 1:I just need.
Speaker 2:Drew, to put one nail in the wall should use.
Speaker 1:So they have outdoor ones. Maybe use the outdoor ones, because those ones like, even if it rains and stuff it's fine yeah, I'll send you the link.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and then I can get out and just put it myself.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you gotta hang it up. Yeah, I put mine. Uh, last year I had my vision board in my bedroom, which good. But then this year I've been using my office more at home and so I put it in my office right next to my computer and so I go in there in the mornings and then I look at all my stuff and I go through and I do my little affirmations and just it just gets you, it just gets you in the right mindset to start your day or to start your week and reminds you just like being constantly, because it's so easy to forget like we have this goal. Oh, I'm gonna, I'm gonna start like going on daily walks or I'm gonna.
Speaker 1:But if you don't really have something to remind yourself of that every day, it's so easy to just get caught up in your daily routine and you just like forget that you were supposed to do any of that shit. Yeah, so doing that is really good. Um, when we make our vision boards what I like to because I mean I really like how we make physical vision boards so obviously, like you can do it like us like the old school way you're cutting things out and pasting it on a board, or if you don't really want to do that and you want to make it really easy and make a digital one. You can just do it on canva, and they already have stock photos on canva, so you don't even have to like upload photos, you can just search and then put them into Canva. Make a little vision board they even have vision board templates and then you could make it and actually print that off if you wanted to. Also.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and you know, I was thinking like you could put your vision board like on your lock screen, yeah, so then you kind of always have it there or in the background on your phone or something like that. Um, just so you can always see it and even if you do do a physical one, you can just like scan it or take a photo of it and then you just always have it there. That's a good idea too.
Speaker 1:Cute too yeah, yeah, I think that's really cute. Yeah, yeah, on, when I make my vision board, I try to make it. Like you know, sometimes people like they just kind of mismatch, mix and match everything all over the thing. I like to put it in like sections, so like all my travel stuff is like in one section, all my work stuff is in one, so as I'm looking through it and I can kind of like visualize each section of my life organized yeah, that's just better for, like, how my brain works.
Speaker 1:Um, how did you do?
Speaker 2:yours.
Speaker 2:You know, I kind of do a little color coordination every year so last year my color was green, so I feel like most of the stuff not most of the things but I had like these big pops of green that I wanted, and then this year it's blue, so like I have a lot of that, I feel like it looks like kind of in the blue realm, um, and I do a little bit of the same thing where like, uh, like the little bit of travel is thing, where like, uh, like the little bit of travel is here, like I have little sections where I feel like things kind of go together a little bit more. Um, and you know, I have really simple things on there down to like I want to visit more bookstores. And that's weird too, because even with that, I think that the case. I think that's part of the things like you just want to do, but you don't really have a reason to do it.
Speaker 2:I don't read physical books, I only read Kindles. You know I only read on my Kindle or whatever on my iPad, in the Kindle app, but so, but you know, one of the things about reading is that you love to go to bookstores or there are physical books and I think that that's so fun, and even though I go there and I literally buy nothing, like I might buy some stickers or something. But I think it's so fun and so I did put that on my vision board that I wanted to like go to more bookstores like I want to visit more bookstores because I had so much fun when I went to New York and I went to that book bar, remember.
Speaker 2:I told you about that and it's so cute in there and I mean that's the best kind, like it's a book store in a bar, like yeah, that's for me, you know. So I mean I put even that, you know, like I just wanted to do that so. And then big things, you know, of course, we what we had the podcast on there and then finally did it, I think of the things that I even thought you put on there.
Speaker 1:I can't remember um, yeah, I think so. For mine, I, yeah, I put the podcast because I was like we got to get it going, we're gonna do it and we did, we did do it. Um, we did it, we're here, yay. Um, I'm trying to think too okay, as far as, like travel says, so I didn't really well, okay, so I put some small travel things like disneyland. I want to take my son to disneyland because he hasn't been since he was a little kid.
Speaker 2:I know we're going in March.
Speaker 1:I'm so excited. I don't know when we're going to go. You just put it on there. We'll plan it for this year sometime. It's easy to plan a.
Speaker 2:Disneyland trip because of where we live.
Speaker 1:Then I put Hawaii, because I'm going to Hawaii this year.
Speaker 2:What island are you going to?
Speaker 1:Kauai. Oh, yeah, yeah. Yeah, I have been there before, Okay, but I was like 15.
Speaker 2:So it'll be a different experience. That's the best island.
Speaker 1:Mm-hmm, that's my grandpa's favorite. That's why he really wanted to go to that one Cute I don't know. I put a bunch of stuff to is like not being so vague, like you don't want to just put, but like get more healthy, and then you just put like random pictures of people working yeah, I think, like putting.
Speaker 2:I mean it's just like when you're putting stuff down for your goals, like being specific, like are you trying to be a runner? Are you trying to lift weights? Are you trying to do?
Speaker 1:like you want to do yoga or yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, put like specific photos for that, not just like these vague things, because it'll be hard for you to connect with that when you're looking at it and really like tune into what your goals are yeah so speaking of exercise.
Speaker 2:Did we talk about how we went to the lagree class? Oh my, god, so we there's a new lagree place in our county. This is not really in our town because it's in the valley, but near us and it's really cute it's like really aesthetic.
Speaker 1:It's called the reform room.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and it's so cute, and so when I first saw it I thought like, okay, it's like Pilates, which it's its own thing. It's different. You hold the poses longer, you, you know, the stretching is just a little bit longer, it's a little bit different, or whatever. And one of the girls that is a teacher there, she has been a client of ours and I really like her, I really love her, and so they were doing a Galentine special where it was like a private class where you go. I mean their special was pretty good. I would say, yeah, it was like for up to 10 people, it was like $500. And it came with tote bag, socks.
Speaker 1:Like because you have to have those grip socks. Yeah.
Speaker 2:A flower bouquet. Mm-hmm, what else was on that little thing?
Speaker 1:It also had, like that little body scrub.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, from Bottoms Up, also had, um, like that little body scrub. Oh yeah, from bottoms up, yeah. And then they did like you stay there. It's like a two and a half hour thing, the class is an hour and then you could stay there. And then you got like a little charcuterie cups and you could choose between yeah, you could choose between it was coffee, matcha or mimosas.
Speaker 2:Oh, okay, yeah, and I picked mimosas, of course. Yeah, yeah, clearly, um, and you got to just hang out and it was really like. It was like this this whole thing.
Speaker 1:It's like a private event just for your group yeah, so they do. We did a one hour class, yeah, one hour class, with our instructor, and then the next hour and a half is when you have your like mimosas, all this stuff and everything was decorated like galentine's day and they had like a bloom garland and all this stuff, so we'll post, post that. Um, I loved it, I hated it because she doesn't like to work out.
Speaker 2:No.
Speaker 1:I do not. I don't enjoy it, that's not, you know, on my vision board, the getting healthy part, it showed someone walking, just walking, maybe doing some yoga, something gentle I like to feel the burn.
Speaker 2:I want to feel hurt. I want to. I want my body to feel like it worked out. Yeah, I need that or it feels like I did nothing.
Speaker 1:I prefer to do nothing. So, yeah, I don't want that, I don't want to be in pain, I don't want, I'm not gonna. That doesn't, it doesn't motivate me. And so I was like, well, maybe I'll just walk my dog more, yeah, or do a daily stretch, yeah. So I think those are the difference on our vision boards.
Speaker 2:Yours is just like movement, mine's like let's pump some iron yeah yep, a little different.
Speaker 2:So I think, if you want to try the degree class and you live near us, or if you don't live near us and you want to try one, I think it's really a great time and I think it's really fun, and especially the one around us is so fucking cute in there. It's really cute and they're so nice, and I think that if you want to practice that, or you do Pilates already and you want to try something a little different, I would say go try that. Yeah, they were. It's pretty amazing it's pretty intense.
Speaker 1:It's pretty intense, yeah, yeah, yeah, I liked it. It's intense, but it's also like, like you said, each pose that you're doing and like movement, it's just so slow and controlled. It's just really like your muscles are working.
Speaker 2:But it's not like aerobic.
Speaker 1:You know You're not like doing these quick movements, you're not doing any kind of like calisthenics or anything crazy or anything crazy.
Speaker 2:It's just super slow and controlled and it burns the fuck out of. Yeah, it's burning and they're doing like a lot of pulsing stuff, so like I mean, that's their kind of concept, but it's really cute. So if you're out here and you want to try it, go to the reform room yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:So I don't know we had I'm trying to think of. So what I think is fun too if you do like a vision board party with your friends, which is kind of what we did.
Speaker 2:I mean I could see how like doing it by yourself could be like calming and relaxing. I always go back to like you have a candle and you have your spa music or whatever, or you have like whatever R&B or whatever you want, and I could see how that could be like calming and relaxing and something that you take in for yourself.
Speaker 2:And you're just like this is what I do for myself and I have my tea or you have your like a little drink or whatever. But I think it's more fun with friends or family or whatever and you get your girls together and you guys all talk about your like vision for the year or you know your goals for the year and you guys kind of like all bring stuff to put on your vision boards and it just seems funner to me.
Speaker 1:yeah, I mean I really like when, at the end, we're like all sharing our boards and looking at what each other has going on and it's kind of fun, and you can then like hold each other accountable for some of the stuff that you said like, hey, I thought you wanted to do that. Um, the other thing, too, is you don't, it doesn't have to be done in January, it doesn't have to be done like at the beginning of the year.
Speaker 1:Do it halfway through the year Whenever you want. Also, it doesn't have to be a vision a whole year worth. You know, like you could do it just for the season Every quarter. Like you could make. Here's my season also. It doesn't have to be everything in your whole life if you just want to make one for work, just to like you're like. That's the part of my life I really like, have all these goals and I want to work towards and I don't really want to do all this.
Speaker 2:You can make it how, whatever you want yeah, the embarrassing thing that Brianna makes us do is she makes us present our vision boards, yeah, and so I always just go okay, here's my vision board, these are the things I want to do, and there's this. But she likes to like go around the world on it and actually talk about everything individually and I'm just like I can't. I can't do this, I want to know all the things.
Speaker 1:I want to know all the things that you are doing and that you want to do, and I want lots of details. I hate that you have to give a book report, stand in front of the class.
Speaker 2:They're always trying to make me do homework and stuff Like I don't want to do that shit, brianna, I know I just want to have my mimos.
Speaker 1:I know, I know I just want to have my mimos. Well, I was going to say so, something that I just discovered last year all these magazines Like that was the way that people do vision boards and fuck magazines are fucking expensive.
Speaker 1:So expensive Jesus and you need like a billion of them because there's only a few things in each magazine you're going to really use. Well, now they have these things that are actual vision board books. It's literally just a book that the whole, every single page, is just photos that you can use for your vision board, and some of them are words, some of them are photos. Um, I got all of them on Amazon so we'll link those for you guys. I highly recommend they were all like 15 to $20, I think, and each one has like a thousand photos in it. You could literally just buy one book and use that.
Speaker 1:But I got like a few different books because there was, all you know, a bunch of us going to be there and it is really really so much easier and so much more affordable. And then all the pictures who are like um, it's a little bit thicker paper and they're matte, which is easier to put than like a magazine paper you're trying to glue on and stuff. Also, I mean, we, I, you know, trying to use glue sticks like you're six years old is a little annoying, but I, this year, I got these glue. They were like glue strips, I guess it was kind of like these, whiteout things.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they come in that little I know everyone's seen them. They come like in a plastic thing and they just kind of roll it on like this.
Speaker 1:Roll it on, you know or you could just use like little zots little glue dots or even like scrapbooking squares. I think would be super easy. Um, especially if you're gonna put your thing in a frame and you don't really care about every single tiny edge being like down, because it's gonna go a piece of glass is gonna go on the front of it anyway and press it all down, then that's super easy also a couple of girls.
Speaker 2:They did their junk journaling um their vision boards on their junk journal or whatever, which I mean I have a little bone to pick with the junk journal oh my god, let's hear it junk journal journaling is scrapbooking. Okay, so we don't need to change this junk journaling word. It is called scrapbooking, okay, so I just yeah I can't, you know, I'm like an old millennial here saying this and I, I know I just feel like junk journal, junk journal and I'm like that's fucking scrapbooking Our grandmas did that shit.
Speaker 1:Yeah, my mom did that.
Speaker 2:So let's be real about it, um, but yeah, so they put it in their journal, their junk journals, junk journals, junk journaling. Um, they put their first month, um, as their vision boards, which I thought that is pretty cute, right? Instead of having this whole thing, since they are going to be having this whole thing for their whole year that they wanted to have. It's cute to have it in the beginning of the book, it is cute, right.
Speaker 1:And then, yeah, and then they were going to like, every month they were going to make another little page of like the stuff that they did that month and then like print actual little photos of like photos from their phones that they took of things that they did that's one of the things.
Speaker 2:This is the first year that we actually did that, where we printed out specific things that we wanted. But like we printed out photos and I went on Pinterest and I got like quotes and stuff, especially because I wanted mine to be kind of bluish, I look yeah, I looked for like things that were blue that I wanted mine to be kind of bluish Color coordinated. Yeah, I looked for things that were blue that I wanted on there.
Speaker 2:I found one where it had blue lips and all that stuff so I can kind of decorate it a little bit with those so I can kind of keep it in that color realm. So I think a lot of people don't think to just print stuff out, yeah so I was going gonna say the vision board books.
Speaker 1:Um, there wasn't a lot of color-coded ones, there was two, so there's one that was like everything in there was pink, maybe like a pink vision board and then there was another one that was like beige, like just super minimal neutrals. If you want it to be like that aesthetic, there are vision board books specifically in that realm. But you want any other color, you're gonna have to print it yourself also I have another thing I'm going to pick.
Speaker 1:This is so random, but it just really irritates, you know when, when these influencers and they're like 20 something and they're like I'm doing junk. They're like trying to come up with shit like it's new. The other thing that somebody was talking about was like, um, flavoring my water so that I can be more hydrated. And they're talking about crystal light as if it's some fucking brand new invention. I'm like I've been using crystal Bitch. When I was a kid, I was using fucking Tang. Okay, that's what we were using to flavor our water and stay hydrated. So you're not new and you're not special just because you're using crystal light to flavor your water.
Speaker 2:And let me tell you something. I don't know if you bitches have heard of Summer Drink, but that's where you use the Crystal Light and a little bit of vodka and some water and stuff and you have your Summer Drink. And you might be carrying around a pitcher like this to your friend's house and you're like where's your Summer Drink?
Speaker 2:That's what we used to do all the time with our Summer Drink. So, yes, we know what Crystal Light is. And if anything, please, if you want to flavor your water, just drink a LaCroix. Oh boy, it's already pre-flavored.
Speaker 1:I can't even start on this. I can't start, I can't, I'll just go down a rabbit hole.
Speaker 2:Yeah, because it's just so weird. I like they invented it just like when people were offended about the clean girl aesthetic, when it was like the big hoops and the slick black back hair and the latin girls were like we've been doing this for years. All of a sudden it's this clean girl look.
Speaker 1:And I'm like, yeah, I mean yeah, or like when I was in eighth grade, I was outlining my lips with lip liner already.
Speaker 2:I don't need to like do that again now but now that's like it's cool lip or anything else, I know I, you know, I don't know, it's just like people. I saw this girl where she was I was on tiktok and she goes this lady's interviewing her on a podcast and she was like, let's talk about freezing your bread and she goes yeah, I mean, I think I invented it and I'm like bitch, poor people people on wick and people that were have been poor because my mom used to do it when we're little have been freezing bread since I don't even know when, because you need to have it longer so that you know you can have it later. So you had to buy it on this certain date and then you have it later, you unfreeze it and all this stuff. And the fact that this lady was like, yeah, I think I invented it.
Speaker 2:I'm like bitch, first of all, you're 27 and no, you did not invent freezing fucking bread. Oh the other thing, the bone to pick thing is I text drew the other day and I was like drew, I got some bones to pick with you and he just texted back please don't pick my bones please do not pick my bones, thank you. Oh no, so that was our little rant for today. I don't think you invented things. No Unless you actually have a patent.
Speaker 1:For freezing bread.
Speaker 2:Yeah, for doing whatever you did, but yeah, that is fucking ridiculous and people take themselves too seriously. Yeah, sorry, I don't like it. Sorry, you junk journaling bitches. Kristen, Just kidding, we're not picking on seriously. Yeah.
Speaker 1:Sorry, I don't like it. Sorry, you junk journaling bitches, kristen, just kidding, we're not picking on you. Yeah, have fun with your scrapbook. Yeah, yeah, oh, my gosh, yeah, that's pretty good, I think. Really. The key takeaways from today.
Speaker 2:No junk journaling. Carry around your summer, drink Whatever, don't pick people's bones and put your bread in the freezer.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, but really you just, I mean really like visualizing your life and trying to make it a reality is really just as simple as putting things on paper. Or, like I said, if you want to do your vision board digitally, that's fine, and then just working your way backwards from how do I get from where I'm at right now to there, in a positive. Keeping a positive mindset because I think that's the thing too is like staying positive about where you're at and not feeling like, oh man, I'm so far away from reaching these goals or I'm so you know what I mean like you just have to stay really positive and be grateful for, like, all of the little steps and the experiences you have along the way. And it's not like this is so cheesy, but you know it would say, like it's not a destination, it's a journey, but it is, it's true.
Speaker 1:And like you don't want to just-, you always come with the one-liners.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you don't want to like, you don't want to do that and I'm like, oh, I don't want to say this, I know, I think it's good. Yeah, it makes people remember those things. Yeah, it's like you don't want to just think, like you can't enjoy your life until you hit these goals. You just have to enjoy it all the way through. Make these like little tiny milestones that you can celebrate along the way to make it more fun and make you feel like you're celebrating each step and not just like, oh, I can't really enjoy it until I get all the way there.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I even think that even as small as like you doing the vision board and then seeing it like that just kind of makes you happy, Even though my vision board is on the floor sideways in the bathroom when I go in there and I do my little squatty to go pee and I see it and I'm just like, oh, I love it, it's so cute.
Speaker 2:And it makes me happy you know in that time and it makes me want to look through it and think about the goals that I set for myself this year. And so, just like so, something like that, or just like if you had a notes app and you just had your goals and you just want to look at them. Here's the thing. The first step is writing them down, if you want to look at them for three years before you take the step, I guess.
Speaker 1:but like, look at them, remind yourself where you're trying to go and that you're gonna get there and you'll be fine yeah, and just stay adaptable and also realize that it it's okay if things change, and just because something is glued onto your vision board doesn't mean it has to happen, just rip it the fuck off. Just glue something over the top. Yeah, cover it up.
Speaker 2:If something changes, or you change your mind or like, you can always decide to go in a different direction, Like if you put you and your boyfriend on there and then you broke up just like stick a different guy on there.
Speaker 1:Just put someone with a way bigger penis on top of that photo.
Speaker 2:Yeah, because he probably had a small penis. That's why you guys broke up, yeah fuck that guy. Fuck him and fuck his small dick.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so that's all we have for you today.
Speaker 2:It always goes back to the small dicks. That's kind of mean.
Speaker 1:Maybe we should be nicer Next time. We'll try, we'll try, we'll try harder.
Speaker 2:Small dicks that eat good pussy are great.
Speaker 1:Love it. Well, let us know. I want to see your guys' vision board.
Speaker 2:Let us know if you have a small dick.
Speaker 1:Please let us know. But also let us know if you have made a vision board. If you made one this year, yeah, if you want to post it and then tag us or DM it to us so we can see it.
Speaker 2:We'll post it on our thing too. Yeah, we'll show ours. Or if you want me to help you make a vision board and make a Pinterest board for your vision board, I would love to do that. That seems so fun. She would love it. I would love it.
Speaker 1:Oh, that just made me think of an idea. What?
Speaker 2:What kind of idea do you have?
Speaker 1:What if you just make a Pinterest board called like, vision board, yeah, and then you can, because you know how you can do sections, each section. Just pin the photos. You don't have to like put them on an actual collage at all.
Speaker 2:Digital or print, and if you don't like that board anymore, throw it away.
Speaker 1:Fuck guy. Yeah, yeah, delete, we're done yeah, that's cute.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's a good idea. Easier, easy, it's like the voice thing also journaling.
Speaker 1:Write the voice journaling it. Also, you know it's nice with Pinterest because you don't have to come up with so many ideas, because it'll give them, it'll say more ideas and you get like it and the fact that you could just pull it up and it's an unlimited amount of things to put on your vision board is great.
Speaker 2:You put fitness bitch, you ideas and you just click it, and the fact that you could just pull it up and it's an unlimited amount of things to put on your vision board is great. You put fitness bitch. You have every kind of fitness that you could ever think of with everyone. And the hard thing about vision boards they sometimes they don't have as many brown people I was gonna say it might not be as inclusive, yeah and so with pinterest you could put in brown girl running, and then here's a bunch of brown girls running.
Speaker 1:You know, yeah, you can have people that look like you and makes it more realistic for you. Yeah, yeah, you don't want to just have a bunch of white girls.
Speaker 2:If you're not white, that won't be motivating no and so sometimes I do feel like the vision boards. I think that's why it's important, if you're going to make a physical one, to print things like I printed my family on there, like stuff like that so it's more, not just like oh, I want to spend time with more, with my family. And then there's just like this little white family on there which that's obviously not what we are, just a random brown family, even yeah, we're like this little mixed family, you know, and so I want to like it to be more realistic for myself.
Speaker 2:I just need that. Maybe people, other people it's a vision board they can visualize something different.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it doesn't have to be so literal. I like it like that. Okay, do whatever you want. What do you like it like? That's for another episode, yeah. We'll circle back on that, okay, well, this has been great. This has been really great. I love talking about vision boards and goal setting and stuff like that.
Speaker 1:But, let us know. If you guys have any questions or ideas or anything like that. Concerns, complaints yeah, anything like that, let us know. Shoot us a DM on our Instagram at maximalistlifepodcast and we will see you guys next time. Okay, hope you're having fun. Yeah, it's up, it's out.