The Self Care Life with Sara Miller

Making the Most of 2020

October 11, 2020 Sara Miller
The Self Care Life with Sara Miller
Making the Most of 2020
Show Notes Transcript

2020 hasn't been what anybody expected. But it isn't too late to make the most of it.

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Welcome to the Me, Myself, and You podcast.

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My name is Sara and I'm your host and I'm really glad to have you here for another episode as we all know 2020 has been kind of

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a shit show.

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It has been absolute chaos.

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It has been basically not what anybody expected and I think it's important though to still try to make the most of 2020.

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Because it's still at period of time and like I've mentioned in previous episodes, there's still positives to this time period

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there's still some great stuff and there's still time to make the most of your year.

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You know.

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We're in the last quarter of the year now and you can still delve into those goals or into new goals or whatever.

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It might be and make the most of your year to start if you really want to get in the mindset to Make the most of this year you

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kind of have to wipe your slate clean first.

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I think it's such a different year than anybody expected that you need to kind of sit down and just clear your head clear what

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you thought this year would be and start over with your expectations because it's going to be different.

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It's going to be so different than what you expected and there's a point where you have to accept that to be able to make the

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most of this year.

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So Wipe your slate clean and let's dig into just accepting that accepting that change accepting the different miss that is 20/20

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and part of accepting.

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It is making note of the positive and practicing gratitude for what this period of time is for me.

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It's been a period of rest.

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It's been a period of evaluating.

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You know what I want in life and what's been just different.

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Current about this time period I mean, it's been enjoying time with my husband.

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It's been enjoying time with my new baby.

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It's been you know more time with my dog and it home and just it's been a good period of time for me honestly as much as there's

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been aspects that are really really hard like I've talked about I think I spoke about in my grieving missed Milestones episode.

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You got to make the most of it.

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You got to think about those positives and really Focus on that piece.

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I think that's the big thing is putting your focus into the good pieces of this for me.

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It's been that being able to work from home especially during the end of my pregnancy and with a newborn at home and spending

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more time with my husband and all of that good stuff from there.

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Once you've kind of figured out okay, things are different but here's all this great stuff because of covid-19 because of

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quarantine.

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Here's this good stuff that's happening here the positive Natives in this I know I've seen a lot of my co-workers and friends

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meet goals during this time and really be able to focus on themselves and improve themselves during this time.

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And I think you can still do that.

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I think at the beginning there was a lot of back and forth to people being like well like it's kind of toxic to be talking

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about.

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Oh reach your goals during this quarantine and you should be pushing forward and just reaching these goals because it's a tough

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period of time and it's not necessarily as Actually at the beginning it was definitely very emotionally just challenging and I

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think it still is for sure.

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There was a lot of weirdness in that area and I definitely agree that you shouldn't be extra hard on yourself because of

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quarantine because of covered because you have extra time or whatever because that's not necessarily the case, especially for

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people that have children that are not in school or not in daycare anymore.

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And that's been tough.

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If you're struggling with health health if you're struggling financially.

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Really, whatever it might be.

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There's definitely these new struggles where you don't need to be tougher on yourself now than you were before covid, but you

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can still work towards goals and I think that comes down to re-evaluating your current goals because I imagine they need to be

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quite a bit different than they were at the beginning of the year.

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Maybe you had the goal of socializing more.

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Obviously that's going to look a little different now, or maybe it was going to the gym that probably looks a little different

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now.

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Hang on where you live in the world and how you personally feel about going to the gym in terms of all of this, but it's time to

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kind of re-evaluate those and take those goals.

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Those re-evaluated goals meet them.

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So maybe if you your goal was to be more social and engage with your friends and family more maybe that scheduling weekly Zoom

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calls with people or figuring out more socially distance to activities.

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I know I've played this game with my in-laws.

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It's called a Jack box and we've like got it all set up with like Discord and something.

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I don't know don't ask me the technical side of it.

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But you know, we play together virtually so that we're doing something fun and we've done some socially distance to things with

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them or we've just been very cautious and quarantining and getting together safely in that way, but change it make it work make

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the goal work.

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B if you wanted to go to the gym every day, maybe it's taking a walk every day or doing a small little at-home workout.

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Maybe you know, you wanted to be able to save up money and maybe that's just not feasible right now.

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That's okay drop it lose that goal.

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It's okay to lose them to it.

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You don't have to keep the goals you made make new ones that fit more with the current state of the world and that me is how you

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can make the most of 2020 is Cepting taking in the positive and changing what you intended to do.

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That's it.

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Hopefully you found this episode somewhat encouraging and helpful.

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Subscribe follow share it with a friend.

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I will talk to you again soon.