Glow up your life this fall with simple tips to add into your daily routine today!
20 Glow Up Tips to Mentally and Physically Change Your Life.
What is a glow up?
A glow up is a positive transformation that can include physical changes like style, skincare, and internal changes like increased confidence and a strong mindset.
Glow up from a place of love, not pressure. Most glow ups cater to external validation and because of our society. Of course, getting recognized for the positive changes in your life does feel good. But I want you to focus on the glow up that will give you internal validation. As in from the inner version of you. What does your past self want to accomplish? What does your future self want to feel like?
The glow ups that last are the ones that started internally.
20 Glow Up Tips to Build your Confidence in 5 Different Areas of Your Life
MINDSET:
- Challenge Limiting Beliefs: Uncovering your limiting beliefs is the best place to start when trying to improve your mindset. This can be hard because most of our limit beliefs about love, money, business, education and more have been solidified in our childhood. Identify any limiting beliefs that are holding you back and actively work to reframe them. Believe in your potential and your ability to achieve your goals.
- Practice Daily Gratitude: Building a gratitude practice will look different for everyone. You can use a journal and write down three to five things every morning or you can speak those things out loud in the moment. Right now, look around your space and find one thing you are grateful for.
- Cultivate Curiosity: Approach life with curiosity and a willingness to explore new ideas and perspectives. This one goes hand in hand with limiting beliefs because if you can be curious you will always be pushing your boundaries. Ask yourself why you believe something or how something works can open up the door to new possibilities.
- Mental Health Management: Learning your triggers, reparenting your inner child, listening to how your own brain speaks to you are all extremely hard things to dive into but will be necessary into order to find that inner peace and unshakeable confidence.
SKINCARE
Your skincare glow up can include trying something new or being consistent with your current products. I struggle with maintaining a skincare routine that has more than 3 products. For me it’s, exfoliate, serum, moisturize in the morning. And then at night I cleanse, sometimes double cleanse and then moisturize.
- Exfoliate: Add in a new exfoliating product to your routine if you don’t have one already. Or change your routine with the current products you have. Also note this does not just need to be your face. The skin on your entire body can be nourished and taken care of with love and kindness.
- Hydrate: Drinking more water or herbal teas can keep your skin hydrated and calm.
- Moisturize: Try a new Sheet Mask once or twice a week as a way to pamper yourself, relax in the evenings and take care of your skin at the same time.
- DIY Facial Massage: Watch a facial massage video to help blood flow and relax your facial muscles. You can use tools like a roller, gua sha or just your fingers.
CAREER
- Expand Your Skillset: Challenge yourself by learning something new within your current field or dabble in a new skill that can be used across multiple industries. With how quickly technology is changing be able to adapt and learn new things is a great skill to have. I personally am using Coursera to complete a few classes in a variety of fields that I enjoy. But you can also head to your a used book store to look for books or textbooks on the topic and of course YouTube and blogs have a plethora of information on basically anything you want to learn.
- Find a Mentor: If you are serious about moving up in an industry or learning from someone who has already done what you want to do. Connecting with them through LinkedIn, going to networking events or even asking them for advice in your DM’s can open up a world of possibilities. Now, please keep in mind these individuals don’t NEED to respond to you. But it is sometimes nice to have connections in your industry as you are getting started or if you are making the shift into a new industry.
- Improve Your Time Management: There is the saying that time is money. And in capitalistic societies like ours that is more true than anything. In fact it is frowned upon to relax, recharge and to not care about making the most money possible. However, I believe that having good time management is not just a career skill but an art skill, creative skill. Assess how you manage your time and make adjustments to help you show up to get more stuff done. Here are 5 Time Management Tips for The Unmotivated.
- Define Your Career Paths (Yes Plural): Gone are the days of picking one career and sticking with it for 50 years because companies do not pay to keep you anymore. There are the bare minimum raises, no benefits and they will replace you after a few years for a cheaper salary. If you are a multi passionate creative women who is currently working a 9 to 5 and wanting to grow a freelance business or side business get clear on what that looks like. Write down where you see yourself in your career in five years. As a multi passionate, that is a long time and many many projects will be started and stopped in that timeframe so it will feel intimidating. But having a brain dump session on the career you want to pursue can be helpful to set up daily habits that align with your dream life.
RELATIONSHIPS
- Set Healthy Boundaries: Assess your your current relationships and set any boundaries you might need in order to feel safe and peaceful. This will be hard to do if you have never been comfortable with setting new boundaries. Maybe you tell someone that the way the spoke to you hurt you and would like to address it. Maybe you remove yourself from a group chat that is filled with complaining and negativity that is bringing you down.
- Be Present: When you spend time with your current friends and partners, actively try to be present. Put the phone down, shoulders back, listen to what they are saying. This is hard in our anti-social world. But this can make you feel more connected to the person you are with. And make them feel seen and heard.
- Prioritize Quality Time: In our busy world finding time to be with your friends can be hard. But take the initiative in planning the quality time. Set a monthly date night that you both put in your calendars and keep no matter what. Nothing gets schedule over top. Have a weekly coffee date with a family member or friend. Now, as an introvert I don’t like having social events schedule because I over think them and get exhausted just thinking about going. But I also know that I am responsible for my relationships. Going to see my friends once a week to chat, write, create is not the hardship my brain makes it out to be. I feel joy, kindness, and creativity when I go to these meet ups. Am I grateful for the silence in my apartment and curling up in my bed after words. Heck to the yes. But I push myself outside of my comfort zone in order to stay connected.
- Hobbies that help you Meet New People: Finding new friends and meeting new people in the wild can be hard, scary and take a lot of your time. I personally would connect with people in hobby groups that you enjoy. I recently joined a book club. I have yet to go to the meets up because of a mental breakdown but I lived to tell the tail and I will try to make the next one. I have no idea if we will have anything else in common other than the book club but I want to put myself in rooms with people that have at least a common interest.
FINANCES:
- Review and Adjust Subscriptions: I don’t know about you but those subscriptions can get out of hand quickly. Every month or two do a financial audit. Look at your recurring subscriptions (streaming services, gym memberships, softwares, etc.) and cancel any that you’re not using or don’t need.
- Educate Yourself: Take the time to learn more about personal finance, whether through books, podcasts, or online courses. The more you know, the better equipped you’ll be to make smart financial decisions.
- Create a Budget: Review your income and expenses to create a detailed budget. I personally like doing finance days every two weeks or once a month to go over my income and expenses. Tracking your spending habits to ensure you’re staying within your budget. Also, this is a great way to learn more about your money habits.
- Money Affirmations: Lastly, take a look at these 25 Affirmations to help spark a loving, nurturing connection with money. This is a big limiting belief for a lot of people and very much so for multi passionate creatives because I don’t know about you but as a writer everyone I knew would tell me “writers don’t make money” well actually they do. Just not in the structure way a 9 to 5 expects. So this is a step to work on building a relationship with money through Mindest work, affirmations and beyond.
REMINDER: Glowing Up is not a snap your fingers type thing. It’s a process, a commitment and it comes down to becoming a new version of yourself that you love and admire. But what I want you to remember is this “Become your best self while loving each version of you along the way”
What area of your life do you want to Glow Up this Fall?