How to *glow up* 2021
Do you feel like you need to glow up? Have you found that you’re slipping into negative habits, overeating, self-sabotaging every time you look in the mirror just not liking what you see? Picking out every single thing that you don’t like?
There is this pressure to be perfect but what even is perfect? Leading to cycles of overthinking feeling like we’re not good enough, successful enough, beautiful enough, healthy enough, fit enough, we’re just feeling we’re not enough and we need to break this cycle! that is a glow up
A glow up mentally physically and knowing our worth, knowing our confidence, and up levelling our mindset and our lives. Rather than pointing out every single thing we don’t like about ourselves and thinking how can we change. We need to think of long lasting changes not a quick fix that will last a day or two days but something that will last for years to successfully up level our lives ourselves our bodies our minds our careers and actually make it stick.
I know how it feels to feel like absolutely nothing is going your way feeling you’re not good enough in any aspect so in this article I give you actionable steps that will actually make a lasting change in your life for you to glow up for the long term in a positive way!
Whatever happened in the past has clearly not worked to some extent and we want to change that so many articles, videos, books say you know try this diet, wear this dress or drink this tea or put some makeup on so you feel confident.
- MINDSET! First thing you need to know it starts with your mindset. You’re not just changing your external environment, your external body- you’re changing the mindset so that it becomes a lasting change. Anyone can put on a hot dress a hot suit something to just make you go wow but that isn’t going to be a lasting change. We have to shift our mindset- from ‘I don’t like what I am seeing in the mirror’ to ‘I freaking love what I see and I know that I’m capable of what I want to achieve’. What if you don’t believe in yourself? Change our physiological state and a short-term way is to literally change your physical state. E.g power poses, dancing. Changing your physical and mental mind state things and it will kind of switch something in your mindset and even for an instant you’re like ‘wow I actually think this is possible because the glow-up starts within and that is so cheesy I know but true!
- WHY? You have to have a solid reason, a solid vision of why you want to glow up. Why you want to become this different person or you want to up level yourself essentially. If we don’t have that compelling future or have something that we’re actually aiming for that gives us a reason to keep working on ourselves showing up. We will just end up stopping, you know just going to go back to staying in bed until 12 p.m. Whatever that may be for you, a deep motivation as to why we want to do it. You will find reasons and excuses not to show up.
- BACK TO BASICS! Basic things to make us thrive and have the best human experience possible. Why is nothing changing? why am I not having like success in anything? Probably because I’m not even doing the basic things to really thrive and have that clarity. Sleep is so important for the human body functioning. Are you eating well? Are you tending to skip meals or overeating? Nourish your body in a great way and nourish our soul and our body. Food is not ‘good or bad’ because it’s not as black and white as that. Having a balanced diet and giving our bodies the food it wants and your body will thank you for and give you the energy you need. Along with sleep, water, exercise you know it all comes together. Another basic thing is movement- are you moving your body? If not.. is it because you’re lacking motivation, and that comes back to the mindset of your reason to glow up. Having a reason to become your healthier self and this woman or man who you want to be. As humans, our bodies are made to move, obviously not all the time but you know just that energy flowing and rather than staying stagnant. The perk of doing movement and exercise is you will start to see changes in your body and mind. Also, mental health… taking care of your mental health is important too. What is something you can do to take care of your mental health? Reading a book? It can be so simple! These basic things do not need to be over complicated and if you’re sitting there thinking “oh my god my sleep schedule is completely messed up my diet is completely messed up. I don’t drink water and my mental health is in the toilet” just start somewhere because once we have these basic things nailed you’re set up for success.
- Mental and physical HYGIENE. We always take care of our physical hygiene well I hope you are you! Showering, brushing your teeth, washing your hair etc. But what about that mental hygiene? When we wake up in the morning we always brush our teeth, if you’re not then that’s that’s the place to start! What about all the mental weeds that we have? Take care of your mental hygiene too… which looks like meditation, breath work or yoga, mindfulness, find what works for you to clear your mind. It takes practice but there’s only one way to go, up! You’ll start to see changes because once we start to take care of our mental hygiene and the clutter, mess and crap up there it will amplify out and you will glow!
- Embody! The last thing is who is that person you want to be when you glow up, what does this person look like? What do they wear? What have they achieved? How do they hold themselves? What are their habits like? What are the habits that you do now that this new version of you doesn’t do? For example- old self would get up at about 12 p.m and when you wake up late… you’re instantly starting up the day feeling like you’ve failed already. New self- gets up at 7am and starts the day with that win!
We can bridge the gap and by using those little steps, the basic things to make you feel like you’re thriving and internally and externally glowing up. It’s very simple but it’s easier said than done.
If feel like you need to glow up because of what you’ve seen online, maybe you’ve seen someone else’s life and you think “I want their life” like you want to get on the latest trend or that you need to fit in.
A way to really embody this motivation and inner confidence is wearing the reminder!
I created Rising Above Co clothing because I want people to feel confident within themselves, worthy and empowered in themselves and these t-shirts and sweatshirts are a very good way to do that because every time you wear them you are subtly reminded of how freaking amazing you are!
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