Christmas Gift Wrapping + Q&A

hey guys i got my fuzzy sweater on and my bloody socks and i'm ready to answer some questions and we have some christmas presents [Music] if you guys not already know i really love wrapping paper whenever i'm at the store and it's from paper that i think is really pretty i feel like i don't i'm not a gift bag person i mean they're really good good bags out there but there's something about wrapping paper and having like a really nicely wrapped present i feel like it's just it's just it's just a different vibe so i love love wrapping paper i have a pretty extensive uh wrapping paper collection and so here and there i might show you my wrapping paper so don't mind me it's just paper but even though i love paper i'm not the best gifted rapper so don't judge me on my writing my my gift wrapping skills okay anyways let's start with the first question i think for me that is one of the biggest reasons why i started doing social media was because i started my fitness journey um specifically in the fitness industry and i know that in general on social media i feel like anyway here in the us asians and people of color in general are underrepresented so many great people out there doing um amazing things but it was like where are all the asian people and so when i started it was like i like back when i started to use social media like i knew i had no idea what i was doing but if i can make you know some sort of change you know to to bring more representation to the asian community um then you know i have nothing to lose i'll try so so yeah so i would say hey some other asians out there to all the other people of color um that if you know if there is something inside of you um inside your heart inside your soul that you want to do especially if it's on social media not that social media is like um like the most important thing but if you know if but if you have the um desire you know to to do something on social media i would say go for it because you definitely need more people of color in general um on social media and so do that thing that's been on the back in the back your head for the past couple of months past couple years um because you know um i i always like to say that the words that can happen it doesn't work out and at least you know that at least you tried and you'll never know where it goes the worst that can happen is it doesn't work out but the best that can happen literally limitless opportunity um for you so it's kind of like the last question so i'll keep on going from off of that one um and so so among um there not being a lot of asian people in the fitness community and wanted to change that um i also when i started my finished journey okay let me tell you guys when i say in my videos like when i started my fitness journey they're all the beginner friendly stuff it was not beginner friendly to me like i really mean that and um and again a lot of great content out there but for me i'm someone who's very detailed um and there's like a specific way that i like things laid out you know um and so nothing there was there was really nothing out there that i found anyway when i started my finished journey that was like it makes complete and total sense to me i don't have to go from this article or this video to another video video or article and have to look up terms from the one that i was watching or reading earlier you know what i mean for me i really wanted to meet my audience for their ads and not expect them to meet me where i'm at or help you reach your goal and not just have you watch me reach my goals then yeah i'm happy to do that um and so i really just wanted to create content that was truly beginner friendly really broken down really needs my audience where they're at and really um is the kind of content and i know that i say this a lot but the kind of content that i wish i had when i started yeah i'm someone who likes to i be prepared for everything you know if i'm going to the uh gym you know and if i was like a complete uh like newbie to the gym i'd want to know everything i want to know what i was getting myself into before going you know luckily i had my husband who was my boyfriend zen to help to help guide me at the gym um but if i didn't have him i would be that person watching my videos you know looking up how do i usually come how do i use this machine how do i do this exercise okay what does this mean what does that mean you know um i really just wanted to make content that um i wish i had as a beginner and to really break it down to simplify it um and to meet my audience for their ads i think the most rewarding part is being able to help people realize and come into their power um i discovered that holy crap i can do i need truly anything that i set my mind to anything that i dream and think of i can i can make it to reality if i work hard enough at it but yes and so and so i'm starting so um i realized that in my own life through fitness and so when i'm able to help other people do that in their own lives um through their fitness as well then that for me i feel like it's the most the most rewarding part is when i um you know when i'm able to help positively impact someone like that so much so that they realize their own power and that they are able to live their life without limits for me it's all about it's not about okay sometimes sometimes it's about you know physical appearance but i feel like the biggest motivator will always be that when i know that when i am when i practice self-discipline in in fitness then that affects all other aspects of my life like i was just talking about previously um and so and so i know that when i'm working um when i'm working hard towards my my fitness goals and that also challenges me to work hard and all my other goals um because from and you guys know i like my long my long uninterrupted workouts which is need time to myself so when i'm doing sending us that one and a half two hours a day doing my workouts the thing is in order to do that i have to schedule out um the rest of my time so that it can work around that you know and in order to do that i have to stay on top of everything else you know and so i feel like staying on top of fitness i also have me stay on top of everything else it helps me to manage my time helps me be more disciplined on all other areas in my life too real quick this is such a cute wrapping paper it says with love from santa most my wrapping paper i like it from like home goods so um which one of these will be like three or four dollars which if you like is half the price of like what you would get from like target and like the designs are much more unique and sometimes so i feel like you know that physical that wanting to reach a physical goal will only get you so far you have to find uh you have to dig deeper and find a bigger reason why not that reaching a physical goal is not important or not that it's not insignificant um but sometimes it takes something a little bit deeper from within your soul to keep pushing you forward and so i'm going to share a couple quotes that i really loved when i started my fitness journey that kept me going if it's important to you you'll find a way if not you'll find an excuse just a reminder that i have to make the time for it um because i have to make the time for it and if i'm not making time for it then all i'm doing is making excuses um and if i'm and if i was being honest with myself then yeah whenever i wasn't making the time for it i was just making excuses because if i have time to watch netflix if i have time to you know scroll scroll through social media for two hours and if i have time to you know fill my shopping carts online with things i know i'm never gonna buy anyway if i have time to go on pinterest and look up all these hair colors that i know i'm never gonna you know do you know if i have time to do those things i have time to work out if it's important to you you'll find a way if not you will find an excuse i actually have an entire story highlight on my instagram page it says motivation well it's titled motivation so if you need that little push of motivation go there um and i know that scroll through a couple of those um the stories on that on that story highlight and you will leave feeling super motivated and ready to do whatever the heck it is that you need to do um so lots of questions about encouraging how do i encourage myself to work out how do i stay motivated etc i feel like for me when i started something that helped me was don't even think about stop thinking about how much you don't want to do it and just do it the time that you spend trying to find motivation is better spent being at the gym by the time like okay because i've been there you're laying on the floor in your bedroom or you're laying in your bed and you're just like i do not want to go to the gym today like god send me a sign the universe send me a sign and tell you let me know that you know today is just not the day to go to the gym okay i've been there honey um and it's just like that time that you spend trying to talk yourself out of going to the gym or trying to talk yourself into going to the gym is better spent pudding sorry that was the ice machine putting your gym clothes on and getting your butt to the gym um and it's just like you know don't think about how much you want don't think about how much you don't want to do it and just do it by the time you have [Music] exhausted all your other methods of trying to find the strength and the motivation to go to the gym you probably would have already finished a good workout if you would have just just shut out those voices and just went and so don't think about how much you don't want to do it and just do it another thing that also i thought helped me but it was like i worked my schedule around going to the gym um or around my workouts so it's i always so i every day i um not every day but like on the days i was gonna work out set aside one to two hours just to work out and i worked the rest of my schedule around it um and so if that meant i couldn't binge watch hulu or i couldn't watch you know i don't know maybe a korean drama for you or again like i know i've said these things before or if like that means i can't you know scroll on instagram or watch tick tock for you know an hour um or if you know if if going to the standing aside without one to two hours to go to the gym means that i can't do those things then that is the sacrifice i wanted to make um and so and again reminding myself that if i have time to do these other things you know that really don't bring any value to my life um that i'm just doing just to kill time and if i have time to kill then i have time to work out um and so being honest with myself um and calling myself out on my crap and knowing when to knowing when to rest when i need it but also knowing when to tough love for myself and be like hey you're just being lazy today you're just trying to make up an excuse not to go stop it just go i just want to show you guys do you see this wrapping paper it is delicious [Music] it is so beautiful i just want to wear it if i could eat it i'm not gonna lie so stinking pretty and i also have i have a gold one again super pretty okay again if i can make a dress out of this i would do that i have a white one unopened okay so freaking gorgeous these are so beautiful i don't even want to use them i am i no longer do hair if you didn't know i used to do hair professionally and actually when i started doing social media yeah i was doing social media full-time going to school full-time and also doing hair um and so i but i told myself that once i was making enough money making just as much money from doing social media as it was from doing hair that's what i would quit doing here and do social media full time so it's been about maybe a year maybe almost two years now that i've been doing social media full time and creating content full-time um so so yeah so thank you guys for watching my videos for supporting this channel and i'm making it possible for me to do what i do in five years i will i will have started um i will have started to build um will one day become a multi-million dollar company um and by then i will probably have how many kids one kid at least one kid maybe two kids um and we'll get into that question later on and by then we will have also bob built our very first home and yeah i mean there is there's a lot that will happen in five years um you know so don't don't go too far in another couple years there's a lot that's gonna happen here on this channel oh my goodness no i feel like i feel like for me i have always been um i can i can say i've always been a very ambitious person my my dad has always said that my determination is one of my best character one of my best um and worst characteristics it's and it's great [Applause] yeah this happens to me okay i swear [Music] why didn't you measure it i didn't i swear i measured it and it fit i told you guys i like my wrapping paper but when it comes to wrapping presents i'm not that great okay is it for the other one i think i've seen that if you do it this way diagonally as i don't think i i feel like you know whenever um i'm so yeah i'm 24 now so i've set a lot of goals in my life okay but i feel like once i reach whatever big goal that i have um i just start making new ones wait once i reach like whatever big goal i have it's just i'm on to the next goal then i make it more and then you know it's it's never ending you know and i feel um and i feel like that's how life should be right because if you're not challenging yourself not always setting new goals you're just staying in the same place and honey no i'm not here to just stay in the same place forever that's not the kind of person that i am if yeah if you would have asked me five years ago if i if you would have asked me if i reached my goals that i sat from like five years ago the answer would be yes do you ask me right now no i'm so far from where i want to be but you know every day we take small steps towards our goals and before we know it continue putting your your best foot forward every single day and you get to where you want to be we do want to have kids so i have let's see i have five five siblings i have three older sisters all married um and two younger brothers um love you guys but i love them more one of them is mary the other one is 16. he's my little baby so um and so i'm sure you're great but he will always be too good for anyone and then changing has three siblings i know i come from a big family depending on who you ask changing comes from a big family as well um and so we both have always wanted kids yeah we both have always wanted kids we still want kids we haven't decided on how many kids yet we're still on we're still trying to figure that one out for sure at least two kids i am i'm okay with just two kids i used to want four kids changing someone's four kids um but i think once my sisters started having babies i was like no you know i thought i wanted four kids two two is good you know even just one would be okay but no i don't i don't think i would ever do just one kid just because i grew up with siblings and i feel like you know for the most part siblings are a blessing um and you know i wouldn't want my child to grow up alone you know especially because i grew up with five siblings and you know um but but yeah so we're still depending on how many kids we want um at least two kids but maths would probably be four um as far as when i think we honestly if we would have stuck to our like original uh plan that we made for ourselves uh we would have already had like a couple of kids by now um you know life changes and um and whatnot and i'm glad that we didn't have kids that we haven't had kids yet um and but yeah so i think we we have talked about it i think we're going to it would probably be another three years until we start to have kids um but yeah but who knows um if we like if we were to have kids now we wouldn't be mad about it you know or wouldn't be like a like an oopsie or something like that you know um but i think ideally you know like not that there was ever like a perfect time to have kids but i feel like there are better circumstances to have kids in you know and so i feel like we are still working on putting ourselves in the best position to have kids um and so three years probably gonna be a good place for us but it might be sooner maybe a little bit later we'll see i think we've learned to just go with the flow go with the roll with the punches you know and yes to have goals and to have a clear direction for where we want to go um but don't get too hung up on having like the schedule or this timeline that you have to follow you know um and to just enjoy each other while we well it's just us anyone like who knew me like even just like a little bit before i started my fitness journey when i told them i was going to the gym it was like a what did you say like did those words really come out of your mouth like like are you confused like you know the gym was not the same place where you know i was never an athletic person um i to this day i still i can't walk straight okay um like walking down the sidewalk i can't walk straight okay um and so i never didn't play sports in school but it was a first chair violin um and so yeah i didn't i didn't play sports growing up i was very much a nerd [Music] a big nerd i enjoyed doing homework i would lock myself in my room after school [Music] and practice the violin for six to eight hours straight for fun um i had no friends um and um yeah i was just i was a huge oh i love reading i have a certificate from first grade that says congratulations naomi for reading like 580 books this year so um yeah i had a little bit of a lonely sad deprived childhood we made it out okay oh the orc we did do a marching orchestra once like parade um that's probably as you know as it's like athletic as it got for me um throughout school so yeah so going to the gym was like the first real like physical activity that i did so i started going to the gym because my husband who was my boyfriend at the time he was like a total gym rat he loved going went there like seven days a week you know kind of a dude um and so like to like appease him and we were still in that that stage of dating we were very nice to each other so it was like okay i'll go with you um but soon enough actually it wasn't that soon it was like two years i eventually fell in love with it um and then started to really enjoy going um and then that's when everything like fell into place um everything was the hardest part when i started my finished stream like and i mean that in like all seriousness like i didn't um like even just like the moving my body apart was difficult like what i was saying like i did not when i was in early like i did not do anything physical growing up you know um like even walking on a treadmill i still cannot do that and walk straight okay understanding the terminology understanding nutrition how to bring your nutrition label understanding how to do the exercises i understand how to use the machines everything everything was difficult but i think it really just came down to um to just taking it one step at a time it's not and not being too hard on myself and just like okay like this is it's a lot to learn just go to the gym you know try a new machine every week um try you know continue to practice the same exercises until you get better and then when you're comfortable with them do new exercises you know you watch your videos on youtube watch do your research in them and like date like every day i was just doing i was just tackling one small obstacle and then as i continued to do that then all of a sudden you know years later it's just like i can it's just like sometimes words kind of come out of my mouth about like fitness and working out nutrition that's like where did i learn that from you know but it was you know staying diligent staying consistent and even when it got hard continuing to push through and just yeah so um yeah like like what i've been saying you know you just gotta put your foot gotta put your best foot forward at all times take one small step every single day and before you know it you will have surpassed like you will have surpassed like any goal that you wanted to have wanted to achieve but yes everything was hard for me at the beginning everything was hard so i do work out when i'm on my period this is what i will say i used to be like very hardcore like never take a break and never like you know never have a rest day when it's not at your actual rest day and stuff like that but i i've calmed down a little bit i found a good balance um so if you were um you know following me back then i apologize for my unnecessary aggressiveness but i feel like okay i feel like i know that for me myself sometimes like especially like during the winter like right now and especially if there's snow outside and it's cold it's like i will try to find any excuse to not work out because i just don't want to leave the house well i guess now my gym is in my garage so i don't have to leave the house but even then i sometimes i will still try to find any excuse not work out you know and so if i know i'm just trying to find an excuse to not work out then yes just go work out and on your period but if you need to take like a self-care day you know take care of yourself well that's a different story honey you know um so i'd say if you just need to take a rest day um to take care of yourself and to be in a better place mentally and physically do that by all means please do that you know um but if you're just looking for an ex if you know deep down inside your heart but you're just trying to look for an excuse to not work out then get your butt moving honey the fitness progress can be tracked in so many ways uh for me myself here are big things that i'm going to that i think are our prior our pro things i think our progress for me um like what i was just saying earlier is that um finding a better balance you know not always um worrying about what i'm eating and not always you know worrying about my workouts you know and not um you know it's just like like i don't want working out and fitness to be my entire life it's a part of my life it's not my entire life you know um and so for me having that balance that's progress and another big another for me another and you guys know that i love talking about form you know um and so that's another big area area where i measure progress um how um how i progress with my form and my squatting deeper you know um and you know it's just and looking back at old video i take you guys know i take videos of myself all the time but i can look back you know at like a couple of years i can look back a couple years and be like holy crap you know compare it to video from now and be like i like like my form is so much better and a forum oh my gosh it's such a great um measurement of progress on top of that also strength you know how uh i remember when i first started my fitness journey i it was a pr for me to squat 135 it was a pr um and if you don't know what pr means go watch my basic fitness words explain the video um so that was a pr for me and then now um years later 135 is i can do it for reps and that was a strength awesome indicator for progress as well so those are i was feel like three of the biggest i think i said three um three of the biggest indicators of or like measurements of progress for me that i really like to well measure progress by oh honey like i've been saying it took me like okay first of all it took me two years to even like going to the gym and then from there it took me another couple years to understand everything um i can't i don't i don't i don't think i have it in my heart i don't think i have the physical capacity to take on another sport i wish i could okay honestly if i'm being honest yeah i think i could if i really set my mind to it and if i really wanted to but i think weightlifting is a sport if you want to call it sport i think it's a sport for me um and i don't think i'm ever gonna try i might try other things um actually this path uh during quarantine for cardio um my husband and i we were doing a little bit of boxing um and so so try that which actually is fun but it's so much work literally like i would like i'll do it for five minutes and i'm just like dripping sweat anyways um so i think i'll try things here and there i'm not against trying things but to do it to the extent that i'm done with the weightlifting i don't think i have the capacity to do that like it's just i've just i'm just not i'm not physically talented enough to just take up a sport easily and like you know do well at it so yeah all right guys so that is all that i have for the q a today thanks so much for hanging out and wrapping guests with me today i'm wishing you all a wonderful christmas i'm sending all of you guys my love thanks again so much i love you guys so much and i'll talk to you guys [Music]