fall lock-in diaries: 5am morning routine, work day in my life + building discipline

Good morning. I would say it's bright and early but it is literally pitch black outside. I haven't woken up this early in so long but I really wanted to try out a different routine today and work out in the morning rather than after work. So it is currently a little after 5 30 now after I very slowly and tiredly got ready. I'm just eating a cheese stick first thing to at least have something in my stomach and then also trying to drink some water and stay hydrated. But yeah I'm tired but I'm ready to lock in and have a good day. Workout felt so good. I am feeling a little bit tired though. I think it's just because I wasn't able to fall asleep until around 11 ish which is something again I need to work on. Anyway I'm gonna take a quick shower and then get ready for work. I'm just finishing up getting ready adding some earrings to my look. My office dress code is business casual. I feel like I'm definitely leaning towards a little bit more casual today but this is the outfit that we got going on. These are both from Quince. This tank top is so comfortable. It's like a ribbed material and then these are the Bella Stretch wide leg jeans. I can link both of these down below but as you guys know I really have been trying to put so much more effort into how I dress specifically when it comes to going to the office because I really do notice a huge difference when I'm wearing something that I feel confident and comfortable in. I show up much more like myself and yeah just more confident in general. You guys I have not finished this yet. I have been pretty inconsistent with reading my devotions recently. I started off so strong and I was doing like every day for a little while but yeah recently I've just kind of fallen off of this habit and definitely something that I want to get back into. So this is a 40 day devotional so yeah I have about five days left because each of the weeks are five day chunks but if you are looking for a good devotional I do highly highly recommend this one and a couple of you were asking how exactly I structure my devotions and honestly like this structures it for me. So pretty much it starts out with a reading so for instance today will be Galatians 6. So of course I read that chapter in the bible and then I read the little devotional here and then there's questions that it asks you specifically regarding what you read in the scripture and then some of it is also like application how can you apply it to your life. So yeah I really really like the structure of this. Sometimes it does take a good 20 minutes-ish to get through one devotional so sometimes I do need to break it up between two days. That's honestly another reason why it's taking me so much longer but highly highly recommend. I'll have this link down below. Last night I packed up a sandwich for my lunch today and then also I've been trying to eat more vegetables like I told you guys in the last video. Wow I guess I ate most of this yesterday but I made a cucumber salad with broccoli slaw in it so it doesn't look the best right now so I'm only gonna do that but I'm really proud of myself and I'm gonna bring it to work so I can finish it there. All right and that about wraps up my morning routine. I am heading to the office now and I'll chat with you guys after. Guess who's home? I feel like I'm always in the best mood on Thursdays because I know that tomorrow is a Friday and that's my work from home day so I don't have to go back into the office until next week which makes me so so happy. Also I'm feeling so hungry and I think it's because I've started working out more consistently which means that my appetite is growing again so I need to figure out some ways that I can eat more during the day. If you didn't know I was actually a college athlete and I would literally eat five full-size meals every single day. Anyway I'm about to go on a walk. It is 5 23. The weather outside is so perfect and the temperature is 80 degrees so I have to take advantage of this. We walked for about a mile and a half. It felt so good. It was slightly hot outside though but we ended up talking to our neighbors for a while so it is 6 30 now. I actually have a call tonight with some of my friends at seven so I'm gonna try to make and eat dinner as quickly as possible. I have some chicken sausage that I'm gonna cook up and then maybe rice and some sort of vegetable to eat with it. All right and here's the dinner. I have some mild Italian style chicken sausage. I sauteed some broccoli with avocado oil and salt. I did add some paprika as well and then jasmine rice. I just finished up my call with the girls and it was so so nice. I feel like I had been really lacking community for a long time and then I met these girls I think like two years ago now and we try to have monthly FaceTime calls because we are all in completely different states so having that has been so nice. I just I'm so grateful. Anyway I think I'm gonna go catch up Caleb downstairs, kind of just debrief the day, hang out with him for a little bit and then carry on with the rest of my night. I feel like, I don't know, today's just been such a good day and I'm wondering if part of that is because I woke up super early and got a workout in. I woke up early and I showed up for myself and I got my endorphins flowing and I really do think that working out and like moving your body helps improve your mood drastically, at least it does for me. So yeah I'm just grateful and I'm grateful for you guys. Seriously like this is so crazy that I don't know that we have this community and that you're here and I'm here and we're here together. I don't know, it's cute. I love you guys so so much. It is 10.04 and I'm all ready for bed. I'm just gonna spend a little bit of time reading before I fall asleep. I am feeling pretty tired so I probably won't stay up too too much longer, but I just want to say thank you for being here. Thank you so much for watching. I love you guys. Ignore my lisp, I have a retainer in. I feel like I say that every time I have a retainer in, but anyway I'll see you guys in the next video. Peace!