Hey Everyone
Its Kati again, and i'm in Mammoth Lakes, California
as you can see.
The snow, we don't get this down in L.A
unfortunately!
So today I want to talk to you about
cutting off our internet connection for a little bit
and vacationing, so stay tuned.
So like I said, we need to take
a little break sometimes.
We need to cut off our communication online.
And I know that sounds bad
because a lot of us, that's our main outlet
and I always tell you we need to vent
we need to talk but sometimes
its important to (*sigh) breathe and
take it in because we get so stuck online
and i'll tell you, to be honest, it was hard for me to do
I've been offline for four days..
and we go through this kind of feeling where
I want to pick up my phone 'oh I should check twitter!'
NO, I did not because sometimes we have to
cut away from that so that we can
interact with real people in our lives.
You know, like 'in real life' people,
like our family and our friends
and people at school and
we need to take that time to communicate
where we're not talking but we're like
checking emails and 'yeah yeah yeah, aha aha'
We're not really listening
and sometimes we need to take that time
to give ourselves a break
where we don't have to respond to anybody right away.
They'll still be there,
they'll know.
It's okay.
And it's kind of setting those little healthy boundaries.
I have videos, my old videos, there's two of them
'Boundaries 1' and 'Boundaries 2' and I talk about
setting healthy boundaries within relationships,
well this is kind of a boundary for yourself.
For your self-care.
Even myself, I have my fabulous five that I check, all of my sites.
And I have to take some time for myself, right,
so that I can keep doing this! Ta da!
So, I took four days off and the first day or so
it was really hard.
I kept wanting to get online and check things,
and 'oo, I know there's questions that need to be answered',
but once I got past that I could finally relax.
I would lean back but I'd probably fall off this rock
that i'm hoisted on to.
So, it's nice to kind of take a break.
So, I would encourage all of you
even if its just for one afternoon,
and you kind of like want to check your phone.
Try to give yourself a little break.
Take some time.
Do some self-care.
Take a bubble bath, paint your nails,
colour, call that friend you haven't talked to in a while,
hang out with them, grab a coffee.
Anything you can do that doesn't create
too much anxiety but its a nice getaway.
Right? Do something different.
We have to change up what we're doing to
continue to take care of ourselves,
and we can't do that when we're online everyday
because what that usually means is,
when we're online, we're like inside, on the computer
you know, sitting down versus being out talking to people.
Being our wonderful selves, right?
And we're trying to work on a healthy mind,
a healthy body.
But we have to put it into action.
We have to show people.
People love us, people care about us,
and they probably miss the communication.
So take some time away.
Thats my task and my little
homework assignment if you can do something
this week.
Take a couple of hours where you're
not reachable....
*gasp!!
Horrible things could happen,
but they won't.
It's only a couple of hours.
It'll be nice for you to not to be reachable.
And the weird thing is, I know this is showing my age,
I grew up in a time without cell phones.
We actually had car phones.
Like in the car, a phone, like a phone
from your home. So ghetto now.
But, at the time, you were unreachable,
and nothing bad happened.
We got along just fine.
I didn't even have email.
We didn't have twitter,
none of that existed and
everything was just fine.
So lets try to take a little break
so we can all take our little vacation right,
we can get out, we can see people,
we can reconnect because I'll tell you what
It feels so good.
And it's nice to reconnect with the people
in our lives that love us most,
who care about us most,
because that's what life's all about, right?
It's our relationships.
And keep checking back,
I'll keep putting out videos.
I just wanted to talk to you all
as I was on my vacation in Mammoth.
Don't forget to subscribe to my channel
because I put out videos every monday,
and sometimes in the middle of the week,
and then you'll get notified.
And don't worry,
I'm coming online tomorrow.
So i'll be back and....
I'm trying to think if there's anything else,
oh, don't forget to check out for my workbook
on my website if you haven't already.
It's free.
You can download it on there and
it can help you get started
thinking about who I am and
what's important to me.
So hop on and do that
and we'll keep working together
towards a healthy mind and
a healthy body.