How To Readily Romanticize Your Life

Spring equinox has come which means we can officially embrace the spring season! Putting the winter wardrobe away and airing out our beautiful spring and summer pieces!

By now you may have said goodbye to the winter resolutions you once committed yourself to, and now you’re longing to find a way to meet 2024 with grace for where you are currently at in life. Whether your goals were health, finance, career, or personal development, I want to come to the romanticize your life genre with kindness towards yourself.

Romanticizing your lifestyle is no place to create daunting and stressful metrics for yourself to hit, but to instead lean into slowing down and choosing to enjoy the average day to day activities.

Anyone that knows me, knows how busy my life can get and how much I love being productive! The hustle and bustle is so exciting and seeing progress feels amazing! I have a sneaky feeling you may be in a very similar position. However, burnout is very real, and balance is super important in our every day to day lives. Work hard and play hard by mixing your inner girl boss with moments of ‘smelling the roses’!

In this blog post, I’m going to take you through how you can romanticize your life while maintaining a busy lifestyle.

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Elevate Your Regular Activities

You don’t jump into fitness by never entering a gym to suddenly committing to five days a week. The same goes for changing your lifestyle. I want you to evaluate your daily activities and see if you change the way you do simple tasks, which are already incorporated in your day-to-day life.

9 EASY ACTIVITIES YOU CAN ELEVATE

1.) Swap taking a dull shower by making a serine oasis.

When you’re super busy, taking a shower can feel like more time away from what you need to get done. This is why I pre stage some of my favorite items in the bathroom, so I can create a relaxing atmosphere. This is a task already integrated into my routine, but now it feels like an event I look forward to rather than a chore. I’ll walk you through what to do to make a shower significantly more enjoyable.

Candle lighting:

You don’t have to spend a lot of money to get the ambiance of candlelight. Pick out one of your favorite scented candles from Bath and Body Works and purchase the rest of your candles at Dollar Tree. This way you’re getting the scent you want as well as the candlelight setting without spending a lot of money on 6 different Bath and Body candles.

Background Music:

“Percussion…Strings…Wiiinds…Wooords.” – Sabastian in Little Mermaid

Sabastian knew in the original Little Mermaid movie that music changes the tone of any setting. Adding background music just may become a favorite for you when taking a shower. Pick a genre of music you like and have it playing in the background. I’ll share with you a few of my favorite soundtracks to listen when I’m relaxing:

Studio Ghibli

Italian Music

Barbie Fairytale Classic

Upbeat Music

Listen to A Podcast

I really love being productive and somedays I don’t want to listen to background music. Again I want you to meet yourself where you’re currently at. I didn’t start out relaxing to ambiance music and some days I prefer to listen to a podcast instead. A Youtube channels / podcast I couldn’t recommend enough is Diary Of A CEO.

Eucalyptus or Humidifier

I purchased Eucalyptus and hung it on my shower head based on advice from other influencers, but I didn’t notice a huge difference other than I liked the look. Try it out yourself and tell me what you think, but I felt I got a better affect by using a humidifier or a candle.

2.) Have Your Next Meal Outside

Spring and summer go by faster than we prefer, so enjoy your next meal amongst nature. We ruin the enjoyment of our food by being distracted on our phones (guilty) and not savoring what’s on our plate. Grab a fluffy blanket, turn on some background music, and enjoy the beautiful weather happening just outside your home!

3.) Dress To The Nines!

There are more opportunities to dress up in your everyday life than you may realize! You can dress up nicely when home alone, going out to eat, or just hanging out with friends. Probably my favorite place to dress up is when my husband and I would eat at the Super 1 grocery store market. We were on a tight budget, but we’d both dress up nice for each other and ate at the market there. We felt so fancy free while on a budget! Those are some of my happiest memories and I’d do them all again if we had a Super 1 nearby!

4.) Swap Daily Walks For Daily Adventures!

I want you to break away from the idea of ‘I’m just going on a walk’ to ‘I’m going on an adventure’. I can get stuck in taking the same path every time I go for my daily walk, and lately I’ve decided to start going on adventures. I’m taking new roads and seeing where they take me! I highly recommend this!

5.) There’s Always Time For A Bow!

Have you seen Arthur Christmas? If you have then you understand the title, and if you haven’t then oh my gosh you need to watch it!
Purchasing a bow as a hair accessory can take a simple outfit and make the overall look super adorable! I’m in love with this latest trend, and I’ll be celebrating it long after the trend leaves us.

6.) Make Your Food Look Cute

You know when you go to a restaurant and you’re pleasantly surprised, they made your food look so beautiful? Prepare a meal you always make and pretend you’re going to post it on Pinterest or Instagram! Make the food look ultra delicious and savor the moment!

7.) Read Your Favorite Book Before Bed

When you’re winding down after a long day at work, pull out one of your favorite books to read!

8.) Design Your Dream Morning Routine

When I defined my morning routine, my life became significantly smoother! I urge you to observe your daily needs and find a way to make your morning routine set you up for a successful day.

9.) Design An Evening Routine That Serves Your Morning Routine

This goes hand in hand with creating a good morning routine. Except your nighttime routine should have elements in it that aids you in having a better tomorrow.

Example: Every night you set a cup of water on the nightstand, so you have a drink staged for yourself in the morning.