Hello friends and family,

Happy last weekend of April! How’s your week going? I hope all is well in your little bubble of the universe. I thought I would bring you this issue earlier this week because weekends are for living life especially when you have friends/ family around. I need to write this on a poster for my next apartment so I don’t go down rabbit holes and work on weekends. Anyway……

The theme of this week is “Focus and dopamine”

How’s your focus level? This week has been a strange one for me, I either find myself so spacey that I can’t focus or I am in solid deep focus for 5 hours. During those 5 hours, I am so deep I don’t even hear the outside world. There is no in-between and no switch to turn it on.

Since I am traveling this year and often in constant transition to new spaces I need to keep track of everything and regularly check in with myself to make sure I am grounded, productive, and well-rested.

One of the lessons from long-term travel is that without these 3 keys life seems completely out of control… and we cannot have that!

So I started monitoring my anxiety, transitions to new spaces, mental state, focus, and how/ when I am addicted to social media.

Here are a few findings:

• Transitions bring sleepless nights so I need to be more lenient on my wake-up time to make sure I am well rested.

• The week before flying somewhere, especially to a new country, my mind is in constant planning and replanning mode, so morning journaling and to-do lists are key. Making sure I can remind myself it’s all sorted out is important.

• Social media scrolling is an addiction and my scrolling goes up when I am not grounded. I need to notice every trigger and be aware of how long I spend online. Also the timings of this. 45 mins when I wake up and 30 mins before bed. (Never getting that time back!) Thankfully IG has a timer to tell me to take a break. It’s set to 10mins now.

Now this may seem like work but the payoff is a daily sync to be grounded, get everything done, and be graceful with my rest days thus more space to live this way comfortably.

I write this from a place of travel and transition but I know this might apply to your life too.

Your task this week:

• Take a moment to check in with yourself. How are you really doing?

Remember each week, we are just moving one tiny step forward to creating a life you love. 

🤙🏾 Inspiration Labs

Inspiration Labs is a 1-hour call where we dive into your project, career, life, or big dream. This free session is to gain clarity, dream bigger, and walk out with 1 action step to start moving forward. This is the value I am adding back to the world 💫

I will open new sessions weekly for this. To have this available to everyone, you are allowed 1 session only. (Sorry I wish, I had all the time in the world to only do this but I have to work too)

How often do you refresh your life? Rowena breaks down her steps calmly and creatively in this video.

I am on move 10ish in my life (across countries, this will be too many to count if I take in all the moves within a city) …and it’s 13 if you count the other 2 countries but those were pit stops, so I don’t add it in.

Each time make this move, I take a hard look at what is working, and not working, what I want to improve, also what I need to update in my life. I get a moment to reinvent a new version of life. 

I find this to be one of the most useful things you can do if you feel stuck. Now you don’t need to move to a new country but you can refresh your current life. Enjoy this video.

🎨 Artists Who Inspire

Moonwalker

This week I found 2 incredible artists who formed the partnership called Moonwalker! These two create beautiful nature and they take it a step further and make it move!

Do yourself a favor and click the link below to see more of their work!

🎶 Song of the week

Changing it up this week with an epic set by Hindz. This is the set helping me focus at the moment. Some good afro beats for your soul! I need to make South African music part of my morning routine for May!

Use this one for your unfinished tasks…let it hold your hand while you finish everything on your list this week.

✈️ Travel Inspo

“to travel is to wash your eyes”

Final thoughts:

No one gives you a solid handbook to live in this ever-changing world. You need to do the work and figure out everything for yourself. Take this as a gentle sign to figure out something today.

✈️ Final note...I Made This 📒 ...You can click the link below to buy That Travel Book (My First Baby). Please drop an Amazon review as well…much needed for that platform. Thank you!

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Forward to one friend each week and help this baby grow. Thank you!