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[English]

It's the halfway point of the year.

Are you on track with your goals?

Let's reflect and reset.

Hello my loves. Welcome back to Lavendaire.

Today I'm excited to do a midyear reset.

So it is the halfway point of the year and

it's the perfect time to reflect on

how we've been doing the first half of the year.

And whether we need to readjust and realign

anything to stay on track with our goals

and the life that we're trying to build.

So today's video is kind of  like a journal along with me

where I'll share some journal prompts.

I'll give you time to pause the video

and journal with those prompts.

And then later on,

I'll share my reflection on  my first half of the year.

Feel free to do this in your notebook

or in our Artist of Life Workbook.

This is a Workbook I created to help you plan

and stay on track with all your goals

throughout the year.

I actually am doing a huge sale on the shop

right now just to the end of this month.

If you use the code "MIDYEAR",

you'll get 50% off.

This discount applies to everything on the shop.

And a lot of the items on the shop

we're actually not going to restock.

Of course we're going to keep making

the Workbook, but some of the items,

if you love them, then definitely

this is your chance to pick them up.

Without further ado, let's begin.

First, let's celebrate our wins.

So the first prompt is:

"What were the wins and highlights  of your first half of 2025?"

If you answer that prompt,

let us know down below:

what was your biggest win from the year so far?

I'd love to read all your responses.

Moving on. Next prompt.

"What have you learned? And how have you evolved

in this first half of the year?"

Next, review the goals

that you set at the beginning of the year

and then ask yourself:

what updates need to be made?

Now, ask yourself:

what goals would be the most important

to focus on for the rest of the year?

So pick your top three priorities.

So out of all of your goals,

which three goals would make the biggest impact?

If you were to do them.

Finally, rate from 1 to 10 how aligned

do you feel towards your dream life.

So, one is not aligned and  then 10 is the most aligned.

You don't have to have reached your dream life

but what I'm asking is:

are you on the right track?

After you've set your rating, ask yourself:

what would it take for it to be a 10?

So what would need to change in your life?

What would you need to change?

What would you need to do differently

in order for you to rate yourself "yes I am a 10

aligned on the path to my dream life".

All right now it's time for me

to share some of my highlights and lessons

from the first half of the year.

So a big highlight that just happened was

I took a month off to travel in Asia,

and I've been sharing vlogs about it.

There are a couple more vlogs to come

but I basically had a girls trip

with some of my friends in Korea.

I did a solo trip for a week.

A little bit like couple days in Korea.

And a week in China.

And then I spent time with my dad in Shanghai

who I have not seen in 6 years.

And my relationship with my dad

had a lot of difficult rocky moments.

It's the most difficult  relationship of my life basically.

But this trip really helped heal and

kind of tie up loose ends in a lot of ways for me.

So emotionally and in my personal life

I felt like I overcame something really big.

And it's a personal mountain that I climbed.

And so that's something that I'm really proud of.

It's a highlight as well as a big win for me.

Other wins from this year I felt like I spent more

time with family and friends. My brother

moved back home recently so I've been

spending more time with my brother and

my mom. And in terms of career I feel like

I've been heading in new directions this year

not just starting but really just like in motion

for a lot of projects.

I'm working on my book.

I got a literary agent and I'm  just in the motions of that.

I've been working on an app concept

that I've mentioned with you guys.

Specially if you're on my email list,

you know you've took the survey.

So I've been doing these long-term

behind-the-scenes projects

that are kind of big projects

that take sometime before

I can really like talk about it or

show you guys anything.

So I feel like I've been  working a lot behind the scenes.

But I've also been more creatively inspired

since I got back from my trip.

So I'm more inspired to make more content.

I'm trying to show up more on social media.

Like on Instagram, trying to post more.

And so that's kind of what the first half of my year has been.

I just remembered another win

definitely worth mentioning here is that

I had two videos on this channel hit 10M views

pretty much around the same time.

So the top two videos are

my 5 minute morning meditation and

my positive affirmations for self-love.

That's just a cool little win because

I never thought that that would happen.

Especially on a meditation and affirmations videos

because those videos were so like not mainstream

when I started making them.

It was just like a weird little test on my channel

that just happened to become like

the biggest type of content on my channel

over these years. So that's pretty cool.

I feel like everyone's leveling up consciously

with their mindset.

Just everyone is just doing it.

And I'm really proud of everyone who are doing

those meditations and affirmations.

So thank you for supporting.

One thing that I've learned recently for myself

is to stop overthinking

and to stop allowing my mind to get so scattered

and so distracted by the content that I consume.

I really realize that the more content I consume

the more I just read what's out there,

the more confused and distracted

and scattered that I feel.

And so if I really want to be focused

and feel clarity, I just have to just turn inward,

meditate and find the answers within.

The answers are not outside of me.

The answers are in here.

And that's what I am reminded by.

And another thing that I have learned about myself

is that I feel my best when

I am doing something creative every day.

So I'm just reminding myself

to not overthink things and just create.

It doesn't matter what I'm working on.

Whether I'm working on a video,

a book or the app or this,

just anything, music, as long  as I'm doing something creative

that is like a very positive fulfilling way

to pour my energy out and

I don't really have to judge what comes out

of my creativity. It's just I have to focus on

just doing it just creating and keeping

that energy flowing.

That's what feels best for me

In terms of alignment towards my dream life.

I rate myself at a nine because

I really really love my life and I feel like

I'm in a good place.

I can't complain.

I am on the path to creating my dream life.

I'm not all the way there but

a lot of aspects of my life are there. Right?

I have this career that I love.

I'm able to be creative.

I'm able to have freedom of time and location.

Like literally me taking off a month to travel

and to not work that's that's like a pretty long

that's the longest I've done it in a while.

And to be able to do that freely

and still keep things going.

I'm just very grateful to be  able to be at this point in life.

You know took me a while  to build it but here I am.

So I'm very proud of that.

But what would it take to get to a 10 is

I still feel like I have these negative habits

that I fall back into.

I'm not the best with not eating sweets, right?

I like to eat healthy but I love my sweets.

And that's not good for me.

For me it's like the health and fitness goals

that I tend to always feel like

I'm going back and forth with.

And also the fact that

I allow my mind to get scattered and distracted.

So I'm really working on honing it and

I feel really good this past week.

But you know, this first half of the year

I did struggle with that.

But you know, we're all a work in progress

and it's okay. Nobody's perfect.

We all have our flaws and  weaknesses and our crutches.

But we are here.

As long as we keep trying another day.

Each day is an opportunity to take

that positive step towards our dream life.

All right. I hope you enjoyed this video and

I hope that you are also aligned and

aligning yourself to the life that you want.

I hope today's video was helpful

and I hope that you remember that

your power is in the present moment.

That you have the power in every moment

to realign yourself if you  feel like you've fallen off.

Whether that's in a mini way

like oh I've been scrolling  on my phone for too long.

Let me zip. Let me get back.

Or whether it's in like a big picture thing.

Oh, this job has not been  fulfilling for a few years.

And I felt like I would fit somewhere else.

Let me try to explore what else is out there.

Like try to find all the ways that

you can realign to the life that you want.

Because it's your life.

No one else is going to do it for you.

All right. Sending you so much love.

And if you are curious about  any of those long-term projects

that I mentioned like the book,

the app, music or whatever,

sign up for my email list because

that is the special group of people  that are the first to find out

about everything new that I'm working on.

Any updates, any announcements.

I'm also trying to create like an audio course

since those audios do so well.

I just want to make like a  structured course version of that

but I don't know when I'll  have time to work on it.

So I'll keep you guys updated.

All right. That's it for today.

I hope you have a beautiful beautiful summer.

Bye.

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Key Vocabulary

Vocabulary	Meanings
reflect /rɪˈflekt/ B1	verb - to think deeply about something
reset /riˈset/ B1	verb - to set again or anew
track /træk/ A2	noun - a course or path to follow verb - to follow or monitor progress
realign /riːəˈlaɪn/ B2	verb - to adjust to a new position or direction
prompt /prɒmpt/ B1	noun - a cue or question to provoke thought
priorities /praɪˈɒrɪtiz/ B1	noun - things regarded as most important
highlight /ˈhaɪlaɪt/ B1	noun - a significant or notable event
evolved /ɪˈvɒlvd/ B2	verb - to develop gradually over time
inspired /ɪnˈspaɪərd/ B1	adjective - feeling motivated or creative
scattered /ˈskætərd/ B2	adjective - spread over a wide area; unfocused
clarity /ˈklærɪti/ B2	noun - the quality of being clear or easy to understand
creativity /kriːeɪˈtɪvɪti/ B2	noun - the ability to create new ideas or things
gratitude /ˈɡrætɪtjuːd/ B2	noun - the quality of being thankful
consciousness /ˈkɒnʃəsnəs/ C1	noun - awareness of one's surroundings or self
fulfilling /fʊlˈfɪlɪŋ/ B2	adjective - providing satisfaction or happiness
alignment /əˈlaɪnmənt/ B2	noun - the state of being in a straight line or in agreement
flaws /flɔːz/ B1	noun - defects or weaknesses in character
progress /ˈprəʊɡres/ A2	noun - forward or onward movement toward a destination