21 FOR 2021: 21 NEW YEAR’S RESOLUTION IDEAS
Or 21 Mini-Master Classes from 21 Experts to Learn From in 2021
(Part 2 of 2)
13. MAKE YOUR HOME EASY ON THE EYES, MIND, & SOUL.
Interior stylist and online design consultant Camyl Besinga, also known as Gal at Home, motivates us to get started in creating the best background for the best life we can have during these challenging times and beyond— on a tiny (or zero!) budget in five steps:
- Figure out how you want to feel in your space.
- Audit your space.
- Clear the clutter.
- Shop your home for things you can use.
- Create meaningful vignettes.
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Refresh Your Home in 5 Easy (And Free!) Steps
14. CREATE A SUSTAINABLE DECLUTTERING SYSTEM
Research reveals that visual clutter competes with our brain’s ability to pay attention and impairs our focus, performance, and time management, and adds stress. Christine Dychiao, the first certified KonMari consultant in the Philippines for her expert, has five life-changing tidying tips and tricks:
1. Follow Marie Kondo’s 6 Basic Rules of Tidying:
1.Commit yourself to tidying up
2. Imagine your ideal lifestyle
3. Finish discarding first
4. Tidy by category, not by location
5. Follow the right order
6. Ask yourself if it sparks joy.
2. End goal of storage: A home for everything
3. Fold and file
4. Surround yourself only with what sparks joy
5. Ask: Is this future kalat?
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Declutter Your Home, Declutter Your Mind & Life
15. GO FOREST-BATHING IN YOUR OWN INDOOR GARDEN
Invest in the stress-relief method that went viral in 2020: The Japanese concept of forest bathing, or shinrin-yoku, which means bathing in a forest atmosphere, or taking in the forest through our senses. It means simply being in nature, connecting with it through our senses of sight, hearing, taste, smell and touch.
Indoor plants can add just a bit of nature, a touch of good health, a sense of calm and control, and lots of joy into our homes.
Original plantito Pido Villanueva, who has been growing, farming, selling, and styling with plants for 25 years is an ambiance stylist, monstera farmer, and owner of PGD Botanique offered these tips:
Top 5 Indoor Plants for Beginners:
- Swiss cheese.
- La Suerte
- Pothos
- Philodendrons
- Monstera
Top 5 Green Thumb Must-Knows:
- The best spot for ample light for each kind of plant.
- Proper watering techniques.
- Proper grooming, cleaning, and checking for mites and insects.
- Proper feeding.
- Proper repotting techniques.
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How to Start an Indoor Garden: Top Tips & Tricks!
16. MASTER THE #WFH GAME
Remember when all we ever wanted was to be able to work from home and envied those who could? Who knew #WFH would come with a whole new set of struggles? Malou Trenas del Castillo, career coach, licensed psychologist, workshop facilitator, speaker, and author of the book The Career Road Map recommends these tips:
- Control what you can.
- Create schedules for family and self.
- Set clear boundaries between work and personal life.
- Stay connected, be informed.
- Be self-compassionate & self-forgiving.
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The Top 5 Work-From-Home Challenges & How to Overcome Them
17. ELEVATE YOUR IMPACT IN VIRTUAL MEETINGS
Whether you are #WFH, looking for work, or connecting with friends, after 2020, you can no longer ignore the kind of impression you give online. Top live and virtual events emcee, hosting mentor, actress, and director Issa Litton coaches us on our online presence by teaching us how to avoid and solve these five most popular mistakes:
- Looking at yourself or other people.
- Bad audio
- An unflattering angle
- Fumbling with controls
- Looking too “at home”
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How to Elevate Your Impact in Virtual Meetings
18. START OR RESTART YOUR BUSINESS.
RJ Ledesma teaches us how to look for hidden yet lucrative opportunities in times of crisis.
The CEO of the 10-year-old Mercato Centrale food market and food business incubator and award-winning SME leader and mentor gives us five questions to help us get started:
- What problem are you trying to solve?
- What makes it unique and innovative?
- What is your secret sauce?
- Is it scalable and repeatable?
- Do you need to pivot?
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Top 5 Tips: How to Start Or Restart Your Business in the New Normal
19. LEARN AND MASTER ONLINE SELLING.
Now that the majority of sales from businesses is generated via screens instead of storefronts, selling anything online, whether it’s goods or skills, has become a necessary survival skill. Corporate-executive-turned-top-sales-coach Robert Velhagen, who trains thousands of new online sellers every month, reveals the essentials we all need to know to ace the online selling game:
- Know your avenues
- Do your homework
- Build your audience
- Build your customer testimonials
- Build your community
Watch this for more:
How to Sell Anything to Anybody: Top 5 Online Selling Tips
20. LEARN HOW TO GROW YOUR MONEY.
Take down notes from bestselling author, financial planner, stock trader, international keynote speaker Marvin Germo on how to find, make, keep, save, and grow money in these uncertain times.
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How to Make Money Asap MARVIN GERMO
21. REWIRE YOUR MINDSET FOR THE POST-COVID WORLD.
Entrepreneur and educator Lex Ledesma, best known for founding The One School and SOFA (School of Fashion and the Arts) and running the iconic restaurant Whistle Stop and who is also a doctor of Psychology, wrote and published two books, the second of which,RESET: 100 Ways to Rewire Your Mindset for the Post-COVID World: Lessons from the greatest psychologists, was proclaimed by Amazon as their Number 1 New Release in six separate categories, outperforming all the other books in these sections. He shares five tools out of the 100 ways in the book to help us get started in rewiring our mindset:
- Change and measure your behavior.
- Reinterpret what you feel.
- 3Identify your attitudes.
- Create a growth mindset.
- Attack your regrets.
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The Top 5 Ways to Rewire Your Mindset for the Post-Covid World
