Okay, we're talking about Step four, we're taking action on everything that we've done. You've just gone through the exercise of figuring out what you'd like to do for each unique recipe for yourself. And now it's time to take action. And what does taking action mean? It means having a plan of attack, how are you going to execute some of the things that you've written down? Were you being realistic?

Were you specific? Are you making measurable? Are you using that smart acronym? What that does is actually allows you to build in a plan of attack a lot easier, because when you're specific, you can start to pull those tasks out. So the ideal outcome of creating an actionable plan is actually scheduling it into your calendar. So we don't want to over schedule.

We don't want to be one of those, you know, people who are always moving on to the next thing TO THE THING TO THE THING TO THE THING till you burn out. But we do want you to recognize that if you don't start to determine how you spend your time, someone else is going to determine it. For you, whether it be the person you live with, whether it be a workplace, so on and so forth. And sometimes I don't know if you've ever felt this way. But if you have a whole bunch of blank space in your calendar, sometimes you're just paralyzed with, I'm not going to do anything at all, because I don't know what I should do, because your mind is tired. And maybe you've made too many decisions already today, and you wish that you had just planned ahead a little bit.

So taking action is then taking that visual piece of paper that you've written down all the different goals, how you feel about them under each recipe, or under each category or ingredient of the recipe, and then figuring out where you can fit it into your calendar. So for example, Amelia and I use Google Calendar. We do this for ease of use of sharing our calendars and knowing when we've made commitments for one another, but it's also so that we can visually see in a calendar form, what times we've blocked off and which times are available. I also personally use a bullet journal where I keep my personal calendar with you Certain things that I wanted to be reminded of with more things like goals as opposed to specific appointments like doctor's appointments or meetings. The other thing that you can do when helping yourself create that plan of attack and putting it into your calendar is putting it into a visual place in your space.

So for example, you're looking at a giant sized life version of Emilio's recipe or creation, if you will. He's got headings he's drawn out for body mind work so on so forth, all seven and then he's got reminders and pitchers that are helping him achieve what it is that he set forth that he wanted to do. This is a new highly visual placed in our home so he is able to see it, you no longer has the big version because it was just kind of to draw it up an example your piece of paper in your piece of paper is efficient enough to be able to see what you want to do. This is an example of of my board. So okay, it's made up of two different cork boards and then I write writing surface in between So in case I want to take notes, but this is where I keep my creation.

And you can see, my my weekly schedule is down in the bottom left hand corner of the bulletin board. I keep all of those things nice and visual for myself so that if I'm ever questioning what is it that I should be doing, or what could I be moving on to next, it's in a highly visual area of our home. Another way to track and take action is to actually be reflecting on how you're feeling throughout the month. We do this on a monthly basis, because we find it's long enough to collect enough data. But it's also short enough that you're not exhausting yourself keeping track of these things. We keep track of our wins and the things that we're grateful for.

But we also keep track of, you know, the frustrations and the challenges we have. And so we just keep simple headings on that whiteboard. And as we feel a challenge or a frustration, like recording is really hard. And to do it all at one time to build out a course is challenging. So that can be something that we write down. But one of the things we're grateful for is that we actually have helped with creating these courses and making these videos.

So I'm going to write that down as something I'm grateful for. So each month, we then reflect on those things, we notice the things that we were challenged by, and we say, have we made steps to fixing them? Or do we still need to do that. And then we make ourselves feel really great by remembering all of the winds and the gratitude that we have felt throughout the month. Because if we don't keep track of the positives, it's sometimes you know, easy to get caught up. And just the things that we want to complain about are the challenges that we've had.

So I mentioned the fact that I keep a bullet journal, we have an entire course that's just about how to build out a bullet journal because it is the system and it is a new way of tracking how you can keep things but in a in a physical analog way. So as opposed to using a digital application, you're giving yourself permission to take time, slow down, write things out by hand, add pictures, add value, and just basically kind of use that as a form of meditation, active meditation, if you will. So if you want to learn more about bullet journaling, we've included the link below. Low so that you can see a blog post that tells you a little bit more about that. And also a link to our course in case you want to dive a little bit deeper into that understanding. And I want to finish off with a quote by Vincent van Gogh, Vincent van Gogh, very famous painter was troubled in his own right cut off his ear.

But don't let that hold back from the smart wisdom that he had to share. Great things are done by a series of small things brought together. And that's what this is all about. Don't get overwhelmed with trying to attack everything that you've built out on your creation, make it something that's attainable for yourself and just start small poco a poco. They say in Spanish, it means little by little. And by taking small actions and making small steps towards the things that you feel are going to make you feel better.

You are going to at the end of the year be able to accomplish way more than you ever thought. So little small steps are going to get you there, planning it and scheduling it in because we all have 24 hours in a day and we determined how we Use them. If we don't set intention behind how we use our time, someone else is going to determine that for you. Like I said before, set some intentions, block off some time and protect that time once you have it scheduled. Don't let the interruptions of life bring that down or emergencies Of course, you can throw caution to the wind. But if you've put something in your calendar, you've done it for a reason.

So don't let an impulse or you know a lack of motivation, bring you down, respect it like you would a doctor's appointment or something that means a lot to you and get it done. We'll see you in the next video.