how to romanticize your daily rituals + routines

this week, we’re learning how to fall even more in love with the everyday. week 14 is all about romanticizing your real life- the simple rituals, the tiny joys, and the moments you usually overlook.

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I know that you have a perfume that you're waiting to wear on a special occasion, or the candle on the back of the drawer that you're waiting to light on the perfect day or the brand new dress that you bought for the next upcoming celebration. I know that you keep saving things for a what if. You keep holding on to beautiful moments, beautiful days, cool things that you have already in your house, purchases that you are making or have made that are just sitting there waiting to be used, waiting to be created. We are sitting on life's most beautiful moments. The question is, are you gonna wait or are you gonna act on them? Are you going to make them happen right now? Welcome back to the Self-Love Archives podcast. I am your host, Julia Salvia, and we are on week 14 of the Self-Love 100, 100 Days of Loving Yourself More. This is such an exciting week because in the past couple of years I have integrated this so much into my life that I have the opportunity to create so many. Beautiful moments in my day to day within the mundane, within just existing and living here on this earth, and that is romanticizing your life. We have surely talked about this before in other episodes and on socials and together and whoever coined the term romanticize your life. Bless you. We love you over here because there's something so special about romanticizing your life. There's something so special about not waiting for the perfect moment, not waiting to be romanticized, not waiting for that day to come. There's something so special about taking control and. Romanticizing your life right now in this moment. You don't need tons of money. You don't need to be in a gorgeous, beautiful place. You already have everything that you need right now in this moment to do just that. Romanticizing your life is about taking the mundane, like you going out to get your coffee every single day, and it's gotten so repetitive. How can you take that mundane moment? That repetition of a mundane moment and turn it into something that is just a tad bit more romanticized, a tad bit more beautiful, a tad bit more creative, more fun, more inspiring. How can you take something so boring to you and just up it just a little bit? Some ways that I think you can romanticize your life is switching out a pen that you write with every single day with one that is luxe luxury. I have so talked about my obsession with a point, I think it's a 0.03 millimeter pen, and just the luxury of writing with this pen, it was like $7 for two of them. Maybe $12 for two of them. Either way, I will take $12 to write with something that allows me to get my words out my to-do list on this piece of paper in such a gorgeous, beautiful way. Get dressed up. To go to the grocery store because I have free will and can do whatever I want. Roll all the windows down in the car, turn the music up as loud as I can, and scream, sing whatever song comes on next. Take aesthetic pictures of your breakfast, your lunch, your dinner of the beautiful leaves changing outside or of the snow falling on the ground, or just the way that this one car looked parked on the street. Take a moment to notice. Take a moment to think about all of the things in your life that just seems so blah. So boring, so mundane. How can you elevate those? How can you make them more fun, more creative, and more inspiring? And most of these things have nothing to do with spending money and more to do with the intention that you put into the ritual around them. Like your 10 step skincare routine at night instead of putting the lights on full blast. Tick the light down just a little bit so that gives more of a mood. Play jazz music in your house all day. That's one of mine. Add sprinkles to your coffee. Set up your lunch on a plate and plate it like they do in those Gordon Ramsey shows as you're leaving Costco. Jump onto the cart. Do a little, do a little like run first, right? And then jump onto make sure you have stuff in your cart. Otherwise, it'll flip over. Be careful, but jump on the cart and allow it to take you all the way through the parking lot as if you were 12 years old. Again, there are so many ways to elevate your life, to romanticize your life, and I want you to do them this week. Every single day, whether it's you pick one thing and you romanticize that, you turn it into a romanticized ritual throughout the entire week. Maybe it's something that you do every single day. You change it. You just elevate something every single day. You find more creativity in your day. That is what I want you to do this week. I know you might not be a photographer, a videographer, a creator, influencer. I want you to take pictures and videos of yourself, your days, anything that you come across that you find inspiring or beautiful. This week I want you to romanticize your life. I'm giving you permission to romanticize your life This week. You'll only get this one life to live. Unless you believe in souls like mine and you jump around life after life after life, but you are in this body right now, living this life right now, enjoy it, romanticize it. Make your life worth waking up to every single day. And if anybody has anything to say about you being extra this week, you romanticizing your life. You being a maximalist and celebrating life in whatever way that you decide to this week, please tell them to fuck right off. Please tell them you that you have free will and you can do whatever you want. Please tell them that they are missing out on a fulfilling life. I promise you that as you start to love yourself more and start to celebrate you. Celebrate your life, the one that you're living right now. You'll care less about the people around you and what they have to say and what they think about the way that you're living because all you know at the end of every single day is that you are living a life that you deserve, a life that you are so incredibly worthy of. And always have been. I am so excited for this week. I'm so excited for week 14. We have one week to go of the self-love 100 and week 14 is the very last task that I have for you in this challenge. Next week, we are gonna talk all about how to continue self-love as a practice and romanticizing your life is a huge part of that. I am so grateful that you are here. Wow. I didn't think that I would get, like, I didn't think that I would get emotional filming this. I mean, we're not even on the last episode yet. I mean, I'm not even going anywhere, but I'm getting a little emotional because I'm just so grateful For those of you that have stuck with me in. The self-love 100, it means so much to me that you have taken the time out of your day to listen and to decide and put your foot down, that it is your time to love yourself more. That you deserve to love yourself more. And I could not be, I mean, I am forever indebted to you. I could not be more proud of you. I could not be more grateful that you are here. Please, please, please. If you feel confident and courageous enough to post a little compilation or a little snippet of your week of romanticizing your life, please tag me. I would absolutely love to see it, or you can just send it to me if you don't wanna post it to the war for the world to see. And if you do, post it for the world to see. Post it for the world to see. Show them what loving yourself more really looks like. I love you to pieces. I will see you next week for week number 15. Bye.