Welcome back to hashtag ReelPod. I'm your host Victoria Garrick and on today's episode,

I'm going to be sharing with you all the four things I learned this summer and my four

tips for a fresh fall. Now, I feel like I'm hoping this will be very timely because it is

the end of August and the start of September. So I know a lot of people either are starting

school or class or their new job or something is starting right around now and I wanted to be able

to give you guys some advice for that as well as just share the things I've learned this summer

to see if maybe that would be relatable to you but if not just inspire you to think about

what you can take away from this summer to help you have a better fall. That said, let's get

right into it. So the first thing that I learned this summer is that I have to respect my day.

Now when I say respect my day, I say this because when volleyball first ended, I no longer had

someone telling me when to wake up, no one telling me where to be, when school ended, I didn't

have teachers. I basically for so many years had people telling me what to do and when to do it

and that now I finally had total freedom and I kind of took advantage of that. I would not set an alarm,

I slept into like 1130 every day, I would grab my computer and put it on my bed to just start working

and I literally wouldn't leave my bed for hours and after a while, I got sad. Like it was depressing

to just lay in my bed all the time, never get up and brush my hair, never put on shoes, never really

leave the house. And even though I was doing good quality work and I was getting stuff done on my

computer, I just didn't feel great about the situation. And after a while, I sort of realized that

I was creating this kind of lazy environment by being in my bed all the time. And so I figured out

that if I just got up and I put on an outfit and I went and I sat at a desk, I would feel a lot

better about my day. And I call it respecting my day because I think we take for granted just the

basic things we have in life. And I feel like I have this awesome opportunity and this great life

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