Are you ready to enjoy your life more this year? Romanticizing your life is a fun way to uplevel and improve the quality of your life. Make each day feel like something you look forward to. From seeing the ordinary as extraordinary, embracing daily delights, to creating your own that girl daily routine.

This ultimate guide to romanticizing your life will inspire you to shape your mindset and life to make you feel more happy and fulfilled your way each day by romanticizing your life.

Truly taking the time to romanticize your life can not only make your life feel more special and happy, but it can also improve your satisfaction!

Have you found yourself comparing your life to the way that other people are doing their life?

What if you lived life your way?

And, what if you loved the way that you lived your life?

You can.

To summarise, romanticizing your life improves the quality of your life and uplevels your life by creating positive changes in your lifestyle, mindset, daily habits and routines.

How romanticizing your life up levels your life:

• Makes the ordinary more extraordinary
• You embrace more gratitude for where you are at in your journey
• Helps you cherish the small joys which makes you happier and maintain a more positive outlook on life
• Invites more presence into your life
• Increases your self-love practice

Ways romanticizing your life up levels your life:

• Enhances your creativity
• Improved consistency in your self-care routine
• Makes you feel more joyful!
• You experience more beauty in your life, your surroundings and your close connections
• Creates greater daily meaning in your life, thus overall life satisfaction
• Makes you feel better

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1. Romanticize your space

If you’re ready to invoke the “I love my life” vibe this year, start by romanticizing your home environment.

Do you know how you go to a cute cafe for the experience, the vibe and the atmosphere ( + the delicious food)?

Why not create your home space to be an environment that is cozy, inviting and that makes you feel good! Additionally, did you know that having that cozy feeling in your home promotes your health and ability to decrease your stress levels? Thus, it increases your ability to wind down and connect with your loved ones.

All in all, set up your home decor and the atmosphere to be a space that you love to come home to.

Home decor theme ideas for your home:

• Luxury, healthy and abundant
• Clean, fresh and minimalistic
• Cozy, feminine and lovely
• Productive, inspiring and family orientated

Every day life blesses you with a treasure chest full of daily delights!

From the morning sunshine piercing through your windows as you open your curtain, your first taste of morning coffee to a tight squeeze with your loved one. Can you give yourself a sweet pause to truly indulge in the greatness of these moments?

Romanticizing your life supports you in making & seeing the ordinary as more extraordinary.

Inspired action step: Write a list of all of the things that you love to do each day that are on your daily delights list- your simple pleasures.

To summarise, a key step to romanticizing your life and embracing all the goodness that life has to offer is to appreciate and embrace your daily delights. Receive with gratitude the daily delights that life offers you every single day!

Also, why not give a daily delight to someone else too?

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The tasks you do in your everyday life, from brushing your teeth to cooking your next meal, can certainly be made more enjoyable and fun!

Romanticizing your life can be as simple as a shift in your perspective- the way you look at things. For example, the quote on quote ‘boring’ things like managing your finances can be viewed as more enjoyable. A way to do this is by shifting your mindset to a more positive and empowered state of mind of, “Hey, I’m taking care of my finances and care of my money so I can buy the things that I want and create a better future for myself.”

More money allows you more freedom of choice.

Overall, you can add personal touches and apply mindset perspective shifts to the tasks you perform in your daily routines to feel more alive, happy, meaningful and joyful.

Simple ways to romanticize your daily routine:

• Light candles, burn incense, have a natural aroma reed diffuser and a bouquet of fresh flowers in your home
• Cook and eat meals that nourish you and make you thrive and feel balanced
• Work from a cafe or from a coworking space
• Read books from your reading list
• Wear clothes that you feel incredible and beautiful in. Don’t be afraid to shine!
• Listen to music while you’re doing your daily tasks
• Take regular dance breaks
• Wake up for sunrise
• Go for sunset walks
• Use a planner to organise your life & biz. Additionally to clearly view and set your priorities
• Craft a workout routine that you enjoy and feel empowered and strong in
• Have a night-time wind down routine that nurtures you before rest

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You’ve probably seen those aesthetic photos on Instagram and Pinterest about that girl routine.

To add on to the last point of making your everyday life more fun, create your own version of ‘that girl‘ daily routine. Romanticizing your life this year can be made simple when you’re doing what you enjoy in your daily routines.

The ‘that girl’ trend this year has been about practising habits that feel aesthetic and that focus on productivity, wellness and improving your life. This romanticizing your step is not about being ‘that girl’, but about designing a daily routine your way, living your life your way. The routine that’s true to you.

If you’re ready to create your own version of that girl routine, start by being intentional about what you do with your time. Audit your current daily routine and supplement habits that you no longer want and need, with the habits that support your dreams life and goals.

Is your that girl routine in alignment with your values, what makes you happy & fulfilled and your own definition and version of success?

Action step: Create a that girl routine that is uniquely yours and in alignment with your values, goals and your dream life. ✨

Essential products for your that girl routine:

• Multipurpose large handbag for your laptop and essentials
• Dry body brush
• Daily planner
• Apple air pods max wireless headphones

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5. Foster and grow meaningful connections

Invest in your people. The ones that see you and are there for you.

The saying, “You’re the average of the five people you spend the most time with” certainly does resonate and is a truth for me.

It’s taught me the importance and necessity of using discernment with who and what I choose to spend my time on and who with.

Overall, this step in your ultimate guide to romanticizing your life this year is about strengthening your connections with your loved ones. Lastly, building meaningful connections with your loved ones and chosen network enriches your life, motivates, uplifts and supports you to be the best version of you!

If you don’t make the time for it, it can slip away.

Ways to romanticize your life with your loved ones:

• Spend quality time together. Plan cozy nights in, go out to eat together, have nature day or do a shared activity that you love to do together!
• Enjoy shared adventures. Create memories that last a lifetime together. Enjoy fun activities, explore new places, travel, attend events and fitness classes, or go on a weekend getaway together.
• Play a connection card game
• Plan your dream life together and hold each other accountable for showing up for their dreams and personal goals

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Practising a consistent self-care routine is an absolutely valuable daily habit in this guide to romanticizing your life this year!

Not only are you honouring yourself and improving your well-being through practising self-care, but you are making your each day feel more memorable/ special.

Self-care practices to romanticize your life:

• Express your creativity
• Do what makes you happy
• Be grateful for what you do have to uplevel your mood
• Have a luxurious self-care bath
• Practice mindfulness. Slow down. Bring more awareness to your everyday moments. Be present with your work, before you go to sleep, when you start your day and when you eat your meals
• Show up for and invest in your dreams
• Take time out to do what you want to do in solitude
• Practice your skin and body care routine
• Attend a workout class

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Taking care of your physical appearance can boost your confidence and make you feel beautiful too!

When I get beauty treatments done such as my nails, my hair and facials it can make me feel more elevated!

Overall, this step in romanticizing your life is about investing in beauty treatments and services that make you feel good! If getting your hair done makes you feel good, more beautiful and elevated, why not practise it in your romanticizing your life routine?

Beauty treatments and services to practise in your romanticizing your life routine this year:

• Get your hair done
• Manicure and pedicure
• Eyelash lift and tint
• Brown wax, tint and lamination
• Get your teeth whitened
• Microdermabrasion/ facials

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By consistently, I mean every day. Each day I am doing something for my dream life. Your dream life does’nt have to be something that is in the distant future. It can be something that you can start preparing for, taking action towards and becoming today.

If you want to work 100% remotely, what is something you can do today to make this dream a reality?

Do you want to solo travel abroad? What is one action step and one improvement that you can do today to get yourself one step closer to making your dream come true?

How to start uncovering your dream life:

• Create a vision board
• What brings you joy? 😊 Do more of what lights you up
• Journal
• Learn from mentors/ teachers
• Read self-improvement and personal development books
• Listen to Podcasts
• Spend time in solitude
• Go travelling
• Meet new people
• Reconnect and spend time in nature
• Get out of your comfort zone
• Practice self reflection and self-discovery
• Set, get clear on and focus on your priorities
• Learn and grow. Make positive changes. Pivot as many times as you need to

Overall, when I started doing all of the points above, over a long period of time ( yearsss), I discovered and became certain and clear on my values. This clarity, certainty and learned trust support me to intentionally craft and live a dream life that is in alignment with my core values. Additionally, I practice most of these practices to this today! The dream life crafting and living does’nt stop!

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I hope this Ultimate Guide to Romanticizing Your Life This year has helped you with steps you can take to embrace, love and enjoy each day even more. 💐

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