In this monthly reset vlog (hello August 2022), I’m doing a gentle little life/admin refresh the way I actually do it in real time: a bit messy, a bit silly, but genuinely grounding. I start with a quick July recap and a plan for the vlog, then we move into the practical reset stuff—cleaning montage energy, a Trader Joe’s moment, and a Day Two “fail” (yes, the audio goes a bit wonky… and yes, it fixes itself). It’s very much a reset-with-me vibe: low pressure, but still intentional. The heart of the video is journalling + planning—how I take ownership of my journalling practice (instead of treating it like another productivity chore), and how I track habits and map my “Twelve Week Year” in Notion. I walk through the way I set up my habit tracking and planning so it supports deep work and PhD life without becoming a perfectionist trap. To wrap up, I make a no-pressure goals list for making August feel a bit magical—because sometimes the most productive thing you can do is choose simplicity and actually follow through.