Monthly Reset: Getting My Life Together & Preparing for Spring 🌼 (Decluttering, Planning + More)

If you searched for a monthly reset routine, a spring reset, or how to stop feeling behind all the time, you are in the right place. This vlog came straight from a travel hangover, a three hour layover, and me realizing that March feels more like a new year than January ever does. I have been sharing my life online for almost a decade on YouTube, so you have watched me test a lot of routines, fall off, and come back stronger.

In this season, spring is my restart button. The first two months feel like a trial run. March is when I decide who I am showing up as.

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Why I Treat March As My Real New Year

I landed from Arizona exhausted, slept half the flights, then slept from 7 p.m. to 1 p.m. the next day. My body checked out. My mind still felt behind.

At the same time, it was March 1st. Plants start coming back, the sun hits different, people start cleaning closets and tossing old stuff. That energy feels way more like a "new year" to me than January with its pressure and random resolutions you forget in two weeks.

So I treat March as:

• A reset for habits that did not stick in January and February
• A chance to release old mindsets I know I have outgrown
• A time to set real, grounded intentions for the next few months

The first two months show you what your real patterns are. March gives you space to actually shift them.

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What is a monthly reset routine and why do you need one?

A monthly reset routine is not a fancy aesthetic checklist. For me it is a reset in three areas: environment, structure, and mindset.

1. Reset your environment

I started simple:

• Unpack the suitcase that would usually sit for days
• Take trash out, clear counters, toss old mail
• Fold the laundry that was clean but chilling in a basket
• Plan a fridge clean out and grocery restock

None of this feels glam. It matters anyway. A clear space lowers that background stress that whispers “you are behind” all day.

2. Reset your structure

I felt annoyed with myself, not from lack of ideas, but from a lack of follow through. So I looked at where my time was leaking.

That is where time blocking comes in. Instead of giving myself a whole open day to “get stuff done,” I give tasks a time box:

• One hour for unpacking and cleaning
• A focused block for editing, emails, and sponsorship tasks
• A set time for calls, planning, and admin work

A timer keeps me honest. When I know I have one hour, I move with way more intention.

3. Reset your mindset

I journal through questions like:

• What habits, fears, or mindsets am I leaving behind this season?
• Who is my future self, and what are her daily non negotiables?
• What small actions can I repeat until summer that will move me forward?

Writing it down exposes patterns. Mine almost always come back to procrastination, sleeping in, and letting time slip away.

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How do you stop feeling behind all the time?

That “I am behind” feeling hit me hard. I kept saying I was tired of my own cycle, yet my days still looked the same.

Here is what started to shift it for me:

1. Notice what “behind” actually means.
   I was not behind in life. I was behind the schedule I made up in my own head. Once I admitted that, I could adjust the schedule instead of attacking myself.

2. Catch the drama in your self talk.
   When I catch myself thinking, "If I do not change now, nothing good will happen this year," I remind myself that growth is already happening. One reset day does not fix everything, and one messy day does not ruin everything.

3. Pick one thing at a time.
   When I look at laundry, DMs, editing, groceries, taxes, and cleaning all at once, I freeze. When I say, "Right now I am only unpacking," I move.

Feeling behind usually comes from trying to hold the entire year in your head at once. Break it into tiny pieces. You are allowed to go step by step.

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How can time blocking help if you are time blind?

I talk about this a lot, but my brain does not register time in a normal way. An hour feels like ten minutes, and ten minutes can feel like an hour. That is time blindness.

Time blocking with actual timers helps me:

• See how long tasks really take instead of guessing
• Stay on one thing instead of bouncing between five apps
• Stop cleaning or working when time is up and move on

For example, I gave myself one hour to unpack and tidy, and I actually finished most of it inside that window. The timer did what motivation could not.

If life interrupts the plan, I do not trash the whole day. I keep a short priority list for that day: the three things that must happen before I go to sleep. Everything else can float to another block.

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Spring cleaning your space, your phone, and your mind

Spring reset is not only about mopping floors and folding hoodies.

Physical space

• Clean areas you normally ignore, like makeup bags and random drawers
• Toss expired food, old receipts, broken things “you might fix one day”
• Set up little systems: a receipt folder, a trash spot, a place for keys

Small systems save your future self energy.

Digital space

I went through my phone and:

• Deleted apps I never touch
• Reorganized my home screen so only daily apps sit on page one
• Kept the layout simple so I scroll less and live more

You do not need a perfect aesthetic layout. You just need a phone that supports your life instead of draining it.

Mental and emotional space

Those journal prompts at the end of the night mattered more than any cleaning task. Once you see your patterns on paper, you cannot pretend you do not see them.

Self awareness alone does not create change. Change needs action. Action without self awareness just repeats old patterns. You need both.

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Try your own reset this week

You do not need a new month or a long weekend. You can start a small monthly reset routine any day.

Here is a simple way to try this:

1. Pick one area to clear in your home for 30 minutes.
2. Set a one hour block tomorrow for a deep task you keep avoiding, and use a timer.
3. Answer these two questions in a journal:
   • What am I done carrying into this next season?
   • Who am I becoming, and what is one habit that version of me would practice this week?

Spring energy is rebirth energy. You do not have to wait for permission. You are allowed to reset, right here, in the middle of an ordinary day, and treat it like your real new year.