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2024 is long dog walks, meal prep, wellness, going to the gym skincare and the colour pink 🫶🏾

#level up #level up mindset #dreamgirl #glowup #wellness #self care #meirl #hypergamy #black femininity #black hypergamy #hypergamous #hannahlovesyou #black women in luxury #2024 planning #glow up #new year #myaesthetic #self love #self improvement #skincare #mine

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dear future me... you better appreciate this.

#level up #level up mindset #black hypergamy #hypergamous #black femininity #myaesthetic #hypergamy #dreamgirl #self love #hannahlovesyou #self care #self improvement #glowup #glow up #mine #meirl

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You don't need to look like everyone else to be pretty.

You don't need to dress like everyone else, do your makeup like everyone else, talk like everyone else, behave like everyone else.

And you better not get surgery to look like everyone else.

You are your own person, and you can be pretty in your own way.

#level up #hypergamy #level up mindset #black femininity #black hypergamy #hypergamous #myaesthetic #dreamgirl #hannahlovesyou #self love #mine #glowup #glow up #level up journey #wellness

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the dream life I'm working hard for

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Do not let anyone trick you into mediocrity,

They're keeping you average so they don't feel threatened by you.

Stop listening when they try to sell you on the bare minimum.

#level up #hypergamy #level up mindset #black femininity #hypergamous #myaesthetic #dreamgirl #black hypergamy #hannahlovesyou #self love #glowup #glow up #self improvement #self care #mine

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We will literally, never be as young as we are now.

Remember that.

The things you do now, the little things? The big things? That's what's setting up the rest of your life.

Don't ignore that.

#level up #hypergamy #level up mindset #black femininity #black hypergamy #hypergamous #myaesthetic #dreamgirl #hannahlovesyou #self love #self improvement #self care #wellness #healthy habits #healthylifestyle #mine #glowup #glow up

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The Year of the Glow Up.

During the last few months of 2023, I made the decision that 2024 was going to be the 'Year of the Glow Up' for me, in multiple ways.

I'd desperately been wanting to move out for the past 3 years but had been unable to financially, I had been unable to lose the weight I gained during lockdown, and all around felt terrible in my skin.

Clothes didn't look good on me, makeup made me look weird, and self-improvement was coming from a place of self-hate.

I felt gross, ugly, fat, unmotivated.

Enough was enough. I didnt want to go through another year feeling like this, feeling stuck.

So I came up with the year of the Glow Up.

By the end of 2024, I wanted to feel like my dream girl, or at least close to her.

So I sat down and came up with some goals, and created a plan.

By the end of the year, I wanted to:

Be debt-free, one step closer to being able to move out.

Lose a significant amount of weight, preferably back to my pre-pandemic weight.

Develop a beauty routine which allows me to look good 90% of the time, from bare-faced in pyjamas to full glam in a gown.

Develop healthy habits, get the hang of eating well and staying active sustainably.

Read more, scroll less. I found that I could spend hours a day scrolling on TikTok and be just as stupid, if not stupider, than when I started. I'd rather fill my time with a good Jane Austen novel or a self help book.

Be intentional in the music I listen to, and the way it made me feel. Some of the songs coming out nowadays can make you feel like the only interesting thing about you is your body and the different positions you can force yourself into.

I've been working super hard, some days have been easier than others, but I just do not want to let another year pass me by and be exactly the same.

-hannah

#mine #lovehannah #self care #self love #self improvement #glowup #glow up #level up mindset #level up #hypergamy #black femininity #dreamgirl #hannahlovesyou #myaesthetic #black hypergamy #hypergamous #level up journey #wellness

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ever since i deleted social media my life has been so much more purposeful.

I don’t think i’ll ever download it permanently again.

#level up #hypergamy #level up mindset #black femininity #black hypergamy #hypergamous #myaesthetic #hannahlovesyou #dreamgirl #black women in luxury #wellness #self care #self love #self improvement #mine

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unpopular opinion: influencers are just normal people sharing their lives to their audiences.

They are not gods. Stop treating them like all knowing beings.

Asking a fashion influencer for their political opinions is just crazy to me. I don’t understand the correlation. Why does it matter?

Stop treating normal people like all knowing beings that must behave exactly correctly all the time and know everything and never be wrong. It’s so unfair.

#level up #hypergamy #level up mindset #black femininity #black hypergamy #hypergamous #myaesthetic #hannahlovesyou #dreamgirl #black women in luxury #wellness #self care #self improvement #self love #mine

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The end of the year is the best time of year for us self improvement obsessed girlies because the planners are out, everyone's making vision boards and its finally time to write a nice long list of New Years Resolutions and achieve precisely nothing! Nothing!

Then the end of that year comes and we start the cycle again, making lists, checking them twice, achieving absolutely nothing, staying exactly the same and sometimes worse! How exciting! :)

When I was 16 I thought I'd have my life together at 18...lol! When I was 18 I figured I'd be totally together when I was 20. I'm 20 now...I think I've genuinely gotten worse.

But this year I am determined! I have said absolutely no more, absolutely no way is another year going to pass me by and I'm going to be stuck here in the exact same place. I NEED change.

Your 20's are meant to be the 'best years of your life'!

This is probably the easiest I'm ever going to have it! I have no children, no husband and I don't pay rent yet, if I don't do it now I will never do it..I don't want this to be my life forever.

Want to know how I'm going to make this year my year? Keep reading.

About two weeks ago I coined 2024 as the year of the Glow Up and started to meticulously plan out exactly what I wanted out of it.

My main goals for 2024 are:

To Hit My Goal Weight.

To Save Up Enough Money to Move to London.

To Be 75% of my Dream Girl

There are tons of other things I want to achieve of course, but If I don't achieve those three 2024 would genuinely have been a waste of time for me.

Now a couple years ago I would've just written those two goals down, put them on a vision board and went about my business...but Oh No, not this time.

I had a nice long think about the person I wanted to be at the end of 2024, financially stable, clear skin, goal weight, ready to move in spring 2025, closer to God, found her signature scent.

Each of these goals had a wider theme:

Routine

Fitness and Body

Food

Skincare and Hygiene

Beauty & Makeup

Hair

Clothes

God

Books & Brains

Music

Budget

I fired up Notion, created a home page that had a sub page for every month and then finally I created the Overall page, which has a sub page for every Goal Category and then I broke down each goal into lots of SMART goals. (Specific Measurable Achievable Realistic Time-Based)

So my 'get down to my goal weight' goal became:

Fitness and Body:

[ ] Size 10 clothes or under and 140 lbs (I'm 5'9 with naturally big boobs so this is my ideal weight)

[ ] Hour Glass Figure, building up glutes and upper body

[ ] Maintain Goal Weight for at least 3 months

[ ] Able to Stair Machine for 10 minutes

[ ] Able to go on a full Run

[ ] Do at least one form of Excerise a day

[ ] At least one form of Excerise a day

[ ] Take the Dog on Daily Walks

Food:

[ ] Try 12 New Recipes

[ ] Learn How To Cook 4 Different Nigerian Recipes

[ ] Form Consistent Eating Routines

[ ] Eat out twice a month or less

[ ] Stay in a Caloric deficit until I reach my Goal Weight

See how much more specific this is?

Having my goals listed like this makes everything so much easier because I'm tackling multiple things at once. First I'm changing the majority of my goals to habits or tasks (things I can control) from outcomes (things I may not be able to control).

Now I know that if I do all of these things written out, staying in a caloric deficit and excising daily there's a 90% chance I'll reach my goal.

This is much more effective than writing an outcome with no plan on how to achieve it.

From here, I'll break the Goal Down Even Further, into monthly goals.

For example, to reach the goal weight Goal by the end of December, January may look like this:

Eat at 1500 calories a day or 10,500 calories a week (to allow for the high calorie company lunches I often attend as part of my work, I'll simply eat less on the other days

Go to the gym 4 times week,

Complete X Fitness plan

Go on one Dog walk a week

Meal Prep ever week.

Lose 10lbs

To Save enough Money to Move to London by the end of the year, January might look like this:

Prep for no Spend Months in Feb and March (stock up on skincare, budywash etc)

Meal plan every week

Sell £200 worth of clothes on Vinted to spend on Spring Wardrobe (I'm not buying any clothes unless I use the money I get from selling my current clothes)

Stick to Budget

My Goal to get Smarter and Stop Mindless Scrolling may look like this in January:

Read at least 1 book

Listen to 4 Podcast Episodes

Limit Social Media use to 1 hour a day

Write 6 Blog Posts

Watch one Documentary

Setting the tasks in this way also allows me to feel a sense of achievement, every month I'm able to tick off my goals which can increase my motivation, instead of writing down a list of things to do and forgetting about it until the end of the year. It also allows me to recognise when I'm going off track faster and adjust for the next month.

You see how this is better?

I was strategic in using notion because I knew that I could then use it not only to set out my goals, but as a home base, a setting point to house all the things I could use to achieve them.

Under each section I've also included a bunch of things to help me, the Food section for example has a list of my go to recipes, so that when I can't think of anything to eat and want to run over to the closest KFC I have something to choose from. The Hair section has a list of hairstyles I've done and the Pro's and Cons, the Skincare section has a list of the products I've tried, if I liked them and If they worked for me.

Each month has its own page with a section for each wider goal and a spot for me to have a monthly write up, detailing what works and what didn't work so I can change and approve the following month and prevent falling behind.

I'm determined to make this year my year so let me know if you'd like me to keep you updated, feel free to ask any questions or send them to my asks. Also let me know if you want my notion template, here's a little peak-

Till we speak again!

-hannah🤍

#level up mindset #hannahlovesyou #level up #hypergamy #black femininity #black hypergamy #hypergamous #black women in luxury #glow up #new year #new years resolution #new year new me #dreamgirl #dream girl #lovehannah

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You can do all the planning and have the best intentions but if your want to play games, scroll mindlessly on social media, text a guy that doesn't care about you or engage in celebrity drama is greater than your want to be better? Good Luck Charlie.

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#level up #hypergamy #level up mindset #black femininity #black hypergamy #hypergamous #hannahlovesyou #black women in luxury #2024 planning #dreamgirl #mine

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i love girls who have goals 🤍

#level up #hypergamy #level up mindset #black femininity #black hypergamy #hypergamous #myaesthetic #dreamgirl #hannahlovesyou #self love #mine #self improvement #self care

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loving yourself doesn’t mean thinking you’re perfect and never need to change.

loving yourself is about knowing your flaws and loving who you are as a person regardless.

that’s why it can be so hard.

#level up #hypergamy #level up mindset #black femininity #black hypergamy #hypergamous #hannahlovesyou #dreamgirl #black women in luxury #glowup #glow up #self care #self improvement #self love #mine

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i don’t need to be ariana grande pretty, or beyoncé pretty, or pretty like rihanna is, or like taylor swift is or like the influencers are.

I’m me pretty. Unapologetically myself.

I’m pretty with makeup, i’m pretty without makeup, i’m pretty when i laugh, when i smile a real smile, when i talk about something i love to my core, when i watch my favourite movie four times in a row, when i see a cute dress when i’m window shopping and it makes me squeal, im pretty with my glasses on, i’m pretty in pyjamas.

I’ll never want to be anyone else and I’m finally starting to love myself.

#level up #hypergamy #level up mindset #black femininity #black hypergamy #hypergamous #myaesthetic #dreamgirl #hannahlovesyou #self love #wellness #self care #seldarine drow

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I cannot tell you how much prettier I feel since I’ve stopped desperately trying to be someone else.

#level up #hypergamy #level up mindset #black femininity #black hypergamy #hypergamous #myaesthetic #dreamgirl #hannahlovesyou #self love #wellness #self improvement #self care

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my goal is my obsession, my goal is my obsession, my goal is my obsession, my goal is my obsession, my goal is my obsession, my goal is my obsession, my goal is my obsession, my goal is my obsession, my goal is my obsession, my goal is my obsession, my goal is my obsession, my goal is my obsession, my goal is my obsession, my goal is my obsession, my goal is my obsession, my goal is my obsession,

#level up #level up mindset #hypergamy #black femininity #black hypergamy #hypergamous #myaesthetic #hannahlovesyou #dreamgirl #black women in luxury #wellness #self care #self love #self improvement #mine