Monk Mode Activated
Before I dive into this blog post, I would like to state that today is the day, Friday, November 24th, 2023 where I will be entering into Monk Mode.
In April of 2022, an article about monk mode was released by a journalist known as Rana Bano. The article was called, “What is Monk Mode? Monk Mode Benefits, Strategies, and Planning.”
(https://simplyscheduleappointments.com/2022/04/04/monk-mode/)
According to Bano, Monk Mode is “a period of enhanced focus, discipline, and productivity where you commit yourself to completing a goal.”
Back in August this year, I had stumbled across a youtube video created by Hamza Ahmed that also dove into Monk Mode and what exactly it is. The title of the video is “4 Steps To Fix Your Life: How To Go Monk Mode.”
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZTsqm1ilp0)
When I had originally watched this video back in August, I had taken some notes in a journal that I hadn’t taken very seriously at the time.
In this video, Hamza had asked the viewer to jot down 5-10 goals that they would like to complete by December 31st of this year.
In my notes, I had written down 7 goals that I had wanted to accomplish by the end of this year. Which were the following:
Get to 200 pounds
Make $500 online
Have 1,000 subscribers
Give a great speech at my best friend’s wedding
Pay off my car loan that was $2,500
Quit my corporate job
Increase my confidence level significantly (I don’t know if I count this as a goal though because this is something that will naturally happen as I complete each of these goals).
At the time, I was just writing these goals for shits and gigs and didn’t really have a plan of action as to how I was going to accomplish any of them.
Since August, there has been a lot that has happened, but I would like to state that I have completed three of these goals. Those being, paying off my car loan, giving a great speech (or one that I’m at least proud of) at my best friend’s wedding, and quit my corporate job.
I now work as a server for the time being until I can figure out what my next steps are. A lot of people have asked me why since I have a degree and could be applying to other professional jobs. But to be honest, I don’t really want to work for another company professionally again.
My last role with the company that I worked for, I was Content Creator/Social Media manager. Or in other words, I worked in Marketing for a local company here in Tampa.
I have always been great with being creative and I thought that this job was going to be a great opportunity for me to expand on my skills. And honestly, I am very satisfied with what I have learned during my time in that position with the company.
However, I slowly started to get burnt out doing the whole social media thing. Social media is a great tool, but if not used correctly, it can cause some serious mental health issues.
For this role I had to be on multiple social media platforms constantly and had to manage up 6+ accounts, not including my own personal accounts.
I had also been trying to do juggle being an artist, creating music, making cool videos, and attempting to be successful with Onlyfans all while being in this professional role.
For the longest time I knew that I wanted to all of these things but I kept getting tripped up on all of the things that I wanted to do.
I started going down a negative spiral because I was getting so caught up in everything that I wanted to do and how I wasn’t doing a great job at anything really because I was just trying to juggle so much at once.
Then a few months ago, I was confiding in my best friend about all of this, she mentioned something that has stuck with me to this day.
She said, “stop focusing on the things that you want to do, and start focusing on what you are actually doing.”
This shit really stuck with me because I didn’t realize that I was pretty much constantly talking about all of these things that I want, but I really wasn’t taking the actions necessary to obtain these things that I had wanted at the time. I wasn’t necessarily complaining, but I was bitching that I wasn’t getting what I wanted when at the end of the day, it was my responsibility to get up and get the ball rolling.
This past Wednesday, November 22nd was my last day in my corporate position. This past week I have been juggling both my new and old job working 70+ hours trying to get everything situated.
Thanksgiving, November 23rd, was my first day off in 10 days. Today being my second day off in a row, but I had told myself that these two days off were going to be significant. Especially since I am no longer going to be in my corporate job anymore.
Which brings me to the main point of this blog post, Monk Mode.
I have revisited my list of goals today and there are three goals that I need to aim to obtain before the end of this year; those being:
Get to 200 pounds
Make $500 online
Get 1,000 subscribers
To be honest, I don’t know how reasonable this goal is and I don’t want to shoot myself in the foot by aiming too high, so I’m going to bring down the number to 100 subscribers. Considering I have 0 at the moment, I feel like that is reasonable to do in a month’s time.
In order to accomplish these goals, I have decided to get into monk mode and eliminate my bad habits. Which are currently social media, Grindr, weed, poppers, porn, and Fortnite. Quite the habits, am I right? Hehe.
I have spent HOURS on Grindr these past couple days trying to hook up with someone since I knew that I was going to be deleting the app. However, I wasted so much time trying to find some mf dick that I hadn’t been as focused on the things that I am supposed to be focusing on. So I deleted Grindr today and just deleted Tik Tok, Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter as well.
My goal is to take a break from these temporarily so I can focus on the three main goals that I want to accomplish by December 31st.
In Hamza’s video about How To Go Monk Mode, he states, “The secret to a successful life is to cut out all of your bad habits.” So I’m testing this out and we shall see how it goes.
I’m not sure how it is all going to play out, but I’m no longer worrying about the how and only going to be focusing on taking action. Because as long as I’m taking action, everything will play out the way that it is supposed to.
These next few days I am going to do more research as to what should be my next steps while being in Monk Mode.
But during this time, I plan on sharing my journey along with you. So let’s see how everything plays out :)
See you on the flip side.
Love always, Kyrin.
