For the next 30 days, I’ve challenged myself to write to different prompts. Mainly to become a better writer, but also to get into the habit of consistently showing up on a platform I want to grow.
Today’s prompt is: The Life I’m Building and Why.
If you’d like to join me in this writing challenge, see below for the prompts I’ll be following for the next 30 days and a few simple rules.
30 Day Writing Challenge:
- 30-45 minutes of writing. Let yourself brain dump, no editing, no deleting, just write. Aim for 300-600 words.
- Take 5-10 minutes re-reading and editing if you wish.
- For the first 10 days, don’t worry about SEO. Only after that 10 days, you can optimize your blog post with keywords after you’ve finished writing.
- No AI for helping you write or optimize your blog posts.
Yes, I did use AI to help come up with these writing prompts, but for exercising your voice and blog writing skills, no AI allowed 😉
30 Day Writing Prompts
- Day 1 – The Life I’m Building (and Why)
- Day 2 – My Personal Style Evolution
- Day 3 – My Current Morning Routine & Why It Works
- Day 4 – 5 Beauty Products That Actually Changed My Routine
- Day 5 – How I Want My Home to Feel in This Season of Life
- Day 6 – What Feeling Put Together Really Means to Me
- Day 7 – A Letter to the Girl I Was Five Years Ago
- Day 8 – How I Curate My Closet Intentionally
- Day 9 – Outfits That Make Me Feel Like Myself Again
- Day 10 – My Go-To Uniform When I Don’t Want to Think
- Day 11 – What I’m Not Buying Anymore
- Day 12 – How Trends Influence Me and How I Choose What to Ignore
- Day 13 – The Difference Between Expensive and Elevated
- Day 14 – Style Lessons I’ve Learned in My 20s
- Day 15 – My Current Hair Routine & What It’s Teaching Me About Consistency
- Day 16 – The Beauty Products I’ll Repurchase Forever
- Day 17 – Low-Maintenance Beauty for High-Impact Days
- Day 18 – What My Skincare Routine Looks Like on Hard Days
- Day 19 – The Relationship Between Beauty and Confidence
- Day 20 – Why Self-Care Isn’t Always Aesthetically Pleasing
- Day 21 – My Sunday Reset Ritual
- Day 22 – The Version of Me I’m Becoming This Year
- Day 23 – How I Balance My 9–5, Content, and My Dream Life
- Day 24 – What Romanticizing My Life Actually Looks Like
- Day 25 – My Non-Negotiables for Peace
- Day 26 – Lessons From Building a Personal Brand While Growing Up
- Day 27 – What Success Means to Me Right Now
- Day 28 – The Habits I’m Protecting in 2026
- Day 29 – A Love Letter to My Community
- Day 30 – My Manifesto: How I Want to Live
So What Life Am I Building?
I’ve stared at a blank screen for minutes thinking. I don’t know why it’s so hard for me to begin writing about the life I’m building and why – maybe it’s because I’m in a season where that’s exactly what I’m trying to figure out. I was recently laid off with a 3 month runway, which I’m grateful for, but if you read my previous blog post, you’d know that it brought up a lot of emotions. So this prompt feels heavy to say the least.
What I do know is that I have visions and goals that I want to achieve. I see the bigger picture and perhaps that could be a starting point? When thinking about my life, it’s reasonable for me to think about the next 5 years, envisioning where I want to be and how I could get there. That’s less intimidating for me because it’s not too far into the future, and I could begin with smaller goals to work towards my achievements. SO let’s see. In the next 5 years, I see myself married, working a cozy job with freedom and flexibility (being a content creator 100%), and with kids. Would love a house, but I’m not too worried about that right now. When I think about all of that that, it seems so overwhelming, but if we really break it down, so many things could happen in 5 years.
A Recap of My 2021-2025
- 2021: Moved to a new city while working a part-time marketing coordinator job. I was then converted to full-time marketing manager and a few months later, I accepted a new full-time role in influencer and affiliate marketing. Worked on creating samples for Tivlei, a fashion brand passion project of mine. I spent a lot of time in nature, traveled to LA, Hawaii, San Luis Obispo, and visited my friends and family back home a lot. I started to get home sick.
- 2022: Traveled more – to Hawaii (what’s new!), LA, Huntington Beach, and more visits back home. I finally moved back home and grew in my position, learned all about affiliate marketing and campaign operations. Spent a lot of time in nature again.
- 2023: Ran a 5k in Huntington Beach, traveled to Cabo for my sisters bachelorette, visited New York with my mom and fell in love, and also visited New Orleans. I started creating hair content and little did I know I was going to start gaining traction. I celebrated my 26th birthday in San Francisco, which was one of my biggest celebrations I’ve planned. My friends and family all came and I felt so loved. I moved in with my boyfriend at his parent’s house. My sister got married! I got promoted!
- 2024: Traveled to the Philippines, one of my favorite trips. I would love to go back. I got diagnosed with a chronic condition, Meibomian Gland Dysfunction. Signed with a UGC agency and took on monthly projects. So surreal to think about now because I almost didn’t respond to their inquiry! John and I moved into our first apartment together and I ran my first half marathon.
- 2025: Almost every weekend was filled with events. My UGC projects were picking up, and I was super busy. Traveled to Carmel, LA, Long Beach, New York, Vegas, San Luis Obispo, and Hawaii. Ran my second half marathon. I made the most money I ever have freelancing, which made me think about the possibility of going full-time, but then I got laid off at the end of the year HA. So now I’m here and am taking a chance on myself to see how big I could grow my own business <3
My Vision for this Year 2026
So to make it a little less stressful and daunting, let’s talk about the life I’m building in the next year 🙂
Career
Career wise, this year I really want to focus on growing my business and setting it up like a REAL business and not just freelance projects that I get here and there. I’m talking about setting up a business structure, whether it be an S Corp, LLC, all that jazz. Creating a strategy, process docs, organizing my assets, and really treating it like a full time job.
I would love to become someone’s cozy creator. A page they go to when they’re looking for comfort, beauty, fashion, and lifestyle advice. Eventually, I’d love to create products to sell – not getting ahead of myself, but thinking of what that could look like, so I could start planning small steps now.
Health & Wellness
For health and wellness, I want to be in nature more. I want to ground myself and take some time to reset and rest from the past 5 years of working in corporate. I mean it when I say I really do think it drained me. I’m choosing to believe that getting laid off was a blessing in disguise. If I’m being honest, I felt so drained and burnt out the last half of the year balancing both my freelance work and full-time job, while ALSO creating content on my socials for my hobby. It became a lot for me. So this year, I want to focus on rest and mindfulness. Also staying consistent with my workout routine and eating more whole foods.
Life & Love
For life and love, I want to continue surrounding myself with friends and family. Although, I did blackout Jan-March for any travel. My friends and family started asking about planning trips, but I set a boundary just as I sort out the next chapter of my life. I knew that any travel plans and spending would be overwhelming and I really wanted to keep those 3 months to prep for plans after my last day of work. BUT back to life – I definitely know an engagement is around the corner. I don’t know when this year, but I know it’s going to happen and I’m so excited for that. John and I also want to move into a house, so he could have a garage for all his hobbies. That will definitely be expensive, so lots of planning this year.
I’m overwhelmed, so nervous, anxious, excited, happy, sad, all the things. So taking everything day by day.
