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On this episode of Try Living With Lucie, our host, Lucie Fink, tries 5 days of going back to the basics. She takes time to focus on the simple things in life like playing golf with Michael and enjoying her favorite beverage Spindrift while watching cartoons from her childhood. Watch this week’s Try Living With Lucie to learn how to detach from your busy schedule!
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00:00I'm Lucy Fink and this week is five days of going back to the basics.
00:04Hey guys! Welcome back to Try Living with Lucy.
00:06If you're new to Refinery29's YouTube channel, click on the little subscribe box in the corner.
00:11And to everyone else who comes back week after week after week, thank you.
00:15Welcome back to my bedroom.
00:17I don't know about you, but I have had the most hectic summer thus far and it's only July.
00:21I've been traveling for work, I've been running around left and right,
00:24and I really haven't had a moment to just sit and be present where I am.
00:28I started to notice that as we grow up and as the world around us gets more and more complicated,
00:33we have to learn to appreciate those real and simple moments
00:36and to get back to the basic and fundamental things that make life so great.
00:41So now I'm going to tell you all about this week where I lived simply.
00:44Rewind to Monday.
00:48Monday for me was all about getting back to the basics by literally asking myself,
00:52who am I? Where do I come from? Where are my roots from?
00:56Well, my mom's whole side of the family is Italian,
00:59and I have Italian relatives that live in Italy just outside of Rome.
01:02And my Italian-ness definitely shines through in certain aspects of my personality,
01:07such as my overactive hand gestures.
01:10But even still, living in New York City, I feel like I've completely lost touch with these roots,
01:14and in particular with my Italian culture.
01:16So as you might already know, and as many of my Italian followers out there can definitely attest to,
01:22in Italy, food is not just nourishment, it's life.
01:26Almost every aspect of daily life in Italy is centered around food and eating meals.
01:30And to be completely honest with you, in my current life here, food is almost an afterthought.
01:35I'm so busy all day that sometimes I don't even have time to ask myself,
01:38what do I actually want to eat?
01:40And I wind up just grabbing the easiest or most convenient meal on the go, and I call it a
01:45day.
01:45So on Monday, I changed that, and I centered my whole day around my food.
01:51I brought my Italian roots to me by going down to Little Italy in Lower Manhattan,
01:55and I started out at Gelso & Grand making my favorite food ever, pizza.
02:01Are you Italian?
02:03Yes, I am.
02:03Me too!
02:04High five!
02:05Perfect.
02:05All right, we're ready.
02:07Working alongside their chef, I made two delicious pizzas.
02:11Nice!
02:11This restaurant, like many restaurants, uses its own pizza-making technique,
02:16so it's not the traditional Italian style of making pizza.
02:20But my philosophy is that wherever there's pizza, there's Italy.
02:24Oh!
02:25There you go.
02:27Prettiest thing I've ever seen.
02:28I love you so much.
02:34Mm-hmm.
02:36Woo!
02:36Then I went to my second stop on my Italian food journey, Aunt Jake's Pasta Lab.
02:41So on Monday, I got a private, one-on-one pasta-making lesson with their instructor.
02:45So you're Italian?
02:46Mm-hmm.
02:47Grew up in Brooklyn, so the Brooklyn Italian type of flavor.
02:50Nice!
02:51She was self-taught, so she had her own pasta-making method,
02:54but essentially she just cracked a few eggs into a little well of flour,
02:58added a pinch of salt, and mixed it all together.
03:02Then we worked together to flatten out the dough,
03:05and we used this machine that we cranked in a circle,
03:07and it created these long, flat sheets.
03:09Wow!
03:12After we let them dry, we sliced them into strips to make tagliatelle.
03:20All right, so let's get this boiling.
03:22Wow, that is beautiful.
03:24Bye!
03:25See you soon!
03:26And at the end, we mixed it up with fresh tomato sauce,
03:29and I consumed it.
03:36Lucy, you did good.
03:37It's really amazing to me because this passion for food is in my blood.
03:41It's part of who I am.
03:42But over the past few years, I've really been pushing it aside
03:45as I focus on my go-getter mentality.
03:48And even if your city doesn't have any cultural offerings like mine did,
03:51that's the beauty of home cooking.
03:53So go to the grocery store, buy some local ingredients,
03:56and get back to your roots.
03:58Tutto bene!
04:01When we're young, we don't really overthink things,
04:04and we just give ourselves a chance to do whatever makes us feel good.
04:07So when we're hungry, we eat.
04:09When we're tired, we knock.
04:10And then we get a little older, and real life just hits us hard.
04:14Go here!
04:15Do that!
04:16Work on that!
04:16Move!
04:17Learn!
04:17Build!
04:18Grow!
04:18Keep going!
04:19More!
04:20More!
04:20More!
04:20Our modern-day society rewards doers and go-getters,
04:24and while I actually firmly believe in that mindset,
04:26there's also something to be said about stopping and just taking some time off.
04:31Tuesday, for me, was about radical self-care.
04:34Taking some time to let go of the stresses and all the pressures of daily life,
04:38and reminding myself that if I'm tired, I should relax.
04:42And if I'm hungry, I should eat.
04:43So I woke up on Tuesday morning, and the first thing I did was I threw my phone into a
04:48drawer.
04:48Out of sight, out of mind.
04:49Next, I was pretty hungry, so I went into the kitchen, and I whipped up a delicious smoothie bowl.
04:55I mixed pitaya, raspberries, strawberries, banana, and almond milk as the base.
05:04And then once it was all blended, I topped it with strawberries, banana, kiwi, dried figs,
05:10cacao nibs, chia seeds, and a dollop of peanut butter in the middle.
05:14It was so beautiful.
05:16Mind blown.
05:17I built a little fort in my living room using blankets and pillows.
05:21I love drinks that have no added sugars, so I grabbed a grapefruit spindrift from the fridge,
05:26my favorite flavor.
05:27And then I just sat down in front of the TV, I totally chilled out,
05:31and I brought myself back to the basics by watching my favorite childhood cartoons.
05:36Comment below to guess what cartoon I was watching.
05:38After my amazing snack, I went into the bathroom for some beauty self-care.
05:41I started by dry brushing my skin for exfoliation and to improve my circulation.
05:45Then I took a nice warm bath.
05:48When I got out, I wrapped myself back up in my silk robe.
05:51I moisturized my entire body.
05:53And then I popped on a unicorn face mask.
05:56These mindful solo moments that I had on Tuesday really helped me push against the complexities
06:01of daily life.
06:05By Wednesday, I was feeling a lot more grounded and calm, thankfully.
06:09So I started digging really deeply and asking myself, what's one thing that I used to spend
06:14a lot of time doing that I feel like recently I haven't been able to dedicate time to?
06:18And immediately, my mind went to my fiancé, Michael.
06:21I met Michael back in high school, so we were young, wild, and free when we first met.
06:26We didn't have that much on our plates back then, so we would just spend our time getting
06:30our schoolwork done and then hanging out together, getting to know one another, and building a
06:34meaningful relationship.
06:35And as we've grown up together and now living in New York City right here, our lives have
06:40changed a lot.
06:40And it seems that everything in our daily lives seems to center around work.
06:44We're separated for most of the day at work.
06:46And then when we come home, we're both so exhausted, so we just go to sleep so that
06:50we can wake up and do it all again.
06:52And as our relationship grows and as even more responsibilities are put on our plates,
06:56it's going to be really important that we know how to prioritize our relationship.
07:00So I started that on Wednesday.
07:02I picked out an activity that Michael loves that we usually don't get the chance to do
07:06together, and then we spent the entire day at the Chelsea Piers driving range hitting
07:10golf balls.
07:12Whoa!
07:12He taught me the proper way to hold the clubs.
07:14Hey, bada, bada, bada, bada, bada.
07:16And then we just goofed around and had fun.
07:18Today, I try out being a professional golfer.
07:21This is Michael for Hire.
07:26Nice!
07:27Building a successful relationship requires work and energy and attention.
07:31It's like a plant.
07:32If you nurture it, and you water it, and take good care of it, it will flourish.
07:38Hey!
07:39Yeah, it comes back up.
07:40How'd that get there?
07:41That was crazy.
07:47So I've been talking a lot about work, work, work this whole video.
07:51I've been saying work is the reason that I don't have the energy to put towards self-care,
07:55and I don't have the time to build my relationships.
07:57But the truth is, I love my work, and work is my fuel.
08:00I love my job, and I love the work environment I'm in.
08:03But sometimes I just get sucked into the nitty-gritty tasks of my day-to-day job, and I start
08:08getting
08:08stressed out about things that I really don't need to stress about.
08:11So on Thursday, I asked myself how I could get back to the basics when it comes to work and
08:16my office life.
08:17And the first thing that came to mind was remembering how important it is to take a
08:20break when your brain is working in overdrive.
08:22So on Thursday, I said no thank you to the speedy morning coffee at my desk.
08:27And instead, I stood myself up, and I used it as a time to reconnect with a coworker
08:31and to get out of the office.
08:33It was actually a great way to start the day, because instead of just sitting at the desk
08:36and getting started the moment you arrive, we went outside and we let our brains wake up
08:41a little more naturally.
08:42We had a great, very meaningful conversation, and we actually found that by the afternoon,
08:46we were functioning a lot better just because of that one simple break.
08:49Then later in the afternoon, we had a group meeting scheduled.
08:52And normally in these meetings, everyone comes with their cell phones and their computers,
08:56and everyone's multitasking while we're having a group discussion.
08:58But I made sure we brought this meeting back to the basics.
09:01So we all dropped our phones and computers into a little bin before we went into the room.
09:06We completely dished the technology, and we turned this into an in-person meeting.
09:11The best colleagues ever.
09:12Cheers!
09:14I brought in some papers and pens, and we did an old-school creative brainstorming activity.
09:19We came up with tons of new ideas for Try Living With Lucy episodes.
09:22I think one of the best things for me to do is to kind of just ask people, like,
09:26what do you and your friends talk about?
09:28Financial planning slash saving.
09:30Vacation options.
09:31Great.
09:32Books that we read and Cardi B.
09:34Finding happiness beyond work.
09:35Beer brewing.
09:36Yay!
09:37Dogs.
09:38But most importantly, I think everyone just had a good time.
09:41And they felt like everyone else was paying attention to them when they spoke.
09:44And it was a really great way to bring it all back.
09:49I knew that you guys were going to love this episode topic and relate to it deeply, so for
09:53the final challenge in the episode, I wanted to be inspired by you.
09:56I made a post on my Instagram asking you guys if there was one thing you could spend more
10:00time doing to get back to the basics, what would it be?
10:03And I got so, so many replies from you guys, but what really stood out to me was that so
10:08many of you suggested reading.
10:10I completely agree with this one.
10:14Reading comes in waves for me.
10:15So there are times when I'm super engrossed in a good book and I just can't put it down.
10:20But then I have dry seasons where I just don't pick up a book at all.
10:23When I'm in the middle of a good book, I feel like it affects my day.
10:27I feel like I'm smarter in my daily life.
10:29I feel more well-spoken and I just feel happier overall.
10:32So I took your advice on Friday and I sat right here on my bed and I just read.
10:38I've been especially drawn into this one self-help book about Ayurveda and I'm working on five
10:43days of Ayurveda, so stay tuned for that.
10:45But I also started a few other books that have been on my reading list and I just gave
10:48myself hours and hours to sit and read.
10:51If you're stressed out, I want to make sure that you don't feel like you're alone.
10:55It's really, really easy to get caught up in the stresses and the complexities of the
10:59world around us.
11:00And most of the time, we're so focused on our little issues that we forget that we're
11:04part of something bigger.
11:05And you won't be able to enjoy your life to its fullest potential if you don't give
11:09yourself time to go back to the basics and just simplify a bit.
11:12I am definitely going to continue to implement this mindset into my days going forward, so
11:17please comment below and let me know how you rediscover yourself or live your most authentic
11:21life.
11:22And as always, comment below and let me know what you want to see me try next time for five
11:25days at a time.
11:26Bye guys!
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11:37Bye!
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