To be really honest...I think the videos on More Hannah and selfies on the podcast insta are going well and better than others because they support people having a parasocial relationship with you. And I'm not even gonna exclude myself from those people I love seeing what's going on in your life! 😂
@@morehannahI don't know what it means, but can you make a video about it? And also, you said "keeping up with CZcams" is something you're trying to do - can you do a video revealing who you follow/ watch and why? I think I'd like to get some inspiration! Greetings from Brazil :)
agree- i feel like hannah works more independently on this channel whereas the main channel has more people involved. idk if that makes sense- they just give off different vibes
@@anawsomehuman3064 I think its exactly this! The main channel/ podcast feels more like following a business, it feels at least pretty hands off/ impersonal (most of the time) which definitely has its place and is probably arguably better. but I think it then makes it hard to get the strong fans/patrons because its not as engaging long term as following someone for their personality or life, it makes for more casual viewing than getting to like someone and wanting to support them. I think the change seems necessary for the changes in life (ie becoming a parent) but it probably isn’t what is going to keep long term viewers. (Coming from me and my thoughts- no idea about running a business like this just a long term viewer)
I think More Hannah is doing so well because you have got to the point where people are interested in you, as well as the topics you discuss (plus the content is so entertaining) ✨I've actually clocked recently that your videos talking about being pregnant (especially with a stoma) and life as a mum are getting the most views, because people want to hear your experience. I watch your videos talking about your day to day as a mummy and I'm not remotely interested in being a mum yet haha. Maybe there is a way of bringing that more to the main channel ❤
I'm not the type of person to make any long term plans (even midterm is hard), and I find crazy that people know what they would want to happen for the next 5 years, so this video has kind of comforted me in this opinion 😅 But everyone does what helps them get on with life 😊
During an interview for my placement year as part of my degree, I was asked where I saw myself in 5 years - I answered, "having a job". 😆 I don't know how people do detailed 5 year plans either!
I also have an 11 month old called Rowan (small world 😂) and my five year plan currently is to keep him alive 😂 Yeh, kinda hard to plan far ahead as a parent of very young kids!
I tend to muddle along cheerfully taking life in manageable bite sized chunks. My five year plans involve things like sort out the shed, get round to painting the kitchen cupboards. Thinking too far ahead can lead to guilt and anxiety because life tends not to go to plan.
I think I enjoy the more casual unscripted vibes of the more Hannah channel more than the main channel where I feel like I have to be in the mood to sit down and learn sometimes (depending on the video)
My 5 year plan fell to shit a couple of months ago (even though it was vague)! I thought I'd met 'the one' and after two years he just broke up with me out of the blue. So this week I have started a new job, am house hunting, considering starting therapy, started ballet again, started in a choir and am generally trying to keep myself alive! I'm working off more of a 5 minute plan at the moment 😂 But at least it's a fresh start!
@Essiggurke Thank you so much for your comment! I'm so happy to hear that you're happy and love Berlin. I'm dying to visit Berlin (I was meant to last month on a holiday with the ex and so it was cancelled). But I am still going to visit this year. I'm determined 😊
@@elissajane1136 yes! Do come to Berlin but try to come as long as it's summer. Berlin is a summer city - winter is bleak and grey. I'm born and raised in Berlin and it's truly a gem - it might not be pretty on first sight but it has so many many many things to explore and street art, fun people and lots of history. If you need tips, ask me :)
I think a 1 year plan is a much more reasonable view of upcoming things in your life. Often times a 5 year plan is more of a vision board to capture where you are when you make it, which could guide you, but isn't meant to be totally fixed in place unless you're very determined to make it so. I don't really have solid 5 year plans but I do have fixed goals I want to achieve in the future and so I try to guide my annual plans in that way, especially if they're financial or career goals.
Good job on the will thing! So many people just refuse to think about it but it really is necessary. Especially if you own a place to live, have children or just have a complicated relationship with your potential next of kin. Good job, Hannah and Dan! ❤🎉 (How obvious is it that one of my favourite CZcams channels is Ask a Mortician...? 🤔)
Hahaha love that!! I’ve not watched her CZcams but I have listened to interviews with her and it was definitely something that made getting our wills done a top priority!
Interesting perspective, I always enjoy listening to how other people relate to their goals and plans, especially regarding plans that haven't come to fruition as expected. Ever since having a baby, I've found my own goals constantly being delayed, and I'm working on being ok with that :) thank you for sharing
Love the idea of a 5 year plan, but I’m 24 so I just feel way too young to plan anything like that. I’m training to be a teacher and I love the city I’m doing my training in, so hopefully in 5 years I’ll be an experienced teacher who owns a cosy house here and a cat
This video really inspired me to make a five year plan! I feel like my life is where yours was when you made yours. Getting married this summer and definetely planning for kids in the next five years. As others have commented I think many of us ”long-time-viewers” really enjoy seeing your life evolve parallel to our own. It’s a very unique reationship you feel towards someone that you’ve been watching and been inspired by for over a decade. Thank you for being here this whole time 💕
I was actually inspired to make a 5 year plan from your original video, I loved the format! I’ve actually accomplished a lot from it but I’m a bit younger and have no plans for a baby so that seems to make a difference. Also I’m a hospice social worker and advance directives are so important so congrats on doing your wills!!
I'm on a plan for this year, which mostly consists of achieving a steady income. Plan A is to get disability aid (I'm being evaluated as we speak), apply to the employment agency (I did that just last week) and apply for unemployment aid (that's the next step). Plan B is basically for if all of this falls through, then I'll report my disabilities to my insurance company and hope for a hefty sum that will keep me floating for another year or so (so I can go back and work on plan A). Plan C is to move back in with my parents.
I have the same problem since having kids, living on a year to year basis, barely being able to plan for that honestly. I always had 3-5 year plans before... I think it's normal with small kids. Life has become so different
I've only just opened this video but this is extremely timely because our life plans have changed entirely after the most incredible opportunity has come up for my husband. I'm such a structured person, but if I stuck to the plan, we'd miss the opportunity of a lifetime. I think I'm becoming more of a flowy person 😂
THIS. Exactly why I don't make long-term plans or goals. I'm afraid I'll be so focused on the plan that I'll miss opportunities that I didn't know existed.
Love this video! On the point about difficulty making a plan right now. When my baby was around 18m- 2yo I felt I was out of the 'headlights' and could actually imagine life beyond the end of my nose. Something about that time made me able to feel able to surf the waves of chaos, while also imagining what life might be like in the future. I am also self-employed and felt I could start really setting goals for myself again (including feeling ready for Baby 2). Now I'm 8months pregnant with Baby 2 I know it's about to go out the window, but I have the wonderfully reassuring knowledge that it does get 'easier' and I will be able to dream again :)
😭 I love pleasure trove, I'm always so sad to hear about its death haha Also i have NO idea about a five year plan lol, i don't even know what my plan is for the rest of this year. I have ideas and visions but gosh I'm just figuring out what's best as it comes
It’s wild to me that I’m the same position as you were in 5 years ago and although I’m not as structured as you (notion is not for me lol) I’ve slowly been thinking more about the future and where I want to be. Kids, moving, settling down is all now on my horizon compared to even two years ago and I can’t tell if I’m scared or excited but all I know is I’m trying to throw myself into now and managing these things like my new house and doing that up bit by bit.
Never been the type to plan my life ahead (usually only 3 months in advance), but this video definitely inspired me! Sorry to hear about the house though :(
I was talking to a friend who has a 10 month old and she was just saying that she just does not care either, like yourself. Like if we look at the hierarchy of needs, she's just happily at the bottom, surviving and caring for her child and that's totally good enough! Other things in life just seem less important and she's cool with it. But it's pretty nice to hear that some folk out there don't require self actualisation and just love the simple kiddo life! ♡
As I was watching this video, I realized I don't think I ever actually made a list of goals and dreams for 2023! I can't even remember what I set myself working towards. However, I do think I'm on track with doing concrete things to keep living the life I want and growing as a person, so I'll count that as a success, and maybe write some down mid-year.
I really appreciate the outro of this video acknowledging that 5-year plans or even 5-month plans are so hard. I had a child in 2017 and was able to continue doing that, then another child in early 2020 and it became an impossible feeling, not knowing what the next month would look like let alone 5 years. This COVID parenting life is so much more than any of us could have imagined. Great video. Thank you!
Do you think after you’ve done the ‘big stuff’ that’s more conventional, you struggle to make a 5 year/long term plan? I have found since I got married and had a baby, I don’t know what I’m going to do next? I feel like I ticked off those ‘big’ things that take a few years and now my baby is my priority and I’ve lost my autonomy and motivation to do things for me. Wouldn’t change it for the world, but does feel like I’m flailing around slightly not knowing what’s next!
Honestly since the pandemic, any notions of plans I had for anything have kind of gone out the window! My career plans have taken somewhat of a detour, which is massively frustrating because I feel so far behind where I hoped I would be by now i.e. still in a stop-gap job whilst I try and figure out how to get on the career ladder I actually want. So I'm less making plans now and more just taking things as they come!
I don't know what's wrong with me but once I graduated, got a job I liked and moved out of my parents I have had no goals. No plans. Nothing to work towards. I've always found the idea of a five year plan baffling because I fundamentally don't know where I want to go. But also like I'm not bothered about not knowing where I want to go? But I do think it's fun to look back on what I thought would happen. I have this diary that I started when I was like 12. I talked about about what I was worried about/going through and asked my future self questions. Then at some point I rediscovered it and answered those questions and repeated the process. It's been really interesting to do for the last 20 years. That's the closest I get to planning.
Five years is such a long time ! Five years ago, i was a mum of 2 girls (1 and 3 y.o). Now i also have two boys (ages of all of them : 8,6, 4 and 1). I have change jobs two times since. We've moved out to a new and bigger home. My husband launched his own company and now has 40 employes. I feel i'm much more of a confident person. My house is better organised, simplified and tidier. So much have changed ! (Sorry for my english, i'm French)
Loved the video! Sometimes I think just getting started with life plans is the go (bit less intimidating). Like making a budget and starting to save a bit as a first step to more intense financial planning
Hannah, have you thought about bringing someone in to help get the book club off the ground? - someone to do the admin, so you can just worry about reading the books
The exercising with babies thing is tough! I have only just started to prioritise it after baby 2. I think I realised any opportunity you have to do it you need to go for it because you may never know when you get the chance again. I literally fling my two kids at my husband when he comes home and go for a run. (And then I dont get to exercise for two weeks because they both get ill lol) but anyway it's rough! Priorities change dont they, cliche but it's true!
Re exercise classes: some leisure centres have a crèche, alternatively an online class that you can do at home (maybe when Rowan is napping or otherwise engaged?).
I think especially since the pandemic as an immunocompromised person I'm just waiting for the pandemic to be over to even consider something like a 5 year plan. And before that, my physical and mental health put a wrench in things, like I was in remission from Crohn's for only about 1-2 years before the pandemic started, turning 25 in 2020.
I think one of the reasons why I watch more videos on this channel rather than the Hannah Witton channel is because that channel is more educational. I often watch youtube to relax and while I love the content on the other channel, if I'm watching youtube I'm more inclined to watch chatty, fun and chill videos over educational ones. Especially if it's on a topic I already know quite a lot about, like sex ed and lgbtq. I hope this comment makes sense😅
Your preferred content reached me at the wrong point in my life. I had just gotten engaged and didn't quite want long-form sex ed content. But, you've reached mommy blogger status just as I need more working-mom content. I really appreciate the content about goal setting, work/parenting balance, and figuring out more about your own identity while your child is just starting to grow into a person.
Please give me a chunk of your ambitions haha you are amazing when it comes to make plans that stretch over a longer time. I think in general it’s a very good idea to know what you want and try to achieve in life , but I think for me personally the possibility of failure kinda keeps me away from making actual plans. I gotta try and overcomes that really!
i just graduated from my masters (wooh!) and i have no ideas of where to even start for a five year plan. there are so many directions i can go in with my career and it feels both intimidating and freeing. but yeah i'm definitely just trying to take it week/month at a time and maybe when i settle into a more stable job i can start thinking about long term future
The gasp I let out seeing the title of this 😂 Hannah Witton queen of organisation giving up a plan?? 😂 Haha So excited for this video bc understandably your life has changed quite a lot over the last few years!
Nooo 😔😔 I loved the pleasure trove series and all the good recommends you gave. Maybe include it in your newsletter instead? I loved many of the movies and so forth that you recommended and I told my friends about them who also love them
re: not having time to read books, my mum found listening to audiobooks while doing other stuff worked for her, might be an idea? :) (though totally valid to draw the line at the amount of stuff bouncing around in your head at once lol)
I'm kind of inspired to write all my thoughts and wishes out of my brain. Don't know if its gonna turn out as a real 5-year plan but we will see what time brings XD
For exercising at home, body weight exercises tbh are underrated. Everyone’s like should I bust out this niche equipment? No just get on the floor, pull up some videos and basically just go, treat it like you were gonna do yoga at home. For at home biceps and tricep curls though you may need at least a towel
ive never made any kind of long term plan 😆 i do have a habit tracker i started this year which helps me keep track of when im doing (or not doing😅) the healthy habits i set out to maintain at the beginning of the year! (as about pleasure trove u mentioned- i rly like the part of PT where u shared what books/movies/music/media etc u were consuming but maybe that could just be like an insta story thing like hey im reading this book- which u did mention about books in this video!)
I find the parenting videos here really interesting, but have loved some of the "experiemental" videos on the main channel this year too! I loved the archive tour and the penis cookie/masculinity convo.
I always set about 20 annual goals (started as a 20 for 2020 thing). I actually hardly look at them throughout the year and I'm always surprised on how much is working out. A five year plan sounds too big for me at the moment, I will have a 5 and almost 7 year old child and hopefully one more baby around that time 🤯
I'm not sure if you wanted to just copy your diaries over electronically or if you wanted to copy and add but a little trick I learnt on my iPhone which you may already be aware of but thought I'd share anyway just in case is if you take a picture of the text you want then go on that picture you can in fact copy the text in the picture and send it to yourself so you don't have to type it all by hand.
I recently bought a 5-year journal and I am currently making a loose 5-year plan to add to it. I find the idea of including First steps really interesting to get me moving in the right direction, you know?
I never do resolutions. Sometimes i zjink of things i should/want to do and then i just do them. But I also have the issue of not really sticking through with it, so much so that i feel like i might actually have adhd 😅
I am not really planning that far ahead yet. But I hope reach some goals at the end of the year to reach one of my maingoals to be living with my partner again after some time being in a long distance relationship. I do try to manifest this. Fingers crossed.
This did inspire me to make a 5 year plan, however I can’t really imagine my life in 5 years time so it’s mainly a this year and next year plan! I’m hoping to be living in a home that I own, married to my partner, and having a baby in 5 years time, but what with the cost of living crisis, the state of the housing market, and our earnings being so low at the moment I don’t know if we’ll ever be able to afford those things :(
I’m a Producer for a CZcams channel, and we have the same balance decisions of going popular or deep. We’re definitely in a growing phase, but we love our Patrons so much.
I have never made a 5 year plan but I am finding my life is stagnating a lot since I have achieved the big life milestones that I wanted to achieve (house, wedding). The stagnation is causing me a lot of anxiety so maybe it would benefit me to make some plans
I think I could get something out of the format for an annual plan you showed. But a five year plan is too difficult at the moment. So many things are up in the air and while I have ideas for how I want each one of them to turn out I can't image how they will interact with each other. Maybe I'm just saying that because hardly anything turned out like I thought from my plan three and a half years ago: some stuff was so much worse and some things are better than I ever thought they would be.
In terms of the exercise resolution... if you're struggling to find time to fit it on etc you could always do some at home workouts on YT :) Lucy Wyndham-Read has looooaadds of really great ones including 7 minute ones so they're super quick to fit in around your day!
when the 300 is a stupid number and then there's me with maxed out watch later and like other 4 folders just under different names because there is a limit for 5000 videos in the folder and that's not including thematic folders for the different subjects I'm interested in 🙃
I had a vague 5 year plan when I was in uni then chronic illness hits so I scraped it off. Might make a new one now even tho a lot of big milestones have already happened since.
I loved Pleasure Trove! But, parenthood often means dropping out of culture for a few years. Someday you will dip back in. Everyone is on their own schedule with that.
13:50 to me i dont really care that u dont do reels or tiktok, but youtube shorts you can probably just hire an editor to go thru ur old videos and clip things into short clips.
I have a list of things I want to do when I'm done with studying and get a full time job. Patreons of cool projects like this are pretty high on that list. So, hang on, I'm on my way :D
I've just not been finding the content on the main channel to be relevant in my life at the moment. But i recently had my first smear and support material on that would have been super helpful ! Maybe theres more on the podcast for sexual health but ive not seen it on Instagram...
congrats on completing your training! re: videos to-watch i have just under 800 youtube channel subscriptions... 😅 this account is like 16 years old (omg) and so many of the channels are inactive!
To be really honest...I think the videos on More Hannah and selfies on the podcast insta are going well and better than others because they support people having a parasocial relationship with you. And I'm not even gonna exclude myself from those people I love seeing what's going on in your life! 😂
Yeah true! The parasocial relationship is strong!
@@morehannahI don't know what it means, but can you make a video about it?
And also, you said "keeping up with CZcams" is something you're trying to do - can you do a video revealing who you follow/ watch and why?
I think I'd like to get some inspiration!
Greetings from Brazil :)
For whatever reason, I've been finding the videos on this channel a lot more interesting than the main one.
Me too
agree- i feel like hannah works more independently on this channel whereas the main channel has more people involved. idk if that makes sense- they just give off different vibes
@@anawsomehuman3064 I think its exactly this! The main channel/ podcast feels more like following a business, it feels at least pretty hands off/ impersonal (most of the time) which definitely has its place and is probably arguably better. but I think it then makes it hard to get the strong fans/patrons because its not as engaging long term as following someone for their personality or life, it makes for more casual viewing than getting to like someone and wanting to support them. I think the change seems necessary for the changes in life (ie becoming a parent) but it probably isn’t what is going to keep long term viewers. (Coming from me and my thoughts- no idea about running a business like this just a long term viewer)
I think More Hannah is doing so well because you have got to the point where people are interested in you, as well as the topics you discuss (plus the content is so entertaining) ✨I've actually clocked recently that your videos talking about being pregnant (especially with a stoma) and life as a mum are getting the most views, because people want to hear your experience. I watch your videos talking about your day to day as a mummy and I'm not remotely interested in being a mum yet haha.
Maybe there is a way of bringing that more to the main channel ❤
same! not a mum but it's so fascinating
I'm not the type of person to make any long term plans (even midterm is hard), and I find crazy that people know what they would want to happen for the next 5 years, so this video has kind of comforted me in this opinion 😅
But everyone does what helps them get on with life 😊
During an interview for my placement year as part of my degree, I was asked where I saw myself in 5 years - I answered, "having a job". 😆
I don't know how people do detailed 5 year plans either!
I also have an 11 month old called Rowan (small world 😂) and my five year plan currently is to keep him alive 😂 Yeh, kinda hard to plan far ahead as a parent of very young kids!
Top of my list too tbh!!
Haha, I hard relate to this with my 9 months old!
Just wait, you blink and then they're starting school 😢
I tend to muddle along cheerfully taking life in manageable bite sized chunks. My five year plans involve things like sort out the shed, get round to painting the kitchen cupboards. Thinking too far ahead can lead to guilt and anxiety because life tends not to go to plan.
I think I enjoy the more casual unscripted vibes of the more Hannah channel more than the main channel where I feel like I have to be in the mood to sit down and learn sometimes (depending on the video)
Definitely agree with this sentiment
@@kslaney4161 but some videos on the main channel where Hannah experiences things (shibari, boobs sculpture) were fun :)
My 5 year plan fell to shit a couple of months ago (even though it was vague)! I thought I'd met 'the one' and after two years he just broke up with me out of the blue. So this week I have started a new job, am house hunting, considering starting therapy, started ballet again, started in a choir and am generally trying to keep myself alive! I'm working off more of a 5 minute plan at the moment 😂 But at least it's a fresh start!
@Essiggurke Thank you so much for your comment! I'm so happy to hear that you're happy and love Berlin. I'm dying to visit Berlin (I was meant to last month on a holiday with the ex and so it was cancelled). But I am still going to visit this year. I'm determined 😊
@@elissajane1136 yes! Do come to Berlin but try to come as long as it's summer. Berlin is a summer city - winter is bleak and grey. I'm born and raised in Berlin and it's truly a gem - it might not be pretty on first sight but it has so many many many things to explore and street art, fun people and lots of history. If you need tips, ask me :)
I think a 1 year plan is a much more reasonable view of upcoming things in your life. Often times a 5 year plan is more of a vision board to capture where you are when you make it, which could guide you, but isn't meant to be totally fixed in place unless you're very determined to make it so.
I don't really have solid 5 year plans but I do have fixed goals I want to achieve in the future and so I try to guide my annual plans in that way, especially if they're financial or career goals.
I actually do feel inspired to make a 5 year plan! 😂 even just to see how much my real life ends up being different from it
Good job on the will thing! So many people just refuse to think about it but it really is necessary. Especially if you own a place to live, have children or just have a complicated relationship with your potential next of kin. Good job, Hannah and Dan! ❤🎉 (How obvious is it that one of my favourite CZcams channels is Ask a Mortician...? 🤔)
Hahaha love that!! I’ve not watched her CZcams but I have listened to interviews with her and it was definitely something that made getting our wills done a top priority!
I’m a hospice social worker and this is so important, glad y’all got it done!!
Interesting perspective, I always enjoy listening to how other people relate to their goals and plans, especially regarding plans that haven't come to fruition as expected. Ever since having a baby, I've found my own goals constantly being delayed, and I'm working on being ok with that :) thank you for sharing
Love the idea of a 5 year plan, but I’m 24 so I just feel way too young to plan anything like that. I’m training to be a teacher and I love the city I’m doing my training in, so hopefully in 5 years I’ll be an experienced teacher who owns a cosy house here and a cat
i just love these videos. you talk about basic life/work stuff in such a relatable way, i wish more people would talk about these topics like you do!
This video really inspired me to make a five year plan! I feel like my life is where yours was when you made yours. Getting married this summer and definetely planning for kids in the next five years. As others have commented I think many of us ”long-time-viewers” really enjoy seeing your life evolve parallel to our own. It’s a very unique reationship you feel towards someone that you’ve been watching and been inspired by for over a decade. Thank you for being here this whole time 💕
I was actually inspired to make a 5 year plan from your original video, I loved the format! I’ve actually accomplished a lot from it but I’m a bit younger and have no plans for a baby so that seems to make a difference. Also I’m a hospice social worker and advance directives are so important so congrats on doing your wills!!
I'm on a plan for this year, which mostly consists of achieving a steady income. Plan A is to get disability aid (I'm being evaluated as we speak), apply to the employment agency (I did that just last week) and apply for unemployment aid (that's the next step). Plan B is basically for if all of this falls through, then I'll report my disabilities to my insurance company and hope for a hefty sum that will keep me floating for another year or so (so I can go back and work on plan A). Plan C is to move back in with my parents.
You've got this
@@ma0987since I wrote this, I have actually achieved a steady income! I got disability aid and I'm doing a program at the employment agency!
I have the same problem since having kids, living on a year to year basis, barely being able to plan for that honestly. I always had 3-5 year plans before... I think it's normal with small kids. Life has become so different
I've only just opened this video but this is extremely timely because our life plans have changed entirely after the most incredible opportunity has come up for my husband. I'm such a structured person, but if I stuck to the plan, we'd miss the opportunity of a lifetime. I think I'm becoming more of a flowy person 😂
THIS. Exactly why I don't make long-term plans or goals. I'm afraid I'll be so focused on the plan that I'll miss opportunities that I didn't know existed.
Love this video! On the point about difficulty making a plan right now. When my baby was around 18m- 2yo I felt I was out of the 'headlights' and could actually imagine life beyond the end of my nose. Something about that time made me able to feel able to surf the waves of chaos, while also imagining what life might be like in the future. I am also self-employed and felt I could start really setting goals for myself again (including feeling ready for Baby 2). Now I'm 8months pregnant with Baby 2 I know it's about to go out the window, but I have the wonderfully reassuring knowledge that it does get 'easier' and I will be able to dream again :)
"Being able to dream again"! Yes!
Love how you phrased this, thank you for sharing.
I look forward to that stage with my 9 month old.
😭 I love pleasure trove, I'm always so sad to hear about its death haha
Also i have NO idea about a five year plan lol, i don't even know what my plan is for the rest of this year. I have ideas and visions but gosh I'm just figuring out what's best as it comes
It’s wild to me that I’m the same position as you were in 5 years ago and although I’m not as structured as you (notion is not for me lol) I’ve slowly been thinking more about the future and where I want to be. Kids, moving, settling down is all now on my horizon compared to even two years ago and I can’t tell if I’m scared or excited but all I know is I’m trying to throw myself into now and managing these things like my new house and doing that up bit by bit.
Never been the type to plan my life ahead (usually only 3 months in advance), but this video definitely inspired me! Sorry to hear about the house though :(
I was talking to a friend who has a 10 month old and she was just saying that she just does not care either, like yourself. Like if we look at the hierarchy of needs, she's just happily at the bottom, surviving and caring for her child and that's totally good enough! Other things in life just seem less important and she's cool with it. But it's pretty nice to hear that some folk out there don't require self actualisation and just love the simple kiddo life! ♡
As I was watching this video, I realized I don't think I ever actually made a list of goals and dreams for 2023! I can't even remember what I set myself working towards. However, I do think I'm on track with doing concrete things to keep living the life I want and growing as a person, so I'll count that as a success, and maybe write some down mid-year.
I really appreciate the outro of this video acknowledging that 5-year plans or even 5-month plans are so hard. I had a child in 2017 and was able to continue doing that, then another child in early 2020 and it became an impossible feeling, not knowing what the next month would look like let alone 5 years. This COVID parenting life is so much more than any of us could have imagined. Great video. Thank you!
Do you think after you’ve done the ‘big stuff’ that’s more conventional, you struggle to make a 5 year/long term plan?
I have found since I got married and had a baby, I don’t know what I’m going to do next? I feel like I ticked off those ‘big’ things that take a few years and now my baby is my priority and I’ve lost my autonomy and motivation to do things for me. Wouldn’t change it for the world, but does feel like I’m flailing around slightly not knowing what’s next!
Hahaha yes!! I do feel a bit like that!
If you want to combine walks with Rowan and exercise, you could try a running buggy
I appreciate both the main Hannah Witton channel and the MoreHannah channel
Honestly since the pandemic, any notions of plans I had for anything have kind of gone out the window! My career plans have taken somewhat of a detour, which is massively frustrating because I feel so far behind where I hoped I would be by now i.e. still in a stop-gap job whilst I try and figure out how to get on the career ladder I actually want. So I'm less making plans now and more just taking things as they come!
I don't know what's wrong with me but once I graduated, got a job I liked and moved out of my parents I have had no goals. No plans. Nothing to work towards. I've always found the idea of a five year plan baffling because I fundamentally don't know where I want to go. But also like I'm not bothered about not knowing where I want to go? But I do think it's fun to look back on what I thought would happen. I have this diary that I started when I was like 12. I talked about about what I was worried about/going through and asked my future self questions. Then at some point I rediscovered it and answered those questions and repeated the process. It's been really interesting to do for the last 20 years. That's the closest I get to planning.
Five years is such a long time ! Five years ago, i was a mum of 2 girls (1 and 3 y.o). Now i also have two boys (ages of all of them : 8,6, 4 and 1). I have change jobs two times since. We've moved out to a new and bigger home. My husband launched his own company and now has 40 employes. I feel i'm much more of a confident person. My house is better organised, simplified and tidier. So much have changed !
(Sorry for my english, i'm French)
Loved the video! Sometimes I think just getting started with life plans is the go (bit less intimidating). Like making a budget and starting to save a bit as a first step to more intense financial planning
I will never stop hearing that name as "daily dosa". I absolutely love dosas, so if we're talking a daily dosa sub - i'm definitely in
Hannah, have you thought about bringing someone in to help get the book club off the ground? - someone to do the admin, so you can just worry about reading the books
The exercising with babies thing is tough! I have only just started to prioritise it after baby 2. I think I realised any opportunity you have to do it you need to go for it because you may never know when you get the chance again. I literally fling my two kids at my husband when he comes home and go for a run. (And then I dont get to exercise for two weeks because they both get ill lol) but anyway it's rough! Priorities change dont they, cliche but it's true!
Re exercise classes: some leisure centres have a crèche, alternatively an online class that you can do at home (maybe when Rowan is napping or otherwise engaged?).
I think especially since the pandemic as an immunocompromised person I'm just waiting for the pandemic to be over to even consider something like a 5 year plan. And before that, my physical and mental health put a wrench in things, like I was in remission from Crohn's for only about 1-2 years before the pandemic started, turning 25 in 2020.
I learned about manifesting last year and I agree, that it's cool how much you made come true (including the pregnancy but also the other things).
I have 4,961 videos on my Watch Later playlist. Not a typo. Almost five thousand. You're doing well 🤣
I think one of the reasons why I watch more videos on this channel rather than the Hannah Witton channel is because that channel is more educational. I often watch youtube to relax and while I love the content on the other channel, if I'm watching youtube I'm more inclined to watch chatty, fun and chill videos over educational ones. Especially if it's on a topic I already know quite a lot about, like sex ed and lgbtq. I hope this comment makes sense😅
Your preferred content reached me at the wrong point in my life. I had just gotten engaged and didn't quite want long-form sex ed content. But, you've reached mommy blogger status just as I need more working-mom content. I really appreciate the content about goal setting, work/parenting balance, and figuring out more about your own identity while your child is just starting to grow into a person.
Please give me a chunk of your ambitions haha you are amazing when it comes to make plans that stretch over a longer time. I think in general it’s a very good idea to know what you want and try to achieve in life , but I think for me personally the possibility of failure kinda keeps me away from making actual plans. I gotta try and overcomes that really!
This was a fun watch. Totally relate to not being able to envision a 5 year plan with a small baby!
i just graduated from my masters (wooh!) and i have no ideas of where to even start for a five year plan. there are so many directions i can go in with my career and it feels both intimidating and freeing. but yeah i'm definitely just trying to take it week/month at a time and maybe when i settle into a more stable job i can start thinking about long term future
The gasp I let out seeing the title of this 😂 Hannah Witton queen of organisation giving up a plan?? 😂 Haha
So excited for this video bc understandably your life has changed quite a lot over the last few years!
"is this what havening children does to you?"
Yes it absolutely is and it's kinda liberating 😊
Nooo 😔😔 I loved the pleasure trove series and all the good recommends you gave. Maybe include it in your newsletter instead? I loved many of the movies and so forth that you recommended and I told my friends about them who also love them
At 7:37 Icould not help automatically thinking of the word wohoo as the euphemism in the Sims
re: not having time to read books, my mum found listening to audiobooks while doing other stuff worked for her, might be an idea? :) (though totally valid to draw the line at the amount of stuff bouncing around in your head at once lol)
Highly recommend Money Feels Podcast episode 3 : « Timelines and Building your Ideal Life » regarding 5 year plans.
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I'm kind of inspired to write all my thoughts and wishes out of my brain. Don't know if its gonna turn out as a real 5-year plan but we will see what time brings XD
I made my first five year plan whilst watching this finishing uni in a month so I felt like I needed to sort my life out!
5 year plan before kids: Detailed and ambitious
5 year plan after kids: Keep the child alive
Sounds about right!
For exercising at home, body weight exercises tbh are underrated. Everyone’s like should I bust out this niche equipment? No just get on the floor, pull up some videos and basically just go, treat it like you were gonna do yoga at home. For at home biceps and tricep curls though you may need at least a towel
ive never made any kind of long term plan 😆 i do have a habit tracker i started this year which helps me keep track of when im doing (or not doing😅) the healthy habits i set out to maintain at the beginning of the year!
(as about pleasure trove u mentioned- i rly like the part of PT where u shared what books/movies/music/media etc u were consuming but maybe that could just be like an insta story thing like hey im reading this book- which u did mention about books in this video!)
Totally agree about pleasure trove - the reading/TV/games etc bit was definitely the best part
“Then I’m parenting on those breaks.” Ugh, mama of four 6-14yos and I’m SO BEYOND READY for a proper holiday away from parenting.
I felt this on my watch later playlist. Mine is at 500+ right now but I’ve been making steady progress!!
I find the parenting videos here really interesting, but have loved some of the "experiemental" videos on the main channel this year too! I loved the archive tour and the penis cookie/masculinity convo.
I always love this green n navy gingham number
I love your organization and goals videos as always !
I always set about 20 annual goals (started as a 20 for 2020 thing). I actually hardly look at them throughout the year and I'm always surprised on how much is working out. A five year plan sounds too big for me at the moment, I will have a 5 and almost 7 year old child and hopefully one more baby around that time 🤯
I'm not sure if you wanted to just copy your diaries over electronically or if you wanted to copy and add but a little trick I learnt on my iPhone which you may already be aware of but thought I'd share anyway just in case is if you take a picture of the text you want then go on that picture you can in fact copy the text in the picture and send it to yourself so you don't have to type it all by hand.
it's so weird to see you doing what we do at my job, the agile methodology in it's core but for your life, and I mean weird not in a bad way
Haha what am I doing? *googled agile methodology * lol
Sad about the pleasure trove. 😢 I really enjoyed them when you did them
I've met none of my goals for this year but am getting close to meeting one of my 3 year goals 😅 things just pan out differently sometimes
I recently bought a 5-year journal and I am currently making a loose 5-year plan to add to it. I find the idea of including First steps really interesting to get me moving in the right direction, you know?
i am now v inspired to develop a 5 year plan right this minute thanks to this video!
I never do resolutions. Sometimes i zjink of things i should/want to do and then i just do them. But I also have the issue of not really sticking through with it, so much so that i feel like i might actually have adhd 😅
I am not really planning that far ahead yet. But I hope reach some goals at the end of the year to reach one of my maingoals to be living with my partner again after some time being in a long distance relationship. I do try to manifest this. Fingers crossed.
This did inspire me to make a 5 year plan, however I can’t really imagine my life in 5 years time so it’s mainly a this year and next year plan! I’m hoping to be living in a home that I own, married to my partner, and having a baby in 5 years time, but what with the cost of living crisis, the state of the housing market, and our earnings being so low at the moment I don’t know if we’ll ever be able to afford those things :(
We're also living on a small 2 bed with a just turned one year old with scuppered house buying plans 🙄...the joys of the UK economy!
I’d love to see a video on the new 5 year plan, in cas you make one! This also made me want to write my own hHahaha
I’m a Producer for a CZcams channel, and we have the same balance decisions of going popular or deep. We’re definitely in a growing phase, but we love our Patrons so much.
omg did Hannah just inspire me to make a 5 year plan??
I have never made a 5 year plan but I am finding my life is stagnating a lot since I have achieved the big life milestones that I wanted to achieve (house, wedding). The stagnation is causing me a lot of anxiety so maybe it would benefit me to make some plans
I want to make a 5 year plan, but I don't think I really know how to start, it seem a little overwhelming
Personal training is absolutely worth it for 3-6 months to learn it!!!
I think I could get something out of the format for an annual plan you showed. But a five year plan is too difficult at the moment. So many things are up in the air and while I have ideas for how I want each one of them to turn out I can't image how they will interact with each other. Maybe I'm just saying that because hardly anything turned out like I thought from my plan three and a half years ago: some stuff was so much worse and some things are better than I ever thought they would be.
I am so here for this video ❤
In terms of the exercise resolution... if you're struggling to find time to fit it on etc you could always do some at home workouts on YT :) Lucy Wyndham-Read has looooaadds of really great ones including 7 minute ones so they're super quick to fit in around your day!
when the 300 is a stupid number and then there's me with maxed out watch later and like other 4 folders just under different names because there is a limit for 5000 videos in the folder and that's not including thematic folders for the different subjects I'm interested in 🙃
I had a vague 5 year plan when I was in uni then chronic illness hits so I scraped it off. Might make a new one now even tho a lot of big milestones have already happened since.
I loved Pleasure Trove! But, parenthood often means dropping out of culture for a few years. Someday you will dip back in. Everyone is on their own schedule with that.
Dropping out of culture for a few years lol. Love that 😂😂
13:50 to me i dont really care that u dont do reels or tiktok, but youtube shorts you can probably just hire an editor to go thru ur old videos and clip things into short clips.
Pleasure Trove was my favourite!
I have a list of things I want to do when I'm done with studying and get a full time job. Patreons of cool projects like this are pretty high on that list. So, hang on, I'm on my way :D
If you're done with Ring Fit, have you tried Just Dance on the switch? Always get me in a right sweat haha
A 5 year plan?
Yeah right, I can barley hold a couple of weeks in advance 😂
I love your handwriting 😍
I think this video is like the old Hanna ( with the same energy levels)
Thanks for sharing, Hannah ❤
My resolution’s gone amazing my resolution was to not have caffeine all year and I think I’ve had less then 5 slip ups 😊
I've just not been finding the content on the main channel to be relevant in my life at the moment. But i recently had my first smear and support material on that would have been super helpful ! Maybe theres more on the podcast for sexual health but ive not seen it on Instagram...
Can you get a desk bike or treadmill? So you can do it concurrently rather than having to carve out more time?
oh no 302 is a ridiculous watch later number?? 😬i had a wild few weeks and now mine is back over 1000 whoops
Could you make a ten year plan? I feel like babies take a while to make and grow but maybe you hope to have completed your family in 10 years?
congrats on completing your training!
re: videos to-watch i have just under 800 youtube channel subscriptions... 😅 this account is like 16 years old (omg) and so many of the channels are inactive!
i like the course idea
No need to reply if you don’t feel comfortable but if you’re changing the spare room for rowan, are you still planning on moving house?💛
Lol watched more of the video, nevermind 😅