Recall that a function is continuous if the function evaluation agrees with the limit calculation. And so what we care about in this video is how do we can we combine continuous functions together? So if F and G are continuous functions at the point X equals A, then when we do the four arithmetic operations to these functions, combine them in that way, that'll preserve the continuity. That is to say, if F and G are continuous at A, F plus G will be continuous at A. So will F minus G and so will F times G. The one put potential exceptions when you do division, F divided by G will be continuous so long as G of A is not zero. If the dom or goes to zero, then continuity is not guaranteed. In fact, we wouldn't expect it because that would imply that the function is undefined at that, at the location. Let me give you an argument for addition. The proofs for subtraction, division, and multiplication will follow similarly because these actually follow very quickly from limit properties. So if we do the additive statement, right? So since F is continuous, that means the limit as X approaches A of F of X is equal to F of A. And because G is continuous, that means the limit as X approaches A of G of X is gonna be G of A. That's what we're talking about. The function agrees with the limit. Now let's consider the limit of F plus G as X approaches A. Well, when you have the expression F plus G of X, what is the sum of two functions due to the number X? Well, it's going to assign to X the numbers F plus, or F of X and G of X, but we add them together by addition, all right? So that's just the definition of function addition. Then by limit properties, if you take the limit of a sum, this becomes a sum of two limits for which then the limit of F of X plus G of X will become the limit of F of X plus the limit of G of X. Now the limit of F of X because F is continuous will just be F of A. The limit of G of X because G is continuous will be G of A, in which case F of A plus G of A is exactly what F plus G at A does. And so we see here that the limit of F plus G as X gets close to A is just F plus G evaluated at A. So this proves that F plus G is continuous and a similar property of limits, particularly this equality right here can be used to modify this proof to show division, multiplication, and subtraction. So let's see how we can use these properties. Let's suppose we wanna find the limit as X approaches negative two of X cubed plus two X squared minus one over five minus three X. Because we have a limit of a quotient, we're gonna be looking at the quotient of limits. So we're gonna take the limit as X approaches negative two of X cubed plus two X squared minus one over the limit as X approaches negative two of five minus three X. So long as the denominator doesn't go to zero, this is a valid thing to do with our limit calculation. And these are just polynomials because they're continuous, I can compute their limits by direct substitution. For which let's take a look at the denominator first. If I plugged in negative two, we're gonna get five minus three times negative two for which I'm just checking out the denominator so that I could know that the denominator doesn't go to zero because if it goes to zero, I'll have to treat this one differently. Negative three times negative two is a positive six. Notice that five plus six, that's gonna be positive 11. So we know the denominator doesn't go to zero. Let's take a look at the numerator. If we plug in negative two, we're gonna get negative two cubed plus two times negative two squared minus one for which case negative two cubed is gonna be a negative eight. Negative two squared is a positive four times that by two is a positive eight. You get a minus one. You'll see that the negative eight cancels with positive eight and you end up with negative one over 11. So negative one 11th would be the limit here. So because the function was continuous, we are able to simply just plug in the value negative two to compute the limit. And this was guaranteed because combinations of addition, subtraction, multiplication, division will preserve the continuity of these functions. A rational function is continuous on its domain because it's a quotient of polynomials that are continuous on their domains. Let's take a look at the example where we wanna find the limit as x approaches pi of sine of x over two plus cosine of x. Well, like we saw in the previous example, we're gonna wanna consider the limit of sine of x as x goes to pi divided by the limit as x approaches pi of two plus cosine of x, right? As long as the denominator doesn't go to zero, we can just plug in pi to find the limit because sine is a continuous function. All the trig functions are continuous on their domains. And two plus, so cosine is continuous, a constant function two is continuous, added together will be continuous. The quotient will be continuous as long as the denominator doesn't go to zero. So let's think about the denominator for a moment. We're gonna get two plus cosine of pi. The numerator is gonna be sine of pi for which then continuing on here, cosine of pi is actually a negative one. So we're gonna get two minus one. That's definitely not zero. The denominator is gonna be a one. On the other hand, sine of pi is zero. It's perfectly fine if the numerator is zero. It's just we don't want the denominator to go to zero because that would give us some type of discontinuity. If the numerator of a fraction's zero, that is a rational number. That's just gonna be zero. And so we see that the limit here is just gonna be zero. We can use the fact that because we've combined together continuous functions in an algebraic sense, that is using addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, then we can compute the limits of these things just by direct substitution. All right, what about the function f of x equals the natural log of x plus arc tangent of x divided by x squared minus one? Where is that function continuous? There's a lot going on there. So notice the numerator. The numerator is the natural log plus arc tangent. So the function natural log plus arc tangent will be continuous so long as natural log is continuous. And where arc tangent is continuous, we'll just take the intersection there. And so the numerator is continuous so long as the natural log and arc tangent are continuous. But what about the denominator? Well, x squared minus one, this is a polynomial. It'll be continuous and thus the ratio will be continuous so long as the denominator doesn't go to zero and the numerator is continuous. But the natural log we've learned previously, all logarithms are continuous on their domains. Arc tangent is an inverse trigonometric function. It'll be continuous on its domain as well. So because adding, subtracting, multiplying, dividing continuous functions preserves continuity, asking where is the function continuous is basically just asking in this context what's the domain of the function? The two questions are basically saying the same thing because of the properties we saw earlier, this function will be continuous on its domain. So what's its domain? Well, it depends on which piece you're looking at. For the natural log, we need that x is greater than zero. If x is greater than zero, the natural log, that's its domain, it'll be continuous right there. In terms of arc tangent, arc tangent, its domain is all real numbers. So there's no concern with that whatsoever. How about x squared minus one? Well, as a polynomial, its domain is all real numbers, no restriction right there. So the other concern, of course, is the division. What makes the denominator go to zero? And so then we have to investigate the equation x squared minus one equals zero. But notice, if x squared minus one equals zero, that means x squared equals one, take the square root, we get x equals plus or minus the square root of one, that is x equals plus or minus one. These are values we should avoid. So what we see here is that the domain of this function, if you look at the first piece, you need to be from zero to infinity. That's what the natural log says. For the division part, we have negative infinity to negative one union, negative one to one, union one to infinity. And so when we put these things together, we see that the domain of our function is going to be zero to one, union one to infinity. And therefore, since this function's continuous on its domain, it'll be continuous from zero to one and one to infinity.


It's all about English-Finglish. Do-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da. Do-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da. Morning noon English-Finglish. Do-da-da-da-da-da. O-oh-oh-oh-oh. Next, idiots, on Corbin. Alexis. Ashley. Rick. It's a full house today for a movie review. Woooo. This is your first time doing a movie review. Yeah. Your first Indian movie ever. No, it's not true. It's not really. But your first review. It's true. Yeah. So, have you really watched the film if you haven't reviewed it for the internet? Definitely not. Nope. I don't think so. I've never seen The Dark Knight. It's true. But, yes, we watched English-Vinglish on our first endeavor into the wonderful and lovely Shredevi. Other than her dance video that we loved, her snake charming video that you all hated, but we loved it. But it came out in 2012, it was her last film, I believe, before she passed. Let's not talk about that yet. No. But you didn't know that? No. How old was she in this film? 50. 50. Oh, wow. She looked like 20. Yeah, she looked amazing. That's very impressive. She passed away way too freaking young. Why? She was 55. It's sad. Yeah, it is. Anyway, we'll tell you at the end. But we want to, it's going to be a completely spoiler review. Spoiler? Sorry. Oh, Brian. There's a raven. If you haven't seen this, please don't watch this review yet and go watch it. Thank you. Yes. Who wants to read this? One of the girls. You don't want to read it? It looks so good. A quiet, sweet-tempered housewife and your small slights from her well-educated husband and daughter every day because of her inability to speak and understand English. Good synopsis. Oh, nice. That's partially there. That's partially there. Yeah. And it's directed by this female. I don't know it. Gari? Gari? Yeah, Gari. I bet it's Gari. Gari. Shine. I think it's Shinde. She also directed Dear Zendagi, which I don't believe we reacted to. No, we haven't. But I've seen the request for it. It's probably coming, I think. But yeah, she wrote and directed. She wrote and directed it. And obviously starring Shredevi. So what did you think about the Zemovie? I loved it. I loved it. I don't have stuff to say about it. I just love it. So you need to know how much we're putting Alexis on the spot. She hates us right now. She really doesn't have a lot to say about stuff and feels bad that she doesn't really have much to say. And she shouldn't, because that's her right to have not much to say other than she loved it. Like, Micah's response to everything is pretty good. But yeah, so you started out the film introduced to Shredevi and her terrible, terrible family. What did you think? I thought that her child needed to be parented. First of all, that girl was such a little brat. Um, not okay.  First of all, but I think it was so good. Shredevi obviously is amazing. I mean, I don't think that's a secret to any of you people. But she's so good in just the little nuances of the choices that she made from an acting standpoint. And your favorite things, the little head nods and all of that. I just can't. Yeah, if you didn't know that about me, but I am just, it's inexplicable. It's a mystery to me among other things in my life. But when I see what you guys refer to as the Indian head nod, it always touches my heart. But there's certain times when certain people do it, like when Shredevi does it. Or if I just, I'm undone. You're smitten for the head nod. I am utterly smitten. I feel it in my heart. I felt the entire time in this film, I watched it with my wife, who loved it as well. But the entire time I was just like that. It's so funny. The entire time that we just... What? The things that we, the thing we said over and over again was, oh my heart. She's adorable. Was just my heart, my heart. And I now... And the French guy and it's just...  Which is, I only have one heart. How can you win it so many times? That happened over and over with so many characters. The teacher. He was great. I absolutely loved the English teacher. And the whole, everybody in the class. I loved all of the different dynamics that they put in. The storyline was just so beautiful. There's a lot to talk about. But yeah, so... Let's talk about, just quickly, the very wonderful and surprising cameo. I lost my mind. I was watching it and I jumped up and I was like, that's the big piece. That's exactly what I said. And she was like, who's that? And I'm like, that's the biggest star like ever. That's like having Al Pacino show. And she was like, I love him. She's awesome. I love him. Great scene. I was like, I didn't even know he was in it. I'm wondering if he's going to be in it. He wasn't in it anymore.  Killed that scene. Oh, that was a great, great scene. Great scene. Yeah. I shouted, Big B! And it proves, it proves what, I mean you got to admit the fact that there is something to be said about star power because you could have put someone else in that scene who would have done an admirable job. But the fact that it was him raised the level of my enjoyment of that scene because it was Big B and Street Evvy together. I did like the fact that in this film we, there was a lot of cultural references that we get now. Yeah. Like when he said his name was Salman Khan. Yeah. When the other Indian laughed and none of the other people knew why he was laughing. I had it here with the girls. I laughed and I went, yeah, I got to explain why that's funny. He's like, okay. I know what that means now. And have we had legumes? I don't think we have. I don't think we have. No, but I mean, I don't want some. I mean, nuts, all the sweets that we were seeing that looked like other foods. It just looked so good and then she made them. Well, and to see it set in, we all love New York so much. Yeah. I thought that via directing wise this was beautifully. Beautifully corrected. I think my favorite films that we've seen, in terms of just enjoying it, the entirety of it. Yeah, the entirety of it. Yeah. You didn't feel any, I mean it was quite short for an Indian film. It was two. Like two. I was under five. Yeah. It was two hours, five minutes. But it flew by. Flew. I loved everything. You were enjoying every second of it. Expect when she was on screen, you're just like, I'm wondering, please answer me this, because this is the first thing we've ever seen of her. And it was exactly her last. But is this how she is in all of her things? Or like, is that just her spirit, just this kind, gentle soul? Gentle. Is that just who she is? Or has she done other stuff? It was just this amazing performance. Right. Outgoing person. Right. I've never seen another film, and she's like Meryl Streep in Devil Wears Prada. I know she's a legend, but this is the only thing we've seen her in. Right. So please let me know. Oh. Obviously we should watch that. Yeah. The dad, her husband. Yeah. Yes. Yes, he was. He played the dad in Life of Pie opposite Taboom. Oh really? Was he all there too? He was a very similar character. But he wasn't as insensitive.  Doctor, and it wasn't about the film. Okay. I hated that she stayed with the film. He wanted her to go with the French one. She is unhappy. He is clearly unhappy and not trying at all. I'm just saying, that's just how I feel. You're not happy at all. At least you leave it. You don't have to stay in it. Both of you are clearly unhappy. Your kids are terrible. Leave them too. They're terrible.  God, they're awful. But the dogs, don't leave the dogs. They're terrible people, all of them. Well, I didn't categorize them off as that. All the awful people. Did you see the little girl realizing what she'd done? She was so repented and heartbroken at the dinner. She's going to name five minutes, yell at her mom. I don't know. Because her dad isn't. And I think he too had a realization that he's been short. No. You don't think he did? I don't think he did. The daughter definitely did. All he was carrying about at the end of her speech was like, do you still love me? She should have said no. I think it's sweet that she chose to stay with her marriage. She chose to keep the commitment that she made. That example. No, because she says this. Bad example for children. Don't say a relationship if you're unhappy. And she's saying that she is taking fault for some of the problems in their relationship because she had given up on herself. She wasn't doing anything. And so she was just letting herself be walked all over. And now she's taking a stand of, no, I'm better than this. And I will be treated better than this. And I know that you love me because... But it takes two to tanga. It does. All he cares about is her making la dues because that's what she's born for. And when she gets home, he doesn't want to talk to her.  Not deserving it. Right. Like he is literally an awful human. Yeah. But at the same time she was taking ownership of the fact that she, without excusing him... You didn't do anything. Yeah, without excusing him. No, no, no. She took ownership of the fact that she allowed herself to be treated that way and allowed herself to be diminished. That's what the Frenchman's role was in her life. That showed her she's... No. It's my fault that I allowed you to treat me this way.  No, this is my thing because she could have learned English. I know. Corbin's take on this is going to be looked at like my piano take on... No, I think they would all agree with me that he was an awful human being. This is actually poignant to the story. No, I wouldn't categorize him as a completely broken off... I have hope for the world. Yeah, I do too. I don't. I have hope and I like... She said something to this effect in her monologue when she said that love and commitment has to transcend how you feel about something and you stay with something because you've had a commitment to it that even when it's rough you're still going to press through and not give up on it. Yep, and she has hope that it can get better again. Right, exactly. Well, she's been in that relationship for how long and hasn't gotten better it hasn't. But she hasn't gotten better until now! Let's move off of him. Let's go on to something between the other children. They're both terrible. No, that was really cute. He was annoying.  No, he's annoying. Anyways, he just... Corbin just hates children. No, I love children. Just not bad ones. But yeah, I thought the direct... Obviously, the songs in this were really good. Oh, the music was so good. The little, like, themes you had kind of come out of it. Yeah, there was a little theme they had in it that was so reminiscent of Finding Nemo without plagiarizing it. It had that same, the feels you get when you watch Nemo. I love this movie as much as I love some of my favorite... I was thinking about the difference between, say, a film like Hater, which you guys haven't seen. But that is a cinematic masterpiece, right? It's not fair to compare that and this. Because while this is not a cinematic masterpiece, this is one of my favorite movies ever. Forget... I don't equate my film favorites to Indian and American... They're movies. Yeah.  This is up there with... Well, with as far as the same kind of feelings, the feelings that are similar, it's a very different story, but like Brooklyn, those heartwarming feelings where it's just... It's a good one. Yeah, good one. If you haven't seen Brooklyn, it's a great film. It's so good. It's a real breakthrough. Breakthrough role. Yeah. So, so good. So, I wanna know what are some of the things that you liked in particular. I know you loved it, but what are some of the things you liked the most in the story and the movie? In the story. Yeah. Well, I could tell you something I disliked. Sure. The husband and the kid. The husband and the girl. I loved the little boy. I saw him tell it. Yeah, the daughter who was bad-mouthed the whole time. The daughter, she bothered me. But what it really bothered me was she was trying to buy her coffee. Oh, please. Oh. Oh, no. That seemed really bad. They made me so angry. They made me very angry. So that scene made me angry for a different reason. It wasn't realistic. I thought it was really dead. I understand why they did it. Yeah, they had to accentuate it in a way. It's accentuated. I get it. It's New York. That place has everybody under the sun. Right.  Right. And so they... But not everyone's in need. They might be a... But they won't be like... I don't know how to order it. She clearly can't speak English. They know that. They know that. I understand why they did it. You had to be hiding it. I get it. But then it introduced the French guy who was a phenomenal actor. Love him a lot. I love him so much. Beautiful work. Beautiful work. I want to see what else he's been in. And the whole everybody in the class. I thought that ensemble of the students in the class and that teacher just... I love every single one. I love how they did the relationship between the Frenchman and Sri Devi. Yeah. Because clearly he was schmitten for her. Totally. You said word a lot in this review apparently. But obviously she clearly liked him. Yeah. But obviously she's from a very conservative family and a very conservative culture. And so the relationship, the way they handled it, I thought was really well done. Yeah. And because I was like... I wanted him to be with her but I knew I was like it's not going to happen. No. It's really sweet how they did the mix of his culture where French are just like I'm pouring all of my feelings out and it made her so uncomfortable and he had no idea what that was. It was a great scene when they explained that to him. Yeah. And that for me is probably... If it's not the thing I love the most, it's way up there, is the current throughout this especially with her relationship with him as well as the relationship of the students when they're sharing why they want to learn English. And then when David the teacher had his heart broken and they're talking and he's listening outside the door, this message throughout of why can't we... I'm going to get emotional. Why can't we treat each other with a level of respect and understanding even though we're different? Yeah. Why can't we recognize like for example the guy who was quiet the whole time and then finally said something? Said something. And at first you can presume that the guy because he was silent and he wasn't nice to everybody that this guy was really... Yeah. When in reality that was a wall, he was being very protective of his heart. I'm just totally listening at this point. Yeah. I just thought that level of acceptance of each other and not being prejudicial and not judgmental which was a key line in the thing. Yeah. That for me is the most beautiful takeaway of this is the lesson you can get from this of watching this. If you watch this and don't walk away with why can't we just be nicer to each other then there's something wrong with you. There's just... There's something... There's a disconnect in your social and moral conscience. It was beautiful. Yeah. It was a great film. Great film. Anything you didn't like about it? No. There was nothing I disliked. I mean I could get really, really nitpicky on some of the acting choices that the kids had to do. Yeah. I give kids a pretty long leash because most kid actors are not extraordinary. What about all the white people in it? Except for the Frenchman. He was good. You know what? I honestly didn't notice whether there were or weren't any white people in it. Well, the groom and then the groom's father were just garbage. Oh, I know what you're referring to. Pick them up off the street. I know what you're talking about. What Corbin's referring to is how in virtually every Indian film you see, the white people are not really good actors. I think it's on purpose because... It'd be one thing if it was like any foreigner in a film. But all the foreigners in the class were all really, really good actors. I wasn't a huge fan of the teacher. I know y'all were. Oh, I loved him. I wasn't a huge fan. But I understand that's how y'all feel about Indians in American cinema. I don't know what it is because the French guy, he's white. He's really, really good. But if it's an American white guy, is he just garbage? Is he French? Because if he's not French, 100% believable as a Frenchman. I can't imagine he's not French. That's how good he was. And I really, what you said earlier about Sri Debbie, I would love to know is this a complete departure from her work? Or is this who she is? And like Tom Hanks, when you watch Tom Hanks, even when he changes things up, you're getting the core of Tom Hanks most of the time. And that's what you love about Tom Hanks. Is that the same with Sri Debbie versus like a Meryl Streep? Where it's just... You don't know what you're getting when you watch Meryl. She's going to be shape-shifting what's her next thing. So I'd love to...  Yeah, and both things we've seen of her, it's just so captivating. She has such a screen presence.  Just these big, beautiful eyes. There's something about her spirit. It's just so kind.  And it made me very sad watching it because we missed her by just a few months. Because she passed away in, I think it was January of 2018. And it was very tragic. I think she was in Abu Dhabi. And her husband had come to be with her for something. They were in a hotel. She went into the bathroom to get ready. She didn't reply. He knocked on the door. He felt something was wrong. He broke in and she was face down in the tub. And the cause of death was drowning. They thought maybe it was heart attack. They knew that she had some alcohol in her system. But I don't think there was enough there to definitively... You all will know way better than I do. But I did some research on it. But I don't know if she had a heart attack or if she slipped and fell and hit her head. But that was at 55. This was her last film. She looked amazing. I would never guess that she slipped. Incredible that she was 50 years old. She looked so young. She came up to me and I was like, this was the group before she died and she was like 50 something. Like what?  I know. She looks like 25. I know. And I can't say enough about the direction and the writing. This director is really, really good. Say her name again, please. Yeah. Her name is... I'm guessing Guari Shinde. Shinde? Yeah. Guari Shinde. I thought she did a masterful job. Masterful.   Oh yeah.  I would give this... I can't imagine you making a more perfect film with this subject matter and this content. I think if you were to make a film and say this is the way it should be done, that's how you do it. It can't get better than that for this kind of film. And please let us know what should every film we should watch next. And other stuff by this writer-director. Yeah. My goodness. That was amazing. It could be old films, really old films, because I know she's been around a long, long time, or some of her new stuff, just let us know because we want to see more of her. We do. We love her. It's not about English, English. Thank you.


hey everyone so i decided that i hadn't really did a vlog since um my very first box and i'm kind of knee deep in the budget box right now um i had to take a break because you know when things don't work i just shut everything down and i take a little nap but these boxes have to go out by monday um i'm trying to find some way to prep y'all up but um yeah so what i'm doing i gotta find my little stand what i'm doing here goes i am printing inserts i am designing i'm designing you know i had no makeup earlier so oh everything looks a little off so over here i just put like excess uh let me take this off so i don't look true to that but anywho i am right now i'm designing the main sticker sheet and i'm looking for let me try this for a little bit i'm looking for oh i need a football i'm looking so i'm looking just for icons on my computer i'm looking at icons things like that um i'm printing in service behind me um let me let me explain something to y'all about kind of my process and kind of not my process yeah i've slept off my makeup but i just decided i've been ahead this on my mind and as i was looking for um icons for you know a lot of them i'm just recycling ones from last year whatever i was like you know what this would be the perfect time to do a vlog and i've been wanting to do one y'all but like i just always get knee deep or i feel like i've gotten behind all that great stuff i'm using my phone so i may look this way that way but whatever so i'm just trying to you know take y'all along with the process um i hate that it's the last minute that i decided to do this because it's like go time and it seems like it's always go time when it comes to the budget box and one of the things i want to do this year is better time management because i feel like i need to manage my time better okay there it is i need to manage my time a little better um as far as not just the budget box but just life in general because so many times i get just sidetracked by things and just caught up you know doing things like small tedious things and then i feel like if i would start early i wouldn't really have to you know go through some of the paintings that i go through needless to say and while i'm thinking about it like i'm looking at some other old boxes i have here but one of the things i very seldom do is sell the stickers and so i'm thinking like should i be selling these stickers afterwards but the thing is i don't have a lot of space on my computer so it's kind of hard to save so i haven't kind of jumbled up on like one screen anywho but yeah i just wanted to make a vlog and just talk about it because i don't really talk a lot about you know my processes and things like that um i don't i'm trying to do better on this channel and i'm actually thinking about even going back to doing my beauty channel because i've been wearing um my makeup again and stuff like that you know i'm just looking let me show you can i turn this around but i'm just on here doing this i don't know how to do the flip it or whatever but anywho so i'm just on here looking for oh they go st patrick's too i'm just looking for some icons that are already on my computer and like i said i probably used them last year i try to hold on to um a lot of them i also have a autodrive that i used but anywho yeah so that's what i'm doing i'm just trying to get these stickers out because i was saying that my computer is running out of storage and so um i have to wait it's it's it's crazy but the good thing is now i have more um cutters so cutting stickers is like a breeze i have the big machine which is sticking out right there that's sticking out from behind the white thing i have that to cut inserts so that is making my process um a little smoother and that's why sometimes i don't i'm not gonna say i don't stress because i do but i don't worry about um timing per se so much because i know that i have time savers the only thing is if something decides not to work right like the printers um i had a situation and i just girl i just cut them off i walk away and i come back but anywho and that's another thing i'm sitting here thinking like girl you're looking a mess because i just woke up from a nap took lashes off i just slept on makeup but i was like i don't never be all the way together and if i do it like when i because sometimes i get up at five in the morning i'll start working or sometimes i'll work after midnight and that's something that i have to and i'm not even a night girl but i have to get better at with my time management because i can't be doing those type of hours you know um oh that looked like it could be that one time thing let's do that i don't think i've used that one before so yeah that's what i'm doing now so what i'll do let me tell you kind of my process so what i'm doing now is creating this sticker sheet i will print this and this allows me to do something else then i can possibly cut these cards let me show you and i was going to have these professionally printed but time management and it got away from me but luckily i have some good card stock and only have one printer that cuts this good card stock so um yeah but i'm gonna be ahead of the game but next month but they're double and what i realize is i can create this in the size that i want it to be on my macbook when i go to print it through my Canon which is you see that big light back there it's right behind there it allows me to put two on one page at like the same size so i don't even have to put two on a page you know when i create it the computer and the printer does it for me so yeah so that's that and then let me show you so by the time this comes out everybody will be done back there stuff oh this one it's not i think it's a little crooked but but they're getting vellum gold cards let's move it here vellum gold cards and i want the lines to be big enough so that you can do let me see which side like this you can put if you want to change it out you can put no you can put the whatever this thing is page flags in there and i'm gonna try to cover up my customers but i've been using my transparent sticky notes from the last box oh my god i gotta order some more because i didn't keep a lot for myself but these are coming in handy because i use them as in list form i use them in my regular planner all that great stuff but i'm using them to like decide what i want in my sticker um and sticker pad um normally on the notebook i write down the sizes and um you know just mark them off as i go i put them on here and i can move this if i wanted to but i've already kind of written that off but anyway so yeah that is what i'm doing now so let me i want the stickers to be running while i cut um these and i think i'm done with dashboards if you have not seen i did a let me find it i did a real one i did a reel on the dashboards that will be in the box this is one of them my absolute favorite like this is my favorite like i think this is probably one of the favorite dashboards that i have ever created i wanted them to have something sleek to fit the aesthetic of me the aesthetic of the box yes l objective and goal and target lens and objective object which is kind of like goals okay and that's the thing for january let me see let me find the other one and y'all i have to be careful because um earlier i had to throw away a whole dashboard because i had on a full face of makeup and it got on my hands and i was just like oh my god so let me be real careful and then this is uh other one i like this one too so what i did was i printed a few extras because i'm already getting um people asking me about them because i did that reel and that's something else i know i need to work on um i need to work on like doing sneaks early and i used to do that um i didn't find that it brought more people for the box but i think to another reason i stopped doing it is because my faithful customers they they like to be surprised and they don't want to see liz hey liz they don't want to see um they don't want to see them first they want to be surprised and i love that like i love the fact that you know they don't need to see it to me that says that you trust me and you know that i'm gonna give you my best um but i do understand for those who okay i think this is ready to go we're gonna let this go is there anything oh the football i had to do the football i've been waiting for 12 minutes so i'm going to log off and i'll come back and i'll give you another process so i had to come to Walmart to get some ink um i got my ink and go i had to take a little break so i wanted to show you people want this dog look no leash so yeah let me get out of here and uh yeah today is sunday uh um so labels are printed but i'm printing stickers and i ran out of ink for the printer that i used to uh print the stickers plus i got a couple orders on my q that i needed for anyway so just had to wait and get it so let's go so i got the ink y'all that ink it used to be twenty seven dollars it is now forty three dollars what the heck so i can't put you here anywho i'm going to head home someone's blocking me here right now anyway but i'm going to head home i really need to get something grocery wise the ink yeah so i really need to go to the grocery store but find something and this is my my thing that makes me want to stop sometimes because it'd be the little things like this but i can't let it stop um it'd be the little things like running out of ink running out of paper when you only have literally eight more pages to print so anywho and it's always the last minute but i've been last minute so i think i talked about this like i'm working on time management that is what i'm trying to get better at and it's even though it's been like a year i'm still trying to figure out like what like my process is like you know i have processes um but i may have to switch some things around as far as like what get done first like here lately pens have been the problem and normally i want to say pens would used to be the first thing i ordered so i'm gonna take that back so pens being the first thing i ordered um i designed normally the inserts first even before i designed the stickers but now i'm thinking maybe i need to be working on stickers first because um like when this happens i'll know if i'm low or what have you and also something else that i've been doing is like um well i talk about this in my life how i get outside i want to eat out but i want like impossible burger from burger king anywho um yeah i gotta work on my processes i have them written down but i want to type them up put them in my business planner so that i know like what is going on and make sure that i'm doing things according to the way i should be doing them and that everything gets done and to get ahead um my daughter was like you know you should probably get ahead i was like yeah i was ahead last year so um last year like when i got my taxes i just like i got things ahead so i was almost two months ahead um i want to get back there again but it's going to take me probably tax time to do that again because money is tight y'all if you don't know i'm self-employed hairstylist and i'm over it at this point like i'm so over it if this business made well enough i would probably stop because like people are just canceling or just i wouldn't stress so much but clients are canceling and i do take from my hair business to help with this business sometimes and like today like i'm just like i'm taking them from the hair business but i really can't afford to because i lost the day on friday because of snow um yeah just like it's crazy so anywho back to my processes so yeah i'm just trying to get processes together figure out what's going to work what needs to be done maybe switch my processes around and just figure out what needs to be done first what's more important um like i said pens here lately have been a situation so i'm gonna go definitely go back to doing pens first um and i'm gonna do i'm i think i'm a design inserts and i already have my uh let me go back slow down i want to have inserts and stickers done at the same time um work on those together or vice versa and here's the thing i have um i have already mapped out last year i mapped out all the boxes that's one thing that i i do do grow down all the ideas people give me ideas but what they don't understand is i have to stick to what i've already done and i've been getting some ideas from people or i have gotten one and i was gonna make it january seem like no we do goals in january so i can't you know always do what people want me to do and i decided this year i'm setting some boundaries in my business and i'm just not going to be really nilly and and just doing what people think i should do or you know as far as what the theme of the box should be so i'm working on that and something i asked the lord to do was to unscramble my brain because i get so sidetracked sometimes and i'll just have all these ideas you know and i just don't want to um be doing that let's get a look at that so i want to just slow down and enjoy the process enjoy the budget box so that i don't want to give up on it um also i'm starting to when i'm having things come out like a launch of new products but once a month but like after the budget box so after the budget box comes out these new things come out i'm working on i want to do self-care inserts and it was another insert that i needed for myself um like skincare beauty routine but i think i'm just going to make that a bundle and i'm going to release that so it'll just be kind of thick and there'll be enough pages so people can just use and have and just you know separate it i want to also design some new dashboards because i really love the dashboards for the month of january um i want them to fit my aesthetic uh yeah so that's that uh what else um yeah so i'm trying to launch products also what i'm going to do when i get my taxes i decided i'm going to buy stuff for the holiday right then and there i'm going to buy extras so like when people spend a hundred dollars a hundred and fifty dollars they'll get these little nice little extras and it's not like paper stuff like you know it could be i don't know i just know i want to do something so anywho yeah i've i just gotta sit with it but i gotta start setting up my days for processes admin work like i do admin work almost every day but i need to have a day of just nothing but admin work um and while i'm thinking about it also um one of the things that i said i was going to do well this is how i'm parenting myself through this process so i need to clean out my closet like i gotta get rid of my closet um i've got new clothes got rid of old clothes i need to like clean my closet out it's driving me crazy and my drawers and i want to clean out the side of my bed and all that stuff so i'm parenting myself by saying you're sure you can't do that until this box is gone because i literally do not have any time to do this like the box is so important is the first thing on my to do this like today i didn't get to fix my son and my husband breakfast uh probably won't do dinner but he understands i guess you know i don't know so i'm gonna you know just work through the day i just had to take this quick break to go to the Walmart but in the future i'm gonna have all this mapped out so it's not such a strong press for time you know but i always feel like i work better under pressure like i know i think i do but i don't think it makes sense you know what i mean like it's not making sense right now because these little things like having to come get the ink you know all that so we're not doing that no more so February we're gonna be on task okay on task until tax time till we can get things early so that means like the April box will be the mom which is my birthday box month and then after that i want to be caught up so far so yeah that is that i'm going to get up this phone and well i'm going to cut a little break i probably inserted my daughter helped me today that's what i forgot to mention i got help from my daughter that was a big help okay Natalie made it so much i had her do like three things she packed things today she did the highlight strips she packed those for me um and i i just trust her i just trust my daughter to do things the way i would do it because i'm very meticulous i'm not a new freak but i'm meticulous and i'm particular about stuff and she knows that and then she's sort of like me so i trust her i like i didn't even have to like look over her shoulder i showed her once she got it you know that uh next i'm going to train her on the on the cutters i'm going to train her on the machines and that way like she could be doing that what i'm doing something else i found a better way to cut my card stock through the you know my new machine oh my god of course perfect love it um yeah oh and i placed the order last minute because i was like something's missing like where are my thank you cards i don't know how many i sort of had but i read out plus i like to update them once i run out of the last set and put like maybe the new picture on there uh if you don't know jazzy crafting i mean jazz from jazzy crafting on instagram she does her reels and takes pictures like when she gets the box or whatever and um so yeah she'll send me the pictures and so i'll take the pictures and um add them to my thank you card so i'm like something's missing so i did the christmas cards through staples i don't really care for staples praying or whatever they did my cards i designed for my mom's seventh birthday party but um i went ahead because i was like oh that's what's missing is the thank you cards so i went ahead and put sent those through staples so they'll be ready this evening but i'll probably pick them up tomorrow when i'm on my way to work before i go to work i'll just pick them up so um yeah well i might come back out tonight and pick them up because i want these boxes to be packed and sealed tonight and going to the post office in the morning at nine if not they'll go when i get off from work tomorrow so but the labels are printed the they're ready so that's it all i'm doing now the last thing i gotta do is pack stickers and so hopefully when i get back home and this ink get the ink in the printer start putting the rest of these stickers like literally i have just eight more pages to print and that's another thing like i'm gonna stop me alone but another thing is my laptop is losing storage i've moved stuff off to my out-of-drive my husband's with me getting me a new laptop he does it he builds computers but he'd be busy so i would that one so i have that and that's what i used to cut the stickers they're getting cut i just had to keep logging out of my computer logging back games just cleaning my disk up and that's the process and then my one of my cutters are deciding not to work which is the two the two is just that she's just tapped out okay she just ain't gonna work no more that's fine two is better than one so i'm or you know three would be better but two is better than one so that's what you know i got going on so stickers is the last thing i gotta print and cut and i'm just gonna cut them i got some cut and i'm gonna pack them and that's it and then i gotta stamp boxes i'm stamping boxes i get all this is going on too long but anyway i'm stamping boxes for right now because that's what i thought you could avoid but i decided that i do want custom boxes made so that's going to be an investment i have to see how i can fit it into my every you know month supply thing but only reason i just really haven't pulled a trigger on that and i've had the money to do it is because i know it's something that i gotta keep up and i can't keep that up i just gotta be honest myself i can't keep that up because i really don't have that many subscribers to justify me splitting spitting that money out but i think around tax time i'm just going to invest in it and just you know maybe save the stamping for little smaller boxes or something like that or bigger boxes but you know yeah so that's that so all right i will chat with y'all later i'm trying to find something to do the grocery store and i'm just gonna maybe pick up some mushrooms for me and my daughter for our dinner and i'm here with the bigger one but i'm on a budget today so we're just going to get this one that i take a little off my show card i really need to go grocery shopping but i'm on such a budget and it just spurts me that i can't shop like a waterfall and have so many seasonings this is where i'm at the international market but this is where i like to get my seasonings because there's so recent big price like you can't beat it i need to check the international i mean the indian aisle i don't really need anything from there but let's go so we're on the i'll wait just come here this indian seasonings and all that this is what i get my column knock but i see that they're out and i don't need any right now anyway so sometimes i'll just grab this that's what i call them a knot so today i can do it with the i still this might pay um so i need to go back okay y'all we have got our groceries um normally this grocery store international market it is normally crowded on sunday i try not to come here on sunday but they have the cheapest mushrooms and little items for vegans so yeah i have y'all popped up on the ink and i was trying to like you know film in there but it's always so crowded and i'm new to vlogging so yeah i was just doing the best i could so i don't know what the footage is gonna look like until i get ready to um edit this vlog but yeah so we got our groceries i'm gonna go home this is the plan i'm gonna go home i'm going to put the ink in the printer finish printing the rest of page four of the sticker set and while that's printing i'm going to probably cook but that's what be messing me up so um either i'm a cook or i'm just going to um finish cutting other stickers i got i'll stay up to 12 to get this done i was hoping that staples would email me text me call me something while i was out so i don't have to come back out but i know i got until 5 30 so um i'll probably have to come back out and go to staples like i said if not i'll just get the boxes together that'll be the last component i have to put in and i'll just pick them up in the morning and then on my way to work and then during my break i'll just come home add them to the box and strip the boxes out but this this is stressful like i'd be so stressed oh and my batteries about you guys so i need to charge my phone and um yeah so i'll see y'all back at home i'm trying to think if it's anything else like i'm missing because while i'm out in these streets because i don't want to come back out i really don't want to come back out for this uh cards from staples but like i said i will because i really want these boxes done tonight that tomorrow morning i have to be working at 9 30 the post office opens at 9 9 o'clock i want to be at the post office or dropping these boxes off and then on the way to work i don't like to do it like in the afternoon because sometimes i've even had to like put them through the shoot and they've gotten stuck and i don't like holding on to the boxes i really don't i need to find a charger um i really don't like holding on and i don't know what make people think that i just took their money and hold them to the boxes no i want them gone and out of my possession now not to say that people think i hold on to them but i guess that's how i feel but um yeah i don't want to hold on to the boxes i want them out asap so preferably in the morning they will be going out so i'm gonna try to catch some footage um of me cutting and packing stickers later that's like i said the last thing i got to do is cut and pack stickers that's the last thing we got to move this around on our processes we need to move designing cutting printing and cutting stickers i have a timeline so i'm thinking it needs to be moved up to like the second thing after ordering the pens and then while those are printing i could be doing uh dashboards so yeah but that's it and i will see y'all back at home okay we're back home and we're in the office i'm about to load the ink y'all the office is a mess um it's gotten in the habit of trying to clean up as i go along but when it gets busy in here it's busy in here so i'm trying to see where i can prop y'all um hold on i have to go over here and change up the ink with one of my inserts so take this off i just realized something i think all of these punt it so what seven eight ten eleven twelve y'all i just pretty much wasted a trip for nothing i didn't need the ink i could have held off but i got some orders um in my inbox in my queue the needs to go out anyway and if i am going to the post office i like to do all that together but this is a mess like i'm gonna have to take a break at some point today to get this office together so i'm so disturbed with myself right now i already had so i had to do a sprint like those could have kind of waited until maybe monday but i didn't want to waste no more um time oh and that's what i'm doing over here i'm creating the what's inside card people always ask me like or they'll make a comment like oh i need my charger there's no what's inside card and the reason for that is because things happening and so now i'm just going to print them in house the inside cards what's inside cards in house because um until i get ahead y'all this pen that is in this month's box it is the bomb it is called the smother excuse me smoother pro innocent point five y'all bomb okay i have extras and um yeah this pen is the absolute anyhoo and the funny oh no it's the funny story about that i thought i didn't get them so now to pull back up silhouette finish printing so this is what i have printed so they're getting labels for oh we got a little bit of storage y'all this is crazy so they're getting labels two pages of labels um because most of my we have maybe one new subscriber this month i have a dentist appointment tomorrow that just popped up on my no on the 23rd um um i lost my train of thought but anyhoo i can't believe i just wasted a trip like i didn't have to even do that and i wasted money that i didn't even have to waste okay i couldn't at least held off my day but the only thing is like i said i have some orders that need to go out and i'm sorry this is dashboard um just have some orders that need to go out and i'd like to ship them out with the budget box so we needed it anyway because if i'm correct i need to do that also y'all tonight is sunday and on sundays we do the financial live on instagram um this is the other pandas in the box um these are good too anyhoo um the live is tonight so i try to take a little moment in my day on sundays to at least write down a few things put them on a sticky note or am i planner of like what we're gonna talk about we've been talking about um goals for the month of january you know a box thing around goals so i still even though we're talking about goals i still like to have help some key points um and that way i don't kind of get sidetracked because when i don't do this i get sidetracked and um i try to stay on topic so i gotta do that as well i gotta cook um bless my husband sorry he went and got them some groceries to cook so he's like he's about to cook so i don't have to cook their food i don't have to cook two meals because my house is divided i have to cook two meals so that takes a little bit off my plate um and i was thinking about pushing the live back because i got to do this and i gotta cook it's a lot y'all and i'm mad because i spent that money when that was my booth right money like but i needed but so i'm gonna have to conjure up some customers for tomorrow um because i had to pay my booth rent late because it's snow we had snow days and all of that great stuff so um yeah we're done with the icons we need to do the labels and so let me get to this oh they popped up okay i'm going to get to this try to sneak in dinner it's gotta be a better way i've i've got to get some processes in order we've lost some customers we gained customers you know it's it's just the way that it goes you know and it's all good and i always tell when i'm on the live if some of my um box subscribers on there you know the point of the live is for them to become financially free um all that great stuff so i always tell them that like you know if they have to alleviate me for a few months i know that they'll spend the block come back um so i'm not too mad because um a few of the cancellations to the subscription are people um who have been on my lives you know and i know most people like well why would you tell them that like you should get your money um but i was to say if it's in your budget you know what i mean like if it's not in your budget why would you do that and it's the same for me like i'm about to cancel out i'm about to cancel subscription i only have one which is called in paper i'm about to cancel that because of my finances you know like like i gotta get them together and another video i'll be doing is one on me setting up how to pay everything off so so that'll be coming up but yeah so i'm gonna kind of stop it right here finish planning these um stickers like i said cook and yeah and then i'll probably it'll probably be time for a while by the time i um get finish cooking and if not i'll cook after um so all we have left to do is cut stickers pack stickers then i'm gonna print the content listen to that content card everything's here um prayerfully um i'll probably pick up the thank you cards after stickers let me get off because my phone is about to die and that's what i'm using to film and so i'm gonna run these stickers you know i got these minimum parts of print and we try to get these there before i start cooking and then yeah so anyways let me finish cutting stickers and i'll probably catch up with y'all maybe after the live and so i just called staples because i'm like i got a live at five o'clock it's 4 20 ink i have been working since like 8 30 this morning um besides my little break to go running it's ink that i didn't need and so it's 4 30 i'm ready to go i had to call them and they said it was ready so i'm going to go pick up the thank you cards um i'll probably be a little late to my life i did manage to get all of these packed so all i have to do is put the stickers on here i'm printing i realized i i like to put a little extra because what i'm finding is some people want to order the box after it's done for or it's gone out and once they see it which i personally just don't think it's fair like you don't get to look at the box and see what's in it it's just like anyone else doing a subscription if you saw what was in it would you buy it would you wouldn't buy you know what's the purpose of that i just don't think it's fair but i do do it sometimes so i'm just doing a few extra because stickers is just one of the things sometimes they get erased off of my computer that's one of the reasons i don't sell them plus it's just a lot to print and i have an allocated budget for the box and what i'm supposed to spend on so if i'm dipping into stickers that are supposed to be just for regular business uh it don't add up so i'm trying to cut that out i'm setting some boundaries some business boundaries at least i'm trying i'm attempting to set some business boundaries in 2024 it doesn't feel good to do it you know because sometimes i actually really you know it works out i need the money but um i don't want people to think they can just keep doing that you know what i mean so we're gonna add like i'm letting my phone charge a little bit so we are going to head to staples and go pick up an order before our lives so now i'm going to be linked to my live and in the future i'm going to get no vlogging camera because i want to i would love to show y'all what we talk about or live and you know me talking and then also normally i've been ahead on makeup i try to get dressed up for my lives now and um i just didn't have the time today so i may push the live back but to be honest i don't even feel like doing my makeup and stuff today for the live because i'm just so um kind of you know a little behind and that is just necessary uh i'm just a little sticker thing oh and then i had the automotive holly bag so i wanted to did i show y'all that um i should have kept one for myself hold on well this is not the exact size but these are the little journal cards i'm excited about these and you can use them for your desk or for your um planner i gotta think of the size but i decided i think i want to put these in plastic again this is not the actual size let me get the actual size hold on okay my chair went down this is the actual size so you see the difference so it's a nice little side um and you can put them like in a little stand on your desk or you can put it in your planner depends on the size of your planner but just a great reminder so yeah i decided i want these to go in plastic and then i had like just enough for these so and who knows they may not get plastic because well i'll see i was thinking they may not get plastic because the ones i ordered they won't be here till tomorrow um i just ordered some from amazon so they will be here faster but um i don't think they'll be here in time because again i'm trying to get this box out in the morning not tomorrow night so let's go let me tell you the best thing i ever did was by that machine y'all that cutter listen i cut my own what's inside card like i said i'll have to do this for a while but they came out so pretty and they're evenly cut all the same size and that's them this is everything i am very pleased with them and i'm thinking i should have did my own thank you cards because i wouldn't have to run out to staples i wouldn't have to spend money on that but i like those professionally done um that's overflow i have a headache i really haven't eaten um yeah i really wanted to put makeup on for this live but i just can't do it so and then while i like one of the reasons i like to print these myself because the last time i had a professionally printed let's say i had to get 50 and i didn't have 50 customers and i had to throw the rest away so that was waste of money so printing these and since everybody just need these um and i understand um it's just cheaper makes more sense for me to do them at home because if i only have 20 or 30 customers you can't i can't order 30 you know or i have to still get 40 you know so and i have to throw 10 away so this is what we're going to be doing for now and but thank god for my cutter and having three printers so this was my to-do list today y'all let me specify a bit and then i need to stop rambling so i can get to the um staples my laptop died my phone was on the brink of dying but these were in the December box y'all i'm gonna have to order more because i just actually really just took one off the website because i've gone through mine that i set aside for me and i've been using these suckers like nobody's business like like you see they're all in here i use them in my planner because i'm a lister and so it allows me to make lists like i broke down you know what was going to go in the sticker set um over here i think i showed this earlier i broke down the sizes mark those off yeah i love those stickers so i just kept one for myself and i'm debating taking that last one off but i think i'm just going to place an order at the first of the month for some more and um i won't get many but they're mainly for me i'm gonna say this last thing and then we are going to staples so i can be on time for the live i still i i never cook dinner y'all i just kept rolling because i was like um wait a minute okay yeah i just kept rolling because i was just like i gotta get these stickers cut like it just doesn't make sense for me to stop so i never went and cooked dinner um lost i'm trying to throw it bring it back your shooter oh i was gonna say one of the things that um i don't know i kind of maybe intimidate myself i'm always scared when i'm planning out the budget box like i'm like oh where they like this oh where they like that is it enough so this month i was like i wanted to be good i threw in some extra things and um i actually like this box and sometimes i just feel like it's not enough i do get imposter syndrome i do do comparison which i know i should not do i just look at other the big companies and i have to realize that it's just me i'm small and i have to just do what i can do but once it comes together and i'm packing that box sometimes i'm disappointed sometimes i'm like it came together i can't believe that i pulled it together and then a lot of times in a short period of time and then also i think i'm done over here i'm gonna close this out oh um a lot of times i don't really see the vision until jazz does the reels on instagram and i'm like girl you made it look like i need something so let me save this right quick what is this january um yeah so discard all anywho that is it let's go to staples so we have made it to staples i don't know if i can change this around or whatever but let's go in and get our cards they're coming in because i'm not used to vlogging that was too funny me tripping hold on all right i have to probably have to figure out a way to pop y'all up um let me start the car what can i pop y'all on because this thing doesn't these are my little beads so hope they don't fall there we go all right let's see listen it is a day and and god bless my husband okay he went to the grocery store he got there um he got their food he's going to cook my husband don't cook okay he he just ain't doing it all the time so this is what they look like very good and they must have gotten a new printer because their printer wasn't printing right um to me it wasn't like um it was a little grainy these don't look grainy the background looks a little yellow but they don't look grainy as they did like my christmas cards uh they were okay but somebody's trying to pull up here so let me pull out praise the lord that is it that's all i need it i can pack boxes tonight um cut that off your shithead everything is done now now let's go do this financial live oh i want to get me a coffee but the way my pocket is set up because y'all i didn't even take a nap today if y'all can see what i got y'all sitting on the line let me see should i get a coffee because i need to spruce up and then i gotta remember the coffee order it was a coffee order i saw on tiktok ah i hear they ain't got my makeup on and that's something i've been trying to do is like um you know get myself together every day you know when you look good you feel good and i've been trying to like goodness y'all feel because i got y'all sitting up on this um omg it's worth it the coffee worth it order so i'm gonna go through the drive-through so that i can have time to remember the order but it's a coffee order that i saw on tiktok last year sometime i started getting it i even screenshotted it but after a while i could remember it but i haven't been um buying you know coffee out um i just need something like i just feel like i need something and i'm really trying to like save money but i need something to wake up so i did tell on instagram that i would be about 30 minutes late so and another reason i don't want to do my makeup is because like yesterday i was packing a dashboard and i have a tendency to touch my face and i have must have touched my face there was a makeup print on a dashboard and i had to reprint it and i had just like just enough and i was just like your shooter so um being like i gotta pack these boxes i'm not doing makeup um and thinking of makeup i want to get back to my beauty channel i think that's what i'm gonna do and i think i'm gonna start vlogging over there and going back to just doing you know makeup over there because we need some strings of income um you know because one thing i don't like to do is to struggle okay and the hair business is it's just not what it used to be um this past week was a struggle i only made like five hundred dollars and it it just don't sit right with me and i remember a time when i was making almost four thousand dollars a week two thousand dollars a week two no excuse me two thousand or twenty five hundred dollars a week so oh it's in my so we gotta we gotta figure out something and i've been job hunting a little bit and i want to do project management but then most people i talk to or listen to they talk about that i was doing the google course and they were like a negative no don't do that so i got a little discouraged but not really and i said i would go back to um i would just take the course you know i did i was supposed to be applying to college i just got to get my transcript and i do think i just want to go ahead and just get a degree um because self-employee it's it's it's something else but any who y'all i'm gonna get you back when i because i need to remember this order okay i need to get a better i need to get a better car mount hold on y'all let's place this what i think i remembered it yes can i get a grand day um shaken espresso with uh brown sugar oat milk yes with brown sugar oat milk um five pumps of white mocha and uh vanilla cream you said no what no i was saying vanilla cream white mocha syrup five five pumps and vanilla cream foam of vanilla foam okay yes um what size is it again uh grand day anything else that's all thank you i think i used to get the toll i don't even know what car we're gonna use because whatever probably shouldn't spend this eight dollars i could have had a beer but anyway i'm just excited we got our cards um yeah staples something must have got fixed on their printer because these look so much better and they are my last resort like last minute last resort like when i forgot to order them offline but these should hold me for a while and i'm going to probably place another order for some more updated ones you know i'm so excited to do dashboards um i think i mentioned this previously today but um i want to do launches because like so after the budget box comes out so the extras will come out and then new releases will come out the new launch will come out um i was going to start back on to making um the cash envelopes but y'all i don't want to do it i'm just going to be honest i don't want to do it i think it's just too tedious i'm pretty sure i can make up money doing it because when i was doing the 100 envelope ones they were selling but the time that it took so i have these little uh the clear square um frosted envelopes that was in a box some other time i'm thinking about doing the 100 envelope with that and just cutting the numbers and then all i gotta do is put the numbers on there so i'm thinking about doing that and maybe you know that will be that but i yeah i just don't think i want to design them anymore because it is time consuming and they just didn't come in like regular you know what i'm saying they didn't come in now what i will do is i think i'm going to get more of those frosted um envelopes that you know i've had maybe all for custom script for them or you know custom just get the little sticker like what's in this month's box but anywho i'll check back in when i get my coffee when i get my coffee so plus my phone is about to die so let's charge her up real quick okay y'all we got our coffee but now a window don't want to go up it does this in the code so hmm oh god i think there's something anywho i just don't like when they put the cinnamon on it it is delicious okay i need to work um getting this window to go up this is wild okay so this is going to give me a little energy to get through my life and get through the rest of the night i just can't believe this window is this something anywho i'm putting my lid on yeah so this is going to get me through the live and getting these boxes cut so everything's done now let me try to figure out what's going on with this window i'll see y'all back it's done we got some e2fay with some gas my rice our fried mushrooms and some succotash and i have a piece of garlic bread my vegan dinner for the day i gotta check the bread have you made the bread when he made their dinner so i'll have some milk products every down there so it's no big deal but yeah and it is 8.43 okay so i gotta eat dinner and i gotta go stamp boxes and i think i'll pack the boxes get up at five to pack the box in the morning because your girl is tired i've been working literally 12 hours so i'll end the vlog tonight now and then tomorrow will probably be the end of the vlog with us dropping the boxes off all right good morning good morning it is tuesday no monday you know my scarf never stays on it's monday it is approximately like 6 36 i got up at 5 30 to start um the boxes um my body just kind of wake up at 5 30 anyway i got up at 5 30 so that i could do my um um bible reading um plan and um i do um my prayer i have a little prayer down to do that and yeah so happy monday um i was trying to decide what i was going to do i got my coffee in here i leave it in here because that way i'm clumsy i don't spill it um oh so what i gotta do on my agenda and i don't have long because i take my dogs out about seven the longest they can go is about 7 30 um i've got to get a better time frame like i'm thinking now like what i should have done is when the boxes came in and that was my goal was to stamp the boxes then but i didn't do that so now i got to stamp the boxes i was trying to find my stamp and my shipping table is a wreck so here's my stamp in so i'm trying to decide do i stamp the boxes then later go back and fill them or i think i'm going to stamp them first i'm going to what do i stamp as i go along i would just uh boxes look small i'm trying to throw it anyway i'm about to stamp these i think what i'm gonna do i don't think i have to be to work at 9 30 today i don't think i'm going to be able to get them out even though i worked all day yesterday i don't think i'm gonna be able to get them out so probably when i get off from work that's when they'll go to the post office i gotta kind of stand up to do this to put my pressure on the stamp why didn't i do this before but my daughter said she's off today so she would help me she she was a big help yesterday you know she did about three things when she packed pens she packed the transparent highlight the strips for me yeah and then also i have to do a count everything and what i mean by count is i know the number that's supposed to go in here so i do a count of like everything i know how many boxes i have excuse me if i sound like a maniac i know how many boxes i have um i mean orders subscriptions i've printed everything to match that and actually went over a little bit so what i do is um i'm gonna try to the way i have it right now it's just crazy so but anyway let's just say there should be about 10 11 things in here uh-oh what do i do with the oh there they are so this is just minor but like including the thank you card including the what's inside card and all the products let's say there's 10 items so that's how i try not to miss what everyone is getting um so if i'm off the only way i would be off is um if i forgot well i added too many if that makes sense so yeah i'm gonna stamp these boxes and i think i'm gonna pack as i go along because i think that would be more efficient and even after i take the dogs out that takes roughly 30 minutes so even after i take them out so what i do is i just make sure everything is stamped are you kidding me y'all i just messed up a whole box like let me get off of here and do this and i'll be back and hopefully the next one you'll see is me going to the post office okay so for like this order let me show you everything that's in the box and i'm just gonna make sure i have my count right so here i was waiting on some things to put these in i might have some other things to put these in but i'm just gonna start packing so they get the gold achievement card that's one this is a personal size order this is actually my girl shakisha's order um so this is two the insert and i kind of try to do it by size three which is the sticker set and then the dashboards four five six seven eight the what's inside card nine is the thank you card and then ten i feel like i'm missing something it was like 11 things let me get my book so here's my budget box planning book so i can go and make sure my count is right and then i'll try to do it just here but see here i have the theme of the box what all should be in the box and the sizes the customers are down here so one two three four five six seven oh it's nine ten eleven yep i know it was something um be kidding me i just dropped it but they're getting three of these and some just fell behind the little case so there should be 11 items well it's more than 11 but um things so there's that i'm gonna put that up under there and then now we can fold oh i don't know that i think about it i really kind of wanted to wait for those things to come in to put the German cards in but we can't wait so this box is ready to go i'm not going to tape them just yet because i might reopen them um i swear these boxes are looking small so yeah back to stamping i'm just doing them stamp and pack at the same time so i think that'll be more gotta be faster and the labels they all like go together if not i will find them and so i do them in the order that they would print it okay let me go so i can make sure that i stamp this thing correct okay i just went through the door um it's time to finish these boxes it is 11 18 um i didn't take some of them so i'm gonna get my son to do that but i'm gonna tape some boxes um i'm gonna start taping the ones that i haven't done oh goodness that's here y'all and i didn't even put on makeup today because it really was no point because again i'm working with the boxes and i just don't want to get makeup on it um that's another thing i wanted to do my hair today i figured no makeup i can quit and do my hair but i was like you know i've got to um parent myself i say this i know my uh financial live people get tired of me saying it but i have to parent myself and like you can't do that until you get these boxes out and then i realized i have those two orders to fill and i need to send some mail to um my one of my affiliates and i'm thinking i want to send all my affiliates the new dashboards so um anywho so that's what we're doing i'm back in the shop so i've been gone like two hours i left about nine o'clock i had two people yeah i'm so over doing w2b w2b it's like i'm ready for a w2b because honey honey honey honey so yes i'm back in the office um when i get these boxes out and i think i said earlier in the vlog that i wanted to um like ship everything at one time so that's my affiliate order my um affiliate order regular orders ship them all out so i have good time yeah i've got to think of something to come up with but you know this for some reason it's been a year of me doing the box and like i said some of my processes have changed but um i'm taking this month to really pay attention to what needs to be done and um how i'm going about doing certain things and certain things work for me certain things don't you know so yeah that's what i'm gonna do i'm gonna get these boxes out so at least i know that these boxes will go out today um i was hoping to get some more work at the salon to um so i can have some money but that is on my list to do i'm supposed to be doing a um my budget this is why i can't do budget videos sometimes is because um the box takes up so much of my time so and like i had all of these together so i'm gonna do that and prayerfully the next video you get of me oh while i'm thinking about it the next video you'll get will be me going to post office me dropping the boxes off i'm debating if i'm gonna take my tripod to like show me unloading the boxes going in the post office all that great stuff i don't feel like that i'm gonna be honest i just because i'm new to vlogging so i don't really feel like that um as i'm packing boxes i realize that one of my subscribers she likes the classic hp unpunched and i realized i punched all of the classic hp so i had to reprint um inserts i had to reprint dashboards so um i gotta do that you know so so i'm glad i'm off work early like i said it's about 11 23 on monday and yeah we're just gonna get this thing going and do what we gotta do and we're not gonna complain about it you know because i have kind of been this to myself you know i don't know if i showed up but they're getting these vellum gold cards and i thought i got my daughter to pack up most of them but i knew i had forgotten some so i gotta pack some of those as i go along but it's all to be good okay y'all i'll see y'all shortly i'll let you know what time it is oh that's another thing i don't get no lunch break today until i finish this um these are the things that i'm telling myself to hold myself accountable to get things done no lunch break no hair shampoo no nails no nothing until i get these orders out all right talk to y'all later tonight you guys last box it is 12 43 so i pretty much it pretty much took me about an hour to finish the rest so um i'm not even actually i'm not even done um i gotta take my son to track practice so once i take him to track practice is when i'm gonna drop these off so that way i don't waste gas because right now i am on a budget and to my knowledge everybody is getting their boxes i just had one customer um it looked like she got two but i sent her an email to confirm and she has not confirmed so i'm just kind of waiting here from her but other than that all the boxes are done and i'm going to go get me make me some lunch i'm cooking at home i got the taste for some potatoes and onions and i think i'm just going to make me some potatoes and onions uh fry up me some um what is it jackfruit and that's it y'all i'm right down and then so okay also um i got back on to say that affiliate order and this other order that i have i'm just going to work on those this evening when i come back and i'll ship those out tomorrow the box takes so much out of me because you you know like i said some little it was it was a few snappies you know like i don't know if i said this in the last part but one of my clients gets the classic HP i punched it and she doesn't get it punched so i had to reprint that so basically i just have a classic HP already punched ready to go so when someone orders it um it's already ready but yep so this is the last box that i'm packing so once i drop my son off at practice because he had a virtual day today so he's home so once i drop him off i am going to go to the post office i'm so thankful and let me say that because i don't think i covered that in this vlog which i normally do is i am grateful for those who trust me because i know in these planar streets it's not easy to trust people and you can't trust everybody you know people take advantage and take people's money all the time i still have a a five why do i have a five i don't know maybe i printed the extra one i want to say i printed the extra one so yeah you can't trust people all the time in these planar streets and um yeah so i appreciate those who trust me you know and understand that i would not take their money or take advantage of them and i understand that it's hard to trust people you know and i'm very appreciative of all my customers like as i was packing some of the boxes some of the people they've been with me from day one and i'm like i already know her size because she's been with me from day one she didn't change her size there's a couple who've been with me from day one and haven't changed their size so i'm like yeah i already know what size she got you know so four you're going to count y'all excuse me one two three four five uh oh six seven eleven i'm missing something but in who i know exactly who they are and i appreciate them again because they have been with me since day one so that is it and i'm really tired like i want to take a nap but this is the last box so i can afford to take a nap my son is gonna leave probably about two hours so i might make me some lunch chill for a second and so these boxes will be going out after dropping off so after three thank you jesus so the point again was i just want to thank anyone who purchases the box um the budget box thank you for your your patience thank you for your kindness thank you for trusting me um i really couldn't do this without you i'll be a little stressed as you could probably see through this vlog i probably was a little stressed but putting it together it comes together so well that i'm a proud parent at the end of the day let me show you all matter of fact of what's in the box you're like you're cheating you gotta show what's in the box um this is a classic hp this is the one that is unpunched i only have one person who gets unpunched let me take all of this out so they have their money goals insert they have their aim high uh dashboard it is the objective dashboard the classic hp and the letter they don't print full but i did as full as i can this is the what's inside card i'm gonna leave this for less they got transparent highlighter strips vellum gold cards it goes like that and i try to put them in there strategically they have their goal achievement card i was waiting on plastic to put these in we just couldn't wait they gotta go um they have a goals like planner cards here this is the thank you card that's front and back that's gonna go there they have their sticker set that's gonna go here they have they get three of the frosted zippered envelopes i got my goal they get a set of pens and that should be my 12 items and then i want that to be on top like that and that's the january box so yeah that is the january box i'm so excited i'm done um this box normally for some reason december and january i feel like it's gonna be a tough box for me but this actually worked out better than i anticipated there when i like about this box it's a lot of functional things in this box like this is a more so of a a box that you really can kind of use everything in it's just not nothing um you got the little highlight sticky strips uh sticky notes but it's really like nothing in here that you can't use um um y'all i don't lost uh i've lost i'm gonna have lost the label anything back to what i was saying yeah you can't go wrong with everything in here you can use i always i used to think that y'all this is the struggle that i go through okay i feel the pants i'll be tearing up some boxes so sometimes you get your box and it looks like it's been touched it's me because i'd be second guessing myself but yeah sometimes i want them to have more like physical items like you know just like um you know things like when i did the desk mat when i did the um travel thing you know the binders and all of that stuff um but i wanted this box to be something they can really use and not too many like um just stuff they don't need if that makes sense like because some people like even though i did the binders that's what i'm thinking about leaving the binder two launches because sometimes some people may not want don't do cash envelopes that way they get a chance to purchase if that's what they want to do um y'all here's my you see this is how stacked that we are and i have another stack over there so we're stacked from the floor to the top and i have another stack on my desk over here um yeah so what i'm gonna do before me and my son go to take him to practice i'm going to um get him to go get my bins out my car because we all when i come back from dropping the budget box i just leave those bins in my car because i'm just like girl i'm over it so when i finish the orders that i got to do from my affiliate one of my affiliates and a customer i'm taking a couple days off from norse code but i gotta hop right back on it because i need to launch um i want to do a self-care inserts launch so i've been kind of thinking about that so i need to get back on it but i just need a day and i'm looking here i ordered some dashboard from noted co and it came with some of the cutest little freebies y'all i haven't even had a chance to set up my own planner for 2024 because i've just been busy that's how busy i've been with the budget box um i want to put my new um dashboard as a matter of fact when you move these over i want to put my dashboards over in there um i saved mine to the side this was an oops and i can't remember the reason for the oops on this but i might just bring the extra one so yeah these this is what i'm setting my um planner up with so i just have it in this box i need to clean the office oh let me take one of these as well and i might slim mine down a little bit but um i need to clean the office and i gotta do that because i can't even begin to do i can't even begin to design that new launch that i want to do until this office is clean so once i get these orders out the boxes are done praise god whoo i feel a relief when i package the last box i be following such a relief like i did it i i did it you know because sometime at the beginning might be like oh this looking a little bleak i don't know how we gonna do this and then i pull it off every month so yeah i need to clean my office now i can do my nails now i can clean up my closet so tomorrow i was supposed to be off but because friday was a snow day saturday was slow um i have to work tomorrow i'm taking people and plus one of my classes on vacation so i'm gonna have a dentist appointment no i have a regular doctor's appointment tomorrow 9 30 then i have a dentist appointment at 10 30 and then i'm just gonna take a client two clients after that so i my goal was to clean my closet tomorrow but i'm not gonna be able to do that um i may do my nails this evening after i finish orders um yes i can and then i'm gonna do my hair tomorrow because i just today i was like you're gonna waste time so i can do my hair tomorrow i can do a lot of self-care things tomorrow i wanted to get myself a face mask yesterday but i had worked to the last minute so tonight will be uh my face mask i did get to do my shower routine where i um exfoliate my body i did that last night um so i'm just gonna do the face mask tonight but i'm so excited to be done and i kept saying y'all not gonna see me till i've dropped the boxes off but i just had to check in and say that and i do have a few little extras so uh i'm trying to decide like sometimes i'll take something from the box and make it a freebie um i very seldom sell the stickers unless there's extra i have one extra one and i'm actually making this one for myself not sure um i'm not sure and i know yeah that is it i'm trying to see what i'll probably do a freebie i don't know maybe the ghost vellum um the ghost vellum card may be a freebie but i'm definitely these are gonna be for sale um and i need to do the measurements on that i need to look up the measurements but because i quad printed them i don't like the way this camera makes my skin look at my skin but looking pretty good because i've been doing those um my face routine but that is it let me go fix me something to eat real quick and get my son to practice and i'm gonna get him to help me with these boxes so we are done i'm leaving the post office i had to pull over because i had to drop my phone so now let's go just go ahead sir i'm on my way to the post i mean i'm so used to saying the post office i'm on my way to the grocery store because i need cream for my coffee tomorrow and i'm ending this vlog and i'm gonna start another one because i think i kind of like vlogging and i'm just going to start like a day in a life of you know what i do but then also i'll probably start in two at one time because i want to start or next month's box and let y'all see that process as well which i'll be doing some of that stuff in my weekly vlog so this ends this month's january the budget box vlog whoo chat y'all don't know wait a minute let me tell you i'm on my way home after i leave here i'm going to take a nap okay i'm freaked up but i'm taking a nap i cannot wait um my lunch was delicious i'm just going to um yeah go home take a nap and then i'll probably get up this evening and work on those other orders so i'll talk to y'all later bye and thank you so much for watching


In this module, we would be looking into some of the applications of Islamic legal contracts in the context of Islamic banking and finance. This module is important for one particular reason because it highlights the aspect of modes of financing related with Islamic contracts. So there is a difference between Islamic contracts, the individual contracts and their use in the context of Islamic banking and finance, which could be termed as Islamic modes of finance. Now Islamic legal contracts and Islamic modes of financing, they are actually quite different in terms of application. And in this course, we would look into these applications in greater detail, as and when we are discussing some particular structures of Islamic financial products. We must keep in mind that Islamic legal contracts were developed centuries ago and their application in the context of Islamic banking and finance would pose some challenges. And this is something every practitioner in Islamic banking and finance knows. And of course, they face these limitations when it comes to structuring Islamic financial products. Now contemporary Sharia scholars, they have developed their own views and opinions around this whole theme. And as a result of that, we have new slash contemporary opinions of scholars on these Islamic legal contracts, which are also known as Islamic nominated contracts. The best compendium of the contemporary opinions of Sharia scholars is actually in the form of Sharia standards of accounting and auditing organization for Islamic financial institutions, which is an organization based in Bahrain. And it is an umbrella organization offering advice to Islamic banks all over the world on the matters related with accounting, related with Sharia and related with some ethical aspects of doing Islamic banking and finance business. Another thing which is very important in the context of Islamic modes of finance or Islamic modes of financing, that these contracts, which we have looked into in the previous modules, like Muraabaha, like Musharaka, like Mudaraba, like Salam, and so many others, which we have covered so far, they are actually used in conjunction with some other arrangements. Many a times they are combined as well. Although there is a concern on combining contracts in Islamic law, and this is something we would look into in some detail in a separate module. So keeping that aside, we observe that Islamic legal contracts are actually used together to form, to structure Islamic banking products or to be used as Islamic modes of financing. There is hardly any Islamic financial product in the world which actually doesn't combine Islamic legal contracts. So this is a very important aspect of the practice of Islamic banking and finance. And in general, Sharia scholars and those guiding bankers and finance practitioners, they say that this is possible to combine different contracts in a structure. However, it is very, very important that some rules and regulations governing, combining the contracts are observed. If we do not observe those rules and regulations, then they would come under the prohibition of combining two contracts in one contract, which is prohibited by the prophetic tradition by one hadith. Islamic modes of finance. Before this, when we talked about Muraabha, we said Muraabha is an Islamic legal contract. When we talked about Mushara, we said this is an Islamic investment contract, or this is an Islamic partnership contract. When we talked about other contracts, then we talked about their legality. But these are all used as Islamic modes of financing. So when we discuss Muraabha as a mode of financing, there are many other structures. Muraabha, and we would look into quite a few structures based on Muraabha. So Muraabha as a mode of financing is not just Muraabha as a contract but an arrangement, which combines a lot of contracts and other arrangements. Similarly, when we say Mushara is based on home financing, then we do not say that this is just Mushara. We also bring in contracts with Mushara. We also bring in agency for the procurement of services. We also bring in contracts with Mushara. We also bring in contracts with Mushara. So all these things actually, in combination, they represent our mode of financing. The contract which is the most visible or the contract which is most essential for a structure, we call it Mushara is central to the whole thing. We call it Mushara mode of financing. So we name the main contract, but there are many other things involved with it. So what is the difference? When we say Muraabha as a contract, we are only talking about Muraabha. When we say Muraabha as a mode of financing, then it is not just Muraabha. There are many other arrangements, and these arrangements and details of Islamic modes of financing, we would be looking into in the context of Islamic banking and finance and different products which we are going to discuss in the future module.