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good morning happy new year everyone first video on the channel as always it's gonna be talking about the year ahead but who knows what the uh has in store for us so i wanted to change it up a little bit this year because we always do this video but i didn't have any hard set goals but i thought we'd have a little bit of a chat i've opened it up so you can lead this video and i asked on the community tab and over on instagram for you to send over your questions about the year ahead for psycho traveler the brand the second channel everything we're just going to discuss the year ahead and what it might hold and just what my thoughts are moving forward with a travel channel in the apocalypse okay so i've had quite a
few questions about my second channel if you didn't know i finally started my second channel which is ali's other life which is thing down below now i'm going to be totally honest with you before we jump into the questions i am going to be focusing way more on that channel it's just making me so happy to create the kind of videos i'm creating over there because at the end of the day i'm not traveling internationally birmingham is in tier 4 right now which is the strictest of all the tiers um in the uk you know it is a choice that i have made not to travel internationally and i know plenty of creators are traveling right now and that's you know that's their gig okay i'm not gonna do that i have responsibilities at home at the other day
they can do them but i'm not going to um so because we're in tier 4 we can't go anywhere and even when we're in t3 it's really tough so kind of mention this because over my second channel i've already done a video like discussing ideas for moving forward with content over there psycho traveler is my baby and i'm pretty sure it's going to be nine years next month that i've had this channel and it's bringing me so much anxiety thinking about her but the end of the day i can't control what is going on in the world right now so instead of crying about not being able to travel that i'm gonna lose this channel that everything i've worked so hard yada why can't control is smiling having fun working being creative over on my other
channel and obviously be on instagram stuff like that so when i came back from my break last year i stuck to one video a week and i think we're gonna continue in that vein why not put like all of my energy into a channel that's bringing me so much joy so if you want to join me over there then we have a lot of fun it's homey it's thrifty we go charity shopping we sell resell stuff on ebay and we talk about books we just have a good time and it's saying that i can control and just make cool fun lifestyle videos and that is what i'm doing so just like questions like amanda page thank you for your question says do you have any plans to scratch the travel itch by getting involved with different cultures or learning new
things seeing new places domestically like we went away in the campervan but like i said we are in tier four and even when we're in tier three we are not meant to be traveling out to tier two or tier one locations um as you know it's a bit of a mayhem situation in the uk right now so as soon as we can because we have the camper van we were so lucky to do that trip when we did it because when we were away and boris johnson announced that lockdown 2.0 while we were away so like thank god we got out just before it's great because we can keep away from people do our own thing um just go out into the countryside so absolutely we cannot wait to be able to do that we're just not able to do it i'm not gonna be anxious and cry about
that because i can't control that you know what i mean so when we can we will for sure but i can't see us lifting into a tier two anytime soon let's just put it that way because we're in tier four and in three we can't read too much either um so yeah but when we can we definitely will i mean it's not like we don't want to we really want to we're just not allowed i also got a few questions and from a few different people about this um maybe do a postcode bucket list video and discuss places domestically and internationally that i'm just itching to go and we'll have a little bit we could do on a live stream maybe now i'm getting good with obs i've been playing recently with obs and so maybe we could do something fun like that in a live stream
get a drink um and talk about all the places around the uk and also abroad when we're all gucci and ready to go um that we'd like to do so if you'd like a lot of people have said that and i was really shocked i was like yeah we could do like a little bucket list fun video for sure quite a few videos about um prioritizing my mental health both on instagram and on youtube my mental health has always been a major priority especially in 2020 taking those two months off getting cognitive behavioral therapy which was a lifesaver because i now have all of these skills which i can use moving forward throughout my life i can take any situation any negative thought and know the steps i need to do to break down that thought restructure
it yada so it's great um i'm not having therapy anymore i am cured not but i did get discharged i thought it was right my therapist thought it was i was on the right track for sure and i'm really happy that i did that so yes keeping on top of that though and not forgetting everything i learned in therapy because i had a moment the other day i was saying that and i was getting anxious i was like hold on a minute ally do you not remember you just like had months in therapy teaching you all these amazing techniques and tricks like uh use them so it's like yeah don't forget what your therapist teaches you very important so yeah mental health always a massive priority and last thing we don't know what the year is going to bring no one knows so one
day at a time it's all we can do that's anyone can do right now exclude gap on instagram says what do you plan to do that makes you giddy inside so for 2021 i think it's sorting out my priorities putting my priorities like having fun my second channel i really want to up um my second instagram account and i'm trying to get better what time is it oh look at me checking the time when i have to post getting better at posting on my feed because i'm a stories girl on instagram but i really want to play on my second my ally's other life instagram with like taking product photos which is actually a very good segue i'm going to do it now into the sponsor of this video skillshare because i've been doing uh watching a class called product photography
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to give you a proper effect of everything so we're kind of just waiting on the weather but i have not forgot you will get a full van tour i'm gonna do like a cost breakdown and everything this is a really great question by lara studer um how will you keep yourself motivated two things when i'm online it's about engaging with you because that's what motivates me um i premiered my video and i might do with this one i probably am and it was so much fun because just in live i love chatting so maybe more live streams i know i said that last year but you know last year let's not let's forget about that but it's so nice about to interact and also offline so online be more with you be more
present and just chat which we always do anyway but in more ways it's live streams or premieres anything like that offline to keep myself motivated is again reminding myself what i can and cannot control in this crazy situation and being really strict with myself like going to a mirror and talking out loud ally stop it you're being ridiculous eskamelen says any more book plans have you felt stuck this year not being able to travel well i guess of course i felt very stuck very um any more book plans though i mean i get questions all the time and i put a thing up on instagram the other day and people thought i was writing another book um which i realize now if or when i do that i'm gonna have so much fun
dropping hints like the most subtle hints everywhere and right now i'll be 100 honest i'm not writing another book and it's simply because i've said this before but my first book took my heart and soul and i can't recreate anything while i could there are plenty more stories from my life uh whether we are in it for a full autobiography a full life memoir i don't think i'm ready for that i don't think anyone is ready for that um but i don't know what my second book would be i don't know i could i don't think i could write fiction then again i've never tried um but yeah it's just i can see myself writing another book but i don't know why i do it yet i don't know at thumps says are you thinking the goal for 2021 is not
is to not make goals and go with the flow or the opposite approach absolutely no goals got some ideas but i'm literally taking it one day at a time one hour at a time for those bad days one week at a time when i'm feeling great and i'm planning ahead just easy as we go classyfan says where will your next uk mini adventure be in the camp fan so of 2021 when we are able to go in the campervan somewhere domestically it will probably be somewhere quite close maybe back into the cotswolds or something it would just be like a weekend trip because i cut like i said at the beginning i will repeat myself but i can't imagine being able to go very far if that makes sense plus scott runs his own business he can't take too much time off so it's
like you saw in that video how long it takes to get anywhere in that campervan so going like up to scotland dream trip like go through the highlands in her vintage beauty but we're gonna need so much time like i can take the time and organize scott can't um so it might just be a short trip but i mean i'll take anything at this point anything will you continue ebay selling maybe learn to so taylor the charity shop finds and sell for profit like i do resell um on ebay and i'm doing a full um re-jig of my ebay shop account um this week i think on wednesday and because it or thursday because desperately needed and yes we'll be doing more ebaying but me tailoring please i don't think i've got it in me to be honest i just saw this and it made me
laugh so much and you plan on expanding your family pets children plans slice got into and also got a few questions about um marriage for some reason like okay scott and i have been together seven years and neither of us have an interest in marrying each other which sounds odd to most people but we don't want to marry anyone never mind each other no we don't really believe in marriage it's not for us we're not religious and we just know so no i'm not getting married and no we're not expanding the family i'll get some more plans and i'll invite some more cats around but uh that's about it talking cats no cats on the door sorry i'm gonna see if i can get one in for this video do you realistically see yourself going
abroad at some point this year oh god i'd love to oh my god um i think it's all going to depend on the vaccine and also any anti-vaxxers want to go in my comments you're going to be blocked any idiots that want it you're going to be bye-bye-bye um very excited can't wait to get stabbed um but i had a look and i'm probably not due until september so i think it's again day by day and that's why i'm not planning any campervan trips or anything like that because even in 2020 everyone was still planning and booking planning and booking it was canceled as cancerous cancers their heart were getting broken i'm not doing i didn't do it last year i was like look this is going to go on for a long time i was like nah i'll be over by summer like no it won't
i was very like realistic at the start of 2020 i was like this is gonna be real bad um so i'm not gonna sit here and plan but when we can do something then we can go and have fun but i'm not gonna get my hopes up and dream of this and the other when the chances are it ain't gonna happen when i want it to happen so when we can we'll go from there um yeah i'm not planning anything right now i just don't see the point okay my camera just overheated so that is my signal to leave um so yeah happy new year that sums up really nicely i think we're gonna take it one day at a time we're gonna travel again it's gonna happen it's just right now we can't and that's okay can't control that we'll get back to it so you want to
come and join me like so many people have over on my second channel it's a lot of fun we'll keep it chilled we have a great time over there so come and join us so i'll see you here once a week i'll see you over there twice a week so i'm not going anywhere and yeah one day at a time i think that sums it up for the next year let's see where it takes us but i'm not catastrophizing and i'm not thinking ahead because who knows what's gonna happen so no anxiety thank you very much goodbye now goodbye to you all right subscribe bell comment i don't know all the fun stuff and i'll see you in the next video all right bye
