Her:..you'd be blinded by the light. Me: ..revved up like a deuce another runner in the night🎶 Her: * starts singing too * Me: I believe what we have on our hands, ladies, gents and non binary peeps, is a dance party 💃🏻
Thanks for the update Kelly-Ann 😻 I was in no way prepared to do a depth year of my own in 2019, but I am ready for 2020! Creating space to enjoy my many lovely objects and saving $$$ are my main motivations. ❤❤❤
I ended up doing an unintentional depth year for 2019. Midway through the year I decided to focus ALL my money on eliminating debt and subsequently wasn't able to buy anything except food & fuel. While I didn't actively decide in January to have my year go this way, it's felt really good to get the debt down to a manageable amount. I'm so excited to purchase some certain things in 2020 though 💖
Good on you!! That's a majorly badass move. I also did an unintentional depth year bc I took a new job that pays shit and relocated to a big city for work. I love my new job and the pay has increased over the last 2 years. But girl, that first year I bought nothing but food and socks. Funny enough, I ended up saving a tidy sum for a rainy day. Truthfully, I didn't get a haircut, my clothes weren't right for the climate, and I borderline hated my boring, tiny 325 sq ft apartment....I learned that I am not, nor will I ever be, a minimalist :-) I still cut my own hair, though...
@@ChiliRosey Thank you! I cut my own hair too! Haha. I totally am a minimalist though but only in certain specific ways. I have a new job that pays shit right now, lol, but at least it pays ya know?!
I love your videos, Facebook group & website! I have purchased & watched some of the Bonds of Shadow videos. There's a lot to digest & unpack, but they're so useful, and I'm so thankful to the gods for leading me to look up Carl Jung Shadow psychology & find your channel several years ago! I've been a grateful subscriber (with an old gmail account) since The Four Queens days, lol. I learned so much about tarot & Shadow-triggering cards, different ways to intuitively interpret readings, etc., from you. Thank you, sweetheart! Love & Blessed be!
When you said that you've arrived back home and that you lived in that tiny castle, for a moment I literally believed it, and I could instantly see it in my minds eye: a combination of old daggers hanging crossed on stone walls, ancient tapestries, in crimson and black, of druids and dragons, tall crystal flacons filled with bluish liquid, a large punk cd collection that lives on an elegant victorian shelf and a pile of tarot decks on a chaiselounge... Every armour would have pink pearls draped around his "neck", a vintage jacket from the sixties, with a green feather, on his shoulder and a lipstick smudge on his cheek, and a Debbie Harry's autobiography's home would be in a creepy victorian curiosity cabinet... No IDEA where it came from, but it gave me a moment of enormous joy to walk around your castle and enjoy the wild but elegant mix of old, new, vintage, grunge and witchy... I really needed a visit to that castle today, thank you. 💖 Love from Switzerland. 💚
Watching this immediately after the intro video, so helpful. I will go back and watch the in between updates but i knew you'd do an overall review of learnings so that when i join you on your 2023 depth year I'm good to go lol
I have dyscalculia, too. It's such an unspoken of topic that I hardly ever hear anyone mention it, but I have those same troubles, especially with hands on a clock or sitting down to do finances, etc. which will be all the more important for me now that I'm living on my own. I could do with a depth year, if only to track my spending. the idea of really sitting and enjoying what i've got on my bookshelf or on my art desk, and getting to really know and absorb those materials first before buying anything else new, always appealed to me, and I want to put that into practice more.
I didn't do a depth year this year but have watched the videos of others with interest and actually found I've become more conscious of my own spending anyway. I appreciate you mentioning your issues with dyscalclia. I suspect that's my own issue; I've never understood numbers, they just don't make sense to me, they make me nervous, etc. I've found some spreadsheets for finances which have helped me to organise my finances even though the numbers themselves confuse me, which is good.
I didn’t intentionally do a depth year, but it was in the back of my mind. I cut way down on buying and focused more on specific areas. Instead of buying the same sort of things I tried to buy things I normally didn’t consider. This opened up some new areas for me. I also thought a lot about bringing things into my already small space. I thought a lot about what I wanted to focus on. Media really throws up a lot of trash to wade through! So...I did a lot of deleting. I also tried not to blabber about unnecessary things.
Going into the depth year (without any research on how other people were doing it), I focused my search for 'depth' on all the different activities I do, observing their purpose and which had been falling behind. It didn't occur to me to consider finance at all util, a few months in, I found myself developing an interest in recording the ways I spend money and realising that stopping to pick up new interests left and right would also mean stopping to buy things. I, too, have no knowledge of how I usually spend my money, and I'm horrible at accounting. Besides being both impulsive and not great with numbers, I also acknowledge that my disinterest/shadow-link to money is that I carry some old wounds of growing up impoverished, and feeling, to a degree, helpless and incompetent in the realm of finance. What I've been starting to do is sit down and transcribe every receipt of any shopping I do to create a monthly overview. It's very challenging and sometimes feels like punishment a school would make a naughty student do, but it's a humbling and fruitful process to learn this information. It's interesting how the depth year pushed me into this directions without me ever planning to pay mind to money. / I too caved for an under-the-pillow poetry book, haha.
I have dyslexia and dyscalculia, school was fun! I did a depth year for decks and books. I thought I have a wonderful amount of books I have not read and really felt because I was buying too many decks I simply was not connecting with them. It has really taught me a lot about my buying patterns. How much emotion comes into it, and how much impulse comes into it. Now if I want a book or a deck I add it to a list,three months later I usually don’t remember why I wanted it. If I still really want it I put it on my wish list for my birthday/Mother’s Day/Christmas. So I’ve broken the impulse spending behaviours which is great. I’m thinking about doing a further depth year this year
This is the first video I watched of yours with the depth year. My word for 2020 is deep/depth. I’m really scared of the word and what this will expose. Wish me luck.
I was inspired to do a depth year by your videos and lasted about a month which taught me I may have a magical tools hoarding problem... It has caused me to really take a moment and consider my motives before I pull the wallet out.
If you use cards for most of your purchases there are apps out there (for example, Mint) that track your spending and categorize them for you! It’s super helpful for people who don’t have time or aren’t able to calculate all of that stuff themselves.
My depth year was great for 2019, and I am continuing some things into 2020, I'm limiting books big time, no makeup, and I'm also seriously limiting the amount of teas that I get when I'm out and about. No more than 3 a month, and even less if I can.
Been loving your updates as I plan to do my depth year in 2020 (haha, cheating by waiting a year so I can get everyone's advice!) The FOMO thing is so real. For me it's tarot cards. I recently realized I've spent FAR more money on tarot than any other hobby or interest, and it's mostly because of an experience right when I started reading. The Slow Holler was still available at that time, and I glanced at it but dismissed because it's a multi-artist deck without looking too closely at how coherent the art was. Then I held a copy in my hands and was immediately like THIS is my soul deck. I'm queer, trans, and southern, and it feels like the deck was made for me, and I've spent the past few years trying to get my hands on a copy, not even successful if I'm willing to spend $300 or more. So since then, I've bought SO many indie decks thinking "what if this could be another Slow Holler?" and probably ended up putting up thousands. I do enjoy most of my decks, but I probably could've also been happier with half, and now that I have them, I don't want to let go since I've built the relationships. So this is definitely going to be a depth year focus.
I've kind of sort of thought about doing a depth year for next year. Not outright banning pretty shiny things but I've come to realise that the all black furniture I wanted from ikea is tat as the stuff I brought back with me from Bristol is warping and having moved back to Plymouth and having to repurchase things again I'm coming to terms with the fact that I don't need black everything to be goth as my interest in the scene speaks for itself. I can probably get much higher quality furniture from buyology at a way cheaper price and use the money saved to have a social life, to go and see bands and participate in the scene as living like a hermit is killing me. So living more frugally and re-purposing my life I guess
I've been a hard core daily journaller for decades but recently I've been noticing that journalling isn't happening so often. Hearing you mention morning pagesgot me thinking about what had change. I've been practicing yoga for years as well and am now in a position to set my mat out every morning and tune into my youtube crushes, Adriene, Kassandra or Allie for 30-40 minutes. This morning session sets me up for the day and I realized yesterday that it serves the same purpose for me as my journal. So, no beating myself up because I'm not journalling so often. Love your castle Kelly-Ann maybe you have a spare turret there.
What a great idea! Tracking my money is something I do for the most part but not all of it. I would also like to try tracking my time as well. How much time am I wasting on say surfing Facebook for too long? It's important to me to be conscious of as much as I can to see what needs to change to create more joy in my life.
Thank you so much Kelly Ann for all that you do. I haven’t been on a depth year this year but I’ve followed your progress & as a result I have already noticed big changes in the way I approach purchasing basically everything! I am definitely inspired by you to commit to a depth year for 2020. In preparation for that I have been “stock taking” all of the areas where I plan to cut back on spending in 2020 so that I am truly aware of how much I already have of “things”, “stuff”, unread books, etc. I have also decided on what areas of my spiritual practice I wish to delve really deeply into next year. So hopefully my depth year will be about reducing my spending/consumerism & also about allowing myself the time to really dig in deep with some Spiritual growth. I also have the numbers issue you mention here so it would be awesome if, like you, I can shift my relationship with numbers via the depth year journey.
LOVE that you're focusing on where you wanna deepen into your spiritual practice during the depth year! I definitely think that having some categories of things you are refraining from buying is really conducive to deepening into spirituality. It's like you're really making serious room for it by not allowing yourself to be continuously distracted by the next new thing! I hope you LOVE your depth year. I'm sure you will! 🥰
Kelly-Ann Maddox Thank you, yes exactly that, I’m really hoping that with much less constant new distractions I will be able to seriously focus on the things I do really want to do, learn, experience etc. Sad confession, I have a beautiful Ogham set that I’ve owned for over two years that I still have never used. I’m really hoping a depth year will remedy the “madness” of situations like that in my life! Xxx
@@seekingvision It is really medicinal, I think, for anyone who finds themselves with an abundance of stuff they thought they would love that they haven't touched.. I have deep-dived into my decks sooo much more this year!!
You did really great on your deph year the mythology book sounds amazing. I didnt do deph year but ended up purging most of my decks and added a few and found my magic number 30 or less. 🙏
I have a teacher (Creative Writing) who has dyscalculia. I'd never heard of it until she told the class about it. Now I'm hearing all sorts of people have it, or something similar to it!
YES, I've absolutely mentioned that I want certain things to certain people in the hopes that they buy it. xD It may have worked once? But the fact that I don't remember shows that it wasn't that important to have that thing after all, haha. And it's exciting that Aphrodite is more present for you, too. Her and Lilith have been popping up insanely intensely the past few months for me. Good times... ;) Thanks for the insightful update! It's been a while since you've done a video outside and I love it! Amazing how you manage to get such good sound quality, haha. :)
Dyscalculia! Wow. Same here. And it took till I was clear into my 20s to start putting it together. I can read music and understand intervals and porportional relationships. But arithmetic is rough and I am constantly transposing numbers. If someone rattles their phone number off too fast, I inevitably type it into my phone with one or more digits transposed. lol
Knowing how much you spend in certain areas is extremely helpful . I took a personal finances course right when i started my first big girl job and learned how to properly budget and save. I don't make a ton but i've been able to put a lot into savings and do some pretty amazing things with that just because i keep track of it.
I did not do a depth year but I did do a purging which gave me some idea of how much I actually have purchased. I tell you I have no business purchasing any more clothes! My goodness the view there is beautiful. I may do a depth year in 2020. My husband and I would like to purchase a couple big ticket items but that will mean we have to save money to do that. I am getting better at keeping track of my spending since starting my business this year.
Quicken is a good & inexpensive program where you can log every purchase with a category & it generates a pie chart to show you where your $ goes. It may help with your anxiety because it’s keyboard based? Anyways, it came to mind when you were talking about it.
I've really enjoyed your depth year videos & love the ideas you have for future video series in the same kind of format! I've had a lot of the same experiences over the past couple of years, not because of a depth year, just because of financial restraints lol - I feel like it has created the same type of 'filter' for me where I've become so much better at discerning my true motivations behind wanting to make a purchase.
I'm not particularly interested in the depth year per se, and I don't watch anyone else's videos on it, but I like yours because they're analytical and psychologically informative. Occasionally there's singing! XD I won't be sad to see this topic go, but I look forward to whatever series you do next -- I enjoy seeing progress updates on a topic or other types of serial videos, for sure. Reason I'm not into in the depth year is personal -- I'm living in a teeny tiny space with one other artist, and between the two of us, we really have to de-clutter often and be strategic with purchases, already. So I'm sort of on depth year 4+...? Also, this depth year challenge began around the time I got into diversifying my tarot collection. :/ Oh well! :)
I started of this year with good intentions of doing a depth year, failed misserably, so I decided this samhain I'd start again. In january were moving up north for my husbands work for 6-9 months, so it's my goal to live minimally and with the depth year to go deeper with what I have. You gave some really good points about calculating the true extent of what you spend, that's why it's also my goal to live intentionally, and not wastefully. Hoping my time away helps me to achieve this and when we come back to continue to live this way.
Those are strands of illustrious glitter you’ve earned.✨I’ve learned to welcome mine, & I will slap a hand that dare pulls on one strand. I love children’s mythology. Those books sound wonderful. I can’t wait to see the bedside reads. Yes, secondhand, pre-loved, thrifting is my bag. I can’t blame you, that statue sounds lovely & at a great price. Fit witch for 2020, Hells yeah! Great depth year update! I live a depth life, with four children 😄, but I’ve enjoyed every single video. I am stoked for what’s to come. Thanks for sharing. 💛
Thanks for the advice of trying to figure out how much I've spent in previous years! I spend way too much at Amazon. First step in 2020 will be to cancel my Amazon prime; it makes it too easy to order on a whim.
I love how when explaining the statue you were very plainly, "oh this is for me." very matter of fact. Love it. Havent experienced it on the depth year context yet as my depth year is coming up. definitely experienced similar things lol
Oooh! I am down with the fit witch journey! Have you ever charged a sigil with intense exercise? It's quite awesome. I also sort of meditate on long runs and channel energy through my core. I wish more people talked about it, but I can't really find any info outside of yoga practices.
There are apps that you can use to track your spending! A lot of them have options to connect with your bank account too so that the transactions are tracked automatically and you don't have to enter them in one by one. And then the app generates pretty pie charts for you! I use YNAB (you need a budget) but I've heard Mint is good also.
From watching your videos in the last few months I am investigating how I could do my own depth year in 2020. It sounds like it's been really challenging experience but transformative?
Well I think I'm up for the challenge... The fact I'm very reluctant to even try and add up what I've spent on books or chocolate this year says it all!
Hi Kelly-Ann, that's a neat point about quantifying or having an idea of how much your spending before the depth year, in order to have something to compare to. I haven't really been doing a DY myself this year as my financial and living situation were in big flux this 2019, but I really like the idea of being more cognizant of where money is going! Idea off the top of my head for the number/calculation struggles: do you think it would help to convert the budgets or sums into more tangible 'thing' or value? e.g. I spend X amount every month on lattés, that's the equivalent of taking me and my partner out to a fancy dinner date. Or I spend Y amount every year on clothes, that's roughly the price of a plane trip to an exotic locale. All the best,
I didn’t go into this depth year with any true structure of any type with the exception of a few major goals and a “trial run” of the depth year concept. Goal one was to remove significant debt which I accomplished (yay!). Goal two was to restructure my monthly spending and focus on making sure all I had were the necessities - done :) the third goal was to complete projects and spend money on the items needed to complete those projects (that had been kicking around tooooo long!!!). My fourth goal was to clean out and replace as it was needed in so many categories. (Along with repairs and needs). The last goal was to “try out” the actual depth year concept. Would I be able to do this? Would I be able to follow through with the intent of the depth year or give in to the habit of spending? I had successes and failures. Maybe an even amount this time around? I HAVE started to look at money differently especially because I don’t want to get back into debt. I think now I’m in a place where I can go into 2020with a new perspective on what I have and other things! I have all ofnthisnfor a reason and I need to follow through with those reasons and get the most out of these investments!!!! Yes! 2020 will allow me as well to look at ME and my personal journeys with all these old roadblocks out of the way. So yes, I will finish off this year with my financial “cleanup” and start 2020 as a REAL depth year and be able to join in with some of the things you mentioned toward the end of your video :). Overall I t’s been enlightening and inspiring and I want to thank you for helping to get the ball rolling! Nothing of any quality or substance happens all at once - it happens in layers - good habits are formed - positive transitions take place - goals can be reached - and we can be better people to carry forward :) Hope everyone has a good day!!! 🌛🌝🌜
I use the App 1Money to track everything. You set your own categories and just enter what you spend when you do. It's helped me a lot because I panic when I try to track my finances on paper or if I have to think about it. Maybe you can look it up! Thank you for making these videos. You are amazing! Binge watching lately :)
Interesting..! (Although not entirely sure what a DEPTH YEAR is... is it just about saving cash? Is there any info on this?) I have discalcular too and eBay is my ‘shadow’! What are “banned categories”? Also is “FOMO”= For One Moment Only?
Her:..you'd be blinded by the light.
Me: ..revved up like a deuce another runner in the night🎶
Her: * starts singing too *
Me: I believe what we have on our hands, ladies, gents and non binary peeps, is a dance party 💃🏻
Thanks for the update Kelly-Ann 😻 I was in no way prepared to do a depth year of my own in 2019, but I am ready for 2020! Creating space to enjoy my many lovely objects and saving $$$ are my main motivations. ❤❤❤
I ended up doing an unintentional depth year for 2019. Midway through the year I decided to focus ALL my money on eliminating debt and subsequently wasn't able to buy anything except food & fuel. While I didn't actively decide in January to have my year go this way, it's felt really good to get the debt down to a manageable amount. I'm so excited to purchase some certain things in 2020 though 💖
OMG MASSIVE PROPS to you for deciding to get the debt under control! Yesss! 👌🔥👍⚡💋
Good on you!! That's a majorly badass move. I also did an unintentional depth year bc I took a new job that pays shit and relocated to a big city for work. I love my new job and the pay has increased over the last 2 years. But girl, that first year I bought nothing but food and socks. Funny enough, I ended up saving a tidy sum for a rainy day. Truthfully, I didn't get a haircut, my clothes weren't right for the climate, and I borderline hated my boring, tiny 325 sq ft apartment....I learned that I am not, nor will I ever be, a minimalist :-) I still cut my own hair, though...
@@ChiliRosey Thank you! I cut my own hair too! Haha. I totally am a minimalist though but only in certain specific ways. I have a new job that pays shit right now, lol, but at least it pays ya know?!
I love your videos, Facebook group & website! I have purchased & watched some of the Bonds of Shadow videos. There's a lot to digest & unpack, but they're so useful, and I'm so thankful to the gods for leading me to look up Carl Jung Shadow psychology & find your channel several years ago! I've been a grateful subscriber (with an old gmail account) since The Four Queens days, lol. I learned so much about tarot & Shadow-triggering cards, different ways to intuitively interpret readings, etc., from you. Thank you, sweetheart! Love & Blessed be!
You are amazing and so inspirational. Thank you Kelly-Ann!
Fit Witch!? Oooh!!! A thousand times yes please!
When you said that you've arrived back home and that you lived in that tiny castle, for a moment I literally believed it, and I could instantly see it in my minds eye: a combination of old daggers hanging crossed on stone walls, ancient tapestries, in crimson and black, of druids and dragons, tall crystal flacons filled with bluish liquid, a large punk cd collection that lives on an elegant victorian shelf and a pile of tarot decks on a chaiselounge... Every armour would have pink pearls draped around his "neck", a vintage jacket from the sixties, with a green feather, on his shoulder and a lipstick smudge on his cheek, and a Debbie Harry's autobiography's home would be in a creepy victorian curiosity cabinet... No IDEA where it came from, but it gave me a moment of enormous joy to walk around your castle and enjoy the wild but elegant mix of old, new, vintage, grunge and witchy... I really needed a visit to that castle today, thank you. 💖 Love from Switzerland. 💚
OMG this comment is EVERYTHING! The pink pearls on the suits of armour?!! Stop knowing me! 😍👌
@@kelly-annmaddox 😂💖 You touch our souls, Kelly-Ann.🔥
Watching this immediately after the intro video, so helpful. I will go back and watch the in between updates but i knew you'd do an overall review of learnings so that when i join you on your 2023 depth year I'm good to go lol
I have dyscalculia, too. It's such an unspoken of topic that I hardly ever hear anyone mention it, but I have those same troubles, especially with hands on a clock or sitting down to do finances, etc. which will be all the more important for me now that I'm living on my own. I could do with a depth year, if only to track my spending.
the idea of really sitting and enjoying what i've got on my bookshelf or on my art desk, and getting to really know and absorb those materials first before buying anything else new, always appealed to me, and I want to put that into practice more.
Really enjoyed this update, thanks for sharing! x
I didn't do a depth year this year but have watched the videos of others with interest and actually found I've become more conscious of my own spending anyway.
I appreciate you mentioning your issues with dyscalclia. I suspect that's my own issue; I've never understood numbers, they just don't make sense to me, they make me nervous, etc. I've found some spreadsheets for finances which have helped me to organise my finances even though the numbers themselves confuse me, which is good.
I didn’t intentionally do a depth year, but it was in the back of my mind. I cut way down on buying and focused more on specific areas. Instead of buying the same sort of things I tried to buy things I normally didn’t consider. This opened up some new areas for me. I also thought a lot about bringing things into my already small space. I thought a lot about what I wanted to focus on. Media really throws up a lot of trash to wade through! So...I did a lot of deleting. I also tried not to blabber about unnecessary things.
Going into the depth year (without any research on how other people were doing it), I focused my search for 'depth' on all the different activities I do, observing their purpose and which had been falling behind. It didn't occur to me to consider finance at all util, a few months in, I found myself developing an interest in recording the ways I spend money and realising that stopping to pick up new interests left and right would also mean stopping to buy things. I, too, have no knowledge of how I usually spend my money, and I'm horrible at accounting. Besides being both impulsive and not great with numbers, I also acknowledge that my disinterest/shadow-link to money is that I carry some old wounds of growing up impoverished, and feeling, to a degree, helpless and incompetent in the realm of finance. What I've been starting to do is sit down and transcribe every receipt of any shopping I do to create a monthly overview. It's very challenging and sometimes feels like punishment a school would make a naughty student do, but it's a humbling and fruitful process to learn this information. It's interesting how the depth year pushed me into this directions without me ever planning to pay mind to money. / I too caved for an under-the-pillow poetry book, haha.
I have dyslexia and dyscalculia, school was fun! I did a depth year for decks and books. I thought I have a wonderful amount of books I have not read and really felt because I was buying too many decks I simply was not connecting with them. It has really taught me a lot about my buying patterns. How much emotion comes into it, and how much impulse comes into it. Now if I want a book or a deck I add it to a list,three months later I usually don’t remember why I wanted it. If I still really want it I put it on my wish list for my birthday/Mother’s Day/Christmas. So I’ve broken the impulse spending behaviours which is great. I’m thinking about doing a further depth year this year
This is the first video I watched of yours with the depth year. My word for 2020 is deep/depth. I’m really scared of the word and what this will expose. Wish me luck.
I was inspired to do a depth year by your videos and lasted about a month which taught me I may have a magical tools hoarding problem... It has caused me to really take a moment and consider my motives before I pull the wallet out.
If you use cards for most of your purchases there are apps out there (for example, Mint) that track your spending and categorize them for you! It’s super helpful for people who don’t have time or aren’t able to calculate all of that stuff themselves.
Great video
You can sing Girl !
My depth year was great for 2019, and I am continuing some things into 2020, I'm limiting books big time, no makeup, and I'm also seriously limiting the amount of teas that I get when I'm out and about. No more than 3 a month, and even less if I can.
Been loving your updates as I plan to do my depth year in 2020 (haha, cheating by waiting a year so I can get everyone's advice!) The FOMO thing is so real. For me it's tarot cards. I recently realized I've spent FAR more money on tarot than any other hobby or interest, and it's mostly because of an experience right when I started reading. The Slow Holler was still available at that time, and I glanced at it but dismissed because it's a multi-artist deck without looking too closely at how coherent the art was. Then I held a copy in my hands and was immediately like THIS is my soul deck. I'm queer, trans, and southern, and it feels like the deck was made for me, and I've spent the past few years trying to get my hands on a copy, not even successful if I'm willing to spend $300 or more. So since then, I've bought SO many indie decks thinking "what if this could be another Slow Holler?" and probably ended up putting up thousands. I do enjoy most of my decks, but I probably could've also been happier with half, and now that I have them, I don't want to let go since I've built the relationships. So this is definitely going to be a depth year focus.
I've kind of sort of thought about doing a depth year for next year. Not outright banning pretty shiny things but I've come to realise that the all black furniture I wanted from ikea is tat as the stuff I brought back with me from Bristol is warping and having moved back to Plymouth and having to repurchase things again I'm coming to terms with the fact that I don't need black everything to be goth as my interest in the scene speaks for itself. I can probably get much higher quality furniture from buyology at a way cheaper price and use the money saved to have a social life, to go and see bands and participate in the scene as living like a hermit is killing me. So living more frugally and re-purposing my life I guess
I've been a hard core daily journaller for decades but recently I've been noticing that journalling isn't happening so often. Hearing you mention morning pagesgot me thinking about what had change. I've been practicing yoga for years as well and am now in a position to set my mat out every morning and tune into my youtube crushes, Adriene, Kassandra or Allie for 30-40 minutes. This morning session sets me up for the day and I realized yesterday that it serves the same purpose for me as my journal. So, no beating myself up because I'm not journalling so often. Love your castle Kelly-Ann maybe you have a spare turret there.
I love this realisation! 👍💋
What a great idea! Tracking my money is something I do for the most part but not all of it. I would also like to try tracking my time as well. How much time am I wasting on say surfing Facebook for too long? It's important to me to be conscious of as much as I can to see what needs to change to create more joy in my life.
You have the type of voice that would suit jazz
Thank you so much Kelly Ann for all that you do. I haven’t been on a depth year this year but I’ve followed your progress & as a result I have already noticed big changes in the way I approach purchasing basically everything! I am definitely inspired by you to commit to a depth year for 2020. In preparation for that I have been “stock taking” all of the areas where I plan to cut back on spending in 2020 so that I am truly aware of how much I already have of “things”, “stuff”, unread books, etc. I have also decided on what areas of my spiritual practice I wish to delve really deeply into next year. So hopefully my depth year will be about reducing my spending/consumerism & also about allowing myself the time to really dig in deep with some Spiritual growth. I also have the numbers issue you mention here so it would be awesome if, like you, I can shift my relationship with numbers via the depth year journey.
LOVE that you're focusing on where you wanna deepen into your spiritual practice during the depth year! I definitely think that having some categories of things you are refraining from buying is really conducive to deepening into spirituality. It's like you're really making serious room for it by not allowing yourself to be continuously distracted by the next new thing! I hope you LOVE your depth year. I'm sure you will! 🥰
Kelly-Ann Maddox Thank you, yes exactly that, I’m really hoping that with much less constant new distractions I will be able to seriously focus on the things I do really want to do, learn, experience etc. Sad confession, I have a beautiful Ogham set that I’ve owned for over two years that I still have never used. I’m really hoping a depth year will remedy the “madness” of situations like that in my life! Xxx
@@seekingvision It is really medicinal, I think, for anyone who finds themselves with an abundance of stuff they thought they would love that they haven't touched.. I have deep-dived into my decks sooo much more this year!!
You did really great on your deph year the mythology book sounds amazing. I didnt do deph year but ended up purging most of my decks and added a few and found my magic number 30 or less. 🙏
Deck purging is super ballsy. Deck purgers are the real MVPs! 💪
@@kelly-annmaddox thanks it made me feel so light and free I was feeling cluttered. 😊
I would love a fit-witch series!
No! Don't ban clothing! That's a necessity for you. (I just noticed that I'm slovenly dresser...I may need a few in-person sessions to fix that!)
Great update Kelly-Ann! Thanks for sharing your journey! xoxo
I have a teacher (Creative Writing) who has dyscalculia. I'd never heard of it until she told the class about it. Now I'm hearing all sorts of people have it, or something similar to it!
YES, I've absolutely mentioned that I want certain things to certain people in the hopes that they buy it. xD It may have worked once? But the fact that I don't remember shows that it wasn't that important to have that thing after all, haha. And it's exciting that Aphrodite is more present for you, too. Her and Lilith have been popping up insanely intensely the past few months for me. Good times... ;) Thanks for the insightful update! It's been a while since you've done a video outside and I love it! Amazing how you manage to get such good sound quality, haha. :)
"I'm home now, this is my castle, this is where I live." LOL. Bless you! You also have such a beautiful signing voice! Will we get to hear it again??
Loving your honesty as always. Thanks for sharing. You also made me want custard creams lol. Haven't had one in years. 💜
I want vegan ones! 😍
Same here! That's why I haven't had one in so long (insert long suffering sigh of deprivation here).
Good morning Kelly-Ann. Starting my morning with coffee and your newest video.
Same here.
Dyscalculia! Wow. Same here. And it took till I was clear into my 20s to start putting it together. I can read music and understand intervals and porportional relationships. But arithmetic is rough and I am constantly transposing numbers. If someone rattles their phone number off too fast, I inevitably type it into my phone with one or more digits transposed. lol
I went to see Debbie Harry give a talk here in Phoenix!! We got 2 tickets and her book. It was lovely!
Ooooh I'm jelly! 🥰 Fucking LOVE her. What a queen!
Fit Witch! I can’t wait, darling!
Knowing how much you spend in certain areas is extremely helpful . I took a personal finances course right when i started my first big girl job and learned how to properly budget and save. I don't make a ton but i've been able to put a lot into savings and do some pretty amazing things with that just because i keep track of it.
Great voice! Kisses!
Such a lovely singing voice :)
Thanks! Manfred Mann makes it easy to make it sound good! Such a chooon!! 🎵🎶
Yes, the fomo was the hardest part of the depth year. i am going vintage shopping next weekend in London, so that will be interesting on a depth year
I feel like the second half of October melted like a snowflake on the back of my hand. So disorienting. I'll come back to watch tomorrow
I did not do a depth year but I did do a purging which gave me some idea of how much I actually have purchased. I tell you I have no business purchasing any more clothes! My goodness the view there is beautiful. I may do a depth year in 2020. My husband and I would like to purchase a couple big ticket items but that will mean we have to save money to do that. I am getting better at keeping track of my spending since starting my business this year.
Ok, until today, I had never heard of a depth year! 2020 is on.
Niiiice! 👍
Quicken is a good & inexpensive program where you can log every purchase with a category & it generates a pie chart to show you where your $ goes. It may help with your anxiety because it’s keyboard based? Anyways, it came to mind when you were talking about it.
I've really enjoyed your depth year videos & love the ideas you have for future video series in the same kind of format! I've had a lot of the same experiences over the past couple of years, not because of a depth year, just because of financial restraints lol - I feel like it has created the same type of 'filter' for me where I've become so much better at discerning my true motivations behind wanting to make a purchase.
"Illustrious greys." I call mine wisdom strands.
Yesss!
I'm not particularly interested in the depth year per se, and I don't watch anyone else's videos on it, but I like yours because they're analytical and psychologically informative. Occasionally there's singing! XD I won't be sad to see this topic go, but I look forward to whatever series you do next -- I enjoy seeing progress updates on a topic or other types of serial videos, for sure. Reason I'm not into in the depth year is personal -- I'm living in a teeny tiny space with one other artist, and between the two of us, we really have to de-clutter often and be strategic with purchases, already. So I'm sort of on depth year 4+...? Also, this depth year challenge began around the time I got into diversifying my tarot collection. :/ Oh well! :)
I started of this year with good intentions of doing a depth year, failed misserably, so I decided this samhain I'd start again. In january were moving up north for my husbands work for 6-9 months, so it's my goal to live minimally and with the depth year to go deeper with what I have. You gave some really good points about calculating the true extent of what you spend, that's why it's also my goal to live intentionally, and not wastefully. Hoping my time away helps me to achieve this and when we come back to continue to live this way.
Those are strands of illustrious glitter you’ve earned.✨I’ve learned to welcome mine, & I will slap a hand that dare pulls on one strand.
I love children’s mythology. Those books sound wonderful. I can’t wait to see the bedside reads.
Yes, secondhand, pre-loved, thrifting is my bag. I can’t blame you, that statue sounds lovely & at a great price.
Fit witch for 2020, Hells yeah!
Great depth year update! I live a depth life, with four children 😄, but I’ve enjoyed every single video. I am stoked for what’s to come. Thanks for sharing. 💛
Thanks for the advice of trying to figure out how much I've spent in previous years! I spend way too much at Amazon. First step in 2020 will be to cancel my Amazon prime; it makes it too easy to order on a whim.
Oh my goodness, that sounds scary to me. My toddler would kill me if we didn't have Prime Video. LOL
I need a depth year next yr 😐
I love how when explaining the statue you were very plainly, "oh this is for me." very matter of fact. Love it. Havent experienced it on the depth year context yet as my depth year is coming up. definitely experienced similar things lol
Oooh! I am down with the fit witch journey! Have you ever charged a sigil with intense exercise? It's quite awesome. I also sort of meditate on long runs and channel energy through my core. I wish more people talked about it, but I can't really find any info outside of yoga practices.
There are apps that you can use to track your spending! A lot of them have options to connect with your bank account too so that the transactions are tracked automatically and you don't have to enter them in one by one. And then the app generates pretty pie charts for you! I use YNAB (you need a budget) but I've heard Mint is good also.
Definitely had those feelings/experiences around Samhain.
From watching your videos in the last few months I am investigating how I could do my own depth year in 2020. It sounds like it's been really challenging experience but transformative?
Yesss, defo both!
Well I think I'm up for the challenge... The fact I'm very reluctant to even try and add up what I've spent on books or chocolate this year says it all!
Hi Kelly-Ann, that's a neat point about quantifying or having an idea of how much your spending before the depth year, in order to have something to compare to. I haven't really been doing a DY myself this year as my financial and living situation were in big flux this 2019, but I really like the idea of being more cognizant of where money is going!
Idea off the top of my head for the number/calculation struggles: do you think it would help to convert the budgets or sums into more tangible 'thing' or value? e.g. I spend X amount every month on lattés, that's the equivalent of taking me and my partner out to a fancy dinner date. Or I spend Y amount every year on clothes, that's roughly the price of a plane trip to an exotic locale.
All the best,
I didn’t go into this depth year with any true structure of any type with the exception of a few major goals and a “trial run” of the depth year concept. Goal one was to remove significant debt which I accomplished (yay!). Goal two was to restructure my monthly spending and focus on making sure all I had were the necessities - done :) the third goal was to complete projects and spend money on the items needed to complete those projects (that had been kicking around tooooo long!!!). My fourth goal was to clean out and replace as it was needed in so many categories. (Along with repairs and needs). The last goal was to “try out” the actual depth year concept. Would I be able to do this? Would I be able to follow through with the intent of the depth year or give in to the habit of spending? I had successes and failures. Maybe an even amount this time around? I HAVE started to look at money differently especially because I don’t want to get back into debt. I think now I’m in a place where I can go into 2020with a new perspective on what I have and other things! I have all ofnthisnfor a reason and I need to follow through with those reasons and get the most out of these investments!!!!
Yes! 2020 will allow me as well to look at ME and my personal journeys with all these old roadblocks out of the way. So yes, I will finish off this year with my financial “cleanup” and start 2020 as a REAL depth year and be able to join in with some of the things you mentioned toward the end of your video :). Overall I t’s been enlightening and inspiring and I want to thank you for helping to get the ball rolling! Nothing of any quality or substance happens all at once - it happens in layers - good habits are formed - positive transitions take place - goals can be reached - and we can be better people to carry forward :)
Hope everyone has a good day!!!
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I use the App 1Money to track everything. You set your own categories and just enter what you spend when you do. It's helped me a lot because I panic when I try to track my finances on paper or if I have to think about it. Maybe you can look it up!
Thank you for making these videos. You are amazing! Binge watching lately :)
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Interesting..!
(Although not entirely sure what a DEPTH YEAR is... is it just about saving cash? Is there any info on this?)
I have discalcular too and eBay is my ‘shadow’! What are “banned categories”? Also is “FOMO”= For One Moment Only?
FOMO is Fear of Missing out. :)
Janelle
thanks!
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I wholeheartedly believe in retail therapy! Lol. I have been loving following your journey on your depth year. So much 'real' talk involved. 😘😘😘